[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 146 (Monday, August 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46945-46946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16437]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XC219]


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

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; public meetings.

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SUMMARY: Several fishery management bodies on the East Coast of the 
U.S. are convening two public webinars to continue work on the East 
Coast Climate Change Scenario Planning initiative. This is a joint 
effort of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the New 
England Fishery Management Council, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 
Council, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, and NOAA 
Fisheries. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for agenda details.

DATES: These webinars will be held on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, from 
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday, August 23, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held via webinar. Connection 
information will be posted to the calendar prior to the meeting at 
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: 
    Background: Over the past year, East Coast fishery management 
bodies have been collaborating on a climate change scenario planning 
initiative designed to prepare fishing communities and fishery managers 
for an era of climate change. The goals of this project are to assess 
how climate change might affect stock distribution and availability of 
East Coast marine fisheries over the next 20 years and to identify the 
implications for fishery management and governance.
    In June 2022, a group of about 70 stakeholders attended a workshop 
to develop an initial set of scenarios, describing several different 
possible futures facing East Coast fisheries out to 2042. The next step 
in the scenario planning process will be two scenario deepening 
webinars to be held in August 2022. These webinars will offer all 
interested stakeholders an opportunity to review, validate, and add 
details to the initial scenarios. Each 2-hour session will begin with 
an overview of the outputs and draft stories from the initial 
scenarios. Webinar participants will then have an opportunity to add 
comments and suggestions to make the scenarios more plausible, 
challenging, relevant, memorable, and divergent. For each scenario, 
participants will be encouraged to imagine specific examples about 
impacts to particular species, regions, and communities. Participants 
only need to attend one of the two webinars. Registration information 
will be made available on the initiative web page at: https://www.mafmc.org/climate-change-scenario-planning. A summary of the draft 
scenarios is being developed and will be posted to the same web page 
once available. Participants are encouraged to review this summary 
before the webinars and come prepared to share comments on the specific 
scenarios.
    The outcome of the two webinars will be a more detailed set of 
scenarios that will be used as a platform for later stages of the 
process, looking specifically at how fishery management and governance 
must change to be prepared for a future of climate change.

Special Accommodations

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

    Dated: July 27, 2022.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-16437 Filed 7-29-22; 8:45 am]
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