[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 94]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31806]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XF124


Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice; public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Mid-
Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 25, beginning at 
9 a.m. and conclude by 4 p.m.. For agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court, 550 
Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202; telephone: (410) 234-0550.
    Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N. 
State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331 or 
on their Web site at www.mafmc.org.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: (302) 
526-5255.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the meeting is to receive a 
report of the results of a stock assessment recently completed for 
black sea bass and to make ABC recommendations to the Council for the 
species for the period 2017-19. In addition, the Council may request 
re-specification of the ABC recommendations for the previous years 
which were made based on ad hoc data poor methods, to evaluate fishery 
performance relative to catch limits developed using those methods. If 
time permits, the report of the CV Subcommittee of the SSC will be 
discussed.

    Dated: December 28, 2016.
Jeffrey N. Lonergan,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-31806 Filed 12-30-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-22-P