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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 138 / Thursday, July 22, 2021 / Rules and Regulations management at its meeting in August 2021, following the updated management track assessment and the July SSC meeting.

recommendations for 2022 if new information is available.

TABLE 6ILLEX SQUID FINAL 2021
AND PROJECTED 2022 SPECIFICAClassification TIONS IN METRIC TON
OFL
ABC
IOY
DAH/DAP

Unknown 33,000
31,478
31,478

Illex Squid In-Season Management Measures This action modifies the current weekly reporting for commercial dealers after July 15 to a 48-hour reporting requirement for accurate landings monitoring during the fishing season.
This action also modifies the closure threshold from 95 percent to 94 percent.
Both measures are designed to help avoid quota overages, which occurred in 2018 and 2019.
Reaffirmation of 20212022 Atlantic Chub Mackerel Specifications Amendment 21 to the FMP previously implemented chub mackerel specifications for the 20202022 fishing years. The Council reevaluated these specifications at its October 2020
meeting and decided to make no adjustments for the 20212022 fishing years. This action reaffirms the previously implemented specifications.

TABLE 7REAFFIRMED ATLANTIC
CHUB MACKEREL FINAL 2021 AND
PROJECTED 2022 SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATIONS IN METRIC TONS
Specification
20212022

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ABC
Annual Catch Limit ACL
Annual Catch Target
Total Allowable Landings

2,300
2,262
2,171
2,041

Comments We received four comments on the proposed rule; one comment from the MAFMC, one from a commercial fishing industry member, and two from environmental organizations. The MAFMC and commercial fishing industry member recommended we increase the Illex squid ABC. We are increasing the Illex squid ABC from 30,000 mt to 33,000 mt in this action based on updated information considered by the Council. The two environmental organizations mentioned the poor stock status of Atlantic mackerel in Canada and the actions Fisheries and Oceans Canada has taken to manage mackerel. The Council will be addressing Atlantic mackerel
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Pursuant to section 304b1A of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the NMFS
Assistant Administrator has determined that this final rule is consistent with the Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish FMP, other provisions of the MagnusonStevens Act, and other applicable law.
There is good cause under 5 U.S.C.
553d3 to waive the 30-day delay in effective date. The start of the fishing year began on January 1, 2021. This rule increases the Illex squid ABC and adjusts the reporting requirements and in-season closure trigger to avoid another overage. A delay in implementing final measures would prevent the economic benefits from this rule from being realized and prevent achieving optimal yield in the summer fishing season. In addition, this rule reduces the butterfish ABC below the current specifications based on a recent butterfish stock assessment. Past performance suggests that this will not limit the fishery as recent landings have been lower than the reduced ABC, but there remains a risk of overages with the fishery operating under the current higher specifications. Therefore, it is in the public interest to implement this final action as soon as possible.
This final rule has been determined to be not significant for purposes of Executive Order 12866.
The Chief Counsel for Regulation of the Department of Commerce certified to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration during the proposed rule stage that this action would not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The factual basis for the certification was published in the proposed rule and is not repeated here.
No comments were received regarding this certification and no other information has been obtained that suggests any other conclusion. As a result, a regulatory flexibility analysis was not required and none was prepared.
This final rule does not contain a change to a collection of information requirement for purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The existing collection of information requirements would continue to apply under the following OMB Control Number: 06480229.
List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 648
Fisheries, Fishing, Recordkeeping and reporting requirements.

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Dated: July 16, 2021.
Carrie Robinson, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service.

For the reasons set out in the preamble, 50 CFR part 648 is amended as follows:
PART 648FISHERIES OF THE
NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
1. The authority citation for part 648
continues to read as follows:

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

2. In 648.7, add paragraph f1ii to read as follows:

648.7 Recordkeeping and reporting requirements.

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ii From July 15 through December 31, dealer or processor reports documenting Illex squid landings greater than 10,000 pounds 4.5 mt must be received with 48 hours of landing.

3. In 648.24, revise paragraph a2
to read as follows:
648.24 Fishery closures and accountability measures.

a
2 Illex. NMFS shall close the directed Illex fishery in the EEZ when the Regional Administrator projects that 94 percent of the Illex DAH is harvested.
The closure of the directed fishery shall be in effect for the remainder of that fishing period, with incidental catches allowed as specified at 648.26.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 679
Docket No. 2102170022
RTID 0648XB064

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Kamchatka Flounder in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; closure.
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