[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 136 (Monday, July 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 36402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17466]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 070595C]


South Atlantic 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 South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
hold a joint public meeting of the Council's Shrimp Committee, Shrimp 
Plan Development Team (PDT) and Shrimp Advisory Panel (AP).

DATES: The meeting will be held on August 1, 1995, from 8:00 a.m. until 
5:00 p.m..

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Town and Country Inn, 2008 
Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407; telephone: (803) 571-1000.
    Council address: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council; One 
Southpark Circle, Suite 306; Charleston, SC 29407-4699.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon Coste, telephone: (803) 571-
4366; fax: (803) 769-4520.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The joint meeting of the Council's Shrimp 
Committee, PDT and AP has been scheduled to facilitate completion of a 
public hearing draft of Amendment 2 to the Shrimp Fishery Management 
Plan that is being developed to address bycatch in the shrimp fisheries 
of the South Atlantic region. The Council's Shrimp Committee reviewed 
an options paper on bycatch reduction at the June 1995 Council meeting 
and approved recommendations on measures to be included in a public 
hearing document. This document will reflect the Council's proposals to 
(1) develop specific bycatch reduction measures for all penaeid shrimp 
fisheries in the South Atlantic exclusive economic zone (EEZ); (2) 
require the use of NMFS-approved bycatch reduction devices in all 
penaeid shrimp trawls in the EEZ; (3) reduce the bycatch component of 
weakfish and Spanish mackerel fishing mortality by 50 percent; and (4) 
include brown and pink shrimp in the management unit. The PDT will also 
be asked to help Council staff develop season and area closure options 
for the draft hearing document that is scheduled to be approved for 
public hearings and informal review at the August 21-25, 1995 Council 
meeting in Charleston, SC.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Sharon Coste at the Council (see FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT) by July 18, 1995.

    Dated: July 11, 1995.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-17466 Filed 7-14-95; 8:45 am]
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