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Atlantic Reports
In the Atlantic region (including the
Atlantic coast, Gulf Coast, and U.S.
territories in the Caribbean), 45 Atlantic
and Gulf of Mexico SARs were updated
and one added—the Northern South
Carolina Estuarine System stock of
bottlenose dolphins, a strategic stock.
Most revisions included updates of
abundance and/or serious injury and
mortality estimates. Strategic stocks
included: North Atlantic right whale,
humpback whale, fin whale, sei whale,
sperm whale, bottlenose dolphin
(Western North Atlantic: coastal/
northern migratory, coastal/southern
migratory, coastal/South Carolina/
Georgia, coastal/northern Florida,
coastal/central Florida; Northern North
Carolina Estuarine System; Southern
North Carolina Estuarine System;
Charleston Estuarine System; Northern
Georgia/Southern South Carolina
Estuarine System; Southern Georgia
Estuarine System; Jacksonville Estuarine
System; Indian River Lagoon Estuarine
System; Biscayne Bay) and harbor
porpoise (Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy).
Non-strategic stocks included: Minke
whale, dwarf sperm whale, pygmy
sperm whale, Cuvier’s beaked whale,
Blainville’s beaked whale, Gervais
beaked whale, Sowerby’s beaked whale,
True’s beaked whale, long-finned pilot
whale, short-finned pilot whale,
Atlantic white-sided dolphin, shortbeaked common dolphin, Atlantic
spotted dolphin; pantropical spotted
dolphin, striped dolphin, rough-toothed
dolphin, Clymene dolphin, spinner
dolphin, bottlenose dolphin (Western
North Atlantic/offshore; Florida Bay;
Gulf of Mexico Oceanic), gray seal, harp
seal, harbor seal, and Risso’s dolphin
(Western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico
Oceanic).
The status of long-finned pilot whales
changed from strategic to non-strategic,
because serious injury and mortality
likely do not exceed PBR. Information
on the remaining Atlantic region stocks
can be found in the final 2012 reports
(Waring et al., 2012).
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Pacific Reports
In the Pacific region (waters along the
west coast of the United States, within
waters surrounding the main and
Northwest Hawaiian Islands, and within
waters surrounding U.S. territories in
the Western Pacific), SARs were revised
for 52 stocks under NMFS jurisdiction.
Two stocks changed from non-strategic
to strategic: Cuvier’s beaked whale, CA/
OR/WA, and mesoplodont beaked
whales, CA/OR/WA.
Strategic stocks included: Monk seal,
killer whale (Eastern North Pacific
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Southern Resident), Mesoplodont
beaked whales (CA/OR/WA), Cuvier’s
beaked whale (CA/OR/WA), humpback
whale, blue whale (Central North
Pacific, Eastern North Pacific), fin whale
(Hawaii, CA/OR/WA), false killer whale
(Main Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii
Pelagic), sperm whale (Hawaii), and sei
whale. Non-strategic stocks included:
Harbor seal (OR/WA coast, Northern
Washington Inland waters, Southern
Puget Sound, and Hood Canal), northern
fur seal, harbor porpoise (Morro Bay,
Monterey Bay, San Francisco—Russian
River, Northern California/Southern
Oregon, Northern Oregon/Washington
coast), Baird’s beaked whale, Pacific
white-sided dolphin, common
bottlenose dolphin (CA/OR/WA
Offshore, Hawaii Pelagic, ‘Kaua’I and
Ni’ihau, O’ahu, four-islands region,
Hawaii Island), gray whale, Risso’s
dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin
(Hawaii pelagic, O’ahu, four-islands
region, Hawaii Island), striped dolphin,
Fraser’s dolphin, melon-headed whale
(Hawaiian Islands, Kohala Resident),
pygmy killer whale, false killer whale
(Northwestern Hawaiian Islands), killer
whale (Hawaii), short-finned pilot
whale, Blainville’s beaked whale,
Longman’s beaked whale, Cuvier’s
beaked whale (Hawaii), pygmy sperm
whale, dwarf sperm whale, minke
whale, Bryde’s whale. Information on
the remaining Pacific region stocks can
be found in the final 2012 reports
(Carretta et al., 2013).
Three new prospective stocks of
harbor seals in Washington inland
waters are presented (Hood Canal,
Southern Puget Sound, and Washington
Inland Waters), based on recent genetic
and pupping phenology data. The
Hawaii stock of melon-headed whales
was split into two: The Kohala resident
stock and the Hawaiian Islands stock
(both non-strategic). The Hawaii stock of
pantropical spotted dolphin was split
into four (all non-strategic): The Oahu
stock, the 4-Islands stock, the Hawaii
Island stock, and the Hawaii pelagic
stock.
