[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11967-11968]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04095]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XW019]


U.S. Stakeholder Meeting on Pacific Bluefin Tuna Fishery 
Management Framework; Meeting Announcement

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

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: NMFS is holding a meeting to discuss the future management of 
the U.S. West Coast Pacific bluefin tuna (PBF) fishery, including 
management objectives and a management framework.

DATES: The meeting will be held April 23, 2020, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 
p.m. PST, or until business concludes.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in Room 3400 at the Glenn M. 
Anderson Federal Building, 501 W Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, California 
90802. Please notify Eric Poncelet (meeting facilitator), at 
[email protected] or (415) 697-0566 by April 9, 2020, if you 
plan to attend. If interested members of the public cannot reasonably 
attend the meeting in person, NMFS may provide for a teleconference 
phone line or webinar for such members if a request is made to the 
meeting facilitator; however, participation by teleconference or 
webinar may be limited in a reasonable manner to facilitate discussion. 
See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for additional information on attendance, 
participation instructions, and meeting materials.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Celia Barroso, West Coast Region, 
NMFS, at [email protected], or at (562) 432-1850.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Stakeholders have expressed an interest in developing management 
objectives and a long-term management framework for PBF. In September 
2018, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) recommended that 
its Highly Migratory Species Management Team develop a long-term 
management strategy for PBF (see the PFMC's ``September 2018 Decision 
Summary Document'' at https://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0918_Decision_Summary_DocumentV2.pdf). On May 2, 2019, NMFS held a 
stakeholder meeting in which participants discussed potential 
management objectives and strategies to achieve those objectives for 
the domestic commercial PBF fishery (see the NMFS report to the June 
PFMC meeting at https://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/J2b_Sup_NMFS_Rpt3_JUN2019BB.pdf). The upcoming meeting scheduled for 
April 23, 2020, is intended to follow up the discussion from the 2019 
stakeholder meeting as well as provide an opportunity for early 
comments on how to implement a new Inter-American Tropical Tuna 
Commission (IATTC) resolution on PBF conservation and management for 
2021-2022 that NMFS anticipates the IATTC will adopt at its annual 
meeting in August 2020. In order to facilitate discussion, NMFS 
strongly encourages in-person participation at

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the meeting location described in the ADDRESSES section if possible. 
NMFS will email attendance instructions and background materials to the 
meeting participants who notify the meeting facilitator as described in 
the ADDRESSES section.

PBF U.S. Stakeholder Meeting Topics

    The PBF U.S. stakeholder meeting topics will include, but are not 
limited to, the following:
    (1) An overview of international management of PBF and current 
management of the U.S. PBF fishery; and,
    (2) Potential management options for 2021-2022 and in the long-
term.

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 Celia Barroso, at 
[email protected] or (562) 432-1850, by April 2, 2020.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 951 et seq., 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., 16 
U.S.C. 6901 et seq.

    Dated: February 25, 2020.
Karyl K. Brewster-Geisz,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2020-04095 Filed 2-27-20; 8:45 am]
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