[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13967-13968]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-3967]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 031406F]


Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) 
Meeting via Conference Call.

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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
convene its Ecosystem SSC via Conference Call to discuss planning of an 
ecosystem modeling workshop to be held by the SSC later in the year.

DATES: The Conference Call will be held on April 5, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Meeting address: The meeting will be held via conference 
call and listening stations will be available. For specific locations 
see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 2203 
North Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, Florida 33607.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Steven Atran, Population Dynamics 
Statistician, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; telephone: 
813.348.1630.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 
Council (Council) will convene its Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical 
Committee (SSC) to discuss planning of an ecosystem modeling workshop 
to be held by the SSC later in the year. Specifically, the objectives 
of the conference call are to identify one, two, or three multispecies/
ecosytem modeling projects that could be used to address some of the 
key policy issues facing the Council, and to identify ecosystem 
modeling experts who could be contracted to assist the SSC and to 
perform some of the pre-analyses prior to the workshop.
    The conference call will begin at 10 a.m. EST and conclude no later 
than 11 a.m. EST. Listening stations are available at the following 
locations: The

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Gulf Council office (see ADDRESSES), and the National Marine Fisheries 
Service (NMFS) offices as follows: Galveston, Texas, 4700 Avenue U, 
Galveston, Texas 77551, Rhonda O'Toole, 409.766.3500; St. Petersburg, 
Florida, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, Barbara 
Niswander, 727.824.5305; and Panama City, Florida, 3500 Delwood Beach 
Road, Panama City, Florida 32408, Susanne Pacelli, 850.234.6541.
    Copies of any related meeting materials can be obtained by calling 
the Council office at 813.348.1630.
    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Dawn Aring at the Council (see 
ADDRESSES) at least five working days prior to the meeting.

    Dated: March 15, 2006.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E6-3967 Filed 3-17-06; 8:45 am]
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