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The proposed action will implement exemplar restoration projects, including recreational use restoration, to compensate the public for injuries to natural resources and services resulting from the 2018 oil leak from the Pac Anteres, which struck a wharf on the Mississippi River near downtown New Orleans.

The proposed action would implement recent decision of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission on non-entangling fish aggregating devices and IMO numbers, and on mitigating impacts from fishing on sharks and mobulid rays.

The purpose of Amendment 10 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Dolphin Wahoo Fishery for the Atlantic (Dolphin Wahoo Amendment 10) is to revise the catch levels [acceptable biological catch (ABC), annual catch limits (ACL)], accountability measures, sector allocations, and management measures for dolphin and wahoo. The revisions to the ABC and ACL include recreational landings from Monroe County, Florida, and incorporate recreational data as per the Marine Recreational Information Program using the Fishery Effort Survey method, as well as updates to commercial and for-hire landings. Management measures address authorized gear, operator card requirement, recreational vessel limits, and allow fillets of dolphin at sea onboard for-hire vessels.

The proposed action will acquire, restore, and manage the 650-acre Woodland Property to compensate the public for the natural resource damages resulting from the 2008 DM932 barge oil spill.

Draft PEIS which would provide management alternatives for a potential aquaculture management program in the PIR. Currently no such management program exists.

This action maintains status quo harvest quotas for 2021 through 2026.

The proposed action will implement a suite of inshore and nearshore restoration projects to compensate the public for natural resource injuries in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from crude oil spill discharged from a Shell Offshore, Inc. well-head flow line in the Green Canyon Block 248 subsea oil production system. Projects will restore habitats for the fish, birds, and marine mammals impacted by the spill.

This action would establish caps on the amount of quota share or annual allocation that an entity could hold in the surfclam and ocean quahog individual transferable quota (ITQ) fisheries. It would also adjust the frequency of multi-year specifications actions to better align with the stock assessment schedule. This action is administrative with minimal impacts.

January 12, 2021. NMFS specifies a 2021 limit of 2,000 metric tons (t) of longline caught bigeye tuna for each U.S. Pacific territory (American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the territories). NMFS will allow each territory to allocate up to 1,500 t in 2021 to U.S. longline fishing vessels through specified fishing agreements that meet established criteria. The overall allocation limit among all territories, however, may not exceed 3,000 t. As an accountability measure, NMFS will monitor, attribute, and restrict (if necessary) catches of longline-caught bigeye tuna, including catches made under a specified fishing agreement. These catch limits and accountability measures support the long-term sustainability of fishery resources of the U.S. Pacific Islands. The final specifications are effective January 12, 2021, through December 31, 2021. The deadline to submit a specified fishing agreement pursuant to 50 CFR 665.819(b)(3) for review is July 12, 2021.

NOAA Fisheries and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intend to prepare a management plan for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. No significant impacts or problems are foreseen.

The proposed action is to accept "Project One" discounted service acre year (DSAY) restoration credits as appropriate restoration for the natural resource injuries and services lost due to the release of hazardous substances and discharges of oil into the Lower Duwamish River

Under authority of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Implementation Act (WCPFCIA; 16 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), this proposed rule would implement a decision of the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPFC or Commission). The proposed rule would implement specific provisions of Conservation and Management Measure (CMM) 2009-05, “Conservation and Management Measure Prohibiting Fishing on Data Buoys,” which the Commission adopted in December 2009.

The Vigor Shipyards Habitat Projects are expected to restore, replace or acquire the equivalent of natural resources injured and services lost due to releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil from Vigor’s Harbor Island facility in the LDR. Exxon Mobil Corporation (“Exxon”) will also satisfy its natural resource damages liability for its historic activities at the Vigor facility on Harbor Island with ecological benefits created by the Shipyards Projects. The restoration analyzed by the Trustees in the Final RP/EA has been proposed by Vigor and Exxon to resolve their liability in a consent decree filed with the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The proposed restoration will not result in significant impacts, and is expected to provide mainly beneficial impacts to natural resources and services that were injured.

The proposed action includes construction of recreational use features to compensate the public for injuries to natural resources, including many types of fish, birds, and terrestrial and marine mammals, and recreational use services caused by decades of hazardous waste releases to Bayou d' Inde, a major tributary to the Calcasieu River.

This document updates the analysis in a programmatic environmental assessment for decisions of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) on Tropical Tunas to include analysis of WCPFC decisions on tropical tunas through the end of 2025, and also includes specific analysis of the rulemaking that NMFS is undertaking to implement WCPFC emergency decisions in a timely manner.