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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 59 / Tuesday, March 30, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
information was developed and fisheries impacts were calculated, and the time the fishery modifications had to be implemented in order to ensure that fisheries are managed based on the best available scientific information, ensuring that conservation objectives and limits for impacts to overfished salmon stocks are not exceeded. As previously noted, actual notice of the regulatory action was provided to fishers through telephone hotline and radio notification. This action complies with the requirements of the annual management measures for ocean salmon fisheries 85 FR 27317, May 8, 2020, the FMP, and regulations implementing the FMP under 50 CFR 660.409 and 660.411.
There is good cause under 5 U.S.C.
553d3 to waive the 30-day delay in effective date, as a delay in effectiveness of these actions would allow fishing at levels inconsistent with the goals of the FMP and the current management measures.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 25, 2021.
Jennifer M. Wallace, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 679
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Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; IFQ Program; Modify Temporary Transfer Provisions National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; emergency action; request for comments.
AGENCY:

NMFS issues this temporary rule referred to herein as emergency rule to modify the temporary transfer provision of the Individual Fishing Quota IFQ Program for the fixed-gear commercial Pacific halibut and sablefish fisheries for the 2021 IFQ fishing year.
This emergency rule is intended to provide flexibility to quota share QS
holders in 2021, while preserving the Programs long-standing objective of maintaining an owner-operated IFQ
fishery in future years. This emergency
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rule will not modify other provisions of the IFQ Program. This emergency rule is intended to promote the goals and objectives of the IFQ Program, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982, and other applicable laws.
DATES: Effective March 30, 2021 through September 27, 2021, except for 679.41h2, which is effective September 27, 2021. Comments must be received by April 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this document, identified by NOAA
NMFS20210022, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submission: Submit all electronic public comments via the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to https www.regulations.gov and enter NOAANMFS20210022 in the search box. Click on the Comment icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments.
Mail: Submit written comments to Glenn Merrill, Assistant Regional Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, Alaska Region NMFS. P.O.
Box 21668, Juneau AK 998021668.
Instructions: Comments sent by any other method, to any other address or individual, or received after the end of the comment period, may not be considered by NMFS. All comments received are a part of the public record and will generally be posted for public viewing on www.regulations.gov without change. All personal identifying information e.g., name, address, confidential business information, or otherwise sensitive information submitted voluntarily by the sender will be publicly accessible. NMFS will accept anonymous comments enter N/
A in the required fields if you wish to remain anonymous.
Electronic copies of the Regulatory Impact Review referred to as the Analysis and the Categorical Exclusion prepared for this emergency rule may be obtained from http
www.regulations.gov or from the NMFS
Alaska Region website at https
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/alaska.
Written comments regarding the burden-hour estimates or other aspects of the collection-of-information requirements contained in this emergency rule may be submitted to NMFS at the above address and to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Abby Jahn, 9075867445, or abby.jahn@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority for Action The North Pacific Fishery Management Council Council developed the IFQ Program for the commercial Pacific halibut halibut and sablefish fisheries. The IFQ Program for the sablefish fishery is implemented by the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area FMP and Federal regulations at 50 CFR
part 679 under the authority of section 303b of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Magnuson-Stevens Act. The IFQ
Program for the halibut fishery is implemented by Federal regulations at 50 CFR part 679 under the authority of section 5 of the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 Halibut Act.
The International Pacific Halibut Commission IPHC and NMFS manage fishing for Pacific halibut through regulations established under the authority of the Halibut Act. The IPHC
promulgates regulations governing the halibut fishery under the Convention between the United States and Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea Convention. The IPHCs regulations are subject to approval by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Secretary of Commerce Secretary. NMFS publishes the IPHCs regulations as annual management measures pursuant to 50
CFR 300.62.
Section 5 of the Halibut Act, 16 U.S.C.
773ca and b, provides the Secretary with general responsibility to carry out the Convention and the Halibut Act.
Section 5c of the Halibut Act also provides the Council with authority to develop regulations, including limited access regulations that are in addition to, and not in conflict with, approved IPHC regulations. Regulations developed by the Council may be implemented by NMFS only after approval by the Secretary.
Background On February 10, 2021, the Council requested the Secretary promulgate emergency regulations under the authority of section 305c of the Magnuson-Stevens Act to allow the temporary transfer of catcher vessel CV
halibut and sablefish IFQ for individuals who hold B, C, or D vessel class QS for the 2021 fishing season.
The following sections describe the IFQ Program, the existing IFQ transfer
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