[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 64342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30833]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 112696B]


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 under provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). This 
notice concerns the receipt of an application from the Government of 
Lithuania requesting authorization to conduct joint venture operations 
in 1997 in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean for Atlantic mackerel. The 
large stern trawler/processors BANGA and KIRAS are identified as the 
vessels that will receive Atlantic mackerel from U.S. vessels. Send 
comments on this application to:
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine 
Fisheries Service, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, 1315 East-West 
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910; and/or to the Regional Fishery 
Management Councils listed below:
    Chris Kellogg, Acting 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 
Sustainable Fisheries, (301) 713-2337.

    Dated: November 27, 1996
Gary Matlock,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 96-30833 Filed 12-3-96; 8:45 am]
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