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returned no entries during the POR.6
Additionally, we sent an inquiry to CBP
requesting that any CBP officer alert
Commerce if he/she had information
contrary to TMI/TMM’s no-shipments
claims.7
Based on the available record
information, and consistent with our
practice, we preliminarily determine
that TMI/TMM had no shipments and,
therefore, no reviewable entries during
the POR. In addition, we find it is not
appropriate to rescind the review with
respect to these companies but, rather,
to complete the review with respect to
TMI/TMM and issue appropriate
instructions to CBP based on the final
results of the review, consistent with
our practice in non-market economy
(NME) cases.8
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Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case
briefs no later than 30 days after the
date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register.9 Rebuttals to case
briefs, which must be limited to issues
raised in the case briefs, must be filed
within five days after the date for filing
case briefs.10 Parties who submit
arguments are requested to submit with
each argument (a) a statement of the
issue, (b) a brief summary of the
argument, and (c) a table of
authorities.11 Parties submitting briefs
should do so pursuant to Commerce’s
electronic filing system: Enforcement
and Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (ACCESS).12
ACCESS is available to registered users
at https://access.trade.gov, and is
available to all parties in the Central
Records Unit, room B8024 of the main
Commerce building.
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c),
interested parties who wish to request a
hearing must submit a written request to
the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance, U.S. Department of
Commerce within 30 days of the date of
publication of this notice. Hearing
requests should contain the following
information: (1) The party’s name,
6 See Memorandum, ‘‘2018–2019 Administrative
Review of Pure Magnesium from the People’s
Republic of China, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Data,’’ dated January 28, 2020, at
Attachment 1.
7 Id. at Attachment 2.
8 See Glycine from the People’s Republic of
China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review 2014–2015, 81 FR 72567
(October 20, 2016) and the ‘‘Assessment Rates’’
section, below.
9 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
10 See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1) and (2).
11 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2), (d)(2).
12 See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing
requirements).
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address, and telephone number; (2) the
number of participants; and (3) a list of
the issues parties intend to discuss.
Issues raised in the hearing will be
limited to those raised in the respective
case and rebuttal briefs. If a request for
a hearing is made, parties will be
notified of the time and date of the
hearing which will be held at the U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230.
Unless extended, we intend to issue
the final results of this administrative
review, including our analysis of all
issues raised in any written brief, within
120 days of publication of this notice in
the Federal Register, pursuant to
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results,
Commerce will determine, and CBP
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this
review.13 We intend to issue assessment
instructions to CBP 15 days after the
publication date of the final results of
this review. Pursuant to Commerce’s
practice in NME cases, if we continue to
determine in the final results that TMI/
TMM had no shipments of subject
merchandise, any suspended entries of
subject merchandise during the POR
from TMI/TMM will be liquidated at the
China-wide rate.14
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective upon
publication of the final results of this
administrative review for all shipments
of the subject merchandise entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the publication
date, as provided for by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For TMI/
TMM, which claimed no shipments, the
cash deposit rate will remain unchanged
from the rate assigned to TMI/TMM in
the most recently completed review of
the company; (2) for previously
investigated or reviewed Chinese and
non-Chinese exporters who are not
under review in this segment of the
proceeding but who have separate rates,
the cash deposit rate will continue to be
the exporter-specific rate published for
the most recent period; (3) for all
Chinese exporters of subject
merchandise that have not been found
to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash
deposit rate will be the China-wide rate
of 111.73 percent; and (4) for all non13 See
19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
a full discussion of this practice, see NonMarket Economy Antidumping Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694
(October 24, 2011).
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Chinese exporters of subject
merchandise which have not received
their own rate, the cash deposit rate will
be the rate applicable to Chinese
exporter(s) that supplied that nonChinese exporter. These deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a
preliminary reminder to importers of
their responsibility under 19 CFR
351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of
antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this
period. Failure to comply with this
requirement may result in the
Secretary’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties
occurred and the subsequent assessment
of double antidumping duties.
