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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 121694B]

 

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public 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 Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene 
separate public meetings of its Joint Shrimp Advisory Panel/Standing 
and Special Shrimp Scientific and Statistical Committees (Shrimp SSC) 
and its Standing and Special Reef Fish SSC on January 10-11, 1995. On 
January 10, the Shrimp SSC will convene from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 
p.m., and continue on January 11 from 8:00 a.m. to noon to review and 
discuss reduction of fish bycatch in shrimp trawls, management of royal 
red shrimp, review of the 1994 Texas seasonal closure to shrimping, and 
the recent NMFS biological opinion on impact of shrimping on endangered 
species. Also on January 11, the Reef Fish SSC will convene from 1:00 
p.m. until 5:00 p.m. to review and consider recent findings of the reef 
fish stock assessment on generation time for red snapper and projected 
impact of various management measures on the 1995 recreational harvest 
of red snapper.
    The meetings will be held at the Radisson Inn New Orleans Airport, 
2150 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Kenner, LA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terrance R. Leary, Fishery Biologist, 
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401 West Kennedy Boulevard, 
Suite 331, Tampa, FL; telephone: (813) 228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These meetings are physically accessible to 
people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or 
other auxiliary aids should be directed to Julie Krebs at the above 
address by January 3, 1995.

    Dated: December 16, 1994.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service,
[FR Doc. 94-31422 Filed 12-21-94; 8:45 am]
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