[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 165 (Thursday, August 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 51593]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-21544]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 081100C]


Permits; Foreign Fishing

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

ACTION: Notice of receipt of foreign fishing application.

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SUMMARY: NMFS publishes for public review and comment a summary of an 
application submitted by the Government of Lithuania requesting 
authorization to conduct fishing operations in the U.S. Exclusive 
Economic Zone (EEZ) in 2001 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, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01905, Phone (978) 
465-0492, Fax (978) 465-3116;
    Daniel T. Furlong, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 
Management Council, Federal Building, Room 2115, 300 South New Street, 
Dover, DE 19904, Phone (302) 674-2331, Fax (302) 674-4136.

 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert A. Dickinson, Office of 
Sustainable Fisheries, (301) 713-2276.

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 Lithuania requesting authorization to conduct joint 
venture (JV) operations in 2001 in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean for 
Atlantic mackerel and Atlantic herring. 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. The application also requests that the 
Government of Lithuania be allocated 2,000 metric tons (mt) of Atlantic 
mackerel and 1,000 mt of Atlantic herring for harvest by the named 
vessels in 2001.

    Dated: August 16, 2000.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service
[FR Doc. 00-21544 Filed 8-23-00; 8:45 am]
Billing Code: 3510-22-S