Red Snapper Commercial Quota Retention for 216 Framework Action - EA, RIR, RFAA The purpose of this action is to withhold a percentage of the 2016 commercial ACL of red snapper equivalent to the portion of the total ACL proposed for redistribution from the commercial sector to the recreational sector in Amendment 28.

The impacts to the physical or biological/ecological environment resulting from shifting sector allocations is discussed in Amendment 28, and is hereby incorporated this document by reference. Withholding part of the commercial quota (Preferred Alternative 2) should not have any impacts on the physical or biological/ecological environment beyond those already addressed in Amendment 28.