Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Public Hearings

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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene four public hearings on Draft Amendment 7 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico. Amendment 7 proposes to: define overfishing for white shrimp; provide for a framework adjustment for the overfishing definitions for brown, white, and pink shrimp; revise the overfishing definition for royal red shrimp; and eliminate the total allowable level of foreign fishing to allow the domestic fleet to obtain optimum yield. Two public hearings were previously announced in the Federal Register for Corpus Christi, Texas and Galveston, Texas.