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Orange Beach, AL; Corpus Christi and
Galveston, TX.
Council address: Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Council, 2203 N.
Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, FL
33607.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Drs.
Assane Diagne, Economist and Ava
Lasseter, Anthropologist; Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Council;
telephone: (813) 348–1630.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf
of Mexico Fishery Management Council
has scheduled scoping meetings on a
proposed amendment addressing the
For-Hire Red Snapper Days-at-Sea Pilot
Program. The days-at-sea program
would apply to the charter industry.
Issues to be discussed include, but are
not limited to, the purpose and need for
this amendment and the potential
management actions that may be
considered. Management actions under
consideration range from the selection
of program participants to the
establishment of effort and catch
validation methods and criteria for
program evaluation.
The eight scoping meetings will begin
at 6 p.m. and conclude at the end of
public testimony or no later than 9 p.m.
at the following locations:
Monday, March 25, 2013, Courtyard
Marriott, 1600 E. Beach Boulevard,
Gulfport, MS 39501, telephone: (228)
864–4310.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013; Fairfield
Inn & Suites, 3111 Loop Road, Orange
Beach, AL 36561, telephone: (251) 543–
4444.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013; Destin
Community Center, 101 Stahlman
Avenue, Destin, FL 32541, telephone:
(850) 654–5184; Courtyard Marriott,
3250 US 41 North, Naples, FL 34103,
telephone: (239) 434–8700.
Monday, April 1, 2013; Hilton
Galveston Island, 5400 Seawall
Boulevard, Galveston Island, TX 77551,
telephone: (409) 744–5000.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013; Hilton St.
Petersburg Carillon Park, 950 Lake
Carillon Drive, St. Petersburg, FL 33716,
telephone: (727) 540–0050; Hilton
Garden Inn, 6717 S. Padre Island Drive,
Corpus Christi, TX 78412, telephone:
(361) 991–8200.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013; Crowne
Plaza New Orleans Airport, 2829
Williams Boulevard, Kenner, LA 70062,
telephone: (504) 467–5611.
Copies of the scoping document will
be available two weeks prior to the first
scoping meeting and can be obtained by
calling (813) 348–1630, or from the
Council Web site at https://www.
gulfcouncil.org/fishery_management_
plans/scoping-thruimplementation.php.
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Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Kathy Pereira at
the Council (see ADDRESSES) at least 5
working days prior to the meeting.
Dated: March 5, 2013.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its
Scallop Committee to consider actions
affecting New England fisheries in the
exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Recommendations from this group will
be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This meeting will be held on
Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at 9:30
a.m.
The meeting will be held at
the Westin Waterfront Hotel, 425
Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110;
telephone: (617) 532–4600; fax: (617)
532–4650.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management
Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee will recommend measures
for Framework 25 to the Sea Scallop
Fishery Management Program (FMP).
Framework 25 will include fishery
specifications for fishing year 2014 and
default measures for 2015 as well as
accountability measures for southern
windowpane flounder. The committee
will provide recommendations for
research priorities as well as review the
status of the fishery for fishing year
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2012. In addition, the committee will
review progress on the Limited Access
General Category Individual Fishing
Quota performance report being
completed by the Scallop Plan
Development Team. Finally, NMFS will
give a presentation about management
action timing issues. The Committee
will review the general timelines and
steps involved in reviewing and
approving fishery management actions
and have an opportunity to ask
questions.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, 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 and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at
(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 5, 2013.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Caribbean Fishery Management
Council; Public Hearing
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public hearing.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Caribbean Fishery
Management Council will hold a public
hearing to obtain input from fishers, the
general public, and the local agencies
representatives on the Draft Regulatory
Amendment 2 to the Fishery
Management Plan for Queen Conch
Resources of Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Virgin Islands: Compatible Trip and Bag
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Limits for the U.S. Caribbean Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ).
DATES: The public hearing will be held
on March 25, 2013, from 7 p.m. to 10
p.m.
ADDRESSES: The hearing will be held at
The Buccaneer Hotel, 7 Estate Shoys,
Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin
Islands.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Caribbean Fishery Management Council,
˜
270 Munoz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401,
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; telephone:
(787) 766–5926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Caribbean Fishery Management Council
will hold a public hearing to receive
public input on the following
management options:
Summary
The National Marine Fisheries
Service, in collaboration with the
Council, has developed Regulatory
Amendment 2 and its Environmental
Assessment to establish compatible
regulations with U.S. Virgin Islands
(USVI) territorial regulations for the
harvest of queen conch. Fishing and
possession of queen conch in the U.S.
