[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR660.38]

[Page 489]
 
                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 660--FISHERIES OFF WEST COAST STATES AND IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart C--Western Pacific Pelagic Fisheries
 
Sec.  660.38  Exemptions for American Samoa large vessel prohibited areas.

    (a) An exemption will be issued to a person who currently owns a 
large vessel, to use that vessel to fish for Pacific pelagic management 
unit species in the American Samoa large vessel prohibited management 
areas, if he or she had been the owner of that vessel when it was 
registered for use with a longline general permit and made at least one 
landing of Pacific pelagic management unit species in American Samoa on 
or prior to November 13, 1997.
    (b) A landing of Pacific pelagic management unit species for the 
purpose of this section must have been properly recorded on a NMFS 
Western Pacific Federal daily longline form that was submitted to NMFS, 
as required in Sec.  660.14.
    (c) An exemption is valid only for a vessel that was registered for 
use with a longline general permit and landed Pacific pelagic management 
unit species in American Samoa on or prior to November 13, 1997, or for 
a replacement vessel of equal or smaller LOA than the vessel that was 
initially registered for use with a longline general permit on or prior 
to November 13, 1997.
    (d) An exemption is valid only for the vessel for which it is 
registered. An exemption not registered for use with a particular vessel 
may not be used.
    (e) An exemption may not be transferred to another person.
    (f) If more than one person, e.g., a partnership or corporation, 
owned a large vessel when it was registered for use with a longline 
general permit and made at least one landing of Pacific pelagic 
management unit species in American Samoa on or prior to November 13, 
1997, an exemption issued under this section will be issued to only one 
person.

[67 FR 4371, Jan. 30, 2002]