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Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic
Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization
Cost Recovery Program
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
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Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of fee percentage.
AGENCY:
NMFS publishes notification
of a 1.31 percent fee for cost recovery
under the Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands Crab Rationalization Program.
This action is intended to provide
holders of crab allocations with the
2020/2021 crab fishing year fee
percentage so they can calculate the
required cost recovery fee payment that
must be submitted by July 31, 2021.
DATES: The Crab Rationalization
Program Registered Crab Receiver
permit holder is responsible for
submitting the fee liability payment to
NMFS by July 31, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doug Duncan, (907) 586–7228.
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Background
NMFS Alaska Region administers the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab
Rationalization Program (Program) in
the North Pacific. Fishing under the
Program began on August 15, 2005.
Regulations implementing the Program
can be found at 50 CFR part 680.
The Program is a limited access
privilege program authorized by section
313(j) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
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(Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Program
includes a cost recovery provision to
collect fees to recover the actual costs
directly related to the management, data
collection, and enforcement of the
Program. The Program is consistent with
the cost recovery provisions included
under section 304(d)(2)(A) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act. NMFS
developed the cost recovery regulations
to conform to statutory requirements
and to reimburse the agency for the
actual costs directly related to the
management, data collection, and
enforcement of the Program. The cost
recovery provision allows collection of
133 percent of the actual management,
data collection, and enforcement costs
up to 3 percent of the ex-vessel value of
crab harvested under the Program. The
Program provides that a proportional
share of fees charged be forwarded to
the State of Alaska for reimbursement of
its share of management and data
collection costs for the Program.
A crab allocation holder generally
incurs a cost recovery fee liability for
every pound of crab landed. Catcher
vessel and processor quota shareholders
split the cost recovery fees equally with
each paying half, while catcher/
processor quota shareholders pay the
full fee percentage for crab processed at
sea. The crab allocations subject to cost
recovery include Individual Fishing
Quota, Crew Individual Fishing Quota,
Individual Processing Quota,
Community Development Quota, and
the Adak community allocation. The
Registered Crab Receiver (RCR) permit
holder must collect the fee liability from
the crab allocation holder who is
landing crab. Additionally, the RCR
permit holder must collect their own fee
liability for all crab delivered to the
RCR. The RCR permit holder is
responsible for submitting this payment
to NMFS on or before July 31, in the
year following the crab fishing year in
which landings of crab were made.
The dollar amount of the fee due is
determined by multiplying the fee
percentage (not to exceed 3 percent) by
the ex-vessel value of crab debited from
the allocation. Program details may be
found in the implementing regulations
at 50 CFR 680.44.
Fee Percentage
Each year, NMFS calculates and
publishes in the Federal Register the fee
percentage according to the factors and
methodology described at § 680.44(c)(2).
The formula for determining the fee
percentage is the ‘‘direct program costs’’
divided by ‘‘value of the fishery,’’ where
‘‘direct program costs’’ are the direct
program costs for the Program for the
previous fiscal year, and ‘‘value of the
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fishery’’ is the ex-vessel value of the
catch subject to the crab cost recovery
fee liability for the current year. Fee
collections for any given year may be
less than, or greater than, the actual
costs and fishery value for that year,
because, by regulation, the fee
percentage is established in the first
quarter of a crab fishery year based on
the fishery’s value and costs in the prior
year.
According to the fee percentage
formula described above, the estimated
percentage of costs to value for the
2019/2020 fishery was 1.31 percent.
Therefore, the fee percentage will be
1.31 percent for the 2020/2021 crab
fishing year. This is a decrease of 0.39
percent from the 2019/2020 crab fishing
year fee percentage of 1.70 percent (84
FR 43792, August 22, 2019). Direct
program costs for managing the fishery
decreased by approximately 13 percent
from 2018/2019 to 2019/2020, while
fishery value increased 12 percent,
resulting in the decreased fee
percentage. Similar to previous years,
the largest direct program costs were
incurred by the Alaska Department of
Fish and Game and the NOAA Office of
Law Enforcement.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1862; Pub. L. 109–
241; Pub. L. 109–479.
Dated: July 7, 2020.
Ngagne Jafnar Gueye,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Recommendations for a
Comprehensive Interagency Seafood
Trade Strategy
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for information.
AGENCY:
On May 7, 2020, the White
House issued an Executive Order on
Promoting American Seafood
Competitiveness and Economic Growth.
