[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 166 (Friday, August 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42232-42233]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16668]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XF126]


New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

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ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is 
scheduling a public meeting of its Scallop Advisory Panel via webinar 
to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive 
economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to 
the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate.

DATES: This meeting will be held on Friday, September 12, 2025 at 9 
a.m.
    Webinar registration URL information: https://nefmc-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/lvOsydGdQ0yKRuLpQ03Svg.

ADDRESSES: Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 
Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cate O'Keefe, Executive Director, New 
England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Agenda

    The Scallop Advisory Panel will meet to discuss Framework 40--
review results of 2025 scallop surveys, and preliminary projections. 
The primary focus of this meeting will be to develop input on the range 
of potential specification alternatives for FY 2026 and FY 2027. The 
action will set ABC/ACLs, days-at-sea, access area allocations, total 
allowable landings for the Northern Gulf of Maine (NGOM) management 
area, targets for General Category incidental catch, General Category 
access area trips and trip accounting, and set-asides for the observer 
and research programs for fishing year 2026 and default specifications 
for fishing year 2027. They also plan to discuss Social and Wellbeing 
Outcomes in Catch Share Programs--receive a presentation by Dr. Kanae 
Tokunaga (Gulf of Maine Research Institute) on a Case Study of the LAGC 
IFQ Scallop Program. The Advisory Panel will also discuss 2025 Scallop 
Work Priorities--review Long-Term Strategic Plan Roadmap and discuss 
prioritization, LAGC IFQ Review. Other business will be discussed, if 
necessary.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained on the agenda may come 
before this Council for discussion, those issues may not be the subject 
of formal action during this meeting. Council 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 Act, provided the public 
has been notified of the Council's intent to take final action to 
address the emergency. The public also should be aware that the meeting 
will be recorded. Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy of the 
recording is available upon request.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Cate O'Keefe, Executive Director, at (978) 465-
0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: August 27, 2025.
Becky J. Curtis,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-16668 Filed 8-28-25; 8:45 am]
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