99-3431. Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 6880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3431]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 020299D]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Groundfish 
Total Catch Determination Committee (Committee) will hold a public 
meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 2, beginning at 1 
p.m. and may go into the evening until business for the day is 
completed. The meeting will reconvene at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, March 3 
and continue until the agenda has been completed.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the conference room at the 
Pacific Fishery Management Council office, 2130 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 
224, Portland, OR.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 2130 SW Fifth 
Avenue, Suite 224, Portland, OR 97201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Glock, Groundfish Fishery 
Management Coordinator; telephone: [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This ad-hoc committee has been instructed to 
continue the investigation and development of a program to determine 
total groundfish fishing mortality and discard and to provide the 
information necessary to assess the effects of trip limit management. 
The ad-hoc Committee will review the goals for a data collection 
program, discuss design of a program, and review information that has 
been prepared since the previous meeting. The Committee will prepare a 
report to the Council for presentation at the April Council meeting.
    Although other issues not contained in this agenda may come before 
this Committee for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act, those issues may not be the 
subject of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted 
to those issues specifically listed in this notice.

Special Accommodations

    The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Mr. John Rhoton at [phone] at least 5 days 
prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: February 3, 1999.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 99-3431 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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