52060 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 169 / Thursday, September 1, 2005 / Proposed Rules 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 679 

[Docket No. 050628170–5170–01; I.D. 

062105B] 

RIN 0648–AR67 

Groundfish Fisheries of the Exclusive 

Economic Zone Off the Coast of 

Alaska; Recordkeeping and Reporting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: NMFS proposes to revise 

Table 2 (species codes) to 50 CFR part 

679 that is used in data collection, 

analysis, and monitoring of the Federal 

groundfish fisheries in the exclusive 

economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of 

Alaska. Within a database, species codes 

identify fish species that are landed, 

discarded, made into product, and 

transferred. This proposed action is 

necessary to standardize collection of 

species information with the State of 

Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 

increase effectiveness of rockfish 

management, reflect current fisheries 

management interest in skates, and 

promote better enforcement of rockfish 

regulations. This action is intended to 

meet the conservation and management 

requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) with 

respect to groundfish and to further the 

goals and objectives of the Alaska 

groundfish fishery management plans. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by October 3, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Sue 

Salveson, Assistant Regional 

Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries 

Division, Alaska Region, NMFS, Attn: 

Lori Durall. Comments may be 

submitted by: 

• Mail: P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 

99802. 

• Hand delivery to the Federal 

Building: 709 West 9th Street, Room 

420A, Juneau, AK. 

• Fax: (907) 586 7557. 

• E-mail: BSA82-0648- 

AS37@noaa.gov. Include in the subject 

line the following document identifier: 

Table 2 Species Code proposed rule. 

E-mail comments, with or without 

attachments, are limited to 5 megabytes. 

• Webform at the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions at that site for submitting 

comments. 

Copies of the Regulatory Impact 

Review (RIR) prepared for this action 

are available from NMFS at the above 

address, or by calling the Alaska Region, 

NMFS, at (907) 586 7228. 

Written comments regarding the 

burden-hour estimates or other aspects 

of the collection-of-information 

requirements contained in this proposed 

rule may be submitted to NMFS, Alaska 

Region, and by e-mail to 

DavidlRostker@omb.eop.gov, or fax to 

(202) 395 7285. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patsy A. Bearden, (907) 586–7008 or 

patsy.bearden@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS 

manages the groundfish fisheries of the 

Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and the Bering 

Sea/Aleutian Islands Management Area 

(BSAI) in the EEZ according to the 

Fishery Management Plan for 

Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska and the 

Fishery Management Plan for 

Groundfish of the Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands Management Area 

(FMPs) prepared by the North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council (Council) 

and approved by the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary) under authority 

of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, 16 U.S.C. 

1801 et seq. The FMPs are implemented 

by regulations at 50 CFR part 679. 

General provisions governing fishing by 

U.S. vessels in accordance with the 

FMPs appear at subpart H of 50 CFR 

part 600. 

Table 2 to Part 679 provides a list of 

FMP species and non-FMP species. The 

FMP species are those which are 

managed under the FMPs and which 

must be recorded and reported in 

logbooks and forms. The non-FMP 

species, including prohibited species, 

are species that are frequently caught in 

association with FMP species, but that 

are not actively managed under the 

FMPs. This action would support 

coordination between state and Federal 

management agencies by using the same 

species codes for State of Alaska 

Department of Fish and Game (State) 

and NMFS fishery catch documentation. 

Table 2 to part 679 would be 

reformatted from one table into four 

separate tables (Tables 2a, 2b, 2c, and 

2d). 

The proposed regulatory changes 

would have a number of fishery 

management and enforcement benefits. 

Within a database, species codes 

identify fish species that are landed, 

discarded, made into product, and 

transferred. The proposed rule would 

standardize collection of species 

information with the State of Alaska, 

facilitating Federal-State data exchange, 

reducing compliance costs, and 

reducing the potential for confusion, 

and resulting violations and fines. If 

NMFS and the State use different 

species codes or descriptions, fishermen 

or processors may record data 

incorrectly, possibly resulting in a ticket 

and/or fine, and diminishing the 

usefulness of the reported catch data. 

