50 CFR § 92.32 - Emergency regulations to protect Steller's eiders.

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title: "50 CFR § 92.32 - Emergency regulations to protect Steller's eiders."
title_number: 50
title_name: "Wildlife and Fisheries"
section_number: "92.32"
section_name: "Emergency regulations to protect Steller's eiders."
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "G"
subchapter_name: "MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS"
part_number: "92"
part_name: "MIGRATORY BIRD SUBSISTENCE HARVEST IN ALASKA"
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authority: "16 U.S.C. 703-712."
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# 92.32 Emergency regulations to protect Steller's eiders.

Upon finding that continuation of these subsistence regulations would pose an imminent threat to the conservation of threatened Steller's eiders *(Polysticta stelleri),* the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska Regional Director, in consultation with the Co-management Council, will immediately under § 92.21 take action as is necessary to prevent further take. Regulation changes implemented could range from a temporary closure of duck hunting in a small geographic area to large-scale regional or statewide long-term closures of all subsistence migratory bird hunting. These closures or temporary suspensions will remain in effect until the Regional Director, in consultation with the Co-management Council, determines that the potential for additional Steller's eiders to be taken no longer exists.

[84 FR 12952, Apr. 3, 2019]