81_FR_96142 81 FR 95892 - Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Fisheries; Inseason Orders

81 FR 95892 - Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Fisheries; Inseason Orders

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 250 (December 29, 2016)

Page Range95892-95893
FR Document2016-31526

NMFS publishes Fraser River salmon inseason orders to regulate treaty and non-treaty (all citizen) commercial salmon fisheries in U.S. waters. The orders were issued by the Fraser River Panel (Panel) of the Pacific Salmon Commission (Commission) and subsequently approved and issued by NMFS during the 2016 salmon fisheries within the U.S. Fraser River Panel Area. These orders established fishing dates, times, and areas for the gear types of U.S. treaty Indian and all citizen commercial fisheries during the period the Panel exercised jurisdiction over these fisheries. In 2016, only treaty Indian fisheries were affected by these orders.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 250 (Thursday, December 29, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 250 (Thursday, December 29, 2016)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31526]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 300

RIN 0648-XE860


Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Fisheries; Inseason Orders

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Temporary orders; inseason orders.

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SUMMARY: NMFS publishes Fraser River salmon inseason orders to regulate 
treaty and non-treaty (all citizen) commercial salmon fisheries in U.S. 
waters. The orders were issued by the Fraser River Panel (Panel) of the 
Pacific Salmon Commission (Commission) and subsequently approved and 
issued by NMFS during the 2016 salmon fisheries within the U.S. Fraser 
River Panel Area. These orders established fishing dates, times, and 
areas for the gear types of U.S. treaty Indian and all citizen 
commercial fisheries during the period the Panel exercised jurisdiction 
over these fisheries. In 2016, only treaty Indian fisheries were 
affected by these orders.

DATES: The effective dates for the inseason orders are set out in this 
document under the heading Inseason Orders.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Mundy at 206-526-4323.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Treaty between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of Canada concerning 
Pacific Salmon was signed at Ottawa on January 28, 1985, and 
subsequently was given effect in the United States by the Pacific 
Salmon Treaty Act (Act) at 16 U.S.C. 3631-3644.
    Under authority of the Act, Federal regulations at 50 CFR part 300, 
subpart F, provide a framework for the implementation of certain 
regulations of the Commission and inseason orders of the Commission's 
Fraser River Panel for U.S. sockeye and pink salmon fisheries in the 
Fraser River Panel Area.
    The regulations close the U.S. portion of the Fraser River Panel 
Area to U.S. sockeye and pink salmon tribal and non-tribal commercial 
fishing unless opened by Panel orders that are given effect by inseason 
regulations published by NMFS. During the fishing season, NMFS may 
issue regulations that establish fishing times and areas consistent 
with the Commission agreements and inseason orders of the Panel. Such 
orders must be consistent with domestic legal obligations and are 
issued by the Regional Administrator, West Coast Region, NMFS. Official 
notification of these inseason actions is provided by two telephone 
hotline numbers described at 50 CFR 300.97(b)(1) and in 81 FR 26157 
(May 2, 2016). The inseason orders are published in the Federal 
Register as soon as practicable after they are issued. Due to the 
frequency with which inseason orders are issued, publication of 
individual orders is impractical.

Inseason Orders

    The following inseason orders were adopted by the Panel and issued 
for U.S. fisheries by NMFS during the 2016 fishing season. Each of the 
following inseason actions were effective upon announcement on 
telephone hotline numbers as specified at 50 CFR 300.97(b)(1) and in 81 
FR 26157 (May 2, 2016); those dates and times are listed herein. The 
times listed are local times, and the areas designated are Puget Sound 
Management and Catch Reporting Areas as defined in the Washington State 
Administrative Code at Chapter 220-22.

Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016-01: Issued 12:32 p.m., July 22, 
2016

Treaty Indian Fishery
    Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Open to drift gillnets 12 p.m. (noon), 
Saturday, July 23, 2016, to 12 p.m. (noon), Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016-02: Issued 11:46 a.m., July 26, 
2016

Treaty Indian Fishery
    Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Extend for drift gillnets from 12 p.m. (noon), 
Wednesday, July 27, 2016, to 12 p.m. (noon), Saturday, July 30, 2016.

Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016-03: Issued 12:52 p.m., July 29, 
2016

Treaty Indian Fishery
    Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Extend for drift gillnets from 12 p.m. (noon), 
Saturday, July 30, 2016, to 12 p.m. (noon), Wednesday, August 3, 2016.

Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016-04: Issued 11:47 a.m., August 2, 
2016

Treaty Indian Fishery
    Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Extend for drift gillnets from 12 p.m. (noon), 
Wednesday, August 3, 2016, to 12 p.m. (noon), Saturday, August 6, 2016.

Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016-05: Issued 2:32 p.m., August 26, 
2016

Treaty Indian and All Citizen Fisheries
    Areas 4B, 5, 6, 6C, 7, and 7A, excluding the Apex: Relinquish 
regulatory control effective 11:59 p.m. (midnight), Saturday, September 
3, 2016. The Apex is those waters north and west of the Area 7A ``East 
Point Line,'' defined as a line projected from the low water range 
marker in Boundary Bay on the U.S./Canada border through the east tip 
of Point Roberts, WA, to the East Point Light on Saturna Island in the 
Canadian Province of British Columbia.

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Classification

    The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries NOAA (AA), finds that 
good cause exists for the inseason orders to be issued without 
affording the public prior notice and opportunity for comment under 5 
U.S.C. 553(b)(B) as such prior notice and opportunity for comments is 
impracticable and contrary to the public interest. Prior notice and 
opportunity for public comment is impracticable because NMFS has 
insufficient time to allow for prior notice and opportunity for public 
comment between the time the stock abundance information is available 
to determine how much fishing can be allowed and the time the fishery 
must open and close in order to harvest the appropriate amount of fish 
while they are available.
    The AA also finds good cause to waive the 30-day delay in the 
effective date, required under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), of the inseason 
orders. A delay in the effective date of the inseason orders would not 
allow fishers appropriately controlled access to the available fish at 
that time they are available.
    This action is authorized by 50 CFR 300.97, and is exempt from 
review under Executive Order 12866.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 3636(b).

