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[FR Doc No: 94-17263]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 070794C]

 

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 Fishery Management Council (Council) and 
its standing committees will hold meetings on August 3-5, 1994, at the 
Royal Kona Resort, 75-5852 Alii Drive, Kailua-Kona, HI; telephone: 
(800) 774-5662. The meetings will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 
p.m. each day. Standing Committees will meet in the Resolution Room on 
August 3, and the full Council will meet in the Alii Surf Room on 
August 4-5.
    The Council will discuss, and may take action on, the following 
topics:
    (1) Activities of scientific, management, and enforcement agencies;
    (2) NMFS biological opinion regarding turtles and longlines;
    (3) Draft regulations for Hawaii humpback whale national marine 
sanctuary;
    (4) Pelagic fisheries research and management, including NMFS 
longline observer program; Council request for designation as the lead 
Council for management of Pacific pelagic species, Hawaii fishing 
industry and vessel economics project, economic characteristics of the 
Hawaii charterboat fishery; 1993 annual report and recommendations;
    (5) Bottomfish fishery research and management, including 
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) catch reporting system, State of 
Hawaii management of Main Hawaiian Islands bottomfish, 1993 annual 
report and recommendations;
    (6) Crustacean fishery research and management, including status of 
stocks, fishery prospects and quota for the 1994 NWHI lobster season;
    (7) Native fishing rights;
    (8) Joint Interior-Commerce working group to review Federal fishery 
policy in the Pacific;
    (9) Federal definition of recreational/commercial fishermen;
    (10) Magnuson Act reauthorization;
    (11) Western Pacific Fisheries Information Network funding;
    (12) Possible changes to Statement of Organization, Practices, and 
Procedures related to conflict of interest;
    (13) Administrative matters; and
    (14) 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 8, 1994.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 94-17263 Filed 7-14-94; 8:45 am]
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