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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XG517
Endangered Species; File Nos. 19641–
01, 20340–05, 20347–03, 20528–02, and
22671
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of applications
for a permit and permit modifications.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
five applicants have applied in due form
for a permit or permit modification to
take shortnose (Acipenser brevirostrum)
and Atlantic (Acipenser oxyrinchus)
sturgeon for purposes of scientific
research and enhancement.
DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email
comments must be received on or before
December 31, 2018.
ADDRESSES: The permit and permit
modification requests and related
documents are available for review by
selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public
Comment’’ from the Features box on the
Applications and Permits for Protected
Species (APPS) home page, https://
apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then selecting
the applicable File No. from the list of
available applications. These documents
are also available upon written request
or by appointment in the Permits and
Conservation Division, Office of
Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 EastWest Highway, Room 13705, Silver
Spring, MD 20910; phone (301) 427–
8401; fax (301) 713–0376.
Written comments on the pertinent
application should be submitted to the
Chief, Permits and Conservation
Division, at the address listed above.
Comments may also be submitted by
facsimile to (301) 713–0376, or by email
to NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov.
Please include the File No. in the
subject line of the email comment.
Those individuals requesting a public
hearing should submit a written request
to the Chief, Permits and Conservation
Division at the address listed above. The
request should set forth the specific
reasons why a hearing on the
application would be appropriate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Malcolm Mohead (for File Nos. 19641–
01, 20347–03, and 22671) or Erin
Markin (for File Nos. 20340–05 and
20528–02), (301) 427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
subject new permit and permit
modifications are requested under the
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authority of the Endangered Species Act
of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.) and the regulations
governing the taking, importing, and
exporting of endangered and threatened
species (50 CFR parts 222–226).
File No. 19641–01: Permit No. 19641
was issued on March 29, 2017 (82 FR
16996) to the Connecticut Department of
Energy and Environmental Protection,
Marine Fisheries, P.O. Box 719, Old
Lyme, Connecticut 06371 (Responsible
Party: Tom Savoy), authorizing
collecting, tagging and, monitoring the
presence, abundance, diet, age and sex
composition of shortnose and Atlantic
sturgeon in Connecticut waters. Atlantic
and shortnose sturgeon are currently
authorized to be captured (using gill
nets and trawls) measured, tissue
sampled, gastric lavaged, passive
integrated transponder (PIT) tagged,
anesthetized, internally tagged, age
sampled, photographed, and weighed
prior to release. The permit holder now
requests authorization to: (1) Increase
the numbers of Atlantic sturgeon
juvenile life stages that may be taken
from 50 to 250 annually, (2) increase
numbers of shortnose sturgeon adult
and sub-adult life stages that may be
taken from 130 to 250 annually, and (3)
include new take for lethally collecting
up to 250 early life stages of shortnose
sturgeon using egg mats or D-nets. The
additional numbers of captured fish
would be measured, weighed, PIT
tagged, genetically sampled, and
photographed prior to release. The
increases are requested to accommodate
improvements in population abundance
estimates for the respective species. The
permit expires March 31, 2027.
File No. 20437–03: Permit No. 20437
was issued March 29, 2017 (82 FR
16996) to the University of Maine,
School Of Marine Sciences, 5741 Libby
Hall, Room 202A, Orono, ME 04469–
5741 (Responsible Party: Gayle
Zydlewski, Ph.D.), authorizing research
on Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon,
collecting all life stages (using trawls,
gill nets, trot lines, and beach seines,
egg matts and D-nets), internal and
external tagging, anesthetizing,
borescoping, PIT tagging, Floy tagging,
weighing, measuring, tissue sampling,
age sampling, and monitoring the
presence, abundance, diet, sex
composition, and large scale movements
of each species in Gulf of Maine (GOM)
waters. The permit holder requests
authorization to increase the numbers of
Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon
collected from the Merrimack,
Penobscot Rivers, and in other areas of
the GOM. In the Merrimack River (MA),
the permit holder requests to capture
and acoustically tag increased numbers
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of juvenile Atlantic (from 10 to 15) and
shortnose sturgeon (from 15 to 25) to
better refine the movements of each
species. In other selected GOM rivers,
the permit holder also requests 15
additional Atlantic sturgeon juveniles to
be taken and acoustically tagged in
order to further refine coastal
movements. In the Penobscot River
(ME), the permit holder requests the
numbers of shortnose sturgeon adults
and sub-adults taken be increased from
200 to 300 in order to accommodate
more precise population abundance
estimates for the species. The permit
expires March 31, 2027.
