[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 7 (Monday, January 12, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1178-1179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-310]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XM64


New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council(s (Council) 
Groundfish Oversight Committee will meet to consider actions affecting 
New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 9 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire 
Street, Mansfield, MA 02048; telephone: (508) 339-2200.

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    Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, 
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The items of discussion in the committee(s 
agenda are as follows:
    1. The Groundfish Oversight Committee will meet to continue work on 
Amendment 16 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. 
Amendment 16 is under development to adjust management measures as 
necessary to continue stock rebuilding. At this meeting, the Committee 
will review the draft amendment document. They may develop 
recommendations for any of the management measures under development. 
Specific items likely to be addressed include, but are not limited to, 
annual catch limit and accountability measures for the commercial and 
recreational fisheries, effort control measures, sector administration, 
monitoring, and policy issues, and gear requirements to reduce 
incidental catches of regulated groundfish (including requirements for 
small mesh fisheries in the southern New England and Mid-Atlantic 
regulated mesh areas).
    2. The Committee may also develop recommendations for the 
identification of preferred alternatives.
    3. Other business.
    Recommendations from the Committee will be considered by the 
Council at its meeting, on February 9-11, 2009, in Portsmouth, NH.
    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

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

    Authority:  16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: January 7, 2009.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E9-310 Filed 1-9-09; 8:45 am]
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