[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 138 (Wednesday, July 18, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 37457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17938]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 070901D]


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 the Russian Federation 
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 document concerns the receipt of an application from the 
Government of the Russian Federation requesting authorization to 
conduct joint venture (JV) operations in 2001 in the Northwest Atlantic 
Ocean for Atlantic herring and Atlantic mackerel. The large stern 
trawler/processor PATROKL is identified as the Russian vessel that 
would receive Atlantic herring and Atlantic mackerel from U.S. vessels 
in JV operations. The application also requests that the Government of 
the Russian Federation be allocated 3,000 metric tons (mt) of Atlantic 
herring and 2,000 mt of Atlantic mackerel for harvest by the named 
vessel in 2001.

    Dated: July 12, 2001.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 01-17938 Filed 7-17-01; 8:45 am]
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