[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 12, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13990-13991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05336]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XD168


New England Fishery Management Council; 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 New England Fishery Management Council's (Council) 
Groundfish Oversight Committee will meet to consider actions affecting 
New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

DATES: The meeting will be held on Friday, March 28, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Meeting address: The meeting will be held at the Omni Hotel, 
One West Exchange Street, Providence, RI 02903; telephone: (401) 598-
8000; fax: (401) 598-8200.
    Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The items of discussion in the committee's 
agenda are as follows:
    The Groundfish Oversight Committee will meet to discuss draft 
alternatives for consideration in Amendment 18 (A18), an amendment to 
address fleet diversity and accumulation limits in the commercial 
groundfish fishery. There will be a review of Groundfish Plan 
Development Team (PDT) analysis with respect to A18 including an 
examination of: accumulation limits; permit banks; permit holdings 
data; United States/Canada quota trading for Eastern Georges Bank (EB) 
cod, EGB haddock, and Georges Bank yellowtail flounder; Handgear A 
fishery proposal; and recent spatial and temporal trends in fishing 
effort and biology of Gulf of Maine cod. They will review additional 
scoping period comments with respect to A18. Also on the agenda will be 
a discussion on progress toward developing draft alternatives for 
Framework Adjustment 52 (FW 52), a narrow and focused framework to 
revise commercial groundfish fishery accountability measures for 
Southern windowpane flounder and Northern windowpane flounder stocks. 
They will review PDT analysis with respect to FW 52 including an 
examination of: recent

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windowpane flounder catches and discards and draft alternatives. Other 
business may be discussed.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come 
before this group for discussion, those issues may not be the subject 
of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted to 
those issues specifically identified 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 Council's 
intent to take final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 days 
prior to the meeting date.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: March 7, 2014.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-05336 Filed 3-11-14; 8:45 am]
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