[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14985-14986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04925]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XC801]


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 development of a 
long-term harvest strategy for Pacific bluefin tuna (PBF). This meeting 
is intended to prepare for potential discussions at the 2023 meeting of 
the Joint Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)--Western and 
Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Northern Committee (NC) 
Working Group on a long-term harvest strategy for PBF fisheries across 
the Pacific Ocean. The meeting topics are described under the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.

DATES: The virtual meeting will be held on April 19, 2023, from 1 p.m. 
to 4 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (or until business is concluded). You 
must complete the registration process by April 12, 2023, if you plan 
to attend the meeting (see ADDRESSES). Members of the public may submit 
written comments on meeting topics or materials to Celia Barroso at 
[email protected] by April 12,

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2023, 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/rVj5WNy4w4Kadqcq6. 
Instructions for attending the meeting will be emailed to meeting 
participants before the meeting occurs. This meeting may be audio 
recorded for the purposes of generating notes of the meeting. As public 
comments will be made publicly available, participants and public 
commenters are urged not to provide personally identifiable information 
(PII) at this meeting. Participation in the meeting, in person, by web 
conference, or by telephone constitutes consent to the audio recording.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 7th Meeting of the Joint IATTC-WCPFC NC 
Working Group (JWG) met July 12-14, 2022, and was unable to reach 
consensus on management objectives for PBF and metrics to measure 
whether a proposed harvest strategy would meet those management 
objectives. Additionally, the International Scientific Committee on 
Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC) recommended 
that, to proceed with the development of a management strategy 
evaluation (MSE) for PBF, the JWG consider refining the set of 
candidate reference points and harvest control rules recommended in 
2019. This April 19 meeting is being held to prepare for anticipated 
discussions at the 2023 meeting of the JWG regarding scenarios for 
evaluation in the MSE to support development of potential harvest 
strategies for PBF. This is expected to include the objectives and 
metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of those scenarios.

PBF U.S. Stakeholder Meeting Topic

    The agenda for this meeting will be distributed to participants in 
advance of the meeting. The meeting agenda will include a discussion on 
preferences for management objectives for PBF, metrics to measure how 
potential future harvest strategies for PBF meet those objectives, 
candidate reference points, and candidate harvest control rules.

Special Accommodations

    Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be indicated when registering for the meeting (see ADDRESSES) by 
April 12, 2023.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 951 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; and 16 
U.S.C. 6901 et seq.

    Dated: March 7, 2023.
Jennifer M. Wallace,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-04925 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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