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    <description>Daily Publications of Meetings and Rules Changes for the Federal Government</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, Dec 4 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea  and Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-06-16-E8-13529</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ NMFS announces the approval of Amendment 24 to the Fishery 
Management Plan for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs 
(FMP). Amendment 24 specifies a fivetier system for determining the 
status of the crab stocks managed under the FMP, establishes a process 
for annually assigning each crab stock to a tier and for setting the 
overfishing and overfished levels, and reduces the number of crab 
stocks managed under the FMP. Amendment 24 is necessary to establish 
new overfishing definitions that contain objective and measurable 
criteria for determining whether each managed stock is overfished or 
whether overfishing is occurring and to remove from the FMP several 
crab stocks managed by the State of Alaska. This action is intended to 
promote the goals and objectives of the MagnusonStevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act, the FMP, and other applicable laws.
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  <pubDate>Mon, Jun 16 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Northeast  Multispecies Fishery; Scallop Dredge Exemption Areas; Addition]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-06-16-E8-13492</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ This action modifies the regulations implementing the 
Northeast (NE) Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP) to create 
three NE Multispecies Scallop Exemptions that are identical to the 
current scallop exemptions, except for the addition of an incidental 
monkfish catch limit. These new scallop exemptions are restricted to 
vessels issued either a General Category Atlantic sea scallop permit or 
a limited access Atlantic sea scallop permit (when not fishing under a 
scallop daysatsea (DAS) limitation), when fishing for scallops with 
small dredge gear (combined width not to exceed 10.5 ft (3.2 m)). 
Vessels that land an incidental catch of monkfish within these new 
scallop exemptions are required to possess, and have onboard, a valid 
limited access monkfish permit, or an open access monkfish Incidental 
Catch permit. The intent of this action is to allow small scallop 
dredge vessels to land monkfish that are currently being discarded, 
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  <pubDate>Mon, Jun 16 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Scup Fishery;  Commercial Quota Harvested for 2008 Summer Period]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-06-16-08-1357</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ NMFS announces the closure of the scup commercial coastwide 
fishery from Maine through North Carolina for the Summer Period. 
Regulations governing the scup fishery require publication of this 
notification to advise the coastal states from Maine through North 
Carolina that this quota has been harvested and to advise Federal 
vessel permit holders and Federal dealer permit holders that no 
commercial quota is available for landing scup in these states. 
Federally permitted commercial vessels may not land scup in these  states for the<br/> [[Page 33925]]<br/>
remainder of the 2008 Summer quota period (through October 31, 2008).
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