[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 106 (Thursday, June 2, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 33470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11795]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XC027]


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: The Groundfish Subcommittee of the Pacific Fishery Management 
Council's (Pacific Council's) Scientific and Statistical Committee 
(SSC) will hold a workshop to develop methods for constructing 
abundance indices based on hook-and-line surveys. Additionally, the SSC 
Groundfish Subcommittee will review the Species Distribution Model in 
Template Model Builder. The workshop and methodology review meeting is 
open to the public.

DATES: The SSC Groundfish Subcommittee's online workshop and 
methodology review meeting will be held Tuesday, June 21, 2022 through 
Thursday, June 23, 2022 beginning at 8 a.m. each day and continuing 
until 5 p.m. Pacific Time or until business for the day has been 
completed.

ADDRESSES: The SSC Groundfish Subcommittee's methodology review meeting 
and 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 SSC Groundfish 
Subcommittee's meeting is to develop methods and best practices for 
constructing abundance indices based on hook-and-line surveys in a 
workshop. Recommendations of SSC Groundfish Subcommittee members will 
inform the 2023 Accepted Practices Guidelines for Stock Assessments, 
which is a compilation of guidelines for groundfish stock assessment 
scientists. Additionally, the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee will review 
the Species Distribution Model in Template Model Builder (sdmTMB). The 
sdmTMB model is proposed for developing relative biomass indices in 
future groundfish stock assessments. The SSC Groundfish Subcommittee 
report of workshop and methodology review findings and recommendations 
will be provided to the Pacific Council and the SSC at the November 
2022 Pacific Council meeting.
    No management actions will be decided by the SSC Groundfish 
Subcommittee. The SSC Groundfish Subcommittee members' role will be 
development of recommendations and reports for consideration by the SSC 
and Pacific Council at the November 2022 Pacific Council meeting.
    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 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

    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: May 26, 2022.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-11795 Filed 6-1-22; 8:45 am]
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