[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36776-36777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17917]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 063097E]


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's (Council) 
Pelagics Plan Team (PT) and Hawaii and American Samoa Pelagics Advisory 
Panel (AP) members will hold a joint meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held July 30-31, 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.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The joint PT/AP will discuss and may make 
recommendations to the Council on the following agenda items:
    1. Bycatch in the Hawaii-based longline fishery (turtles, sharks, 
albatross);
    2. Revisions to the Pelagic Fisheries Management Plan and 
amendments arising from the re-authorization of the Magnuson Act;
    3. Management issues for the emergent longline fishery in American 
Samoa;
    4. Pelagic small boat working groups in American Samoa and Northern 
Mariana Islands
    5. Pelagic fisheries and marine mammal interactions;
    6. Hawaii akule and opelu fisheries;
    7. Second multilateral high level conference on management of tuna 
in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean; and
    8. Other business as required.

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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: July 1, 1997.
Gary C. Matlock,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 97-17917 Filed 7-8-97; 8:45 am]
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