[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 5, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-8029]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 625

Docket No. [940262-4062; I.D. 032894D]

 

Summer Flounder Fishery

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notification of commercial quota harvest.

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SUMMARY: NMFS issues this notification to announce that the summer 
flounder commercial quota available to the State of Delaware has been 
harvested. Vessels issued a Federal fisheries permit for the summer 
flounder fishery may no longer land summer flounder in the State of 
Delaware for the remainder of calendar year 1994, unless additional 
quota becomes available through a transfer. Regulations governing the 
summer flounder fishery require publication of this notification to 
advise the State of Delaware that its quota has been harvested and to 
advise vessel and dealer Federal permit holders that no commercial 
quota is available for landing summer flounder in the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 30, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hannah Goodale, 508-281-9101.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Regulations governing the summer flounder 
fishery are found at 50 CFR part 625. The regulations require annual 
specification of a commercial quota that is apportioned among the 
states from North Carolina through Maine. The process to set the annual 
commercial quota and the percent allocated to each state is described 
in Sec. 625.20.
    The total commercial quota for summer flounder for the 1994 
calendar year is set equal to 16,005,560 pounds (7,257,441 kg) (March 
7, 1994, 59 FR 10586). The percent allocated to vessels landing summer 
flounder in Delaware is 0.01779 percent or 2,847 pounds (1,290.9 kg).
    Section 625.20(d) provides that any overages of the commercial 
quota landed in any state will be deducted from that state's annual 
quota for the following year. In calendar year 1993, a total of 6,403 
pounds (2,903 kg) was landed in Delaware. The amount allocated for 
Delaware landings in 1993 was 2,197 pounds (996 kg), creating an 
overage of 4,206 pounds (1,907 kg) that must be deducted from the 
amount allocated for landings in Delaware during 1994.
    Section 625.21(c) requires the Director, Northeast Region, NMFS, 
(Regional Director) to monitor state commercial quotas and to determine 
when a state commercial quota is harvested. The Regional Director is 
further required to publish a notice in the Federal Register advising a 
state and notifying Federal vessel and dealer permit holders that, 
effective upon a specific date, the state's commercial quota has been 
harvested and no commercial quota is available for landing summer 
flounder in that state. Because the amount that must be deducted from 
the Delaware allocation exceeds the amount allocated in 1994, the 
Regional Director has determined that the 1994 summer flounder quota 
allocation for vessels landing in Delaware has been harvested.
    The regulations at Sec. 625.4(a)(3) provide that Federal permit 
holders agree as a condition of the permit not to land summer flounder 
in any state that the Regional Director has determined no longer has 
commercial quota available. Therefore, effective 0001 hours March 30, 
1994, further landings in Delaware by Federally permitted vessels are 
prohibited for the remainder of the 1994 calendar year, unless 
additional quota becomes available through a transfer and is announced 
in the Federal Register. Federally permitted dealers are also advised 
that, effective the date above, they may not purchase summer flounder 
from Federally permitted vessels that land in Delaware for the 
remainder of the calendar year, or until additional quota becomes 
available.

Classification

    This action is required by 50 CFR part 625 and complies with E.O. 
12866.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 625

    Fisheries, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: March 30, 1994.
Richard H. Schaefer,
Director of Office of Fisheries, Conservation and Management, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 94-8029 Filed 3-30-94; 4:40 pm]
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