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  <title><![CDATA[  Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Revision to  the Management of ``Other Species'' Community]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-12-16-03-30921</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ 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 the catch of nonCDQ groundfish in the Bering Sea and 
Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action also eliminates 
the CDQ nonspecific reserve and makes other changes to improve the 
clarity and consistency of CDQ Program regulations. This action is 
necessary to improve NMFS' ability to effectively administer the CDQ 
Program. It is intended to further the goals and objectives of the  North Pacific Fishery<br/> [[Page 69975]]<br/>
Management Council (Council) with respect to this program.
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  <pubDate>Tue, Dec 16 2003 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Bluefin Tuna Fisheries ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-12-16-03-30914</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ 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 tons (mt).
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  <pubDate>Tue, Dec 16 2003 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act  Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States;]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-12-16-03-30923</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ 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 
adjustment; and an analysis of fishing gear impacts on Essential Fish 
Habitat (EFH) for surfclams and ocean quahogs. This final rule includes 
technical corrections to the regulations implementing the FMP in order 
to clarify the MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council) 
intent not to restrict allocation ownership to only those entities that 
also own a permitted vessel, and to eliminate the restriction on the 
transfer of allocation tags of amounts less than 160 bushels (bu) (85 
hectoliters (hL)) (i.e., 5 cage tags). The primary purpose of Amendment 
13 is to rectify the disapproved surfclam overfishing definition and 
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  <pubDate>Tue, Dec 16 2003 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing  Operations; Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-12-16-03-30995</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ 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 days. The purpose of this action is to provide 
protection to an aggregation of North Atlantic right whales (right 
whales).
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  <guid>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-12-16-03-30995</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, Dec 16 2003 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Taking of Threatened or Endangered Species Incidental to  Commercial Fishing Operations]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-12-16-03-30919</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ 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 conditions are forecasted or present off southern California.  NMFS<br/> [[Page 69963]]<br/>
has determined that the incidental take of loggerhead sea turtles by 
this fishery correlates to the area and season being fished during 
these oceanographic conditions. If implemented, this time and area 
closure will result in a reduction in the take of loggerhead turtles by 
the fishery and would be necessary to avoid the likelihood of the CA/OR 
drift gillnet fishery jeopardizing the continued existence of the 
loggerhead turtle population.
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  <pubDate>Tue, Dec 16 2003 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Small Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities;  Oceanographic Surveys off the Northern Yucatan]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-12-16-03-30922</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ 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 Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments on its 
proposal to issue an authorization to LDEO to incidentally take, by 
harassment, small numbers of several species of cetaceans and pinnipeds 
for a limited period of time within the next year.
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  <pubDate>Tue, Dec 16 2003 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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