[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 5, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 60648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19096]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XD312]


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 Ecosystem-Based Management and Groundfish Subcommittees of 
the Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Scientific 
and Statistical Committee (SSC) will convene an online meeting to 
review a proposed approach for developing the use of ecosystem risk 
evaluation tables and any other Ecosystem and Climate Information for 
Species, Fisheries, and Fishery Management Plan (Initiative 4) 
materials provided by the Council's Ecosystem Workgroup. The SSC 
Ecosystem-Based Management and Groundfish Subcommittee meeting is open 
to the public.

DATES: The SSC Ecosystem-Based Management and Groundfish Subcommittee 
meeting will be held Thursday, September 21, 2023, from 1 p.m. until 5 
p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) or until business for the day has been 
completed.

ADDRESSES: The SSC Ecosystem-Based Management and Groundfish 
Subcommittee meeting 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 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 SSC Ecosystem-Based 
Management and Groundfish Subcommittee meeting is to review an approach 
being developed by the Council's Ecosystem Workgroup to develop 
ecosystem risk evaluation tables for several example groundfish 
species, their potential use in the Council process, and any 
intersection with the SSC's scientific uncertainty buffers and stock 
category designations which result from the stock assessment process.
    No management actions will be decided by the meeting participants. 
The participants' role will be development of recommendations and 
reports for consideration by the SSC and the Pacific Council at a 
future Council meeting. The Pacific Council and SSC are scheduled to 
consider the Ecosystem and Climate Information for Species, Fisheries, 
and Fishery Management Plan Initiative 4 at their March 2024 meeting in 
Fresno, CA.
    Although nonemergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action 
during this meeting. 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 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: August 30, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-19096 Filed 9-1-23; 8:45 am]
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