[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 4 (Friday, January 6, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 2032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-351]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 630
[Docket No. 931078-4286; I.D. 122294E]
Atlantic Swordfish Fishery; Pilot Study Landing Requirements
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Announcement of a change in off-loading requirements.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces that volunteer participants selected by NMFS to
participate in the swordfish pilot program are not required to observe
the off-loading time requirement when carrying an observer. The
observer will be collecting statistical data that would otherwise be
collected by dockside samplers within the off-loading time requirement.
Therefore, NMFS has determined that the off-loading requirements of the
regulations are unnecessary during 1995.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1995 through December 31, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rod Dalton, 813-893-3721, or Ron
Rinaldo, 301-713-2347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Atlantic swordfish fishery is managed
under the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Atlantic Swordfish and its
implementing regulations at 50 CFR part 630 under the authority of the
Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et
seq.) and the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act (ATCA) (16 U.S.C. 971 et
seq.). Regulations issued under authority of the ATCA carry out the
recommendations of the International Commission for the Conservation of
Atlantic Tunas.
Section 630.51(b)(6) of the regulations requires that off- loading
of vessels participating in the donation program begin between the
hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time. The Assistant Administrator for
Fisheries, NOAA, (AA) is authorized under Sec. 630.51(b)(7) to adjust
these requirements. NMFS is providing observers for all pilot program
trips in 1995. Therefore, the AA, in consultation with the industry and
the NMFS Office of Enforcement, waives Sec. 630.51 (b)(6), the off-
loading time requirements for vessels carrying NMFS observers for 1995.
Classification
This rule is exempt from review under E.O. 12866.
Dated: December 30, 1994.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-351 Filed 1-5-95; 8:45 am]
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