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Environmental Assessment for a Rule to Implement Decisions of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission for: Fish Aggregating Device Design Requirements in Purse Seine Fisheries, IMO Number Requirements, and Bycatch Restrictions
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2021
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Description:The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has prepared this Environmental Assessment (EA) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. § 4321, et seq.) and related authorities, such as the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Administrative Order (NAO) 216-6A (April 22, 2016) – Compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, and its associated Companion Manual (January 13, 2017). 1 The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is undertaking a rulemaking to implement recent decisions of the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPFC or Commission). The rule would implement specific provisions of four recent WCPFC decisions: CMM 2018-012 , “Conservation and Management Measure for Bigeye, Yellowfin and Skipjack Tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean”; CMM 2018-06, “Conservation and Management Measure for WCPFC Record of Fishing Vessels and Authorisation to Fish”; CMM 2019-04, “Conservation and Management Measure for Sharks”; and CMM 2019-05, “Conservation and Management Measure on Mobulid Rays”. The first two decisions, CMM 2018-01 and CMM 2018-06, were adopted by the Commission at its fifteenth regular annual session, in December 2018. The third and fourth decisions, CMM 2019-04 and CMM 2019-05, were adopted by the Commission at its sixteenth regular annual session in December 2019.
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