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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
[I.D. 091106A]
Atlantic Trawl Gear Take Reduction
Team Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of establishment of an
Atlantic Trawl Gear Take Reduction
Team and meeting.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NMFS is establishing a Take
Reduction Team (TRT) to address
incidental mortality and serious injury
of long-finned pilot whales
(Globicephala melas), short-finned pilot
whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus),
white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus
acutus), and common dolphins
(Delphinus delphis) in several trawl gear
fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean. The TRT
will develop a Take Reduction Plan
(TRP) as required by section 118 of the
Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA). NMFS will seek input from
the Atlantic Trawl Gear TRT on all
scientific data related to stock structure,
abundance, and human-caused
mortality and serious injury of pilot
whales, white-sided dolphins, and
common dolphins. The TRT will focus
on developing a plan to reduce
incidental catch of these species in
Atlantic trawl gear fisheries to a level
less than the Potential Biological
Removal (PBR) level within 6 months of
implementation of the plan and to a
level approaching a zero mortality and
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serious injury rate within 5 years of
implementation of the plan.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
September 19, 2006, from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., on September 20–21, 2006, from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on September
22, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in
Providence, RI.
ADDRESSES: The Atlantic Trawl Gear
TRT meeting will be held at the
Providence Courtyard Marriott
Downtown, 32 Exchange Terrace,
Providence, RI 02903. Phone: (401) 272–
1191, Fax: (401) 272–1416.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Minton, NMFS, Northeast Region,
978–281–9300 Ext. 6534,
Mark.Minton@noaa.gov or Melissa
Andersen, NMFS, Office of Protected
Resources, 301–713–2322 Ext. 173,
Melissa.Andersen@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
MMPA defines the Potential Biological
Removal (PBR) level of a marine
mammal stock as the maximum number
of animals, not including natural
mortalities, that may be removed from a
marine mammal stock while allowing
that stock to reach or maintain its
optimum sustainable population. The
PBR level is the product of the following
factors: the minimum population
estimate of the stock; one-half the
maximum theoretical or estimated net
productivity rate of the stock at a small
population size; and a recovery factor of
between 0.1 and 1.0.
The Western North Atlantic stocks of
long-finned and short-finned pilot
whales (Globicephala sp.) were
designated as non-strategic in the 2005
marine mammal stock assessment report
(Waring et al., 2006) because fisheryrelated serious injuries and mortalities
are less than PBR. The 2005 stock
assessment report indicates that the PBR
for the combined stock of long-finned
and short-finned pilot whales
(Globicephala sp.) is 239, and that total
fishery-related mortality and serious
injury is 210. The Western North
Atlantic (WNA) stock of white-sided
dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) is
designated as non-strategic in the 2005
marine mammal stock assessment report
(Waring et al., 2006) because fisheryrelated serious injuries and mortalities
are less than PBR. The 2005 stock
assessment report indicates that the PBR
for the WNA stock of white-sided
dolphins is 364 and that total fisheryrelated mortality and serious injury is
38.
The Western North Atlantic stock of
common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is
designated as non-strategic in the 2005
marine mammal stock assessment report
(Waring et al., 2006) because fishery-
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related serious injuries and mortalities
are less than PBR. The 2005 stock
assessment report indicates that the PBR
for the WNA stock of common dolphin
is 960 and that total fishery-related
mortality and serious injury is 119.
For non-strategic stocks, section 118
of the MMPA calls for a take reduction
plan to be completed within 11 months
of the establishment of the team, and to
focus in this case, on reducing
incidental mortalities and serious
injuries of pilot whales, white-sided
dolphins and common dolphins to a
level approaching a zero mortality and
serious injury rate within 5 years of
implementation of the plan.
All three species of marine mammals
are known to interact with the MidAtlantic Mid-water Trawl fishery, which
is classified on the MMPA List of
Fisheries (LOF) as a Category I fishery
(i.e., one that has frequent incidental
mortalities or serious injuries of marine
mammals). All three species of marine
mammals are also known to interact
with the Mid-Atlantic Bottom Trawl,
Northeast Mid-water Trawl, and the
Northeast Bottom Trawl fisheries, which
are classified as Category II fisheries
(i.e., those that have annual mortality
and serious injury greater than 1 percent
and less than 50 percent of the PBR
level) on the MMPA LOF.
Other commercial fisheries known to
occasionally cause incidental mortality
and serious injury of pilot whales,
white-sided dolphins, and common
dolphins include the pelagic longline
fishery (excluding the Northeast distant
water fishery) and the Northeast
Multispecies Sink Gillnet fishery.
