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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No. 211217–0262; RTID 0648–
XB829]
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Summer Flounder Fishery;
Quota Transfer From NC to VA
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of quota transfer.
AGENCY:
NMFS announces that the
State of North Carolina is transferring a
portion of its 2022 commercial summer
flounder quota to the Commonwealth of
Virginia. This adjustment to the 2022
fishing year quota is necessary to
comply with the Summer Flounder,
Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery
Management Plan quota transfer
provisions. This announcement informs
the public of the revised 2022
commercial quotas for North Carolina
and Virginia.
DATES: Effective February 23, 2022,
through December 31, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura Deighan, Fishery Management
Specialist, (978) 281–9184.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Regulations governing the summer
flounder fishery are found in 50 CFR
648.100 through 648.110. These
regulations require annual specification
of a commercial quota that is
apportioned among the coastal states
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from Maine through North Carolina. The
process to set the annual commercial
quota and the percent allocated to each
state is described in § 648.102 and final
2022 allocations were published on
December 23, 2021 (86 FR 72859).
The final rule implementing
Amendment 5 to the Summer Flounder
Fishery Management Plan (FMP), as
published in the Federal Register on
December 17, 1993 (58 FR 65936),
provided a mechanism for transferring
summer flounder commercial quota
from one state to another. Two or more
states, under mutual agreement and
with the concurrence of the NMFS
Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator,
can transfer or combine summer
flounder commercial quota under
§ 648.102(c)(2). The Regional
Administrator is required to consider
three criteria in the evaluation of
requests for quota transfers or
combinations: The transfer or
combinations would not preclude the
overall annual quota from being fully
harvested; the transfer addresses an
unforeseen variation or contingency in
the fishery; and the transfer is consistent
with the objectives of the FMP and the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act. The
Regional Administrator has determined
these three criteria have been met for
the transfer approved in this
notification.
North Carolina is transferring 12,259
lb (5,561 kg) to Virginia through mutual
agreement of the states. This transfer
was requested to repay landings made
by an out-of-state permitted vessel
under a safe harbor agreement. The
revised summer flounder quotas for
2022 are: North Carolina, 3,349,310 lb
(1,519,221 kg) and Virginia, 2,788,501 lb
(1,264,843 kg).
Classification
NMFS issues this action pursuant to
section 305(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act. This action is required by 50 CFR
648.162(e)(1)(i) through (iii), which was
issued pursuant to section 304(b), and is
exempted from review under Executive
Order 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: February 18, 2022.
Ngagne Jafnar Gueye,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No.: 211217–0262; RTID 0648–
XB830]
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Summer Flounder Fishery;
Quota Transfer From NY to MA
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of quota transfer.
AGENCY:
NMFS announces that the
State of New York is transferring a
portion of its 2022 commercial summer
flounder quota to the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. This adjustment to the
2022 fishing year quota is necessary to
comply with the Summer Flounder,
Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery
Management Plan quota transfer
provisions. This announcement informs
the public of the revised 2022
commercial quotas for New York and
Massachusetts.
SUMMARY:
Effective February 23, 2022,
through December 31, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura Deighan, Fishery Management
Specialist, (978) 281–9184.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Regulations governing the summer
flounder fishery are found in 50 CFR
648.100 through 648.110. These
regulations require annual specification
of a commercial quota that is
apportioned among the coastal states
from Maine through North Carolina. The
process to set the annual commercial
quota and the percent allocated to each
state is described in § 648.102 and final
2022 allocations were published on
December 23, 2021 (86 FR 72859).
The final rule implementing
Amendment 5 to the Summer Flounder
Fishery Management Plan (FMP), as
published in the Federal Register on
December 17, 1993 (58 FR 65936),
provided a mechanism for transferring
summer flounder commercial quota
from one state to another. Two or more
states, under mutual agreement and
with the concurrence of the NMFS
Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator,
can transfer or combine summer
flounder commercial quota under
§ 648.102(c)(2). The Regional
Administrator is required to consider
three criteria in the evaluation of
requests for quota transfers or
combinations: The transfer or
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combinations would not preclude the
overall annual quota from being fully
harvested; the transfer addresses an
unforeseen variation or contingency in
the fishery; and the transfer is consistent
with the objectives of the FMP and the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act. The
Regional Administrator has determined
these three criteria have been met for
the transfer approved in this
notification.
New York is transferring 1,944 lb (882
kg) to Massachusetts through mutual
agreement of the states. This transfer
was requested to repay landings made
by a vessel with landing privileges in
both states that landed catch in
Massachusetts in excess of the state
limit under a safe harbor agreement
when weather prevented the vessel from
landing in the intended New York port.
The revised summer flounder quotas for
2022 are: New York, 1,468,835 lb
(666,252 kg) and Massachusetts,
1,393,790 lb (632,213 kg).
Classification
NMFS issues this action pursuant to
section 305(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act. This action is required by 50 CFR
648.162(e)(1)(i) through (iii), which was
issued pursuant to section 304(b), and is
exempted from review under Executive
Order 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: February 17, 2022.
Ngagne Jafnar Gueye,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
These possession and trip limit
adjustments are effective February 24,
2022, through April 30, 2022.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Spencer Talmage, Fishery Management
Specialist, 978–281–9232.