This notice is issued in accordance
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of
the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: January 29, 2021.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2021–02345 Filed 2–3–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XA711]
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 (GOA) Rockfish Program
(Rockfish Program). This action is
intended to provide participants in a
rockfish cooperative with the standard
prices and fee percentage for the 2020
fishing year, which was authorized from
May 1 through November 15. The fee
percentage is 3.0 percent. The fee
payments are due from each rockfish
cooperative on or before February 15,
2021.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Charmaine Weeks, 907–586–7231.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
The rockfish fisheries are conducted
in Federal waters near Kodiak, AK, by
trawl and longline vessels. Regulations
implementing the 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. Each year, NMFS issues
rockfish primary and secondary species
cooperative quota (CQ) to rockfish quota
shareholders to authorize harvest of
these 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
(Magnuson-Stevens Act). Sections 303A
and 304(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act
require NMFS to collect fees to recover
the actual costs directly related to the
management, data collection and
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
Magnuson-Stevens Act. Section
304(d)(2) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act
also limits the cost recovery fee so that
it may not exceed 3 percent of the exvessel value of the fish harvested under
the Rockfish Program.
Standard Prices
NMFS calculates cost recovery fees
based on standard ex-vessel value
prices, rather than actual price data
provided by each rockfish CQ holder.
Use of standard ex-vessel prices is
allowed under sections 303A and
304(d)(2) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
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 50 CFR 679.85(b)(2)
require the Regional Administrator to
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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 trawl vessels that
opt out of joining a cooperative 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 or before February
15 of each year. Failure to pay on time
will result in the permit holder’s
rockfish quota share becoming nontransferable, and the person will be
ineligible to receive any additional
rockfish quota share by transfer. In
addition, cooperative members will not
receive any rockfish CQ the following
year until full payment of the fee 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 (direct program 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 direct
program 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 direct program costs and
fishery value for that year, as the fee
percentage is established by regulation
in the first quarter of the calendar year
based on the program costs and the
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fishery value of the previous calendar
year.
Using the fee percentage formula
described above, the estimated
percentage of program costs to value for
the 2020 calendar year is 3.66 percent
of the standard ex-vessel value;
however, the fee percentage amount
must not exceed 3 percent pursuant to
section 304(d)(2)(B) of the MagnusonStevens Act. Therefore, the 2020 fee
percentage is adjusted to 3.00 percent.
The fee percentage for 2020 is
equivalent to the 2019 fee percentage of
3.00 percent (85 FR 3647, January 22,
2020). Program costs for 2020 decreased
in comparison to 2019 costs, however,
the value of the fishery decreased by
26.2 percent resulting in a higher fee
percentage prior to adjustments. The
majority of the 2020 costs were a result
of direct personnel and contract costs.
TABLE 1—STANDARD EX-VESSEL
PRICES BY SPECIES FOR THE 2020
ROCKFISH PROGRAM SEASON IN KODIAK, ALASKA
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 .....
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 ......
Pacific cod ................
Pacific ocean perch ..
Rougheye rockfish ...
Sablefish ...................
Shortraker rockfish ...
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Standard
ex-vessel
price per
pound
$0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.12
0.12
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.21
0.55
0.56
0.57
0.57
0.57
0.67
0.51
0.24
0.25
0.25
0.25
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monitoring services with any of the
TABLE 1—STANDARD EX-VESSEL
PRICES BY SPECIES FOR THE 2020 approved service providers for fishing
ROCKFISH PROGRAM SEASON IN KO- years 2021 and 2022.
ADDRESSES: The list of NMFS-approved
DIAK, ALASKA—Continued
Species
Period ending
Thornyhead rockfish
Standard
ex-vessel
price per
pound
September 30
October 31 ....
November 30
May 31 ..........
June 30 .........
July 31 ..........
August 31 .....
September 30
October 31 ....
November 30
0.25
0.24
0.25
0.31
0.20
0.22
0.22
0.22
0.08
0.22
* The pelagic shelf rockfish 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 1, 2021.
Jennifer M. Wallace,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2021–02334 Filed 2–3–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XA758]
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Northeast Multispecies
Fishery; Approved Monitoring Service
Providers
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of approved
monitoring service providers.
