Meetings: Atlantic Fishery Management Council,

[Federal Register: July 27, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 143)]

[Notices]

[Page 40572-40573]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 072099A]

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and its Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Committee, Comprehensive Management Committee, Squid-Mackerel-Butterfish Committee and Squid-Mackerel- Butterfish Monitoring Committee, and Executive Committee will hold public meetings.

DATES: The meetings will be held on Monday, August 9, 1999, to Thursday, August 12, 1999. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific dates and times.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Sheraton Society Hill, One Dock Street, Philadelphia, PA; telephone: 215-238-6000.‹SUP›‹/SUP› Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 300 S. New Street, Dover, DE 19904; telephone: 302-674-2331.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel T. Furlong, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; telephone: 302-674-2331, ext. 19.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Monday, August 9, 1999

‹SUP›‹/SUP› 10:00 a.m. until noon--Squid-Mackerel-Butterfish Monitoring Committee 10:00 a.m. until noon--Comprehensive Management Committee 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.--Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Committee 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.--Squid-Mackerel-Butterfish Committee

Tuesday, August 10, 1999

8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.--Council will meet.

Wednesday, August 11, 1999

8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.--Council will meet with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board

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Thursday, August 12,1999

9:00 a.m. until noon--Council will meet with the ASMFC's Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Bass Board 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.--Council will meet with the ASMFC's Bluefish Board

The full Council session will continue until 4:00 p.m.

Agenda items for this meeting include: Election of Chairman and Vice Chairman; review process for field program proposals; adoption of 2000 quota and commercial management measures for surfclams and ocean quahogs; development of recommendations for and adoption of 2000 quotas and commercial management measures for Atlantic mackerel, Loligo and Illex squids and butterfish; adoption of commercial quota, recreational harvest limit, and commercial management measures for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass for 2000; adoption of bluefish management measures for 2000; and consideration of revised habitat sections for previously disapproved fishery management plans. Other items scheduled on the agenda include: Report of Stock Assessment Review Committee; receipt of committee reports and other fishery management issues.

Although other issues not contained in this agenda may come before this Council for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, such issues may not be the subject of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in the agenda listed in this notice.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Joanna Davis at the Council (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.

Dated: July 21, 1999. Gary C. Matlock, Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 99-19169Filed7-26-99; 8:45 am]

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