83 FR 6797 - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic Herring Fishery; Adjustments to 2018 Management Area Annual Catch Limits
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 32 (Thursday, February 15, 2018)] [Rules and Regulations] [Pages 6797-6799] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-03157] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 648 [Docket No.: 171213999-8128-01] RIN 0648-XF898 Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic Herring Fishery; Adjustments to 2018 Management Area Annual Catch Limits AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Temporary final rule; adjustment of specifications. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the regulations implementing the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan, this action adjusts the 2018 catch limits in the four herring management areas (Areas 1A, 1B, 2, and 3) to account for underages and overages in those areas during 2016. In order to ensure that the carryover of underages do not cause overfishing of the herring resource, management area-specific carryover does not increase the stock-wide annual catch limit. This action is necessary to ensure that NMFS accounts for herring catch consistent with the requirements of the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan. DATES: Effective February 15, 2018, through December 31, 2018. ADDRESSES: Copies of supporting documents, including the 2013-2015 Specifications/Framework 2 and the 2016-2018 Specifications to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP), are available from the Sustainable Fisheries Division, Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, 55 Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930, telephone (978) 281-9315, or online at: https://www.nefmc.org/library/framework-2-2, http://www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/sustainable/species/atlherring/index.html. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alyson Pitts, Fishery Management Specialist, 978-281-9352. [[Page 6798]] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The Atlantic herring harvest in the United States is managed under the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP) developed by the New England Fishery Management Council. The FMP divides the stock-wide herring annual catch limit (ACL) among three management areas, one of which has two sub-areas. It divides Area 1 (located in the Gulf of Maine (GOM)) into an inshore section (Area 1A) and an offshore section (Area 1B). Area 2 is located in the coastal waters between Massachusetts and North Carolina, and Area 3 is on Georges Bank (GB). The FMP considers the herring stock complex to be a single stock, but there are inshore (GOM) and offshore (GB) stock components. The GOM and GB stock components segregate during spawning and mix during feeding and migration. Each management area has its own sub-ACL to allow greater control of the fishing mortality on each stock component. NMFS issued a final rule that implemented Amendment 4 to the FMP (76 FR 11373, March 2, 2011) to address ACL and accountability measure (AM) requirements. As a way to account for ACL/sub-ACL overages in the herring fishery, Amendment 4 established an AM that requires NMFS to deduct any ACL/sub-ACL overages from the corresponding ACL/sub-ACL in the year following the catch overage determination. Amendment 4 also specified that NMFS will announce overage deductions in the Federal Register prior to the start of the fishing year, if possible. NMFS also published a final rule implementing Framework 2 to the FMP and the 2013-2015 specifications for the herring fishery on October 4, 2013 (78 FR 61828). Among other measures, Framework 2 allowed for the carryover of unharvested allocations (underages) in the year immediately following the catch determination. Provided that annual total catch does not exceed the stock-wide ACL, up to 10 percent of each sub-ACL may be carried over and added to the following year's sub- ACL. The carryover provision allows a sub-ACL increase for a management area, but it does not allow a corresponding increase to the stock-wide ACL. NMFS published the 2016-2018 specifications for the herring fishery on November 1, 2016 (81 FR 75731). Table 1 outlines the 2018 herring sub-ACLs, minus deductions for research set-aside catch (RSA) that were effective on January 1, 2018. RSA equal to 3 percent of each sub-ACL has been awarded to two research projects. Table 1--2018 Herring Sub-ACLs [mt] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research set- aside (3 2018 sub-ACLs 2018 sub-ACLs percent of (minus RSA) sub-ACLs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area 1A......................................................... 30,300 909 29,391 Area 1B......................................................... 4,500 135 4,365 Area 2.......................................................... 29,100 873 28,227 Area 3.......................................................... 40,900 1,227 39,673 Stock-wide...................................................... 104,800 3,144 101,656 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Provisions Implemented Through This Final Rule NMFS completed the 2016 catch determination in December 2017 and determined that the herring fishery caught more than its allocated catch in 2016 in Area 1B. To account for the overage, this action deducts the catch overage in Area 1B from the 2018 Area 1B sub-ACL. NMFS also determined that the herring fishery caught less than its total allocated catch in 2016 and was under the allocated catch in the three remaining herring management areas (Areas 1A, 2, and 3). As a result, this action carries over unharvested 2016 catch to the 2018 herring sub-ACL in Areas 1A, 2, and 3. This carryover equals the amount of each area's underages, or up to 10 percent of the allocated 2016 sub-ACL, whichever is less. Table 2 provides catch details for 2016 and corresponding adjustments for 2018 sub-ACLs. Table 2--Herring Sub-ACLs, Catch, and Carryover [mt] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2016 Carryover * Adjusted 2016 2016 catch underages/ (up to 10 2018 sub-ACLs Adjusted 2018 sub-ACLs overages percent) (minus RSA) sub-ACLs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area 1A................................................. 30,397 27,826 2,571 2,571 29,391 31,962 Area 1B................................................. 2,941 3,657 -716 NA 4,365 3,649 Area 2.................................................. 