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[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 194 (Thursday, October 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59393-59394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25648]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 100200A]

New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is

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scheduling public meetings of its Groundfish Committee, Monkfish 
Advisory Panel and Research Steering Committee in October 2000, to 
consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive 
economic zone (EEZ).

DATES: The meetings will be held between Tuesday, October 24, 2000, and 
Thursday, October 26, 2000. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific 
dates and times.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held in Danvers, MA; Wakefield, MA; and 
Warwick, RI. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific locations.
    Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950: (978) 465-0492.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Meeting Dates, Locations, and Agendas

Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 9:30 a.m. and Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 
8:30 a.m.--Groundfish Oversight Committee Meeting

    Location: Sheraton Ferncroft, 50 Ferncroft Road, Danvers, MA 01923; 
telephone: (978) 777-2500.
    The Groundfish Oversight Committee will continue its development of 
management alternatives for Amendment 13 to the Northeast Multispecies 
Fishery Management Plan. The Committee will consider comments from it's 
Advisory Panel on the area management and sector allocation proposals 
and may make changes to those proposals based on the comments received. 
They will finalize recommendations for rebuilding plans for overfished 
stocks, measures to address capacity in the groundfish fishery, and 
recommendations for closed areas. In addition, the Committee will 
refine its proposals for a revised status quo, area management, and 
sector allocation alternatives. They will review access by other 
fisheries or gears to closed areas and may develop recommendations for 
changes to those vessels and gears that are currently allowed access to 
closed areas. They will also develop priorities for cooperative 
research proposals that will be forwarded to the Research Steering 
Committee. The Committee will meet in a closed session to review 
advisory panel applications.

Thursday, October 26, 2000, 9:30 a.m.--Monkfish Advisory Panel Meeting

    Location: Radisson Airport Hotel, 2081 Post Road, Warwick, RI 
02886; telephone: (401)739-3000.
    The Panel will discuss monkfish trip limit options to address 
perceived inequities across fleet sectors and develop recommendations 
to the Monkfish Committee. It will also develop a statement of purpose 
and a range of alternatives for monkfish spawning area/time management, 
and will discuss possible options for bycatch control and minimizing 
discards of monkfish in small mesh fisheries.

Thursday, October 26, 2000, 9:30 a.m.--Research Steering Committee 
Meeting

    Location: Sheraton Colonial, One Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA 01880; 
telephone: (781) 245-9300.
    The Research Committee will discuss priorities for funding regional 
research projects in 2001.
    Recommendations from these groups will be brought to the full 
Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate. Although 
non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come before this 
Council for discussion, those issues may not be the subject of formal 
Council action during this meeting. Council action will be restricted 
to those issues specifically listed 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

    These meetings are 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 five days prior to the meeting dates.

    Dated: October 2, 2000.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 00-25648 Filed 10-4-00; 8:45 am]
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