The Advisory Panel will meet to review and provide recommendations to the Council on Reef Fish Amendment 32. This amendment contains the following actions:
- Establish a rebuilding plan for gag
- Set recreational bag limits, size limits, and closed seasons for gag and red grouper in 2012
- Consider a commercial gag and shallow-water grouper quota adjustment to account for dead discards; make adjustments to multi-use commercial individual fishing quota shares for grouper
- Reduce the commercial gag size limit
- Modify the offshore time and area closures
- Establish gag, red grouper, and shallow-water grouper accountability measures
The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and conclude no later than 5:00 p.m. Copies of the agenda and other related materials can be obtained by calling 813-348-1630.
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Kathy Pereira at the Council at least five working days prior to the meeting.
Although other non-emergency issues not on the agenda may come before the advisory panel, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Act, those issues may not be the subject of formal action during this meeting. Panel action will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in the agenda.
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is one of eight regional fishery management councils established by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. The Council prepares fishery management plans designed to manage fishery resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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