[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 7, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63254-63255]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-22162]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XA541]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) and 
the NMFS Northwest Science Center will hold an online workshop to 
review data and analyses proposed to inform new assessments for Dover 
sole, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, and squarespot scheduled to 
be conducted next year. The workshop is open to the public.

DATES: The pre-assessment workshop will be held Monday, October 26, 
2020, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time and continuing 
until 4:30 p.m. or until business for the day has been completed. The 
pre-assessment workshop will continue on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 
beginning at 12:30 p.m. and continuing until 4:30 p.m. or until 
business for the day has been completed.

ADDRESSES: The pre-assessment workshop will be an online meeting. 
Specific meeting information, including directions on how to join the 
meeting and system requirements will be provided in the meeting 
announcement on the Pacific Council's website (see www.pcouncil.org). 
You may send an email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 
([email protected]) or contact him at (503) 820-2412 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 Fishery Management Council; telephone: (503) 820-2413.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the pre-assessment workshop 
is to review data and analyses proposed to inform 2021 assessments for 
Dover sole, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, and squarespot 
rockfish. Stock assessment teams will solicit advice from data 
stewards, stakeholders, and fishery managers knowledgeable about these 
stocks and these data to prepare for these assessments.
    No management actions will be decided by the workshop participants. 
The participants' role will be development of recommendations for 
consideration by the stock assessment teams assigned to conduct these 
assessments. Assessments for these four stocks are tentatively 
scheduled for peer review in a May 3-7, 2021 Stock Assessment Review 
(STAR) panel. The Pacific Council and the Pacific Council's Scientific 
and Statistical Committee are scheduled to consider these draft 
assessments for use in informing management decisions at their June 
2021 meeting in Vancouver, WA.
    Although nonemergency issues not contained in the meeting agendas 
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action 
during these meetings. Action will be restricted to

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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 SSC Groundfish Subcommittee to take final action to address the 
emergency.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt, (503) 820-2412 at least 10 
days prior to the meeting date.

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

    Dated: October 2, 2020.
Diane M. DeJames-Daly,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2020-22162 Filed 10-6-20; 8:45 am]
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