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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XE458
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic
Zone Off Alaska; Groundfish of the
Gulf of Alaska; Central Gulf of Alaska
Rockfish Program
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of standard prices
and fee percentage.
AGENCY:
NMFS publishes the standard
ex-vessel prices and fee percentage for
cost recovery under the Central Gulf of
Alaska Rockfish Program. This action is
intended to provide participants in a
rockfish cooperative with the standard
prices and fee percentage for the 2015
fishing year, which was authorized from
May 1 through November 15. The fee
percentage is 3.0 percent. The fee
liability payments were due from each
rockfish cooperative by February 15,
2016.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Effective March 1, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Keeley Kent, 907–586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The rockfish fisheries are conducted
in Federal waters near Kodiak, AK, by
trawl and longline vessels. Regulations
implementing the Central Gulf of Alaska
(GOA) Rockfish Program (Rockfish
Program) are set forth at 50 CFR part
679. Exclusive harvesting privileges are
allocated as quota share under the
Rockfish Program for rockfish primary
and secondary species. The rockfish
primary species are northern rockfish,
Pacific ocean perch, and dusky rockfish.
In 2012, dusky rockfish replaced the
pelagic shelf rockfish species group in
the GOA Groundfish Harvest
Specifications (77 FR 15194, March 14,
2012). The rockfish secondary species
include Pacific cod, rougheye rockfish,
shortraker rockfish, sablefish, and
thornyhead rockfish. Rockfish
cooperatives began fishing under the
Rockfish Program on May 1, 2012.
The Rockfish Program is a limited
access privilege program established
under the provisions of section 303A of
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(MSA). Sections 303A and 304(d) of the
MSA require NMFS to collect fees to
recover the actual costs directly related
to the management, data collection and
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analysis, and enforcement of any
limited access privilege program.
Therefore, NMFS is required to collect
fees for the Rockfish Program under
sections 303A and 304(d)(2) of the MSA.
Section 304(d)(2) of the MSA also limits
the cost recovery fee so that it may not
exceed 3 percent of the ex-vessel value
of the fish harvested under the Rockfish
Program.
Standard Prices
NMFS calculates cost recovery fees
based on standard ex-vessel value price,
rather than actual price data provided
by each rockfish cooperative quota (CQ)
holder. Use of a standard ex-vessel price
is allowed under sections 303A and
304(d)(2) of the MSA. NMFS generates
a standard ex-vessel price for each
rockfish primary and secondary species
on a monthly basis to determine the
average price paid per pound for all
shoreside processors receiving rockfish
primary and secondary species CQ.
Regulations at § 679.85(b)(2) require
the Regional Administrator to publish
rockfish standard ex-vessel values
during the first quarter of each calendar
year. The standard prices are described
in U.S. dollars per pound for rockfish
primary and secondary species CQ
landings made during the previous year.
Fee Percentage
NMFS assesses a fee on the standard
ex-vessel value of rockfish primary
species and rockfish secondary species
CQ harvested by rockfish cooperatives
in the Central GOA and waters adjacent
to the Central GOA when rockfish
primary species caught by a cooperative
are deducted from the Federal total
allowable catch. The rockfish entry level
longline fishery and opt-out vessels are
not subject to cost recovery fees because
those participants do not receive
rockfish CQ. Specific details on the
Rockfish Program’s cost recovery
provision may be found in the
implementing regulations set forth at
§ 679.85.
NMFS informs—by letter—each
rockfish cooperative of the fee
percentage applied to the previous
year’s landings and the total amount
due. Fees are due on February 15 of
each year. Failure to pay on time will
result in the permit holder’s quota share
becoming non-transferable and the
person will be ineligible to receive any
additional quota share by transfer. In
addition, cooperative members will not
receive any rockfish CQ the following
year until full payment of the fee
liability is received by NMFS.
NMFS calculates and publishes in the
Federal Register the fee percentage in
the first quarter of each year according
to the factors and methods described in
Federal regulations at § 679.85(c)(2).
NMFS determines the fee percentage
that applies to landings made in the
previous year by dividing the total
Rockfish Program management, data
collection and analysis, and
enforcement costs (management costs)
during the previous year by the total
standard ex-vessel value of the rockfish
primary species and rockfish secondary
species for all rockfish CQ landings
made during the previous year (fishery
value). NMFS captures the actual
management costs through an
established accounting system that
allows staff to track labor, travel,
contracts, rent, and procurement. Fee
collections in any given year may be
less than, or greater than, the actual
management costs and fishery value for
that year, because, by regulation, the fee
percentage is established in the first
quarter of the calendar year based on the
management costs and the fishery value
of the previous calendar year.
Using the fee percentage formula
described above, the estimated
percentage of management costs to
value for the 2015 calendar year is 3.3
percent of the standard ex-vessel value;
except the rockfish fee percentage
amount must not exceed 3.0 percent
pursuant to MSA section 304(d)(2)(B).
Therefore, the 2015 fee liability
percentage is set at 3.0 percent. The fee
liability percentage for 2015 remains the
same as the 2014 fee liability percentage
(80 FR 6053, February 4, 2015).
