[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 50 (Monday, March 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12784-12785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6600]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 031098B]
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will
convene public meetings of its Special Crustacean and Finfish Stock
Assessment Panels (SAP).
DATES: A meeting of the Crustacean SAP will be held beginning at 8:00
a.m. on Monday, March 30, and will conclude by 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday,
April 1, 1998. A meeting of the Finfish SAP will be held beginning at
1:00 p.m. on Monday, April 6, 1998, and will conclude by 5:00 p.m. on
Thursday, April 9, 1998.
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ADDRESSES: The Crustacean SAP meeting will be held at the Wyndham
Riverfront Hotel, 701 Convention Center Boulevard, New Orleans, LA. The
Finfish SAP meeting will be held at NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science
Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL.
Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 3018
U.S. Highway 301 North, Suite 1000, Tampa, FL 33619.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Leard, Senior Fishery
Biologist; telephone: 813-228-2815.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAPs will be convened to develop
alternatives for the overfishing criteria as required by the
Sustainable Fisheries Act. Separate criteria will be considered for
each of the stocks or stock-complexes managed under the Council's
existing Fishery Management Plans for shrimp, stone crab, and spiny
lobster (Crustacean SAP), and for migratory coastal pelagics, reef
fish, and red drum (Finfish SAP).
The SAPs will develop proxies for expressing maximum sustainable
yield and optimum yield in terms of spawning potential ratio, spawning
stock biomass per recruit, or other credible analyses as appropriate
for the stocks or stock complexes of each FMP. The SAPs will also
develop alternatives for rebuilding periods for stocks that have been
classified as overfished by NMFS. The SAPs may suggest modifications to
the framework procedures for specifying acceptable biological catch
(ABC) and total allowable catch (TAC) where appropriate. Each SAP will
develop a report to the Council setting forth their recommendations.
Although other issues not contained in this agenda may come before
these SAPs for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation Act, those issues may not be the subject of formal
action during these meetings. Action will be restricted to those issues
specifically identified in the agenda listed in this notice.
A copy of the agenda can be obtained by contacting the Council (see
ADDRESSES).
Special Accommodations
These meetings are 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 March 23, 1998.
Dated: March 10, 1998.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 98-6600 Filed 3-13-98; 8:45 am]
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