[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 82 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23228-23229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10956]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 042197D]


Western Pacific 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 Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
hold a meeting of its Pelagic Plan Team.

DATES: The meeting will be held on May 8-9, 1997, from 8:30 a.m. to 
5:00 p.m., each day.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Ala Moana Hotel, Ilima Room, 
410 Atkinson Drive, Honolulu, HI; telephone: (808) 955-4811.
    Council address: Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1164 
Bishop St., Suite 1405, Honolulu, HI 96813.


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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The plan team will discuss and may make 
recommendations to the Council on the following agenda items:
    1. Progress with recommendations on improvements to the annual 
report modules and 1996 report modules from American Samoa, Guam, 
Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands;
    2. Review Cross Seamount interaction issue;
    3. Progress report on bycatch issues including albatross, turtles, 
and sharks;
    4. Determination of Total Allowable Level of Foreign fishing;
    5. Magnuson-Stevens Act requirements including fishery management 
plan definitions of bycatch, fishing sectors, essential fish habitat, 
fishing communities and overfishing; and 6. 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: April 23, 1997.
Gary C. Matlock, Ph.D.,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 97-10956 Filed 4-28-97; 8:45 am]
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