[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 226 (Tuesday, November 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 73168]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29891]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of a public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and the NMFS 
Northwest and Southwest Fisheries Science Centers (NWFSC and SWFSC, 
respectively) will hold a public workshop to review and critique its 
groundfish stock assessment process in 2015. The Groundfish Stock 
Assessment Process Review Workshop is open to the public.

DATES: The Groundfish Stock Assessment Process Review Workshop will 
commence at 8:30 a.m. PT, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 and continue 
until 5:30 p.m. or as necessary to complete business for the day. The 
workshop will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. PT, Thursday, December 10, 2015 
and continue until 5:30 p.m. or as necessary to complete business for 
the day

ADDRESSES: The Groundfish Stock Assessment Process Review Workshop will 
be held at Room 203, Fishery Sciences Building (FSH), University of 
Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98105.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John DeVore, Pacific Council; 
telephone: (503) 820-2413.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Groundfish Stock 
Assessment Process Review Workshop webinar is for participants in the 
Council's 2015 stock assessment process to consider the procedures used 
in 2015 to assess and update groundfish stock abundance and develop 
recommendations for improving the process for future assessments and 
future assessment reviews. No management actions will be decided in 
this workshop. Any recommendations developed at the workshop will be 
submitted for consideration by the Council at its March 2016 meeting in 
Sacramento, CA or its April 2016 meeting in Vancouver, WA (see the 
Council's Web site at www.pcouncil.org for future Council meeting 
agendas).
    Although non-emergency issues not identified in the workshop agenda 
may come before the workshop participants for discussion, those issues 
may not be the subject of formal action during this workshop. Formal 
action at the workshop 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 workshop is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 820-2425 at least 
5 days prior to the workshop date.

    Dated: November 19, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-29891 Filed 11-23-15; 8:45 am]
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