[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16659-16660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7545]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 032101B]


Mid-Atlantic 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 Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council) 
Comprehensive Management Committee (CMC) will hold a public meeting.

DATES:  The meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 10, 2001, from 10 
a.m. until 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel 
Philadelphia Airport, 9000 Bartram Avenue, Philadelphia, PA; (610) 561-
1776.
    Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 300 South 
New Street, Room 2115, Dover, DE 19904.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Daniel T. Furlong, Executive 
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; (302) 674-2331, ext. 
19.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  The purpose of this meeting is to address 
the development of future committee activities and actions, and provide 
priority recommendations to the Council regarding its future activities 
and actions. For purposes of establishing Council priorities, the 
committee will review and discuss the following items:
    1. Consider utility of ecosystem management;
    2. Address implications of Marine Protected Areas (sea mapping data 
review);
    3. Identify possible effort management scenarios;
    4. Consider economic impacts of management measures (highest and 
best use of the resource);
    5. Address managing a recovering fishery;
    6. Analyze and redesign the fishery management infrastructure;
    7. Address economic and social impacts of fishery management;
    8. Achieve maximum harvest while minimizing impacts;
    9. Achieve maximum harvest while using minimum fuel;
    10. Manage harvest for the maximum economic benefit to the nation;
    11. Develop a stable year-round infrastructure;
    12. Resolve dilemma whereby fishery management can't support all 
traditional entities and/or communities;
    13. Address utility of Individual Transferable Quota applications;
    14. Consider conducting a management experiment whereby a selected 
number of boats fish under a particular format to test fundamental 
changes in management approaches;
    15. Consider fishing as farming and manage activity accordingly;
    16. Evaluate the extent and scope of the Mid-Atlantic fishery as to 
actual and potential capacity in terms of number of boats, number of 
permits, landings, etc.; and
    17. Explore the notion of cumulative trip limits and associated 
impact on bycatch
    Other issues and items that arise during this meeting can become 
part of the rating and ranking process that will ultimately be reduced 
to writing as a set of priorities to be recommended to the Council for 
its consideration and action.
    Although other issues not contained in this agenda may come before 
this Council for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act, those issues may not be the 
subject of formal Council action during this meeting. Council action 
will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in the 
agenda listed in this notice.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Joanna Davis at the Council Office (see 
ADDRESSES) at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.


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    Dated: March 21, 2001.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 01-7545 Filed 3-26-01; 8:45 am]
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