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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 109 / Wednesday, June 9, 2021 / Proposed Rules
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 665
Docket No. 2106030120
RIN 0648BK29

Pacific Island Fisheries; Electronic Logbooks for Hawaii and American Samoa Pelagic Longline Fisheries National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Proposed rule; request for comments.
AGENCY:

NMFS proposes to require the use of electronic logbooks in Hawaii pelagic longline fisheries and on Class C and D vessels in the American Samoa pelagic longline fishery. This proposed rule is intended to reduce human error, improve data accuracy, save time for fishermen and NMFS, and provide more rigorous monitoring and forecasting of catch limits.
DATES: NMFS must receive comments by July 9, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this document, identified by NOAA
NMFS20210014, by either of the following methods:
Electronic Submission: Submit all electronic comments via the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to http

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NMFS20210014 in the Search box, click the Comment icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments.
Mail: Send written comments to Michael D. Tosatto, Regional Administrator, NMFS Pacific Islands Region PIR, 1845 Wasp Blvd., Bldg.
176, Honolulu, HI 96818.
Instructions: NMFS may not consider comments sent by any other method, to any other address or individual, or received after the end of the comment period. 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, etc., 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.
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Council prepared a regulatory amendment that provides additional information and analyses that support this proposed rule. Copies are available from the Council, 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI 96813, tel 8085228220, or www.wpcouncil.org.
Written comments regarding the burden-hour estimates or other aspects of the collection-of-information requirements contained in this proposed rule may be submitted to Michael D.
Tosatto see ADDRESSES and to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting Currently under 30-day ReviewOpen for Public Comments or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Lynn Rassel, NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office Sustainable Fisheries, 8087255184.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS and the Council manage the Hawaii shallow-set and deep-set and America Samoa longline fisheries under the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific FEP.
The implementing Federal regulations for these fisheries include a suite of conservation and management requirements. Among the requirements are limited access permits, carrying atsea observers, vessel monitoring system VMS, daily catch and effort reporting, and a host of other gear and operational requirements.

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Current regulations require vessel operators to record and submit catch information in paper logbooks, with the option to use electronic logbooks.
Currently, if using paper logbooks, NMFS requires vessel operators to record catch information daily and submit the logbooks within 72 hours of returning to port after a fishing trip. If using electronic logbooks, NMFS
requires vessel operators to record catch information daily and submit electronic logs within 24 hours after the end of a fishing day. In the event of a system failure, vessel operators are required to submit electronic or paper logbooks within 72 hours of returning to port after a fishing trip.
There are approximately 144 active vessels in the Hawaii longline fisheries shallow-set and deep-set combined and approximately 12 active Class C and D vessels in the American Samoa longline fishery. As of March 2021, approximately 94 vessels in the Hawaii fisheries are voluntarily using electronic logbooks. No vessels are using electronic logbooks in the American Samoa fishery.
Paper logbooks require manual handling and data entry. Collecting, collating, storing, and entering data manually is costly, inefficient, and prone to errors. Additionally, NMFS
and the Council manage U.S. longline bigeye tuna catch limits and allocation limits, which require forecasts of bigeye tuna catches throughout the fishing season to inform in-season management.
Errors in recording and delay in data entry can result in near-term forecasting inaccuracy, potentially resulting in overages and underages of bigeye tuna catch with respect to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission WCPFC catch limits. Any overage in the WCPFC Convention Area would be applied to the catch limit in the subsequent year, thereby reducing the catch limit for the following year.
Conversely, if forecasting inaccuracy leads to an underage, the fishery would not be allowed to carry-over the unused catch limit to the subsequent year, resulting in a reduction in catch available to the fishery and the Nation.
In light of these inefficiencies, the Council in October 2018 recommended that NMFS implement mandatory electronic logbooks in the Hawaii pelagic longline fisheries. In June 2019, the Council requested that the NMFS
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center convene an Electronic Technologies Steering Committee to address electronic logbook implementation challenges. In June 2020, the Council considered requiring electronic logbooks in the Hawaii and American
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