[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 19, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 56502]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-24015]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 000623193-0193-01; I.D. 060800D]


Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Prohibited 
Species Catch in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Correction

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

ACTION: Final 2000 harvest specifications; technical amendment; 
correction.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects Table 7 of the technical amendment to 
the final 2000 prohibited species catch (PSC) allowances specified for 
trawl groundfish fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 
(BSAI).

DATES: Effective June 15, 2000, through 2400 hrs A.l.t. December 31, 
2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew N. Smoker, 907-586-7228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document contains corrections to the 
technical amendment to the final 2000 PSC allowances specified for 
trawl groundfish fisheries of the BSAI.
    The technical amendment (65 FR 42302, July 10, 2000) to the Final 
2000 Harvest Specifications for Groundfish (65 FR 8282, February 18, 
2000) established PSC allowances under regulations implementing 
Amendment 57 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery 
of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (FR 65 31105, May 16, 
2000). The 2000 Pacific halibut and crab PSC limits for the BSAI trawl 
fisheries were reduced to the following amounts: Pacific halibut, 3,675 
mt; Zone 1 red king crab, 97,000 animals; Chionoecetes (C.) opilio, 
4,350,000 animals; C. bairdi Zone 1,830,000; and C. bairdi Zone 2, 
2,520,000 animals.

Correction

    In the technical amendment, Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 
Zone Off Alaska; Prohibited Species Catch in the Bering Sea and 
Aleutian Islands, published on July 10, 2000 (65 FR 42302), FR Doc. 00-
17269, corrections are made as follows:
    1. In the document, 2000 harvest specifications; technical 
amendment, published on July 10, 2000 (65 FR 42302), FR Doc. 00-17269, 
on page 42303, mathematical errors were made in Table 7. Table 7 is 
corrected to read as follows:

Table 7 to Part 679  [Corrected]

    In the second column, under the heading, ``Halibut mortality (mt) 
BSAI,'' the sixth entry, ``7457'' that corresponds with ``Jan. 1-April 
30,'' is corrected to read ``457'' and in the last line ``4,675'' that 
corresponds with the ``Grand Total'' is corrected to read ``4,576''.

    Dated: September 13, 2000.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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