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The
regulations at § 648.86(o) authorize the
Regional Administrator to adjust the
possession and trip limits for common
pool vessels in order to help avoid
overharvest or underharvest of the
common pool quotas.
Based on the most recent catch
information, the common pool fishery
has caught low amounts of the following
species relative to the annual quotas for
each of these stocks (Table 1): Gulf of
Maine (GOM) cod; Cape Cod (CC)/GOM
yellowtail flounder; and witch flounder.
At the current rate of fishing, we project
that the common pool fishery will not
fully harvest the annual quotas for these
stocks by the end of fishing year 2021.
Providing vessels an opportunity to
possess and land greater amounts of
catch should provide greater incentive
to fish and more opportunity to catch
available quota. Based on our review of
past fishing effort and performance
under various possession and trip
limits, we project that this action’s
increases in the possession and trip
limits for these stocks should provide
additional fishing opportunities and
flexibility to facilitate catching available
quota while ensuring that the common
pool does not exceed its annual quotas.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No. 210723–0150; RTID 0648–
XB805]
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Northeast Multispecies
Fishery; Possession and Trip Limit
Increases for the Common Pool
Fishery
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; inseason
adjustment.
AGENCY:
This action increases the
possession and trip limits of Gulf of
Maine cod, Cape Cod/Gulf of Maine
yellowtail flounder, and witch flounder
for Northeast multispecies common
pool vessels for the remainder of the
2021 fishing year. This action will
provide the common pool fishery
greater opportunity to harvest, but not
exceed, the annual quotas for these
stocks.
SUMMARY:
TABLE 1—SUMMARY OF COMMON POOL CATCH THROUGH JANUARY 18, 2022
FY 2021 catch
(mt)
Stock
GOM cod .............................................................................................................................
CC/GOM yellowtail flounder ................................................................................................
Witch flounder ......................................................................................................................
Effective February 24, 2022, until
April 30, 2022, NMFS increases the
Sub-ACL
(mt)
2.6
14.8
20.3
Percent caught
8.2
41.4
44.2
31.4
35.7
46
possession and trip limits summarized
in Tables 2 and 3.
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TABLE 2—PREVIOUS FY 2021 POSSESSION AND TRIP LIMITS
Stock
A Days-at-Sea
(DAS)
GOM cod ..................
100 lb (45.4 kg) per DAS, up to 200 lb
(90.7 kg) per trip.
CC/GOM yellowtail
flounder.
1,000 lb (453.6 kg) per DAS, up to 2,000
lb (907.2 kg) per trip.
Handgear A
Witch flounder ...........
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category
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100 lb (45.4 kg) per trip.
1,000 lb (453.6 kg) per
trip.
I
300 lb (136.1 kg) per
trip.
1,500 lb (680.4 kg) per trip.
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25 lb (11.3 kg) per trip.
1,000 lb (453.6 kg) per
trip.
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[Rules and Regulations]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No.: 211217-0262; RTID 0648-XB830]
Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder
Fishery; Quota Transfer From NY to MA
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of quota transfer.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the State of New York is transferring a
portion of its 2022 commercial summer flounder quota to the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This adjustment to the 2022 fishing year
quota is necessary to comply with the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black
Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan quota transfer provisions. This
announcement informs the public of the revised 2022 commercial quotas
for New York and Massachusetts.
DATES: Effective February 23, 2022, through December 31, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Deighan, Fishery Management
Specialist, (978) 281-9184.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Regulations governing the summer flounder
fishery are found in 50 CFR 648.100 through 648.110. These regulations
require annual specification of a commercial quota that is apportioned
among the coastal states from Maine through North Carolina. The process
to set the annual commercial quota and the percent allocated to each
state is described in Sec. 648.102 and final 2022 allocations were
published on December 23, 2021 (86 FR 72859).
The final rule implementing Amendment 5 to the Summer Flounder
Fishery Management Plan (FMP), as published in the Federal Register on
December 17, 1993 (58 FR 65936), provided a mechanism for transferring
summer flounder commercial quota from one state to another. Two or more
states, under mutual agreement and with the concurrence of the NMFS
Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator, can transfer or combine summer
flounder commercial quota under Sec. 648.102(c)(2). The Regional
Administrator is required to consider three criteria in the evaluation
of requests for quota transfers or combinations: The transfer or
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combinations would not preclude the overall annual quota from being
fully harvested; the transfer addresses an unforeseen variation or
contingency in the fishery; and the transfer is consistent with the
objectives of the FMP and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act. The Regional Administrator has determined these three
criteria have been met for the transfer approved in this notification.
New York is transferring 1,944 lb (882 kg) to Massachusetts through
mutual agreement of the states. This transfer was requested to repay
landings made by a vessel with landing privileges in both states that
landed catch in Massachusetts in excess of the state limit under a safe
harbor agreement when weather prevented the vessel from landing in the
intended New York port. The revised summer flounder quotas for 2022
are: New York, 1,468,835 lb (666,252 kg) and Massachusetts, 1,393,790
lb (632,213 kg).
Classification
NMFS issues this action pursuant to section 305(d) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Act. This action is required by 50 CFR 648.162(e)(1)(i) through
(iii), which was issued pursuant to section 304(b), and is exempted
from review under Executive Order 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: February 17, 2022.
Ngagne Jafnar Gueye,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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