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TABLE 6—ANIMALS AND PLANTS FORMERLY CANDIDATES OR FORMERLY PROPOSED FOR LISTING—Continued 

[Note: See end of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for an explanation of symbols used in this table.] 

Status 

Scientific name Family Common name Historical range 

Code Expl. 

FISHES 

E ............. L Noturus furiosus ........................ Ictaluridae ......... Madtom, Carolina ...................... U.S.A. (NC). 

E ............. L Acipenser dabryanus ................ Acipenseridae ... Sturgeon, Yangtze .................... China. 

CLAMS 

T ............. L Fusconaia masoni ..................... Unionidae ......... Pigtoe, Atlantic .......................... U.S.A. (GA, NC, VA). 

INSECTS 

E ............. L Bombus franklini ....................... Apidae .............. Bumble bee, Franklin’s ............. U.S.A. (CA, OR). 

T ............. L Lycaena hermes ....................... Lycaenidae ....... Butterfly, Hermes copper .......... U.S.A. (CA). 

CRUSTACEANS 

E ............. L Cambarus cracens .................... Cambaridae ...... Crayfish, slenderclaw ................ U.S.A. (AL). 

T ............. L Procambarus econfinae ............ Cambaridae ...... Crayfish, Panama City .............. U.S.A. (FL). 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 622 

[Docket No. 220427–0107] 

RIN 0648–BL22 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; Reef Fish 

Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Catch 

Limits for Red Grouper 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS proposes to implement 

management measures described in a 

framework action under the Fishery 

Management Plan for the Reef Fish 

Resources of the Gulf of Mexico (FMP) 

as prepared by the Gulf of Mexico 

Fishery Management Council (Council). 

If implemented, this proposed rule 

would increase commercial and 

recreational catch levels for red grouper 

in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf). The 

purposes of this proposed rule are to 

prevent overfishing of red grouper and 

to achieve optimum yield (OY). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by May 18, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on the proposed rule identified by 

‘‘NOAA–NMFS–2022–0029’’ by either 

of the following methods: 

• Electronic Submission: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to 

www.regulations.gov and enter ‘‘NOAA– 

NMFS–2022–0029’’ in the Search box. 

Click the ‘‘Comment’’ icon, complete 

the required fields, and enter or attach 

your comments. 

• Mail: Submit all written comments 

to Dan Luers, NMFS Southeast Regional 

Office, 263 13th Avenue South, St. 

Petersburg, FL 33701. 

Instructions: Comments sent by any 

other method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered by NMFS. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted for public 

viewing on www.regulations.gov 

without change. All personal identifying 

information (e.g., name, address), 

confidential business information, or 

otherwise sensitive information 

submitted voluntarily by the sender will 

be publicly accessible. NMFS will 

accept anonymous comments—enter 

‘‘N/A’’ in the required fields if you wish 

to remain anonymous. 

Electronic copies of the framework 

action may be obtained from the 

Southeast Regional Office website at 

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/ 

modification-gulf-mexico-red-groupercatch-limits. The framework action 

includes an environmental assessment, 

a fishery impact statement, a Regulatory 

Flexibility Act analysis, and a regulatory 

impact review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan 

Luers, NMFS Southeast Regional Office, 

telephone: 727–824–5305, email: 

daniel.luers@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS and 

the Council manage the Gulf reef fish 

fishery, which includes red grouper, 

under the FMP. The Council prepared 

the FMP and NMFS implements the 

FMP through regulations at 50 CFR part 

622 under the authority of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act). 

Background 

The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires 

NMFS and regional fishery management 

councils to prevent overfishing and 

achieve, on a continuing basis, the OY 

from federally managed fish stocks. 

These mandates are intended to ensure 

fishery resources are managed for the 

greatest overall benefit to the nation, 

particularly with respect to providing 

food production and recreational 

opportunities, and protecting marine 

ecosystems. 

All weights described in this 

proposed rule are in gutted weight. 

