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Exclusive Economic Zone until the
implementing of a trawl rationalization
program in the Pacific whiting fishery.
DATES: Comments on Amendment 15
must be received on or before May 19,
2008.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by RIN 0648–AW08 by any of
the following methods:
• Electronic Submissions: Submit all
electronic public comments via the
FederaleRulemaking Portal https://
www.regulations.gov.
• Fax: 206–526–6736, Attn: Becky
Renko.
• Mail: D. Robert Lohn,
Administrator, Northwest Region,
NMFS, Attn: Becky Renko, 7600 Sand
Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115–0070.
Instructions: All comments received
are a part of the public record and will
generally be posted to https://
www.regulations.gov without change.
All Personal Identifying Information (for
example, name, address, etc.)
voluntarily submitted by the commenter
may be publicly accessible. Do not
submit Confidential Business
Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information.
NMFS will accept anonymous
comments. Attachments to electronic
comments will be accepted in Microsoft
Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe
PDF file formats only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Becky Renko (Northwest Region,
NMFS), phone: 206–526–6129; fax: 206–
526–6736; and e-mail:
becky.renko@noaa.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic Access
Amendment 15 is available on the
Pacific Fishery Management Council’s
(Council’s or Pacific Council’s) website
at: https://www.pcouncil.org/groundfish/
gffmp.html.
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act) requires that
each regional fishery management
council submit any FMP or plan
amendment it prepares to NMFS for
review and approval, disapproval, or
partial approval. The Magnuson-Stevens
Act also requires that NMFS, upon
receiving an FMP or amendment,
immediately publish a notice that the
FMP or amendment is available for
public review and comment. NMFS will
consider the public comments received
during the comment period described
above in determining whether to
approve Amendment 15 to the FMP.
Amendment 15 would implement a
limited entry program for the Pacific
whiting fishery, which occurs within
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the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone off
the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and
California. The whiting fishery is
currently managed with separate
allocations for the tribal and non-tribal
whiting fisheries, and with sectorspecific whiting allocations for the three
non-tribal sectors: mothership, catcher/
processor, and shore-based. Vessels that
participate in the mothership sector
include both the motherships
themselves and the catcher vessels that
deliver to the at-sea mothership
processors. Vessels that participate in
the catcher/processor sector are selfcontained at-sea processors that both
catch and process fish. Vessels that
participate in the shore-based sector are
catcher vessels that deliver their catch
to land-based processing plants. This
action would limit participation in each
of the three non-tribal sectors of the
Pacific whiting fishery to those vessels,
both catcher vessels and at-sea
processing vessels, with historic
participation in those particular sectors.
NMFS welcomes comments on the
proposed FMP amendment through the
end of the comment period. A proposed
rule to implement Amendment 15 has
been submitted for Secretarial review
and approval. NMFS expects to publish
and request public review and comment
on proposed regulations to implement
Amendment 15 in the near future.
Public comments on the proposed rule
must be received by the end of the
comment period on the amendment to
be considered in the approval/
disapproval decision on the
amendment. All comments received by
the end of the comment period for the
amendment, whether specifically
directed to the amendment or the
proposed rule, will be considered in the
approval/disapproval decision.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 13, 2008.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 680
RIN 0648–AW37
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic
Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands King and Tanner
Crabs
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability of an
amendment to a fishery management
plan; request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NMFS proposes Amendment
24 the Fishery Management Plan for
Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and
Tanner Crabs (FMP) to: specify a fivetier system for determining the status of
the crab stocks managed under the FMP,
establish a process for annually
assigning each crab stock to a tier and
for setting the overfishing and
overfished levels, and reduce the
number of crab stocks managed under
the FMP. Amendment 24 is necessary to
establish new overfishing definitions
that contain objective and measurable
criteria for determining whether each
managed stock is overfished or whether
overfishing is occurring and to remove
several crab stocks managed by the State
of Alaska from FMP management. This
action is intended to promote the goals
and objectives of the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, the FMP, and other applicable
laws.
Comments on Amendment 24
must be submitted on or before May 19,
2008.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Sue
Salveson, Assistant Regional
Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries
Division, Alaska Region, NMFS, Attn:
Ellen Sebastian. You may submit
comments, identified by RIN 0648–
AW37, by any one of the following
methods:
• Electronic Submissions: Submit all
electronic public comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal website at
https://www.regulations.gov.
