[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 15, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33361-33362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-1339]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 060804D]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

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 (Council) Scientific 
and Statistical Committee (SSC) and NOAA Fisheries will hold a workshop 
to promote the exchange of data, information, ideas, and solutions for 
recreational catch per unit effort (CPUE) statistics as indicators of 
West Coast groundfish stock abundance.

DATES:  The two-day workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 
29 and will continue until business for the day is completed. The 
workshop will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 and 
will continue until business is completed. Public comments will be 
allowed at times to be specified by the chair.

ADDRESSES:  The workshop will be held at the Southwest Fisheries 
Science Center, Meeting Room 188, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 
95060.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Dr. Steve Ralston, SSC Groundfish 
Subcommittee Chair, telephone: (831) 420-3949; Mr. John DeVore, Pacific 
Fishery Management Council, telephone: (503) 820-2280; or Ms. Stacey 
Miller, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, telephone: (206) 860-3480.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Recreational CPUE 
Statistics Workshop is to review existing sources of recreational data 
on the West Coast and to reach a broad consensus and understanding of 
the availability of recreational fisheries data and methods to 
calculate CPUE statistics for use in stock assessments. The importance 
of recreational CPUE statistics in groundfish stock assessments has 
grown in recent years. Council- sponsored assessments of bocaccio, 
cabezon, cowcod, black rockfish, lingcod, and yelloweye rockfish have 
all evaluated time series of recreational CPUE as indicators of stock 
abundance. As more of the minor groundfish species become assessed, 
CPUE statistics derived from catch rates in sport fisheries will likely 
play an important role in stock evaluation.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may come before the workshop participants for discussion, those issues 
may not be the subject of formal workshop action during this meeting. 
Workshop 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 workshop participants' intent to take final 
action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Ms. Carolyn Porter at (503) 820-2280 at least 5 
days prior to the meeting date.


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    Dated: June 8, 2004.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E4-1339 Filed 6-14-04; 8:45 am]
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