Red grouper in the Gulf exclusive 

economic zone are found primarily in 

offshore areas of the eastern Gulf with 

hard bottom, that is, bottom structure 

with relief that attracts fish. Red grouper 

is managed as a single stock with 

commercial and recreational annual 

catch limits (ACLs) and annual catch 

targets (ACTs). Since 2009, the stock 

ACL has been allocated 76 percent to 

the commercial sector and 24 percent to 

the recreational sector as set in 

Amendment 30B to the FMP (74 FR 

17603, April 16, 2009). However, on 

March 9, 2022, NMFS approved 

Amendment 53 to the FMP, which 


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modifies the allocation to 59.3 percent 

for the commercial sector and 40.7 

percent for the recreational sector. 

Amendment 53 also adjusts the red 

grouper catch level based on the results 

of a 2019 stock assessment (Southeast 

Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) 

61). NMFS published the proposed rule 

for Amendment 53 on January 19, 2022 

(87 FR 2737), in the Federal Register 

and is developing the final rule. 

Commercial red grouper fishing is 

managed under the Grouper-Tilefish 

Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program, 

which began January 1, 2010, through 

Amendment 29 to the FMP (74 FR 

44732, August 31, 2009, and 75 FR 

9116, March 1, 2010). Under the IFQ 

program, the commercial red grouper 

quota is equal to the commercial ACT. 

The annual allocation of red grouper is 

distributed on January 1 of each year to 

those who hold red grouper shares. 

Recreational red grouper harvest is 

managed with catch limits, in-season 

and post-season accountability 

measures (AMs), season and area 

closures, a minimum size limit, and 

recreational bag and possession limits. 

The in-season AM for red grouper 

requires NMFS to close the recreational 

sector for the remainder of the fishing 

year when red grouper landings reach or 

are projected to reach the recreational 

ACL. If recreational landings of red 

grouper exceed the recreational ACL in 

a fishing year, the post-season AM 

requires NMFS to shorten the length of 

the following recreational fishing season 

by the amount necessary to ensure 

landings do not exceed the recreational 

ACT. If the red grouper stock is 

overfished, NMFS must also reduce the 

ACL and ACT by the amount of the 

recreational ACL overage in the prior 

year. 

Subsequent to the management 

measures the Council recommended in 

Amendment 53, the Council and its 

advisory groups recommended further 

revisions to red grouper catch levels 

based on an interim analysis conducted 

by the NMFS Southeast Fishery Science 

Center (SEFSC). 

In May 2021, the Council’s Scientific 

and Statistical Committee (SSC) 

reviewed the results of the interim 

analysis, which indicated Gulf red 

grouper harvest levels could be 

increased. However, this result was 

considered preliminary because the 

catch level projections were dependent 

on the sector allocations being evaluated 

in Amendment 53. The Council 

requested an updated interim analysis 

based on the preferred allocation in 

Amendment 53 at its June 2021 meeting, 

which the SEFSC prepared. This interim 

analysis also applied a new 

methodology for adjusting recreational 

harvest weight estimates and used the 

NMFS Bottom Longline Survey as the 

index of abundance. 

The SSC reviewed the new interim 

analysis at its August 2021 meeting and 

agreed with the changes made by the 

SEFSC. Based on the results of the 

interim analysis, the SSC recommended 

an OFL of 5.99 million lb (2.72 million 

kg) and an ABC of 4.96 million lb (2.25 

million kg). The revised ABC is based 

on a 3-year moving average relative to 

the OFL. The SSC chose to use the 3- 

year moving average as opposed to a 5- 

year moving average because it was 

slightly more conservative and thought 

to be more representative of recent 

population trends, and because of 

uncertainty regarding the impacts of the 

2021 red tide event on the West Florida 

Shelf. Based on the SSC 

recommendations, the Council chose to 

update the catch limits and approved 

this framework action at its October 

2021 meeting. The proposed OFL and 

ABC are greater than those specified in 

Amendment 53, which are an OFL of 

4.66 million lb (2.11 million kg) and an 

ABC of 4.26 million lb (1.93 million kg). 

Management Measures Contained in 

This Proposed Rule 

This proposed rule would increase 

catch levels for Gulf red grouper relative 

to those established in Amendment 53. 

The catch levels in this proposed rule 

would be set consistent with the sector 

allocations established in Amendment 

53. Therefore, the catch levels in this 

proposed rule would not be 

implemented until the final rule to 

implement Amendment 53 is published 

in the Federal Register and is effective. 