• Mail: P. O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK
99802.
• Fax: (907) 586–7557.
• Hand delivery to the Federal
Building: 709 West 9th Street, Room
420A, Juneau, AK.
All comments received are a part of
the public record and will generally be
DATES:
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posted to https://www.regulations.gov
without change. All Personal Identifying
Information (e.g., name, address)
voluntarily submitted by the commenter
may be publicly accessible. Do not
submit confidential business
information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information.
NMFS will accept anonymous
comments. Attachments to electronic
comments will be accepted in Microsoft
Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe
portable document file (pdf) formats
only.
Copies of Amendment 24 and the
Environmental Assessment (EA) for this
action may be obtained from the NMFS
Alaska Region at the address above or
from the Alaska Region website at
https://www.fakr.noaa.gov/
sustainablefisheries.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gretchen Harrington, 907–586–7228 or
gretchen.harrington@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act) requires that
each regional fishery management
council submit any Fishery
Management Plan (FMP) amendment it
prepares to NMFS for review and
approval, disapproval, or partial
approval by the Secretary of Commerce.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act also
requires that NMFS, upon receiving an
FMP amendment, immediately publish
a notice in the Federal Register
announcing that the amendment is
available for public review and
comment. This action constitutes such
notice for Amendment 24 to the FMP for
the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King
and Tanner Crabs. NMFS will consider
the public comments received during
the comment period in determining
whether to approve this FMP
amendment.
In December 2007, the North Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council)
unanimously recommended
Amendment 24 to the Fishery
Management Plan for Bering Sea/
Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs.
Amendment 24 would satisfy the
Magnuson-Stevens Act requirement that
FMPs contain objective and measurable
criteria for determining whether a stock
is overfished, whether overfishing is
occurring, and for rebuilding overfished
stocks. Section 301(a) of the MagnusonStevens Act establishes national
standards for fishery conservation and
management, and requires that all FMPs
create management measures consistent
with those standards. National Standard
1 requires that conservation and
management measures shall ‘‘prevent
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overfishing while achieving, on a
continuing basis, the optimum yield’’
from fisheries in Federal waters.
Amendment 24 would (1) specify a
five-tier system for determining the
status of the crab stocks managed under
the FMP, (2) establish a process for
annually assigning each crab stock to a
tier and for setting the overfishing and
overfished levels, and (3) reduce the
number of crab stocks managed under
the FMP. The stocks status
determination criteria in Amendment 24
are necessary to reflect current scientific
information and accomplish the
following:
• Provide an FMP framework to
annually define values using the best
available scientific information.
• Provide a new tier system that
accommodates varying levels of
uncertainty of information and takes
advantage of alternative biological
reference points.
• Define the status determination
criteria and their application to the
appropriate component of the
population.
Removal of Stocks
Amendment 24 would remove twelve
state-managed stocks from the FMP for
which the State of Alaska (State) has a
legitimate interest in the conservation
and management. For each of these
stocks, the majority of catch in the
fisheries occurs in State waters or the
State either has closed the directed
fishery or manages a limited incidental
or exploratory fishery. The State would
continue to manage these stocks as they
currently do under the deferred
management authority of the FMP.
Five-Tier System
The stocks status determination
criteria for crab stocks would be
annually calculated using a five-tier
system that accommodates varying
levels of uncertainty of information. The
five-tier system would incorporate new
scientific information and provide a
mechanism to continually improve the
stock status determination criteria as
new information becomes available. The
five-tier system would be used to
determine the status of the crab stocks
and whether (1) overfishing is occurring
or the rate or level of fishing mortality
for a stock or stock complex is
approaching overfishing, and (2) a stock
or stock complex is overfished or a stock
or stock complex is approaching an
overfished condition.
Overfishing would be determined by
comparing the overfishing level, as
calculated in the five-tier system for the
crab fishing year, with the catch
estimates for that crab fishing year.
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An overfished condition would be
determined by comparing annual
biomass estimates to the established
minimum stock size threshold (MSST),
defined as one half the biomass
estimated to produce maximum
sustainable yield to the fishery. For
stocks where MSSTs (or proxies) are
defined, if the biomass drops below the
MSST (or proxy thereof) then the stock
would be considered to be overfished.
