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with the principal community coverage
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List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73
Television.
Federal Communications Commission.
Thomas Horan,
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PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST
SERVICE
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under Missouri by revising the entry for
Hannibal to read as follows:

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§ 73.622 Digital television table of
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No. 210324–0065]
RIN 0648–BK26

Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Northeast Multispecies
Fishery; Approval of 2021 and 2022
Sector Operations Plans and
Allocation of 2021 Northeast
Multispecies Annual Catch
Entitlements
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

AGENCY:

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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
We propose to approve sector
operations plans and contracts, and
grant regulatory exemptions for fishing
years 2021 and 2022, provide
preliminary Northeast multispecies
annual catch entitlements to approved
sectors for fishing year 2021, amend
regulations required to administer
electronic monitoring, and announce
2021 default specifications for seven
Northeast multispecies stocks. Approval
of sector operations plans and contracts
is necessary to allocate annual catch
entitlements to the sectors for sectors to
operate. This action is intended to allow
limited access permit holders to
continue to operate or form sectors, as
authorized under the Northeast
Multispecies Fishery Management Plan,
and to exempt sectors from certain effort
control regulations to improve the
efficiency and economics of sector
vessels. We also announce our
determination that electronic
monitoring is sufficient for use instead
of at-sea monitors to meet sector
monitoring and reporting requirements.
Lastly, we announce default
specifications for Gulf of Maine winter
flounder, Southern New England/MidAtlantic winter flounder, redfish, ocean
pout, Atlantic wolffish, Eastern Georges
Bank cod, and Eastern Georges Bank
haddock.

SUMMARY:

Written comments must be
received on or before April 15, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this document, identified by NOAA–
NMFS–2021–0024, by the following
method:
• Electronic Submission: Submit all
electronic public comments via the
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to
www.regulations.gov and enter NOAA–
NMFS–2021–0024 in the Search box.
Click on the ‘‘Comment’’ icon, complete
the required fields, and enter or attach
your comments.
Instructions: Comments sent by any
other method, to any other address or
individual, or received after the end of
the comment period, may not be
considered by NMFS. All comments
received are a part of the public record
and will generally be posted for public
viewing on www.regulations.gov
without change. All personal identifying
information (e.g., name, address, etc.),
confidential business information, or
otherwise sensitive information
submitted voluntarily by the sender will
be publicly accessible. NMFS will
accept anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/

