[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 135 (Friday, July 15, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-17264]
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[Federal Register: July 15, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 070894A]
Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's ad
hoc working group to review Federal fisheries policy in the Pacific, as
it affects U.S. insular areas, will hold a meeting on July 28-29, 1994,
in the Lieutenant Governor's Conference Room of the Leiopapa A.
Kamehameha Building (State Office Tower, Room 1402), 235 South
Beretania Street, Honolulu, HI; telephone: (808) 522-8220. The meeting
will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. each day.
The working group will discuss and may make recommendations
regarding the following topics:
(a) Magnuson Act reauthorization, including domestic and foreign
fishing fees, indigenous fishing rights, cooperative enforcement, and
islands' abilities to take a greater role in the regional negotiations
and management of their respective Exclusive Economic Zones;
(b) Nicholson Act exemptions;
(c) Island authority over non-living resources;
(d) Marine Research;
(e) NMFS funding;
(f) Competitive fisheries trade issues;
(g) American Samoa tuna cannery tax payments;
(h) Histamine testing of tuna shipments;
(i) Aquaculture development; and
(j) Other business as required.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director,
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, 1164 Bishop
Street, Suite 1405, Honolulu, HI 96813; telephone: (808) 522-8220.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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, telephone
(voice only) (808) 522-8220, at least 10 days prior to the meeting
date.
Dated: July 11, 1994.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 94-17264 Filed 7-14-94; 8:45 am]
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