MSST or proxies would be set for stocks
in Tiers 1 through 4. For Tier 5 stocks,
it would not be possible to set an MSST
because there are no reliable estimates
of biomass.
Annually, the overfishing level for
each stock would be calculated for the
upcoming crab fishing year based on the
most recent abundance estimates prior
to the State of Alaska setting the total
allowable catch or guideline harvest
level for that stock’s upcoming crab
fishing season. First, a stock would be
assigned to one of the five tiers based on
the availability of information for that
stock. Tier assignments would be made
through the Council’s Crab Plan Team
process and recommended by the
Council’s Scientific and Statistical
Committee.
Once a stock is assigned to a tier, the
stock status level would be determined
based on biomass estimates from recent
survey data and simulation models, as
available. The tier system would specify
three levels of stock status: ‘‘a,’’ ‘‘b,’’
and ‘‘c.’’ At stock status level ‘‘a,’’
current stock biomass exceeds the
biomass estimated to produce maximum
sustainable yield to the fishery. At
status level ‘‘b,’’ current stock biomass
is less than necessary produce
maximum sustainable yield to the
fishery but greater than a level specified
as the critical biomass threshold. At
stock status level ‘‘c,’’ current stock
biomass is below the critical biomass
threshold and directed fishing would be
prohibited. The stock status level
determines the equation for calculating
the fishing rate used to determine the
overfishing level. For stocks in Tiers 1
through 4, the fishing rate would be
reduced as biomass declines by stock
status level.
Tier 5 stocks have no reliable
estimates of biomass or natural
mortality and only historical data of
retained catch is available. For stocks in
Tier 5, the overfishing level would be
specified in terms of an average catch
value over an historical time period,
unless the Scientific and Statistical
Committee recommends an alternative
value based on the best available
scientific information.
After the crab fishing year, NMFS
would determine whether overfishing
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occurred by comparing the overfishing
level with the catch from the previous
crab fishing year. For stocks where nontarget fishery removal data are available,
catch would include all fishery
removals, including retained catch and
discard losses. Discard losses would be
determined by multiplying the
appropriate handling mortality rate by
observer estimates of bycatch discards.
For stocks where only retained catch
information is available, the overfishing
level would be set for and compared to
the retained catch.
Annually, the Council, Scientific and
Statistical Committee, and Crab Plan
Team will review (1) the stock
assessment documents, (2) the OFLs and
total allowable catches or guideline
harvest levels for the upcoming crab
fishing year, (3) NMFS’s determination
of whether overfishing occurred in the
previous crab fishing year, and (4)
NMFS’s determination of whether any
stocks are overfished.
The Alaska Fisheries Science Center
(AFSC) reviewed the proposed
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overfishing definitions in Amendment
24 and supporting environmental
assessment for compliance with
guidelines provided for National
Standards 1 and 2 in 50 CFR part 600.
During this review, the AFSC
recommended modifications to the
amendment text to clarify the Council’s
intent and comply with the MagnusonStevens Act. At its February 2008
meeting, the Council adopted the FMP
text for Amendment 24 which included
the AFSC’s recommendations. On
February 14, 2008, the AFSC certified
that the proposed definitions (1) have
sufficient scientific merit, (2) are likely
to result in effective Council action to
protect a managed stock from closely
approaching or reaching an overfished
status, (3) provide a basis for objective
measurement of the status of a managed
stock against the definition, and (4) are
operationally feasible.
An EA was prepared for Amendment
24 that describes the management
background, the purpose and need for
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action, the management alternatives,
and the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the alternatives
(see ADDRESSES).
Public comments are being solicited
on proposed Amendment 24 through
May 19, 2008. All comments received
by the end of the comment period on
the amendment will be considered in
the approval/disapproval decision.
Comments received after that date will
not be considered in the approval/
disapproval decision on the
amendment. To be considered,
comments must be received—not just
postmarked or otherwise transmitted—
by the close of business on the last day
of the comment period.
Dated: March 13, 2008.
