80 FR 54767 - Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 176 (September 11, 2015)

The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Groundfish Subcommittee will hold a work session to review stock assessments for black rockfish off Oregon, new harvest specification projections for arrowtooth flounder, an updated rebuilding analysis for yelloweye rockfish, and a new proposed methodology for determining big skate harvest specifications.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 176 (Friday, September 11, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54767-54768]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22937]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XE179


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) 
Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Groundfish Subcommittee will 
hold a work session to review stock assessments for black rockfish off 
Oregon, new harvest specification projections for arrowtooth flounder, 
an updated rebuilding analysis for yelloweye rockfish, and a new 
proposed methodology for determining big skate harvest specifications.

DATES: The SSC's Groundfish Subcommittee meeting will be held beginning 
at 8:30 a.m., Monday, September 28, 2015 and end at 5:30 p.m. or as 
necessary to complete business for the day. The Subcommittee will 
reconvene on Tuesday, September 29, 2013 and will continue through 
Thursday, October 1, 2015 beginning at

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8:30 a.m. and ending at 5:30 p.m. each day, or as necessary to complete 
business. The meeting may continue on Friday, October 2 at 8:30 a.m., 
if needed, to complete the subcommittee's business.

ADDRESSES: The SSC's Groundfish Subcommittee meeting will be held the 
National Marine Fishery Service Western Regional Center's Sand Point 
facility, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way NE., 
Seattle, WA 98115; telephone: (206) 526-4000. The meeting will be held 
in Building 4, Traynor Room 2076 on September 28--October 1, 2015. If 
the SSC's Groundfish Subcommittee meeting needs to continue on Friday, 
October 2, 2015, the meeting will reconvene in Building 4, Observer 
Training Room 1055.
    Council address: Pacific Council, 7700 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 
101, Portland, OR 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John DeVore, Pacific Council; 
telephone: (503) 820-2413.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the SSC's Groundfish 
Subcommittee meeting is to review draft 2015 stock assessment documents 
and any other pertinent information for new full stock assessment of 
black rockfish off Oregon, work with the Stock Assessment Teams to make 
necessary revisions, and produce a report for use by the Pacific 
Council family and other interested persons for developing management 
recommendations for fisheries in 2017 and beyond. Additionally, the SSC 
Groundfish Subcommittee will review an updated yelloweye rockfish 
rebuilding analysis, review new overfishing limit (OFL) projections for 
arrowtooth flounder, and review new methodology for determining a big 
skate OFL. No management actions will be decided by the SSC Groundfish 
Subcommittee. The Subcommittee's role will be development of 
recommendations and reports for consideration by the SSC and the 
Pacific Council at its November meeting in Garden Grove, California.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may come before the subcommittee meeting participants for discussion, 
those issues may not be the subject of formal action during this 
meeting. Subcommittee action will be restricted to those issues 
specifically listed in this notice and any issues arising after 
publication of this notice that require emergency action under Section 
305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 
provided the public has been notified of the Subcommittee participants' 
intent to take final action to address the emergency.
    All visitors to the National Marine Fisheries Service Western 
Regional Center's Sand Point facility should bring one of the following 
forms of identification:

 Enhanced Driver's License from the states of Washington, 
Minnesota, and New York
 U.S. Passport
 U.S. Passport Card
 U.S. Department of Defense CAC
 U.S. Federal agency HSPD-12 compliant ID cards
 U.S. Veterans ID
 U.S. Military Dependent's ID Card
 U.S. Trusted Traveler Card--Global Entry, SENTRI, or NEXUS
 U.S. Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC)
 State-issued Real ID Compliant Driver's Licenses and 
Identification Cards.

    Visitors who are foreign nationals (defined as a person who is not 
a citizen or national of the United States) will require additional 
security clearance to access the Western Regional Center's Sand Point 
facility. Foreign national visitors should contact Dr. Martin Dorn at 
(206) 526-6548 at least 2 weeks prior to the meeting date to initiate 
the security clearance process.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 820-2425 at least 
5 days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: September 8, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
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