[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 122 (Monday, June 25, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29544-29545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-13536]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XG308


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 Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (MAFMC's) Summer 
Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Monitoring Committee (MC) will hold 
a public meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, July 19, 2018, from 8:30 
a.m. to 5 p.m. For agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Place Inner Harbor, 
511 South Central Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202; telephone: (410) 558-
1840.
    Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N 
State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331; 
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 Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea 
Bass Monitoring Committee will meet to recommend 2019 commercial and 
recreational Annual Catch Limits (ACLs) and Annual Catch Targets (ACTs) 
for summer flounder and black sea bass, as well as review the 
previously implemented 2019 ACLs and ACTs for scup. The Monitoring 
Committee will consider the results of a collaborative research mesh 
size study, and review and recommend changes, if needed, to commercial 
management measures for all three species. Other agenda items include a 
review of the 2018 black sea bass February recreational fishery, an 
update on a Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) for recreational 
summer flounder management, a discussion of the ongoing Recreational 
Issues Framework Action/Addendum for all three species,

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and a preliminary discussion of revised recreational catch estimates 
from the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP). Meeting 
materials will be posted to http://www.mafmc.org/ prior to the meeting.

Special Accommodations

    The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to M. Jan Saunders at the Mid-Atlantic Council 
Office, (302) 526-5251, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: June 20, 2018.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-13536 Filed 6-22-18; 8:45 am]
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