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A’’ in the required fields if you wish to
remain anonymous).
Copies of each sector’s proposed
operations plan and contract are
available from the NMFS Greater
Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office:
Contact Claire Fitz-Gerald at Claire.FitzGerald@noaa.gov and Kyle Molton at
Kyle.Molton@noaa.gov. These
documents are also accessible via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov.
To review Federal Register
documents referenced in this rule, you
can visit: https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/managementplan/northeast-multispeciesmanagement-plan.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Claire Fitz-Gerald, Fishery Policy
Analyst, (978) 281–9255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Northeast Multispecies Fishery
Management Plan (FMP) defines a
sector as a group of persons holding
limited access Northeast multispecies
permits who have voluntarily entered
into a contract and agree to certain
fishing restrictions for a specified period
of time, and which has been granted a
TAC(s) [sic] in order to achieve
objectives consistent with applicable
FMP goals and objectives. A sector must
be comprised of at least three Northeast
multispecies permits issued to at least
three different persons, none of whom
have any common ownership interest in
the permits, vessels, or businesses
associated with the permits issued [to]
the other two or more persons in that
sector. Sectors are self-selecting,
meaning each sector can choose its
members.
The Northeast multispecies sector
management system allocates a portion
of the Northeast multispecies stocks to
each sector. These annual sector
allocations are known as annual catch
entitlements (ACE) and are based on the
collective fishing history of a sector’s
members. Sectors may receive
allocations of large-mesh Northeast
multispecies stocks with the exception
of Atlantic halibut, windowpane
flounder, Atlantic wolffish, and ocean
pout, which are non-allocated species
managed under separate effort controls.
ACEs are portions of a stock’s annual
catch limit (ACL) available to
commercial Northeast multispecies
vessels. A sector determines how to
harvest its ACE.
Because sectors elect to receive an
allocation under a quota-based system,
the FMP grants sector vessels several
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effort controls. These universal
exemptions apply to: Trip limits on
allocated stocks; Northeast multispecies
days-at-sea (DAS) restrictions; the
requirement to use a 6.5-inch (16.5centimeters (cm)) mesh codend when
fishing with selective gear on Georges
Bank (GB); and portions of the Gulf of
Maine (GOM) Cod Protection Closures.
The FMP prohibits sectors from
requesting exemptions from permitting
restrictions, gear restrictions designed to
minimize habitat impacts, and most
reporting requirements.
In addition to the approved sectors,
there are several state-operated permit
banks, which receive allocations based
on the history of the permits owned by
the states. The final rule implementing
Amendment 17 to the FMP allowed a
state-operated permit bank to receive an
allocation without needing to comply
with the administrative and procedural
requirements for sectors (77 FR 16942;
March 23, 2012). Instead, permit banks
are required to submit a list of
participating permits to us, as specified
in the permit bank’s Memorandum of
Agreement, to determine the ACE
allocated to the permit bank. These
allocations may be leased to fishermen
enrolled in sectors. State-operated
permit banks are no longer approved
through the sector approval process, but
current state-operated permit banks
contribute to the total allocation under
the sector system.
We received operations plans and
preliminary contracts for fishing years
2021 and 2022 from 16 sectors. The
operations plans are similar to
operations plans and contracts
previously approved for prior fishing
years. The operations plans include 19
exemptions previously requested by
sectors, and approved by NMFS, in
fishing year 2020. One sector’s
operations plan also includes a new
exemption request for fishing year 2021.
We have made a preliminary
determination that the 16 sector
operations plans and contracts that we
received, and the 19 previously
approved regulatory exemptions
requested, are consistent with the FMP’s
goals and objectives, and meet sector
requirements outlined in the regulations
at § 648.87. We are not approving the
new sector exemption requested for
fishing year 2021. Copies of the
operations plans and contracts, and the
environmental assessment (EA), are
available at: http://www.regulations.gov
and from NMFS (see ADDRESSES).
This rulemaking also announces our
determination that electronic
monitoring (EM) is sufficient for use
instead of at-sea monitors (ASM) to
meet sector monitoring requirements.

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This action implements minor
regulatory changes required to
administer EM. These changes are
implemented under our section 305(d)
authority in the Magnuson-Stevens Ace
to make changes necessary to carry out
the FMP. We are implementing these
changes in conjunction with the sector
rule for expediency purposes.
Catch Limits for Fishing Year 2021
Previously Established Catch Limits
Last year, Framework 59 to the FMP
set fishing year 2021 catch limits for 15
groundfish stocks (85 FR 45794; July 30,
2020). The 2021 catch limits for most
stocks remain the same as, or similar, to
2020 limits. Framework 59 did not
specify a 2021 catch limit for GOM
winter flounder, Southern New
England/Mid-Atlantic (SNE/MA) winter
flounder, redfish, ocean pout, Atlantic
wolffish, Eastern GB cod, or Eastern GB
haddock. Eastern GB cod and haddock
are management units of the GB cod and
GB haddock stocks that NMFS manages
jointly with Canada, and the shared
quota is set annually.
This year, in Framework 61 to the
FMP, the Council adopted new or
adjusted fishing year 2021 catch limits
for: GB haddock; GB yellowtail
flounder; GB winter flounder; GOM
winter flounder; SNE/MA winter
flounder; redfish; Northern
windowpane flounder; Southern
windowpane flounder; ocean pout;
Atlantic halibut; and Atlantic wolffish.
Framework 61 would set 2021 catch
limits for the two U.S./Canada stocks
(Eastern GB cod and Eastern GB
haddock). It would adjust the
breakdown of sub-components for GB
cod, GOM cod, SNE/MA yellowtail
flounder, CC/GOM yellowtail flounder,

witch flounder, and white hake.
Framework 61 also included the
exemption for sector vessels to target
redfish with codend mesh as small as
5.5 inches (13.97 cm) as a universal
exemption. We are working to publish
a proposed rule to request comments on
the Framework 61 measures once the
Council submits the action to us for
review and approval. We do not expect
we will not be able to implement
Framework 61 measures, if approved,
before May 1, 2021.
As a result, this rule announces the
2021 catch limits set in Framework 59
that would be effective on May 1, 2021,
including preliminary sector and
common pool allocations based on final
2020 fishing year rosters (Table 1). If we
approve Framework 61, the 2021 catch
limits announced in this rule for these
stocks will change.
The Framework 59 fishing year 2021
ACL for GB yellowtail flounder is 95.4
metric tons (mt), which will be in place
on May 1. The Council recommended a
fishing year 2021 ACL of 63.6 mt for GB
yellowtail flounder in Framework 61.
This is a 33-percent decrease, which
will go into effect after May 1 if
Framework 61 is approved. The Council
also revised the fishing year 2021 ACL
for GOM cod to 270.4 mt. This a 2percent decrease from the fishing year
2021 ACL previously set in Framework
59. The adjustments are based on the
recommendation of the Transboundary
Management Guidance Committee,
which is the joint U.S./Canada
management body that meets annually
to recommend shared quotas for the
three transboundary stocks. The
Council’s recommendations will be
further discussed in the Framework 61
proposed rule. We are highlighting these

changes in this rule because the GB
yellowtail flounder and GOM cod sector
allocations proposed in this rule are
based on the higher 2021 catch limits
previously approved in Framework 59.
If the Council’s recommended catch
limits become final with no changes,
ACE for these stocks will be reduced
when Framework 61 is implemented.
Default Catch Limits
This rule also announces default
catch limits for GOM winter flounder,
SNE/MA winter flounder, redfish, ocean
pout, Atlantic wolffish, Eastern GB cod,
and Eastern GB haddock. These stocks
do not already have a catch limit in
place for fishing year 2021. The
groundfish regulations implement
default catch limits for any stock for
which final specifications are not in
place by the beginning of the fishing
year on May 1. The FMP’s default
specifications provision sets catch at 35
percent of the previous year’s (2020)
catch limits, except in instances where
the default catch limit would exceed the
Council’s recommendation. The fishing
year 2021 state waters and other subcomponents specified for redfish in
Framework 59 exceed the Council’s
fishing year 2021 redfish
recommendation in Framework 61.
These sub-components would be
reduced accordingly. The default catch
limit would be effective from May 1
through July 31, or until the final rule
for Framework 61 is implemented if
prior to July 31. To comply with these
regulations and minimize impacts on
the fishery we are announcing these
default specifications. If Framework 61
is not in place on or before July 31, all
fishing for these stocks would be
prohibited beginning August 1.

TABLE 1—NORTHEAST MULTISPECIES CATCH LIMITS FOR 2021

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Stock

Total ACL

GB Cod * ..................................
GOM Cod * ...............................
GB Haddock * ...........................
GOM Haddock * .......................
GB Yellowtail Flounder * ..........
SNE/MA Yellowtail Flounder * ..
CC/GOM Yellowtail Flounder *
American Plaice * .....................
Witch Flounder * .......................
GB Winter Flounder * ...............
GOM Winter Flounder * ............
SNE/MA Winter Flounder * ......
Redfish * ...................................
White Hake * ............................
Pollock * ....................................
N. Windowpane Flounder * ......
S. Windowpane Flounder * ......
Ocean Pout * ............................
Atlantic Halibut * .......................
Atlantic Wolffish .......................

Groundfish
sub-ACL

1,234
523
72,699
15,843
116
21
787
2,740
1,414
545
151
245
3,973
2,041
21,047
55
412
42
102
29

Preliminary
sector
sub-ACL

1,073
468
70,892
15,575
95
15
688
2,682
1,310
522
100
189
3,931
2,019
19,282
38
48
32
77
29

Preliminary
common pool
sub-ACL

Recreational
sub-ACL

Midwater
trawl
fishery

Scallop
fishery

Small-mesh
fisheries

31
9
1,428
258
3
3
32
71
35
21
5
22
51
24
190
38
48
32
77
29

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1,041
267
69,465
10,022
92
12
656
2,611
1,275
502
95
166
3,880
1,995
19,092
na
na
na
na
na

