[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 14, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19363-19364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-8549]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XV76


Endangered Species; File No. 14754

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

ACTION:  Issuance of permit.

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SUMMARY:  Notice is hereby given that Isaac Wirgin, PhD, New York 
University School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine, 
Tuxedo, NY 10987, has been issued a permit to take shortnose sturgeon 
(Acipenser

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brevirostrum) for purposes of scientific research.

ADDRESSES:  The permit and related documents are available for review 
upon written request or by appointment in the following office(s):
     Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of 
Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver 
Spring, MD 20910; phone (301) 713-2289; fax (301) 713-0376; and
     Northeast Region, NMFS, Protected Resources Division, 55 
Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930; phone (978) 281-9328; fax 
(978) 281-9394.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Malcolm Mohead or Jennifer Skidmore, 
(301) 713-2289.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 8, 2010, notice was published in 
the Federal Register (75 FR 6184) that a request for a scientific 
research permit to take shortnose sturgeon had been submitted by the 
above-named organization. The requested permit has been issued under 
the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 
16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and the regulations governing the taking, 
importing, and exporting of endangered and threatened species (50 CFR 
parts 222-226).
    The applicant is authorized to conduct research on shortnose 
sturgeon to determine if early life-stages of shortnose sturgeon are 
sensitive to PCB and TCDD mixtures potentially affecting recruitment 
success in environments such as in the Hudson River. This permit allows 
the importation of up to 25,000 fertilized shortnose sturgeon eggs of 
Saint John River ancestry from Acadian Sturgeon and Caviar Inc., Saint 
John, NB, Canada. The initial proposed research will take place during 
two sampling seasons beginning in the spring of 2010 and ending in the 
spring of 2011. In subsequent years of the permit, as amended, studies 
would take place evaluating the toxic effects of other contaminants. 
The permit would not authorize any takes from the wild, nor would it 
authorize any release of captive sturgeon into the wild.
    Issuance of this permit, as required by the ESA, 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 or threatened 
species, and (3) is consistent with the purposes and policies set forth 
in section 2 of the ESA.

    Dated: April 7, 2010.
Jolie Harrison,
Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of 
Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-8549 Filed 4-13-10; 8:45 am]
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