Moreover, the code changes will 

facilitate the more precise recording of 

catch by individual species within a 

species group. This would, for example 

facilitate management for a sustainable 

harvest of skates by permitting the 

estimates of the size of landings of 

individual skate species. The rockfish 

species code changes are needed to 

allow NOAA Fisheries Office for 

Enforcement (OLE) to perform an 

accurate audit on records of processors. 

OLE uses product transfer reports from 

processors to confirm that the quantity 

of fish, by species, reported as landings 

is approximately the same as the fish, by 

species, recorded as leaving the plant or 

vessel. By using group rockfish codes to 

describe the product, the processor’s 

report effectively obscures the actual 

fish species being processed and/or 

transferred. 

Table 2a would be entitled, ‘‘Species 

Codes: FMP Groundfish Species’’ and 

would contain the names and species 

codes of groundfish that are managed 

under the FMPs. Species codes in Table 

2a would be indicated as those that 

must be recorded and reported in NMFS 

logbooks and forms. 

Table 2b would be entitled, ‘‘Species 

Codes: FMP Prohibited Species’’ and 

would contain the names and species 

codes of species that are identified as 

prohibited species in the FMPs. Species 

codes in Table 2b would be indicated as 

those that must be recorded and 

reported in NMFS logbooks and forms. 

Table 2c would be entitled, ‘‘Species 

Codes: FMP Forage Fish Species’’ and 

would contain the names and species 

codes of species that are identified as 

forage fish in the FMPs. Species codes 

in Table 2c would be indicated as 

species that must be recorded and 

reported in NMFS logbooks and forms. 

Table 2d would be entitled, ‘‘Species 

Codes: Non-FMP Species’’ and would 

contain the names and species codes of 

species on which the State and NMFS 

have agreed for use on State fish tickets 

as well as NMFS logbooks and forms. 

These species codes may be recorded in 

NMFS logbooks and forms but are not 

required by regulations at 50 CFR part 

679. 

In addition, Tables 2a, 2b, 2c, and 2d 

would be revised by adding and revising 

certain species codes. 

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1These are estimates of all small fishing entities 

(catcher vessels and catcher-processors) operating 

in the GOA and BSAI in 2002. These estimates are 

based on estimates of Alaskan groundfish harvests. 

They do not take account of harvests of other 

species in Alaska or elsewhere; moreover they do 

not take account of affiliations between firms. For 

these reasons, they may overstate the numbers of 

small entities in the BSAI and GOA. They include 

131 vessels fishing with pots in the GOA and 64 

fishing with pots in the BSAI. Fishermen fishing 

with pot gear may not harvest many skates or hake. 

These estimates are taken from Table 26.2 of the 

2003 Economic SAFE document. This is Appendix 

D to the EA/RIR/IRFA for the 2003 harvest 

Continued 

Table 2a 

A species code, 702, would be added 

to Table 2a to describe big skate. NMFS 

has implemented separate management 

and harvest specifications for this skate 

species that requires a new species code 

for big skate (69 FR 26313, May 12, 

2004). An identification guide of big 

skates and longnose skates is available 

from NMFS, Alaska Region (see 

ADDRESSES) or at http:// 

www.fakr.noaa.gov/infobulletins/2003/ 

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The description ‘‘skate general,’’ code 

700 in Table 2a, would be revised to say 

‘‘Other (if longnose or big skate - use 

specific species code).’’

The description ‘‘sharks general,’’

code 689 in Table 2a, would be revised 

to say ‘‘Other (if salmon, spiny dogfish 

or Pacific sleeper shark - use specific 

species code).’’

The description ‘‘miscellaneous 

flatfish,’’ code 120, would be removed 

from the group codes and added to the 

FMP species in Table 2a as ‘‘Flatfish, 

miscellaneous (flatfish species without 

separate codes).’’

The Latin name for all individual 

rockfish species would be added to 

Table 2a, at the request of fishery 

scientists. 

Table 2b 

The species name for prohibited 

species code 932 in Table 2b, would be 

changed from ‘‘Opilio tanner crab’’ to 

read ‘‘C. opilio (snow) tanner crab.’’

The species name for prohibited 

species code 923 in Table 2b, would be 

changed from ‘‘Gold/brown king crab’’

to read ‘‘Golden king (brown).’’

