[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 98 (Monday, May 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25208-25209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12533]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 051396C]
Endangered Species; Permits
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Receipt of two applications for scientific research/enhancement
permits (P503S and P211J).
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Idaho Department of Fish and
Game in Boise, ID (IDFG) and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
in La Grande, OR (ODFW) have applied in due form for permits to take a
threatened species for the purpose of scientific research/enhancement.
DATES: Written comments or requests for a public hearing on either of
these applications must be received on or before June 19, 1996.
ADDRESSES: The applications and related documents are available for
review in the following offices, by appointment:
Office of Protected Resources, F/PR8, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway,
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3226 (301-713-1401); and
Environmental and Technical Services Division, 525 NE Oregon
Street, Suite 500, Portland, OR 97232-4169 (503-230-5400).
Written comments or requests for a public hearing should be
submitted to the Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of
Protected Resources.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: IDFG and ODFW request permits under the
authority of section 10 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA)
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(16 U.S.C. 1531-1543) and the NMFS regulations governing ESA-listed
fish and wildlife permits (50 CFR parts 217-227).
IDFG (P503S) requests a permit to take threatened Snake River
spring/summer chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) associated with
a captive rearing program for three populations of chinook salmon in
Idaho. The captive rearing program has been proposed as an effort to
forestall the extinction of the local populations and to preserve the
overall stock structure of Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon.
The long-term objective of the program is to achieve the sustainable
recovery of the ESA-listed Snake River salmon populations. IDFG propose
to collect juveniles for the captive rearing program annually from the
upper Salmon River tributaries of West Fork Yankee Fork, upper East
Fork, and Lemhi River. IDFG propose to rear and maintain the fish
collected until mature. IDFG intends to prevent cohort collapse by
supplementing the respective natural adult spawning populations with
adults from the captive rearing program.
The captive rearing program was initiated when NMFS issued
emergency permit 972 to IDFG on August 7, 1995 (60 FR 42147, August 15,
1995) to allow the collection, handling, and rearing of juvenile, ESA-
listed, chinook salmon. Earlier this year, IDFG requested modification
1 to permit 972 for authorization to transfer some of the ESA-listed
juveniles collected last year to NMFS's Manchester Marine Experimental
Station in WA (61 FR 14296, April 1, 1996). IDFG also requested that
the NMFS staff at the laboratory be authorized to rear and maintain the
ESA-listed juvenile fish as an agent of IDFG under permit 972. Under
their new permit application, IDFG propose that the ESA-listed fish
being reared by NMFS be transported back to IDFG when mature to be
released in their natal streams for spawning. The issuance of
modification 1 to permit 972 is pending. Should a new permit be issued
for the captive rearing program, that permit would replace permit 972.
ODFW (P211J) requests a permit to take threatened Snake River
spring/summer chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) associated with
a captive broodstock program for three populations of chinook salmon in
Oregon. The captive broodstock program has been proposed as an effort
to forestall the extinction of the local populations and to preserve
the overall stock structure of Snake River spring/summer chinook
salmon. The long-term objective of the program is to achieve the
sustainable recovery of the ESA-listed Snake River salmon populations.
ODFW propose to collect juveniles for the captive broodstock program
annually from the Grande Ronde River Basin tributaries of the Lostine
River, Catherine Creek, and the upper Grande Ronde River in northeast
Oregon. ODFW propose to rear and maintain the ESA-listed fish in
hatcheries until mature, spawn the fish, rear and maintain the
resulting progeny to smolts, and release the offspring in their
respective parental streams and/or other chinook producing streams
within that drainage. ODFW also propose to outplant adults and/or
progeny as eggs or parr produced in excess of smolt needs directly into
unseeded historic production areas and to collect adults for broodstock
beginning in 1997 should returns allow.
The captive broodstock program was initiated when NMFS issued
emergency permit 973 to ODFW on August 7, 1995 (60 FR 42147, August 15,
1995) to allow the collection, handling, and rearing of juvenile, ESA-
listed, chinook salmon. Earlier this year, ODFW requested modification
1 to permit 973 for authorization to transfer some of the ESA-listed
juveniles collected last year to NMFS's Manchester Marine Experimental
Station in WA (61 FR 14296, April 1, 1996). ODFW also requested that
the NMFS staff at the laboratory be authorized to rear and maintain the
ESA-listed juvenile fish as an agent of ODFW under permit 973. Under
their new permit application, ODFW propose that the ESA-listed fish
being reared by NMFS be transported back to ODFW when mature to be
spawned at ODFW's Bonneville Hatchery. The issuance of modification 1
to permit 973 is pending. Should a new permit be issued for the captive
broodstock program, that permit would replace permit 973.
Those individuals requesting a hearing (see ADDRESSES) should set
out the specific reasons why a hearing on either of these applications
would be appropriate. The holding of such hearing is at the discretion
of the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA. All statements and
opinions contained in these application summaries are those of the
applicants and do not necessarily reflect the views of NMFS.
Dated: May 14, 1996.
Eric H. Ostrovsky,
Acting Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-12533 Filed 5-17-96; 8:45 am]
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