[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 86 (Monday, May 4, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 26445]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09471]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XA153]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public online meeting.

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SUMMARY: As part of its Climate and Communities Initiative (CCI) the 
Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) is sponsoring a series of 
webinars with its advisory bodies, which are open to the public.

DATES: The webinars will be held on the following dates and times:
     Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel and Management 
Team: Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
     Scientific and Statistical Committee: Tuesday, May 26, 
2020, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
     Groundfish Advisory Subpanel and Management Team: 
Thursday, May 28, 2020, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
     Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel and Management 
Team: Monday, June 1, 2020, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
     Salmon Advisory Subpanel and Technical Team: Tuesday, June 
2, 2020, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
     Habitat Committee: Friday, June 5, 2020, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held online. Specific meeting 
information, including directions on how to join the meeting and system 
requirements will be provided in the meeting announcement on the 
Council's website (see www.pcouncil.org). You may send an email to Mr. 
Kris Kleinschmidt ([email protected]) or contact him at (503) 
820-2280, extension 412 for technical assistance.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kit Dahl, Staff Officer, Pacific 
Council; telephone: (503) 820-2422.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council's Climate and Communities Core 
Team (CCCT) is coordinating a scenario planning process to explore 
potential fisheries management challenges under climate variability and 
change. During a two-day scenario development workshop in January 2020, 
more than 70 participants, including representatives from each of the 
Council's advisory bodies, developed four scenarios to be used in a 
stakeholder driven strategic planning process. This is designed to meet 
the CCI goal to consider strategies for improving the flexibility and 
responsiveness of our management actions to near-term climate shift and 
long-term climate change, and strategies for increasing the resiliency 
of our managed stocks and fisheries to those changes. The CCCT is now 
enhancing the clarity of descriptions for each of the four scenarios 
(also referred to as `deepening' the scenarios). The purpose of this 
webinar series is to solicit input from the Council's advisory bodies 
on how possible future conditions described in each of these scenarios 
might affect the species and fisheries managed under the Council's 
fishery management plans.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action 
during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues 
specifically listed in this document and any issues arising after 
publication of this document 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 to 
take final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 
([email protected]; (503) 820-2412) at least 10 days prior to 
the meeting date.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: April 29, 2020.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2020-09471 Filed 5-1-20; 8:45 am]
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