[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 249 (Friday, December 28, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67228-67229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31975]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 121901C]


Permits; Foreign Fishing

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

ACTION: Notice of receipt of foreign fishing applications.

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SUMMARY: NMFS publishes for public review and comment a summary of 
applications submitted by the Government of the Russian Federation 
requesting authorization to conduct fishing operations in the U.S. 
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in 2002 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 here:
    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 two applications 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 stern trawler/
processors KAPITAN GORBACHEV, PATROKL and RYBACHIY are identified as 
the Russian vessels that would receive Atlantic herring and Atlantic 
mackerel from U.S. vessels in

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JV operations. The applications also request allocations totaling 4,500 
metric tons (mt) of Atlantic herring and 3,500 mt of Atlantic mackerel 
for harvest by the named vessels in 2001.

    Dated: December 20, 2001.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 01-31975 Filed 12-27-01; 8:45 am]
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