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Beluga Whales
  • 73 FR 14443, March 18, 2008. Notice of proposed IHA and receipt of application from the Port of Anchorage to take small numbers of marine mammals by Level B harassment. Comment period through April 17, 2008.

  • 73 FR 14237, March 17, 2008. Notice of scoping meetings and Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for Navy training activities in the Gulf of Alaska. The Navy will invite the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to be cooperating agencies in preparation of this EIS/OEIS.

  • 73 FR 13894, March 14, 2008. Availability of EPA comments on the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Subsistence Harvest Project.

  • 73 FR 12411, March 7, 2008. EPA comments on Knik Arm Crossing Project

  • 73 FR 2903, January 16, 2008. Notice of public hearings on the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Subsistence Harvest Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. Public hearing dates are January 29, 2008, in Anchorage, AK and January 30, 2008 in Soldotna, AK.

  • 73 FR 2027, January 11, 2008. Correction to comment period date for 72 FR 73798, December 28, 2007. Comment period is from February 11, 2008 through March 4, 2008.


Bowhead Whale
  • 73 FR 12411, March 7, 2008. No formal comment from EPA on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Issuing Annual Quotas to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission for a Subsistence Hunt on Bowhead Whales for the Years 2008 through 2012

  • 73 FR 4561, January 25, 2008. Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Issuing Annual Quotas to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission for a Subsistence Hunt on Bowhead Whales for the Years 2008 through 2012. Wait Period ends March 3, 2008.

Crab
  • 73 FR 8853, February 15, 2008. Notice of proposed information collection on the Alaska Region BSAI Crab Economic Data Reports. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice.

  • 73 FR 8852, February 15, 2008. Notice of information collection on the Alaska Region BSAI Crab Arbitration. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice.

Exempted Fishing Permits
  • 73 FR 14226, March 17, 2008. Notice of receipt of an application for an exempted fishing permit from the Alaska Groundfish Databank. If granted, this permit would allow the applicant to continue the development and testing of an electronic monitoring system designed to quantify the amount of halibut caught and discarded at sea. Comment period through April 1–7, 2008.

  • 73 FR 13210, March 12, 2008. Notice of receipt of an application for an exempted fishing permit (EFP) from Mr. John Gauvin of Gauvin and Associates, LLC to continue the development and testing of a salmon excluder device for the Bering Sea pollock trawl fishery. Comments will be accepted at the April 1–7, 2008, North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Anchorage, AK.

GrantsHalibut
  • 73 FR 8852, February 15, 2008. Notice of proposed information collection on the Special Subsistence Permits and Harvest Logs for Pacific Halibut in Waters Off Alaska. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice.

Halibut Charter Harvest Levels
  • 73 FR 24955, May 6, 2008. Notice of correction to the Pacific halibut fishery guideline harvest levels (GHLs) for the guided sport charter vessel fishery in the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) regulatory areas 2C and 3A.

  • 73 FR 6709, February 5, 2008. Notice of Pacific halibut guideline harvest levels (GHLs) for the guided sport charter vessel fishery in the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) regulatory areas 2C and 3A.

Herring
  • 73 FR 19824, April 11, 2008. Notice of a 12–month finding on a petition to list Lynn Canal Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) as a threatened or endangered Species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NMFS finds that listing Lynn Canal Pacific herring as threatened or endangered under the ESA is not warranted.

Humpback Whales
  • 73 FR 14237, March 17, 2008. Notice of scoping meetings and Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for Navy training activities in the Gulf of Alaska. The Navy will invite the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to be cooperating agencies in preparation of this EIS/OEIS.

Individual Fishing Quota Program (IFQ)
  • 73 FR 8852, February 15, 2008. Notice of proposed information collection on the IFQ or processor quota permit application and applications to become an Eligible Crab Community Organization. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice.

Marine Mammal Strandings
  • 73 FR 3698, January 22, 2008. Notice of proposed information collection on the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program Survey for Stranding Network Participants. Comment period through March 24, 2008.

Marine Mammal Take and Research Permits
  • 73 FR 25668, May 7, 2008. Notice of receipt of application for an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 540–1811 from Mr. John Calambokidis, Cascadia Research Collective. Comment period through June 6, 2008.

  • 73 FR 24236, May 2, 2008. Notice of receipt of application from BP Exploration, Inc. for an IHA to take marine mammals incidental to a 3D, ocean bottom cable seismic survey in the Liberty Prospect, Beaufort Sea. Comment period through June 2, 2008.

  • 73 FR 22922, April 28, 2008. Notice of receipt of application from the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Energy Services for an IHA to take small numbers of marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to conducting shallow hazard and site clearance surveys in the Chukchi Sea between July and November 2008. Comment period through May 28, 2008.