File No. 20340–05: Permit No. 20340
was issued March 29, 2017 (82 FR
16996) to the New York State
Department of Environmental
Conservation, 205 Belle Mead Road,
East Setuaket, NY 11733 (Responsible
Party: Kim McKown), authorizing
research on Atlantic and shortnose
sturgeon to determine movement of
adult sturgeon in the Hyde Park area of
the Hudson River, movement of age-1
sturgeon Hudson River-wide, respective
species population estimates, and
habitat utilization. Fish may be
collected by gill nets or trawls yearround during ice-free periods. Upon
capture, fish may be measured,
weighed, PIT tagged, tissue sampled,
and photographed. A subset of fish may
be externally and/or internally tagged,
fin ray sampled for ageing, gastric
lavaged, gonadal biopsied, and blood
sampled. Samples Atlantic sturgeon ELS
may also lethally collected to document
spawning in systems. Up to four
Atlantic sturgeon and three shortnose
sturgeon may unintentionally die
annually during research. The permit
holder requests authorization to: (1)
Mark Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon
using oxytetracycline for ageing studies,
(2) lethally collect shortnose sturgeon
ELS, and (3) sample leading fin rays to
validate age assignments. The permit
expires March 31, 2027.
File No. 20528–02: Permit No. 20528
was issued March 29, 2017 (82 FR
16996) to the South Carolina
Department of Natural Resources, 217
Fort Johnson Road, Charleston, SC
29412 (Responsible Party: Bill Post),
authorizing a permit to conduct research
on Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon to
determine their presence, status, health,
habitat use, and movements in South
Carolina waters. Researchers may use
gill nets to capture Atlantic and
shortnose sturgeon to measure, weigh,
PIT tag, tissue sample, and photograph
prior to release. A subset of individuals
may be acoustically tagged, fin ray
sampled, and gonadal biopsied. Early
life stages of each species may be
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lethally sampled to document
occurrence of spawning in systems. Up
to two sturgeon of each species may
unintentionally die annually during
sampling activities. The permit holder is
requesting authorization to: (1) Increase
the number of juvenile and sub-adult/
adult shortnose sturgeon captures in the
Edisto River from 5 to 10, respectively,
(2) collect blood samples from subadult/adult sturgeon for sex
determination in the Cooper River, and
(3) expand research to the Waccamaw
River and Lakes Moultrie and Marion in
South Carolina. Up to 150 juvenile
Atlantic sturgeon and 50 juvenile
shortnose sturgeon may be captured
using gill nets in the Waccamaw River
and PIT tagged, biologically sampled
(fin clip, fin ray clip), weighed,
measured, and photographed/videoed
prior to release. Up to 10 juvenile and
95 sub-adult/adult shortnose sturgeon
may be captured using gill nets in Lakes
Moultrie and Marion and PIT tagged,
biologically sampled (fin clip, fin ray
clip), weighed, measured, and
photographed/videoed prior to release.
A subset of captured fish may be
internally tagged. The permit expires
March 31, 2027.
File No. 22671: The Conte
Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Biological Resources Discipline (BRD), 1
Migratory Way, Turners Falls, MA
01376 (Responsible Party: Adria Elskus,
Ph.D.), requests a 10-year permit
studying the life history, population
size, migration, physiology, and passage
of shortnose sturgeon in the Connecticut
River. The action area includes three
segments: Bellows Falls Dam (Bellows
Falls, VT) to the Turner Falls Dam
(Montague, MA), Turner Falls Dam to
the Holyoke Dam (Holyoke, MA), and
Holyoke Dam to the MassachusettsConnecticut border (Agawam, MA).
Additional tracking of telemetered fish
would take place to the mouth of the
Connecticut River. To conduct studies,
the applicant requests capturing up to
195 adult/sub-adult and 185 juvenile
shortnose sturgeon annually using gill
nets or trawls and 200 early life stages
(ELS) would be lethally sampled using
egg matts or D-nets to determine the
incidence of spawning in the river. The
older life stages would be measured,
weighed, passive integrated transponder
(PIT) tagged, tissue sampled (i.e.,
genetic and blood), sexed (i.e., using a
borescope), photographed, and
prophylactically treated prior to release.
A subset of the adult, sub-adult and
juvenile animals would also be
anesthetized and be either internally or
externally tagged prior to release. Up to
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two juvenile and one adult/sub-adult
shortnose sturgeon may be incidentally
killed caused by capture and sampling
activities.
The applicant also proposes using
captive (non-releasable) adult, subadult, juvenile, and ELS shortnose and
Atlantic sturgeon for objectives related
to: Pathology, propagation techniques,
anesthesiology, neurology, fish passage,
fish behavior, technology (e.g., tagging);
toxicology, genetics, contaminants,
immunology, euthanasia, life history,
water quality, nutrition, endocrinology,
and captive educational display (i.e.,
enhancement activities). Additional
specimens required would either be
propagated or cultured at the facility or
acquired elsewhere by import or receipt.
