[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 22, 2004)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 76682-76683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-27979]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 041126332-4332-01; I.D. 112204A]


Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea 
and Aleutian Islands; 2005 and 2006 Proposed Harvest Specifications for 
Groundfish; Correction

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

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects a proposed rule to implement 2005 and 
2006 harvest specifications and prohibited species catch (PSC) 
allowances for the groundfish fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian 
Islands management area (BSAI). This document corrects errors in Table 
8 to the proposed specifications.

DATES: Comments must be received by January 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Sue Salveson, Assistant Regional 
Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, Alaska Region, NMFS, 
Attn: Lori Durall. Comments may be submitted by:
     Mail to P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802;
     Hand Delivery to the Federal Building, 709 West 9th 
Street, Room 420A, Juneau, AK;
     E-mail to [email protected] and include 
in the subject line of the e-mail comments the document identifier: 
2005 Proposed Specifications. E-mail comments, with or without 
attachments, are limited to 5 megabytes;
     FAX to 907-586-7557; or
     Webform at the Federal eRulemaking Portal: 
www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions at that site for 
submitting comments.
    Copies of the draft Environmental Assessment/Initial Regulatory 
Flexibility Analysis (EA/IRFA) prepared for this action are available 
from NMFS at the addresses above or from the Alaska Region website at 
www.fakr.noaa.gov. Copies of the final 2003 Stock Assessment and 
Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) report for the groundfish resources of the 
BSAI, dated November 2003, are available from the North Pacific Fishery 
Management Council (Council), West 4th Avenue, Suite 306, Anchorage, AK 
99510-2252 (907-271-2809), or from its website at www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Furuness, 907-586-7228, or e-mail 
at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS proposed 2005 and 2006 harvest 
specifications and PSC allowances for the groundfish fishery of the 
BSAI on December 8, 2004 (69 FR 70974). That rule lists proposed 
pollock allocations to the seven inshore catcher vessel pollock 
cooperatives. Allocations in the proposed rule reflect cooperative 
applications for 2005 that are due to NMFS by December 1 of each year. 
All of the changes based on these applications were not reflected in 
the proposed Table 8. This document corrects the proposed rule by 
reflecting accurately all of the applications received for the 2005 
year.

Correction

    As published, proposed rule FR Doc. 04-26952, December 8, 2004 (69 
FR 70974) contains an error and needs to be corrected. The corrected 
table adds member vessel PACIFIC CHALLENGER to the Peter Pad Fleet 
Cooperative and corrects data in columns 2, 3, 4, and 5 for the 
Westward Fleet Cooperative. The corrected table reads as follows:

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         TABLE 8 (corrected)--2005 AND 2006 PROPOSED BERING SEA SUBAREA INSHORE COOPERATIVE ALLOCATIONS
                                          [Amounts are in metric tons]
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                                        Sum of member
                                      vessel's official     Percentage of    2005 Annual co-op   2006 Annual co-
Cooperative name and member vessels   catch histories\1\    inshore sector    allocation (mt)     op allocation
                                             (mt)             allocation                              (mt)
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Akutan Catcher Vessel Association    245,922              28.130%            180,110            180,055
ALDEBARAN, ARCTIC EXPLORER,
 ARCTURUS, BLUE FOX, CAPE KIWANDA,
 COLUMBIA, DOMINATOR, EXODUS,
 FLYING CLOUD, GOLDEN DAWN, GOLDEN
 PISCES, HAZEL LORRAINE, INTREPID
 EXPLORER, LESLIE LEE, LISA
 MELINDA, MAJESTY, MARCY J,
 MARGARET LYN, MARK I, NORDIC
 EXPLORER, NORTHERN PATRIOT,
 NORTHWEST EXPLORER, PACIFIC RAM,
 PACIFIC VIKING, PEGASUS, PEGGY JO,
 PERSEVERANCE, PREDATOR, RAVEN,
 ROYAL AMERICAN, SEEKER,
 SOVEREIGNTY, TRAVELER, VIKING
 EXPLORER
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Arctic Enterprise Association        36,807               4.210%             26,957             26,948
BRISTOL EXPLORER, OCEAN EXPLORER,
 PACIFIC EXPLORER
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Northern Victor Fleet Cooperative    73,656               8.425%             53,945             53,929
ANITA J, COLLIER BROTHERS,
 COMMODORE, EXCALIBUR II, GOLDRUSH,
 HALF MOON BAY, MISS BERDIE, NORDIC
 FURY, PACIFIC FURY, POSEIDON,
 ROYAL ATLANTIC, SUNSET BAY, STORM
 PETREL
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Peter Pan Fleet Cooperative          23,850               2.728%             17,467             17,462
AJ, AMBER DAWN, AMERICAN BEAUTY,
 ELIZABETH F, MORNING STAR, OCEAN
 LEADER, OCEANIC, PACIFIC
 CHALLENGER, PROVIDIAN, TOPAZ,
 WALTER N
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Unalaska Cooperative                 106,737              12.209%            78,173             78,149
ALASKA ROSE, BERING ROSE,
 DESTINATION, GREAT PACIFIC,
 MESSIAH, MORNING STAR, MS AMY,
 PROGRESS, SEA WOLF, VANGUARD,
 WESTERN DAWN
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UniSea Fleet Cooperative             213,521              24.424%            156,380            156,333
ALSEA, AMERICAN EAGLE, ARGOSY,
 AURIGA, AURORA, DEFENDER, GUN-MAR,
 MAR-GUN, NORDIC STAR, PACIFIC
 MONARCH, SEADAWN, STARFISH,
 STARLITE, STARWARD
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Westward Fleet Cooperative           173,744              19.874%            127,248            127,209
ALASKAN COMMAND, ALYESKA, ARCTIC
 WIND, CAITLIN ANN, CHELSEA K, DONA
 MARTITA, FIERCE ALLEGIANCE,
 HICKORY WIND, OCEAN HOPE 3,
 PACIFIC KNIGHT, PACIFIC PRINCE,
 VIKING, WESTWARD I
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Open access AFA vessels              0                    0%                 0                  0
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Total inshore allocation             874,238              100%               640,280            640,085
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\1\According to regulations at Sec.   679.62(e)(1), the individual catch history for each vessel is equal to the
  vessel's best 2 of 3 years inshore pollock landings from 1995 through 1997 and includes landings to catcher/
  processors for vessels that made 500 or more mt of landings to catcher/processors from 1995 through 1997.

    All other information previously published remains the same.

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

    Dated: December 16, 2004.
William T. Hogarth,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 04-27979 Filed 12-21-04; 8:45 am]
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