[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 19903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07318]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XB929]


Pacific Bluefin Tuna United States Stakeholder Meeting; 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 announces a public meeting to discuss management of 
Pacific bluefin tuna (PBF). This meeting is intended to discuss both 
commercial and recreational management of PBF and is following up to 
meetings held on similar topics in 2019 and 2020. It is also intended 
to solicit input into development of an international long-term harvest 
strategy for PBF. The meeting topics are described under the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.

DATES: The virtual meeting will be held on May 4, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. 
to 2:00 p.m. PDT (or until business is concluded). You must complete 
the registration process by April 26, 2022, if you plan to attend the 
meeting (see ADDRESSES). Members of the public may submit written 
comments on the meeting topics or materials to Celia Barroso at 
[email protected] by April 26, 2022, and may also provide oral 
comments during the virtual meeting.

ADDRESSES: If you plan to attend the meeting, which will be held by 
webinar, please register at https://forms.gle/KKR3Fo7cw1cLUoCt8. 
Instructions for attending the meeting will be emailed to meeting 
participants in advance of the meeting.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Stakeholders have expressed an interest in 
developing 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/documents/2018/09/september-2018-decision-document.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 2019 PFMC meeting at 
https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2019/06/agenda-item-j-2-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-3-pacific-bluefin-tuna-stakeholder-meeting-and-input-to-development-of-council-harvest-strategy.pdf). On May 19, 
2020, NMFS hosted a virtual meeting facilitated by Kearns & West that 
focused on domestic implementation of an IATTC resolution (see the NMFS 
report to the June 2020 PFMC meeting at https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2020/06/d-1-a-supplemental-nmfs-report-3.pdf). These meetings 
mainly discussed domestic management of PBF. NMFS is hosting a separate 
virtual meeting to discuss a long-term harvest strategy for PBF within 
the international arena on April 1, 2022 (87 FR 10175, February 23, 
2022), and this May 4 meeting will provide an overview of that April 1 
meeting in addition to following up to the 2019 and 2020 meetings held 
on domestic PBF management.

PBF U.S. Stakeholder Meeting Topics

    The agenda for this meeting will be distributed to participants in 
advance of the meeting. The PBF U.S. stakeholder meeting topics may 
include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) An overview of 
international management of PBF and current domestic management of the 
U.S. PBF fishery, (2) future domestic management of commercial and 
recreational PBF; and (3) development of an international long-term 
harvest strategy.

Special Accommodations

    Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be indicated when registering for the meeting (see ADDRESSES) by 
April 26, 2022.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 951 et seq., 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., and 16 
U.S.C. 6901 et seq.

    Dated: April 1, 2022.
Ngagne Jafnar Gueye,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-07318 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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