  • 73 FR 19821, April 11, 2008. Notice of Proposed Information Collection on Permits for Incidental Taking of Endangered or Threatened Species. Comment period through June 10, 2008.

  • 73 FR 14443, March 18, 2008. Notice of proposed IHA and receipt of application from the Port of Anchorage to take small numbers of marine mammals by Level B harassment. Comment period through April 17, 2008.

  • 73 FR 14456, March 18, 2008. Notice of issuance of a 1–year Letter of Authorization to the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation, to take Steller’s sea lions and Pacific harbor seals incidental to rocket launches from the Kodiak Launch Complex. Effective March 12 2008, through March 11, 2009.

  • 73 FR 9535, February 21, 2008. Notification of IHA to take marine mammals, by Level-B harassment, incidental to conducting on-ice marine geophysical research and seismic surveys by CGGVeritas (Veritas) and Shell Offshore, Inc. (SOI) in the U.S. Beaufort Sea.

  • 73 FR 454, January 3, 2008. Notice of issuance of permit amendment to National Marine Mammal Laboratory for Permit No. 782–1676–01, for research on marine mammals. Duration of permit extended through December 31, 2008.

Marine Protected Areas
  • 73 FR 17957, April 2, 2008. Notice of the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee meeting April 22-24, 2008, Washington DC.

North Pacific Fishery Management Council
  • 73 FR 26964, May 12, 2008. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory committees will hold public meetings, June 4–10, 2008, in Kodiak, AK.

  • 73 FR 24236, May 2, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council Ecosystem Committee meeting May 20, 2008, Seattle, WA.

  • 73 FR 24235, May 2, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Pacific Northwest Crab Industry Advisory committee meeting, May 19th, 2008 Seattle, WA.

  • 73 FR 20910, April 17, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Crab Plan Team meeting May 6-9, Seattle, WA.

  • 73 FR 18261, April 3, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council Crab committee meeting April 29, 2008, Seattle, WA.

  • 73 FR 18261, April 3, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Non-Target Species committee meeting April 23, 2008, Anchorage, AK.

  • 73 FR 14229, March 17, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and its advisory committees public meeting April 1–7, 2008, Anchorage, AK.

  • 73 FR 10744, February 28, 2008. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Observer Advisory Committee will meet in Seattle, WA on March 17, 2008.

  • 73 FR 10005, February 25, 2008. Notice the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion mitigation committee meeting March 10-14, 2008, Anchorage, AK.

  • 73 FR 8854, February 15, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council Pacific Northwest Crab Industry advisory committee meeting February 28, 2008, Seattle, WA.

  • 73 FR 8294, February 13, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Crab advisory committee meeting, March, 2, 2008 Anchorage, AK.

  • 73 FR 6936, February 6, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Scallop Plan Team meeting February 21-22, 2008, Anchorage, AK.

  • 73 FR 3704, January 22, 2008. Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and its advisory committee meeting February 4-12, Seattle, WA.

North Pacific Right Whales
  • 73 FR 19095, April 8, 2008. Notice of Minerals Management Services' initial information-gathering steps in a process that incorporates planning and analysis for proposed OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 214 in the program area of the North Aleutian Basin Planning Area offshore the State of Alaska. The program area is that subarea of the larger North Aleutian Basin Planning Area identified in the OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, 2007 to 2012, that may be offered in the proposed Sale 214. Comment period through July 7, 2008.

Prohibited Species Donation Program
  • 73 FR 19809, April 11, 2008. Notice of submission for OMB Review for clearance on the proposed collection of information on Prohibited Species Donation Program. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice.

Recordkeeping and Reporting
  • 73 FR 20914, April 17, 2008. Notice of a new Privacy Act System of Records: NOAA–19, Permits and Registrations for United States Federally Regulated Fisheries. Comment period through May 19, 2008.

  • 73 FR 18780, April 7, 2008. Notice of Proposed Information Collection on the Alaska Region Logbook Family of Forms. Comment period through June 6, 2008.

  • 73 FR 10004, February 25, 2008. Proposed Information Collection on the Commercial Operator's Annual Report. Comment period through April 25, 2008.

Salmon
  • 73 FR 13210, March 12, 2008. Notice of receipt of an application for an exempted fishing permit (EFP) from Mr. John Gauvin of Gauvin and Associates, LLC to continue the development and testing of a salmon excluder device for the Bering Sea pollock trawl fishery. Comments will be accepted at the April 1–7, 2008, North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Anchorage, AK.

Stock Assessment ReportsVessel Monitoring System
  • 73 FR 24955, May 6, 2008. Notice to revise the availability of grant funds for vessel owners and/or operators who have purchased an Enhanced Mobile Transmitter Unit (EMTU) for the purpose of complying with fishery regulations requiring the use of Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS).