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interconnected VoIP services and results
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potentially affects any special offices
and facilities such as a 911 facility.
Collecting data on significant outages of
interconnected VoIP services will help
the Commission to monitor compliance
with the statutory 911 obligations of
interconnected VoIP service providers,
as well as help ensure the Nation’s
current and future 911 systems are as
reliable and resilient as possible both on
a day-to-day basis and in times of a
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increasingly relying on Internet Protocol
(IP)-based technologies as substitutes for
communications services provided by
older communications technologies, and
increasingly use interconnected VoIP
services in lieu of traditional telephone
service. As of December 31, 2010, 31
percent of the more than 87 million
residential telephone subscriptions in
the United States were users of
interconnected VoIP providers—an
increase of 21 percent (from 22.4
million to 27.1 million) from the end of
2009. Additionally, the Commission
estimates that approximately 31 percent
of residential wireline 911 calls are
made using VoIP service. The
information collected is administered by
the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau (PSHSB) which
maintains an Internet Web site portal for
the electronic submission of the
required outage reports. In addition,
provision is made for the submission of
required data by other than electronic
means in cases where electronic
submission is not feasible.
First, Respondents must submit
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Reporting System (NORS) (See https://
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nors/nors.html) notification to the
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that they have experienced on any
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or otherwise utilize, an outage of at least
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been designated by the management of
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effects of the outage on efforts to
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providers have experienced on any
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interconnected VoIP service and results
in complete loss of service; or
potentially affects any special offices
and facilities. Second, Respondents
must submit electronically via NORS a
Final Communications Outage Report to
the Commission not later than thirty
days after discovering the outage.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket No. 100804324–1265–02]
RIN 0648–BC61
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Biennial Specifications and
Management Measures; Inseason
Adjustments
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; inseason adjustments
to biennial groundfish management
measures.
AGENCY:
This final rule announces
inseason changes to management
measures in the Pacific Coast groundfish
fisheries. This action, which is
authorized by the Pacific Coast
Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
(PCGFMP), is intended to allow
fisheries to access more abundant
groundfish stocks while protecting
overfished and depleted stocks.
DATES: Effective 0001 hours (local time)
November 1, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colby Brady (Northwest Region, NMFS),
phone: 206–526–6117, fax: 206–526–
6736, colby.brady@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Electronic Access
This final rule is accessible via the
Internet at the Office of the Federal
Register’s Web site at https://
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action.
Background information and documents
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are available at the Pacific Fishery
Management Council’s Web site at
https://www.pcouncil.org/.
Background
The Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP
and its implementing regulations at title
50 in the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), part 660, subparts C through G,
regulate fishing for over 90 species of
groundfish off the coasts of Washington,
Oregon, and California. Groundfish
specifications and management
measures are developed by the Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council),
and are implemented by NMFS. On
November 3, 2010, NMFS published a
proposed rule to implement the 2011–
2012 harvest specifications and
management measures for most species
of the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery
(75 FR 67810). The final rule to
implement the 2011–12 harvest
specifications and management
measures for most species of the Pacific
Coast Groundfish Fishery was published
on May 11, 2011 (76 FR 27508). This
final rule was subsequently amended by
several inseason actions (76 FR 39313,
76 FR 67092, 76 FR 79122, 77 FR 12503,
77 FR 22679, 77 FR 24634, 77 FR
47322). On September 27, 2011, NMFS
published a proposed rule to implement
final 2012 specifications for overfished
species and assessed flatfish species
pursuant to Secretarial Amendment 1 to
the Groundfish FMP (76 FR 59634).
That final rule was effective January 1,
2012.
The Council, in consultation with
Pacific Coast Treaty Indian Tribes and
the States of Washington, Oregon, and
California, recommended the changes to
current groundfish management
measures implemented by this action at
its September 12–September 17, 2012
meeting. The Council recommended
adjusting groundfish management
measures for the remainder of the
biennial period to respond to updated
fishery information and additional
inseason management needs. The
adjustments to fishery management
measures are not expected to result in
greater impacts to overfished species
than originally projected through the
end of 2012. Estimated mortality of
overfished and target species is the
result of management measures
designed to achieve, to the extent
possible, but not exceed, annual catch
limits (ACLs) of target species while
fostering the rebuilding of overfished
stocks by remaining within their
rebuilding ACLs.
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Open Access (OA) Fixed Gear Fishery
Management Measures
Sablefish Daily Trip Limit (DTL) Trip
Limits South of 36° N. Lat.
