[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 26 (Monday, February 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6950-6951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02565]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XD755


Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (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 Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will hold a 
meeting of the Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical Committee.

DATES: The meeting will be held from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 
February 25, 2015.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Gulf of Mexico Fishery 
Management Council Office, 2203 North Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, 
FL 33607.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Morgan Kilgour, Fishery Biologist, 
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; telephone: (813) 348-1630; 
fax: (813) 348-1711; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The items of discussion on the agenda are as 
follows:

Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical Committee Agenda, Tuesday, 
February 25, 2015, 9 a.m. Until 5 p.m.

1. Introductions and Adoption of Agenda
2. Approval of Ecosystem portion of June 3-5, 2014 Standing, Special 
Reef Fish, and Ecosystem SSC summary minutes
3. Scope of Work
4. Selection of SSC representative at March 30-April 3, 2015 Council 
meeting (Biloxi, MS)
5. Madison-Swanson and Steamboat Lumps Marine Reserves Reports
    a. Protection of grouper and red snapper spawning in shelf-edge 
marine reserves of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Demographics, 
movements, survival and spillover effects (2011)
    b. NMFS monitoring report and work from Coral Reef Conservation 
Program
    c. Grouper and spawning aggregations and reserves
6. Report of the Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management Plan Working 
Group
    a. Goals and Objectives
    b. Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Information Needs
    c. Next Steps
7. Other Ecosystem SSC Business
    a. Summary on Lenfest Task Force Meeting
--Adjourn--

    For meeting materials see folder ``Ecosystem Scientific and 
Statistical Committee meeting--2015-02'' on Gulf Council file server. 
To access the file server, the URL is https://public.gulfcouncil.org:5001/webman/index.cgi, or go to the Council's 
Web site and click on the FTP link in the lower left of the Council Web 
site (http://www.gulfcouncil.org). The username and password are both 
``gulfguest''. The Agenda is subject to change.
    The meeting will be Webcast over the Internet. A link to the 
Webcast will be available on the Council's Web site, http://www.gulfcouncil.org.
    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

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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

    The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Kathy Pereira at the Council Office (see  
ADDRESSES), at least 5 working days prior to the meeting.

    Note:  The times and sequence specified in this agenda are 
subject to change.


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

    Dated: February 4, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-02565 Filed 2-6-15; 8:45 am]
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