81_FR_23756 81 FR 23678 - Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South Atlantic Fishery Management Council and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting; Correction

81 FR 23678 - Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South Atlantic Fishery Management Council and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 78 (April 22, 2016)

Page Range23678-23678
FR Document2016-09426

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, will hold a Question and Answer (Q&A) public meeting to address cobia management issues in Kill Devil Hills, NC.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 78 (Friday, April 22, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 78 (Friday, April 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 23678]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09426]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South Atlantic Fishery 
Management Council and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public 
Meeting; Correction

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

ACTION: Notice of correction of a public meeting notice.

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SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, in conjunction 
with the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, will hold a Question 
and Answer (Q&A) public meeting to address cobia management issues in 
Kill Devil Hills, NC.

DATES: The Cobia Q&A public meeting will be held beginning at 6 p.m. on 
May 9, 2016.

ADDRESSES: 
    Meeting address: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn 
Outer Banks/Kitty Hawk, 5353 N. Virginia Dare Trail, Kitty Hawk, NC 
27949; phone: (252) 261-1290; fax: (252) 255-0153. The meeting will be 
broadcast via webinar as it occurs. Registration is required and 
information will be posted on the South Atlantic Council's Web site at 
www.safmc.net as it becomes available.
    Council addresses: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 4055 
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N. Charleston, SC 29405; Mid-Atlantic 
Fishery Management Council, 800 North State Street, Suite 201, Dover, 
DE 19901.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim Iverson, Public Information 
Officer, SAFMC; phone: (843) 571-4366 or toll free: (866) SAFMC-10; 
fax: (843) 769-4520; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The original notice published in the Federal 
Register on April 15, 2016 (81 FR 22214). In the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION, it stated that the 2015 recreational catch was 1,540,775 
pounds, 123% over the recreational Annual Catch Limit (ACL) of 690,000 
pounds. It should read the 2015 recreational catch was 1,540,775 
pounds, 123% over the recreational Annual Catch Limit (ACL) of 630,000 
pounds. All other previously published information remains the same.

    Dated: April 19, 2016.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-09426 Filed 4-21-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

23678 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 78 / Friday, April 22, 2016 / Notices negligible impact on the species or managing marine fin and shellfish SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery stock(s) affected and will not have an species and their habitats, with that Management Council, in conjunction unmitigable adverse impact on the responsibility delegated within NOAA with the Mid-Atlantic Fishery availability of the species or stock(s) for to NMFS. Management Council, will hold a taking for subsistence uses, and if the In order to direct and coordinate the Question and Answer (Q&A) public permissible methods of taking and collection of scientific information meeting to address cobia management requirements pertaining to the needed to make informed management issues in Kill Devil Hills, NC. mitigation, monitoring and reporting of decisions, Congress created six Regional DATES: The Cobia Q&A public meeting such taking are set forth. Fisheries Science Centers, each a will be held beginning at 6 p.m. on May NMFS has defined ‘‘negligible distinct organizational entity and the 9, 2016. impact’’ in 50 CFR 216.103 as ‘‘an scientific focal point within NMFS for ADDRESSES: impact resulting from the specified region-based federal fisheries-related Meeting address: The meeting will be activity that cannot be reasonably research. This research is aimed at held at the Hilton Garden Inn Outer expected to, and is not reasonably likely monitoring fish stock recruitment, Banks/Kitty Hawk, 5353 N. Virginia to, adversely affect the species or stock abundance, survival and biological Dare Trail, Kitty Hawk, NC 27949; through effects on annual rates of rates, geographic distribution of species phone: (252) 261–1290; fax: (252) 255– recruitment or survival.’’ Except with and stocks, ecosystem process changes, 0153. The meeting will be broadcast via respect to certain activities not pertinent and marine ecological research. The webinar as it occurs. Registration is here, the MMPA defines ‘‘harassment’’ SEFSC is the research arm of NMFS in required and information will be posted as: ‘‘any act of pursuit, torment, or the southeast U.S., including the annoyance which (i) has the potential to on the South Atlantic Council’s Web Caribbean. site at www.safmc.net as it becomes injure a marine mammal or marine Research is aimed at monitoring fish mammal stock in the wild [Level A available. stock recruitment, survival and Council addresses: South Atlantic harassment]; or (ii) has the potential to biological rates, abundance and disturb a marine mammal or marine Fishery Management Council, 4055 geographic distribution of species and Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N. mammal stock in the wild by causing stocks, and providing other scientific disruption of behavioral patterns, Charleston, SC 29405; Mid-Atlantic information needed to improve our Fishery Management Council, 800 North including, but not limited to, migration, understanding of complex marine breathing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901. ecological processes. The SEFSC sheltering [Level B harassment].’’ FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim proposes to administer and conduct Iverson, Public Information Officer, Summary of Request these survey programs over the five-year SAFMC; phone: (843) 571–4366 or toll period. On April 6, 2016, NMFS received an free: (866) SAFMC–10; fax: (843) 769– adequate and complete application from Information Solicited 4520; email: kim.iverson@safmc.net. the SEFSC requesting authorization for Interested persons may submit SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The take of marine mammals incidental to information, suggestions, and comments original notice published in the Federal fisheries research conducted by the Register on April 15, 2016 (81 FR concerning the SEFSC’s request (see SEFSC. The requested regulations 22214). In the SUPPLEMENTARY ADDRESSES). NMFS will consider all would be valid for five years from the INFORMATION, it stated that the 2015 information, suggestions, and comments date of issuance. The SEFSC plans to recreational catch was 1,540,775 related to the request during the conduct fisheries research surveys in pounds, 123% over the recreational development of proposed regulations multiple geographic regions within the Annual Catch Limit (ACL) of 690,000 governing the incidental taking of Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of pounds. It should read the 2015 marine mammals by the SEFSC, if Mexico and Caribbean Sea. It is possible recreational catch was 1,540,775 appropriate. that marine mammals may interact with pounds, 123% over the recreational fishing gear (e.g., trawls nets, longlines) Dated: April 19, 2016. Annual Catch Limit (ACL) of 630,000 used in SEFSC’s fisheries research Donna S. Wieting, pounds. All other previously published projects, resulting in injury, serious Director, Office of Protected Resources, information remains the same. injury, or mortality. In addition, the National Marine Fisheries Service. Dated: April 19, 2016. SEFSC operates active acoustic devices [FR Doc. 2016–09352 Filed 4–21–16; 8:45 am] that have the potential to disturb marine Tracey L. Thompson, BILLING CODE 3510–22–P mammals. Because the specified Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable activities have the potential to take Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. marine mammals present within these DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE [FR Doc. 2016–09426 Filed 4–21–16; 8:45 am] action areas, the SEFSC requests BILLING CODE 3510–22–P authorization to take multiple species of National Oceanic and Atmospheric marine mammal that may occur in these Administration areas. 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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of correction of a public meeting notice.
DatesThe Cobia Q&A public meeting will be held beginning at 6 p.m. on May 9, 2016.
ContactKim Iverson, Public Information Officer, SAFMC; phone: (843) 571-4366 or toll free: (866) SAFMC-10; fax: (843) 769-4520; email: [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 23678 
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