[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 21, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 69886-69887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29778]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 000119014-0137-02; I.D. 080700C]


Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder, 
Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fisheries; Adjustments to the 2000 Summer 
Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Commercial Quotas

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

ACTION: Commercial quota adjustment for 2000; correction.

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SUMMARY: NMFS corrects the 2000 commercial summer flounder quota 
allocated to the State of Maryland. This action complies with the 
regulations that implement the Fishery Management Plan for the Summer 
Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fisheries (FMP), which specify that 
summer flounder landings in excess of a given state's individual 
commercial quota be deducted from that state's quota for the following 
year. The intent of this action is to correct for the deduction of an 
overage from the Maryland allocation that was made in error.

DATES: Effective November 20, 2000, through December 31, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul H. Jones, Fisheries Policy 
Analyst, (978) 281-9273, fax 978-281-9135, e-mail 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 18, 2000 (65 FR 50463), NMFS announced preliminary 
adjustments to the 2000 summer flounder commercial quotas based on 
updated 1999 landings data. However, after the publication of that 
adjustment, NMFS discovered that some summer flounder landings reported 
by the State of Maryland in 1999 were double-counted, meaning that the 
final 1999 landings did not exceed that state's quota.
    Therefore, this document corrects the entries for Maryland 
specified in Table 1, Summer Flounder Preliminary 1999 Landings and 
Overages by State; and

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Table 2, Summer Flounder Preliminary Adjusted 2000 Quotas by State, as 
published at 65 FR 50463, August 18, 2000, (FR Doc. 00-21100).

Corrections

    Table 1. Summer Flounder Preliminary 1999 Landings and Overages by 
State, is corrected as follows:
    On page 50464, in the fourth column, under the heading 
``Preliminary 1999 Landings'', and under the subheading ``Lb'', in the 
ninth line, ``234,358'' is corrected to read ``200,997''; in the last 
line, the total ``10,653,199'' is corrected to read ``10,619,838'', and 
in the fifth column of the table, under the subheading ``Kg'', in the 
ninth line, ``106,303'' is corrected to read ``91,172''; in the last 
line, the total ``4,832,209'' is corrected to read ``4,817,159''. In 
the sixth column of the table, under the heading ``1999 Overage'', and 
under the subheading ``Lb'', in the ninth line, ``32,004'' is corrected 
to read ``0''; and in the seventh column of the table, under the 
subheading ``Kg'', in the ninth line, ``14,517'' is corrected to read 
``0''.
    Table 2. Summer Flounder Preliminary Adjusted 2000 Quotas by State, 
is corrected as follows:
    On page 50464, in the fourth column, under the heading ``2000 
Adjusted Quota'', and under the subheading ``Lb'', in the ninth line, 
``194,564'' is corrected to read ``226,568''; in the last line, the 
total ``10,882,897'' is corrected to read ``10,914,901''; and in the 
fifth column of the table, under the subheading ``Kg'', in the ninth 
line, ``88,253'' is corrected to read ``102,771''; in the last line, 
the total ``4,936,398'' is corrected to read ``4,950,999''.

Classification

    This action is required by 50 CFR part 648 and is exempt from 
review under Executive Order 12866.

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

    Dated: November 15, 2000.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 00-29778 Filed 11-20-00; 8:45 am]
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