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CFR Citation: 50 CFR Part 648
Docket ID: [Docket No. 061020273[dash]7001[dash]03; I.D. 031207A]
NOTICE: RULES
ACTION: Fishery conservation and management:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Temporary rule; inseason quota transfer.
SUBJECT CATEGORY: Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder Fishery; Quota Transfer
DATES: Effective March 16, 2007 through December 31, 2007, unless NMFS publishes a superseding document in the Federal Register.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is transferring 69,558 lb (31,551 kg) of commercial summer flounder quota to the Commonwealth of Virginia from its 2007 quota. By this action, NMFS adjusts the quotas and announces the revised commercial quota for each state involved.
SUMMARY: Northeastern United States fisheries—; Summer flounder,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Regulations governing the summer flounder fishery are found at 50 CFR part 648. The regulations require annual specification of a commercial quota that is apportioned among the coastal states from North Carolina through Maine. The process to set the annual commercial quota and the percent allocated to each state are described in Sec. 648.100.The final rule implementing Amendment 5 to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan, which was published on December 17, 1993 (58 FR 65936), provided a mechanism for summer flounder quota to be transferred from one state to another. Two or more states, under mutual agreement and with the concurrence of the Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS (Regional Administrator), can transfer or combine summer flounder commercial quota under Sec. 648.100(d). The Regional Administrator is required to consider the criteria set forth in Sec. 648.100(d)(3) in the evaluation of requests for quota transfers or combinations.
North Carolina has agreed to transfer 69,558 lb (31,551 kg) of its 2007 commercial quota to Virginia to cover
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landings of eight North Carolina vessels granted safe harbor in
Virginia due to winter storm conditions between February 13 and 15,
2007. The Regional Administrator has determined that the criteria set
forth in Sec. 648.100(d)(3) have been met. The revised quotas for
calendar year 2007 are: North Carolina, 2,680,308 lb (1,215,767 kg); and Virginia, 2,208,376 lb (1,001,703 kg).
Classification
This action is taken under 50 CFR part 648 and is exempt from review under Executive Order 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 12, 2007.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E74886 Filed 31607; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Douglas Potts, Fishery Management Specialist, (978) 2819341, FAX (978) 2819135.
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