[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 118 (Wednesday, June 21, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28303-28304]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12962]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XF490
Surveys of Marine Recreational Fishing Effort on the U.S.
Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico; Marine Recreational
Information Program (MRIP); Center for Independent Experts; Public
Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: NMFS is convening a peer review of a Calibration Model
proposed by the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) to
support its planned transition from a legacy telephone survey to a new
mail survey for collecting data needed to estimate marine recreational
fishing effort by shore and private/rental boat anglers on the Atlantic
coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. The peer review includes reviewers
appointed by the Center for Independent Experts (CIE), as well as
reviewers selected by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
and the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Councils. This notice lists the time and place of
the Peer Review Workshop.
DATES: The Workshop will be held from 9 a.m. on June 27, 2017 until 12
p.m. on June 29, 2017.
ADDRESSES: The Workshop will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, 8777
Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20910; Phone: 301/589-0800.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. David Van Voorhees, Chief of
Fisheries Statistics Division of NMFS Office of Science and Technology;
phone 301/427-8189; FAX 301/427-4520; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Marine Recreational Information Program
formed a Transition Team in 2015 to plan transitions from legacy survey
designs to new, or improved, survey designs for monitoring marine
recreational fishing effort and catch. The Transition Team consists of
representatives from NOAA Fisheries, the regional fishery management
councils, the interstate fisheries commissions, and several state
marine fisheries agencies. The team prepared a transition plan for
implementing a new mail survey called the ``Fishing Effort Survey'' to
replace the legacy telephone survey called the ``Coastal Household
Telephone Survey''. The plan requires development of a calibration
model to account for consistent differences between the surveys in
their statistical estimates of fishing effort.
The Peer Review Workshop will provide an assessment of the model
developed by MRIP for this purpose. The product of the Workshop will be
a Summary documenting panel opinions regarding the strengths and
weaknesses of the proposed calibration model. The panel of reviewers
will consist of three persons selected by the Center of Independent
Experts, and four persons selected by the regional fishery management
councils and ASMFC. The Panel will be chaired by an individual also
selected by the councils and ASMFC. The Agenda is subject to change,
and the latest version will be posted at http://www.countmyfish.noaa.gov. The workshop will also be accessible by
webinar in listen-only mode. Requests for webinar access should be
directed to NMFS (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) three days prior
to the workshop.
Special Accommodations
This workshop will be physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for auxiliary aids should be
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directed to NMFS (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) three days prior
to the meeting.
Note: The times and sequence specified in the agenda are subject to
change.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: June 16, 2017.
Ned Cyr,
Director, Office of Science and Technology, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-12962 Filed 6-20-17; 8:45 am]
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