8632 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 38 / Tuesday, February 27, 2007 / Rules and Regulations 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 061124307–7013–02; I.D. 

112106A] 

RIN 0648–AT65 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and 

Butterfish Fisheries; Specifications 

and Management Measures; 

Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: On January 30, 2007, NMFS 

published a final rule implementing 

2007 specifications and management 

measures for Atlantic mackerel, squid, 

and butterfish and modifying existing 

management measures. In the codified 

text of the final rule, there were errors 

in the description of the catch 

associated with the fishing mortality 

rate (F). Also, the acronyms used for F 

equal to the target F (F=0.12) and BMSY

were published in the codified text 

without using standardized type 

production for these scientific terms. In 

the codified text for the procedures for 

closing the directed mackerel fishery 

NMFS inadvertently substituted the 

term ‘‘executed’’ for ‘‘exceeded’’ when 

describing when the Regional 

Administrator will close the fishery. 

This document corrects those errors. 

DATES: Effective March 1, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carrie Nordeen, Fishery Policy Analyst, 

978–281–9272, fax 978–281–9135. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulations implementing the Fishery 

Management Plan for the Atlantic 

Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish 

Fisheries (FMP) appear at 50 CFR part 

648, subpart B, and regulations 

governing foreign fishing appear at 50 

CFR part 600, subpart F. The final rule 

published on January 30, 2007 (72 FR 

4211) and corrected on February 7, 2007 

(72 FR 5643) identified the annual 

amounts of the initial optimum yield, 

allowable biological catch (ABC), 

domestic annual harvest, and domestic 

annual processing, as well as, where 

applicable, the amounts for total 

allowable level of foreign fishing and 

joint venture processing for the affected 

species managed under the FMP. The 

final rule implementing the Atlantic 

mackerel, squid, and butterfish fisheries 

specifications for 2007 also contained 

modifications to existing regulatory 

language to clarify that the most recent 

information should be used when 

developing annual specifications. 

The regulatory text contained in 

§ 648.22(b)(2) describes the procedure 

for calculating mackerel’s ABC using a 

formula ABC = T - C, where C is the 

estimated catch of mackerel in Canadian 

waters for the upcoming fishing year 

and T is the catch associated with a 

fishing mortality rate that is equal to 

Ftarget at BMSY or greater and decreases 

linearly to zero at ‘‘1/2 BMSY’’ or below. 

Values for ‘‘Ftarget’’ and ‘‘BMSY’’ are as 

calculated in the most recent stock 

assessment. The final rule describes the 

reference points and formula, but does 

not include any values. This approach 

makes it clearer that the values from the 

most recent stock assessment are to be 

used when calculating mackerel ABC. 

The codified text, § 648.21(b)(2), 

published in the January 30, 2007, final 

rule indicated that T is the catch 

associated with a fishing mortality rate 

that decreases linearly to zero at ‘‘BMSY’’

rather than ‘‘1/2 BMSY’’. This document 

corrects that error in addition to making 

editorial corrections to the second 

sentence in this paragraph, which did 

not reflect the subscript normally used 

in the scientific terms ‘‘BMSY’’ and 

‘‘FTARGET’’. Therefore, this document 

corrects § 648.21(b)(2)(i) appearing on 

page 4217 (FR Doc. E7–1445), first 

column, first full paragraph, first two 

sentences, contained in the January 30, 

2007 Federal Register document. 

The final rule published January 30, 

2007 (72 FR 4211) contained regulatory 

text, § 648.22(a) describing when NMFS 

will close the directed mackerel fishing. 

When the Regional Administrator, 

Northeast Region, NMFS, projects that 

80 percent of the mackerel DAH is 

landed, a closure is necessary to prevent 

the DAH from being exceeded. 

However, the codified text contained 

the phrase ‘‘to prevent the DAH from 

being executed’’ rather than 

‘‘exceeded’’. This document corrects the 

codified text, § 648.22(a) on page 4217 

(FR Doc. E7–1445), column 2, first 

sentence of paragraph (a)(1), contained 

in the January 30, 2007 Federal Register 

final rule document. 

Correction 

■ Accordingly, the final rule published 

on January 30, 2007, at 72 FR 4211 (FR 

Doc. E7–1445), to be effective March 1, 

2007, is corrected as follows: 

■ 1. On page 4217, column 1, § 648.21 

(b)(2)(i) is correctly revised to read as 

follows: 

§ 648.21 Procedures for determining 

initial annual amounts. 

* * * * * 

(b) * * * 

(2) * * * 

(i) Mackerel ABC must be calculated 

using the formula ABC = T - C, where 

C is the estimated catch of mackerel in 

Canadian waters for the upcoming 

fishing year and T is the catch 

associated with a fishing mortality rate 

that is equal to Ftarget at BMSY or greater 

and decreases linearly to zero at 1/2 

BMSY or below. Values for Ftarget and 

BMSY are as calculated in the most 

recent stock assessment. 

* * * * * 

§ 648.22 [Corrected] 

■ 2. On page 4217, column 2, § 648.22 

(a)(1), in the seventh line, correctly 

revise ‘‘executed’’ to read ‘‘exceeded’’. 

Dated: February 22, 2007. 

Samuel D. Rauch III, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator For 

Regulatory Programs, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–3337 Filed 2–26–07; 8:45 am] 

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