State waters
sub-component

Other
sub-component

19
48
0
56
0
0
58
29
44
0
48
13
0
11
882
1
26
0
21
0

142
7
383
56
0
4
41
29
59
22
2
43
0
11
882
5
196
9
4
0

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The sector allocations proposed in
this rule are based on the 2021 catch
limits established in Framework 59 and
final fishing year 2020 sector rosters.
Regulations require that sectors submit
membership information to us on
December 1 prior to the start of the
fishing year, unless instructed
otherwise. The Regional Administrator
has determined that the December 1
enrollment deadline is not possible
because we had yet to distribute the
annual letter describing each vessel’s
potential contribution to a sector’s quota
for the upcoming fishing year. We
distributed the letters in early February
2021. The deadline to enroll in a sector
is approximately 4 weeks later, on
March 8, 2021, although sectors may set
a more restrictive deadline for their
members. Because sector enrollment has
been stable and consistent since the
sector program was enacted, we are
using fishing year 2020 rosters as a
proxy for fishing year 2021 sector
membership to calculate fishing year
2021 projected allocations in this
proposed rule.
Any permits that change ownership
after the enrollment deadline
determined by the Regional
Administrator as described above retain
the ability to join a sector through April
30, 2021. All permits enrolled in a
sector, and the vessels associated with
those permits, have until April 30, 2021,
to withdraw from a sector and fish in
the common pool for fishing year 2021.
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deadlines, and allow permit holders to
change sectors separate from the annual
sector operations plans approval
process.
We calculate the sector’s allocation
for each stock by summing its members’
potential sector contributions (PSC) for
a stock and then multiplying that total
percentage by the available commercial
sub-ACL for that stock. Table 2 shows
the projected total fishing year 2021 PSC
by stock for the 16 sectors approved to
operate in fishing year 2020 that
submitted operations plans for 2021.
Tables 3 and 4 show the initial
allocations that each sector would be
allocated for fishing year 2021 based on
their final fishing year 2020 rosters and
the fishing year 2021 Framework 59 and
default specifications. At the start of the
2021 fishing year, we provide final
allocations, to the nearest pound, to
each sector based on their final May 1
rosters. We use these final allocations,
along with later adjustments for ACE
transfers, reductions for overages, or
increases for carryover from fishing year
2020, to monitor sector catch. We have
included the preliminary common pool
sub-ACLs in tables 2 through 4 for
comparison. These tables do not
represent the final allocations for the
2021 fishing year.
We do not assign a permit separate
PSCs for Eastern GB cod or Eastern GB
haddock; instead, we assign each permit
a PSC for the GB cod stock and GB
haddock stock. Each sector’s GB cod
and GB haddock allocations are then
divided into an Eastern ACE and a
Western ACE, based on each sector’s
percentage of the GB cod and GB
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is allocated 4 percent of the GB cod ACL
and 6 percent of the GB haddock ACL,
the sector is allocated 4 percent of the
commercial Eastern U.S./Canada Area
GB cod total allowable catch (TAC) and
6 percent of the commercial Eastern
U.S./Canada Area GB haddock TAC as
its Eastern GB cod and haddock ACEs.
These amounts are then subtracted from
the sector’s overall GB cod and haddock
allocations to determine its Western GB
cod and haddock ACEs. A sector may
only harvest its Eastern GB cod and
haddock ACEs in the Eastern U.S./
Canada Area, but may ‘‘convert,’’ or
transfer, its Eastern GB cod or haddock
allocation into Western GB allocation
and fish that converted ACE outside the
Eastern GB area.
At the start of fishing year 2021, we
may withhold 20 percent of each
sector’s fishing year 2021 allocation
until we finalize fishing year 2020 catch
information. We expect to finalize 2020
catch information in summer 2021. We
allow sectors to transfer fishing year
2020 ACE for 2 weeks upon our
completion of year-end catch
accounting to reduce or eliminate any
fishing year 2020 overages. If necessary,
we reduce any sector’s fishing year 2021
allocation to account for a remaining
overage in fishing year 2020. Each year
of the operations plans, we notify the
Council and sector managers of this
deadline in writing and announce our
final ACE determination on our website
at: https://
www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/
ro/fso/reports/h/groundfish_catch_
accounting.
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1.15503867

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4.83857136

1.24018013

3.09928041

3.54799768

3.07190342

4.16162984

3.38856383

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2,155

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12,248

140,895

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2,810

1,106

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367

8,553

4,398

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