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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Economic Surveys of
Specific US Commercial Fisheries
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on January 24,
2025, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Economic Surveys of Specific
US Commercial Fisheries.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0773.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Extension of a currently approved
collection.
Number of Respondents: 1,480.
Average Hours per Response:
NWFSC: West Coast Limited Entry
Groundfish Fixed Gear Fisheries
Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
NWFSC: West Coast Open Access
Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab,
and Shrimp Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 3 hours.
PIFSC: American Samoa Longline
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Pelagic Longline
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
Economic Data Collection: 45 minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa Small Boat
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 45
minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa, Guam, and
The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based
Fisheries Economic Data Collection (an
add-on to a creel survey): 10 minutes.
PIFSC: Mariana Archipelago Small
Boat Fleet Economic Data Collection: 45
minutes.

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SEFSC: USVI F Small-Scale
Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
SEFSC: Puerto Rico Small-Scale
Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
SEFSC: Gulf of Mexico Inshore
Shrimp Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 28 minutes.
SEFSC: U.S. South Atlantic Region
Golden Crab Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 28 minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast Coastal Pelagic
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 3
hours.
SWFSC: West Coast Swordfish
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 30
minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast North Pacific
Albacore Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 65 minutes.
NEFSC: Northeast Commercial
Fishing Business Economic Data
Collection: 45 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,696.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for
extension of an approved information
collection.
The National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) Office of Science and
Technology is sponsoring the collection
Economic Surveys of Specific US
Commercial Fisheries.
The requested information includes
different components of operating costs/
expenditures, earnings, ownership,
vessel characteristics, effort/gear
descriptors, employment, and
demographic information for the various
types of fishing vessels operating in the
16 U.S. commercial fisheries or groups
of fisheries listed below.
1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish
Fixed Gear Fishery
2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish,
Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and Shrimp
Fisheries
3. American Samoa Longline Fishery
4. Hawaii Longline Fishery
5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery
7. American Samoa (ESAS), Guam, and
The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small BoatBased Fisheries
8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat
Fishery
9. USVI Small-Scale Fisheries
10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Fisheries
11. Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp
Fishery
12. Golden Crab Fisheries in the U.S.
South Atlantic Region
13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery
15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore
Fishery
16. Greater Atlantic Region Commercial
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A variety of laws, Executive Orders
(EOs), and NOAA strategies and policies
include requirements for economic data
and the analyses they support. When
met adequately, those requirements
allow better-informed conservation and
management decisions on the use of
living marine resources and marine
habitat in federally managed fisheries.
Obtaining these data improves the
ability of NOAA Fisheries and the
Regional Fishery Management Councils
(Councils) to monitor, explain and
predict changes in the economic
performance and impacts of federally
managed commercial fisheries.
Measures of economic performance
include costs, earnings, and profitability
(net revenue); productivity and
economic efficiency; capacity; economic
stability; the level and distribution of
net economic benefits to society; and
market power. The economic impacts
include sector, community or regionspecific and national employment,
sales, value-added, and income impacts.
Economic data are required to support
more than a cursory effort to comply
with or support the following laws, EOs,
and NOAA strategies and policies:
1. Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(MSA)
2. Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA)
3. Endangered Species Act (ESA)
4. National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA)
5. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
6. E.O. 12866 (Regulatory Planning and
Review)
7. The NOAA Fisheries Guidelines for
Economic Reviews of Regulatory
Actions
8. NOAA FY22–26 Strategic Plan,
Building a Climate Ready Nation
9. The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan
2022–2025 (Strategic Plan)
10. The NOAA Fisheries EcosystemBased Fishery Management (EBFM)
Road Map
11. The NOAA Fisheries National
Bycatch Reduction Strategy
12. NOAA’s Catch Share Policy.
Data collections will focus each year
on a different set of the 16 commercial
fisheries or groups of fisheries. This
cycle of data collection will facilitate
economic data being available and
updated for all those commercial
fisheries.
There will be an effort to coordinate
the data collections in order to reduce
the additional burden for those who
participate in multiple fisheries. To
further reduce the burden, the requested
information for a specific fishery will be
limited to that which is not available

