Fisheries Off West Coast States; Emergency Action To Temporarily Remove Seasonal Processing Limitations for Pacific Whiting Motherships and Catcher-Processors
fishery-mgmt · west coast · Published 2020-06-19 · Effective 2020-06-19 · 85 FR 37027
Document
Document number
2020-13288
Federal Register citation
85 FR 37027
Type
Rule
Action
Temporary rule; emergency action; request for comments.
Category
fishery-mgmt
Region
west coast
Publication date
2020-06-19
Effective date
2020-06-19
NOAA docket
Docket No. 200615-0159
Abstract
This emergency rule temporarily allows at-sea Pacific whiting processing platforms to operate as both a mothership and a catcher- processor during the 2020 Pacific whiting fishery. This action is necessary to ensure catcher vessels in the mothership cooperative sector are able to fully harvest sector allocations. Emergency measures under this rule will allow catcher-processors to operate as motherships later in the year, and replace mothership processing platforms that have chosen not to operate in the cooperative in response to high economic uncertainty in 2020.