32,100 13,456 18,644 2,910 28,227 31,137 Area 3.................................................. 43,832 18,580 25,252 4,090 39,673 43,853 Stock-wide.............................................. ** 101,656 63,519 45,751 NA 101,656 ** 100,969 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Maximum carryover is based on 10 percent of the 2016 sub-ACLs: Area 1A = 30,300 mt; Area 1B = 4,500 mt; Area 2 = 29,100 mt; and Area 3 = 40,900 mt. ** The stock-wide ACL cannot be increased by carryover. The 2018 adjusted stock-wide ACL is decreased by the Area 1B overage. NMFS calculated the amount of herring landings in 2016 based on dealer reports (Federal and state) of herring purchases, supplemented by vessel trip reports (VTRs) and vessel monitoring system (VMS) reports (Federal and states of Maine and Massachusetts) of herring landings. NMFS generally uses dealer reports to estimate herring landings; however, if the amount of herring reported via VTR exceeded the amount of herring [[Page 6799]] reported by the dealer by 10 percent or more, NMFS assumes the dealer report for that trip was in error and uses the VTR report instead. NMFS assigns herring landings to individual herring management areas using VMS reports or latitude and longitude coordinates from VTR reports when a VMS report is not available. NMFS uses recent fishing activity to assign landings to a management area if dealer reports do not have a corresponding VTR or VMS catch report. NMFS estimates herring discards by extrapolating discards from herring trips observed by the Northeast Fisheries Observer Program to all herring trips (observed and unobserved) according to gear and herring management area. Because RSA is removed from management area sub-ACLs at the beginning of the fishery year, NMFS tracks RSA catch but does not count it towards the herring sub-ACLs. Classification Pursuant to section 304(b)(1)(A) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the NMFS Assistant Administrator has determined that this final rule is consistent with the FMP, other provisions of the MSA, and other applicable law. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B), there is good cause to waive prior notice and an opportunity for public comment on this action. Notice and comment are impracticable and contrary to the public interest because a delay would potentially impair achievement of the management plan's objectives of preventing overfishing and achieving optimum yield due by impairing a vessel's ability to harvest available catch allocations. Allowing for prior notice and public comment on this adjustment is also impracticable because regulations require notification of adjustments as close as possible to the start of the herring fishing year on January 1, 2018. We only recently received sufficient information to determine 2016 catch amount. Further, this is a nondiscretionary action required by provisions of Amendment 4 and Framework 2, which were previously subject to public notice and comment. The adjustments required by these regulations are formulaic; this action simply effectuates these mandatory calculations. The proposed and final rules for Framework 2 and Amendment 4 explained the need and likelihood for adjustments to the sub-ACLs based on final catch amounts. Framework 2, specifically, provided prior notice of the need to distribute carryover catch. These actions provided a full opportunity for the public to comment on the substance and process of this action. For the same reasons as noted above, there is good cause under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) to waive the 30-day delay in effective date and make the rule effective upon publication in the Federal Register. To prevent confusion and potential overharvests, it will be in the best interest of the fleet and the herring resource to set the adjusted sub-ACLs as soon as possible. The adjustments in this notice increase the amount of catch available to fishermen, with the exception of Area 1B due to overharvest in 2016. Putting in place the adjusted sub-ACLs as soon as possible will provide the fleet with an opportunity to develop their business plans in sufficient time to facilitate their full harvest of available catch in the open areas. This action is required by 50 CFR part 648, subpart K and is exempt from review under Executive Order 12866. This final rule does not contain a collection-of-information requirement for purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act. Because prior notice and opportunity for public comment are not required for this rule by 5 U.S.C. 553, or any other law, the analytical requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq., are inapplicable. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Dated: February 12, 2018. Samuel D. Rauch, III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2018-03157 Filed 2-14-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
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or call the Consumer and Governmental We note that USAC must preserve the States; Atlantic Herring Fishery;
Affairs Bureau at (202) 418–0530 confidentiality of certain data obtained Adjustments to 2018 Management Area
(voice), (202) 418–0432 (TTY). from respondents; must not use the data Annual Catch Limits
Synopsis except for purposes of administering the
universal service programs or other AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries
As required by the Paperwork purposes specified by the Commission; Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507), and must not disclose data in company- Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
the FCC is notifying the public that it specific form unless directed to do so by Commerce.