Table 2c 

Table 2c contains a list of the FMP 

forage fish species, and no changes 

would be made to this list. 

Table 2d 

A species code, 112, would be added 

to Table 2d for the species, Pacific hake. 

Fishermen increasingly are reporting 

catch of hake in the EEZ off Alaska. This 

creates the need for a new species code 

to record the catch. 

The species name for non-FMP 

species code 961 in Table 2d, would be 

changed from ‘‘Pink shrimp’’ to read 

‘‘Northern (pink).’’

Regulatory text 

In § 679.2, the definition for ‘‘Forage 

fish’’ would be revised by removing 

‘‘Table 2’’ and adding in its place ‘‘Table 

2c.’’

In § 679.2, paragraph (1) of the 

definition for ‘‘Groundfish’’ would be 

revised by removing ‘‘Table 2’’ and 

adding in its place ‘‘Table 2a.’’

In § 679.2, the definition for 

‘‘Prohibited species’’ would be revised 

by adding a reference to ‘‘Table 2b.’’

In § 679.5, titles and text of 

paragraphs (a)(1)(ii)(A), (B), and (C) 

would be revised by adding ‘‘forage 

fish’’ and by adding references to Tables 

2a, 2b, and 2c. 

In § 679.5, paragraph (m)(3)(v) would 

be revised by removing reference to 

group codes 144, 168, 169, or 171. 

In § 679.5, paragraph (n)(2)(iv)(D) 

would be revised by removing ‘‘Table 2’’

and adding in its place ‘‘Table 2b.’’

In § 679.20, paragraph (i)(1) would be 

revised by removing ‘‘see § 679.2’’ and 

adding in its place ‘‘See Table 2c to this 

part.’’

In § 679.21, paragraph (b)(1) would be 

revised by removing ‘‘see § 679.2’’ and 

adding in its place ‘‘see § 679.2 and 

Table 2b to this part.’’

Other changes 

The following rockfish group codes 

would be removed from Table 2 to part 

679 and are not carried over into any of 

the proposed tables: 144, slope rockfish; 

168, demersal shelf rockfish; 169, 

pelagic shelf rockfish; and 171, 

shortraker/rougheye rockfish. Rockfish 

group codes would not be accepted for 

purposes of reporting rockfish, as 

Recordkeeping and Reporting (R&R) 

regulations require that individual 

species be identified with specific 

species codes. Removal of these group 

codes does not alter the use of the terms, 

‘‘slope rockfish,’’ ‘‘demersal shelf 

rockfish,’’ ‘‘pelagic shelf rockfish,’’ or 

‘‘shortraker/rougheye rockfish’’ in 

Tables 10 and 11 to 50 CFR part 679. 

These terms are still valid for 

calculation of maximum retainable 

percentages for basis species. 

This action may require a few 

participants to learn to identify 

individual species of rockfish. An 

identification guide for rockfish of the 

northeastern Pacific Ocean is available 

from NMFS, Alaska Region (see 

ADDRESSES) or at: http:// 

www.afsc.noaa.gov/race/media/ 

publications/archives/pubs2000/ 

techmemo117.pdf. 

Table 2 to 50 CFR part 679 would be 

reformatted from one table into four 

separate tables. In addition, the 

description of some species codes 

would be revised, two species codes 

would be added, and rockfish group 

species codes would be removed. The 

individual rockfish species codes that 

are included in rockfish group codes 

that would be removed are described 

below. 

Code 144, slope rockfish, consisting of 

the following individual rockfish 

species: Aurora (185), Blackgill (177), 

Bocaccio (137), Chilipepper (178), 

Darkblotched (159), Greenstriped (135), 

Harlequin (176), Pygmy (179), 

Redbanded (153), Redstripe (158), 

Sharpchin (166), Shortbelly (181), 

Silvergray (157), Splitnose (182), 

Stripetail (183), Vermillion (184), and 

Yellowmouth (175). 

Code 168, demersal shelf rockfish, 

consisting of the following individual 

rockfish species: Canary (146), China 

(149), Copper (138), Quillback (147), 

Rosethorn (150), Tiger (148), and 

Yelloweye (145). 