Caribbean exclusive economic zone
(EEZ) is only allowed in the area of Lang
Bank, to the east of St. Croix.
The USVI has expressed interest in
having federal waters become
compatible with the territorial trip limit
because some of the harvest of queen
conch in St. Croix comes from the EEZ,
and that harvest must traverse territorial
waters to be landed. Thus, establishing
compatible regulations would aid
enforcement by eliminating the
inconsistency in the number of queen
conch allowed to be possessed on the
water.
The alternatives considered in this
Regulatory Amendment address the
following issues:
The current trip limit in federal
waters allows a licensed commercial
fisherman to harvest up to 150 queen
conch per day, but does not establish a
harvest limit per vessel. USVI
regulations allow the harvest of 200
queen conch per vessel regardless of the
number of licensed fishermen on board.
The daily recreational bag limit in
federal waters allows three queen conch
per person and a maximum of 12 queen
conch per boat. In contrast, the USVI
daily recreational bag limit consists of
six queen conch per person and a
maximum of 24 per boat.
Although commercial and
recreational harvest of queen conch
appears to occur primarily in territorial
waters, with only minimal EEZ harvest,
queen conch is currently classified as an
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overfished species, and it is managed
under a 15-year rebuilding plan.
Establishing compatible regulations
would allow for more efficient
management and enforcement of queen
conch regulations in both territorial and
EEZ waters.
The goal of Regulatory Amendment 2
is to achieve state-federal compatibility
of queen conch.
List of Actions and Alternatives
ACTION 1: Modify the trip limit for
the commercial harvest of queen conch
in the U.S. Caribbean exclusive
economic zone (EEZ).
Alternative 1: No Action. Do not
modify the current trip limit for the
commercial harvest of queen conch in
the U.S. Caribbean EEZ, which allows
no more than 150 queen conch per
licensed commercial fisherman per day.
Alternative 2: Modify the trip limit for
the commercial harvest of queen conch
in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to be
consistent with the U.S. Virgin Islands
(USVI) limit which consists of no more
than 200 queen conch per vessel per
day.
Alternative 3: Modify the trip limit for
the commercial harvest of queen conch
in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to allow for
no more than 150 queen conch per
vessel per day if there is one licensed
commercial fisherman on board, or no
more than 200 queen conch per vessel
per day if more than one licensed
commercial fisherman is on board.
ACTION 2: Modify the bag limit for
the recreational harvest of queen conch
in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ.
Alternative 1: No Action. Do not
modify the current bag limit for the
recreational harvest of queen conch in
the U.S. Caribbean EEZ, which consists
of 3 queen conch per person per day, or
if more than 4 persons are aboard, 12
queen conch per vessel per day.
Alternative 2: Modify the bag limit for
the recreational harvest of queen conch
in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to be
consistent with the USVI territorial limit
of 6 queen conch per person per day,
with a maximum of 24 queen conch per
vessel per day.
Alternative 3: Modify the bag limit for
the recreational harvest of queen conch
in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to allow no
more than 6 queen conch per person per
day, with a maximum of 12 queen
conch per vessel per day.
Alternative 4: Modify the bag limit for
the recreational harvest of queen conch
in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to allow no
more than 3 queen conch per person per
day, with a maximum of 24 queen
conch per vessel per day.
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Special Accommodations
The hearing is physically accessible to
people with disabilities. For more
information or request for sign language
interpretation and other auxiliary aids,
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please contact Mr. Miguel A. Rolon,
Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery
˜
Management Council, 270 Munoz
Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, 00918, telephone: (787)
766–5926, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Dated: March 5, 2013.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XC546
New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its
Scallop Advisory Panel to consider
actions affecting New England fisheries
in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Recommendations from this group will
be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This meeting will be held on
Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 12 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Westin Waterfront Hotel, 425
Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110;
telephone: (617) 532–4600; fax: (617)
532–4650.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management
Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Advisory Panel will recommend
measures for Framework 25 to the Sea
Scallop Fishery Management Program
(FMP). Framework 25 will include
fishery specifications for fishing year
2014 and default measures for 2015 as
well as accountability measures for
southern windowpane flounder. The
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XC535
Caribbean Fishery Management Council; Public Hearing
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public hearing.
