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This rulemaking action proposes to implement the New England Fishery Management Council’s Framework Adjustment 6 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan. Framework 6 includes the Atlantic herring fishery specifications (annual catch amounts for the 2019-2021 fishing years, as herring specifications are typically set for 3 years), updates to the overfished and overfishing definitions, and a change in the carryover provision for quota underages in the herring fishery. The specifications proposed in this rulemaking include annual gear-specific and area-specific catch caps for river herring and shad for Atlantic herring trips for the 2019-2021 fishing years. In implementing Framework 6, this action also proposes to update the overfished and overfishing definitions to be more consistent with the most recent Atlantic herring resource stock assessment and Amendment 8 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (which is being implemented through another rulemaking).  Finally, it also proposes to temporarily suspend the carryover provision in the herring regulations that allows up to 10 percent of each Management sub-Area annual catch limit to be added to the quota for that sub-Area in the next applicable year.