Groundfish Management Team to Meet

Meeting Dates: January 30th-February 1st, 2007

The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Groundfish Management Team (GMT) will hold a work session which is open to the public.

The GMT meeting will be held Tuesday, January 30, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. until business for the day is completed. The GMT meeting will reconvene Wednesday, January 31 through Thursday, February 1, from 8:30 a.m. until business for the day is completed.

The purpose of the GMT working meeting is to elect officers (chair and vice-chair), update commercial bycatch models with new West Coast Groundfish Observer Program data, evaluate recreational impact projection models and consider methodology recommendations, consider recommendations for inseason adjustments to 2007 groundfish fisheries, evaluate the updated whiting fishery bycatch projection model, consider recommendations for implementing regulations for the shoreside whiting fishery for 2008 and beyond, plan 2007 GMT meetings and activities, and consider recommendations for developing a trawl individual quota (TIQ) program. The GMT will elect officers during a closed session at the start of the meeting on Tuesday, January 30 and will convene their open public meeting no later than 10:30 a.m. The GMT will discuss TIQ issues and recommendations on Thursday, February 1 regardless of progress on other agenda issues during the first two days of the meeting. The GMT may also address other assignments relating to groundfish management. No management actions will be decided by the GMT. The GMT's role will be development of recommendations for consideration by the Council at its March 2007 meeting in Sacramento, California.

The meeting will be held at the following location:

National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA Western Regional Center's Sand Point Facility, Northwest Region Office
Building 1
HR Conference Room
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
(206) 526-6150

Entry to the NOAA Western Regional Center's Sand Point Facility requires visitors to show a valid picture ID and register with security. A visitor's badge, which must be worn while at the NOAA Western Regional Center's Facility, will be issued to non-Federal employees participating in the meeting.

If you have received this notice by mail, but would like to be notified of future meetings via email, please contact Ms. Carrie Compton at (503) 820-2280 to provide your email address.

The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Ms. Carolyn Porter at (503) 820-2280 at least five days prior to the meeting date.

For more information on the January 30th-February 1st, 2007, Groundfish Management Team meeting, please contact Mr. John DeVore at (503) 820-2280 ext. 413, or toll free 1-866-806-7204.

PFMC
01/09/07