[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 22 (Monday, February 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4982-4983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2588]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 012797H]
Gulf of Mexico 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 Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will
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convene a public meeting of the Reef Fish Stock Assessment Panel
(RFSAP).
DATES: The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. on February 12, 1997, and
will conclude at 12:00 noon on February 14, 1997.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the NMFS Pascagoula Laboratory,
3209 Frederic Street, Pascagoula, MS.
Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 3018
U.S. Highway 301 North, Suite 1000, Tampa, FL 33619.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Atran, Population Dynamics
Statistician; telephone: 813-228-2815.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 12, the RFSAP members, in
conjunction with a representative of NMFS, the Council's Standing
Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC), and the shrimp industry
will review recommendations of a select group of statisticians
regarding changes to the database and methodology used in estimating
shrimp trawl bycatch of red snapper. The combined group will make
recommendations for additional analyses of the data for estimating
shrimp trawl bycatch, if any, that should be performed by NMFS for
subsequent review by the SSC and the Council.
On February 13 and February 14, the RFSAP will re-examine stock
assessment information for vermilion snapper and potentially develop
proposed management options for Council consideration that would phase
in total allowable catch levels, a quota, and bag limits over a 3-year
period to gradually reduce harvest levels.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Anne Alford at the Council (see ADDRESSES) by
February 5, 1997.
Dated: January 28, 1997.
Bruce Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-2588 Filed 1-31-97; 8:45 am]
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