[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 130 (Wednesday, July 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36895-36896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18085]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6122-1]


Notice of Shrimp Virus Management Work Shop

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).

ACTION: Notice of shrimp virus management workshop.

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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Program will jointly sponsor a Shrimp Virus 
Management Workshop. This workshop is a continuation of the shrimp 
virus work of the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture (JSA) of the 
President's Council on Science and Policy. This workshop is jointly 
sponsored by: the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service (DOC/
NOAA/NMFS); U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, 
Education and Extension Service (DOA/CREES) and Agricultural Research 
Service (DOA/ARS); and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) 
Gulf of Mexico Program. The purpose of the workshop is to utilize all 
of the data and input gathered from the June 1996 Shrimp Pathogen 
Workshop, the Report of the JSA Shrimp Virus Work Group from June 1997, 
the Stakeholder Meetings held in Summer 1997 and the Expert Workshop 
held in January 1998 to develop Management Options/Strategies for 
managing the threat of shrimp viruses to cultured and wild stocks of 
shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico and Southeastern U.S. Atlantic Waters.

DATES: The workshop will be held on July 28 & 29, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held at the Radisson Inn New Orleans 
Airport, 2150 Veterans Blvd., Kenner, LA. (504) 467-3111.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William D. Holland, Gulf of Mexico

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Program Office, Building 1103, Room 202, Stennis Space Center, MS 
39529-6000 at (228) 688-3726; or for technical assistance contact, Dr. 
Tom McIlwain, Chairperson of the JSA Shrimp Virus Work Group, National 
Marine Fisheries Service, 3209 Frederick Street, Pascagoula, MS 39567 
at (228)762-4591.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The workshop will be structured with case 
studies, drawing on the experiences of Mexico and the states of South 
Carolina, Texas, and Florida, in managing the threat of shrimp viruses 
in their respective jurisdictions. Breakout groups will cover 
conservation, aquaculture, the processing industry, and wild caught 
stocks.
    The tentative agenda is as follows:

Tuesday, July 28, 1998

8:00 a.m.--Introduction and Charge to Working Group
8:15 a.m.--Case Study #1
9:15 a.m.--Case Study #2
10:15 a.m.--Break
10:30 a.m.--Case Study #3
11:15 a.m.--Case Study #4
12:00 n.--Lunch
1:00 p.m.--Working Group Sessions (4 Different Groups)
5:00 p.m.--Adjourn

Wednesday, July 29, 1998

8:00 a.m.--Working Group Sessions (continued)
10:15 a.m.--Break
10:30 a.m.--Conclusions/Working Group Reports
12:00 n.--Adjourn

    The Workshop is open to the public.
Bryon O. Griffith,
Deputy Director, Gulf of Mexico Program.
[FR Doc. 98-18085 Filed 7-7-98; 8:45 am]
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