[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 72 (Friday, April 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16239-16240]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9111]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 040496B]


Gulf of Mexico 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 Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
convene a public meeting.

DATES: This meeting will be held on May 1, 1996 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 
p.m.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at the DoubleTree Guest Suites 
Hotel, 4400 West Cypress Street, Tampa, FL; telephone: 813-873-8675.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401 
West Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 331, Tampa, FL 33609.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Atran, Biologist; telephone: 
813-228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Reef Fish Advisory Panel will review a 
video by the Florida Marine Patrol about fish trap enforcement and a 
summary of the results of the NMFS fish trap vessel observer study, and 
will review a draft of Amendment 14 to the Reef Fish Fishery Management 
Plan for the Gulf of Mexico. Draft Amendment 14 addresses a possible 
permanent license limitation system for fish trap users, and 
consideration of a ban on fish traps in Federal waters off of southwest 
Florida. This amendment also contains options to revise the reef fish 
framework procedure for setting total allowable catch in order to 
provide NMFS' Regional Director with the authority to reopen a season 
that was closed prematurely due to quota harvest projections. In 
addition, the amendment contains an option to modify the 
transferability provisions for reef fish vessel permits when 
transferring between vessel owners and operators who are the income 
qualifiers for the permit.
    The Reef Fish Advisory Panel will also review Federal and state 
definitions of charter vessels and headboats and possible revisions to 
those definitions.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Anne Alford at the Council (see ADDRESSES) by 
April 26, 1996.

    Dated: April 5, 1996.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-9111 Filed 4-11-96; 8:45 am]
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