[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 226 (Tuesday, November 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 73168]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29891]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public workshop.
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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and the NMFS
Northwest and Southwest Fisheries Science Centers (NWFSC and SWFSC,
respectively) will hold a public workshop to review and critique its
groundfish stock assessment process in 2015. The Groundfish Stock
Assessment Process Review Workshop is open to the public.
DATES: The Groundfish Stock Assessment Process Review Workshop will
commence at 8:30 a.m. PT, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 and continue
until 5:30 p.m. or as necessary to complete business for the day. The
workshop will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. PT, Thursday, December 10, 2015
and continue until 5:30 p.m. or as necessary to complete business for
the day
ADDRESSES: The Groundfish Stock Assessment Process Review Workshop will
be held at Room 203, Fishery Sciences Building (FSH), University of
Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98105.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John DeVore, Pacific Council;
telephone: (503) 820-2413.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Groundfish Stock
Assessment Process Review Workshop webinar is for participants in the
Council's 2015 stock assessment process to consider the procedures used
in 2015 to assess and update groundfish stock abundance and develop
recommendations for improving the process for future assessments and
future assessment reviews. No management actions will be decided in
this workshop. Any recommendations developed at the workshop will be
submitted for consideration by the Council at its March 2016 meeting in
Sacramento, CA or its April 2016 meeting in Vancouver, WA (see the
Council's Web site at www.pcouncil.org for future Council meeting
agendas).
Although non-emergency issues not identified in the workshop agenda
may come before the workshop participants for discussion, those issues
may not be the subject of formal action during this workshop. Formal
action at the workshop 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 Fishery Conservation and Management Act, provided the
public has been notified of the workshop participants' intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This workshop is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 820-2425 at least
5 days prior to the workshop date.
Dated: November 19, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-29891 Filed 11-23-15; 8:45 am]
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