    Dated: December 22, 2016.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-31526 Filed 12-28-16; 8:45 am]
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95892 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 250 / Thursday, December 29, 2016 / Rules and Regulations (2) The list entry: CY 2016 National Average Ansthesia Conversion Factor 21,9935 CY 2017 RVU Budget Neutrality Adjustment ............................. 0.013 percent (0.99987). is corrected to read: CY 2016 National Average Anesthesia Conversion Factor 21.9935 CY 2017 RVU Budget Neutrality Adjustment ............................. ¥0.013 percent (0.99987). Dated: December 22, 2016. Government of Canada concerning Washington State Administrative Code Wilma M. Robinson, Pacific Salmon was signed at Ottawa on at Chapter 220–22. Deputy Executive Secretary to the January 28, 1985, and subsequently was Department, Department of Health and given effect in the United States by the Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016– Human Services. Pacific Salmon Treaty Act (Act) at 16 01: Issued 12:32 p.m., July 22, 2016 [FR Doc. 2016–31649 Filed 12–28–16; 8:45 am] U.S.C. 3631–3644. Treaty Indian Fishery BILLING CODE 4120–01–P Under authority of the Act, Federal regulations at 50 CFR part 300, subpart Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Open to drift F, provide a framework for the gillnets 12 p.m. (noon), Saturday, July DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE implementation of certain regulations of 23, 2016, to 12 p.m. (noon), Wednesday, the Commission and inseason orders of July 27, 2016. National Oceanic and Atmospheric the Commission’s Fraser River Panel for Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016– Administration U.S. sockeye and pink salmon fisheries 02: Issued 11:46 a.m., July 26, 2016 in the Fraser River Panel Area. 50 CFR Part 300 The regulations close the U.S. portion Treaty Indian Fishery RIN 0648–XE860 of the Fraser River Panel Area to U.S. Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Extend for drift sockeye and pink salmon tribal and gillnets from 12 p.m. (noon), Fraser River Sockeye Salmon non-tribal commercial fishing unless Wednesday, July 27, 2016, to 12 p.m. Fisheries; Inseason Orders opened by Panel orders that are given (noon), Saturday, July 30, 2016. effect by inseason regulations published AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries by NMFS. During the fishing season, Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016– Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and NMFS may issue regulations that 03: Issued 12:52 p.m., July 29, 2016 Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), establish fishing times and areas Commerce. Treaty Indian Fishery consistent with the Commission ACTION: Temporary orders; inseason agreements and inseason orders of the orders. Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Extend for drift Panel. Such orders must be consistent gillnets from 12 p.m. (noon), Saturday, SUMMARY: NMFS publishes Fraser River with domestic legal obligations and are July 30, 2016, to 12 p.m. (noon), salmon inseason orders to regulate issued by the Regional Administrator, Wednesday, August 3, 2016. treaty and non-treaty (all citizen) West Coast Region, NMFS. Official commercial salmon fisheries in U.S. notification of these inseason actions is Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016– waters. The orders were issued by the provided by two telephone hotline 04: Issued 11:47 a.m., August 2, 2016 Fraser River Panel (Panel) of the Pacific numbers described at 50 CFR Treaty Indian Fishery Salmon Commission (Commission) and 300.97(b)(1) and in 81 FR 26157 (May 2, subsequently approved and issued by 2016). The inseason orders are Areas 4B, 5, and 6C: Extend for drift NMFS during the 2016 salmon fisheries published in the Federal Register as gillnets from 12 p.m. (noon), within the U.S. Fraser River Panel Area. soon as practicable after they are issued. Wednesday, August 3, 2016, to 12 p.m. These orders established fishing dates, Due to the frequency with which (noon), Saturday, August 6, 2016. times, and areas for the gear types of inseason orders are issued, publication of individual orders is impractical. Fraser River Panel Order Number 2016– U.S. treaty Indian and all citizen 05: Issued 2:32 p.m., August 26, 2016 commercial fisheries during the period Inseason Orders the Panel exercised jurisdiction over Treaty Indian and All Citizen Fisheries these fisheries. In 2016, only treaty The following inseason orders were Indian fisheries were affected by these adopted by the Panel and issued for U.S. Areas 4B, 5, 6, 6C, 7, and 7A, orders. fisheries by NMFS during the 2016 excluding the Apex: Relinquish fishing season. Each of the following regulatory control effective 11:59 p.m. DATES: The effective dates for the inseason actions were effective upon (midnight), Saturday, September 3, inseason orders are set out in this announcement on telephone hotline 2016. The Apex is those waters north document under the heading Inseason numbers as specified at 50 CFR and west of the Area 7A ‘‘East Point rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with RULES Orders. 300.97(b)(1) and in 81 FR 26157 (May 2, Line,’’ defined as a line projected from FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 2016); those dates and times are listed the low water range marker in Boundary Peggy Mundy at 206–526–4323. herein. The times listed are local times, Bay on the U.S./Canada border through SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The and the areas designated are Puget the east tip of Point Roberts, WA, to the Treaty between the Government of the Sound Management and Catch East Point Light on Saturna Island in the United States of America and the Reporting Areas as defined in the Canadian Province of British Columbia. VerDate Sep<11>2014 14:51 Dec 28, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\29DER1.SGM 29DER1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 250 / Thursday, December 29, 2016 / Rules and Regulations 95893 Classification ACTION: Final rule. Conservation and Management Act The Assistant Administrator for (Magnuson-Stevens Act). SUMMARY: NMFS issues regulations to Fisheries NOAA (AA), finds that good On December 4, 2013, NMFS implement Regulatory Amendment 16 cause exists for the inseason orders to be published a notice of intent to