Code 169, pelagic shelf rockfish, 

consisting of the following individual 

rockfish species: Dusky (154), 

Yellowtail (155), and Widow (156). 

Code 171, shortraker/rougheye 

rockfish, consisting of the following 

individual rockfish species: Shortraker 

(152) and Rougheye (151). 

Classification 

NMFS has determined that the rule is 

consistent with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act and other applicable laws. 

This proposed rule has been 

determined to be not significant for 

purposes of Executive Order 12866. 

The Chief Counsel for Regulation of 

the Department of Commerce certified 

to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the 

Small Business Administration that this 

proposed rule, if adopted, would not 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities. 

The proposed rule would standardize 

collection of species information with 

the State, increase effectiveness of 

rockfish management; reflect current 

fisheries management of skates; and 

promote better enforcement of rockfish 

regulations. While this action may affect 

a substantial number of small entities, it 

does not impose a significant burden on 

small entities. 

Any operation that harvests 

groundfish in Alaska may find itself 

subject to this regulation. This may 

include 801 fishing operations 

(including catcher/processors) in the 

Gulf of Alaska (GOA), and 283 in the 

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 

Management Area (BSAI).1 In addition, 

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specifications. Accessed at http:// 

www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/safes/2002/ 

Economic.pdf on October 17, 2003. 

2Compiled from Directory of Seafood Processors, 

Pacific Fishing Magazine, January 2004; Alaska 

Department of Labor processing plant monthly 

employment counts; and American Fisheries Act 

entities information from NMFS, Alaska Region 

Sustainable Fisheries Division. 

it may include the six Community 

Development Quota groups that operate 

in the BSAI.Similarly, this action also 

directly regulates shoreside processors 

and shoreside floating processors that 

process groundfish. The NMFS, Alaska 

Region Catch Accounting System 

indicates that 4 motherships, and 65 

shoreside processors (including floating 

shoreside processors) processed 

groundfish in 2003. All could be 

affected by this action; however, it is not 

possible to determine the number of 

small entities among these processors. 

Available information does not clearly 

identify numbers of employees at all 

plants, nor does it clearly indicate 

ownership affiliations in all cases. As 

noted below, the impacts of this action 

on entities are not significant. Therefore, 

the analysis is not affected if all 

ambiguous cases, where the size of an 

entity is unknown, are resolved by 

assuming that entities are small. 

These data also allow an analysis of 

the individual vessels and processing 

plants that use rockfish group codes and 

have revealed that 4 catcher/processors 

and 2 catcher/processors operating as 

motherships used rockfish group codes 

in either 2002 or 2003. It is not possible 

to determine whether these vessels are 

small entities; however, the NMFS 

Alaska Region Catch Accounting System 

indicates that 85 catcher/processors 

and/or catcher/processors operating as 

motherships processed groundfish in 

the EEZ off Alaska in 2003. Thus, 6 of 

the 85 operations that harvested and 

processed groundfish actually used the 

group codes and will be required to 

change their practice. In addition, 12 

shoreside processing plants used 

rockfish group codes in either 2002 or 

2003. Of these, available data on 

American Fisheries Act affiliations, 

corporate ownership, and employment 

statistics2 suggest that 7 are likely large 

entities and potentially 5 are small 

entities. Thus, 12 of the 65 shoreside 

processors that processed groundfish 

actually used rockfish group codes and 

potentially 5 of those are small entities. 

This action does not impose a 

significant economic impact on small 

entities. Vessel operators and processors 

would be required to report hake, big 

skates, sharks, and rockfish species, 

separately, on landing and processing 

records. They are not required to report 

separately now; however, they must 

currently record all these fish under one 

of the existing codes. As a result, the 

additional reporting burden is de 

minimis. Additionally, the ADF&G 

implemented a requirement that 

fishermen identify these species 

separately on ADF&G landings records, 

starting in 2004. Therefore, fishermen 

that delivered their harvests inshore or 

onshore for processing were under an 

obligation to report these species 

separately starting in 2004. Most of the 

fishing operations that fall under these 

new ADF&G reporting rules are believed 

to be small entities, as are many of the 

processors to whom they will be 

delivering. As a result, an amendment to 

Federal reporting to make it consistent 

with State requirements would be less 

costly than doing nothing. Should 

Federal reporting requirements not be 

changed to coincide with these ADF&G 

rule changes, additional complexity, 

cost, and potential confusion leading to 

violations and fines may result. For both 

reasons, NMFS believes the economic 

impact of this rule, if adopted, would be 

negligible. 

