[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 118 (Tuesday, June 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 32141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15024]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 061295D]


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 meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene 
public meetings.

DATES: The meetings will be held on July 17-20, 1995.

ADDRESSES: These meetings will be held at the Pier House, One Duval 
Street, Key West, FL; telephone: (305) 296-4600.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401 
West Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 331, Tampa, FL 33609.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne E. Swingle, Executive Director, 
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; telephone: 813-228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Council

July 19

    8:30 a.m.--Convene to receive public testimony.
    8:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.--Receive final public testimony on Draft 
Shrimp Amendment 8 and the Regulatory Amendment for Red Grouper Size 
Limit Changes (NOTE: Testimony cards must be turned in to staff before 
the start of public testimony).
    The Council will hear public testimony and proposes to take final 
action on Amendment 8 to the Fishery Management Plan for Shrimp in the 
Gulf of Mexico. The amendment would allow a 2-year increase in the 
total allowable catch of royal red shrimp by up to 30 percent (up to 
509,000 pounds) to provide catch and effort data. The acquisition of 
better data on how the resource responds to an increase in fishing 
effort would allow scientists to obtain a better estimate of maximum 
sustainable yield and thus allow appropriate levels of catch. Copies of 
the draft amendment are available from the Council office (see 
ADDRESSES).
    1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.--Receive reports of the Shrimp Management 
Committee and Reef Fish Management Committee.

July 20

    8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.--Reconvene to continue receipt of the Reef 
Fish Management Committee report.
    9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.--Receive a report of the South Florida 
Ecosystem Restoration Effort.
    10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.--Receive reports of the Personnel 
Committee.
    10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.--Receive report of the Habitat Protection 
Committee.
    10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.--Receive reports of the Data Collection 
Committee.
    10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.--Receive reports of the Administrative 
Policy Committee.
    11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.--Receive Enforcement Reports, the South 
Atlantic Fishery Management Council Liaison Report, a review of the 
Shark Operations Team meeting, review Stock Assessment Protocol, a 
review of the Council Chairmen's meeting, and Director's Reports.
    12:30 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.--Other Business during which consideration 
of a course of action to revise an error in the current rule that 
precludes shrimp vessels with trawling gear on board from commercially 
harvesting king mackerel, and a short session will be closed to the 
public for appointment of members to an advisory panel that will serve 
as an appeals board under Reef Fish Amendment 8.

Committees

July 17

    1:00 p.m.--Convene the Reef Fish Management Committee.

July 18

    8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.--Convene the Personnel Committee, 
Administrative Policy Committee, Data Collection Committee, Shrimp 
Management Committee and Habitat Protection Committee.
    Special Accommodations
    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 Council (see 
ADDRESSES) by July 10, 1995.

    Dated: June 14, 1995.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-15024 Filed 6-19-95; 8:45 am]
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