South Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Meetings

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The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and its Committees will hold public meetings on February 7-11, 1994, at The Ponce de Leon, 4000 U.S. Highway 1 North, St. Augustine, FL; telephone: (904) 824-2821. The following items are on the agenda: (1) A public scoping meeting on February 7 to solicit input from spiny lobster harvesters on potential changes to the current regulations affecting recreational and commercial fishermen in north Florida through North Carolina. The Spiny Lobster Committee will discuss necessary options for the formation of a new amendment to the Spiny Lobster Fishery Management Plan (FMP); (2) An informal meeting on February 7 to allow harvesters of gag grouper to discuss management options with Council members; (3) A Snapper-Grouper Committee meeting to approve Amendment #7 to the Snapper-Grouper FMP for submission to the Secretary of Commerce and to set the 1994 wreckfish total allowable catch. The Committee will discuss enforcement problems resulting from fishermen possessing filleted snapper and grouper in South Atlantic Federal waters, which were harvested in Bahamian waters. The Committee also will review the status of Amendment #6 to the