NMFS intended to prepare a separate
stock assessment report for the western
stock of gray whales in 2013; however,
the agency was awaiting completion of
the Report of the NMFS Gray Whale
Stock Identification Workshop (NMFS
2013) before drafting a SAR for this
stock. NMFS anticipates preparing a
SAR for the western stock of gray
whales in 2014.
The San Miguel Island stock of
northern fur seal has been renamed the
‘‘California Northern Fur Seal stock,’’ to
reflect that in addition to San Miguel
Island, this species regularly breeds at
the Farallon Islands of California.
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Dated: October 31, 2013.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XC791
Fisheries in the Western Pacific;
Special Coral Reef Ecosystem Fishing
Permit
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability of final
environmental assessment and finding
of no significant impact for the issuance
of a special coral reef ecosystem fishing
permit.
AGENCY:
NMFS issued a Special Coral
Reef Ecosystem Fishing Permit that
authorizes Kampachi Farms, LLC, to
culture and harvest a coral reef
ecosystem management unit fish species
in a floating pen in Federal waters west
of the Island of Hawaii. This notice
informs the public that NMFS prepared
an environmental assessment of the
potential impacts of the proposed
activity, and finds that there will be no
significant impact to the environment
from the activity.
DATES: The special coral reef ecosystem
fishing permit is effective from October
25, 2013, through October 24, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may review the final
environmental assessment (EA) and
finding of no significant impact,
identified by NOAA–NMFS–2013–0125,
at the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-20130125.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phyllis Ha, Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS
PIR, tel 808–944–2265.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS
issued a Special Coral Reef Ecosystem
Fishing Permit to Kampachi Farms,
LLC, consistent with Federal regulations
for Hawaii fisheries at 50 CFR § 665.224,
pertaining to management of coral reef
ecosystem fisheries, and in accordance
with the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the
Hawaii Archipelago (FEP). The permit
authorizes the culture and harvest of the
native coral reef ecosystem management
unit fish species Seriola rivoliana,
marketed as Kona Kampachi®, using a
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floating cage tethered to a 28-ft vessel
connected to a single-point mooring
established at around 6,000 feet deep,
approximately 5.5 nm west of Keauhou
Bay, Hawaii.
NMFS published in the Federal
Register a notice of availability of a draft
EA and request for public comments on
August 13, 2013 (78 FR 49258). NMFS
received comments from eight
individuals, and considered those
comments by improving information in
the baseline and the clarity of the final
EA. None of the comments resulted in
substantial changes to the analysis about
the significance of impacts of the
proposed action on the human
environment in the final EA.
Based on the information in the final
EA, NMFS determined that the action
will not significantly impact the quality
of the human environment.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: November 1, 2013.
James P. Burgess,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XC960
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species;
Advisory Panel
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; solicitation of
nominations.
AGENCY:
NMFS solicits nominations
for the Atlantic Highly Migratory
Species (HMS) Advisory Panel (AP).
NMFS consults with and considers the
comments and views of the HMS AP
when preparing and implementing
Fishery Management Plans (FMPs) or
FMP amendments for Atlantic tunas,
swordfish, sharks, and billfish.
Nominations are being sought to fill
approximately one-third (11) of the seats
on the HMS AP for a 3-year
appointment. Individuals with definable
interests in the recreational and
commercial fishing and related
industries, environmental community,
academia, and non-governmental
organizations are considered for
membership in the HMS AP (note that
there are no Academic terms expiring,
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so no nominations for that sector will be
considered at this time).
DATES: Nominations must be received
on or before December 6, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit
nominations and requests for the
Advisory Panel Statement of
Organization, Practices, and Procedures
by any of the following methods:
• Email: HMSAP.Nominations@
noaa.gov. Include in the subject line the
following identifier: ‘‘HMS AP
Nominations.’’
• Mail: Jenni Wallace, Highly
Migratory Species Management
Division, NMFS, 1315 East-West
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
• Fax: 301–713–1917.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jenni Wallace at (301) 427–8503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C. 1801
et seq., as amended by the Sustainable
Fisheries Act, Public Law 104–297,
provided that the Secretary may
establish Advisory Panels to assist in
the collection and evaluation of
information relevant to the development
of any Fishery Management Plan (FMP)
or FMP amendment for any highly
migratory species fishery that is under
the Secretary’s authority. NMFS has
consulted with the HMS AP on:
Amendment 1 to the Billfish FMP (April
1999); the HMS FMP (April 1999);
Amendment 1 to the HMS FMP
(December 2003); the 2006 Consolidated
HMS FMP (October 2006); Amendments
1, 2, 3, 4, 5a, 5b, 6, 7, and 8 to the 2006
Consolidated HMS FMP (April and
October 2008, February and September
2009, May and September 2010, April
and September 2011, March and
September 2012, and January and
September 2013); among other relevant
fishery management issues.
