[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 51 (Thursday, March 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14270-14271]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6460]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 030795B]


Marine Mammals

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of application for a scientific research permit 
(P418A).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Mason Weinrich of the Cetacean 
Research Unit, P.O. Box 159, Gloucester, MA 01930, has applied in due 
form for a permit to take humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), fin 
whales (Balaenoptera physalus), right whales (Eubalaena glacialis), and 
sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) for the purpose of scientific 
research.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before April 17, 1995.

ADDRESSES: The application and related documents are available for 
review upon written request or by appointment in the following offices:
    Permits Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-
West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301/713-2289);
    Director, Northeast Region, NMFS, One Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, 
MA 01930-2298 (508/281-9250).
    Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this 
request, should be submitted to the Chief, Permits Division, F/PR1, 
Office of Protected Resources, 1335 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, 
MD 20910, within 30 days of the publication of this notice. Those 
individuals requesting a hearing should set forth the specific reasons 
why a hearing on this particular request would be appropriate.
    Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, the Secretary of Commerce is forwarding copies of this 
application to the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of 
Scientific Advisors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject permit is requested 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 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the Regulations 
Governing the Taking, Importing, and Exporting of Endangered Fish and 
Wildlife (50 CFR part 222).
    The applicant seeks authorization to take annually by harassment a 
maximum of 400 individual humpback [[Page 14271]] whales, 250 
individual fin whales, 50 individual sei whales, and 50 individual 
right whales in the Western North Atlantic. Proposed taking will be by 
close approach (within 100 yards) for photo-identification to continue 
long-term studies of distribution, demography, behavior, and ecology of 
the cetaceans inhabiting the Northeastern coastal waters of the United 
States.

    Dated: March 10, 1995.
Art Jeffers,
Acting Chief, Permits & Documentation Division, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-6460 Filed 3-15-95; 8:45 am]
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