[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81971-81972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32737]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XA117


Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Council to convene a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a 
meeting of the Standing, Special Spiny Lobster and Special Reef Fish 
Scientific and Statistical Committees.

DATES: The meeting will convene at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 
and conclude by noon on Friday, January 21, 2011.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Gulf of Mexico Fishery 
Management Council, 2203 North Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, FL 
33607; telephone: (813) 348-1630.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 2203 N. 
Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, FL 33607.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Atran, Population Dynamics 
Statistician; Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; telephone: 
(813) 348-1630.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee will meet to review several 
recently completed stock assessments and supplemental assessment 
analyses, and to recommend levels of acceptable biological catch. 
During the first day of the meeting, the Standing and Special Spiny 
Lobster Scientific and Statistical Committees will meet jointly to 
review a spiny lobster update assessment and make recommendations to 
the Council. The remainder of the meeting will be a joint meeting of 
the Standing and Special Reef Fish Scientific and Statistical 
Committee, which will begin upon completion of the spiny lobster 
portion of the meeting. The Committee will review draft terms of 
reference for a gray triggerfish update assessment and a vermilion 
snapper update assessment to be conducted in 2011. The Committee

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will then review a re-run of the 2009 gag update assessment with a 
corrected size distribution for the recreational discard data and 
commercial discard estimates based on observer data. The Committee will 
also review the impact of applying observer based discard estimates on 
the 2009 red grouper update assessment. The Committee will then review 
the following assessments: Greater amberjack update assessment, SEDAR 
15 mutton snapper benchmark assessment, and SEDAR 23 goliath grouper 
benchmark assessment.
    Copies of the agenda and other related materials can be obtained by 
calling (813) 348-1630 or can be downloaded from the Council's ftp 
site, ftp.gulfcouncil.org.
    Although other non-emergency issues not on the agenda may come 
before the Scientific and Statistical Committees for discussion, in 
accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act, those issues may not be the subject of formal action 
during this meeting. Actions of the Scientific and Statistical 
Committees will be restricted to those issues specifically identified 
in the agenda 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 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 Trish Kennedy at the Council (see ADDRESSES) at 
least 5 working days prior to the meeting.

    Dated: December 23, 2010.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-32737 Filed 12-28-10; 8:45 am]
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