[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 46 (Friday, March 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8506-8507]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-04224]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XG860


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will 
convene a pre-assessment workshop to review proposed data and modeling 
approaches for groundfish stock assessments scheduled for assessment 
this year. The pre-assessment workshop will be followed by a skates 
historical catch reconstruction workshop to prepare for assessments of 
big and longnose skates scheduled for later this year. Both workshops 
are open to the public. The workshops will also be streamed online via 
webinar to facilitate remote participation.

DATES: The pre-assessment workshop will be held Monday, March 25, 2019, 
from 1 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) or when business 
for the day has been completed. The workshop will reconvene on Tuesday, 
March 26, beginning at 8:30 a.m. and ending at 5:30 p.m. or when 
business has been completed. The skate historical catch reconstruction 
workshop will reconvene on Wednesday, March 27, beginning at 8:30 a.m. 
and ending at 5:30 p.m. or when business has been completed.

ADDRESSES: The pre-assessment and skates workshop will be held in the 
large conference room at the Pacific Fishery Management Council office, 
7700 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220; telephone: 
(503) 820-2280. Public listening stations will be available at the 
Pacific Council office, as well as the following locations:
    National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science 
Center, Room 188, 110 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95060; telephone: 
(831) 420-3947; and
    Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Main Conference Room, 2040 
SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 97365; telephone: (541) 867-4741.
    The public listening station at the NMFS Southwest Fisheries 
Science Center in Santa Cruz will only be available for the March 25 
and 26 pre-assessment workshop and will not be available for the March 
27 skates workshop.
    To attend the webinar: Use this link: https://www.gotomeeting.com/webinar and click ``Join a Webinar'' in the top right corner of the 
page. Enter the Webinar ID, which is 433-536-835, and your name and 
email address (required). After logging into the webinar, dial this 
TOLL number 1+ (213) 929-4232 (not a toll-free number), then enter the 
Attendee phone audio access code: 596-914-734, then enter your audio 
phone pin (shown after joining the webinar). Note: We have disabled 
Mic/Speakers on GoToMeeting as an option and require all participants 
to use a telephone or cell phone to participate. Technical Information 
and System Requirements: PC-based attendees are required to use 
Windows[supreg] 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP; Mac[supreg]-based attendees are 
required to use Mac OS[supreg] X 10.5 or newer; Mobile attendees are 
required to use iPhone[supreg], iPad[supreg], AndroidTM 
phone or Android tablet. (See the https://www.gotomeeting.com/webinar/ipad-iphone-android-webinar-apps). You

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may send an email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt at 
[email protected] or contact him at (503) 820-2280, extension 
411 for technical assistance.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John DeVore, Staff Officer, 
Pacific Council; telephone: (503) 820-2280.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the pre-assessment workshop 
is to review proposed data inputs, modeling approaches, and any other 
pertinent information for new benchmark stock assessments for big 
skate, longnose skate, sablefish, gopher/black-and-yellow rockfish, and 
cowcod. The goal of the pre-assessment workshop is to promote dialogue 
about and a common understanding between assessment teams and data 
providers of the best data and analytical and modeling approaches for 
use in conducting the benchmark groundfish assessments scheduled for 
2019. Participants at the pre-assessment workshop will also review 
proposed revisions to the Pacific Council's Accepted Practices for 
Groundfish Stock Assessments document to prepare for these 2019 stock 
assessments. The purpose of the skates catch reconstruction workshop is 
to reconstruct historical catches of west coast skate species to 
prepare for the big skate and longnose skate stock assessments later 
this year. No management actions will be decided by the workshop 
participants.
    Although nonemergency issues not contained in the workshops' 
agendas may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal 
action during this workshop. Action 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 intent of the workshop 
participants to take final action to address the emergency.
    Visitors who are foreign nationals (defined as a person who is not 
a citizen or national of the United States) will require additional 
security clearance to access the NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science 
Center. Foreign national visitors should contact Ms. Stacey Miller at 
(541) 867-0535 at least 2 weeks prior to the meeting date to initiate 
the security clearance process.

Special Accommodations

    The workshops are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 
820-2280 at least 10 days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: March 5, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-04224 Filed 3-7-19; 8:45 am]
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