INFORMATION BULLETIN (01-16)         February 26, 2001      
 Sustainable Fisheries Division       11:00 A.M.                
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 NMFS PROVIDES CORRECTED STELLER SEA LION PROTECTION AREA TABLE
                                
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is in the process of
correcting the emergency interim rule for the 2001 Steller Sea
Lion Protection Measures and the 2001 Harvest Specifications
published in the Federal Register January 22, 2001, according to
James W. Balsiger, Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS. 

Table 21 in the regulations (66 FR 7276) lists the Steller sea
lion protection areas in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and the
Gulf of Alaska.  A number of columns in Table 21 were not printed
in the Federal Register.  Table 21 will be reprinted, in its
entirety, with other corrections to this emergency interim rule. 
Until the corrections are published in the Federal Register, the
correct Table 21 may be found at the NMFS Alaska Region home page
at www.fakr.noaa.gov. under Steller sea lion protection measures. 
Coordinates for Great Sitkin and Rugged Island were corrected
from the coordinates that appear in the January 22, 2001
emergency rule.

This information bulletin only provides notice of a regulatory
change.  For the purposes of complying with the regulatory
change, you are advised to see the actual text in the Code of
Federal Regulations.