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SUMMARY: The Caribbean Fishery Management Council will hold a public
hearing to obtain input from fishers, the general public, and the local
agencies representatives on the Draft Regulatory Amendment 2 to the
Fishery Management Plan for Queen Conch Resources of Puerto Rico and
the U.S. Virgin Islands: Compatible Trip and Bag
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Limits for the U.S. Caribbean Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
DATES: The public hearing will be held on March 25, 2013, from 7 p.m.
to 10 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The hearing will be held at The Buccaneer Hotel, 7 Estate
Shoys, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caribbean Fishery Management Council,
270 Mu[ntilde]oz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918;
telephone: (787) 766-5926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Caribbean Fishery Management Council
will hold a public hearing to receive public input on the following
management options:
Summary
The National Marine Fisheries Service, in collaboration with the
Council, has developed Regulatory Amendment 2 and its Environmental
Assessment to establish compatible regulations with U.S. Virgin Islands
(USVI) territorial regulations for the harvest of queen conch. Fishing
and possession of queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean exclusive economic
zone (EEZ) is only allowed in the area of Lang Bank, to the east of St.
Croix.
The USVI has expressed interest in having federal waters become
compatible with the territorial trip limit because some of the harvest
of queen conch in St. Croix comes from the EEZ, and that harvest must
traverse territorial waters to be landed. Thus, establishing compatible
regulations would aid enforcement by eliminating the inconsistency in
the number of queen conch allowed to be possessed on the water.
The alternatives considered in this Regulatory Amendment address
the following issues:
The current trip limit in federal waters allows a licensed
commercial fisherman to harvest up to 150 queen conch per day, but does
not establish a harvest limit per vessel. USVI regulations allow the
harvest of 200 queen conch per vessel regardless of the number of
licensed fishermen on board.
The daily recreational bag limit in federal waters allows three
queen conch per person and a maximum of 12 queen conch per boat. In
contrast, the USVI daily recreational bag limit consists of six queen
conch per person and a maximum of 24 per boat.
Although commercial and recreational harvest of queen conch appears
to occur primarily in territorial waters, with only minimal EEZ
harvest, queen conch is currently classified as an overfished species,
and it is managed under a 15-year rebuilding plan. Establishing
compatible regulations would allow for more efficient management and
enforcement of queen conch regulations in both territorial and EEZ
waters.
The goal of Regulatory Amendment 2 is to achieve state-federal
compatibility of queen conch.
List of Actions and Alternatives
ACTION 1: Modify the trip limit for the commercial harvest of queen
conch in the U.S. Caribbean exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Alternative 1: No Action. Do not modify the current trip limit for
the commercial harvest of queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ, which
allows no more than 150 queen conch per licensed commercial fisherman
per day.
Alternative 2: Modify the trip limit for the commercial harvest of
queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to be consistent with the U.S.
Virgin Islands (USVI) limit which consists of no more than 200 queen
conch per vessel per day.
Alternative 3: Modify the trip limit for the commercial harvest of
queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to allow for no more than 150
queen conch per vessel per day if there is one licensed commercial
fisherman on board, or no more than 200 queen conch per vessel per day
if more than one licensed commercial fisherman is on board.
ACTION 2: Modify the bag limit for the recreational harvest of
queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ.
Alternative 1: No Action. Do not modify the current bag limit for
the recreational harvest of queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ,
which consists of 3 queen conch per person per day, or if more than 4
persons are aboard, 12 queen conch per vessel per day.
Alternative 2: Modify the bag limit for the recreational harvest of
queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to be consistent with the USVI
territorial limit of 6 queen conch per person per day, with a maximum
of 24 queen conch per vessel per day.
Alternative 3: Modify the bag limit for the recreational harvest of
queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to allow no more than 6 queen
conch per person per day, with a maximum of 12 queen conch per vessel
per day.
Alternative 4: Modify the bag limit for the recreational harvest of
queen conch in the U.S. Caribbean EEZ to allow no more than 3 queen
conch per person per day, with a maximum of 24 queen conch per vessel
per day.
Special Accommodations
The hearing is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
For more information or request for sign language interpretation and
other auxiliary aids, please contact Mr. Miguel A. Rol[oacute]n,
Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 270
Mu[ntilde]oz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00918,
telephone: (787) 766-5926, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
Dated: March 5, 2013.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-05425 Filed 3-7-13; 8:45 am]
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