To ensure harvest opportunities for
the OA fixed gear sablefish DTL fishery,
and that its harvest guideline south of
36° N. lat. is further attained, the
Council considered increases to trip
limits for sablefish in this fishery and
the potential impacts on overall catch
levels. The Council’s Groundfish
Management Team (GMT) made modelbased landings projections of the OA
fixed gear sablefish DTL fishery south of
36° N. lat. for the remainder of 2012.
These projections were based on the
most recent information available under
the current 2012 trip limit scenario, and
predicted a harvest projection of 41
percent (126 mt) of this fishery’s harvest
guideline (309 mt) under the status quo
trip limits. Landings projections with
the proposed increased trip limits
predict a harvest of 52 percent (161 mt)
of this fishery’s harvest guideline.
Projections for the other three fixed gear
sablefish fisheries were tracking within
their targets for 2012.
Therefore, the Council recommended
and NMFS is implementing trip limit
changes for the OA fixed gear sablefish
DTL fishery south of 36° N. lat. that
increase OA fixed gear sablefish DTL
fishery limits from ‘‘300 lb per day (136
kg), or one landing per week of up to
1,350 lb (612 kg), not to exceed 2,700 lb
(1225 kg) per two months’’ to ‘‘350 lb
(159 kg) per day, or one landing per
week of up to 1,750 lb (794 kg), not to
exceed 3,500 lb (1,588 kg) per 2
months’’ beginning in period 6,
November 1, 2012 through the end of
the year.
Recreational Fishery Management
Measures
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California Southern Management Area
(SMA) Rockfish Conservation Area
(RCA) Adjustments South of 34°27′ N.
Lat.
Due to uncertainty in the catch
estimates, and to reduce the potential
for cowcod mortality to exceed the nontrawl allocation in 2012, the Council
considered modifications to the current
SMA RCA boundary. Recreational
fishing for most groundfish is currently
prohibited seaward of a boundary line
approximating the 60 fathom depth (110
meters) contour in California south of
34°27′ N. lat. The new boundary would
expand the closed area, restricting
fishing to the area seaward of a
boundary line approximating the 50
fathom depth (91 meters) contour, south
of 34°27′ N. lat., beginning November 1,
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2012, through December 31, 2012
(period 6). The Council considered this
change as a precautionary measure to
address uncertainty in the catch
estimates, and to reduce the potential
for cowcod mortality to exceed the nontrawl allocation in 2012.
Therefore, the Council recommended
and NMFS is implementing a shift to
the seaward boundary line of the
recreational Rockfish Conservation Area
in the Southern Management Area south
of 34°27′ N. lat. from the 60 fathom
depth contour (110 meters) to the 50
fathom depth contour (91 meters),
beginning November 1, 2012, through
December 31, 2012 (period 6).
Classification
This final rule makes routine inseason
adjustments to groundfish fishery
management measures based on the best
available information and is consistent
with the Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP
and its implementing regulations.
This action is taken under the
authority of 50 CFR 660.60(c) and is
exempt from review under Executive
Order 12866.
These inseason changes in sablefish
limits and recreational RCAs are based
on the most recent data available. The
aggregate data upon which these actions
are based are available for public
inspection at the Office of the
Administrator, Northwest Region,
NMFS, during business hours.
For the following reasons, NMFS
finds good cause to waive prior public
notice and comment on the revisions to
groundfish management measures under
5 U.S.C. 553(b) because notice and
comment would be impracticable and
contrary to the public interest. Also, for
the same reasons, NMFS finds good
cause to partially waive the 30-day
delay in effectiveness pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 553(d)(3), so that this final rule
may become effective November 1,
2012.
At the September Council meeting,
the Council recommended that these
changes, which are based on the most
recent information available, be
implemented by November 1, 2012.
There was not sufficient time after that
meeting to draft this document and
undergo proposed and final rulemaking
before these actions need to be in effect.
