[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 169 (Thursday, September 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53735-53736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18924]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XC327]


East Coast Fishery Management Councils; Public Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
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 three webinar meetings of fishery management 
representatives 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 Monday, September 19, 2022, from 
1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 
3:30 p.m., and on Monday, October 3, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 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

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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. These 
scenarios are currently being refined and finalized with feedback 
received from a set of ``scenario deepening'' webinars. The next step 
in this process is to hold a series of virtual meetings of small groups 
of fishery management representatives from participating organizations. 
The purpose of these webinars is for these groups to brainstorm issues, 
ideas, and options that should be discussed at scenario planning 
conversations at meetings of the East Coast Fishery Management Councils 
and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in late 2022, and 
subsequently at a Summit Meeting in early 2023. These upcoming small 
group manager conversations will be focused around applications of the 
scenarios, discussing which aspects of governance and management may 
need to change, and how, given the possible conditions described in the 
scenarios.
    These meetings will be open to the public and public comment may be 
taken at designated times during the webinars. The final scenarios to 
be discussed, as well as additional information about potential 
applications, will be made available at: https://www.mafmc.org/climate-change-scenario-planning.

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: August 29, 2022.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-18924 Filed 8-31-22; 8:45 am]
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