[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 27492]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12721]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 051595F]


Permits; Foreign Fishing

    In accordance with a memorandum of understanding with the Secretary 
of State, the National Marine Fisheries Service publishes for public 
review and comment summaries of applications received by the Secretary 
of State requesting permits for foreign fishing vessels to operate in 
the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) under provisions of the Magnuson 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 
et seq.). This notice concerns the receipt of an application from the 
Government of the Russian Federation requesting authorization to 
conduct a joint venture (JV) in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. The 
application requests 20,000 metric tons of Atlantic sea herring be made 
available for the JV. The factory trawler NADIR is identified as the 
vessel that will receive sea herring from U.S. vessels. While no 
Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic sea herring has yet been 
implemented, based on receipt of the Russian application, and in 
accordance with section 201(h) of the Magnuson Act, necessary 
regulatory actions are being effected and a Preliminary Fishery 
Management Plan (PMP) for Atlantic sea herring is being developed. 
Approvability of the proposed JV to have the foreign vessel NADIR 
receive Atlantic sea herring from U.S. fishing vessels in the EEZ will 
be contigent on specifications under the PMP that would make available 
an amount of U.S.-harvested herring for such operations, and on other 
issues that bear on the approval of foreign fishing permits. Send 
comments on this application to:
    NOAA--National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Fisheries 
Conservation and Management, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 
20910 and/or, to one or both of the Regional Fishery Management 
Councils listed below:
    Douglas G. Marshall, Executive Director, New England Fishery 
Management Council, 5 Broadway, Saugus, MA 01906; 617/231-0422.
    David R. Keifer, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 
Management Council, Federal Building, Room 2115, 300 South New Street, 
Dover, DE 19901-6790; 302/674-2331.
    For further information contact Robert A. Dickinson, Office of 
Fisheries Conservation and Management, (301) 713-2337.

    Dated: May 18, 1995.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-12721 Filed 5-23-95; 8:45 am]
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