Section 118 (f)(8) of the MMPA calls
on the TRT to develop a draft TRP by
consensus, and to submit this draft TRP
to NMFS not later than 11 months after
the date of the establishment of the TRT.
The Secretary is then to consider the
TRP, and no later than 60 days after the
submission of the draft TRP, NMFS is to
publish in the Federal Register the TRP
and any implementing regulations
proposed by the team for a public
comment period not to exceed 90 days.
Within 60 days of the close of the
comment period, NMFS is to issue a
final TRP and any implementing
regulations.
List of invited participants: MMPA
section 118 (f)(6)(c) requires that
members of TRTs have expertise
regarding the conservation or biology of
the marine mammal species that the
TRP will address, or the fishing
practices that result in the incidental
mortality or serious injury of such
species. Section 118 requires that TRTs,
to the maximum extent practicable,
consist of an equitable balance among
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representatives of resource user and
non-user interests.
NMFS has asked the following
individuals to serve as members on this
TRT:
Melissa Andersen, NMFS; David
Beutel, University of Rhode Island;
William Bright, Fishing Vessel
Retriever; Brendan Cummings, Center
for Biological Diversity; Glenn Delaney,
Northeast Seafood Coalition; Gregory
DiDomenico, Garden State Seafood
Association; Pat Fiorelli, Northeast
Fishery Management Council; Damon
Gannon, Mote Marine Laboratory; Mike
Genovese, Fishing Vessel White Dove;
Glen Goodwin, Fishing Vessel
Relentless; Elizabeth Griffin, Oceana;
Nick Jenkins, Fishing Vessels Isabelle
Taylor and Jean McCausland; Jessica
Koelsch, The Ocean Conservancy;
Robert Lane, Fishing Vessels Isabel S.
and Melissa Jayne; Stephen Lee, Fishing
Vessel Kristen Lee; Jim Lovgren, Fishing
Vessel Sea Dragon; Rick Marks, Garden
State Seafood Association; William
McLellan, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington; Mark Minton, NMFS; Peter
Moore, American Pelagic Association;
Gerry O’Neill, Fishing Vessel, Voyager,
Challenger, Endeavor; Ryan Rabar,
Fishing Vessel Providian; Eoin
Rochefort, Northern Pelagic Group, LLC
(NORPEL); Jim Ruhle, Fishing Vessel
Darana R; Rich Seagraves, Mid-Atlantic
Fishery Management Council; Michael
Simpkins, Marine Mammal
Commission; and Sharon Young,
Human Society of the United States.
Other individuals from NMFS and
state and Federal agencies may be
present as observers or for their
scientific expertise. Members of TRTs
serve without compensation, but may be
reimbursed by NMFS, upon request, for
reasonable travel costs and expenses
incurred in preforming their duties as
members of the team. The TRT process
will be facilitated by Robin Roberts and
Dana Mason, RESOLVE, Washington,
D.C. The ATGTRT will hold its first
meeting from September 19-22, 2006, in
Providence, RI (see DATES and
ADDRESSES).
NMFS intends to conduct the TRT
process in a way that provides for
national consistency yet accommodates
the unique regional characteristics of
the fishery and marine mammal stocks
involved. Take Reduction Teams are not
subject to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 App. U.S.C.).
Meetings are open to the public.
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Dated: September 11, 2006.
James H. Lecky,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[I.D. 090506B]
Advisory Committee and Species
Working Group Technical Advisor
Appointments
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Nominations.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NMFS is soliciting
nominations to the Advisory Committee
to the U.S. Section to the International
Commission for the Conservation of
Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) as established
by the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act
(ATCA). NMFS is also soliciting
nominations for technical advisors to
the Advisory Committee’s species
working groups.
DATES: Nominations must be received
by October 23, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Nominations to the
Advisory Committee or for technical
advisors to a species working group
should be sent to Dr. William T.
Hogarth, Assistant Administrator,
National Marine Fisheries Service,
NOAA, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver
Spring, MD 20910. A copy should also
be sent to Kelly Denit, Office of
International Affairs, National Marine
Fisheries Service, Room 12622, 1315
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kelly Denit, 301–713–2276.
Section
971b of the ATCA (16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.)
requires that an advisory committee be
established that shall be composed of:
(1) not less than five nor more than 20
individuals appointed by the U.S.
Commissioners to ICCAT who shall
select such individuals from the various
groups concerned with the fisheries
covered by the ICCAT Convention; and
(2) the chairs (or their designees) of the
New England, Mid-Atlantic, South
Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf Fishery
Management Councils. Each member of
the Advisory Committee appointed
under paragraph (1) shall serve for a
term of two years and shall be eligible
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for reappointment. Members of the
Advisory Committee may attend all
public meetings of the ICCAT
Commission, Council, or any Panel and
any other meetings to which they are
invited by the ICCAT Commission,
Council, or any Panel. The Advisory
Committee shall be invited to attend all
nonexecutive meetings of the U.S.