If implemented, this proposed rule 

would revise the ACLs and ACTs for the 

Gulf red grouper stock. This proposed 

rule would increase the total ACL for 

Gulf red grouper from 4.26 million lb 

(1.93 million kg) to 4.96 million lb (2.25 

million kg). 

Using the sector allocations approved 

in Amendment 53, this proposed rule 

would increase the commercial ACL 

and ACT from 2.53 million lb (1.15 

million kg) and 2.40 million lb (1.09 

million kg) to 2.94 million lb (1.33 

million kg) and 2.79 million lb (1.27 

million kg), respectively. 

For the recreational sector, this 

proposed rule would increase the 

recreational ACL and ACT from 1.73 

million lb (0.78 million kg) and 1.57 

million lb (0.71 million kg) to 2.02 

million lb (0.92 million kg) and 1.84 

million lb (0.83 million kg), 

respectively. 

Classification 

Pursuant to section 304(b)(1)(A) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act, the NMFS 

Assistant Administrator has determined 

that this proposed rule is consistent 

with the framework action, the FMP, 

other provisions of the MagnusonStevens Act, and other applicable law, 

subject to further consideration after 

public comment. 

This proposed rule has been 

determined to be not significant for 

purposes of Executive Order 12866. 

The Magnuson-Stevens Act provides 

the legal basis for this proposed rule. No 

duplicative, overlapping, or conflicting 

Federal rules have been identified. The 

objectives of this proposed rule are to 

revise the ACLs and ACTs for Gulf red 

grouper consistent with the best 

scientific information available, and to 

continue to achieve OY consistent with 

the requirements of the MagnusonStevens Act. 

The Chief Counsel for Regulation of 

the Department of Commerce has 

certified to the Chief Counsel for 

Advocacy of the Small Business 

Administration (SBA) that this proposed 

rule, if adopted, will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. A 

description of the factual basis for this 

determination follows. All monetary 

estimates in the following analysis are 

in 2019 dollars. 

This proposed rule would increase 

catch limits and catch targets for Gulf 

red grouper relative to those established 

in Amendment 53, consistent with the 

sector allocations established in 

Amendment 53. This proposed rule 

cannot be implemented before a final 

rule to implement Amendment 53 is 

published in the Federal Register and is 

effective. Amendment 53 set the OFL, 

ABC, total ACL, commercial ACL, 

recreational ACL, commercial ACT 

(quota) and recreational ACT for Gulf 

red grouper at the following values: 4.66 

million lb (2.11 million kg), 4.26 million 

lb (1.93 million kg), 4.26 million lb (1.93 

million kg), 2.53 million lb (1.15 million 

kg), 1.73 million lb (0.78 million kg), 

2.40 million lb (1.09 million kg), and 

1.57 million lb (0.71 million kg), 

respectively. This proposed rule, if 

implemented, would increase those 

values to 5.99 million lb (2.72 million 

kg), 4.96 million lb (2.25 million kg), 

4.96 million lb (2.25 million kg), 2.94 

million lb (1.33 million kg), 2.02 million 

lb (0.92 million kg), 2.79 million lb (1.27 

million kg), and 1.84 million lb (0.83 

million kg), respectively. Thus, this 

proposed rule is expected to directly 

regulate commercial fishing businesses 

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the grouper-tilefish IFQ program and 

for-hire fishing businesses that target 

red grouper. 

The commercial red grouper quota is 

allocated annually based on the 

percentage of red grouper shares in each 

IFQ account (e.g., if an account 

possesses 1 percent of the red grouper 

shares and the commercial quota is 1 

million lb (0.45 million kg), then that 

account would receive 10,000 lb (4,536 

kg) of commercial red grouper quota). 

Although it is common for a single IFQ 

account with red grouper shares to be 

held by a single business, some 

businesses have multiple IFQ accounts 

with red grouper shares. As of February 

19, 2020, 495 IFQ accounts held red 

grouper shares. These accounts and red 

grouper shares were owned by 436 

businesses. Thus, NMFS assumes this 

proposed rule would directly regulate 

436 commercial fishing businesses. 

A valid Federal charter vessel/ 

headboat (for-hire) permit for Gulf reef 

fish is required to legally harvest red 

grouper in the Gulf from a for-hire 

vessel. NMFS does not possess complete 

ownership data regarding for-hire 

businesses that hold these permits, and 

thus potentially harvest red grouper. 

