[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 107 (Monday, June 4, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 25649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11894]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XG275


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 Working Group (WG) of the Northeast Trawl Advisory Panel 
(NTAP) and NTAP as a whole of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 
Council will hold a meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 19, beginning at 9 
a.m. and conclude by 5 p.m. For agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn Boston 
Logan Airport located on 100 Boardman St., Boston, MA 02128.
    Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N 
State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331; 
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 purpose of this WG meeting is to: (1) 
Review options and recommend preferred research plan for re-obligating 
industry vessel sea days funds (Nobska), (2) develop workplan for FY18-
20, (3) define criteria for Bigelow trawl gear performance, and (4) 
describe potential flume tank experiments. The purpose of the NTAP as a 
whole meeting is to: (1) Review updates on the revised NTAP charter and 
Bigelow operations, (2) review, adopt or revise NTAP WG recommendations 
from last meeting, (3) review the status of summer flounder 
catchability and gear performance analyses, (4) review a briefing on 
the Bigelow/Albatross time series, (5) adopt a regular meeting schedule 
for full NTAP and WG, and (6) cover other business.

    Dated: May 30, 2018.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-11894 Filed 6-1-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-22-P