Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

摘要

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene separate public meetings of its Joint Shrimp Advisory Panel/Standing and Special Shrimp Scientific and Statistical Committees (Shrimp SSC) and its Standing and Special Reef Fish SSC on January 10-11, 1995. On January 10, the Shrimp SSC will convene from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., and continue on January 11 from 8:00 a.m. to noon to review and discuss reduction of fish bycatch in shrimp trawls, management of royal red shrimp, review of the 1994 Texas seasonal closure to shrimping, and the recent NMFS biological opinion on impact of shrimping on endangered species. Also on January 11, the Reef Fish SSC will convene from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. to review and consider recent findings of the reef fish stock assessment on generation time for red snapper and projected impact of various management measures on the 1995 recreational harvest of red snapper. The meetings will be held at the Radisson Inn New Orleans Airport, 2150 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Kenner, LA.