[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2184-2185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-802]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No. 971015246-7293-02; I.D. 100897D]
RIN 0648-AK44
Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder,
Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fisheries; 1998 Final Specifications;
Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Correction to final rule.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: NMFS issued a final rule that implemented the final
specifications for the 1998 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass
fisheries (62 FR 66304, December 18, 1997). Several errors were made in
Table 4, which specified the 1998 black sea bass quarterly coastwide
quotas and quarterly trip limits. This document revises Table 4 to the
preamble of the above final rule. The dates for the final rule remain
unchanged.
DATES: The amendments to Secs. 648.14(u)(1), 648.100(a), 648.143(a),
and Sec. 648.144(a)(1)(i) were effective January 1, 1998. The final
specifications for the 1998 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass
fisheries and notifications of commercial quota harvest were effective
January 1, 1998, through December 31, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Regina L. Spallone, Fishery Policy
Analyst, (978-281-9221).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The title of Table 4 needs to be clarified
to indicate that the table specifies the allocations and trip limits
for the commercial black sea bass fishery. In fact, 49 percent of the
total harvest limit for black sea bass is allocated to the commercial
sector as a quota, and 51 percent is allocated to the recreational
sector as a coastwide harvest limit. The commercial quota is further
allocated to
[[Page 2185]]
4 quarters based on the percentages specified in the regulations. The
percent allocations and the trip limits specified in Table 4 are
correct.
Correction
NMFS is correcting Table 4 published in the final rule document 97-
33076 (December 18, 1997, 62 FR 66304), on page 66307 to read as
follows:
Table 4.--1998 Black Sea Bass Quarterly Coastwide Commercial Quotas and Quarterly Trip Limits
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Trip limits
Quarter Percent (%) Pounds (kg) \1\ -------------------------
Lbs (kg)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. (Jan-Mar)................................... 38.64 1,168,860 530,186 11,000 4,990
2. (Apr-Jun)................................... 29.26 885,115 401,481 7,000 3,175
3. (Jul-Sep)................................... 12.33 372,983 169,182 3,000 1,361
4. (Oct-Dec)................................... 19.77 598,043 271,268 4,000 1,814
----------------------------------------------------------------
Total...................................... 100.00 3,025,000 1,372,117 ........... ...........
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Kilograms are as converted from pounds and do not add to the converted total due to rounding.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: January 8, 1998.
Rolland A. Schmitten,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 98-802 Filed 1-13-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
