[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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