97-11034. Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 82 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 23229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11034]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 042197C]


Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
hold a meeting of its Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Plan Team.

DATES: The meeting will be held on May 14-15, 1997, from 8:30 a.m. to 
5:00 p.m., each day.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Ilikai Hotel, Yacht Harbor 
Tower, Room 262, Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI; telephone: (808) 949-
3811.
    Council address: Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1164 
Bishop St., Suite 1405, Honolulu, HI 96813.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director; 
telephone: [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The plan team will discuss and may make 
recommendations to the Council on the following agenda items:
    1. Progress with recommendations on improvements to the annual 
report modules and 1996 report modules from American Samoa, Guam, 
Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands;
    2. Limited entry alternatives for the Mau Zone and moratorium on 
new entry for the Mau Zone in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 
including report from task force;
    3. Status of Department of Land and Natural Resources progress with 
management plan for overfished Main Hawaiian Island (MHI) onaga and 
ehu;
    4. Draft management plan for MHI onaga and ehu stocks in Federal 
waters;
    5. Magnuson-Stevens Act requirements including fishery management 
plan definitions and provisions;
    6. Pending expiration of seamount ground fish moratorium; and
    7. Other business as required.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Kitty M. Simonds, 808-522-8220 (voice) or 808-
522-8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to meeting date.

    Dated: April 23, 1997.
George H. Darcy,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-11034 Filed 4-28-97; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-F