# Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
**AGENCY:**
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
**ACTION:**
Notice of public meeting.
**SUMMARY:**
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Council) Pelagics Plan Team (PPT) members will hold a meeting.
**DATES:**
The meeting will be held April 30, 2002 through May 2, 2002, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., each day.
**ADDRESSES:**
The meeting will be held at the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council office, 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI 96813.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director; telephone: 808-522-8220.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The PPT meeting will discuss and may make recommendations to the Council on the following agenda items:
1. 2001 annual report modules for American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands;
2. The economic impacts of swordfish longline fishery closure in Hawaii;
3. First quarter 2002 Hawaii and American Samoa longline fishery reports;
4. Hawaii Marine Recreational Fisheries Survey;
5. American Samoa longline limited entry program;
6. Maximum sustainable yield (MSY)-overfishing control rule;
7. Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary and pelagic fisheries;
8. Sea turtle conservation and management;
i. Cooperative sea turtle research and conservation workshop;
ii. Status of field experiments to reduce longline turtle bycatch;
iii. Longline setting chute trials;
9. NMFS Honolulu Laboratory pelagic fish stock assessments;
10. NMFS Honolulu Laboratory moonfish (opah) and pomfret (monchong) study;
11. Ecosystem-based pelagic fisheries management;
12. Bigeye and yellowfin longline fishery performance models;
13. Hawaii longline fishery logbook and observer data evaluation;
14. Western Pacific pelagic fishery regulatory issues;
15. Preparatory Conference for Western Pacific Tuna Commission, and other international fishery meetings; and
16. Other business as required.
**Special Accommodations**
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Kitty M. Simonds, 808-522-8220 (voice) or 808-522-8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to meeting date.
Dated: April 9, 2002.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.