[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17057-17058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8132]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 032495B]


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), and 
its entities, will hold meetings from April 19-21, 1995, at the 
Rainmaker Hotel in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director, 
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, 1164 Bishop St., 
Suite 1405, Honolulu, HI, 96813; telephone 808-522-8220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 19, the Council's Standing 
Committees will meet from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. The full Council 
will convene for its 86th meeting on April 20-21, from 8:00 a.m. until 
5:00 p.m. On April 20, from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m., the Council will 
hold a closed session to discuss personnel matters. The tentative 
Council meeting agenda will be:

1. Closed session to discuss personnel matters

2. Introduction

3. Approval of Agenda

4. Approval of 85th Council Minutes

5. Reports from the Council's State Territories and Commonwealth

6. Reports from the fishery agencies and organizations

7. Enforcement

    a. US Coast Guard activities;
    b. NMFS activities and status of proposed Pacific enforcement 
conference;
    c. Status of violations;
    d. Enforcement Committee recommendations;
    e. Public comment; and
    f. Council discussion and action

8. Ecosystems and Protected Resources

    a. Longline observer quarterly report;
    b. Longline/turtle workshop;
    c. Justification for Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) monk seal 
relocations;
    d. Status of Hawaiian Islands humpback whale sanctuary;
    e. Coral reef management needs, possibly including development of a 
coral reefs fishery management plan;
    f. Scientific Standing Committee (SSC) recommendations;
    g. Ecosystems and Habitat Committee recommendations;
    h. Public comment; and
    i. Council discussion and action.

9. Pelagics

    a. Longline permit actions;
    b. Status of fisheries;
    c. Preliminary report on Pacific pelagic fisheries database review;
    d. Status of request for single-council designation;
    e. United Nations Conference on Straddling and Highly Migratory 
Fish Stocks;
    f. Pelagic Fisheries Research Program;
    g. Draft pelagic fisheries research plan;
    h. Status of Small Boat Pelagic Fisheries Working Group;
    i. SSC recommendations;
    j. Pelagics Committee recommendations;
    k. Public comment; and
    l. Council discussion and action.

10. Bottomfish

    a. Status of fisheries;
    b. Status of MHI bottomfish management initiative;
    c. NMFS report on Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) catch 
reporting system;
    d. SSC recommendations;
    e. Bottomfish Committee recommendations;
    f. Public comment; and
    g. Council discussion and action.

11. Crustaceans

    a. 1995 NWHI lobster quota;
    b. Experimental fishing;
    c. Status of stocks;
    d. Status of NWHI lobster management review;
    e. Consideration of alternative management program for NWHI;
    f. SSC recommendations;
    g. Crustaceans Committee recommendations;
    h. Public comment; and
    i. Council discussion and action.

12. Native Rights and Indigenous Fishing Issues

    a. Status of Magnuson Act amendments/other Federal legislation;
    b. Status of State of Hawaii's Molokai subsistence fishing 
demonstration project;
    c. Status of Moomomi community-based subsistence fishing proposal;
    d. Kahoolawe ocean management plan, Request for Proposals;
    e. Native Rights Committee recommendations;
    f. Public comment; and
    g. Council discussion and action.

13. Program Planning

    a. Status of proposed Hawaii ownership of unincorporated U.S. 
Pacific Islands;
    b. Status of joint Interior-Commerce working group to review 
Federal policy in the Pacific;
    c. Status of Midway Reuse Committee;
    d. Saltonstall-Kennedy proposals for the region; [[Page 17058]] 
    e. Status of the Magnuson Act re-authorization;
    f. Status of Western Pacific Fisheries Information Network;
    g. Status of cooperative project to correlate El Nino-Southern 
Oscillation and island fishery data;
    h. Council's public education outreach program;
    i. Defining marine recreational and commercial fishing/fishermen;
    j. SSC recommendations;
    k. Budget and Program Committee recommendations;
    l. Public comment; and
    m. Council discussion and action.

14. Administrative Matters

    a. Reports on meeting and workshops;
    b. 1995-96 Advisory Panel selection;
    c. Statement of organization, practices, and procedures revisions;
    d. Recommendations of Executive and Budget and Program Committees;
    e. Scheduling of 87th Council meeting;
    f. Public comment; and
    g. Council discussion and action.

15. Fishermen's Forum

16. Other Business

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: March 27, 1995.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-8132 Filed 4-3-95; 8:45 am]
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