RULES: Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone—; Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands groundfish,
Published: 2003-12-16
NMFS issues a final rule to modify the management of the
``other species'' Community Development Quota (CDQ) reserve by
eliminating specific allocations of ``other species'' CDQ to individual
CDQ managing organizations (CDQ groups) and, instead, allowing NMFS to
manage the ``other species'' CDQ reserve with the general limitations
used to manage
RULES: Atlantic highly migratory species—; Atlantic bluefin tuna,
Published: 2003-12-16
NMFS has determined that the 2003 fishing year Atlantic
bluefin tuna (BFT) General category quota will be attained by December
10, 2002. Therefore, the General category fishery will be closed
effective 11:30 p.m. on December 10, 2003. This action is being taken
to prevent overharvest of the total adjusted General category quota of
534.4 metric
RULES: Northeastern United States fisheries—; Atlantic surfclam and ocean quahog,
Published: 2003-12-16
NMFS implements measures contained in Amendment 13 to the FMP
(Amendment 13). Amendment 13 establishes: A new surfclam overfishing
definition; multiyear fishing quotas; a mandatory vessel monitoring
system (VMS), when such a system is economically viable; the ability to
suspend or adjust the surfclam minimum size limit through a framework
RULES: Commercial fishing operations; incidental taking—; Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan,
Published: 2003-12-16
The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries (AA), NOAA,
announces temporary restrictions consistent with the requirements of
the ALWTRP's implementing regulations. These regulations apply to
lobster trap/pot and anchored gillnet fishermen in an area totaling
approximately 1,356 square nautical miles (nm2) (4,651 km2), east of
Portsmouth, NH for 15
RULES: Incidental taking—; Southern California; drift gillnet fishing prohibition; loggerhead sea turtles,
Published: 2003-12-16
NMFS is issuing a final rule to prohibit fishing with drift
gillnets in the California/Oregon (CA/OR) thresher shark/swordfish
drift gillnet fishery in U.S. waters off southern California in waters
east of the 120[deg]W., for the months of June, July, and August, when
the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries (AA) publishes a notice that
El Nino
NOTICES: Incidental taking; authorization letters, etc.—; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; northern Yucatan Peninsula, Gulf of Mexico; cetaceans and pinnipeds,
Published: 2003-12-16
NMFS has received an application from the Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory (LDEO), a part of Columbia University, for an Incidental
Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take small numbers of marine mammals,
by harassment, incidental to conducting oceanographic surveys off the
northern Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. Under the Marine
Mammal
