Fishery conservation and management: Stevens Act provisions and Northeastern United States fisheries Atlantic herring; correction,
[Federal Register: August 9, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 152)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 43137-43138]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr09au99-38]
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Parts 600 and 648
[I.D. 063099A]
RIN 0648-AI78
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic Herring Fishery; Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan; Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability of a fishery management plan; correction.
SUMMARY: On July 27, 1999, NMFS published a notice of availability (NOA) announcing that the New England Fishery Management Council had submitted the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan for Secretarial review. Under its stated Management Measures of Concern, the NOA contained an error in its description of restrictions on the size of domestic fishing and processing vessels that would be prohibited from fishing for Atlantic herring in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This document corrects the error.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 27, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E. Martin Jaffe, Fishery Policy Analyst, 978-281-9272.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NOA for the Atlantic Herring FMP was published on Tuesday, July 27, 1999 (64 FR 40542). The NOA described restrictions on the size of domestic fishing and processing vessels. One measure would prohibit domestic vessels greater than or equal to 165 ft (50.3m) in length, or › 750 gross registered tons (GRT) (680.4 mt), or › 3,000 horsepower from fishing for Atlantic herring in the EEZ, but would allow domestic vessels › 165 ft (50.3m), or › 750 GRT (680.4 mt) to process herring if U.S. at-sea processing is
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specified in a given year. However, the NOA inadvertently indicated that only domestic vessels greater than 165 ft (50.3m) in length, rather than equal to or greater than 165 ft (50.3m) in length, would be prohibited from fishing for Atlantic herring in the EEZ.
Correction
Accordingly, the publication on July 27, 1999, of the NOA (I.D. 063099A), which was the subject of document FR Doc. 99-19171, is corrected as follows:
On page 40543, in column 2, under the heading, ``Restrictions on the Size of Domestic Fishing and Processing Vessels'', the second line of the first sentence is corrected to read as follows:
``domestic vessels greater than or equal to 165 ft (50.3m) in''
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 3, 1999. Bruce C. Morehead, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 99-20432Filed8-6-99; 8:45 am]
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