Therefore, it is not currently feasible to 

accurately determine affiliations 

between vessels and the businesses that 

own them. As a result, for purposes of 

this analysis, NMFS assumes each forhire vessel is independently owned by 

a single business, which is expected to 

result in an overestimate of the actual 

number of for-hire fishing businesses 

directly regulated by this proposed rule. 

NMFS also does not have data 

indicating how many for-hire vessels 

actually harvest Gulf red grouper in a 

given year. However, in 2019, there 

were 1,277 vessels with valid Federal 

charter vessel/headboat permits for Gulf 

reef fish. Of these 1,277 vessels, 90 

vessels are used primarily for 

commercial fishing purposes and thus 

are not considered for-hire fishing 

businesses in this analysis. Further, Gulf 

red grouper is only targeted and almost 

entirely harvested in waters off the west 

coast of Florida. Of the 1,277 vessels 

with valid Federal charter vessel/ 

headboat permits for Gulf reef fish, 799 

were homeported in Florida. Of these 

permitted vessels, 60 are primarily used 

for commercial fishing rather than forhire fishing purposes and thus are not 

considered for-hire fishing businesses. 

In addition, 48 of these permitted 

vessels are considered headboats. 

Compared to charter vessels, headboats 

take a larger group of anglers to harvest 

a diverse range of species on a trip, and 

therefore do not typically target a 

particular species. Therefore, NMFS 

assumes that no headboats would be 

directly affected as a result of this 

proposed rule. However, charter vessels 

often target red grouper. Of the 799 

vessels with valid Federal charter 

vessel/headboat permits for Gulf reef 

fish that are homeported in Florida, 691 

vessels are charter vessels. A recent 

study reported that 76 percent of charter 

vessels with valid Federal charter 

vessel/headboat permits for Gulf reef 

fish were active in the Gulf during 2017 

(i.e., 24 percent were not fishing). A 

charter vessel would only be directly 

affected by this proposed rule if it is 

fishing. Given this information, our best 

estimate of the number of charter 

vessels that are likely to harvest Gulf red 

grouper in a given year is 525, and thus 

this proposed rule is estimated to 

directly affect 525 for-hire fishing 

businesses. 

For RFA purposes, NMFS has 

established a small business size 

standard for businesses, including their 

affiliates, whose primary industry is 

commercial fishing (50 CFR 200.2). A 

business primarily involved in the 

commercial fishing industry is classified 

as a small business if it is independently 

owned and operated, is not dominant in 

its field of operation (including its 

affiliates), and its combined annual 

receipts (revenue) are not in excess of 

$11 million for all of its affiliated 

operations worldwide. 

NMFS does not collect revenue data 

specific to commercial fishing 

businesses that have IFQ accounts; 

rather, revenue data are collected for 

commercial fishing vessels in general. It 

is not possible to assign revenues earned 

by commercial fishing vessels back to 

specific IFQ accounts and the 

businesses that possess them because 

quota is often transferred across many 

IFQ accounts before it is used by a 

vessel for harvesting purposes, and 

specific units of quota cannot be 

tracked. However, from 2014 through 

2018, the maximum annual gross 

revenue earned by a single vessel was 

about $2.39 million, which occurred in 

2015. The average gross revenue per 

vessel was about $143,000 in that year. 

By 2018, the maximum and average 

gross revenue per vessel had decreased 

to about $1.04 million and $96,000, 

respectively. Based on this information, 

all commercial fishing businesses 

directly regulated by this proposed rule 

are determined to be small entities for 

the purpose of this analysis. 

For other industries, the SBA has 

established size standards for all major 

industry sectors in the U.S., including 

for-hire businesses (NAICS code 

487210). A business primarily involved 

in for-hire fishing is classified as a small 

business if it is independently owned 

and operated, is not dominant in its 

field of operation (including its 

affiliates), and has annual receipts 

(revenue) not in excess of $8 million for 

all its affiliated operations worldwide. 

