tuna meeting

Failure to defeat this rule sets a really dangerous precedent going ahead on how HMS bargains with escalating discards do to improved fishing energy by longline vs an escalating abundance of Bluefin tunas. We have previously lost 160 tons off best this yr do to HMS &quotmath&quot.

The comment interval is prolonged from April 14, 2011, to April 28, 2011.
NMFS will routine two additional public hearings in the Portland, ME and Fairhaven, MA areas to be held in the prolonged comment period. These public hearings will be introduced shortly.
Scheduled conferences that we know about as of right now:
one) March 28, 2011, seven-9 p.m., Manteo TownHall, 407 Budleigh Road, Manteo, NC
2) April 1, 2011, 1 to 3 p.m.’, NMFS, 55 Fantastic Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA

three) April 5, 2011, five:15-seven:15 p.m., Crowne Plaza Hotel, 8777 Georgia Avenue,
Silver Spring, MD

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You may possibly submit comments (identified by &quot0648-BA65&quot) by means of April 28, 2011, by using everyone of the subsequent strategies:
Submit electronic remarks via the Federal eRulemaking Portal http://www.rules.gov
Fax: 978-281-9340, Attn: Sarah McLaughlin
Mail: Sarah McLaughlin, Hugely Migratory Species’Management Division, NMFS, fifty five Wonderful Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930 ‘.
To be deemed, electronic feedback should be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Porta~ http://www.laws.gov. Do not submit electronic. comments to particular person NMFS employees.

To find out much more about this rule go to http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/breaking_news.htm
and review the March eleven, 2011 entry (NMFS Proposes Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quotas and Atlantic Tuna Fisheries Management Measures, Draft Environmental Evaluation, Federal Register Discover March 11, 2011).

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