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Final rule (implementing the regulatory amendment posted below)

Record of decision (approving the regulatory amendment posted below)

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Management Measures to Implement New Technologies
for the Western Pacific Pelagic Longline Fisheries

A Regulatory Amendment to the Fishery Management Plan
for the Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region

Including a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Letter to Reviewers
Main document (including Cover Sheet, Abstract, and Summary)
Appendix A Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Regulatory Impact Review
Appendix B Future Research and Monitoring
Appendix C Proposed Regulations
Appendix D References Cited
Appendix E Update on the Council’s Turtle Conservation Program, established 2002
Appendix F Summary Report of first Turtle Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting
Appendix G Members of Council’s Turtle Advisory Committee (TAC)
Appendix H Donald R. Kobayashi and Jeffrey J. Polovina, NMFS Honolulu Laboratory, Time/Area Closure Analysis for the Turtle Take Reductions
Appendix I Donald Kobayashi, Predicting Sea Turtle Take, Mortality, and Pelagic Fish Catch under the Five WPRFMC Management Scenarios for the Hawaii-based Longline Fishery
Appendix J Memorandum from D. Knowles to J. Powers re: Marine Turtle Mortality Rates Resulting from Interactions with Longline Fisheries (with attachments)
Appendix K Memorandum from B. Morehead to W. Hogarth re: Marine Turtle Mortality Rates from Interactions with Atlantic Pelagic Longline Fisheries
Appendix L Memorandum from W. Hogarth to William Fox, Donald Knowles, and Bruce Morehead: Mortality of Sea Turtles in Pelagic Longline Fisheries - Decision Memorandum
Appendix M J.A. Musick, Comments on Post-Hooking Mortality Estimates used by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in its Biological Opinion for the Western Pacific Pelagic Fisheries
Appendix N R. Auguilar, J. Max & X. Pastor, Impact of Spanish Swordfish Longline Fisheries on the Loggerhead Sea Turtle Caretta caretta Population in the Western Mediterranean
Appendix O D. Squires and P. Dutton. Reconciling Fishing with Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Approach to Recovery of Pacific Sea Turtles
Appendix P Proposals for conservation measures received to date by the Council
Appendix Q Egg Equivalencies Data
Appendix R Center for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science, Review of Three Simulation Models for Sea Turtle Biology and Management in the Pacific
Appendix S B. Taylor, Review of the Stochastic simulation models for sea turtle dynamics Developed by Milani Chaloupka
Appendix T S. Heppell, Review of Chaloupka model
Appendix U M. Chaloupka Memorandum to S. Martin (HLA) Re: HLA Proposal for Management Regime Change for the Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery - Revised WPRFMC Take
Appendix V NMFS February 23, 2004 Biological Opinion on the Authorization of Pelagic Fisheries under the Fishery Management Plan for the Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region
Appendix W Distribution List for the Final Supplemental Impact Statement on Management Measures to Implement New Technologies for the Western Pacific Pelagic Longline Fisheries
Appendix X Public Comments on the Draft Supplemental Impact Statement on Management Measures to Implement New Technologies for the Western Pacific Pelagic Longline Fisheries, with Responses

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