[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 73 (Friday, April 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20137-20138]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9350]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 041000D]


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 its 103rd meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A public meeting will be 
held to discuss banning bottom longlining for pelagic management unit 
species in Federal waters around Hawaii as a preferred alternative 
under an amendment to the Fishery Management Plan for the Pelagics 
Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region (Pelagics FMP). In addition, 
the Council will consider the State of Hawaii's bill (H.B. 1947) to ban 
shark finning, in light of the Council's Fishery Management Plan for 
Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region. The Council will also 
consider banning spear fishing with SCUBA apparatus during the day and 
night as a preferred alternative under the Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement/Fishery Management Plan for the Coral Reef Ecosystem FMP 
(DEIS/FMP).

DATES: The Council meeting will be held on May 1, 2000, at 11 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Western Pacific Fishery 
Management Council office, at 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI 
96813.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The agenda during the full Council meeting 
will include the items below. The order in which agenda items will be 
addressed may change.
    1. Introductions
    2. Approval of Agenda
    3. Approval of the 102nd Meeting Minutes
    4. Banning bottom longline fishing for pelagic management unit 
species in Federal waters around Hawaii as a preferred alternative 
under the Pelagics FMP
    5. State of Hawaii bill on shark-finning
    6. Banning spear fishing with SCUBA apparatus during day and night 
in the Western Pacific Region, as a preferred alternative under the 
Coral Reef Ecosystem DEIS/FMP
    7. Issues relating to fisheries under Council jurisdiction in the 
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
    8. Approval of Elliot Lutali's membership of Pelagic Plan Team
    9. Public comment
    10. Council action
    11. Other business
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come 
before the Council for discussion, those issues may not be the subject 
of formal Council action during this meeting. Council action will be 
restricted to those issues specifically listed in this document and any 
issue arising after publication of this document that requires 
emergency action under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act, provided the public has been notified 
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the Council's intent to take final action to address the emergency.

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 the meeting date.

    16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
    Dated: April 11, 2000.
George H. Darcy,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 00-9350 Filed 4-13-00; 8:45 am]
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