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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 95 / Wednesday, May 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
Area is open to scallop vessels, unless transiting pursuant to 648.59a.
ii For the 2021 scallop fishing year, a vessel issued a scallop permit may not fish for, possess, or land scallops in or from the area known as the Closed Area II Scallop Rotational Area, defined in
paragraph b1 of this section, during the period of November 16 through November 30, unless transiting pursuant to 648.59a.
c Closed Area I Scallop Rotational Area. The Closed Area I Scallop Rotational Area is defined by straight
lines connecting the following points in the order stated copies of a chart depicting this area are available from the Regional Administrator upon request:

TABLE 3 TO PARAGRAPH c Point CAIA1
CAIA2
CAIA3
CAIA4
CAIA1

N latitude

d Closed Area II-East Scallop Rotational Area. The Closed Area II-East Scallop Rotational Area is defined by
straight lines, except where noted, connecting the following points in the order stated copies of a chart depicting
W longitude
4130
4058
4054.95
4130
4130

6830
6830
6853.37
6923
6830

this area are available from the Regional Administrator upon request:

TABLE 4 TO PARAGRAPH d Point CAIIE1
CAIIE2
CAIIE3
CAIIE4
CAIIE5
CAIIE6
CAIIE1
1 The
N latitude

W longitude
4130
4130
4100
4100
4111
4111
4130

6720
1
3
6641
6641
6720
6720

Note
2
2

intersection of 4130 N lat. and the U.S.-Canada Maritime Boundary, approximately 4130 N lat., 6634.73 W long.
Point CAIIE2 connected to Point CAIIE3 along the U.S.-Canada Maritime Boundary.
intersection of 4100 N lat. and the U.S.-Canada Maritime Boundary, approximately 4100 N lat. and 6609.33 W long.

2 From 3 The

648.62 Northern Gulf of Maine NGOM
Management Program.

8. In 648.62, revise paragraph b1
and 2, c, and e to read as follows:

b

1 The LAGC and the limited access portions of the annual hard TAC for the NGOM 2021 and 2022 fishing years are as follows:

TABLE 1 TO PARAGRAPH b1
2021

2022 default
Fleet lb
khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with RULES

LAGC
Limited access
Total

2 Unless a vessel has fished for scallops outside of the NGOM scallop management area and is transiting the NGOM scallop management area with all fishing gear stowed and not available for immediate use as defined in 648.2, no vessel issued an LAGC or limited access scallop permit pursuant to 648.4a2 may possess, retain, or land scallops in the NGOM scallop management area once the Regional Administrator has provided notification in the Federal Register that the vessels respective portions of the NGOM
scallop total allowable catch in accordance with paragraph b1 of this
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section has been reached, unless the vessel is participating in the scallop RSA program as specified in 648.56, has been allocated NGOM RSA pounds, and the limited access portion of the NGOM TAC has not been reached. Once the LAGC share of the NGOM TAC is reached, a vessel issued a NGOM permit may no longer declare a state-only NGOM scallop trip and fish for scallops exclusively in state waters within the NGOM, unless participating in the state waters exemption program as specified in 648.54. A vessel that has not been issued a Federal scallop permit that fishes exclusively in state waters is not
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74,000

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907
33,566

subject to the closure of the NGOM
scallop management area.

c VMS requirements. Except scallop vessels issued a Federal scallop permit pursuant to 648.4a2i that have declared a NGOM trip under the scallop RSA program, a vessel issued a scallop permit pursuant to 648.4a2 that intends to fish for scallops in the NGOM
scallop management area or fishes for, possesses, or lands scallops in or from the NGOM scallop management area, must declare a NGOM scallop management area trip and report scallop catch through the vessels VMS unit, as
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