prepare to the Fishery Management Plan for the issued without affording the public a draft EIS for Regulatory Amendment Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South prior notice and opportunity for 16 and requested public comment (78 Atlantic Region (FMP), as prepared and comment under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) as FR 72968). On October 23, 2015, the submitted by the South Atlantic Fishery such prior notice and opportunity for notice of availability for the draft EIS Management Council (Council). This comments is impracticable and contrary was published and public comment was final rule revises the current seasonal to the public interest. Prior notice and also requested (80 FR 64409). The notice prohibition on the use of black sea bass opportunity for public comment is of availability for the final EIS for pot gear in the South Atlantic and adds impracticable because NMFS has Regulatory Amendment 16 published on an additional gear marking requirement insufficient time to allow for prior July 1, 2016 (81 FR 43198). On August for black sea bass pot gear. The purpose notice and opportunity for public 11, 2016, NMFS published a proposed of this final rule is to reduce the adverse comment between the time the stock rule for Regulatory Amendment 16 and socioeconomic impacts from the current abundance information is available to requested public comment (81 FR seasonal black sea bass pot gear determine how much fishing can be 53109). The proposed rule and prohibition while continuing to protect allowed and the time the fishery must Regulatory Amendment 16 outline the Endangered Species Act (ESA) listed open and close in order to harvest the rationale for the actions contained in North Atlantic right whales (NARW)in appropriate amount of fish while they this final rule. A summary of the actions the South Atlantic. This final rule also are available. implemented by Regulatory helps to better identify black sea bass The AA also finds good cause to Amendment 16 and this final rule is pot gear in the South Atlantic. waive the 30-day delay in the effective provided below. date, required under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), DATES: This rule is effective January 30, of the inseason orders. A delay in the 2017, except for the amendments to Management Measures Contained in effective date of the inseason orders § 622.183(b)(6) that are effective this Final Rule would not allow fishers appropriately December 29, 2016. This final rule implements controlled access to the available fish at ADDRESSES: Electronic copies of modifications to the current black sea that time they are available. Regulatory Amendment 16, which bass pot seasonal closure. This final rule This action is authorized by 50 CFR includes an environmental impact also modifies the buoy line rope 300.97, and is exempt from review statement (EIS), a Regulatory Flexibility marking requirements for black sea bass under Executive Order 12866. Act (RFA) analysis, and a regulatory pots. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 3636(b). impact review, may be obtained from the Southeast Regional Office Web site Black Sea Bass Pot Gear Seasonal Dated: December 22, 2016. Prohibition at https://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/ Alan D. Risenhoover, sustainable_fisheries/s_atl/sg/2013/reg_ Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, As established through Regulatory am16/index.html. National Marine Fisheries Service. Amendment 19 to the FMP, black sea Comments regarding the burden-hour bass pot gear is prohibited in the South [FR Doc. 2016–31526 Filed 12–28–16; 8:45 am] estimates, clarity of the instructions, or Atlantic exclusive economic zone (EEZ) BILLING CODE 3510–22–P other aspects of the collection of annually from November 1 through information requirements contained in April 30 (78 FR 58249, September 23, this final rule (see the Classification 2013). This final rule retains the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE section of the preamble) may be November 1 through April 30 National Oceanic and Atmospheric submitted in writing to Adam Bailey, prohibition on the use of black sea bass Administration Southeast Regional Office, NMFS, 263 pots but modifies the boundaries of the 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL prohibition. This rule revises the South 50 CFR Part 622 33701; or the Office of Management and Atlantic EEZ-wide seasonal closure to a Budget (OMB), by email at OIRA_ closure with two temporal and spatial [Docket No. 131113952–6999–02] submission@omb.eop.gov, or by fax to components. The first closure period is RIN 0648–BD78 202–395–5806. for the months of November and April FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and the second closure period is for the Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Nikhil Mehta, telephone: 727–824– months of December through March, Mexico, and South Atlantic; Snapper- 5305, email: nikhil.mehta@noaa.gov. each year. The first closure period is Grouper Fishery Off the Southern SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Black sea illustrated by Figure 1 below. During the Atlantic States; Regulatory bass is in the snapper-grouper fishery November and April seasonal Amendment 16 and is managed under the FMP. The prohibition, the eastern boundary of the AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries FMP was prepared by the Council and sea bass pot closed area off North and Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and is implemented through regulations at South Carolina is closer to shore than Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 50 CFR part 622 under the authority of during the months of December through Commerce. the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery March. rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with RULES VerDate Sep<11>2014 14:51 Dec 28, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\29DER1.SGM 29DER1


Document Created: 2016-12-29 01:59:06
Document Modified: 2016-12-29 01:59:06
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionRules and Regulations
ActionTemporary orders; inseason orders.
DatesThe effective dates for the inseason orders are set out in this document under the heading Inseason Orders.
ContactPeggy Mundy at 206-526-4323.
FR Citation81 FR 95892 
RIN Number0648-XE86
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