Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

• Published date: 07 October 2020
• Citation: 85 FR 63254
• Record Number: 2020-22162
• Section: Notices
• Court: National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 195 (Wednesday, October 7, 2020)

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 7, 2020)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 63254-63255]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2020-22162]
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                DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
                [RTID 0648-XA541]
                Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
                AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
                Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
                ACTION: Notice of public workshop.
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                SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) and
                the NMFS Northwest Science Center will hold an online workshop to
                review data and analyses proposed to inform new assessments for Dover
                sole, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, and squarespot scheduled to
                be conducted next year. The workshop is open to the public.
                DATES: The pre-assessment workshop will be held Monday, October 26,
                2020, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time and continuing
                until 4:30 p.m. or until business for the day has been completed. The
                pre-assessment workshop will continue on Tuesday, October 27, 2020,
                beginning at 12:30 p.m. and continuing until 4:30 p.m. or until
                business for the day has been completed.
                ADDRESSES: The pre-assessment workshop will be an online meeting.
                Specific meeting information, including directions on how to join the
                meeting and system requirements will be provided in the meeting
                announcement on the Pacific Council's website (see www.pcouncil.org).
                You may send an email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt
                ([email protected]) or contact him at (503) 820-2412 for
                technical assistance.
                 Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE
                Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220.
                FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John DeVore, Staff Officer,
                Pacific Fishery Management Council; telephone: (503) 820-2413.
                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the pre-assessment workshop
                is to review data and analyses proposed to inform 2021 assessments for
                Dover sole, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, and squarespot
                rockfish. Stock assessment teams will solicit advice from data
                stewards, stakeholders, and fishery managers knowledgeable about these
                stocks and these data to prepare for these assessments.
                 No management actions will be decided by the workshop participants.
                The participants' role will be development of recommendations for
                consideration by the stock assessment teams assigned to conduct these
                assessments. Assessments for these four stocks are tentatively
                scheduled for peer review in a May 3-7, 2021 Stock Assessment Review
                (STAR) panel. The Pacific Council and the Pacific Council's Scientific
                and Statistical Committee are scheduled to consider these draft
                assessments for use in informing management decisions at their June
                2021 meeting in Vancouver, WA.
                 Although nonemergency issues not contained in the meeting agendas
                may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action
                during these meetings. Action will be restricted to
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                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 intent of
                the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee 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 Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt, (503) 820-2412 at least 10
                days prior to the meeting date.
                 Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
                 Dated: October 2, 2020.
                Diane M. DeJames-Daly,
                Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
                Marine Fisheries Service.
                [FR Doc. 2020-22162 Filed 10-6-20; 8:45 am]
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