catch-limit · atlantic hms · bluefin · Published 2018-04-18 · Effective 2018-04-13 · 83 FR 17110
Document
Document number
2018-08125
Federal Register citation
83 FR 17110
Type
Rule
Action
Temporary rule; annual adjustment of Atlantic bluefin tuna Purse Seine and Reserve category quotas; inseason quota transfer from the Reserve category to the Longline category.
Category
catch-limit
Region
atlantic hms
Species
bluefin
Publication date
2018-04-18
Effective date
2018-04-13
NOAA docket
Docket Nos. 120328229-4949-02 and 150121066-5717-02
Abstract
NMFS is adjusting the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) Purse Seine and Reserve category quotas for 2018, as it has done annually since 2015. NMFS also is transferring 44.5 metric tons (mt) of BFT quota from the Reserve category to the Longline category after considering the applicable regulatory determination criteria. NMFS has decided that the quota transferred to the Longline category will be distributed to permitted Atlantic Tunas Longline vessels with recent fishing activity, rather than to all qualified Individual Bluefin Quota (IBQ) shares recipients. As a result of this transfer, each associated IBQ account will receive 1,102 lb (0.5 mt) of IBQ.