Commissioners to ICCAT and, at such
meetings, shall be given the opportunity
to examine and be heard on all
proposed programs of investigation,
reports, recommendations, and
regulations of the ICCAT Commission.
Members of the Advisory Committee
shall receive no compensation for such
services. The Secretary of Commerce
and the Secretary of State may pay the
necessary travel expenses of members of
the Advisory Committee.
There are currently 20 appointed
Advisory Committee members. The
terms of these members expire on
December 31, 2006. New appointments
will be made as soon as possible, but
will not take effect until January 1,
2007.
Section 971b–1 of the ACTA specifies
that the U.S. Commissioners may
establish species working groups for the
purpose of providing advice and
recommendations to the U.S.
Commissioners and to the Advisory
Committee on matters relating to the
conservation and management of any
highly migratory species covered by the
ICCAT Convention. Any species
working group shall consist of no more
than seven members of the Advisory
Committee and no more than four
scientific or technical personnel, as
considered necessary by the
Commissioners. Currently, there are
four species working groups advising
the Committee and the U.S.
Commissioners: a Bluefin Tuna Working
Group, a Swordfish Working Group, a
Billfish Working Group, and a BAYS
(Bigeye, Albacore, Yellowfin, and
Skipjack) Tunas Working Group.
Technical Advisors to the species
working groups serve at the pleasure of
the U.S. Commissioners; therefore, the
Commissioners can choose to alter
appointments at any time.
Nominations to the Advisory
Committee or to a species working
group should include a letter of interest
and a resume or curriculum vitae.
Letters of recommendation are useful
but not required. Self-nominations are
acceptable. When making a nomination,
please clearly specify which
appointment (Advisory Committee
member or technical advisor to a species
working group) is being sought.
Requesting consideration for placement
on both the Advisory Committee and a
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 091106A]
Atlantic Trawl Gear Take Reduction Team Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of establishment of an Atlantic Trawl Gear Take
Reduction Team and meeting.
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SUMMARY: NMFS is establishing a Take Reduction Team (TRT) to address
incidental mortality and serious injury of long-finned pilot whales
(Globicephala melas), short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala
macrorhynchus), white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus acutus), and
common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in several trawl gear fisheries in
the Atlantic Ocean. The TRT will develop a Take Reduction Plan (TRP) as
required by section 118 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).
NMFS will seek input from the Atlantic Trawl Gear TRT on all scientific
data related to stock structure, abundance, and human-caused mortality
and serious injury of pilot whales, white-sided dolphins, and common
dolphins. The TRT will focus on developing a plan to reduce incidental
catch of these species in Atlantic trawl gear fisheries to a level less
than the Potential Biological Removal (PBR) level within 6 months of
implementation of the plan and to a level approaching a zero mortality
and serious injury rate within 5 years of implementation of the plan.
DATES: The meeting will be held on September 19, 2006, from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., on September 20-21, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on
September 22, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Providence, RI.
ADDRESSES: The Atlantic Trawl Gear TRT meeting will be held at the
Providence Courtyard Marriott Downtown, 32 Exchange Terrace,
Providence, RI 02903. Phone: (401) 272-1191, Fax: (401) 272-1416.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Minton, NMFS, Northeast Region,
978-281-9300 Ext. 6534, Mark.Minton@noaa.gov or Melissa Andersen, NMFS,
Office of Protected Resources, 301-713-2322 Ext. 173,
Melissa.Andersen@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MMPA defines the Potential Biological
Removal (PBR) level of a marine mammal stock as the maximum number of
animals, not including natural mortalities, that may be removed from a
marine mammal stock while allowing that stock to reach or maintain its
optimum sustainable population. The PBR level is the product of the
following factors: the minimum population estimate of the stock; one-
half the maximum theoretical or estimated net productivity rate of the
stock at a small population size; and a recovery factor of between 0.1
and 1.0.
The Western North Atlantic stocks of long-finned and short-finned
pilot whales (Globicephala sp.) were designated as non-strategic in the
2005 marine mammal stock assessment report (Waring et al., 2006)
because fishery-related serious injuries and mortalities are less than
PBR. The 2005 stock assessment report indicates that the PBR for the
combined stock of long-finned and short-finned pilot whales
(Globicephala sp.) is 239, and that total fishery-related mortality and
serious injury is 210. The Western North Atlantic (WNA) stock of white-
sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) is designated as non-strategic in
the 2005 marine mammal stock assessment report (Waring et al., 2006)
because fishery-related serious injuries and mortalities are less than
PBR. The 2005 stock assessment report indicates that the PBR for the
WNA stock of white-sided dolphins is 364 and that total fishery-related
mortality and serious injury is 38.
