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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 29 / Tuesday, February 16, 2021 / Notices
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chum would be intentionally lethally taken sacrificed for stable isotope analysis. The purposes of the research are 1 to evaluate how shoreline restoration affects subtidal use of nearshore habitats by fishesnamely salmonids and forage fish, in Puget Sound; and 2 assess the role landscape context particularly shoreline armoring plays in influencing these relationships. Data would be used to establish relationships between nearshore subtidal fish abundance and the degree of shoreline development, and fish habitat use data would be incorporated into the existing Beach Strategies database to further inform restoration decisions and thereby benefit the listed fish. The researchers are proposing to kill a small subset of juvenile ESA-listed PS Chinook salmon and Hood Canal chum salmon captured, and a small number of juveniles of all species may be killed as an inadvertent result of sampling activities.
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Researchers from Oregon State University are seeking a 5-year permit that would allow them to document changes in fish community composition, macroinvertebrate community composition, and water quality that result from maintenance activities in agricultural channels. The project comes in response to Oregon State legislation HB 2437 section 10, and is designed to help managers understand how cleaning and maintenance activities in agricultural ditches affect the ecosystems in those ditches. The researchers would capture fish by electrofishing, minnow traps, and seine nets in 50-meter, closed-off with mesh block nets channel sections.
Minnow traps would be deployed the afternoon before the sampling day and be checked the following morning before the next capture method is deployed. Seine netting would be used when the site is safely accessible to capture animals that are not easily caught too large in minnow traps.
Electrofishing would be used after both other methods are completed and would be conducted in a one-pass collecting event. Once collected, the fish would be housed in aerated containers, weighed, measured, and then released back to the sites of their capture. The research would benefit the listed species by helping mangers understand how a common agricultural practicesditch cleaning and maintenanceaffects them and the habitats upon which they depend. The researchers do not intend to kill any of the fish being captured, but some may die as an inadvertent result of the activities.

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The Moss Landing Marine Lab is seeing a new 5-year permit that would allow them to annually take adult and juvenile SacR winter-run, CVS, and CC
Chinook salmon; SONCC and CCC coho salmon; CCV, CCC, NC, SCCC and SC
steelhead; and SDPS steelhead throughout California. Fish would be captured via electrofishing, hook-andline angling, otter trawls, cast nets, beach seines, gill nets, and minnow traps, handled, and released. The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Marine Pollution Studies Lab is a primary contributor to the California State Water Boards Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Programs Bioaccumulation Oversight Group. Results from these efforts in streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, bays, harbors, and coastal water bodies in California would be used to 1 measure contaminant levels in fish and shellfish over time to track temporal trends and evaluate the effectiveness of management efforts; 2
help managers evaluate contaminant spatial patterns; 3 perform Clean Water Act assessments; and 4 create and update human health advisories and assessments. Fish sampling would occur in Californias anadromous and nonanadromous water bodies streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, bays, harbors, and coastal using various methods of take that would be variably employed to minimize risk to non-targeted listed species. Tissue samples would be analyzed for contaminants such as but not limited to mercury, metals, selenium, PCBs, legacy pesticides, and contaminants of emerging concern. The research would benefit listed fish by helping managers keep track of contaminants throughout the state and develop response plans accordingly.
The researchers are not proposing to kill any of the listed fish being captured, but a small number of juveniles may be killed as an inadvertent result of these activities.
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Tim Salamunovich, Senior Fish Biologist for TRPA Fish Biologists, is seeing a new 5-year permit that would allow him to annually take juvenile and adult steelhead in Ulatis Project Flood Control channels in mainly channelized portions of Ulatis, New Alamo, Sweeney, Gibson, Canyon, Horse, and McCune creeks in the Lower Sacramento River, CA. Fish would be captured via backpack electrofishing, anesthetized, measured, weighed, tissue sampled, and released. The purpose of this research is to assess fish population responses to managed flows by
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collecting biological data lengths, weights, and counts on the fish populations in order to monitor their distribution and diversity as well as their overall condition and health. The data from this research would be used to update information on the distribution, relative abundance, diversity, and health of fish in Ulatis Project stream channels and would therefore benefit the fish by helping managers operate the channels in as fish-friendly a manner as possible. The researchers are not proposing to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number of juveniles may be killed as an inadvertent result of these activities.
Authority Scientific research permits are issued in accordance with section 10a1A
of the ESA 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. and regulations governing listed fish and wildlife permits 50 CFR parts 222226.
NMFS issues permits based on findings that such permits: 1 Are applied for in good faith; 2 if granted and exercised, would not operate to the disadvantage of the listed species that are the subject of the permit; and 3 are consistent with the purposes and policy of section 2 of the ESA. The authority to take listed species is subject to conditions set forth in the permits.
Anyone requesting a hearing on an application listed in this notice should set out the specific reasons why a hearing on that application would be appropriate see ADDRESSES. Such hearings are held at the discretion of the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NMFS.
Applications Received This notice is provided pursuant to section 10c of the ESA. NMFS will evaluate the applications, associated documents, and comments submitted to determine whether the applications meet the requirements of section 10a of the ESA and Federal regulations. The final permit decisions will not be made until after the end of the 30-day comment period. NMFS will publish notice of its final action in the Federal Register.
Dated: February 9, 2021.
Angela Somma, Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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