The following are the tentative agenda items for the Council's 16 July 2002 meeting:

• update, subcommittee on DEC marine resource program funding needs
• update, DEC-MRAC joint work group on commercial license eligibility
• DEC emergency regulations on scup, fluke, & lobster trap vent size
• DEC proposed changes to finfish and crustacean regulations
• Report, Council subcommittee on striped bass/fluke special harvest permits

Check the Council’s web page, http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/MRAC/, for additional agenda items added after this bulletin is distributed. For further information about the Marine Resources Advisory Council or items covered in this bulletin, to make arrangements for addressing the Council on an agenda item or submitting written comments on an agenda item, or to suggest an agenda item, contact: William M. Wise, Chairman, Marine Resources Advisory Council; phone 631/632-8656; FAX 631/632-9441; wwise@notes.cc.sunysb.edu