[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 14069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7627]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 031098F]
New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of revision of a public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) has
rescheduled the public meeting of the Whiting Committee (Committee)
that was scheduled for Tuesday, April 7, 1998, at 10:00 a.m. The
meeting was announced in the Federal Register on March 17, 1998. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for revisions.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, One Newbury
Street, (Route 1), Peabody, MA 01960; telephone: (978) 535-4600.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul J. Howard, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (781) 231-0422.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The initial notice published on March 17,
1998 (63 FR 13034). The original notice stated that only the Whiting
Committee would meet on Tuesday, April 7, 1998. The meeting has been
rescheduled to meet on Wednesday, April 8, 1998, and will now be a
joint meeting of the Whiting Committee, Whiting Advisory Panel, and
Whiting Plan Development Team. The Whiting Committee will reconvene by
itself on April 9, if necessary. The April 9 meeting may be cancelled
if the Committee feels that the April 8 meeting will be sufficient to
develop management measures for public hearings. Recommendation from
these groups will be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate. The agenda is as follows:
Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 10:00 a.m.--Joint Whiting Committee,
Advisory Panel, and Plan Development Team meeting
Agenda: Discussion of appropriate trip limits, mesh restrictions,
and other measures to end and prevent overfishing on silver hake
(whiting) and red hake stocks and to provide basic protection for
offshore hake; discussion and development of management measures for
public hearings.
Thursday, April 9, 1998, 9:00 a.m.--Whiting Committee meeting
Agenda: Final development of management measures for public
hearings.
All other information previously published remains unchanged.
Dated: March 19, 1998.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 98-7627 Filed 3-23-98; 8:45 am]
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