The reformatting of Table 2, inclusive 

of definition changes and rockfish Latin 

name inclusion, will make it easier to 

refer to the different classes of fish 

species from other parts of the 

regulations, because NMFS would be 

able to specifically cite those species 

intended. This reformatting is not 

expected to affect the fishing industry 

directly. The addition of Pacific hake, 

skates, and sharks species code may 

increase the reporting burden slightly. 

However, the cost may be offset to some 

extent by the easing of the reporting 

risk, due to clarification of procedures 

for reporting catch of these species. 

The elimination of rockfish group 

codes would have de minimis financial 

costs for the fishing industry. The 

affected participants would be those 

processors who occasionally use 

rockfish group codes, plus one 

processor that will need to change its 

production operation in order to 

correctly identify transfer of processed 

rockfish by species. The time burden for 

collecting data (i.e., entering of species 

codes in the daily cumulative 

production logbooks and daily fishing 

logbooks) may increase very slightly, 

although the older codes will be 

replaced by the proposed codes. 

Overall, the industry did not use the 

group codes regularly during 2002 and 

2003, and the numbers of processors 

that used rockfish group codes are small 

relative to the number of processors 

who process rockfish. Based on 2003 

data, it appears that shoreside 

processors voluntarily identified 

rockfish landings by individual species 

code 99 percent of the time, and used 

group codes less about 1 percent of the 

time. In 2003 catcher processors and 

motherships only used rockfish group 

codes on about 5% of weekly processor 

reports. 

Finally, the proposed action will 

assure consistency with current ADF&G 

reporting rules and, thus, reduce the 

reporting burden, uncertainty, and 

confusion that would arise from having 

two conflicting sets of reporting codes. 

Because small entities are more likely to 

fish in the EEZ and land their catch in 

Alaska State waters or onshore, this 

burden would fall disproportionately on 

them. The proposed action removes this 

potentiality. 

This proposed rule contains 

collection-of-information requirements 

that are subject to review and approval 

by OMB under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) and which have 

been approved by OMB. The collections 

are listed below by OMB Control 

Number. 

OMB Control Number 0648–0213. 

Total public reporting burden for this 

collection is 41,219 hours. Species 

codes are recorded and reported in this 

collection. 

OMB Control Number 0648–0401. 

Total public reporting burden for this 

collection is 1,024 hours. Species codes 

are recorded and reported in this 

collection. 

Send comments regarding this burden 

estimate, or any other aspect of this data 

collection, including suggestions for 

reducing the burden, to NMFS (see 

ADDRESSEES) and by e-mail to 

DavidlRostker@omb.eop.gov, or fax to 

(202) 395–7285. Notwithstanding any 

other provision of the law, no person is 

required to respond to, nor shall any 

person be subject to a penalty for failure 

to comply with, a collection of 

information subject to the requirements 

of the PRA, unless that collection of 

information displays a currently valid 

OMB Control Number. 

This proposed rule does not 

duplicate, overlap, or conflict with other 

Federal regulations. 

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 679 

Alaska, Fisheries, Recordkeeping and 

reporting requirements. 

Dated: August 26, 2005. 

James W. Balsiger, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Regulatory Programs, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

For reasons set out in the preamble, 

50 CFR part 679 is proposed to be 

amended as follows: 

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PART 679—FISHERIES OF THE 

EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE OFF 

ALASKA 

1. The authority citation for part 679 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq.; 1540(f); 

1801 et seq.; 1851 note; 3631 et seq. 

§§ 679.2, 679.5, 679.20, and 679.21 

[Amended] 

2. In the table below, for each of the 

paragraphs shown in the ‘‘Location’’

column, remove the phrase indicated in 

the ‘‘Remove’’ column and replace it 

with the phrase indicated in the ‘‘Add’’

column for the number of times 

indicated in the ‘‘Frequency’’ column. 