received OMB approval on February 1, the Commission. Respondents may ACTION: Temporary final rule;
2018, for the rules 54.316(a)(1), request materials or information adjustment of specifications.
54.316(a)(5) and (6), 54.316(b)(6), submitted to the Commission or the
54.320(d), 54.321 published at 81 FR SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Administrator believed confidential to
24282, April 25, 2016, 81 FR 44414, July regulations implementing the Atlantic
be withheld from public inspection
7, 2016, and 81 FR 83706, November 22, Herring Fishery Management Plan, this
under 47 CFR 0.459 of the FCC’s rules.
2016, 81 FR 69696, October 7, 2016, and action adjusts the 2018 catch limits in
Needs and Uses: This information
the reporting requirements for recipients the four herring management areas
collection addresses the requirement
of Phase II support awarded in (Areas 1A, 1B, 2, and 3) to account for
that certain carriers with high cost
partnership with New York’s New NY underages and overages in those areas
reporting obligations must file
Broadband Program as adopted in FCC during 2016. In order to ensure that the
information about their locations which
17–2, paragraphs 69–70. Under 5 CFR carryover of underages do not cause
meet their broadband deployment
1320, an agency may not conduct or overfishing of the herring resource,
public interest obligations via an
sponsor a collection of information management area-specific carryover
electronic portal (‘‘portal’’). The Rate-of-
unless it displays a current, valid OMB does not increase the stock-wide annual
Return Order required that the
Control Number. catch limit. This action is necessary to
Universal Service Administrative
No person shall be subject to any ensure that NMFS accounts for herring
Company (USAC) establish the portal so
penalty for failing to comply with a catch consistent with the requirements
that carriers could file their location
collection of information subject to the of the Atlantic Herring Fishery
data with the portal starting in 2017.
Paperwork Reduction Act that does not Management Plan.
The Rate-of-Return Order also required
display a current, valid OMB Control DATES: Effective February 15, 2018,
all recipients of Phase II model-based
Number. The OMB Control Number is support and rate-of-return carriers to through December 31, 2018.
3060–1228. submit geocoded location data and ADDRESSES: Copies of supporting
The foregoing notice is required by related certifications to the portal. documents, including the 2013–2015
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Recipients of Phase II model-based Specifications/Framework 2 and the
Public Law 104–13, October 1, 1995, support had been required to file such 2016–2018 Specifications to the Atlantic
and 44 U.S.C. 3507. information in their annual reports due Herring Fishery Management Plan
The total annual reporting burdens by July 1, 2017. The Phase II Auction (FMP), are available from the
and costs for the respondents are as Order requires auction winners to build- Sustainable Fisheries Division, Greater
follows: out networks capable of meeting their Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, 55
OMB Control Number: 3060–1228. public interest obligations and report, to Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA
OMB Approval Date: February 1, an online portal, locations to which 01930, telephone (978) 281–9315, or
2018. auction winners had deployed such online at: https://www.nefmc.org/
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OMB Expiration Date: February 28, networks. This information collection library/framework-2-2, http://
2021. also addresses the new portal reporting www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/
Title: Connect America Fund—High requirements for carriers receiving sustainable/species/atlherring/
Cost Portal Filing. Alaska Plan support, including their index.html.
