[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 49 (Thursday, March 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11845-11846]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-6387]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 030597F]


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 of the Mackerel Stock Assessment Panel.

DATES: This meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. on March 31, 1997, and will 
conclude by 5:00 p.m. on April 4, 1997.


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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science 
Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 3018 
U.S. Highway 301 North, Suite 1000, Tampa, FL 33619.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Richard L. Leard, Senior Fishery 
Biologist; telephone: 813-228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Mackerel Stock Assessment Panel members 
will meet to review available data on the Gulf migratory group of 
Spanish mackerel and the Atlantic migratory group of king mackerel. 
These data will include, but not be limited to, commercial and 
recreational catches, natural and fishing mortality estimates, and 
recruitment. The panel will also update the stock assessments completed 
in 1996 for both the Atlantic and Gulf migratory groups of king and 
Spanish mackerel. These analyses will be used to determine the 
condition of the stocks and the levels of acceptable biological catch 
for the 1997-98 fishing year.

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 
March 24, 1997.

    Dated: March 7, 1997.
Bruce Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-6387 Filed 3-12-97; 8:45 am]
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