The maximum annual gross revenue for 

a single headboat in the Gulf was about 

$1.38 million in 2017. On average, 

annual gross revenue for headboats in 

the Gulf is about three times greater 

than annual gross revenue for charter 

vessels, reflecting the fact that 

businesses that own charter vessels are 

typically smaller than businesses that 

own headboats. Based on this 

information, all for-hire fishing 

businesses directly regulated by this 

proposed rule are determined to be 

small businesses for the purpose of this 

analysis. 

If implemented, NMFS expects this 

proposed rule to directly regulate 436 of 

the 532 businesses with IFQ accounts, 

or approximately 82 percent of those 

commercial fishing businesses. Further, 

NMFS expects this proposed rule to 

directly regulate 525 of the 1,187 forhire fishing businesses with valid 

Federal charter vessel/headboat permits 

in the Gulf reef fish fishery, or 

approximately 44 percent of those forhire fishing businesses. NMFS has 

determined that, for the purpose of this 

analysis, all directly regulated 

commercial and for-hire fishing 

businesses are small entities. Based on 

this information, NMFS expects the 

proposed rule to affect a substantial 

number of small entities. 

Because revenue and cost data are not 

collected for the commercial fishing 

businesses that are expected to be 

directly regulated by this proposed rule, 

direct estimates of their economic 

profits are not available. However, 

economic theory suggests that annual 

allocation (quota) prices should reflect 

expected annual economic profits, 

which allows economic profits to be 

estimated indirectly. Further, the 436 

commercial fishing businesses that own 

red grouper shares, and therefore 

receive red grouper quota at the 

beginning of each calendar year, also 

own shares and receive quota in the 

other IFQ share categories, i.e., red 

snapper, gag, shallow-water grouper, 

deep-water grouper, and tilefish. These 

businesses earn economic profits 

because of their ownership of these 

shares as well their red grouper shares. 

However, economic profits are only 

realized if the quota allocated to these 

businesses with shares is actually used 

for harvesting purposes (i.e., no 

economic profits will accrue unless the 

quota results in the production and sale 

of seafood). Because the average annual 


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commercial landings of red grouper 

from 2015–2019 exceeds the proposed 

red grouper commercial quota, NMFS 

assumes that all of the red grouper 

commercial quota will be harvested in 

the foreseeable future. Similarly, 

because practically all of the 

commercial red snapper quota has been 

used for harvesting in recent years, 

NMFS assumes that all of the 

commercial red snapper quota allocated 

to these businesses will be harvested in 

the foreseeable future. However, based 

on 2015–2019 data, NMFS expects that 

only 84 percent of the deep-water 

grouper commercial quota, 50 percent of 

the gag commercial quota, 35 percent of 

the shallow-water grouper commercial 

quota, and 78 percent of the tilefish 

commercial quota allocated to these 

businesses will be used for harvesting in 

the foreseeable future. Given these quota 

utilization rates in combination with 

average annual allocation prices in 2019 

and annual commercial quotas in 2020 

by share category, total annual 

economic profits for commercial fishing 

businesses with red grouper shares are 

estimated to be at least $18.61 million. 

This estimate does not account for any 

economic profits that may accrue to 

commercial fishing businesses that own 

red grouper shares from the harvest of 

non-IFQ species. Such profits are likely 

to be small because harvest of IFQ 

species accounts for around 85 percent 

of commercial IFQ vessels’ average 

annual gross revenue, and economic 

profits from the harvest of non-IFQ 

species tend to be much smaller than 

those from IFQ species. Given that there 

are 436 commercial fishing businesses 

that own red grouper shares, the average 

annual expected economic profit per 

commercial fishing business is at least 

$42,700. 

However, most of these economic 

profits (82 percent) are the result of 

owning red snapper shares. Only 

approximately $1.77 million (or 9.5 

percent) of the 436 commercial fishing 

businesses’ economic profits are due to 

the ownership of red grouper shares. 

NMFS expects this proposed rule only 

to affect economic profits from the 

ownership of red grouper shares. 

Specifically, this rule proposes to 

increase the commercial red grouper 

ACT (quota) from 2.40 million lb (1.09 

million kg) to 2.79 million lb (1.27 

million kg). Given an annual allocation 

price of $0.59 per lb ($1.30 per kg) in 

2019 for red grouper, the proposed 

increase in the commercial red grouper 

quota is expected to increase annual 

economic profits to these commercial 

fishing businesses by $223,610 or about 

$513 per business per year. Thus, 

annual economic profit is expected to 

increase by about 1.2 percent on average 

per commercial fishing business. 

