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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 301

[Docket No. 931235-4107; I.D. 101394B]

 

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 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: September 30, 1994, through December 31, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Pennoyer, 907-586-7221; William 
W. Stelle, Jr., 206-526-6140; or Donald McCaughran, 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 
notification 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. 17

California and Oregon Sport Fisheries Close
    The 1994 Oregon sport halibut fishery inside the 30-fathom curve 
nearest to the coastline between Cape Falcon (lat. 45 deg.46'00'' N.) 
and the California border (lat. 42 deg.00'00'' N.) closed, as 
scheduled, on September 30, 1994. Preliminary catch estimates indicate 
the season harvest will be within a few hundred pounds of the 67,900-lb 
(30.8-metric ton) catch limit.
    Sport fishing for Pacific halibut also closed, as scheduled, off 
the California coast on September 30, 1994. Information indicates that 
the harvest is within the estimated 1,813-lb (30.79-metric ton) catch 
limit.
    With these closures, Pacific halibut sport fishing is closed in 
Area 2A, which comprises all waters off the coast of California, 
Oregon, and Washington, for the remainder of 1994.

    Dated: October 17, 1994.
Joe P. Clem,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 94-26200 Filed 10-20-94; 8:45 am]
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