[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 38944]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19114]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 679
[Docket No. 970619143-7143-01; I.D. 070997D]
RIN 0648-AC68
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Define
Fishing Trip in Groundfish Fisheries; Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Correction to final regulations.
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SUMMARY: NMFS is correcting a section of regulations that contain an
inadvertent error that was introduced during a recent revision to
regulations that pertain to the groundfish fisheries of the Gulf of
Alaska and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. This action corrects
regulations defining a fishing trip.
DATES: Effective July 21, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan J. Salveson, 907-586-7228
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
A final rule was published in the Federal Register on June 30, 1997
(62 FR 35109), that revised the definition of fishing trip with respect
to monitoring compliance with groundfish directed closures.
As published, the instructions to revise the regulations contained
an inadvertent error that resulted in the removal of two definitions of
fishing trip with respect to the Individual Fishing Quota program and a
vessel used to process or deliver fish. NMFS is correcting this error
as follows and makes no substantive changes.
In Sec. 679.2, the definition of ``fishing trip'' (page 35111) did
not contain the amendatory instruction indicating that only definition
(1) was affected, and two existing definitions were removed in error.
This action restates the definition of ``fishing trip.''
Correction of Publication
Accordingly, the publication of June 30, 1997, of the final
regulations (I.D. 061097A), which was the subject of FR Doc. 97-17046,
is corrected as follows:
Sec. 679.2 [Corrected]
On page 35111, in the first column, amendatory instruction number 2
is corrected to read as follows:
2. In Sec. 679.2, the definition of ``Fishing trip'' is revised to
read as follows:
Sec. 679.2 Definitions.
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Fishing trip means:
(1) With respect to monitoring compliance with groundfish directed
fishing closures, an operator of a vessel is engaged in a fishing trip
from the time the harvesting, receiving, or processing of groundfish is
begun or resumed in an area after the effective date of a notification
prohibiting directed fishing in the same area under Sec. 679.20 or
Sec. 679.21 until:
(i) The offload or transfer of all fish or fish product from that
vessel;
(ii) The vessel enters or leaves an area where a different directed
fishing prohibition applies; or
(iii) The end of a weekly reporting period, whichever comes first.
(2) With respect to the IFQ program, the period beginning when a
vessel operator commences harvesting IFQ species and ending when the
vessel operator lands any species.
(3) With respect to Part E of this part, one of the following
periods:
(i) For a vessel used to process groundfish or a catcher vessel
used to deliver groundfish to a mothership, a weekly reporting period
during which one or more fishing days occur.
(ii) For a catcher vessel used to deliver fish to other than a
mothership, the time period during which one or more fishing days
occur, that starts on the day when fishing gear is first deployed and
ends on the day the vessel offloads groundfish, returns to an Alaskan
port, or leaves the EEZ off Alaska and adjacent waters of the State of
Alaska.
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Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq., 1801 et seq., and 3631 et seq.
Dated: July 16, 1997.
David L. Evans,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 97-19114 Filed 7-18-97; 8:45 am]
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