[Federal Register: January 19, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 11)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 010799C]

 
South Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
convene a joint meeting of its Snapper Grouper Assessment Group and 
Wreckfish Advisory Panel to review wreckfish landings and the wreckfish 
assessment and develop recommendations to the Council for setting the 
1999/2000 wreckfish framework actions including total allowable catch.

DATES: The meeting will be held on February 2, 1999 from 1:00 p.m. to 
5:30 p.m., on February 3, 1999 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and on 
February 4, 1999 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Town and Country Inn, 2001 
Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407; telephone: 843-571-1000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Buchanan, Public Information 
Officer; telephone: (843) 571-4366; fax: (843) 769-4520; email: 
susan.buchanan@noaa.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Snapper Grouper Assessment Group will 
review and discuss the gag, greater amberjack and red porgy assessments 
and develop group recommendations to the Council; review and discuss 
the trends report and updated spawning potential ratio estimates for 
snapper grouper species and develop recommendations; review, discuss 
and develop recommendations on the compliance and logbook reports and 
the snowy grouper, golden tilefish and greater amberjack quotas. The 
Assessment Group will also discuss and make recommendations on: the 
status of snapper grouper species as reflected in the most recent 
assessments and the projected status based upon Amendment 9 actions, 
special management zones, marine fishery reserves, oculina research, 
frequency of trends and compliance reports, the stock assessment and 
fishery evaluation (SAFE) report; and essential fish habitat (EFH) and 
EFH habitat areas of particular concern. The Assessment Group will then 
review and discuss the Council's Sustainable Fisheries Act Amendment 
before making recommendations for future action. The Assessment Group 
will discuss other business which may arise before adjourning.
    Although other issues not contained in this agenda may come before 
this group for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act, those issues may not be the 
subject of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted 
to those issues specifically listed in this notice.

Special Accommodations

    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to the Council office (see ADDRESSES) 
by January 26, 1998.

    Dated: January 12, 1999.
Bruce Morehead,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 99-1119 Filed 1-15-99; 8:45 am]
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