Please note that this meeting will begin at 11:00 AM at the Gloucester Field Station

1. Introductions and announcements
2. Review and approval of agenda
3. Review and approval of January minutes
4. Executive Session (if needed)
5. Chairman’s comments
6. Commissioner’s comments
7. Director’s comments
8. Law enforcement report
   LUNCH
9. Action Items
   
   . Recommendation for action on public petition to ban gillnets in state waters
   . Recommendations for action on tautog and summer flounder conservation measures
   . Recommendation for action on public petition to increase mobile gear access to Collier's Ledge, south of Cape Cod
   . Recommendation for action on annual declaration of commercial spiny dogfish trip limit
10. Discussion Items
    
    . Regulation of gillnets in state waters
    . Governor's Request for Fisheries Disaster Relief to Secretary of Commerce
    . Discussion of public petition re: fish pot and black sea bass hook sector
    . Upcoming public hearings
    . Revised policy for allocation of traps to commercial lobstermen in Outer Cape Cod LCMA with SCUBA history
11. Marine Fisheries Commissioner Comments

Directions to the Annisquam River Marine Fisheries Station (30 Emerson Ave.):