Crab Task Force Scheduled to Meet June 23, 2011
OutdoorHub 06.22.11
The Louisiana Crab Task Force will meet Thursday, June 23 at 4:30 p.m. at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters building located at 2000 Quail Drive in Baton Rouge. The agenda for Thursday’s meeting in the Louisiana Room is as follows:
- Call to order Roll call
- Approval of minutes/agenda
- Receive public comments
- Senior Commercial Fisherman’s License
- Whitespot disease (general information and discussion)
- Reports of blue crab mortalities and laboratory findings
- Trade Adjustment Assistance Program for crab fishermen
- Impacts of freshwater flooding on the blue crab resource
- Exports of live blue crabs (opportunities and regulations)
- Status of Derelict Crab Trap Removal and Crab Promotion and Marketing Accounts
- Blue crab processing and solid waste disposal
- Update on MSC Certification of the blue crab fishery
- Indirect effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the blue crab industry
- Task force vacancies and recruitment efforts
- Travel reimbursement for task force members
- H-2B visas and labor issues
- Status of HB 584
- Crab education day planning
- Other Business
- Next Meeting / Agenda
- Adjournment
For more meeting information, contact Carl Britt at (985)882-0027 or cbritt@wlf.la.gov. For press inquiries contact Laura Wooderson at (225)610-2363 or lwooderson@wlf.la.gov.
