[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 152 (Monday, August 9, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 43137-43138]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20432]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Parts 600 and 648

[I.D. 063099A]
RIN 0648-AI78


Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic 
Herring Fishery; Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan; Correction

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

ACTION: Notice of availability of a fishery management plan; 
correction.

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SUMMARY: On July 27, 1999, NMFS published a notice of availability 
(NOA) announcing that the New England Fishery Management Council had 
submitted the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan for Secretarial 
review. Under its stated Management Measures of Concern, the NOA 
contained an error in its description of restrictions on the size of 
domestic fishing and processing vessels that would be prohibited from 
fishing for Atlantic herring in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This 
document corrects the error.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 27, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E. Martin Jaffe, Fishery Policy 
Analyst, 978-281-9272.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The NOA for the Atlantic Herring FMP was published on Tuesday, July 
27, 1999 (64 FR 40542). The NOA described restrictions on the size of 
domestic fishing and processing vessels. One measure would prohibit 
domestic vessels greater than or equal to 165 ft (50.3m) in length, or 
> 750 gross registered tons (GRT) (680.4 mt), or > 3,000 horsepower 
from fishing for Atlantic herring in the EEZ, but would allow domestic 
vessels > 165 ft (50.3m), or > 750 GRT (680.4 mt) to process herring if 
U.S. at-sea processing is

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specified in a given year. However, the NOA inadvertently indicated 
that only domestic vessels greater than 165 ft (50.3m) in length, 
rather than equal to or greater than 165 ft (50.3m) in length, would be 
prohibited from fishing for Atlantic herring in the EEZ.

Correction

    Accordingly, the publication on July 27, 1999, of the NOA (I.D. 
063099A), which was the subject of document FR Doc. 99-19171, is 
corrected as follows:
    On page 40543, in column 2, under the heading, ``Restrictions on 
the Size of Domestic Fishing and Processing Vessels'', the second line 
of the first sentence is corrected to read as follows:
    ``domestic vessels greater than or equal to 165 ft (50.3m) in''

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: August 3, 1999.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 99-20432 Filed 8-6-99; 8:45 am]
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