Fisheries Off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Application for an Exempted Fishing Permit, 44577 [2011-18883]
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Administration
RIN 0648–XA581
Fisheries Off West Coast States and in
the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast
Groundfish Fishery; Application for an
Exempted Fishing Permit
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of EFP
application; request for comments.
AGENCY:
NMFS announces the receipt
of an exempted fishing permit (EFP)
application, and is considering issuance
of EFPs for vessels participating in the
EFP activities. The EFPs are necessary
to allow activities that are otherwise
prohibited by Federal regulations. The
EFPs will be effective no earlier than
August 10, 2011, and would expire one
year after date of issuance, but could be
terminated earlier under terms and
conditions of the EFPs and other
applicable laws.
DATES: Comments must be received no
later than 5 p.m., local time on August
10, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by 0648–XA581, by any one
of the following methods:
• Fax: 206–526–6736, Attn: Kevin
Duffy.
SUMMARY:
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• Mail: Barry A. Thom, Acting
Administrator, Northwest Region,
NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way, NE.,
Seattle, WA 98115–0070, Attn: Kevin
Duffy.
To
request a copy of the EFP application,
contact Kevin Duffy (Northwest Region,
NMFS), phone: 206–526–4743, fax: 206–
526–6736.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
action is authorized by the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act provisions at 50 CFR
600.745, which states that EFPs may be
used to authorize fishing activities that
would otherwise be prohibited. NMFS
received a request for a permit from the
Environmental Defense Fund. The
primary purpose of the EFP is to
conduct gear trials using bottom trawl
fishing gear fitted with excluders in
order to test reduced bycatch of Pacific
halibut while participating in the
Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota
fishery for groundfish. The EFP would
exempt vessels fishing in the
Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota
fishery and participating in the EFP
project from regulations that require the
use of a two-seamed bottom trawl net in
the area shoreward of the trawl Rockfish
Conservation Area. All other regulations
applicable to vessels in the Shorebased
Individual Fishing Quota fishery would
remain in place. The EFP would allow
limited testing, during fishing activities,
of an excluder device on a four-seamed
bottom trawl net in order to compare
bycatch rates of Pacific halibut with
bycatch rates from legal bottom trawl
gears fitted with similar excluder
devices.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: July 21, 2011.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2011–18883 Filed 7–25–11; 8:45 am]
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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XA581
Fisheries Off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific;
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Application for an Exempted Fishing
Permit
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of EFP application; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces the receipt of an exempted fishing permit (EFP)
application, and is considering issuance of EFPs for vessels
participating in the EFP activities. The EFPs are necessary to allow
activities that are otherwise prohibited by Federal regulations. The
EFPs will be effective no earlier than August 10, 2011, and would
expire one year after date of issuance, but could be terminated earlier
under terms and conditions of the EFPs and other applicable laws.
DATES: Comments must be received no later than 5 p.m., local time on
August 10, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by 0648-XA581, by any
one of the following methods:
Fax: 206-526-6736, Attn: Kevin Duffy.
Mail: Barry A. Thom, Acting Administrator, Northwest
Region, NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way, NE., Seattle, WA 98115-0070, Attn:
Kevin Duffy.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the EFP
application, contact Kevin Duffy (Northwest Region, NMFS), phone: 206-
526-4743, fax: 206-526-6736.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This action is authorized by the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act provisions at 50 CFR
600.745, which states that EFPs may be used to authorize fishing
activities that would otherwise be prohibited. NMFS received a request
for a permit from the Environmental Defense Fund. The primary purpose
of the EFP is to conduct gear trials using bottom trawl fishing gear
fitted with excluders in order to test reduced bycatch of Pacific
halibut while participating in the Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota
fishery for groundfish. The EFP would exempt vessels fishing in the
Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota fishery and participating in the
EFP project from regulations that require the use of a two-seamed
bottom trawl net in the area shoreward of the trawl Rockfish
Conservation Area. All other regulations applicable to vessels in the
Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota fishery would remain in place. The
EFP would allow limited testing, during fishing activities, of an
excluder device on a four-seamed bottom trawl net in order to compare
bycatch rates of Pacific halibut with bycatch rates from legal bottom
trawl gears fitted with similar excluder devices.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: July 21, 2011.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-18883 Filed 7-25-11; 8:45 am]
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