[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 184 (Friday, September 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58070-58071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20658]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XC341]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will 
convene a meeting of the Highly Migratory Species Management Team 
(HMSMT).

DATES: The meeting will be held Wednesday, October 12, 2022, through 
Friday, October 14, 2022, starting at 9 a.m. PT each day. Meeting times 
are an estimate, meetings will end when business for the day has been 
completed.

ADDRESSES: 
    Meeting address: The meeting will be held in the Pacific Room at 
the National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science 
Center, 8901 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Kit Dahl, Pacific Council; 
telephone: (503) 820-2422.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The principal purpose of this meeting is to 
discuss and prepare analyses supporting Council action on hard caps for 
the California large mesh driftnet (DGN) fishery. This action would 
establish hard caps (i.e., limits) on the number of observed 
mortalities/injuries of nine high priority protected species identified 
by the Council. Hard caps may apply to individual vessels or the 
fishery as a whole. If a limit is met or exceeded, both the observed 
vessel and any vessels determined to be unobservable would stop 
fishing, or the DGN fishery as a whole, would close for a prescribed 
time period. At its June 2022 meeting, the Council chose a range of 
alternatives for a hard caps fishery management regime to support 
further consideration of the action. The HMSMT will also discuss 
ongoing work to reevaluate the definition of essential fish habitat 
described in the HMS Fishery Management Plan, other

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relevant items on the agenda of the November 2022 Council meeting, and 
future HMSMT work on tasks assigned to it by the Council. A meeting 
agenda will be posted to the Council website at least one week before 
the start of the meeting.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action 
during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues 
specifically listed in this document and any issues arising after 
publication of this document 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 to 
take final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    The public listening station is physically accessible to people 
with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 
([email protected]; (503) 820-2412) at least 10 days prior to 
the meeting date.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: September 20, 2022.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-20658 Filed 9-22-22; 8:45 am]
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