Notice2025-14111
Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish
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Published
July 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
The Yurok Tribe provided a Tribal Resource Management Plan (TRMP) to NMFS pursuant to the limitation on take prohibitions for actions conducted under Tribal Plans promulgated under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The TRMP specifies harvest and monitoring activities for tribal fisheries affecting ESA-listed Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast coho salmon in the portion of the Klamath River within the Yurok Reservation. NMFS has prepared a Proposed Evaluation and Pending Determination (PEPD) as to whether implementation of the TRMP will appreciably reduce the likelihood of survival and recovery of ESA- listed salmon and steelhead. Notice is hereby given that the PEPD is available for public review and comment prior to NMFS making a final determination.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35512-35513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14111]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XE979]
Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; availability of a proposed evaluation and pending
determination; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Yurok Tribe provided a Tribal Resource Management Plan
(TRMP) to NMFS pursuant to the limitation on take prohibitions for
actions conducted under Tribal Plans promulgated under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA). The TRMP specifies harvest and monitoring activities
for tribal fisheries affecting ESA-listed Southern Oregon/Northern
California Coast coho salmon in the portion of the Klamath River within
the Yurok Reservation. NMFS has prepared a Proposed Evaluation and
Pending Determination (PEPD) as to whether implementation of the TRMP
will appreciably reduce the likelihood of survival and recovery of ESA-
listed salmon and steelhead. Notice is hereby given that the PEPD is
available for public review and comment prior to NMFS making a final
determination.
DATES: Comments must be received at the appropriate address (see
ADDRESSES) no later than 5 p.m. Pacific time on August 27, 2025.
Comments received after this date may not be accepted.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted by email. The mailbox address for
providing email comments is: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b7c4d6dbdad8d999dfd6c5c1d2c4c399d4d8dadad2d9c3c4f7d9d8d6d699d0d8c1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b7c4d6dbdad8d999dfd6c5c1d2c4c399d4d8dadad2d9c3c4f7d9d8d6d699d0d8c1">[email protected]</span></a>. In the
subject line of the email, include the following identifier: ``Comments
on Yurok Tribal Fisheries Determination.'' The document available for
public comment can be found at: <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/tribal-resource-management-plan-trmp-yurok-tribe">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/tribal-resource-management-plan-trmp-yurok-tribe</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony Siniscal at 971-322-8407, or
via email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0d4c637965626374235e6463647e6e6c614d63626c6c236a627b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="24654a504c4b4a5d0a774d4a4d57474548644a4b45450a434b52">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ESA Listed Species Covered in This Notice
Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus
kisutch): threatened, naturally produced, and artificially propagated.
Background
The proposed TRMP provides a framework through which tribal salmon
fisheries can be implemented while meeting requirements specified under
the ESA. Activities described in the plan include tribal fisheries for
coho salmon in the Klamath River. The TRMP describes the proposed
fisheries, limits for harvest, and monitoring associated with the
fisheries. The management objective is for the Yurok Tribe to conduct
fisheries in a manner that does not appreciably reduce the likelihood
of survival and recovery of ESA-listed coho salmon.
The Yurok Tribe submitted a TRMP to NMFS for review under the ESA
Tribal 4(d) Rule. Under section 4 of the ESA, the Secretary of Commerce
(Secretary) is required to adopt such regulations as deemed necessary
and advisable for the conservation of species listed as threatened. The
ESA salmon and steelhead 4(d) rule (50 CFR 223.203; 65 FR 42422, July
10, 2000, as updated in 70 FR 37160, June 28, 2005) applies the
prohibitions of section 9 to fish with an intact adipose fin that are
part of a threatened West Coast salmon ESU or steelhead DPS, and
specifies categories of activities that are exempted from the ESA
section 9 take prohibitions. The ESA Tribal 4(d) Rule (50 CFR 223.204;
65 FR 42481, July 10, 2000) states that the take prohibitions of ESA
section 9 will not apply to Tribal Plans provided that the Secretary
has determined that the Tribal Plan will not appreciably reduce the
likelihood of survival and recovery for the listed species (50 CFR
223.204(a)). Prior to making a final determination on Tribal Plans,
NMFS must take public comments on its pending determination as to
whether or not implementation of the plan will appreciably reduce the
likelihood of survival and recovery of ESA-listed salmonids (50 CFR
223.204(b)(3)).
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.)
Dated: July 23, 2025.
Kelly Denit,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-14111 Filed 7-25-25; 8:45 am]
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