Based on the most recent information 

available, average annual profit is 

$26,514 per charter vessel. The 

proposed rule would increase the 

recreational ACL for Gulf red grouper 

from 1.73 million lb (0.78 million kg) to 

2.02 million lb (0.92 million kg). NMFS 

expects the recreational ACL increase to 

increase the recreational season length 

by 12 days by extending the season 

through the end of year. Without the 

ACL increase, NMFS projects that the 

season would end on December 19. 

NMFS expects the 12-day increase in 

season length to increase the number of 

trips targeting red grouper on charter 

vessels by 665 angler trips. Net Cash 

Flow per Angler Trip (CFpA) is the best 

available estimate of profit per angler 

trip by charter vessels. CFpA on charter 

vessels is estimated to be $141 per 

angler trip. Thus, the estimated increase 

in charter vessel profits from this 

proposed rule is expected to be $93,723, 

or $179 per charter vessel, if the 

recreational sector is managed to its 

ACL. 

The proposed rule would also 

increase the recreational ACT for Gulf 

red grouper from 1.57 million lb (0.71 

million kg) to 1.84 million lb (0.83 

million kg). The ACT is only germane if 

the recreational sector exceeds its ACL 

in the future, as that would trigger the 

post-season AM, causing the 

recreational sector to be constrained to 

the recreational ACT rather than the 

recreational ACL. Average annual 

landings in the recreational sector from 

2016 through 2019 are slightly below 

the proposed recreational ACL. 

However, the recreational sector for Gulf 

red grouper closed on September 15 in 

2021 (86 FR 51276, September 15, 

2021). Therefore, it is possible that the 

post-season AM may be triggered in the 

future, causing the recreational sector, 

including the for-hire component, to be 

constrained to the ACT. If the postseason AM is triggered and the 

recreational sector is managed under the 

ACT, this proposed rule would increase 

the recreational season length by 45 

days by extending the season through 

the end of the year. Without the ACT 

increase, NMFS projects that the season 

would end on November 16. NMFS 

expects the 45-day increase in the 

season length to increase the number of 

trips targeting red grouper on charter 

vessels by 2,352 angler trips. Thus, if 

the post-season AM is triggered, the 

estimated increase in charter vessel 

profits from this proposed rule would be 

$331,637 or $632 per charter vessel. 

Based on the information above, 

although a substantial number of small 

entities would be affected by this 

proposed rule, this proposed rule would 

not have a significant economic impact 

on those entities. Because this proposed 

rule, if implemented, would not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities, an 

initial regulatory flexibility analysis is 

not required and none has been 

prepared. 

This proposed rule contains no 

information collection requirements 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. 

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 622 

Fisheries, Fishing, Gulf of Mexico, 

Red grouper, Reef fish. 

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

Dated: April 27, 2022. 

Samuel D. Rauch, III, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Regulatory Programs, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

For the reasons set out in the 

preamble, 50 CFR part 622 is proposed 

to be amended as follows: 

PART 622—FISHERIES OF THE 

CARIBBEAN, GULF OF MEXICO, AND 

SOUTH ATLANTIC 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 622 

continues to read as follows: 

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

■ 2. In § 622.39, revise paragraph 

(a)(1)(iii)(C) to read as follows: 

§ 622.39 Quotas. 

* * * * * 

(a) * * * 

(1) * * * 

(iii) * * * 

(C) Red grouper—2.79 million lb (1.27 

million kg). 

* * * * * 

■ 3. In § 622.41, revise the last sentence 

of paragraph (e)(1) and revise paragraph 

(e)(2)(iv) to read as follows: 


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§ 622.41 Annual catch limits (ACLs), 

annual catch targets (ACTs), and 

accountability measures (AMs). 

* * * * * 

(e) * * * 

(1) * * * The commercial ACL for red 

grouper in gutted weight is 2.94 million 

lb (1.33 million kg). 

(2) * * * 

(iv) The recreational ACL for red 

grouper in gutted weight is 2.02 million 

lb (0.92 million kg). The recreational 

ACT for red grouper in gutted weight is 

1.84 million lb (0.83 million kg). 

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