[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67051-67052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33386]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 121597B]


Permits; Foreign Fishing

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

ACTION: Notice of receipt of foreign fishing applications.

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SUMMARY: NMFS publishes for public review and comment summaries of 
applications submitted by the Government of Estonia and the Government 
of Lithuania requesting authorization to conduct fishing operations in 
the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in 1998 under provisions of the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-
Stevens Act).

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted to NMFS, Office of Sustainable 
Fisheries, International Fisheries Division, 1315 East-West Highway, 
Silver Spring, MD 20910; and/or to the Regional Fishery Management 
Councils listed below:
    Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management 
Council, 5 Broadway, Saugus, MA 01906, (617) 231-0422;

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    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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with a Memorandum of 
Understanding with the Secretary of State, NMFS publishes for public 
review and comment summaries of applications received by the Secretary 
of State requesting permits for foreign fishing vessels to fish in the 
U.S. EEZ under provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 
et seq.).
    This notice concerns the receipt of an application from the 
Government of Estonia and the receipt of an application from the 
Government of Lithuania requesting authorization to conduct joint 
venture (JV) operations in 1998 in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean for 
Atlantic mackerel and Atlantic herring. The large stern trawler/
processors JACOB HURT and SOELA are identified as the Estonian vessels 
that would receive Atlantic mackerel and Atlantic herring from U.S. 
vessels in JV operations, and the large stern/trawler processors 
MAIRONIS and UTENA are identified as the Lithuanian vessels that would 
receive Atlantic mackerel and Atlantic herring from U.S. vessels in JV 
operations.
    While both applications also request authorization for the named 
vessels to directly harvest Atlantic mackerel and Atlantic herring, 
since no ``Total Allowable Level of Foreign Fishing'' (TALFF) is 
available for either of these species, no foreign vessels can be 
permitted to directly harvest Atlantic mackerel or Atlantic herring.

    Dated: December 16, 1997.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-33386 Filed 12-22-97; 8:45 am]
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