Excess numbers of individual sturgeon
would be used as a source-supply for
co-investigators working collaboratively
on the permit while conducting similar
research or enhancement activities.
Dated: November 26, 2018.
Julia Marie Harrison,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XG517
Endangered Species; File Nos. 19641-01, 20340-05, 20347-03,
20528-02, and 22671
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of applications for a permit and permit
modifications.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that five applicants have applied in
due form for a permit or permit modification to take shortnose
(Acipenser brevirostrum) and Atlantic (Acipenser oxyrinchus) sturgeon
for purposes of scientific research and enhancement.
DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email comments must be received on or
before December 31, 2018.
ADDRESSES: The permit and permit modification requests and related
documents are available for review by selecting ``Records Open for
Public Comment'' from the Features box on the Applications and Permits
for Protected Species (APPS) home page, https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and
then selecting the applicable File No. from the list of available
applications. These documents are also available upon written request
or by appointment in the Permits and Conservation Division, Office of
Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver
Spring, MD 20910; phone (301) 427-8401; fax (301) 713-0376.
Written comments on the pertinent application should be submitted
to the Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, at the address listed
above. Comments may also be submitted by facsimile to (301) 713-0376,
or by email to [email protected]. Please include the File No.
in the subject line of the email comment.
Those individuals requesting a public hearing should submit a
written request to the Chief, Permits and Conservation Division at the
address listed above. The request should set forth the specific reasons
why a hearing on the application would be appropriate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Malcolm Mohead (for File Nos. 19641-
01, 20347-03, and 22671) or Erin Markin (for File Nos. 20340-05 and
20528-02), (301) 427-8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject new permit and permit
modifications are requested under the authority of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and the
regulations governing the taking, importing, and exporting of
endangered and threatened species (50 CFR parts 222-226).
File No. 19641-01: Permit No. 19641 was issued on March 29, 2017
(82 FR 16996) to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection, Marine Fisheries, P.O. Box 719, Old Lyme, Connecticut 06371
(Responsible Party: Tom Savoy), authorizing collecting, tagging and,
monitoring the presence, abundance, diet, age and sex composition of
shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon in Connecticut waters. Atlantic and
shortnose sturgeon are currently authorized to be captured (using gill
nets and trawls) measured, tissue sampled, gastric lavaged, passive
integrated transponder (PIT) tagged, anesthetized, internally tagged,
age sampled, photographed, and weighed prior to release. The permit
holder now requests authorization to: (1) Increase the numbers of
Atlantic sturgeon juvenile life stages that may be taken from 50 to 250
annually, (2) increase numbers of shortnose sturgeon adult and sub-
adult life stages that may be taken from 130 to 250 annually, and (3)
include new take for lethally collecting up to 250 early life stages of
shortnose sturgeon using egg mats or D-nets. The additional numbers of
captured fish would be measured, weighed, PIT tagged, genetically
sampled, and photographed prior to release. The increases are requested
to accommodate improvements in population abundance estimates for the
respective species. The permit expires March 31, 2027.
File No. 20437-03: Permit No. 20437 was issued March 29, 2017 (82
FR 16996) to the University of Maine, School Of Marine Sciences, 5741
Libby Hall, Room 202A, Orono, ME 04469-5741 (Responsible Party: Gayle
Zydlewski, Ph.D.), authorizing research on Atlantic and shortnose
sturgeon, collecting all life stages (using trawls, gill nets, trot
lines, and beach seines, egg matts and D-nets), internal and external
tagging, anesthetizing, borescoping, PIT tagging, Floy tagging,
weighing, measuring, tissue sampling, age sampling, and monitoring the
presence, abundance, diet, sex composition, and large scale movements
of each species in Gulf of Maine (GOM) waters. The permit holder
requests authorization to increase the numbers of Atlantic and
shortnose sturgeon collected from the Merrimack, Penobscot Rivers, and
in other areas of the GOM. In the Merrimack River (MA), the permit
holder requests to capture and acoustically tag increased numbers of
juvenile Atlantic (from 10 to 15) and shortnose sturgeon (from 15 to
25) to better refine the movements of each species. In other selected
GOM rivers, the permit holder also requests 15 additional Atlantic
sturgeon juveniles to be taken and acoustically tagged in order to
further refine coastal movements. In the Penobscot River (ME), the
permit holder requests the numbers of shortnose sturgeon adults and
sub-adults taken be increased from 200 to 300 in order to accommodate
more precise population abundance estimates for the species. The permit
expires March 31, 2027.