Management costs were similar between
2014 and 2015, with slightly increased
costs attributable to software upgrades
needed to maintain the catch accounting
system.
TABLE 1—STANDARD EX-VESSEL PRICES BY SPECIES FOR THE 2015 ROCKFISH PROGRAM SEASON IN KODIAK, ALASKA
Standard
ex-vessel
price per
pound
($)
Species
Period ending
Dusky rockfish * ..........................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
Northern rockfish ........................................................................
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Pacific ocean perch ....................................................................
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TABLE 1—STANDARD EX-VESSEL PRICES BY SPECIES FOR THE 2015 ROCKFISH PROGRAM SEASON IN KODIAK, ALASKA—
Continued
Species
Period ending
Rougheye rockfish ......................................................................
Sablefish .....................................................................................
Shortraker rockfish .....................................................................
Thornyhead rockfish ...................................................................
* The
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
May 31 ........................................................................................
June 30 .......................................................................................
July 31 ........................................................................................
August 31 ...................................................................................
September 30 .............................................................................
October 31 ..................................................................................
November 30 ..............................................................................
0.19
0.19
0.19
0.23
0.22
0.18
0.17
0.15
0.15
0.17
2.63
2.68
2.76
3.57
2.67
4.56
2.96
0.16
0.20
0.15
0.15
0.15
0.18
0.17
0.31
0.35
0.35
0.40
0.33
0.59
0.67
pelagic shelf rockfish (PSR) species group has been changed to ‘‘dusky rockfish.’’
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq.; 1801 et
seq.; 3631 et seq.; Pub. L. 108–447; Pub. L.
111–281.
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Administration
RIN 0648–XE298
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act;
General Provisions for Domestic
Fisheries; Application for Exempted
Fishing Permit
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Comments must be submitted in
writing by March 31, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this document, identified by NOAA–
NMFS–2015–0063, by any of the
following methods:
• Electronic Submission: Submit all
electronic public comments via the
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to
DATES:
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Regional Administrator,
NMFS West Coast Region, has
determined that an application for an
exempted fishing permit (EFP) warrants
further consideration and requests
public comment on the application. The
application requests a 2-year exemption
from prohibitions under the Fishery
Management Plan for U.S. West Coast
Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species
(HMS FMP) to test the effects and
efficacy of using modified drift gillnet
(DGN) gear to fish for swordfish and
other highly migratory species (HMS)
off the U.S. West Coast in the Pacific
Leatherback Conservation Area (PLCA)
when environmental conditions are
favorable during the PLCA closure
period.
SUMMARY:
Dated: February 25, 2016.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-20150063, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon,
complete the required fields, and enter
or attach your comments. EFP
applications will be available under
Relevant Documents through the same
link.
• Mail: Attn: Chris Fanning, NMFS
West Coast Region, 501 W. Ocean Blvd.,
Suite 4200, Long Beach, CA 90802.
Include the identifier ‘‘NOAA–NMFS–
2015–0063’’ in the comments.
Instructions: Comments sent by any
other method, to any other address or
individual, or received after the end of
the comment period, may not be
considered by NMFS. 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
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XE458
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Groundfish
of the Gulf of Alaska; Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of standard prices and fee percentage.
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SUMMARY: NMFS publishes the standard ex-vessel prices and fee
percentage for cost recovery under the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish
Program. This action is intended to provide participants in a rockfish
cooperative with the standard prices and fee percentage for the 2015
fishing year, which was authorized from May 1 through November 15. The
fee percentage is 3.0 percent. The fee liability payments were due from
each rockfish cooperative by February 15, 2016.
DATES: Effective March 1, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keeley Kent, 907-586-7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The rockfish fisheries are conducted in Federal waters near Kodiak,
AK, by trawl and longline vessels. Regulations implementing the Central
Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Rockfish Program (Rockfish Program) are set forth
at 50 CFR part 679. Exclusive harvesting privileges are allocated as
quota share under the Rockfish Program for rockfish primary and
secondary species. The rockfish primary species are northern rockfish,
Pacific ocean perch, and dusky rockfish. In 2012, dusky rockfish
replaced the pelagic shelf rockfish species group in the GOA Groundfish
Harvest Specifications (77 FR 15194, March 14, 2012). The rockfish
secondary species include Pacific cod, rougheye rockfish, shortraker
rockfish, sablefish, and thornyhead rockfish. Rockfish cooperatives
began fishing under the Rockfish Program on May 1, 2012.
The Rockfish Program is a limited access privilege program
established under the provisions of section 303A of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). Sections 303A
and 304(d) of the MSA require NMFS to collect fees to recover the
actual costs directly related to the management, data collection and
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analysis, and enforcement of any limited access privilege program.
Therefore, NMFS is required to collect fees for the Rockfish Program
under sections 303A and 304(d)(2) of the MSA. Section 304(d)(2) of the
MSA also limits the cost recovery fee so that it may not exceed 3
percent of the ex-vessel value of the fish harvested under the Rockfish
Program.
