[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 20 (Wednesday, January 30, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 5525]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1601]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN: 0648-XF32


Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South Atlantic Fishery 
Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of a public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council), in 
partnership with Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment 
and Earth Sciences and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
is conducting a South Atlantic Ecosystem Tools and Model Development 
Workshop in Beaufort, NC.

DATES: The Ecosystem Modeling Workshop will take place from 8:30 a.m. - 
5 p.m. on February 21, 2008, and from 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. on February 
22, 2008.

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held at the Duke Repass Center, Duke 
Marine Laboratory, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC 28516; 
telephone: (252) 504-7501.
    Council address: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 4055 
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC 29405.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim Iverson, Public Information 
Officer; telephone (843) 571-4366 or toll free (866) SAFMC-10; fax: 
(843) 769-4520; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Workshop is designed to provide an 
understanding of regional data availability, partner capabilities, tool 
and model development status and funding mechanisms to support multiple 
task-based Ecosystem model development efforts in the South Atlantic 
region. The Workshop is designed to build on previous coordination 
meetings and model development efforts to establish short-term 
development and long-term development strategies necessary to support 
ecosystem-based management, the South Atlantic Fishery Management 
Council's Fishery Ecosystem Plan and future Comprehensive Fishery 
Ecosystem Amendments.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for auxiliary aids should be directed to the Council office 
(see ADDRESSES) 3 days prior to the meetings.
    Note: The times and sequence specified in this agenda are subject 
to change.

    Dated: January 25, 2008.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E8-1601 Filed 1-29-08; 8:45 am]
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