Location Remove Add Frequency 

§ 679.2 definition for ‘‘Forage fish’’ (see Table 2 to this part) (see Table 2c to this part and 

§ 679.20(i)) 

1 

§ 679.2 definition for paragraph (1) 

‘‘Groundfish’’

Table 2 Table 2a 1 

§ 679.2 definition for ‘‘Groundfish product 

or fish product’’

Tables 1 and 2 to this part, excluding the 

prohibited species listed in Table 2 to 

this part 

Tables 1, 2a, 2c, and 2d to this part 1 

§ 679.2 definition for ‘‘Prohibited species’’ Tanner crab Tanner crab (see Table 2b to this part) 1 

§ 679.5(a)(1)(ii)(A), (B), and (C) paragraph heading Groundfish and prohibited species Groundfish, prohibited species, and forage fish 1 

§ 679.5(a)(1)(ii)(A), (B), and (C) all groundfish and prohibited species all groundfish (see Table 2a to this part), 

prohibited species (see Table 2b to this 

part), and forage fish (see Table 2c to 

this part) 

1 

§ 679.5(m)(3)(v) code for each species from Table 2 to 

this part, except species codes 120, 144, 

168, 169, or 171; 

code for each species from Tables 2a 

though 2d to this part, except species 

code 120 

1 

§ 679.5(n)(2)(iv)(D) Table 2 Table 2b 1 

§ 679.20(i)(1) See § 679.2 See Table 2c to this part 1 

§ 679.21(b)(1) See § 679.2 See § 679.2 and Table 2b to this part 1 

Table 2 to Part 679 [Amended] 

3. Table 2 to Part 679 Species Codes 

for FMP Species and non-FMP Species 

is removed and Tables 2a, 2b, 2c, and 

2d to Part 679 are added as follows: 

TABLE 2A TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES: FMP GROUNDFISH

Species Description Code 

Atka mackerel (greenling) 193 

Flatfish, miscellaneous (flatfish 

species without separate 

codes) 

120 

FLOUNDER 

Alaska plaice 133 

Arrowtooth and/or 

Kamchatka 

121 

Starry 129 

Octopus 870 

Pacific cod 110 

Pollock 270 

ROCKFISH 

TABLE 2A TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES: FMP GROUNDFISH—Continued 

Species Description Code 

Aurora (S. aurora) 185 

Black (BSAI) (S. melanops) 142 

Blackgill (S. melanostomus) 177 

Blue (BSAI) (S. mystinus) 167 

Bocaccio (S. paucispinis) 137 

Canary (S. pinniger) 146 

Chilipepper (S. goodei) 178 

China (S. nebulosus) 149 

Copper (S. caurinus) 138 

Darkblotched (S. crameri) 159 

Dusky (S. ciliatus) 154 

Greenstriped (S. elongatus) 135 

Harlequin (S. variegatus) 176 

Northern (S. polyspinis) 136 

TABLE 2A TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES: FMP GROUNDFISH—Continued 

Species Description Code 

Pacific ocean perch (S. 

alutus) 

141 

Pygmy (S. wilsoni) 179 

Quillback (S. maliger) 147 

Redbanded (S. babcocki) 153 

Redstripe (S. proriger) 158 

Rosethorn (S. 

helvomaculatus) 

150 

Rougheye (S. aleutianus) 151 

Sharpchin (S. zacentrus) 166 

Shortbelly (S. jordani) 181 

Shortraker (S. borealis) 152 

Silvergray (S. brevispinis) 157 

Splitnose (S. diploproa) 182 

Stripetail (S. saxicola) 183 

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TABLE 2A TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES: FMP GROUNDFISH—Continued 

Species Description Code 

Thornyhead (all 

Sebastolobus species) 

143 

Tiger (S. nigrocinctus) 148 

Vermilion (S. miniatus) 184 

Widow (S. entomelas) 156 

Yelloweye (S. ruberrimus) 145 

Yellowmouth (S. reedi) 175 

Yellowtail (S. flavidus) 155 

Sablefish (blackcod) 710 

Sculpins 160 

SHARKS 

Other (if salmon, spiny 

dogfish or Pacific sleeper 

shark - usespecific species 

code) 