Form No.: N/A. submission of fiber/microwave middle- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Respondents: Business or other for- mile network maps, and recipients of Alyson Pitts, Fishery Management
profit, not-for-profit institutions. Phase II support that is awarded in Specialist, 978–281–9352.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: migration. Each management area has FR 61828). Among other measures,
its own sub-ACL to allow greater control Framework 2 allowed for the carryover
Background
of the fishing mortality on each stock of unharvested allocations (underages)
The Atlantic herring harvest in the component. in the year immediately following the
United States is managed under the NMFS issued a final rule that catch determination. Provided that
Atlantic Herring Fishery Management implemented Amendment 4 to the FMP annual total catch does not exceed the
Plan (FMP) developed by the New (76 FR 11373, March 2, 2011) to address stock-wide ACL, up to 10 percent of
England Fishery Management Council. ACL and accountability measure (AM) each sub-ACL may be carried over and
The FMP divides the stock-wide herring requirements. As a way to account for
annual catch limit (ACL) among three added to the following year’s sub-ACL.
ACL/sub-ACL overages in the herring
management areas, one of which has The carryover provision allows a sub-
fishery, Amendment 4 established an
two sub-areas. It divides Area 1 (located AM that requires NMFS to deduct any ACL increase for a management area,
in the Gulf of Maine (GOM)) into an ACL/sub-ACL overages from the but it does not allow a corresponding
inshore section (Area 1A) and an corresponding ACL/sub-ACL in the year increase to the stock-wide ACL.
offshore section (Area 1B). Area 2 is following the catch overage NMFS published the 2016–2018
located in the coastal waters between determination. Amendment 4 also specifications for the herring fishery on
Massachusetts and North Carolina, and specified that NMFS will announce November 1, 2016 (81 FR 75731). Table
Area 3 is on Georges Bank (GB). The overage deductions in the Federal 1 outlines the 2018 herring sub-ACLs,
FMP considers the herring stock Register prior to the start of the fishing minus deductions for research set-aside
complex to be a single stock, but there year, if possible. catch (RSA) that were effective on
are inshore (GOM) and offshore (GB) NMFS also published a final rule January 1, 2018. RSA equal to 3 percent
stock components. The GOM and GB implementing Framework 2 to the FMP of each sub-ACL has been awarded to
stock components segregate during and the 2013–2015 specifications for the
two research projects.
spawning and mix during feeding and herring fishery on October 4, 2013 (78
TABLE 1—2018 HERRING SUB-ACLS
[mt]
Research 2018
2018 sub- set-aside sub-ACLs
ACLs (3 percent (minus RSA)
of sub-ACLs)
Area 1A ........................................................................................................................................ 30,300 909 29,391
Area 1B ........................................................................................................................................ 4,500 135 4,365
Area 2 .......................................................................................................................................... 29,100 873 28,227
Area 3 .......................................................................................................................................... 40,900 1,227 39,673
Stock-wide ................................................................................................................................... 104,800 3,144 101,656
Provisions Implemented Through This overage in Area 1B from the 2018 Area catch to the 2018 herring sub-ACL in
Final Rule 1B sub-ACL. NMFS also determined Areas 1A, 2, and 3. This carryover
NMFS completed the 2016 catch that the herring fishery caught less than equals the amount of each area’s
determination in December 2017 and its total allocated catch in 2016 and was underages, or up to 10 percent of the
determined that the herring fishery under the allocated catch in the three allocated 2016 sub-ACL, whichever is
caught more than its allocated catch in remaining herring management areas less. Table 2 provides catch details for
2016 in Area 1B. To account for the (Areas 1A, 2, and 3). As a result, this 2016 and corresponding adjustments for
overage, this action deducts the catch action carries over unharvested 2016 2018 sub-ACLs.