For the actions to be implemented in
this final rule, affording the time
necessary for prior notice and
opportunity for public comment would
prevent NMFS from managing fisheries
using the best available science to
approach, without exceeding, the ACLs
for federally managed species in
accordance with the FMP and
applicable law. The adjustments to
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management measures in this document
affect commercial and recreational
fisheries in southern California. These
adjustments to management measures
must be implemented in a timely
manner, by November 1, 2012, to: allow
OA fixed gear fishermen an opportunity
to harvest their limits in 2012 for
sablefish without exceeding the ACL
south of 36° N. lat.; and to allow
recreational fishermen continued
opportunities to harvest abundant
species, while reducing the potential for
cowcod mortality to exceed the nontrawl allocation in 2012. These changes
in the OA fixed gear fishery south of 36°
and recreational fishery south of 34°27′
N. lat. will continue to allow fishermen
opportunities to harvest available
healthy stocks while staying within the
ACLs for target and overfished species.
If this rule is not implemented
immediately, the public could have
incorrect information regarding allowed
OA fixed gear trip limits south of 36°,
and recreational rockfish conservation
area boundaries south of 34°27′ N. lat.
which would cause confusion and be
inconsistent with the Council’s intent. It
would be contrary to the public interest
to delay implementation of these
changes until after public notice and
comment, because making this
regulatory change by November 1, 2012,
allows harvest as intended by the
Council in fisheries that are important
to coastal communities in a manner that
prevents ACLs of overfished and target
species from being exceeded.
No aspect of this action is
controversial and no change in
operating practices in the fishery is
required from those intended in this
inseason adjustment.
Delaying these changes would also
keep management measures in place
that are not based on the best available
information. Such delay would impair
achievement of the Pacific Coast
Groundfish FMP goals and objectives of
managing for appropriate harvest levels
while providing for year-round fishing
and marketing opportunities.
Accordingly, for the reasons stated
above, NMFS finds good cause to waive
prior notice and comment and to
partially waive the delay in
effectiveness.
List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 660
Fisheries, Fishing, Indian Fisheries.
Dated: October 12, 2012.
Emily H. Menashes,
Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
For the reasons set out in the
preamble, 50 CFR part 660 is amended
as follows:
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PART 660—FISHERIES OFF WEST
COAST STATES
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., 16
U.S.C. 773 et seq., and 16 U.S.C. 7001 et seq.
2. Table 3 (South) to part 660, subpart
F is revised to read as follows:
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3. In § 660.360, paragraph
(c)(3)(i)(A)(5) is revised to read as
follows:
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for all groundfish (except California
scorpionfish as specified below in this
paragraph and in paragraph (c)(3)(v) of
this section and ‘‘other flatfish’’ as
specified in paragraph (c)(3)(iv) of this
section) is prohibited seaward of a
boundary line approximating the 50 fm
(91.5 m) depth contour from March 1
through December 31 along the
mainland coast and along islands and
offshore seamounts, except in the CCAs
where fishing is prohibited seaward of
the 20 fm (37 m) depth contour when
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the fishing season is open (see
paragraph (c)(3)(i)(B) of this section).
Recreational fishing for all groundfish
(except California scorpionfish and
‘‘other flatfish’’) is closed entirely from
January 1 through February 28 (i.e.,
prohibited seaward of the shoreline).
Recreational fishing for California
scorpionfish south of 34°27′ N. lat. is
prohibited seaward of a boundary line
approximating the 50 fm (91.5 m) depth
contour from January 1 through
December 31, except in the CCAs where
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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2012)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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[FR Doc No: 2012-25566]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket No. 100804324-1265-02]
RIN 0648-BC61
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Biennial Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; inseason adjustments to biennial groundfish
management measures.
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SUMMARY: This final rule announces inseason changes to management
measures in the Pacific Coast groundfish fisheries. This action, which
is authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
(PCGFMP), is intended to allow fisheries to access more abundant
groundfish stocks while protecting overfished and depleted stocks.
DATES: Effective 0001 hours (local time) November 1, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colby Brady (Northwest Region, NMFS),
phone: 206-526-6117, fax: 206-526-6736, colby.brady@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic Access
This final rule is accessible via the Internet at the Office of the
Federal Register's Web site at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action. Background information and documents are available at the
Pacific Fishery Management Council's Web site at https://www.pcouncil.org/.
Background
The Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP and its implementing regulations
at title 50 in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), part 660,
subparts C through G, regulate fishing for over 90 species of
groundfish off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.
