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RIN: 0648-BE42

Publication ID: Spring 2016

Title: Sablefish Permit Stacking Program Review, Phase 1 Measures
Abstract: This action is comprised of the following three measures. First, this action would require that landings that include any amount of sablefish be recorded on an electronic fish ticket that documents all species landed, which is needed to improve catch accounting and to enforce sablefish tier limits in the primary fishery such that the integrity of the catch share program is maintained. This action will also create a limited exemption from the own/hold control rules for the permit stacking program to create a limited exemption from the control limit on the number of limited entry fixed gear permits owned or held by a single entity. The need for this measure is to accommodate fishing enterprises that participate in both the Alaskan fixed gear sablefish and halibut IFQ program (Alaska IFQ program) and the West Coast primary sablefish fishery. Finally, this action would allow a vessel to be registered to a limited entry fixed gear permit and limited entry trawl endorsed permit at the same time.
Agency: Department of Commerce(DOC)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 50 CFR 660
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	07/00/2016

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: Businesses	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: William Stelle Jr. Regional Administrator, West Coast Region Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 7600 Sand Point Way Northeast, Building 1, Seattle, WA 98115 Phone:206 526-6150 Email: will.stelle@noaa.gov