[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 106 (Thursday, June 2, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33472-33473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11797]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XC085]
East Coast Fisheries of the United States; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
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SUMMARY: Several fishery management bodies on the East Coast of the
United States are convening a public workshop to continue work on an
initiative called East Coast Climate Change Scenario Planning. This is
a joint effort of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the
New England Fishery Management Council, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, and
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
for agenda details.
DATES: The meeting will be held Tuesday, June 21, 2022 through
Thursday, June 23, 2022.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
Crystal City, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202; telephone:
(703) 416-4100. The meeting will be partially streamed by webinar for
portions of the agenda that are held in plenary. Connection information
will be posted to the calendar prior to the meeting 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: Climate change is a growing threat for
marine fisheries worldwide. On the East coast of the United States,
some species have already experienced considerable climate-related
changes in distribution, abundance, and/or productivity. These changes
have the potential to strain fisheries management and governance
systems. Through the East Coast Climate Change Scenario Planning
Initiative, fishery scientists and managers are working collaboratively
and engaging diverse fishery stakeholders to explore jurisdictional and
governance issues related to climate change.
The next phase of this initiative will be a 2.5-day Scenario
Creation Workshop, to be held in Arlington, VA, from June 21-23, 2022.
Through a series of conversations and exercises, participants will
create a set of scenarios that describe how climate change might affect
East Coast fisheries in the next 20 years. Each scenario will describe
a different way in which changing oceanographic, biological, and
social/economic conditions could combine to create future challenges
and opportunities for East Coast fisheries.
Day 1 of the workshop will be spent reviewing the work to date
(i.e., what is likely to shape East Coast fisheries in the next 20
years, and how confident are we about predictions) and then numerous
small groups will each create their own ``mini-scenarios'' (quick-fire
stories about what might happen in the next 20 years). This will result
in a large number of possible scenario stories. Day 2 will start by
focusing on the range of mini-scenarios and discussing any patterns.
Through facilitated conversations and suggestions, the full group will
emerge with a scenario framework (or small number of scenarios) to
explore in more detail. The rest of the day will be spent with small
groups working on devising the details of a particular scenario, and
also reviewing the ideas emerging from other groups. At the end of Day
2, we will have a candidate scenario framework and basic stories. Day 3
will be spent in plenary, with participants working to ensure that each
scenario story is plausible, challenging, relevant, memorable and
divergent--and that the Core Team has a clear idea of what additional
work is needed to further develop the scenarios.
Approximately 75 workshop participants have been selected in
advance to represent a broad range of stakeholder groups and East Coast
regions. Others attending the meeting in person are invited to observe
the plenary discussions and to provide comments during designated
public comment opportunities. Plenary sessions only will be broadcast
by webinar. Participants on the webinar will be able to provide input
through a chat function and these comments will be summarized and
reported out to workshop participants to the extent practicable.
Additional details about the workshop will be posted to this page once
available: https://www.mafmc.org/climate-change-scenario-planning.
The draft scenarios resulting from this workshop will be further
refined later this summer and will feed into the Applications Phase of
the initiative. During the Applications Phase, participating
organizations will generate ideas and offer solutions to the challenges
highlighted in the initiative, exploring what the different scenarios
mean for future fishery management and
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governance and reaching conclusions about any recommendations for
changes.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aid should be directed to Shelley Spedden, (302) 526-5251, at
least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)
Dated: May 26, 2022.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-11797 Filed 6-1-22; 8:45 am]
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