[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 17, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22915-22916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-09167]


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MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Meeting

TIME AND DATE: The Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of 
Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals will meet on Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 
from 10:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, 8 May 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 
5:30 p.m.; Thursday, 9 May 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The 
Commission and the Committee also will meet in executive

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session on Tuesday, 7 May 2013, from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.

PLACE: The Pacific Room, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8901 La 
Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037; (858) 546-7000.

STATUS: The executive session will be closed to the public in 
accordance with the provisions of the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 
U.S.C. 552b) and applicable regulations. The session will limited to 
discussions of internal agency practices, personnel, and the budget of 
the Commission. All other portions of the meeting will be open to the 
public. Public participation will be allowed as time permits and as 
determined to be desirable by the Chairman.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The Commission and Committee will meet in 
public session to discuss a broad range of marine ecosystem and marine 
mammal matters with a focus on issues related to the Pacific Coast. 
Although subject to change, issues that the Commission plans to 
consider at the meeting include marine mammal-fishery interactions, 
disturbance of marine mammals from sound, growing pinniped populations 
on the West Coast, vessel strikes of large whales, and the status and 
conservation of southern resident killer whales, North Pacific right 
whales, North pacific humpback whales, beaked whales, southern sea 
otters, and gray whales. In addition, the Commission plans to consider 
several international conservation issues including the International 
Whaling Commission, the vaquita, Antarctic management and the Southern 
Ocean Research Program, the International Union for Conservation of 
Nature, the Mekong River dolphin, southern right whale, Southeast Asia 
marine mammals, and the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and effects of 
the tuna fishery on dolphin stocks. The Commission also will review 
issues related to conducting marine mammal surveys and other scientific 
studies under declining budgets.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Mark D. Richardson, Special 
Assistant to the Executive Director, Marine Mammal Commission, 4340 
East-West Highway, Room 700, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504-0087; email: 
[email protected].

    Dated: April 15, 2013.
Timothy J. Ragen,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 2013-09167 Filed 4-15-13; 4:15 pm]
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