[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 140 (Friday, July 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 37627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18009]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 071295C]


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) will 
hold its 87th meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on August 8-10, 1995. The Council's 
standing committees will meet on August 8, beginning at 8:00 a.m. The 
full Council will meet on August 9-10, beginning at 8:30 a.m., each 
day. The Council will solicit testimony on alternative management 
measures for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) lobster fishery 
at approximately 1:30 p.m. on August 9. Also, on August 9, the Council 
will hold a Fishermen's Forum at approximately 3:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Makaha, Waianae, 
Oahu, HI.
    Council Address: Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1164 
Bishop St., Suite 1405, Honolulu, HI 96813.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director, 
Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; telephone (808) 522-8220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council will discuss and may take action 
on the following agenda items:
    1. Reports from the islands;
    2. Reports from fishery agencies and organizations;
    3. Enforcement, including U.S. Coast Guard activities, NMFS 
activities, proposed 5th Vessel Monitoring Systems Technical 
Consultation;
    4. Status of violations;
    5. Crustaceans, including experimental fishing, alternative 
management program for the (NWHI) (NOTE: public comments on this item 
will be treated as testimony at a public hearing), analysis of model 
for quota setting procedures, and time table for Amendment 9;
    6. Fishermen's Forum;
    7. Ecosystems and Habitat, including longline observer quarterly 
report, requested Section 7 consultation regarding turtles and 
longlines, Hawaiian Islands humpback whale sanctuary, and coral reef 
management planning considerations;
    8. Pelagics, including longline permit actions, observer program 
funding, 1994 annual report and recommendations, longline quarterly 
report, bycatch, request for single council designation, and draft 
Biological and Oceanographic Research Plan;
    9. Bottomfish, including summary of 1994 annual report and 
recommendations, State of Hawaii initiative to manage main Hawaiian 
islands bottomfish, implementation of new NWHI catch reporting system, 
and reconsideration of NWHI management system;
    10. Native Rights and Indigenous Fishing, including Magnuson Act 
amendments, State of Hawaii Molokai subsistence fishing demonstration 
project, and Kahoolawe ocean management plan;
    11. Program Planning, including joint Interior-Commerce working 
group to review Federal policy in the Pacific, Magnuson Act 
Reauthorization, S-K proposals, Western Pacific Fisheries Information 
Network, Council public education outreach program;
    12. Administrative Matters; and
    13. Other business as required.
    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 the meeting date.

    Dated: July 14, 1995.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-18009 Filed 7-20-95; 8:45 am]
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