As part of this effort, the Department of
Commerce and the United States Trade
Representative (USTR) are co-chairing
the Interagency Seafood Trade Task
Force (Seafood Trade Task Force),
which will develop recommendations to
provide to USTR for the development of
SUMMARY:
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a comprehensive interagency seafood
trade strategy. On behalf of the Seafood
Trade Task Force co-chairs, NOAA
requests written input from interested
parties on how best to achieve the
objectives of the Seafood Trade Task
Force as described in the Executive
Order, including improving access to
foreign markets for U.S. seafood exports
through trade policy and negotiations;
resolving technical barriers to U.S.
seafood exports; and otherwise
supporting fair market access for U.S.
seafood products. In addition, interested
parties are requested to respond to the
questions listed below in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section as
appropriate. The public input provided
in response to this request for
information (RFI) will inform the
Seafood Trade Task Force as it works
with Federal agencies and other
stakeholders to develop
recommendations to USTR in the
preparation of a comprehensive
interagency seafood trade strategy.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before August 1,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Responses should be
submitted via email to
SeafoodTrade.Strategy@noaa.gov.
Include ‘‘RFI Response: Interagency
Seafood Trade Task Force’’ in the
subject line of the message.
Instructions: Response to this RFI is
voluntary. Respondents need not
comment on all listed objectives. For all
submissions, clearly indicate which
objective is being addressed. Email
attachments will be accepted in plain
text, Microsoft Word, or Adobe PDF
formats only. Each individual or
institution is requested to submit only
one response. The Department of
Commerce may post responses to this
RFI, without change, on a Federal
website. NOAA, therefore, requests that
no business proprietary information,
copyrighted information, or personally
identifiable information be submitted in
response to this RFI. Please note that the
U.S. Government will not pay for
response preparation, or for the use of
any information contained in the
response.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrew Lawler, Andrew.Lawler@
noaa.gov, 202–689–4590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 7,
2020, the President signed a new
Executive Order promoting American
seafood competitiveness and economic
growth. Specifically, the Executive
Order calls for the expansion of
sustainable U.S. seafood production
through: More efficient and predictable
aquaculture permitting; cutting-edge
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research and development; regulatory
reform to maximize commercial fishing;
and enforcement of common-sense
restrictions on seafood imports that do
not meet American standards.
As outlined in Section 11 of the
Executive Order, the Secretary of
Commerce is establishing a Seafood
Trade Task Force to be co-chaired by the
Secretary of Commerce and the U.S.
Trade Representative (Co-Chairs), or
their designees. In addition to the CoChairs, the Seafood Trade Task Force
will include the following members, or
their designees: The Secretary of State;
the Secretary of the Interior; the
Secretary of Agriculture; the Secretary
of Homeland Security; the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget;
the Assistant to the President for
Economic Policy; the Assistant to the
President for Domestic Policy; the
Chairman of the Council of Economic
Advisers; the Under Secretary of
Commerce for International Trade; the
Commissioner of Food and Drugs; the
Administrator of NOAA; and the heads
of such other agencies and offices as the
Co-Chairs may designate.
The Seafood Trade Task Force will
provide recommendations to USTR in
the preparation of a comprehensive
interagency seafood trade strategy by
identifying opportunities to improve
access to foreign markets for U.S.
seafood products through trade policy
and negotiations, resolve technical
barriers to U.S. seafood exports, and
otherwise support fair market access for
U.S. seafood products. USTR will then
submit a comprehensive interagency
seafood trade strategy to the President,
through the Assistant to the President
for Economic Policy and the Assistant to
the President for Domestic Policy,
within 90 days of the receiving the
recommendations from the Seafood
Trade Task Force.
Questions To Inform Recommendations
for the Development of the
Comprehensive Interagency Seafood
Trade Strategy
Through this RFI, NOAA seeks
written public input on how the
Administration can best achieve the
Seafood Trade Task Force objectives,
including but not limited to, responses
to the following questions to inform the
Task Force recommendations on the
development of a comprehensive
interagency seafood trade strategy:
1. Which seafood products (to include
fish, shellfish, and processed fish and
seafood products) are you currently
exporting? Please provide the
Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) codes
for these products.
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2. To which countries or other trading
partners are you currently exporting?
3. Are there countries or other trading
partners to which you are planning to
export, or to which you would like to
export? Please specify.
4. Are there issues in the markets you
currently export to that limit your
exports or unnecessarily increase the
costs for your exports? Please specify.
5. Are there issues in other markets
that have prevented you from exporting?
Please specify.
6. Are there other issues that affect the
competitiveness of your product in
foreign markets? Please specify.
7. Are there barriers that prevent the
export of your product to certain
markets? Please specify.