Emily H. Menashes
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 680
RIN 0648-AW37
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea
and Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability of an amendment to a fishery management
plan; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: NMFS proposes Amendment 24 the Fishery Management Plan for
Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs (FMP) to: specify a
five-tier system for determining the status of the crab stocks managed
under the FMP, establish a process for annually assigning each crab
stock to a tier and for setting the overfishing and overfished levels,
and reduce the number of crab stocks managed under the FMP. Amendment
24 is necessary to establish new overfishing definitions that contain
objective and measurable criteria for determining whether each managed
stock is overfished or whether overfishing is occurring and to remove
several crab stocks managed by the State of Alaska from FMP management.
This action is intended to promote the goals and objectives of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the FMP, and
other applicable laws.
DATES: Comments on Amendment 24 must be submitted on or before May 19,
2008.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Sue Salveson, Assistant Regional
Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, Alaska Region, NMFS,
Attn: Ellen Sebastian. You may submit comments, identified by RIN 0648-
AW37, by any one of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Submit all electronic public
comments via the Federal eRulemaking Portal website at https://
www.regulations.gov.
Mail: P. O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802.
Fax: (907) 586-7557.
Hand delivery to the Federal Building: 709 West 9th
Street, Room 420A, Juneau, AK.
All comments received are a part of the public record and will
generally be
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posted to https://www.regulations.gov without change. All Personal
Identifying Information (e.g., name, address) voluntarily submitted by
the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit confidential
business information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.
NMFS will accept anonymous comments. Attachments to electronic
comments will be accepted in Microsoft Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or
Adobe portable document file (pdf) formats only.
Copies of Amendment 24 and the Environmental Assessment (EA) for
this action may be obtained from the NMFS Alaska Region at the address
above or from the Alaska Region website at https://www.fakr.noaa.gov/
sustainablefisheries.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gretchen Harrington, 907-586-7228 or
gretchen.harrington@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) requires that each regional
fishery management council submit any Fishery Management Plan (FMP)
amendment it prepares to NMFS for review and approval, disapproval, or
partial approval by the Secretary of Commerce. The Magnuson-Stevens Act
also requires that NMFS, upon receiving an FMP amendment, immediately
publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing that the amendment
is available for public review and comment. This action constitutes
such notice for Amendment 24 to the FMP for the Bering Sea/Aleutian
Islands King and Tanner Crabs. NMFS will consider the public comments
received during the comment period in determining whether to approve
this FMP amendment.
In December 2007, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council
(Council) unanimously recommended Amendment 24 to the Fishery
Management Plan for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs.
Amendment 24 would satisfy the Magnuson-Stevens Act requirement that
FMPs contain objective and measurable criteria for determining whether
a stock is overfished, whether overfishing is occurring, and for
rebuilding overfished stocks. Section 301(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act establishes national standards for fishery conservation and
management, and requires that all FMPs create management measures
consistent with those standards. National Standard 1 requires that
conservation and management measures shall ``prevent overfishing while
achieving, on a continuing basis, the optimum yield'' from fisheries in
Federal waters.
Amendment 24 would (1) specify a five-tier system for determining
the status of the crab stocks managed under the FMP, (2) establish a
process for annually assigning each crab stock to a tier and for
setting the overfishing and overfished levels, and (3) reduce the
number of crab stocks managed under the FMP. The stocks status
determination criteria in Amendment 24 are necessary to reflect current
scientific information and accomplish the following:
Provide an FMP framework to annually define values using
the best available scientific information.
Provide a new tier system that accommodates varying levels
of uncertainty of information and takes advantage of alternative
biological reference points.
Define the status determination criteria and their
application to the appropriate component of the population.
Removal of Stocks
Amendment 24 would remove twelve state-managed stocks from the FMP
for which the State of Alaska (State) has a legitimate interest in the
conservation and management. For each of these stocks, the majority of
catch in the fisheries occurs in State waters or the State either has
closed the directed fishery or manages a limited incidental or
exploratory fishery. The State would continue to manage these stocks as
they currently do under the deferred management authority of the FMP.
Five-Tier System
The stocks status determination criteria for crab stocks would be
annually calculated using a five-tier system that accommodates varying
levels of uncertainty of information. The five-tier system would
incorporate new scientific information and provide a mechanism to
continually improve the stock status determination criteria as new
information becomes available. The five-tier system would be used to
determine the status of the crab stocks and whether (1) overfishing is
occurring or the rate or level of fishing mortality for a stock or
stock complex is approaching overfishing, and (2) a stock or stock
complex is overfished or a stock or stock complex is approaching an
overfished condition.
