[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 173 (Thursday, September 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46576-46577]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-22091]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 081895C]
North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Meetings
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of meetings.
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SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its
advisory bodies will meet the week of September 25, 1995.
DATES: The meetings are scheduled as follows:
1. Advisory Panel (AP)--September 25 to September 29, 1995, 8:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
2. Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC)--September 25 to
September 28, 1995, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
3. Council--September 27, 1995, 8:00 a.m., and expected to continue
through October 2, 1995.
ADDRESSES: The AP and SSC will meet at the Quality Inn, 17001 Pacific
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Highway South, Seattle, WA. The Council will meet at the Radisson
Hotel, adjacent to the Quality Inn.
Council address: North Pacific Fishery Management Council, P.O. Box
103136, Anchorage, AK 99510.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: North Pacific Fishery Management
Council; telephone: 907-271-2809.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The agenda for the Council meeting will
include the following subjects:
1. Oath of office to new Council appointees and election of
Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Council.
2. Reports on domestic fisheries by the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game and NMFS, enforcement reports from NMFS and the U.S. Coast
Guard, report on international fishery issues, and a report on the
status of Steller sea lions.
3. Status report on the Sablefish and Halibut Individual Fishing
Quota (IFQ) program and review of several proposed changes to the plan.
4. Observer Oversight Committee report and review of observer
program fee concerns, including staff report on proposals to address
Council concerns.
5. Review of discussion papers on full utilization, improved
retention and harvest priority, individual bycatch quotas, and rock
sole seasonal apportionment.
6. Review of the License Limitation System to clarify issues and
report on the status of proposed regulations, review of a work plan for
a Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock IFQ system, and report on
the status of the moratorium on groundfish and crab fisheries.
7. Review of Council operations, including annual cycle for
amendment proposals.
8. Review of pollock Community Development Quota (CDQ) applications
for 1996-98, receipt of a status report from the State of Alaska on
adding Akutan to the CDQ eligibility list, and consider establishing a
CDQ Implementation Committee.
9. Review of status of stocks for crab fisheries and set time for a
joint meeting of the Council and Alaska Board of Fisheries.
10. Status report on Amendment 1 to the Scallop Fishery Management
Plan; possible emergency action to open federal waters in early 1996.
11. Review and approval of initial Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/
Aleutian Islands (BSAI) stock assessment and fishery evaluation reports
for 1996, and approval of initial 1996 groundfish and bycatch
specifications for public review, including vessel incentive program
rate standards and discard mortality rates for halibut.
12. Initial review of amendments for grid sorting of halibut;
revisions to the Pacific ocean perch rebuilding plan, overfishing
definitions and crab protection closure areas; a forage fish amendment,
rock sole seasonal apportionments, and inseason flexibility to move
crab prohibited species catch between BSAI Zones 1 and 2; and
reauthorization of BSAI cod allocation by gear type.
13. Review of proposals received for amendments to the groundfish
fishery management plans. Other groundfish issues to be discussed, time
permitting, include: A report on a trawl mesh experiment, a NMFS report
on frameworking inseason micro-management measures, and review of a
draft proposed rule to require scale weight measurements of catch in
the pollock fishery.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Helen Allen, 907-271-2809, at
least 5 working days prior to the meeting date.
Dated: August 30, 1995.
Richard H. Schaefer,
Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-22091 Filed 9-6-95; 8:45 am]
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