Groundfish specifications and management measures are developed by the
Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council), and are implemented by
NMFS. On November 3, 2010, NMFS published a proposed rule to implement
the 2011-2012 harvest specifications and management measures for most
species of the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery (75 FR 67810). The
final rule to implement the 2011-12 harvest specifications and
management measures for most species of the Pacific Coast Groundfish
Fishery was published on May 11, 2011 (76 FR 27508). This final rule
was subsequently amended by several inseason actions (76 FR 39313, 76
FR 67092, 76 FR 79122, 77 FR 12503, 77 FR 22679, 77 FR 24634, 77 FR
47322). On September 27, 2011, NMFS published a proposed rule to
implement final 2012 specifications for overfished species and assessed
flatfish species pursuant to Secretarial Amendment 1 to the Groundfish
FMP (76 FR 59634). That final rule was effective January 1, 2012.
The Council, in consultation with Pacific Coast Treaty Indian
Tribes and the States of Washington, Oregon, and California,
recommended the changes to current groundfish management measures
implemented by this action at its September 12-September 17, 2012
meeting. The Council recommended adjusting groundfish management
measures for the remainder of the biennial period to respond to updated
fishery information and additional inseason management needs. The
adjustments to fishery management measures are not expected to result
in greater impacts to overfished species than originally projected
through the end of 2012. Estimated mortality of overfished and target
species is the result of management measures designed to achieve, to
the extent possible, but not exceed, annual catch limits (ACLs) of
target species while fostering the rebuilding of overfished stocks by
remaining within their rebuilding ACLs.
[[Page 63759]]
Open Access (OA) Fixed Gear Fishery Management Measures
Sablefish Daily Trip Limit (DTL) Trip Limits South of 36[deg] N. Lat.
To ensure harvest opportunities for the OA fixed gear sablefish DTL
fishery, and that its harvest guideline south of 36[deg] N. lat. is
further attained, the Council considered increases to trip limits for
sablefish in this fishery and the potential impacts on overall catch
levels. The Council's Groundfish Management Team (GMT) made model-based
landings projections of the OA fixed gear sablefish DTL fishery south
of 36[deg] N. lat. for the remainder of 2012. These projections were
based on the most recent information available under the current 2012
trip limit scenario, and predicted a harvest projection of 41 percent
(126 mt) of this fishery's harvest guideline (309 mt) under the status
quo trip limits. Landings projections with the proposed increased trip
limits predict a harvest of 52 percent (161 mt) of this fishery's
harvest guideline. Projections for the other three fixed gear sablefish
fisheries were tracking within their targets for 2012.
Therefore, the Council recommended and NMFS is implementing trip
limit changes for the OA fixed gear sablefish DTL fishery south of
36[deg] N. lat. that increase OA fixed gear sablefish DTL fishery
limits from ``300 lb per day (136 kg), or one landing per week of up to
1,350 lb (612 kg), not to exceed 2,700 lb (1225 kg) per two months'' to
``350 lb (159 kg) per day, or one landing per week of up to 1,750 lb
(794 kg), not to exceed 3,500 lb (1,588 kg) per 2 months'' beginning in
period 6, November 1, 2012 through the end of the year.
Recreational Fishery Management Measures
California Southern Management Area (SMA) Rockfish Conservation Area
(RCA) Adjustments South of 34[deg]27' N. Lat.
Due to uncertainty in the catch estimates, and to reduce the
potential for cowcod mortality to exceed the non-trawl allocation in
2012, the Council considered modifications to the current SMA RCA
boundary. Recreational fishing for most groundfish is currently
prohibited seaward of a boundary line approximating the 60 fathom depth
(110 meters) contour in California south of 34[deg]27' N. lat. The new
boundary would expand the closed area, restricting fishing to the area
seaward of a boundary line approximating the 50 fathom depth (91
meters) contour, south of 34[deg]27' N. lat., beginning November 1,
2012, through December 31, 2012 (period 6). The Council considered this
change as a precautionary measure to address uncertainty in the catch
estimates, and to reduce the potential for cowcod mortality to exceed
the non-trawl allocation in 2012.
Therefore, the Council recommended and NMFS is implementing a shift
to the seaward boundary line of the recreational Rockfish Conservation
Area in the Southern Management Area south of 34[deg]27' N. lat. from
the 60 fathom depth contour (110 meters) to the 50 fathom depth contour
(91 meters), beginning November 1, 2012, through December 31, 2012
(period 6).
Classification
This final rule makes routine inseason adjustments to groundfish
fishery management measures based on the best available information and
is consistent with the Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP and its
implementing regulations.
This action is taken under the authority of 50 CFR 660.60(c) and is
exempt from review under Executive Order 12866.
