[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63622-63623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26135]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 100902A]


Caribbean Fishery Management Council (CFMC); Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Caribbean Fishery Management Council's Habitat Advisory 
Panel (HAP), and the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC), and 
the Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA) Committee will hold meetings.

DATES: The SFA Committee will meet on October 23-24, 2002, and the HAP/
SSC meeting will be held on October 25, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 8000 
Tartak St., Isla Verde, Carolina, PR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 
268 Munoz Rivera Avenue, Suite 1108, San Juan, PR 00918-2577, telephone 
787-766-5926.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SFA Committee, the HAP, and the SSC will 
meet to discuss the items contained in the following agendas:

October 23, 2002

SFA Committee Meeting
    Presentation of SFA Parameter Tables
    Review of Section I of the SFA Amendment Options Paper
    The SFA Committee will need to review the various SFA parameter 
options and offer recommendations to the CFMC based on group consensus. 
These recommended alternatives will then be utilized to construct the 
table of SFA parameters for CFMC managed species.
    Additionally, the SFA Committee will need to review the various 
alternatives regarding the aquarium trade species in the Reef Fish and 
Coral Fishery Management Plans, in order to produce a recommendation to 
the CFMC on how to pursue management of these species. This discussion 
will have ramifications on the generation of stock status determination 
criteria for these species.
    Construction of SFA Parameters
    The SFA Committee will need to evaluate the various biological and 
socio-economic data, as well as personal knowledge and experience, on 
all managed species and species groups, in order to recommend prudent 
stock status determination criteria to the CFMC. This process may, in 
turn drive additional management measures, based on the resulting stock 
status determination (i.e., approaching overfished or overfished 
status).

October 24, 2002

    Discussion on Sections I and II of the SFA Amendment OptionsPaper
    The SFA Committee will need to review the various proposed 
alternatives and offer recommendations to the CFMC based on group 
consensus that will comply with Magnuson-Stevens Fishery

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Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) and National 
Environmental Policy Act requirements.
    Discussion on Sections I and II of the SFA Amendment OptionsPaper 
(continued)

October 25, 2002

HAP/SSC
    Call to Order
    Decision Making Process for Essential Fish Habitat (EFH)
    Alternatives (Decision Tree)
    Mapping EFH
    Fishing Impacts on EFH
    Alternatives for Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPC)
    Environmental Consequences
    Other Business
    The SFA Committee will meet on Wednesday, October 23, and Thursday, 
October 24, 2002. The HAP/SSC will convene on Friday, October 2002, 
from 10-4 p.m.
    The meetings are open to the public, and will be conducted in 
English. Fishers and other interested persons are invited to attend and 
participate with oral or written statements regarding agenda issues.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come 
before the Council for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-
Stevens Act, those issues may not be the subject of formal Council 
action during these meetings. Action will be restricted to those issues 
specifically listed in this notice and any issue arising after 
publication of this notice that require emergency action under section 
305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the public has been 
notified of the Council's intent to take final action to address this 
emergency.

Special Accommodations

    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. For more information or request for sign language 
interpretation and/other auxiliary aids, please contact Mr. Miguel A. 
Rolon, Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 268 
Munoz Rivera Avenue, Suite 1108, San Juan, PR 00918-2577, telephone 
(787) 766-5926, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: October 9, 2002.
Matteo Milazzo,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 02-26135 Filed 10-11-02; 8:45 am]
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