File No. 20340-05: Permit No. 20340 was issued March 29, 2017 (82
FR 16996) to the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, 205 Belle Mead Road, East Setuaket, NY 11733 (Responsible
Party: Kim McKown), authorizing research on Atlantic and shortnose
sturgeon to determine movement of adult sturgeon in the Hyde Park area
of the Hudson River, movement of age-1 sturgeon Hudson River-wide,
respective species population estimates, and habitat utilization. Fish
may be collected by gill nets or trawls year-round during ice-free
periods. Upon capture, fish may be measured, weighed, PIT tagged,
tissue sampled, and photographed. A subset of fish may be externally
and/or internally tagged, fin ray sampled for ageing, gastric lavaged,
gonadal biopsied, and blood sampled. Samples Atlantic sturgeon ELS may
also lethally collected to document spawning in systems. Up to four
Atlantic sturgeon and three shortnose sturgeon may unintentionally die
annually during research. The permit holder requests authorization to:
(1) Mark Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon using oxytetracycline for
ageing studies, (2) lethally collect shortnose sturgeon ELS, and (3)
sample leading fin rays to validate age assignments. The permit expires
March 31, 2027.
File No. 20528-02: Permit No. 20528 was issued March 29, 2017 (82
FR 16996) to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, 217
Fort Johnson Road, Charleston, SC 29412 (Responsible Party: Bill Post),
authorizing a permit to conduct research on Atlantic and shortnose
sturgeon to determine their presence, status, health, habitat use, and
movements in South Carolina waters. Researchers may use gill nets to
capture Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon to measure, weigh, PIT tag,
tissue sample, and photograph prior to release. A subset of individuals
may be acoustically tagged, fin ray sampled, and gonadal biopsied.
Early life stages of each species may be
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lethally sampled to document occurrence of spawning in systems. Up to
two sturgeon of each species may unintentionally die annually during
sampling activities. The permit holder is requesting authorization to:
(1) Increase the number of juvenile and sub-adult/adult shortnose
sturgeon captures in the Edisto River from 5 to 10, respectively, (2)
collect blood samples from sub-adult/adult sturgeon for sex
determination in the Cooper River, and (3) expand research to the
Waccamaw River and Lakes Moultrie and Marion in South Carolina. Up to
150 juvenile Atlantic sturgeon and 50 juvenile shortnose sturgeon may
be captured using gill nets in the Waccamaw River and PIT tagged,
biologically sampled (fin clip, fin ray clip), weighed, measured, and
photographed/videoed prior to release. Up to 10 juvenile and 95 sub-
adult/adult shortnose sturgeon may be captured using gill nets in Lakes
Moultrie and Marion and PIT tagged, biologically sampled (fin clip, fin
ray clip), weighed, measured, and photographed/videoed prior to
release. A subset of captured fish may be internally tagged. The permit
expires March 31, 2027.
File No. 22671: The Conte Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory, U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS), Biological Resources Discipline (BRD), 1
Migratory Way, Turners Falls, MA 01376 (Responsible Party: Adria
Elskus, Ph.D.), requests a 10-year permit studying the life history,
population size, migration, physiology, and passage of shortnose
sturgeon in the Connecticut River. The action area includes three
segments: Bellows Falls Dam (Bellows Falls, VT) to the Turner Falls Dam
(Montague, MA), Turner Falls Dam to the Holyoke Dam (Holyoke, MA), and
Holyoke Dam to the Massachusetts-Connecticut border (Agawam, MA).
Additional tracking of telemetered fish would take place to the mouth
of the Connecticut River. To conduct studies, the applicant requests
capturing up to 195 adult/sub-adult and 185 juvenile shortnose sturgeon
annually using gill nets or trawls and 200 early life stages (ELS)
would be lethally sampled using egg matts or D-nets to determine the
incidence of spawning in the river. The older life stages would be
measured, weighed, passive integrated transponder (PIT) tagged, tissue
sampled (i.e., genetic and blood), sexed (i.e., using a borescope),
photographed, and prophylactically treated prior to release. A subset
of the adult, sub-adult and juvenile animals would also be anesthetized
and be either internally or externally tagged prior to release. Up to
two juvenile and one adult/sub-adult shortnose sturgeon may be
incidentally killed caused by capture and sampling activities.
The applicant also proposes using captive (non-releasable) adult,
sub-adult, juvenile, and ELS shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon for
objectives related to: Pathology, propagation techniques,
anesthesiology, neurology, fish passage, fish behavior, technology
(e.g., tagging); toxicology, genetics, contaminants, immunology,
euthanasia, life history, water quality, nutrition, endocrinology, and
captive educational display (i.e., enhancement activities). Additional
specimens required would either be propagated or cultured at the
facility or acquired elsewhere by import or receipt. Excess numbers of
individual sturgeon would be used as a source-supply for co-
investigators working collaboratively on the permit while conducting
similar research or enhancement activities.
Dated: November 26, 2018.
Julia Marie Harrison,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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