[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 135 (Friday, July 15, 1994)] [Unknown Section] [Page 0] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 94-17264] [[Page Unknown]] [Federal Register: July 15, 1994] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 3510-22-F