[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11237-11238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-03822]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XA861]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public online workshop.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) and 
the NMFS Northwest and Southwest Fisheries Science Centers will hold an 
online workshop to review data and analyses proposed to inform new 
assessments for lingcod and vermilion/sunset rockfishes scheduled to be 
conducted this year. The workshop is open to the public.

DATES: The pre-assessment workshop will be held Monday, March 29, 2021, 
beginning at 1 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time and continuing until 
business for the day has been completed, no later than 4 p.m.

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 
lingcod and vermilion/sunset rockfishes. 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 stocks are tentatively scheduled for 
peer review in July 2021 Stock Assessment Review (STAR) panels (July 
12-16 for lingcod and July 26-30 for vermilion/sunset rockfishes). 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 September 2021 meeting.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agendas 
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action 
during this meeting. 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 workshop participants 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 at (503) 820-2412 at least 
10 days prior to the meeting date.

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

    Dated: February 19, 2021.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2021-03822 Filed 2-23-21; 8:45 am]
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