96-24248. Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 185 (Monday, September 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 49735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24248]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 091696C]


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.

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SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
hold a joint meeting of its Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Plan 
Team, Hawaii Bottomfish Advisory Panel, and Bottomfish Advisory Review 
Board.

DATES: The meeting will be held on October 9-10, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 5:00 p.m., each day.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Executive Center, 1088 
Bishop St., Room 4003, Honolulu, HI; telephone: [phone].
    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 and/or constraints with specific recommendations in 
1995 annual report;
    2. Limited entry alternatives for the Mau Zone and moratorium on 
new entry for the Mau Zone in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), 
including report from task force;
    3. Address the ``yellow light'' condition for CPUE of Guam's 
bottomfish stocks;
    4. Status of Department of Land and Natural Resources progress with 
management plan for overfished Main Hawaiian Island onaga and ehu;
    5. Draft management plan for Main Hawaiian Island onaga and ehu 
stocks in Federal waters;
    6. Plan for joint Guam-Northern Mariana Islands survey of baseline 
biological conditions for shallow-water emperor complex in northern 
islands of the Marianas; 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: September 16, 1996.
Gary C. Matlock,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 96-24248 Filed 9-20-96; 8:45 am]
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