[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 45854]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11417]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XD976]
Advisory Committee Open Session on Management Strategy Evaluation
for North Atlantic Swordfish
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
(ICCAT), supported by NMFS, is holding a public meeting via webinar
session to receive an update and provide input on the development of a
management strategy evaluation (MSE) for North Atlantic swordfish. The
meeting is open to all interested stakeholders.
DATES: A virtual meeting that is open to the public will be held by
webinar session on June 13, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT.
ADDRESSES: Please register to attend the meeting at: https://forms.gle/jHqbXe8223HvXtxD6. Registration will close on June 11, 2024, at 5 p.m.
EDT. Instructions for accessing the webinar session will be emailed to
registered participants.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Keller, Office of International
Affairs, Trade, and Commerce, at (301) 427-7725 or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MSE is a process that allows fishery
managers and stakeholders (e.g., industry, scientists, and non-
governmental organizations) to assess how well different strategies
achieve specified management objectives for a fishery. In 2023, ICCAT
extended the North Atlantic swordfish management measure through 2024.
ICCAT expects to finalize its North Atlantic swordfish MSE and adopt a
management procedure in November 2024 to set the total allowable catch
(TAC) for 2025 and future years for the stock. NMFS, and the U.S.
Government more broadly, has been fully engaged in the MSE development
process, an important part of which involves considering stakeholder
input, including through periodic consultations with the Advisory
Committee to the U.S. section to ICCAT. The United States is also
participating in the development of the North Atlantic swordfish MSE
through the active involvement of U.S. scientists in the work carried
out by ICCAT's Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS).
The June 13 meeting is primarily informational in nature. It is
intended to update U.S. stakeholders on the progress of the North
Atlantic swordfish MSE process and increase awareness and understanding
of that process. NMFS will provide information on the progress of the
SCRS in developing initial candidate management procedures (CMPs) and
testing them based on the input provided to-date by ICCAT's Panel 4 on
management objectives and other relevant matters. CMPs illustrate
tradeoffs associated with achieving identified management objectives
related to stock status, stock safety, yield, and TAC stability over
time. CMP testing assists ICCAT in refining management objectives and
narrowing the number of viable CMPs for possible adoption by the
Commission.
There will also be an opportunity for the Advisory Committee and
other stakeholders to provide input to NMFS on the North Atlantic
swordfish MSE. Such input helps inform U.S. scientists who are
participating in the MSE work of the SCRS as well as U.S. managers
participating in North Atlantic swordfish MSE meetings at the
Commission level later in 2024.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: May 20, 2024.
Alexa Cole,
Director, Office of International Affairs, Trade, and Commerce,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-11417 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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