[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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