[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 163 (Thursday, August 24, 2017)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 40075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17970]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 622
[Docket No. 160906822-7547-02]
RIN 0648-BG33
Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic;
Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region; Amendment 37;
Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: NMFS published a final rule on July 25, 2017, to implement
management measures described in Amendment 37 to the Fishery Management
Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region
(Amendment 37). This notification corrects the coordinate contained in
footnote 2 to Table 1 in the regulatory text to be consistent with the
same management boundary and coordinate described in other regulations
applicable to the snapper-grouper fishery.
DATES: This correction notice is effective on August 24, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Bailey, NMFS Southeast Regional
Office, telephone: 727-824-5305, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 25, 2017, NMFS published a final
rule in the Federal Register (82 FR 34584) to implement management
measures in Amendment 37. The final rule modifies the fishery
management unit boundaries for hogfish in the South Atlantic by
establishing two hogfish stocks, a Georgia through North Carolina (GA/
NC) stock and a Florida Keys/East Florida (FLK/EFL) stock; establishes
a rebuilding plan for the FLK/EFL hogfish stock; specifies fishing
levels and accountability measures (AMs), and modifies or establishes
management measures for the GA/NC and FLK/EFL stocks of hogfish. The
purpose of the final rule is to manage hogfish using the best
scientific information available while ending overfishing and
rebuilding the FLK/EFL hogfish stock. The final rule is effective
August 24, 2017.
Need for Correction
As explained in the final rule for Amendment 37, NMFS corrected an
error with the footnotes in Table 1 of Sec. 622.1. After the final
rule published, NMFS discovered an additional error in one of those
footnotes addressed in the final rule for Amendment 37. NMFS determined
that a coordinate describing a management boundary for black sea bass
and scup in footnote 2 was inaccurate and inconsistent with the same
management boundary referenced in subpart I of part 622 of the Code of
Federal Regulations. NMFS publishes this notification to correct that
mistake. The coordinate in footnote 2 is intended to be
``35[deg]15.19''', not ``35[deg]15.9'''.
Corrections
In the Federal Register on July 25, 2017, in FR Doc. 2017-15588:
1. On p. 34594, instruction 2 is corrected to read as follows:
``2. In Sec. 622.1, revise the Table 1 entry for ``FMP for the
Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region,'' revise the
entry for footnote 2, and add footnote 8 to Table 1 to read as
follows:''
2. On page 34594, footnote 2 in Table 1 to Sec. 622.1 is corrected
to read as follows:
`` \2\ Black sea bass and scup are not managed by the FMP or
regulated by this part north of 35[deg]15.19' N. lat., the latitude of
Cape Hatteras Light, NC.''
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 21, 2017.
Chris Oliver,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-17970 Filed 8-23-17; 8:45 am]
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