Overfishing would be determined by comparing the overfishing level,
as calculated in the five-tier system for the crab fishing year, with
the catch estimates for that crab fishing year.
An overfished condition would be determined by comparing annual
biomass estimates to the established minimum stock size threshold
(MSST), defined as one half the biomass estimated to produce maximum
sustainable yield to the fishery. For stocks where MSSTs (or proxies)
are defined, if the biomass drops below the MSST (or proxy thereof)
then the stock would be considered to be overfished. MSST or proxies
would be set for stocks in Tiers 1 through 4. For Tier 5 stocks, it
would not be possible to set an MSST because there are no reliable
estimates of biomass.
Annually, the overfishing level for each stock would be calculated
for the upcoming crab fishing year based on the most recent abundance
estimates prior to the State of Alaska setting the total allowable
catch or guideline harvest level for that stock's upcoming crab fishing
season. First, a stock would be assigned to one of the five tiers based
on the availability of information for that stock. Tier assignments
would be made through the Council's Crab Plan Team process and
recommended by the Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee.
Once a stock is assigned to a tier, the stock status level would be
determined based on biomass estimates from recent survey data and
simulation models, as available. The tier system would specify three
levels of stock status: ``a,'' ``b,'' and ``c.'' At stock status level
``a,'' current stock biomass exceeds the biomass estimated to produce
maximum sustainable yield to the fishery. At status level ``b,''
current stock biomass is less than necessary produce maximum
sustainable yield to the fishery but greater than a level specified as
the critical biomass threshold. At stock status level ``c,'' current
stock biomass is below the critical biomass threshold and directed
fishing would be prohibited. The stock status level determines the
equation for calculating the fishing rate used to determine the
overfishing level. For stocks in Tiers 1 through 4, the fishing rate
would be reduced as biomass declines by stock status level.
Tier 5 stocks have no reliable estimates of biomass or natural
mortality and only historical data of retained catch is available. For
stocks in Tier 5, the overfishing level would be specified in terms of
an average catch value over an historical time period, unless the
Scientific and Statistical Committee recommends an alternative value
based on the best available scientific information.
After the crab fishing year, NMFS would determine whether
overfishing
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occurred by comparing the overfishing level with the catch from the
previous crab fishing year. For stocks where non-target fishery removal
data are available, catch would include all fishery removals, including
retained catch and discard losses. Discard losses would be determined
by multiplying the appropriate handling mortality rate by observer
estimates of bycatch discards. For stocks where only retained catch
information is available, the overfishing level would be set for and
compared to the retained catch.
Annually, the Council, Scientific and Statistical Committee, and
Crab Plan Team will review (1) the stock assessment documents, (2) the
OFLs and total allowable catches or guideline harvest levels for the
upcoming crab fishing year, (3) NMFS's determination of whether
overfishing occurred in the previous crab fishing year, and (4) NMFS's
determination of whether any stocks are overfished.
The Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) reviewed the proposed
overfishing definitions in Amendment 24 and supporting environmental
assessment for compliance with guidelines provided for National
Standards 1 and 2 in 50 CFR part 600. During this review, the AFSC
recommended modifications to the amendment text to clarify the
Council's intent and comply with the Magnuson-Stevens Act. At its
February 2008 meeting, the Council adopted the FMP text for Amendment
24 which included the AFSC's recommendations. On February 14, 2008, the
AFSC certified that the proposed definitions (1) have sufficient
scientific merit, (2) are likely to result in effective Council action
to protect a managed stock from closely approaching or reaching an
overfished status, (3) provide a basis for objective measurement of the
status of a managed stock against the definition, and (4) are
operationally feasible.
An EA was prepared for Amendment 24 that describes the management
background, the purpose and need for action, the management
alternatives, and the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the
alternatives (see ADDRESSES).
Public comments are being solicited on proposed Amendment 24
through May 19, 2008. All comments received by the end of the comment
period on the amendment will be considered in the approval/disapproval
decision. Comments received after that date will not be considered in
the approval/disapproval decision on the amendment. To be considered,
comments must be received--not just postmarked or otherwise
transmitted--by the close of business on the last day of the comment
period.
Dated: March 13, 2008.
Emily H. Menashes
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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