[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 5177]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1561]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XF26


Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Scientific Workshop

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: NMFS announces the date, time, and location for an informal 
Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) scientific workshop (Workshop).

DATES: The Workshop will start at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 
and will conclude at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 6, 2008.

ADDRESSES: The Workshop will be held at the NMFS Southeast Regional 
Office, 13\th\ Avenue, South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Victor Restrepo at (305) 361-4000.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Atlantic tunas are managed under the dual 
authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Act and the Atlantic Tunas Convention 
Act (ATCA), which authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to 
promulgate regulations, as may be necessary and appropriate, to 
implement recommendations of the International Commission for the 
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).
    ICCAT's Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS) will 
hold an Atlantic bluefin tuna stock assessment session in Madrid, Spain 
in June 2008. In advance of the SCRS session, NMFS will hold an 
informal BFT scientific workshop to review, to discuss relevant BFT 
research, preparations for the stock assessments, and the timeline for 
submission of scientific papers to SCRS by U.S. researchers.

    Dated: January 24, 2008.
Alan D. Risenhoover
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. E8-1561 Filed 1-28-08; 8:45 am]
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