[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 148 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 39950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19463]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 072596A]


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 will convene a 
public meeting of the Reef Fish Stock Assessment Panel.

DATES: This meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. on August 19, 1996, and 
conclude at 5:00 p.m. on August 21, 1996.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science 
Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Atran, Population Dynamics 
Statistician, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401 West 
Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 331, Tampa, FL 33609; telephone: 813-228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Reef Fish Stock Assessment Panel will 
review a report by Dr. Benny Galloway of LGL Associates on the 
assessment procedures and data used by NMFS for the red snapper stock 
assessments. In addition, the effect of untrawlable bottom on the 
assessment of shrimp trawl juvenile bycatch mortality will be 
addressed. The Southeast Fisheries Science Center will provide the 
information on the extent of untrawlable bottom.

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 (see ADDRESSES) by August 12, 
1996.

    Dated: July 25, 1996.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-19463 Filed 7-30-96; 8:45 am]
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