TABLE 2—HERRING SUB-ACLS, CATCH, AND CARRYOVER
[mt]
2016 Carryover 2018 sub- Adjusted
Adjusted 2016 2016 catch underages/ * (up to 10 ACLs 2018 sub-
sub-ACLs overages percent) (minus RSA) ACLs
Area 1A .................................................... 30,397 27,826 2,571 2,571 29,391 31,962
Area 1B .................................................... 2,941 3,657 ¥716 NA 4,365 3,649
Area 2 ...................................................... 32,100 13,456 18,644 2,910 28,227 31,137
Area 3 ...................................................... 43,832 18,580 25,252 4,090 39,673 43,853
Stock-wide ................................................ ** 101,656 63,519 45,751 NA 101,656 ** 100,969
* Maximum carryover is based on 10 percent of the 2016 sub-ACLs: Area 1A = 30,300 mt; Area 1B = 4,500 mt; Area 2 = 29,100 mt; and Area
3 = 40,900 mt.
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** The stock-wide ACL cannot be increased by carryover. The 2018 adjusted stock-wide ACL is decreased by the Area 1B overage.
NMFS calculated the amount of vessel trip reports (VTRs) and vessel NMFS generally uses dealer reports to
herring landings in 2016 based on monitoring system (VMS) reports estimate herring landings; however, if
dealer reports (Federal and state) of (Federal and states of Maine and the amount of herring reported via VTR
herring purchases, supplemented by Massachusetts) of herring landings. exceeded the amount of herring
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reported by the dealer by 10 percent or impracticable and contrary to the public effective upon publication in the
more, NMFS assumes the dealer report interest because a delay would Federal Register. To prevent confusion
for that trip was in error and uses the potentially impair achievement of the and potential overharvests, it will be in
VTR report instead. NMFS assigns management plan’s objectives of the best interest of the fleet and the
herring landings to individual herring preventing overfishing and achieving herring resource to set the adjusted sub-
management areas using VMS reports or optimum yield due by impairing a ACLs as soon as possible. The
latitude and longitude coordinates from vessel’s ability to harvest available catch adjustments in this notice increase the
VTR reports when a VMS report is not allocations. Allowing for prior notice amount of catch available to fishermen,
available. NMFS uses recent fishing and public comment on this adjustment with the exception of Area 1B due to
activity to assign landings to a is also impracticable because overharvest in 2016. Putting in place the
management area if dealer reports do regulations require notification of adjusted sub-ACLs as soon as possible
not have a corresponding VTR or VMS adjustments as close as possible to the will provide the fleet with an
catch report. start of the herring fishing year on opportunity to develop their business
NMFS estimates herring discards by January 1, 2018. We only recently plans in sufficient time to facilitate their
extrapolating discards from herring trips received sufficient information to full harvest of available catch in the
observed by the Northeast Fisheries determine 2016 catch amount. Further, open areas.
Observer Program to all herring trips this is a nondiscretionary action This action is required by 50 CFR part
(observed and unobserved) according to required by provisions of Amendment 4 648, subpart K and is exempt from
gear and herring management area. and Framework 2, which were review under Executive Order 12866.
Because RSA is removed from previously subject to public notice and This final rule does not contain a
management area sub-ACLs at the comment. The adjustments required by collection-of-information requirement
beginning of the fishery year, NMFS these regulations are formulaic; this for purposes of the Paperwork
tracks RSA catch but does not count it action simply effectuates these Reduction Act.
towards the herring sub-ACLs. mandatory calculations. The proposed Because prior notice and opportunity
and final rules for Framework 2 and for public comment are not required for
Classification
Amendment 4 explained the need and this rule by 5 U.S.C. 553, or any other
Pursuant to section 304(b)(1)(A) of the likelihood for adjustments to the sub- law, the analytical requirements of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery ACLs based on final catch amounts. Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601
Conservation and Management Act Framework 2, specifically, provided et seq., are inapplicable.
(MSA), the NMFS Assistant prior notice of the need to distribute Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Administrator has determined that this carryover catch. These actions provided
final rule is consistent with the FMP, a full opportunity for the public to Dated: February 12, 2018.
other provisions of the MSA, and other comment on the substance and process Samuel D. Rauch, III,
applicable law. of this action. Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B), there For the same reasons as noted above, Regulatory Programs, National Marine
is good cause to waive prior notice and there is good cause under 5 U.S.C. Fisheries Service.
an opportunity for public comment on 553(d)(3) to waive the 30-day delay in [FR Doc. 2018–03157 Filed 2–14–18; 8:45 am]
this action. Notice and comment are effective date and make the rule BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
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| FR Citation | 83 FR 6797 | |
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