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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 161 / Tuesday, August 24, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
season dates was developed. This action should be implemented as soon as possible to allow fishery participants to take advantage of the additional fishing dates prior to the end of the season. As the fishery closes on September 30, 2021, implementing this action through proposed and final rulemaking would limit the benefit this action would provide to fishery participants. Without implementation of additional season dates, the combined Washington and Columbia River subarea allocations would not be harvested, limiting economic benefits to the participants and not meeting the goals of the Catch Sharing Plan and the 2021 management measures. It is necessary that this rulemaking be implemented in a timely manner so that planning for these new fishing days can take place, and for business and personal decision making by the regulated public impacted by this action, which includes recreational charter fishing operations, associated port businesses, and private anglers who do not live near the coastal access points for this fishery, among others. To ensure the regulated public is fully aware of this action, notice of this regulatory action will also be provided to anglers through a telephone hotline, news release, and by the relevant state fish and wildlife agencies. NMFS will receive public comments for 15 days after publication of this action, in accordance with 50 CFR 300.63c4ii.
No aspect of this action is controversial, and changes of this nature were anticipated in the process described in regulations at 50 CFR 300.63c.
For the reasons discussed above, there is also good cause under 5 U.S.C.
553d3 to waive the 30-day delay in effective date and make this action effective immediately upon filing for public inspection, as a delay in effectiveness of this action would constrain fishing opportunity and be inconsistent with the goals of the Catch Sharing Plan and current management measures, as well as potentially limit the economic opportunity intended by this rule to the associated fishing communities. NMFS regulations allow the Regional Administrator to modify sport fishing periods, bag limits, size limits, days per calendar week, and subarea quotas, provided that the action allows allocation objectives to be met and will not result in exceeding the catch limit for the subarea. NMFS
recently received information on the progress of landings in the recreational fisheries in Washington subareas, indicating additional dates should be added to the fishery to ensure optimal and sustainable harvest of the quota. As
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stated above, it is in the public interest that this action is not delayed, because a delay in the effectiveness of these new dates would not allow the allocation objectives of this fishery to be met.
Dated: August 19, 2021.
Kelly Denit, Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 679
Docket No. 2102170022
RTID 0648XB349

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

NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear and catcher vessels greater than or equal to 60 feet 18.3 meters m length overall LOA
using hook-and-line gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet 18.3 m LOA
using hook-and-line or pot gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area BSAI. This action is necessary to allow the 2021 total allowable catch TAC of Pacific cod to be harvested.
DATES: Effective August 23, 2021, through 2400 hours, Alaska local time A.l.t., December 31, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Krista Milani, 9075812062.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS
manages the groundfish fishery in the BSAI according to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area FMP prepared by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council under authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Regulations governing fishing by U.S.
vessels in accordance with the FMP
appear at subpart H of 50 CFR part 600
and 50 CFR part 679.
The 2021 Pacific cod TAC specified for vessels using jig gear in the BSAI is SUMMARY:

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1,565 metric tons mt as established by the final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI 86 FR 11449, February 25, 2021.
The 2021 Pacific cod TAC specified for catcher vessels greater than or equal to 60 feet 18.3 m LOA using hook-andline gear in the BSAI is 222 mt as established by the final 2021 and 2022
harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI 86 FR 11449, February 25, 2021.
The 2021 Pacific cod TAC allocated to catcher vessels less than 60 feet 18.3 m LOA using hook-and-line or pot gear in the BSAI is 2,222 mt as established by final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI 86 FR 11449, February 25, 2021.
The Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS, Regional Administrator has determined that jig vessels will not be able to harvest 1,500 mt of the 2021
Pacific cod TAC allocated to those vessels under 679.20a7iiA1 and catcher vessels greater than or equal to 60 feet 18.3 m LOA using hook-andline gear will not be able to harvest 222
mt of the 2021 Pacific cod TAC
allocated to those vessels under 679.20a7iiA3.
Therefore, in accordance with 679.20a7ivC, NMFS apportions 1,500 mt of Pacific cod from the jig vessels to the annual amount specified for catcher vessels less than 60 feet 18.3
m LOA using hook-and-line or pot gear.
Also, in accordance with 679.20a7iiiA, NMFS reallocates 222 mt from the catcher vessels greater than or equal to 60 feet 18.3 m LOA
using hook-and-line gear to the annual amount specified for catcher vessels less than 60 feet 18.3 m LOA using hookand-line or pot gear.
The harvest specifications for 2021
Pacific cod included in final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI 86 FR 11449, February 25, 2021 is revised as follows:
65 mt to vessels using jig gear, 0 mt to catcher vessels greater than or equal to 60 feet 18.3 m LOA using hook-andline gear, and 3,944 mt to catcher vessels less than 60 feet 18.3 m LOA
using hook-and-line or pot gear.
NMFS issues this action pursuant to section 305d of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. This action is required by 50 CFR
part 679, which was issued pursuant to section 304b, and is exempt from review under Executive Order 12866.
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553bB, there is good cause to waive prior notice and an opportunity for public comment on this action, as notice and comment would be impracticable and contrary to the public interest. This requirement is impracticable and contrary to the public
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