[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48127-48128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-19738]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XQ005


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 September 16, 2019, from 1 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 Moira Kelly (see FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT) by September 16, 2019, 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 Moira 
Kelly by email at [email protected], or by phone at 978-281-9218.

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 to 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.
    16 U.S.C. 5607 provides that the Secretaries of Commerce and State 
shall jointly establish a NAFO Consultative Committee (NCC) to advise 
the Secretaries on issues related to the NAFO Convention. 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 INFORMATION CONTACT) for 
additional details.
    The NAFO Annual Meeting will be held September 23-27, 2019, in 
Bordeaux, France. Additional information about the meeting can be found 
at: https://www.nafo.int/Meetings/AM.

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Special Accommodations

    The meeting location is physically accessible to people with 
disabilities.

    Dated: September 9, 2019.
Alexa Cole,
Acting Director, Office of International Affairs and Seafood 
Inspection, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-19738 Filed 9-11-19; 8:45 am]
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