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Pacific Island Fisheries; Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review Steering Committee Meeting; Public Meeting
The Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review (WPSAR) Steering Committee will convene a public meeting to discuss and approve the 5- year calendar for stock assessments, and to ad...
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The WPSAR steering committee consists of the Executive Director of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, the Science Director of the NMFS Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), and the Acting Regional Administrator of the NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office. You may read more about WPSAR at
https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/peer_reviews/wpsar/index.php.
The public will have an opportunity to comment during the meeting. The agenda order may change. The meeting will run as late as necessary to complete scheduled business.
Meeting Agenda
1. Introductions
2. Stock assessments
a. Discuss and update stock assessment review schedule
b. Discuss and update review levels for stock assessments
3. Discuss and nominate additional science products for review by the Center for Independent Experts, if necessary
4. Finalizing the updates to the WPSAR Framework
a. Incorporation of Research Track Assessment
5. Other business
6. Public comment
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Please direct requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids to T. Todd Jones, Director, PIFSC Fisheries Research and Management Division, telephone: (808) 725-5713, or
todd.jones@noaa.gov
at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
Authority:16 U.S.C. 1801
et seq.
Dated: December 27, 2023.
Jon William Bell,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.