Procedures and Guidelines
A. Nomination Procedures for
Appointments to the Advisory Panel
Nomination packages should include:
1. The name of the nominee and a
description of his/her interest in HMS
or in particular species of sharks,
swordfish, tunas, or billfish;
2. Contact information, including
mailing address, phone, and email of
the nominee;
3. A statement of background and/or
qualifications;
4. A written commitment that the
nominee shall actively participate in
good faith in the meetings and tasks of
the HMS AP; and
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5. A list of outreach resources that the
nominee has at his/her disposal to
communicate HMS issues to various
interest groups.
Qualifications for HMS AP Membership
Qualification for membership
includes one or more of the following:
(1) Experience in HMS recreational
fisheries; (2) experience in HMS
commercial fisheries; (3) experience in
fishery-related industries (e.g., marinas,
bait and tackle shops); (4) experience in
the scientific community working with
HMS; and/or (5) representation of a
private, non-governmental, regional,
national, or international organization
representing marine fisheries; or
environmental, governmental, or
academic interests dealing with HMS.
Tenure for the HMS AP
Member tenure will be for 3 years (36
months), with approximately one-third
of the members’ terms expiring on
December 31 of each year. Nominations
are sought for terms beginning January
2014 and expiring December 2016.
B. Participants
Nominations for the HMS AP will be
accepted to allow representation from
commercial and recreational fishing
interests, and the environmental/nongovernmental organization community,
who are knowledgeable about Atlantic
HMS and/or Atlantic HMS fisheries.
Current representation on the HMS AP,
as shown in Table 1, consists of 12
members representing commercial
interests, 12 members representing
recreational interests, 4 members
representing environmental interests, 4
academic representatives, and the
International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Advisory Committee Chairperson. Each
HMS AP member serves a 3-year term
with approximately one-third of the
total number of seats (33) expiring on
December 31 of each year. NMFS seeks
to fill 5 commercial, 4 recreational, and
2 environmental/non-governmental
organization vacancies by December 31,
2013. NMFS will seek to fill vacancies
based primarily on maintaining the
current representation from each of the
sectors. NMFS also considers species
expertise and representation from the
fishing regions (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic,
South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and
Caribbean) to ensure the diversity and
balance of the AP. Table 1 includes the
current representation on the HMS AP
by sector, region and species with terms
that are expiring identified in bold. It is
not meant to indicate that NMFS will
only consider persons who have
expertise in the species or fishing
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XC791
Fisheries in the Western Pacific; Special Coral Reef Ecosystem
Fishing Permit
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability of final environmental assessment and
finding of no significant impact for the issuance of a special coral
reef ecosystem fishing permit.
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SUMMARY: NMFS issued a Special Coral Reef Ecosystem Fishing Permit that
authorizes Kampachi Farms, LLC, to culture and harvest a coral reef
ecosystem management unit fish species in a floating pen in Federal
waters west of the Island of Hawaii. This notice informs the public
that NMFS prepared an environmental assessment of the potential impacts
of the proposed activity, and finds that there will be no significant
impact to the environment from the activity.
DATES: The special coral reef ecosystem fishing permit is effective
from October 25, 2013, through October 24, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may review the final environmental assessment (EA) and
finding of no significant impact, identified by NOAA-NMFS-2013-0125, at
the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2013-0125.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Phyllis Ha, Sustainable Fisheries,
NMFS PIR, tel 808-944-2265.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS issued a Special Coral Reef Ecosystem
Fishing Permit to Kampachi Farms, LLC, consistent with Federal
regulations for Hawaii fisheries at 50 CFR Sec. 665.224, pertaining to
management of coral reef ecosystem fisheries, and in accordance with
the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the Hawaii Archipelago (FEP). The permit
authorizes the culture and harvest of the native coral reef ecosystem
management unit fish species Seriola rivoliana, marketed as Kona
Kampachi[supreg], using a
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floating cage tethered to a 28-ft vessel connected to a single-point
mooring established at around 6,000 feet deep, approximately 5.5 nm
west of Keauhou Bay, Hawaii.
NMFS published in the Federal Register a notice of availability of
a draft EA and request for public comments on August 13, 2013 (78 FR
49258). NMFS received comments from eight individuals, and considered
those comments by improving information in the baseline and the clarity
of the final EA. None of the comments resulted in substantial changes
to the analysis about the significance of impacts of the proposed
action on the human environment in the final EA.
Based on the information in the final EA, NMFS determined that the
action will not significantly impact the quality of the human
environment.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: November 1, 2013.
James P. Burgess,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-26599 Filed 11-5-13; 8:45 am]
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