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Northeast Multispecies Fishery
The Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) amends the regulations implementing the Fishery Management Plan for the Northeast Multispecies Fishery (FMP). This emergency interim rule implements: A 500-pound (226.8 kg) possession limit of haddock for all vessels permitted under 50 CFR 651.4 and to all vessels in possession of haddock from or in the...
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Summer Flounder Fishery
NMFS issues this notification to announce that 10,000 pounds (4,536 kg) of summer flounder commercial quota available to the State of North Carolina has been transferred to the State of Rhode Island. This transfer adjusts the commercial quota for the State of North Carolina to 3,121,750 pounds (1,416,016 kg) and adjusts the Rhode Island quota to...
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Coastal Migratory Pelagic Resources of the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic
NMFS reduces the commercial trip limit in the Florida west coast zone to 50 king mackerel per day in or from the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This trip limit reduction is necessary to protect the overfished Gulf king mackerel resource.
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Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
On November 16, 1992, NMFS promulgated regulations, effective January 1, 1993, establishing a license-limitation-limited-entry system for the Pacific Coast commercial groundfish fishery. The regulations, among other things, require that an owner of a vessel wishing to participate in the limited-entry fishery have a Federally issued limited-entry...
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Endangered and Threatened Species; Status of Sacramento River Winter- run Chinook Salmon
NMFS has determined that the Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon should be reclassified from threatened to endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). NMFS has determined that the current biological status of the species is endangered based on the continued decline and increased variability of run sizes since its first...
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Foreign Fishing; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
NMFS announces the 1994 fishery specifications and management measures for groundfish taken in the U.S. exclusive economic zone and state waters off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California as authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The specifications include the level of the acceptable biological catch...
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Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
This interim final rule amends the regulations governing the Pacific coast groundfish limited-entry fishery to: (1) Clarify distinctions between holders, owners, and lessees of limited-entry permits in the Pacific coast groundfish fishery by adding definitions of these terms and making minor corrections consistent with the new definitions; (2)...
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Limited Access Management of Fisheries off Alaska
NMFS announces an application period for individuals and other persons to apply for Quota Share (QS) under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program for Pacific halibut and sablefish fisheries off Alaska. The IFQ program was developed under the authority of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act) and the Northern...
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Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico
NMFS issues this final rule to implement Amendment 5 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico (FMP) and to make other changes to the regulations This rule imposes a moratorium on additional participants in the Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery who may use fish traps; imposes additional restrictions on the...
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Coral and Coral Reefs of the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic
NMFS closes the fishery for live rock in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the southern Atlantic states. This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 1994 harvest quota.
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Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska; Correction
This document contains corrections to final regulations (I.D. 090892B), which were published Wednesday, October 5, 1994. The regulation established standard groundfish product types and standard product recovery rates for purposes of managing the groundfish fisheries off Alaska.
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Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area
NMFS is apportioning reserve to certain target species in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to allow for ongoing harvest and account for previous harvest of the total allowable catch (TAC).
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Summer Flounder Fishery
NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is transferring 150,000 lb (68,040 kg) of commercial summer flounder quota to the State of New York. NMFS adjusted the quotas and announces the revised commercial quota for each state involved.
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Atlantic Swordfish Fishery; Pilot Study Landing Requirements
NMFS announces that volunteer participants selected by NMFS to participate in the swordfish pilot program are not required to observe the off-loading time requirement when carrying an observer. The observer will be collecting statistical data that would otherwise be collected by dockside samplers within the off-loading time requirement....
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Foreign Fishing; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Annual Specifications and Management Measures
NMFS announces the 1995 fishery specifications and management measures for groundfish taken in the U.S. exclusive economic zone and state waters off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California as authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The specifications include the level of the acceptable biological catch...
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North Pacific Fisheries Research Plan
NMFS issues a final rule to clarify and make minor changes to the regulations implementing the North Pacific Fisheries Research Plan (Research Plan). This action clarifies 1995 observer coverage requirements, revises the definition of the term ``processor,'' specifies who is and is not included in the definition of processor, and exempts certain...
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Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska; Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area; Bycatch Rate Standards for the First Half of 1995
NMFS announces Pacific halibut and red king crab bycatch rate standards for the first half of 1995. [[Page 2906]] Publication of these bycatch rate standards is necessary under regulations implementing the vessel incentive program. This action is necessary to implement the bycatch rate standards for trawl vessel operators who participate in the...
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Northeast Multispecies Fishery; Amendment to an Emergency Interim Rule
NMFS issues this emergency interim rule to amend an existing emergency interim rule concerning the Northeast Multispecies Fishery. This [[Page 3103]] rule specifies among other things, that allowable bycatch species have been added to the exempted fisheries as defined in the existing emergency interim rule, that a bycatch fishery for longhorn...
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Snapper-Grouper Fishery Off the Southern Atlantic States; Landing Gag
NMFS publishes this emergency interim rule at the request of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) to require that selected vessels in the commercial snapper-grouper fishery land gag in a whole condition. The intended effect of this rule is to facilitate the collection of biological data necessary for the management of gag.
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Endangered Fish or Wildlife; Special Prohibitions; Approaching Humpback Whales in Hawaiian Waters
NMFS issues a rule that prohibits aircraft from approaching closer than 1,000 ft (300 m) to a humpback whale, and prohibits vessels or people from approaching by any means closer than 100 yd (90 m) to a humpback whale in Hawaiian waters. These provisions were contained in an interim rule issued in 1987. The interim rule also identified cow/ calf...