[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 22 (Monday, February 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4982-4983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2588]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 012797H]


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

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convene a public meeting of the Reef Fish Stock Assessment Panel 
(RFSAP).

DATES: The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. on February 12, 1997, and 
will conclude at 12:00 noon on February 14, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the NMFS Pascagoula Laboratory, 
3209 Frederic Street, Pascagoula, MS.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 3018 
U.S. Highway 301 North, Suite 1000, Tampa, FL 33619.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Atran, Population Dynamics 
Statistician; telephone: 813-228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 12, the RFSAP members, in 
conjunction with a representative of NMFS, the Council's Standing 
Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC), and the shrimp industry 
will review recommendations of a select group of statisticians 
regarding changes to the database and methodology used in estimating 
shrimp trawl bycatch of red snapper. The combined group will make 
recommendations for additional analyses of the data for estimating 
shrimp trawl bycatch, if any, that should be performed by NMFS for 
subsequent review by the SSC and the Council.
    On February 13 and February 14, the RFSAP will re-examine stock 
assessment information for vermilion snapper and potentially develop 
proposed management options for Council consideration that would phase 
in total allowable catch levels, a quota, and bag limits over a 3-year 
period to gradually reduce harvest levels.

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 
February 5, 1997.

    Dated: January 28, 1997.
Bruce Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-2588 Filed 1-31-97; 8:45 am]
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