[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 43 (Friday, March 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11557-11558]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-5252]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 022200I]


Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Public Meetings; 
Corrections

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

ACTION: Correction of public meeting notice.

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SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) 
substitutes a meeting of the Joint MAFMC/New England Fishery Management 
Council (NEFMC) Spiny Dogfish Committee in place of its Spiny Dogfish 
Working Group meeting and adds an agenda item to consider the 
recommendations of this committee to its meeting agenda published in 
the Federal Register on February 29, 2000. The purpose of the meeting 
and additional agenda item is to come to an agreement with the NEFMC on 
how to manage the spiny dogfish fishery resource for the upcoming 
fishing year. The NEFMC, at a later date in March, will consider the 
recommendations of the Joint Spiny Dogfish Committee.

DATES: The Joint Spiny Dogfish Committee meeting will be on Tuesday, 
March 14, 2000, from 1:00 until 5:00 p.m. The MAFMC will consider the 
recommendations of that committee on Thursday, March 16, 2000. The 
NEFMC will consider the recommendations of the Joint Spiny Dogfish 
Committee at its March 21-23, 2000, meeting in Gloucester, MA.

ADDRESSES: The MAFMC meeting will be held at the Wyndham Garden Hotel, 
173 Jennifer Road, Annapolis, MD, telephone 410-266-3131.
    Council Addresses: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 300 S. 
New Street, Dover, DE 19904, telephone 302-674-2331; or New England 
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, The Tannery - Mill 2, 
Newburyport, MA 019150, telephone 978-465-0492

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel T. Furlong, Executive Director, 
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone 302-674-2331, ext. 
19; or Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, New England Fishery 
Management Council, telephone 978-465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The original notice of these meetings was 
published in the Federal Register on February 29, 2000 (65 FR 10771).

[[Page 11558]]

    Revise the SUMMARY to read: ``The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 
Council (Council) and its Monkfish Working Group, Comprehensive 
Management Committee, Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Committee and Industry 
Advisory Panel, Squid-Mackerel-Butterfish Committee, Information and 
Education Committee, and Executive Committee and the Joint Spiny 
Dogfish Committee of the Mid- Atlantic and New England Fishery 
Management Councils will hold public meetings.
    Under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION revise the Tuesday, March 
14th, 1:00-3:00 p.m. entry to read:
    From 1:00-5:00 p.m., the Joint Spiny Dogfish Committee will meet.
    Revise the paragraph after ``Agenda items for this meeting are:'' 
and add another paragraph to read:
    Discuss and recommend area adjustments through the amendment 
process to the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan; review the 
recommendations of the Joint Spiny Dogfish Committee regarding 
management of the Spiny dogfish resource for the upcoming year and make 
recommendations for its management; discuss the research set aside 
amendment and summer flounder workshop(s) postponement; receive 
assessment information on Atlantic mackerel and surfclams; discuss 5-
year quotas and a new overfishing definition for surfclams; discuss 
mackerel limited entry, Illex real time management, an overfishing 
definition for Loligo, and area closures to protect Loligo egg masses; 
and consider distribution of the Loligo squid quota into time periods.
    The purpose of consideration of the recommendations of the Joint 
Spiny Dogfish Committee is for the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery 
Management Councils to come to agreement on how to manage the spiny 
dogfish resource for the upcoming fishing year. According to the FMP, 
which was approved on September 29, 1999, the measures that may be 
considered for implementation in addition to a quota, include, but are 
not limited to, the following: Minimum or maximum fish sizes, seasons, 
mesh size restrictions, trip limits, or other gear restrictions.''

    Dated: February 29, 2000.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 00-5252 Filed 3-2-00; 8:45 am]
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