[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 14069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7627]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 031098F]


New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of revision of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) has 
rescheduled the public meeting of the Whiting Committee (Committee) 
that was scheduled for Tuesday, April 7, 1998, at 10:00 a.m. The 
meeting was announced in the Federal Register on March 17, 1998. See 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for revisions.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, One Newbury 
Street, (Route 1), Peabody, MA 01960; telephone: (978) 535-4600.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, 
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (781) 231-0422.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The initial notice published on March 17, 
1998 (63 FR 13034). The original notice stated that only the Whiting 
Committee would meet on Tuesday, April 7, 1998. The meeting has been 
rescheduled to meet on Wednesday, April 8, 1998, and will now be a 
joint meeting of the Whiting Committee, Whiting Advisory Panel, and 
Whiting Plan Development Team. The Whiting Committee will reconvene by 
itself on April 9, if necessary. The April 9 meeting may be cancelled 
if the Committee feels that the April 8 meeting will be sufficient to 
develop management measures for public hearings. Recommendation from 
these groups will be brought to the full Council for formal 
consideration and action, if appropriate. The agenda is as follows:
    Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 10:00 a.m.--Joint Whiting Committee, 
Advisory Panel, and Plan Development Team meeting
    Agenda: Discussion of appropriate trip limits, mesh restrictions, 
and other measures to end and prevent overfishing on silver hake 
(whiting) and red hake stocks and to provide basic protection for 
offshore hake; discussion and development of management measures for 
public hearings.
    Thursday, April 9, 1998, 9:00 a.m.--Whiting Committee meeting
    Agenda: Final development of management measures for public 
hearings.
    All other information previously published remains unchanged.

    Dated: March 19, 1998.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 98-7627 Filed 3-23-98; 8:45 am]
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