Dated: July 7, 2020.
Chris Oliver,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Recommendations for a Comprehensive Interagency Seafood Trade
Strategy
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for information.
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SUMMARY: On May 7, 2020, the White House issued an Executive Order on
Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth. As part
of this effort, the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade
Representative (USTR) are co-chairing the Interagency Seafood Trade
Task Force (Seafood Trade Task Force), which will develop
recommendations to provide to USTR for the development of
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a comprehensive interagency seafood trade strategy. On behalf of the
Seafood Trade Task Force co-chairs, NOAA requests written input from
interested parties on how best to achieve the objectives of the Seafood
Trade Task Force as described in the Executive Order, including
improving access to foreign markets for U.S. seafood exports through
trade policy and negotiations; resolving technical barriers to U.S.
seafood exports; and otherwise supporting fair market access for U.S.
seafood products. In addition, interested parties are requested to
respond to the questions listed below in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section as appropriate. The public input provided in response to this
request for information (RFI) will inform the Seafood Trade Task Force
as it works with Federal agencies and other stakeholders to develop
recommendations to USTR in the preparation of a comprehensive
interagency seafood trade strategy.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
August 1, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Responses should be submitted via email to
[email protected]. Include ``RFI Response: Interagency
Seafood Trade Task Force'' in the subject line of the message.
Instructions: Response to this RFI is voluntary. Respondents need
not comment on all listed objectives. For all submissions, clearly
indicate which objective is being addressed. Email attachments will be
accepted in plain text, Microsoft Word, or Adobe PDF formats only. Each
individual or institution is requested to submit only one response. The
Department of Commerce may post responses to this RFI, without change,
on a Federal website. NOAA, therefore, requests that no business
proprietary information, copyrighted information, or personally
identifiable information be submitted in response to this RFI. Please
note that the U.S. Government will not pay for response preparation, or
for the use of any information contained in the response.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Lawler, [email protected],
202-689-4590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 7, 2020, the President signed a new
Executive Order promoting American seafood competitiveness and economic
growth. Specifically, the Executive Order calls for the expansion of
sustainable U.S. seafood production through: More efficient and
predictable aquaculture permitting; cutting-edge research and
development; regulatory reform to maximize commercial fishing; and
enforcement of common-sense restrictions on seafood imports that do not
meet American standards.
As outlined in Section 11 of the Executive Order, the Secretary of
Commerce is establishing a Seafood Trade Task Force to be co-chaired by
the Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative (Co-
Chairs), or their designees. In addition to the Co-Chairs, the Seafood
Trade Task Force will include the following members, or their
designees: The Secretary of State; the Secretary of the Interior; the
Secretary of Agriculture; the Secretary of Homeland Security; the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget; the Assistant to the
President for Economic Policy; the Assistant to the President for
Domestic Policy; the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; the
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; the Commissioner
of Food and Drugs; the Administrator of NOAA; and the heads of such
other agencies and offices as the Co-Chairs may designate.
The Seafood Trade Task Force will provide recommendations to USTR
in the preparation of a comprehensive interagency seafood trade
strategy by identifying opportunities to improve access to foreign
markets for U.S. seafood products through trade policy and
negotiations, resolve technical barriers to U.S. seafood exports, and
otherwise support fair market access for U.S. seafood products. USTR
will then submit a comprehensive interagency seafood trade strategy to
the President, through the Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, within
90 days of the receiving the recommendations from the Seafood Trade
Task Force.
Questions To Inform Recommendations for the Development of the
Comprehensive Interagency Seafood Trade Strategy
Through this RFI, NOAA seeks written public input on how the
Administration can best achieve the Seafood Trade Task Force
objectives, including but not limited to, responses to the following
questions to inform the Task Force recommendations on the development
of a comprehensive interagency seafood trade strategy:
1. Which seafood products (to include fish, shellfish, and
processed fish and seafood products) are you currently exporting?
Please provide the Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) codes for these
products.
2. To which countries or other trading partners are you currently
exporting?
3. Are there countries or other trading partners to which you are
planning to export, or to which you would like to export? Please
specify.
4. Are there issues in the markets you currently export to that
limit your exports or unnecessarily increase the costs for your
exports? Please specify.
5. Are there issues in other markets that have prevented you from
exporting? Please specify.
6. Are there other issues that affect the competitiveness of your
product in foreign markets? Please specify.
7. Are there barriers that prevent the export of your product to
certain markets? Please specify.
Dated: July 7, 2020.
Chris Oliver,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2020-14938 Filed 7-9-20; 8:45 am]
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