[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 144 (Friday, July 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48797-48798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15970]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XD187]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) 
Groundfish Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee 
(SSC) will hold two online meetings to review 2023 groundfish stock 
assessments. These online meetings are open to the public.

DATES: The first online meeting will be held Monday, August 14, 2023 
and will continue through Tuesday, August 15, 2023, from 8:30 a.m. 
until 5:30 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) or when business for the day 
has been completed. The second online meeting will be held Monday, 
August 28, 2023 and will continue through Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 
from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) or when business 
for the day has been completed.

ADDRESSES: These meetings will be conducted online. Specific meeting 
information, materials, and instructions for how to connect to the 
meeting remotely will be provided in the meeting announcement on the 
Pacific Council's website (see www.pcouncil.org). Please send an email 
to Kris Kleinschmidt ([email protected]) or contact via phone 
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 SSC's Groundfish Subcommittee will 
review new assessments and stock assessment review (STAR) reports for 
copper rockfish in California, rex sole, shortspine thornyhead, and 
black rockfish on August 14-15, 2023. On August 28-29, 2023, 
assessments and STAR reports for canary rockfish and petrale sole, as 
well as a catch-only projection for widow rockfish, and a

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limited assessment update for sablefish will be reviewed. Further, the 
SSC Groundfish Subcommittee will review a catch report for yelloweye 
rockfish to determine the adequacy of rebuilding progress. The SSC 
Groundfish Subcommittee will prepare their recommendations for the SSC 
and Pacific Council consideration at their meetings in September. 
Assessment recommendations may include endorsing these new stock 
assessments for management use or requesting further analyses to be 
reviewed at the late September review panel (this process is outlined 
in the Pacific Council's Terms of Reference for the Groundfish Stock 
Assessment Review Process for 2023-2024 which can be found here: 
https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2022/06/terms-of-reference-for-the-groundfish-stock-assessment-review-process-for-2023-2024-june-2022.pdf/.
    Although non-emergency 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 document and any issues arising after 
publication of this document 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 to 
take final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to 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: July 24, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-15970 Filed 7-27-23; 8:45 am]
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