[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28873]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XD627]


Pacific Island Fisheries; Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review 
Steering Committee Meeting; Public Meeting

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

ACTION:  Notice; public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review (WPSAR) Steering 
Committee will convene a public meeting to discuss and approve the 5-
year calendar for stock assessments, and to address any other concerns 
related to the WPSAR process.

DATES:  The Steering Committee will meet from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 
Hawaii standard time on January 17, 2024.

ADDRESSES:  The meeting will be open to the public and held in-person 
at the NMFS Honolulu Service Center at Pier 38, 1129 N Nimitz Hwy., 
Suite 220, Honolulu, HI 96817.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Todd Jones, (808) 725-5713, or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  The WPSAR steering committee consists of 
the Executive Director of the Western Pacific Fishery Management 
Council, the Science Director of the NMFS Pacific Islands Fisheries 
Science Center (PIFSC), and the Acting Regional Administrator of the 
NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office. You may read more about WPSAR at 
https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/peer_reviews/wpsar/index.php.
    The public will have an opportunity to comment during the meeting. 
The agenda order may change. The meeting will run as late as necessary 
to complete scheduled business.

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Stock assessments
    a. Discuss and update stock assessment review schedule
    b. Discuss and update review levels for stock assessments
3. Discuss and nominate additional science products for review by the 
Center for Independent Experts, if necessary
4. Finalizing the updates to the WPSAR Framework
    a. Incorporation of Research Track Assessment
5. Other business
6. Public comment

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Please direct requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids to T. Todd Jones, Director, PIFSC Fisheries Research and 
Management Division, telephone: (808) 725-5713, or [email protected] 
at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: December 27, 2023.
Jon William Bell,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-28873 Filed 1-2-24; 8:45 am]
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