Standard Prices
NMFS calculates cost recovery fees based on standard ex-vessel
value price, rather than actual price data provided by each rockfish
cooperative quota (CQ) holder. Use of a standard ex-vessel price is
allowed under sections 303A and 304(d)(2) of the MSA. NMFS generates a
standard ex-vessel price for each rockfish primary and secondary
species on a monthly basis to determine the average price paid per
pound for all shoreside processors receiving rockfish primary and
secondary species CQ.
Regulations at Sec. 679.85(b)(2) require the Regional
Administrator to publish rockfish standard ex-vessel values during the
first quarter of each calendar year. The standard prices are described
in U.S. dollars per pound for rockfish primary and secondary species CQ
landings made during the previous year.
Fee Percentage
NMFS assesses a fee on the standard ex-vessel value of rockfish
primary species and rockfish secondary species CQ harvested by rockfish
cooperatives in the Central GOA and waters adjacent to the Central GOA
when rockfish primary species caught by a cooperative are deducted from
the Federal total allowable catch. The rockfish entry level longline
fishery and opt-out vessels are not subject to cost recovery fees
because those participants do not receive rockfish CQ. Specific details
on the Rockfish Program's cost recovery provision may be found in the
implementing regulations set forth at Sec. 679.85.
NMFS informs--by letter--each rockfish cooperative of the fee
percentage applied to the previous year's landings and the total amount
due. Fees are due on February 15 of each year. Failure to pay on time
will result in the permit holder's quota share becoming non-
transferable and the person will be ineligible to receive any
additional quota share by transfer. In addition, cooperative members
will not receive any rockfish CQ the following year until full payment
of the fee liability is received by NMFS.
NMFS calculates and publishes in the Federal Register the fee
percentage in the first quarter of each year according to the factors
and methods described in Federal regulations at Sec. 679.85(c)(2).
NMFS determines the fee percentage that applies to landings made in the
previous year by dividing the total Rockfish Program management, data
collection and analysis, and enforcement costs (management costs)
during the previous year by the total standard ex-vessel value of the
rockfish primary species and rockfish secondary species for all
rockfish CQ landings made during the previous year (fishery value).
NMFS captures the actual management costs through an established
accounting system that allows staff to track labor, travel, contracts,
rent, and procurement. Fee collections in any given year may be less
than, or greater than, the actual management costs and fishery value
for that year, because, by regulation, the fee percentage is
established in the first quarter of the calendar year based on the
management costs and the fishery value of the previous calendar year.
Using the fee percentage formula described above, the estimated
percentage of management costs to value for the 2015 calendar year is
3.3 percent of the standard ex-vessel value; except the rockfish fee
percentage amount must not exceed 3.0 percent pursuant to MSA section
304(d)(2)(B). Therefore, the 2015 fee liability percentage is set at
3.0 percent. The fee liability percentage for 2015 remains the same as
the 2014 fee liability percentage (80 FR 6053, February 4, 2015).
Management costs were similar between 2014 and 2015, with slightly
increased costs attributable to software upgrades needed to maintain
the catch accounting system.
Table 1--Standard Ex-Vessel Prices by Species for the 2015 Rockfish
Program Season in Kodiak, Alaska
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Standard ex-
Species Period ending vessel price
per pound ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dusky rockfish *.................. May 31.............. 0.16
June 30............. 0.18
July 31............. 0.17
August 31........... 0.17
September 30........ 0.17
October 31.......... 0.17
November 30......... 0.17
Northern rockfish................. May 31.............. 0.15
June 30............. 0.17
July 31............. 0.16
August 31........... 0.18
September 30........ 0.16
October 31.......... 0.17
November 30......... 0.26
Pacific cod....................... May 31.............. 0.28
June 30............. 0.27
July 31............. 0.27
August 31........... 0.31
September 30........ 0.27
October 31.......... 0.27
November 30......... 0.30
Pacific ocean perch............... May 31.............. 0.19
June 30............. 0.19
July 31............. 0.18
August 31........... 0.17
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September 30........ 0.19
October 31.......... 0.19
November 30......... 0.19
Rougheye rockfish................. May 31.............. 0.23
June 30............. 0.22
July 31............. 0.18
August 31........... 0.17
September 30........ 0.15
October 31.......... 0.15
November 30......... 0.17
Sablefish......................... May 31.............. 2.63
June 30............. 2.68
July 31............. 2.76
August 31........... 3.57
September 30........ 2.67
October 31.......... 4.56
November 30......... 2.96
Shortraker rockfish............... May 31.............. 0.16
June 30............. 0.20
July 31............. 0.15
August 31........... 0.15
September 30........ 0.15
October 31.......... 0.18
November 30......... 0.17
Thornyhead rockfish............... May 31.............. 0.31
June 30............. 0.35
July 31............. 0.35
August 31........... 0.40
September 30........ 0.33
October 31.......... 0.59
November 30......... 0.67
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* The pelagic shelf rockfish (PSR) species group has been changed to
``dusky rockfish.''
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq.; 1801 et seq.; 3631 et seq.;
Pub. L. 108-447; Pub. L. 111-281.
Dated: February 25, 2016.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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