New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting, 7548 [2011-2929]
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identified in this notice and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
Section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XA205
New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
Special Accommodations
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:
The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its
Scallop Committee in March 2011 to
consider actions affecting New England
fisheries in the exclusive economic zone
(EEZ). Recommendations from this
group will be brought to the full Council
for formal consideration and action, if
appropriate.
SUMMARY:
This meeting will be held on
Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 9 a.m.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at
the Hilton Garden Inn, One Thurber
Street, Warwick, RI 02886; telephone:
(401) 734–9600; fax: (401) 734–9700.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul
J. Howard, Executive Director, New
England Fishery Management Council;
telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee will begin developing
alternatives for Framework 23 to the
Scallop Fishery Management Plan
(FMP). Framework 23 is considering
alternatives to potentially require a
turtle excluder dredge, revise the
yellowtail flounder accountability
measures (AMs) proposed in
Amendment 15, and possibly modify
the limited access general category
management program for the Northern
Gulf of Maine (NGOM) area. The action
may also include measures to develop
alternatives to modify the current vessel
monitoring system (VMS) regulations to
improve scallop fleet operations (e.g.
how days-at-sea are charged and how a
vessel declares into the fishery). The
Committee may discuss other business
at this meeting.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, in
accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Actions will
be restricted to those issues specifically
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This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul
J. Howard, Executive Director, at (978)
465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: February 4, 2011.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XA149
Taking and Importing Marine
Mammals; Taking of Marine Mammals
Incidental to Conducting Precision
Strike Weapons Testing and Training
by Eglin Air Force Base in the Gulf of
Mexico
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of issuance of a Letter of
Authorization.
AGENCY:
In accordance with provisions
of the Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA), as amended, notification is
hereby given that a Letter of
Authorization (LOA) to take four species
of marine mammals incidental to testing
and training during Precision Strike
Weapons (PSW) testing and training in
the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), a military
readiness activity, has been issued to
Eglin Air Force Base (AFB).
DATES: This authorization is effective
from April 1, 2011, through December
27, 2011.
ADDRESSES: The application and LOA
are available for review in the Permits,
Conservation, and Education Division,
Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,
1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring,
MD 20910, or by contacting the
individuals listed in FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michelle Magliocca, NMFS, 301–713–
2289.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 101(a)(5)(A) of the MMPA (16
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) directs NMFS to
allow, upon request, the incidental, but
not intentional, taking of small numbers
of marine mammals by U.S. citizens
who engage in a specified activity (other
than commercial fishing) within a
specified geographical region, if certain
findings are made by NMFS and
regulations are issued. Under the
MMPA, the term ‘‘taking’’ means to
harass, hunt, capture, or kill or to
attempt to harass, hunt, capture or kill
marine mammals. The National Defense
Authorization Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108–
136) removed the ‘‘small numbers’’ and
‘‘specified geographical region’’
limitations and amended the definition
of ‘‘harassment’’ as it applies to a
‘‘military readiness activity’’ to read as
follows (Section 3(18)(B) of the MMPA):
(i) Any act that injures or has the
significant potential to injure a marine
mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild
[Level A Harassment]; or (ii) Any act that
disturbs or is likely to disturb a marine
mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild
by causing disruption of natural behavioral
patterns, including, but not limited to,
migration, surfacing, nursing, breeding,
feeding, or sheltering, to a point where such
behavioral patterns are abandoned or
significantly altered [Level B Harassment].
Authorization, in the form of annual
LOAs, may be granted for periods of up
to 5 years if NMFS finds, after
notification and opportunity for public
comment, that the taking will have a
negligible impact on the species or
stock(s) of marine mammals and will
not have an unmitigable adverse impact
on the availability of the species or
stock(s) for subsistence uses (where
relevant). In addition, NMFS must
prescribe regulations that include
permissible methods of taking and other
means of effecting the least practicable
adverse impact on the species and its
habitat, and on the availability of the
species for subsistence uses, paying
particular attention to rookeries, mating
grounds, and areas of similar
significance. The regulations must
include requirements pertaining to the
monitoring and reporting of such taking.
Regulations governing the taking of
marine mammals incidental to PSW
testing and training within the Eglin
Gulf Test and Training Range (EGTTR)
in the GOM were published on
November 24, 2006 (71 FR 67810), and
remain in effect from December 26,
2006, through December 27, 2011. The
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XA205
New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its Scallop Committee in March 2011 to
consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive
economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to
the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 9 a.m.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, One
Thurber Street, Warwick, RI 02886; telephone: (401) 734-9600; fax:
(401) 734-9700.
Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul J. Howard, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee will begin developing
alternatives for Framework 23 to the Scallop Fishery Management Plan
(FMP). Framework 23 is considering alternatives to potentially require
a turtle excluder dredge, revise the yellowtail flounder accountability
measures (AMs) proposed in Amendment 15, and possibly modify the
limited access general category management program for the Northern
Gulf of Maine (NGOM) area. The action may also include measures to
develop alternatives to modify the current vessel monitoring system
(VMS) regulations to improve scallop fleet operations (e.g. how days-
at-sea are charged and how a vessel declares into the fishery). The
Committee may discuss other business at this meeting.
Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act),
those issues may not be the subject of formal action during this
meeting. Actions will be restricted to those issues specifically
identified in this notice and any issues arising after publication of
this notice that require emergency action under Section 305(c) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the public has been notified of the
Council's intent to take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, at (978) 465-
0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: February 4, 2011.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-2929 Filed 2-9-11; 8:45 am]
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