[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2581-2582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1008]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 010804D]


South 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 South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
hold a meeting of its Ecosystem-Based Management Committee to discuss 
and develop definitions and approaches to ecosystem-based management.

DATES: The meeting will take place February 5-6, 2004. Meeting 
participants will meet from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. on February 5, 2004 
and again from 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon on February 6, 2004.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Town and Country Inn, 2008 
Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407; telephone: 800/334-6660 or 843/
571-1000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim Iverson, Public Information 
Officer, South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, One Southpark 
Circle, Suite 306, Charleston, SC 29407; telephone: 843/571-4366 or 
866/SAFMC-10; fax: 843/769-4520.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Ecosystem-Based Management Committee 
will review and discuss definitions of an ecosystem and an ecosystem 
approach to management, terms that have been widely discussed and 
applied to natural resource management to date. Using these 
comprehensive definitions as a foundation, the Committee will then 
develop a working definition of the terms and ideas that is applicable 
to the South Atlantic Region. The Committee will also discuss 
opportunities to expand the current fishery management plans and the 
Habitat Plan in and effort to best integrate ecosystem-based

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principles into the fishery management process.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come 
before this group for discussion, those issues may not be the subject 
of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted to 
those issues specifically identified in this notice and any issues 
arising after publication of this notice that require emergency action 
under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act, provided the public has been notified of the Council's 
intent to take final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to the Council office (see ADDRESSES) 
by February 3,2004.

    Dated: January 12, 2004.
Peter H. Fricke,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 04-1008 Filed 1-15-04; 8:45 am]
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