[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 52 (Friday, March 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14425-14426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6663]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 030995A]
North Pacific Fishery Management Council; 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 North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its
advisory bodies will hold meetings during the week of April 17, 1995,
at the Hilton Hotel, 500 W. 3rd Avenue, Anchorage, AK. All meetings are
open to the public, with the exception of an executive session to be
held during the lunch hour 1 day during the meeting week to review
personnel matters and pending litigation. Each meeting will continue
until business is completed. All meetings will be held at the hotel and
are scheduled as follows:
Council Advisory Panel and Scientific and Statistical Committee
meetings will begin at 1:00 p.m., on April 17.
The Council meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m., on April 19, and is
expected to continue through at least April 22, and possibly, April 23.
There may be other workgroup and/or committee meetings held during the
week. Notice of meetings will be posted and announced at the Council
meeting. Time permitting, the Council will address, and may take
appropriate action on, the following agenda items:
1. Reports from NMFS on the current status of fisheries and
regulations, from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on domestic
fisheries, and from NMFS and the U.S. Coast Guard on enforcement and
surveillance activities;
2. Final action on groundfish and crab license alternatives;
3. Initial review of analysis for continuation of inshore/offshore
allocations and the pollock community development quota program;
4. Review proposed rule for the moratorium on groundfish and crab
fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands
(BSAI);
5. Receive a status report on the implementation of the Research
Plan observer user fee program and review technical issues associated
with the plan;
6. Receive legal opinion from NOAA General Counsel on the State of
Alaska's authority over halibut management, and a staff report on
progress for a regulatory amendment to control the amount of halibut
taken by the charter industry;
7. Under the Sablefish and Halibut Individual Fishery Quota (IFQ)
Program, the Council will receive a report from its Implementation
Team, receive an issues paper on an early opening of the Aleutian
Islands sablefish IFQ fishery, and receive a status report on several
other pending amendments to the program;
8. Review information on oil and gas lease sale (MMS Sale 249) in
Cook Inlet;
9. Bycatch, waste, and harvest priority: Receive discussion papers
on improved retention and utilization; seasonal allocation of rock sole
total allowable catch; and harvest priority, including a legal opinion
on options being discussed for harvest priority;
10. Review Magnuson Act reauthorization proposals and approved
amendments;
11. Review biological assessment and opinion for section 7
consultation for Snake River salmon, and receive a report on listing
Steller sea lions as endangered, and a report on the status of
seabirds;
12. Scallop management: Receive a status report on emergency
closure; review draft fishery management plan, and information on crab
bycatch and inclusion of scallop vessels in the observer plan;
13. Receive a report of the working panel for a grid sorting
amendment to reduce halibut bycatch/mortality;
14. Initial review of an analysis of Bristol Bay red king crab
closure and receive a report from the BSAI Crab and Groundfish Plan
Teams on rebuilding crab fisheries;
15. Receive a report from the Salmon Research Foundation and take
final action on chinook salmon bycatch amendment;
16. Review a proposed rule for the total weight measurement
amendment;
17. Receive report on pollock trawl mesh studies;
18. Consider whether to adjust the GOA Pacific ocean perch (POP)
rebuilding plan, and establish the total allowable catch for POP for
1995;
19. Consider apportioning pollock between midwater and bottom
trawls.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: North Pacific Fishery Management
Council, P.O. Box 103136, Anchorage, AK 99510; telephone: (907) 271-
2809.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These meetings are physically accessible to
people with disabilities. Requests for [[Page 14426]] sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Helen
Allen, (907) 271-2809, at least 5 working days prior to the meeting
date.
Dated: March 13, 1995.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-6663 Filed 3-16-95; 8:45 am]
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