AGENCY:
NMFS has approved six
companies to provide Northeast
multispecies sector at-sea and/or
electronic monitoring services in fishing
years 2021 and 2022. Regulations
implementing the Northeast
Multispecies Fishery Management Plan
require at-sea and electronic monitoring
companies to apply to, and be approved
by, NMFS in order to be eligible to
provide monitoring services to sectors.
This action will allow sectors to
contract for at-sea and electronic
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SUMMARY:
sector monitoring service providers is
available at: https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/data/
observer-providers-northeast-and-midatlantic-programs.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Claire Fitz-Gerald, Fishery Policy
Analyst, (978) 281–9255, email
Claire.Fitz-Gerald@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Northeast Multispecies Fishery
Management Plan includes a
requirement for industry-funded
monitoring of catch by sector vessels.
Sectors must contract with independent
third-party service providers to provide
at-sea and/or electronic monitoring
services to their vessels. In order to
provide at-sea or electronic monitoring
services to sectors, monitoring
companies must apply to, and be
approved by, NMFS. Once approved,
service providers must meet specified
performance requirements outlined in
50 CFR 648.87(b)(4), including required
coverage levels, in order to maintain
eligibility.
At-Sea and Electronic Monitoring
Service Provider Approval Process
Applications approved this year will
cover both fishing year 2021 and fishing
year 2022 (May 1, 2021 through April
30, 2023). There will be an opportunity
in the fall of 2021 for additional
monitoring companies to apply for
approval to provide at-sea and
electronic monitoring services in fishing
year 2022.
The regulations at § 648.87(b)(4)
describe the criteria for approval of atsea and electronic monitoring service
providers. We approve service providers
based on: (1) Completeness and
sufficiency of applications; and (2)
determination of the applicant’s ability
to meet the performance requirements of
a sector monitoring service provider. We
must notify service providers, in
writing, if NMFS withdraws approval
for any reason.
Approved Monitoring Service Providers
NMFS approved six companies to
provide monitoring services to the
Northeast multispecies sectors in fishing
years 2021 and 2022. Four of the six
companies are approved to provide both
at-sea and electronic monitoring
services: A.I.S., Inc.; East West
Technical Services, LLC; Fathom
Research, LLC; and Saltwater, Inc.
NMFS approved the other two
companies to provide electronic
monitoring services: Flywire Cameras
and Teem Fish.
We approved these six companies to
provide at-sea and/or electronic
monitoring services in fishing years
2021 and 2022 because they have met
the application requirements and
documented their ability to comply with
service provider standards. In addition,
A.I.S., Inc., East West Technical
Services, LLC, and Fathom Research,
LLC are currently approved to provide
at-sea monitoring services to sectors in
fishing years 2019 and 2020 and have a
history of meeting or exceeding the
requirements of the at-sea monitoring
program in the region. We will closely
monitor the performance of approved
providers, and we will withdraw
approval during the current approval
term, or disapprove a provider in future
fishing years, if we determine
performance standards are not being
met.
We received applications from two
additional companies, but need further
information before their application is
sufficiently complete for us to make an
approval determination. Typically, we
engage in an iterative process with
provider companies to assist them in
assembling and submitting a complete
application for our consideration.
Because this is our first time approving
electronic monitoring companies to
provider monitoring services, we are
continuing to work with these
companies to help them through this
process. In the meantime, we are
continuing with the approval process
for the providers that have submitted
complete applications and
demonstrated their ability to meet
program requirements. Moving forward
with notification of our approval of the
completed applications while
continuing to work with the two
remaining applicants is necessary to
allow sectors sufficient time to negotiate
monitoring contracts for the upcoming
fishing year. If we subsequently decide
to approve these companies, we will
publish an additional notice in the
Federal Register announcing our
decision.
TABLE 1—APPROVED PROVIDERS FOR FISHING YEARS 2021 AND 2022
Provider
Services *
Address
A.I.S., Inc ..
ASM/EM .........
540 Hawthorn St., Dartmouth, MA 02747.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XA711]
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 (GOA)
Rockfish Program (Rockfish Program). This action is intended to provide
participants in a rockfish cooperative with the standard prices and fee
percentage for the 2020 fishing year, which was authorized from May 1
through November 15. The fee percentage is 3.0 percent. The fee
payments are due from each rockfish cooperative on or before February
15, 2021.
