[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 127 (Monday, July 3, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 34472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16236]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 301

[Docket No. 950106003-5070-02; I.D. 062695B]


Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Treaty Indian Commercial Fishery in 
Subarea 2A-1

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

ACTION: Closure.

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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 stock in order 
to help sustain it at an adequate level in the northern Pacific Ocean 
and Bering Sea.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 12, 1995, through December 31, 1995.

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 NMFS (60 FR 
14651, March 20, 1995). 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

Northwest Treaty Tribes Fishery in Area 2A

    Northwest treaty Indian tribes were allocated a total allowable 
catch of 182,000 lb (82.55 metric tons (mt)) in the subarea 2A-1 
(northern Washington coast) in 1995. Of this total, 11,000 lb (4.98 mt) 
are reserved for ceremonial and subsistence purposes, leaving 171,000 
lb (77.56 mt) for the commercial fishery. The commercial catch as of 
June 12, 1995, in subarea 2A-1 was 175,000 lb (79.37 mt), closing the 
treaty Indian commercial fishery for the remainder of 1995.

    Dated: June 26, 1995.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-16236 Filed 6-30-95; 8:45 am]
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