[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 227 (Monday, November 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 58333]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28760]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 110795G]


Western Pacific 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 Western Pacific Fishery Management Council will hold its 
88th meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on December 6-8, 1995. The Council's 
Standing Committees will meet from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on December 
6. The full Council will meet from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on December 
7-8. There will be a Fishermen's Forum from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on 
December 7.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Kauai Coconut Beach Resort 
in Kapaa, Kauai, HI; telephone: (808) 822-3455.
    Council address: Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1164 
Bishop St., Suite 1405, Honolulu, HI 96813.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director; 
telephone: 808-522-8220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council will discuss and may take action 
on the following agenda items:
    1. Report from the islands;
    2. Reports from fishery agencies and organizations, including 
enforcement agencies;
    3. Crustaceans, including:
    (a) Status of Amendment 9, and
    (b) Report on experimental fishing trip (including administration 
and enforcement, field observations, and summary of catch data);
    4. Ecosystems and habitat, including a review of the humpback whale 
sanctuary draft Environmental Impact Statement;
    5. Pelagic fishery issues, including:
    (a) Longline permit actions, status of Longline Observer Program,
    (b) Status of observer program year 1 evaluation,
    (c) Status of NMFS intent to require industry to fund observer 
program and to shift program responsibility to an outside contractor, 
and
    (d) Status of request for single-Council designation for management 
of domestic pelagic fisheries in the Pacific;
    6. Bottomfish issues, including:
    (a) Implementation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) 
catch reporting system,
    (b) State of Hawaii progress with a management plan for Main 
Hawaiian Islands Onaga and Ehu, and
    (c) Reconsideration of NWHI management system;
    7. Native rights and indigenous fishing issues, including:
    (a) Status of relevant Magnuson Conservation and Management Act 
amendments, and
    (b) Kahoolawe Ocean Management Plan;
    8. Program planning, including:
    (a) Fishery development potential in the Marianas Archipelago,
    (b) Status of joint Departments of Interior-Commerce working group 
legislation changing Federal fisheries policy in the Pacific,
    (c) Councils' involvement in the Saltonstall-Kennedy grants 
program,
    (d) Status of Western Pacific Fisheries Information Network, and
    (e) Status of education outreach program;
    9. Administrative matters;
    10. Election of officers; and
    11. Other business as required.

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: November 13, 1995.
Richard H. Schaefer,
Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-28760 Filed 11-24-95; 8:45 am]
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