[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 66 (Thursday, April 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 15044]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8225]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 032296C]


Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Workshop

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

ACTION: Notice of public workshop; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
convene a public workshop on fish traps used in Federal waters.

DATES: The public workshop will be held on April 24, 1996 from 2:00 
p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: This workshop will be held at the Board of County 
Commissions Conference Room (behind the courthouse) on Old Aaron Road, 
Crawfordville, FL. Persons may obtain a copy of Draft Reef Fish 
Amendment 14 from the Gulf Council.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401 
West Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 331, Tampa, FL 33609.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Wayne Swingle, Executive Director; 
telephone: (813) 228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Personnel from NMFS will present scientific 
information on the trap fishery from a vessel observer study NMFS 
completed during 1994 and 1995. Council staff will present the issues 
contained in Draft Reef Fish Amendment 14. These issues include 
limiting participation in the fish trap fishery by instituting a 
license limitation system and a proposal to prohibit use of fish traps 
south of 24.9 deg. north lat. (i.e. off Dry Tortugas). This is the 
second such workshop, the first being held March 11, 1996 in Duck Key, 
FL.
    The Councils' Reef Fish Management Committee, which will be in 
attendance, will decide whether additional modifications should be made 
to the draft amendment after hearing public discussion. That action 
will occur at the Council meeting in Houston, TX to be held May 13-17, 
1996.

Special Accommodations

    This workshop is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Anne Alford at the Council (see ADDRESSES) by 
April 17, 1996.

    Dated: March 29, 1996.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-8225 Filed 4-3-96; 8:45 am]
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