[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 208 (Monday, October 28, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 57703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-23446]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XV117


Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice; public meetings.

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

DATES: The two Monitoring Committees will hold back to back meetings on 
Wednesday, November 13 and Thursday, November 14, 2019. The Summer 
Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Monitoring Committee meeting will be 
held from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, and on 
Thursday, November 14, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Bluefish 
Monitoring Committee will meet from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Thursday, 
November 14, 2019. For agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: 
    Meeting address: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn 
Baltimore Inner Harbor, 625 S President St., Baltimore, MD 21202; 
telephone: (410) 234-0065.
    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 and the Bluefish Monitoring Committee will 
meet to develop recommendations for 2020 recreational management 
measures (i.e., possession limits, fish size limits, and/or open and 
closed seasons) for summer flounder, scup, black sea bass, and 
bluefish. For summer flounder, the Monitoring Committee will consider 
the use of coastwide measures or conservation equivalency and 
associated management measures. For black sea bass, the Monitoring 
Committee will consider the use of federal waters measures or 
conservation equivalency and associated management measures. For scup 
and bluefish, the respective Monitoring Committees will consider 
federal waters management measures and may discuss approaches to state 
waters measures, which will likely be considered by the Atlantic States 
Marine Fisheries Commission in early 2020. This will be an in-person 
meeting, but a listen-only webinar connection option will be available. 
Meeting materials will be posted to http://www.mafmc.org/council-events/2019/sfsbsb-mc-nov-13-14.

Special Accommodations

    The meetings are 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: October 23, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-23446 Filed 10-25-19; 8:45 am]
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