[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 141 (Monday, July 25, 1994)]
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[Federal Register: July 25, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 301

[Docket No. 931235-4107; I.D. 071594G]

 

Pacific Halibut Fisheries

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

ACTION: Notice of inseason action.

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SUMMARY: The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA, on behalf of 
the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC), publishes notice 
of this inseason action pursuant to IPHC regulations approved by the 
U.S. Government to govern the Pacific halibut fishery. This action is 
intended to enhance the conservation of Pacific halibut stocks in order 
to help sustain them at an adequate level in the northern Pacific Ocean 
and Bering Sea.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 7, 1994, through October 31, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Pennoyer, telephone 907-586-
7221; Gary Smith, telephone 206-526-6140; or Donald McCaughran, 
telephone 206-634-1838.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The IPHC, under the Convention between the 
United States of America and Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut 
Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea (signed at Ottawa, 
Ontario, on March 2, 1953), as amended by a Protocol Amending the 
Convention (signed at Washington, DC, on March 29, 1979), has issued 
this inseason action pursuant to IPHC regulations governing the Pacific 
halibut fishery. The regulations have been approved by the Secretary of 
State (59 FR 22522, May 2, 1994). On behalf of the IPHC, this inseason 
action is published in the Federal Register to provide additional 
notice of its effectiveness, and to inform persons subject to the 
inseason action of the restrictions and requirements established 
therein.

Inseason Action

1994 Halibut Landing Report No. 10

Area 4B to Close July 9
    The IPHC estimates that 15 percent (315,000 lb (142.9 mt)) of the 
catch limit in Area 4B (Aleutian Islands) will be taken by the end of 
the July 9 fishing period. As it was decided at the 1994 Annual Meeting 
to reserve 85 percent of the Area 4B catch for the August 15 fishery, 
the IPHC is canceling fishing periods scheduled from July 11 through 
August 14. Therefore, Area 4B will close on July 9 at 8:00 p.m. Alaska 
Daylight Time and reopen on August 15 to take the remaining catch 
limit.

    Dated: July 18, 1994.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 94-17920 Filed 7-22-94; 8:45 am]
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