[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 208 (Monday, November 1, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 60182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-23636]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 665

[Docket No. 211025-0216]
RIN 0648-BK29


Pacific Island Fisheries; Electronic Logbooks for Hawaii and 
American Samoa Pelagic Longline Fisheries; Correction

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

ACTION: Final rule; correcting amendment.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects an inadvertent drafting error in final 
regulations published in the Federal Register on August 5, 2021, and 
effective on September 7, 2021. NMFS is reinstating a reporting 
requirement for the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) non-commercial 
bottomfish fishery that was removed inadvertently in the final rule. 
The intent of this rule is to ensure continued timely monitoring and 
reporting of catch and other information.

DATES: Effective on November 1, 2021, and applicable beginning 
September 7, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Heather Cronin, Sustainable Fisheries, 
NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office, 808-725-5179.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 5, 2021, NMFS published a final 
rule that required the use of electronic logbooks in the Hawaii pelagic 
longline fisheries and on Class C and D vessels in the American Samoa 
pelagic longline fishery (86 FR 42744). In that final rule, NMFS 
inadvertently removed an unrelated regulation at 50 CFR 
665.14(b)(2)(ii). That section requires permit holders in the MHI non-
commercial bottomfish fishery to submit logbook reports within 72 hours 
of the end of the fishing trip. That reporting requirement was 
established in Amendment 14 to the Fishery Management Plan for the 
Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Fisheries of the Western Pacific 
Region (replaced in part by the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the Hawaiian 
Archipelago). The requirement has been in place since 2008 and should 
not have been removed (see 73 FR 18450, April 4, 2008; 73 FR 41296, 
July 18, 2008; and 75 FR 2198, January 10, 2010). This correcting 
amendment reinstates the requirement.

List of Subjects in 50 CFR 665

    Administrative practice and procedure, Bottomfish, Fisheries, 
Fishing, Hawaii, Pacific Islands, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

    Dated: October 26, 2021.
Samuel D. Rauch, III,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs National Marine 
Fisheries Service.

    For the reasons set out in the preamble, NMFS amends 50 CFR part 
665 as follows:

PART 665--FISHERIES IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC

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1. The authority citation for 50 CFR part 665 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.


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2. In Sec.  665.14, add paragraph (b)(2)(ii) to read as follows:


Sec.  665.14  Reporting and recordkeeping.

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    (ii) If fishing was authorized under a permit pursuant to Sec.  
665.203(a)(2), the vessel operator or vessel owner must submit the 
original logbook form for each day of the fishing trip to the Regional 
Administrator within 72 hours of the end of each fishing trip.
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[FR Doc. 2021-23636 Filed 10-29-21; 8:45 am]
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