[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 159 (Thursday, August 16, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40753-40754]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17684]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XG399


Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization Consultative Committee 
Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: NMFS announces a public meeting of the Northwest Atlantic 
Fisheries Organization Consultative Committee. This meeting will help 
to ensure that the interests of U.S. stakeholders in the fisheries of 
the Northwest Atlantic Ocean are adequately represented at the Annual 
Meeting of the Organization. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization 
Consultative Committee members and all other interested U.S. 
stakeholders are invited to attend.

DATES: The meeting will be held August 27, 2018, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 
p.m. EST.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at National Marine Fisheries 
Service's Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, 55 Great Republic 
Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930. Please notify Shannah Jaburek (see FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) by August 22, 2018, if you plan to attend 
the meeting in person or remotely. The meeting will be accessible by 
webinar--instructions will be emailed to meeting participants who 
provide notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabethann Mencher by email at 
[email protected], or by phone at 301-427-8362; or Shannah 
Jaburek by email at [email protected], or by phone at 978-282-
8456.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries 
Organization (NAFO) is a regional fisheries management organization 
that coordinates scientific study and cooperative management of the 
fisheries resources of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, excluding salmon, 
tunas/marlins, whales and sedentary species (e.g., shellfish). NAFO was 
established in 1979 by the Convention on Future Multilateral 
Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries. The United States 
acceded to the Convention in 1995, and has participated actively in 
NAFO since that time. In 2005, NAFO launched a reform effort to amend 
the Convention in order bring the Organization more in line with the 
principles of modern fisheries management. As a result of these 
efforts, the Amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral 
Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries entered into force in 
May 2017.
    NAFO currently has 12 Contracting Parties, including Canada, Cuba, 
Denmark (in respect of Faroe Islands and Greenland), European Union, 
France (in respect of St. Pierre and Miquelon), Iceland, Japan, Norway, 
Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Ukraine and the United States.
    Membership in the NCC is open to representatives from the New 
England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Councils, the States 
represented on those Councils, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 
Commission, the fishing industry, the seafood processing industry, and 
others knowledgeable and experienced in the conservation and management 
of fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Members shall be 
appointed to a 2-year term and are eligible for reappointment. The NCC 
is exempted from the Federal Advisory Committee Act. NCC members are 
invited to attend all non-executive meetings of the U.S. Commissioners 
and at such meetings are given an opportunity to examine and to be 
heard on all proposed programs of study and investigation, reports, 
recommendations, and regulations of issues relating to the Act and 
proceedings of NAFO. In addition, NCC members may attend all public 
meetings of the NAFO Commission and any other meetings to which they 
are invited.
    If you are interested in becoming a member of the NCC, please 
contact Elizabethann Mencher (see FOR FURTHER

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INFORMATION CONTACT) for additional details.
    The NAFO Annual Meeting will be held September 17-21, 2018, in 
Tallinn, Estonia. Additional information about the meeting can be found 
at: https://www.nafo.int/Meetings/AM.

Special Accommodations

    The meeting location is physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Shannah Jaburek (see FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT) by August 22, 2018.

    Dated: August 13, 2018.
John Henderschedt,
Director, Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-17684 Filed 8-15-18; 8:45 am]
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