[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 168 (Thursday, September 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 49314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19011]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XB381]


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

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

ACTION: Notice; public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's Protected 
Resources Committee will hold a public meeting via webinar.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Monday, September 20, 2021, from 1 
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for agenda details.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held via webinar. Details on the agenda, 
webinar listen-in access, and briefing materials will be posted at the 
MAFMC's website: https://www.mafmc.org/council-events.
    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 Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 
Council's Protected Resources Committee will meet to review scoping 
materials for phase two of the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan 
which focuses on reducing the risk of entanglement to right, humpback, 
and fin whales in U.S. East Coast gillnet, Atlantic mixed species trap/
pot, and Mid-Atlantic lobster and Jonah crab trap/pot fisheries. The 
measures that will be developed in phase two of this plan have the 
potential to impact several Council managed fisheries and the Protected 
Resources Committee will develop recommendations for Council engagement 
in the scoping process, which extends to October 21, 2021. The Council 
will consider these recommendations at their October meeting.

Special Accommodations

    The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Shelley Spedden at the Mid-Atlantic Council 
Office, (302) 526-5251, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: August 30, 2021.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2021-19011 Filed 9-1-21; 8:45 am]
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