[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 118 (Tuesday, June 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 32141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15024]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 061295D]
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 meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene
public meetings.
DATES: The meetings will be held on July 17-20, 1995.
ADDRESSES: These meetings will be held at the Pier House, One Duval
Street, Key West, FL; telephone: (305) 296-4600.
Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401
West Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 331, Tampa, FL 33609.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne E. Swingle, Executive Director,
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; telephone: 813-228-2815.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Council
July 19
8:30 a.m.--Convene to receive public testimony.
8:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.--Receive final public testimony on Draft
Shrimp Amendment 8 and the Regulatory Amendment for Red Grouper Size
Limit Changes (NOTE: Testimony cards must be turned in to staff before
the start of public testimony).
The Council will hear public testimony and proposes to take final
action on Amendment 8 to the Fishery Management Plan for Shrimp in the
Gulf of Mexico. The amendment would allow a 2-year increase in the
total allowable catch of royal red shrimp by up to 30 percent (up to
509,000 pounds) to provide catch and effort data. The acquisition of
better data on how the resource responds to an increase in fishing
effort would allow scientists to obtain a better estimate of maximum
sustainable yield and thus allow appropriate levels of catch. Copies of
the draft amendment are available from the Council office (see
ADDRESSES).
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.--Receive reports of the Shrimp Management
Committee and Reef Fish Management Committee.
July 20
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.--Reconvene to continue receipt of the Reef
Fish Management Committee report.
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.--Receive a report of the South Florida
Ecosystem Restoration Effort.
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.--Receive reports of the Personnel
Committee.
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.--Receive report of the Habitat Protection
Committee.
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.--Receive reports of the Data Collection
Committee.
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.--Receive reports of the Administrative
Policy Committee.
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.--Receive Enforcement Reports, the South
Atlantic Fishery Management Council Liaison Report, a review of the
Shark Operations Team meeting, review Stock Assessment Protocol, a
review of the Council Chairmen's meeting, and Director's Reports.
12:30 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.--Other Business during which consideration
of a course of action to revise an error in the current rule that
precludes shrimp vessels with trawling gear on board from commercially
harvesting king mackerel, and a short session will be closed to the
public for appointment of members to an advisory panel that will serve
as an appeals board under Reef Fish Amendment 8.
Committees
July 17
1:00 p.m.--Convene the Reef Fish Management Committee.
July 18
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.--Convene the Personnel Committee,
Administrative Policy Committee, Data Collection Committee, Shrimp
Management Committee and Habitat Protection Committee.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Julie Krebs at the Council (see
ADDRESSES) by July 10, 1995.
Dated: June 14, 1995.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-15024 Filed 6-19-95; 8:45 am]
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