These inseason changes in sablefish limits and recreational RCAs
are based on the most recent data available. The aggregate data upon
which these actions are based are available for public inspection at
the Office of the Administrator, Northwest Region, NMFS, during
business hours.
For the following reasons, NMFS finds good cause to waive prior
public notice and comment on the revisions to groundfish management
measures under 5 U.S.C. 553(b) because notice and comment would be
impracticable and contrary to the public interest. Also, for the same
reasons, NMFS finds good cause to partially waive the 30-day delay in
effectiveness pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), so that this final rule
may become effective November 1, 2012.
At the September Council meeting, the Council recommended that
these changes, which are based on the most recent information
available, be implemented by November 1, 2012. There was not sufficient
time after that meeting to draft this document and undergo proposed and
final rulemaking before these actions need to be in effect. For the
actions to be implemented in this final rule, affording the time
necessary for prior notice and opportunity for public comment would
prevent NMFS from managing fisheries using the best available science
to approach, without exceeding, the ACLs for federally managed species
in accordance with the FMP and applicable law. The adjustments to
management measures in this document affect commercial and recreational
fisheries in southern California. These adjustments to management
measures must be implemented in a timely manner, by November 1, 2012,
to: allow OA fixed gear fishermen an opportunity to harvest their
limits in 2012 for sablefish without exceeding the ACL south of 36[deg]
N. lat.; and to allow recreational fishermen continued opportunities to
harvest abundant species, while reducing the potential for cowcod
mortality to exceed the non-trawl allocation in 2012. These changes in
the OA fixed gear fishery south of 36[deg] and recreational fishery
south of 34[deg]27' N. lat. will continue to allow fishermen
opportunities to harvest available healthy stocks while staying within
the ACLs for target and overfished species. If this rule is not
implemented immediately, the public could have incorrect information
regarding allowed OA fixed gear trip limits south of 36[deg], and
recreational rockfish conservation area boundaries south of 34[deg]27'
N. lat. which would cause confusion and be inconsistent with the
Council's intent. It would be contrary to the public interest to delay
implementation of these changes until after public notice and comment,
because making this regulatory change by November 1, 2012, allows
harvest as intended by the Council in fisheries that are important to
coastal communities in a manner that prevents ACLs of overfished and
target species from being exceeded.
No aspect of this action is controversial and no change in
operating practices in the fishery is required from those intended in
this inseason adjustment.
Delaying these changes would also keep management measures in place
that are not based on the best available information. Such delay would
impair achievement of the Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP goals and
objectives of managing for appropriate harvest levels while providing
for year-round fishing and marketing opportunities.
Accordingly, for the reasons stated above, NMFS finds good cause to
waive prior notice and comment and to partially waive the delay in
effectiveness.
List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 660
Fisheries, Fishing, Indian Fisheries.
Dated: October 12, 2012.
Emily H. Menashes,
Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
For the reasons set out in the preamble, 50 CFR part 660 is amended
as follows:
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1. The authority citation for part 660 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq., and
16 U.S.C. 7001 et seq.
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follows:
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3. In Sec. 660.360, paragraph (c)(3)(i)(A)(5) is revised to read as
follows:
Sec. 660.360 Recreational fishery-management measures.
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(c) * * *
(3) * * *
(i) * * *
(A) * * *
(5) South of 34[deg]27' N. lat. (Southern Management Area),
recreational fishing for all groundfish (except California scorpionfish
as specified below in this paragraph and in paragraph (c)(3)(v) of this
section and ``other flatfish'' as specified in paragraph (c)(3)(iv) of
this section) is prohibited seaward of a boundary line approximating
the 50 fm (91.5 m) depth contour from March 1 through December 31 along
the mainland coast and along islands and offshore seamounts, except in
the CCAs where fishing is prohibited seaward of the 20 fm (37 m) depth
contour when the fishing season is open (see paragraph (c)(3)(i)(B) of
this section). Recreational fishing for all groundfish (except
California scorpionfish and ``other flatfish'') is closed entirely from
January 1 through February 28 (i.e., prohibited seaward of the
shoreline). Recreational fishing for California scorpionfish south of
34[deg]27' N. lat. is prohibited seaward of a boundary line
approximating the 50 fm (91.5 m) depth contour from January 1 through
December 31, except in the CCAs where
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fishing is prohibited seaward of the 20 fm (37 m) depth contour when
the fishing season is open.
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[FR Doc. 2012-25566 Filed 10-16-12; 8:45 am]
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