[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 173 (Thursday, September 8, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-22169]
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[Federal Register: September 8, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 083194C]
North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Meetings
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
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SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its
advisory bodies will meet during the week of September 26, 1994, at the
Red Lion Hotel, 18740 Pacific Highway South, Seattle, WA. All meetings
are open to the public with the exception of an executive session to be
held during the lunch hour one day during the meeting week. All
meetings will be held at the hotel and are scheduled as follows:
The Council Advisory Panel and Scientific and Statistical Committee
will meet beginning at 8:00 a.m. on September 27.
The Council will begin at 8:00 on September 28. Each meeting will
continue until business is completed. There may be other workgroup and/
or committee meetings held during the week. Notice of meetings will be
posted. Time permitting, the Council will address, and may take
appropriate action on, the following agenda items:
(1) Oath of office to newly-appointed members, and election of
officers;
(2) Reports from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and NMFS on
current status of fisheries and regulations; reports from NMFS and the
Coast Guard on fisheries enforcement activities; and status reports on
marine mammals in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off Alaska and
reauthorization of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management
Act;
(3) Report and discussion of Law of the Sea and current treaties
and agreements;
(4) Reports on the Observer Plan, setting first-year fees for the
North Pacific Fisheries Research Plan, and observer insurance concerns;
(5) Status report on the Sablefish and Halibut Individual Fishing
Quota (IFQ) program and on pending amendments and other issues of
clarification, including hardships and lien registry. Approve Community
Development Quota (CDQ) plans for 1995-97;
(6) Identify elements and alternatives for analysis of rollover of
offshore and CDQ programs;
(7) Consider approval for public review of preliminary analysis for
a license program for groundfish and crab fisheries in the EEZ off
Alaska. Receive discussion papers and discuss harvest priority and full
utilization issues, and discuss future IFQ programs;
(8) Discuss Secretary's decision to disapprove moratorium and take
action as necessary;
(9) Discuss inter-council cooperative management of Pacific pelagic
fisheries;
(10) Crab management: Review plan team report and status of stocks;
schedule time for joint Council/Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting;
(11) Salmon Bycatch Issues: Receive report from the Salmon
Foundation; review a salmon retention and delivery amendment for final
action, and receive preliminary analysis of time and area closures to
reduce salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands;
(12) 1995 Initial Groundfish Specifications: Review and approve for
public review the Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation documents for
the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands groundfish fisheries
and set preliminary 1995 groundfish specifications, bycatch rates,
Vessel Incentive Program rates, and discard mortality rates for halibut
in the groundfish fisheries;
(13) Consider final action on a regulatory amendment for total
weight measurement in the groundfish fisheries off Alaska. Initial
review of regulatory amendments for trawl mesh regulations, halibut
grid-sorting, and a regulatory amendment which would prohibit using a
vessel with a Federal permit from fishing for groundfish in
international waters or possessing groundfish in the EEZ that were
caught in international waters during the fishing year for which the
permit is issued; and
(14) Additional issues for discussion including measures to reduce
the bycatch of opilio crab in other fisheries, a proposal to remove the
Gulf of Alaska halibut mortality limit for hook and line gear, any
amendment proposals received, staff tasking, financial reports, if
available; and consider recommending an end to foreign involvement in
sablefish longline surveys in the EEZ off Alaska.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: North Pacific Fishery Management
Council, P.O. Box 103136, Anchorage, AK 99510; telephone: (907) 271-
2809.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These meetings are physically accessible to
people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or
other auxiliary aids should be directed to Judy Willoughby, (907) 271-
2809, by September 16.
Dated: September 1, 1994.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 94-22169 Filed 9-7-94; 8:45 am]
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