689 

Pacific sleeper 692 

Salmon 690 

Spiny dogfish 691 

SKATES 

Big 702 

Longnose 701 

Other (if longnose or big 

skate - use specific species 

code) 

700 

SOLE 

Butter 126 

Dover 124 

English 128 

Flathead 122 

Petrale 131 

Rex 125 

Rock 123 

Sand 132 

Yellowfin 127 

Squid 875 

Turbot, Greenland 134 

TABLE 2B TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODE: FMP PROHIBITED SPECIES

Species Description Code 

CRAB 

King, blue 922 

King, golden (brown) 923 

King, red 921 

King, scarlet 924 

Tanner, Bairdi (C. bairdi) 931 

Tanner, grooved 933 

Tanner, snow (C. opilio) 932 

Tanner, triangle 934 

Pacific halibut 200 

Pacific herring (family 

Clupeidae) 

235 

SALMON 

Chinook 410 

Chum 450 

Coho 430 

Pink 440 

Sockeye 420 

Steelhead trout 540 

TABLE 2C TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES: FMP FORAGE FISH SPECIES

(all species of the following families) 

Species Description Code 

Bristlemouths, lightfishes, and 

anglemouths (family 

Gonostomatidae) 

209 

Capelin smelt (family 

Osmeridae) 

516 

Deep-sea smelts (family 

Bathylagidae) 

773 

Eulachon smelt (family 

Osmeridae) 

511 

Gunnels (family Pholidae) 207 

Krill (order Euphausiacea) 800 

Laternfishes (family 

Myctophidae) 

772 

Pacific sandfish (family 

Trichodontidae) 

206 

Pacific sand lance (family 

Ammodytidae) 

774 

TABLE 2C TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES: FMP FORAGE FISH SPECIES—Continued 

(all species of the following families) 

Species Description Code 

Pricklebacks, war-bonnets, 

eelblennys, cockscombs and 

shannys (family Stichaeidae) 

208 

Surf smelt (family Osmeridae) 515 

TABLE 2D TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES—NON-FMP SPECIES

Species Description Code 

Abalone 860 

Albacore 720 

Arctic char, anadromous 521 

CLAMS 

Butter 810 

Cockle 820 

Eastern softshell 842 

Geoduck 815 

Little-neck 840 

Razor 830 

Surf 812 

Coral 899 

CRAB 

Box 900 

Dungeness 910 

Korean horsehair 940 

Multispina (Paralomis 

multispina) 

951 

Verrilli (Paralomis verillii) 953 

Dolly varden, anadromous 531 

Eels or eel-like fish 210 

Giant grenadier 214 

GREENLING 

Kelp 194 

Rock 191 

Whitespot 192 

Grenadier (rattail) 213 

Jellyfish 625 

Lamprey, Pacific 600 

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TABLE 2D TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES—NON-FMP SPECIES—Continued 

Species Description Code 

Lingcod 130 

Lumpsucker 216 

Mussel, blue 855 

Pacific flatnose 260 

Pacific hagfish 212 

Pacific hake 112 

Pacific saury 220 

Pacific tomcod 250 

Prowfish 215 

Rockfish, black (GOA) 142 

TABLE 2D TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES—NON-FMP SPECIES—Continued 

Species Description Code 

Rockfish, blue (GOA) 167 

Sardine, Pacific (pilchard) 170 

Scallop, weathervane 850 

Scallop, pink (or calico) 851 

Sea cucumber 895 

Sea urchin, green 893 

Sea urchin, red 892 

Shad 180 

SHRIMP 

Coonstripe 964 

TABLE 2D TO PART 679—SPECIES

CODES—NON-FMP SPECIES—Continued 

Species Description Code 

Humpy 963 

Northern (pink) 961 

Sidestripe 962 

Spot 965 

Skilfish 715 

Smelt, surf 515 

Snails 890 

Sturgeon, general 680 

[FR Doc. 05–17454 Filed 8–31–05; 8:45 am] 

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