[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29037-29038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-13397]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XF495


Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); 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 Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (MAFMC's) 
Demersal Committee will hold a public meeting, jointly with a subset of 
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Summer 
Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board (Board).

DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, from 1 p.m. 
to 5 p.m. and on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport 
Hotel, 1739 W. Nursery Rd., Linthicum, MD 21090; telephone: (410) 694-
0808.
    Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N. 
State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331 or 
on their Web site at www.mafmc.org.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: (302) 
526-5255.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Demersal Committee and members of the 
Board will meet to review and

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discuss draft options for management of the commercial summer flounder 
fishery under the Comprehensive Summer Flounder Amendment, including 
options for addressing permit capacity and latent effort, commercial 
allocation, and landings flexibility. The goal of the meeting is to 
refine the draft range of alternatives and provide additional guidance 
to staff on adding specificity to the alternatives and analyzing their 
impacts, prior to additional consideration by the Council and Board at 
their August 2017 joint meeting. Meeting materials will be posted to 
http://www.mafmc.org/ prior to the meeting.

Special Accommodations

    The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aid should 
be directed to M. Jan Saunders, (302) 526-5251, at least 5 days prior 
to the meeting date.

    Dated: June 22, 2017.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-13397 Filed 6-26-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-22-P