DATES: Valid on: February 4, 2021.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charmaine Weeks, 907-586-7231.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The rockfish fisheries are conducted in Federal waters near Kodiak,
AK, by trawl and longline vessels. Regulations implementing the
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. Each year, NMFS issues rockfish
primary and secondary species cooperative quota (CQ) to rockfish quota
shareholders to authorize harvest of these 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 (Magnuson-Stevens Act).
Sections 303A and 304(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act require NMFS to
collect fees to recover the actual costs directly related to the
management, data collection and 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 Magnuson-Stevens Act. Section 304(d)(2) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act 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 prices, rather than actual price data provided by each rockfish
CQ holder. Use of standard ex-vessel prices is allowed under sections
303A and 304(d)(2) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. 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 50 CFR 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 trawl vessels that opt out of joining a cooperative 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 or before February 15 of each year. Failure to pay
on time will result in the permit holder's rockfish quota share
becoming non-transferable, and the person will be ineligible to receive
any additional rockfish quota share by transfer. In addition,
cooperative members will not receive any rockfish CQ the following year
until full payment of the fee 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 (direct program 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 direct program 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 direct program costs and fishery value for
that year, as the fee percentage is established by regulation in the
first quarter of the calendar year based on the program costs and the
fishery value of the previous calendar year.
Using the fee percentage formula described above, the estimated
percentage of program costs to value for the 2020 calendar year is 3.66
percent of the standard ex-vessel value; however, the fee percentage
amount must not exceed 3 percent pursuant to section 304(d)(2)(B) of
the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Therefore, the 2020 fee percentage is
adjusted to 3.00 percent. The fee percentage for 2020 is equivalent to
the 2019 fee percentage of 3.00 percent (85 FR 3647, January 22, 2020).
Program costs for 2020 decreased in comparison to 2019 costs, however,
the value of the fishery decreased by 26.2 percent resulting in a
higher fee percentage prior to adjustments. The majority of the 2020
costs were a result of direct personnel and contract costs.
Table 1--Standard Ex-Vessel Prices by Species for the 2020 Rockfish
Program Season in Kodiak, Alaska
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Standard
ex-vessel
Species Period ending price per
pound
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Dusky rockfish *................... May 31................ $0.13
June 30............... 0.13
July 31............... 0.13
August 31............. 0.13
September 30.......... 0.13
October 31............ 0.13
November 30........... 0.13
Northern rockfish.................. May 31................ 0.13
June 30............... 0.13
July 31............... 0.13
August 31............. 0.13
September 30.......... 0.13
October 31............ 0.13
November 30........... 0.13
Pacific cod........................ May 31................ 0.35
June 30............... 0.35
July 31............... 0.35
August 31............. 0.35
September 30.......... 0.35
October 31............ 0.35
November 30........... 0.35
Pacific ocean perch................ May 31................ 0.13
June 30............... 0.13
July 31............... 0.13
August 31............. 0.13
September 30.......... 0.13
October 31............ 0.12
November 30........... 0.12
Rougheye rockfish.................. May 31................ 0.20
June 30............... 0.20
July 31............... 0.20
August 31............. 0.20
September 30.......... 0.20
October 31............ 0.20
November 30........... 0.21
Sablefish.......................... May 31................ 0.55
June 30............... 0.56
July 31............... 0.57
August 31............. 0.57
September 30.......... 0.57
October 31............ 0.67
November 30........... 0.51
Shortraker rockfish................ May 31................ 0.24
June 30............... 0.25
July 31............... 0.25
August 31............. 0.25
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September 30.......... 0.25
October 31............ 0.24
November 30........... 0.25
Thornyhead rockfish................ May 31................ 0.31
June 30............... 0.20
July 31............... 0.22
August 31............. 0.22
September 30.......... 0.22
October 31............ 0.08
November 30........... 0.22
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* The pelagic shelf rockfish 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 1, 2021.
Jennifer M. Wallace,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2021-02334 Filed 2-3-21; 8:45 am]
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