[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 166 (Monday, August 28, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50891-50892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14226]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 082306C]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting/Workshop

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

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: NOAA Fisheries and The Pacific Fishery Management Council 
(Council) will hold a workshop to discuss the comparability of pre-
recruit data collected from two existing west coast surveys and to 
evaluate methods for utilizing those data in groundfish assessments.

DATES: The Pre-recruit Survey workshop will be held Wednesday, 
September 13, 2006 through Friday, September 15, 2006. The workshop 
will start at 8:30 a.m. each day and end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and 
Thursday and 12 noon on Friday, or as necessary to complete business.

ADDRESSES: The Pre-recruit Survey workshop will be held at the 
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 
95060.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Stacey Miller, Northwest Fisheries 
Science Center (NWFSC); telephone: (206) 860-3480; or Mr. John DeVore, 
Pacific Fishery Management Council; telephone: (503) 820-2280.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The workshop discussion will be guided by 
the following four questions: (1) Can data from the R/V David Starr 
Jordan and the F/V Excalibur be combined into a coast-wide index for 
young-of-the-year Pacific whiting and rockfish; (2) Is a power 
transformation an acceptable way of modeling these processes and, if 
not, what other analytical techniques are more appropriate; (3) What 
processes affect the relationship between a survey index of pre-recruit 
abundance and model estimates of recruitment; and (4) How influential 
are pre-recruit survey data on historical estimated time-series of 
stock abundance and projections into the near term and how can the 
informational value of a pre-recruit survey to a stock assessment be 
evaluated?
    All participants are encouraged to pre-register for the workshop by 
contacting Ms. Stacey Miller, Northwest Fisheries Science Center 
(NWFSC) by phone at (206) 860-3480 or by email at 
[email protected].
    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

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notice that require emergency action under section 305c) 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.

    Dated: August 23, 2006.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E6-14226 Filed 8-25-06; 8:45 am]
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