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from other sources. Participation in
these data collections will be voluntary.
Affected Public: Individuals/
households and business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Every 3 to 8 years for 15
of the fisheries and on average 2.7 times
per year for the other fisheries.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act,
Endangered Species Act, National
Environmental Policy Act, and
Regulatory Flexibility Act.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0773.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Marine Mammals; File No. 28533
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit.
AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that a
permit has been issued to Leslie Hart,
Ph.D., College of Charleston, 66 George
Street, Charleston, SC 29424 to import,
export, and receive marine mammal
parts for scientific research.
ADDRESSES: The permit and related
documents are available for review
upon written request via email to
NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shasta McClenahan, Ph.D., or Carrie
Hubard, (301) 427–8401.

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SUMMARY:

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On
December 17, 2024, notice was
published in the Federal Register (89
FR 102118) that a request for a permit
to import, export, and receive marine
mammal parts for scientific research
had been submitted by the above-named
applicant. The requested permit has
been issued under the authority of the
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972,
as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the
regulations governing the taking and
importing of marine mammals (50 CFR
part 216), the Endangered Species Act of
1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.), the regulations governing the
taking, importing, and exporting of
endangered and threatened species (50
CFR parts 222–226), and the Fur Seal
Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1151
et seq.).
The permit was issued on March 25,
2025 and is valid through March 31,
2030 and authorizes receipt, import, and
export of parts from up to 700
individual cetaceans and 700 individual
pinnipeds (excluding walrus) annually
to investigate exposure to
environmental microplastics.
In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final
determination has been made that the
activity proposed is categorically
excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement.
As required by the ESA, issuance of
this permit was based on a finding that
such permit: (1) was applied for in good
faith; (2) will not operate to the
disadvantage of such endangered
species; and (3) is consistent with the
purposes and policies set forth in
section 2 of the ESA.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Dated: April 21, 2025.
Julia M. Harrison,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XE871]

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:

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The Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council’s (Council)
Scientific and Statistical Committee
(SSC) will hold a meeting.

SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, starting at 9:30
a.m. and continue through 12:30 p.m.
on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for agenda
details.
DATES:

This will be an in-person
meeting with a virtual option. SSC
members, other invited meeting
participants, and members of the public
will have the option to participate in
person at the Royal Sonesta Harbor
Court, 550 Light Street, Baltimore, MD
or virtually via Webex webinar. Webinar
connection instructions and briefing
materials will be available at:
www.mafmc.org/ssc.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N State
Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
telephone: (302) 674–2331; website:
www.mafmc.org.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, telephone: (302)
526–5255.
During
this meeting, the SSC will make multiyear acceptable biological catch (ABC)
recommendations for Blueline Tilefish
and Chub Mackerel. The SSC will
recommend new 2026–2028 ABC
specifications for Blueline Tilefish
based on updated stock assessment
results and recommendations from a
joint Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic
Blueline Tilefish SSC Working Group.
The SSC will recommend new 2026–
2028 ABC specifications for Chub
Mackerel based on updated catch and
survey information. The SSC will also
review the most recent survey and
fishery data and the previously
recommended 2026 ABC for Atlantic
Surfclam, Ocean Quahog, Golden
Tilefish, Butterfish, and Longfin Squid.
The SSC will discuss the activities and
future products of the Overfishing Limit
(OFL) Coefficient of Variation (CV) subgroup and the sector-specific OFL/ABC
white paper sub-group. The SSC will
also discuss the final recommendations
and Mid-Atlantic action items
developed from the 8th National
Scientific Coordination Sub-Committee
Workshop. The SSC may take up any
other business as necessary.
A detailed agenda and background
documents will be made available on
the Council’s website (www.mafmc.org)
prior to the meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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