[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12920-12921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04205]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XC751]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of a public online meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) and 
the NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center will convene an online pre-
assessment workshop to review proposed data and modeling approaches to 
inform groundfish stock assessments for shortspine thornyhead, rex 
sole, and petrale sole, scheduled for assessment during 2023. The 
workshop is open to the public.

DATES: The pre-assessment workshop will be held Monday, March 20, 2023, 
from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) or until business for 
the day has been completed.

ADDRESSES: The pre-assessment workshop will be conducted as an online 
meeting. Specific meeting information, including the agenda and 
directions on how to join the meeting and system requirements, will be 
provided in the workshop 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: Marlene A. Bellman, Staff Officer, 
Pacific Council; telephone: (503) 820-2414, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the pre-assessment workshop 
is to review proposed data inputs, modeling approaches, and any other 
pertinent information to inform 2023 stock assessments for shortspine 
thornyhead, rex sole, and petrale sole. The goal of the pre-assessment 
workshop is to promote dialogue and a common understanding between 
assessment teams and data providers of the best data and analytical and 
modeling approaches applicable to these assessments. Stock assessment 
teams will solicit advice from data stewards, stakeholders, and fishery 
managers knowledgeable about these species.
    No management actions will be decided by the workshop participants. 
The participants' role will be development of recommendations for 
consideration by the stock assessment teams assigned to conduct these 
assessments. Assessments for these stocks are tentatively scheduled for 
peer review during Stock Assessment Review (STAR) panels: shortspine 
thornyhead and rex sole (June 5-9, 2023) and petrale sole (July 24-28, 
2023). The

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Pacific Council and the Pacific Council's Scientific and Statistical 
Committee are scheduled to consider these draft assessments for use in 
informing management decisions at their September 2023 meeting in 
Spokane, WA.
    Although nonemergency issues not contained in the workshops' 
agendas may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal 
action during these workshops. 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 workshop 
participants 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: February 24, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-04205 Filed 2-28-23; 8:45 am]
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