[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 52 (Friday, March 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14425-14426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6663]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 030995A]


North Pacific Fishery Management Council; 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 North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its 
advisory bodies will hold meetings during the week of April 17, 1995, 
at the Hilton Hotel, 500 W. 3rd Avenue, Anchorage, AK. All meetings are 
open to the public, with the exception of an executive session to be 
held during the lunch hour 1 day during the meeting week to review 
personnel matters and pending litigation. Each meeting will continue 
until business is completed. All meetings will be held at the hotel and 
are scheduled as follows:
    Council Advisory Panel and Scientific and Statistical Committee 
meetings will begin at 1:00 p.m., on April 17.
    The Council meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m., on April 19, and is 
expected to continue through at least April 22, and possibly, April 23. 
There may be other workgroup and/or committee meetings held during the 
week. Notice of meetings will be posted and announced at the Council 
meeting. Time permitting, the Council will address, and may take 
appropriate action on, the following agenda items:
    1. Reports from NMFS on the current status of fisheries and 
regulations, from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on domestic 
fisheries, and from NMFS and the U.S. Coast Guard on enforcement and 
surveillance activities;
    2. Final action on groundfish and crab license alternatives;
    3. Initial review of analysis for continuation of inshore/offshore 
allocations and the pollock community development quota program;
    4. Review proposed rule for the moratorium on groundfish and crab 
fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands 
(BSAI);
    5. Receive a status report on the implementation of the Research 
Plan observer user fee program and review technical issues associated 
with the plan;
    6. Receive legal opinion from NOAA General Counsel on the State of 
Alaska's authority over halibut management, and a staff report on 
progress for a regulatory amendment to control the amount of halibut 
taken by the charter industry;
    7. Under the Sablefish and Halibut Individual Fishery Quota (IFQ) 
Program, the Council will receive a report from its Implementation 
Team, receive an issues paper on an early opening of the Aleutian 
Islands sablefish IFQ fishery, and receive a status report on several 
other pending amendments to the program;
    8. Review information on oil and gas lease sale (MMS Sale 249) in 
Cook Inlet;
    9. Bycatch, waste, and harvest priority: Receive discussion papers 
on improved retention and utilization; seasonal allocation of rock sole 
total allowable catch; and harvest priority, including a legal opinion 
on options being discussed for harvest priority;
    10. Review Magnuson Act reauthorization proposals and approved 
amendments;
    11. Review biological assessment and opinion for section 7 
consultation for Snake River salmon, and receive a report on listing 
Steller sea lions as endangered, and a report on the status of 
seabirds;
    12. Scallop management: Receive a status report on emergency 
closure; review draft fishery management plan, and information on crab 
bycatch and inclusion of scallop vessels in the observer plan;
    13. Receive a report of the working panel for a grid sorting 
amendment to reduce halibut bycatch/mortality;
    14. Initial review of an analysis of Bristol Bay red king crab 
closure and receive a report from the BSAI Crab and Groundfish Plan 
Teams on rebuilding crab fisheries;
    15. Receive a report from the Salmon Research Foundation and take 
final action on chinook salmon bycatch amendment;
    16. Review a proposed rule for the total weight measurement 
amendment;
    17. Receive report on pollock trawl mesh studies;
    18. Consider whether to adjust the GOA Pacific ocean perch (POP) 
rebuilding plan, and establish the total allowable catch for POP for 
1995;
    19. Consider apportioning pollock between midwater and bottom 
trawls.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: North Pacific Fishery Management 
Council, P.O. Box 103136, Anchorage, AK 99510; telephone: (907) 271-
2809.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These meetings are physically accessible to 
people with disabilities. Requests for [[Page 14426]] 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: March 13, 1995.
David S. Crestin,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-6663 Filed 3-16-95; 8:45 am]
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