The Western North Atlantic stock of common dolphin (Delphinus
delphis) is designated as non-strategic in the 2005 marine mammal stock
assessment report (Waring et al., 2006) because fishery-related serious
injuries and mortalities are less than PBR. The 2005 stock assessment
report indicates that the PBR for the WNA stock of common dolphin is
960 and that total fishery-related mortality and serious injury is 119.
For non-strategic stocks, section 118 of the MMPA calls for a take
reduction plan to be completed within 11 months of the establishment of
the team, and to focus in this case, on reducing incidental mortalities
and serious injuries of pilot whales, white-sided dolphins and common
dolphins to a level approaching a zero mortality and serious injury
rate within 5 years of implementation of the plan.
All three species of marine mammals are known to interact with the
Mid-Atlantic Mid-water Trawl fishery, which is classified on the MMPA
List of Fisheries (LOF) as a Category I fishery (i.e., one that has
frequent incidental mortalities or serious injuries of marine mammals).
All three species of marine mammals are also known to interact with the
Mid-Atlantic Bottom Trawl, Northeast Mid-water Trawl, and the Northeast
Bottom Trawl fisheries, which are classified as Category II fisheries
(i.e., those that have annual mortality and serious injury greater than
1 percent and less than 50 percent of the PBR level) on the MMPA LOF.
Other commercial fisheries known to occasionally cause incidental
mortality and serious injury of pilot whales, white-sided dolphins, and
common dolphins include the pelagic longline fishery (excluding the
Northeast distant water fishery) and the Northeast Multispecies Sink
Gillnet fishery.
Section 118 (f)(8) of the MMPA calls on the TRT to develop a draft
TRP by consensus, and to submit this draft TRP to NMFS not later than
11 months after the date of the establishment of the TRT. The Secretary
is then to consider the TRP, and no later than 60 days after the
submission of the draft TRP, NMFS is to publish in the Federal Register
the TRP and any implementing regulations proposed by the team for a
public comment period not to exceed 90 days. Within 60 days of the
close of the comment period, NMFS is to issue a final TRP and any
implementing regulations.
List of invited participants: MMPA section 118 (f)(6)(c) requires
that members of TRTs have expertise regarding the conservation or
biology of the marine mammal species that the TRP will address, or the
fishing practices that result in the incidental mortality or serious
injury of such species. Section 118 requires that TRTs, to the maximum
extent practicable, consist of an equitable balance among
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representatives of resource user and non-user interests.
NMFS has asked the following individuals to serve as members on
this TRT:
Melissa Andersen, NMFS; David Beutel, University of Rhode Island;
William Bright, Fishing Vessel Retriever; Brendan Cummings, Center for
Biological Diversity; Glenn Delaney, Northeast Seafood Coalition;
Gregory DiDomenico, Garden State Seafood Association; Pat Fiorelli,
Northeast Fishery Management Council; Damon Gannon, Mote Marine
Laboratory; Mike Genovese, Fishing Vessel White Dove; Glen Goodwin,
Fishing Vessel Relentless; Elizabeth Griffin, Oceana; Nick Jenkins,
Fishing Vessels Isabelle Taylor and Jean McCausland; Jessica Koelsch,
The Ocean Conservancy; Robert Lane, Fishing Vessels Isabel S. and
Melissa Jayne; Stephen Lee, Fishing Vessel Kristen Lee; Jim Lovgren,
Fishing Vessel Sea Dragon; Rick Marks, Garden State Seafood
Association; William McLellan, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington; Mark Minton, NMFS; Peter Moore, American Pelagic
Association; Gerry O'Neill, Fishing Vessel, Voyager, Challenger,
Endeavor; Ryan Rabar, Fishing Vessel Providian; Eoin Rochefort,
Northern Pelagic Group, LLC (NORPEL); Jim Ruhle, Fishing Vessel Darana
R; Rich Seagraves, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Michael
Simpkins, Marine Mammal Commission; and Sharon Young, Human Society of
the United States.
Other individuals from NMFS and state and Federal agencies may be
present as observers or for their scientific expertise. Members of TRTs
serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed by NMFS, upon
request, for reasonable travel costs and expenses incurred in
preforming their duties as members of the team. The TRT process will be
facilitated by Robin Roberts and Dana Mason, RESOLVE, Washington, D.C.
The ATGTRT will hold its first meeting from September 19-22, 2006, in
Providence, RI (see DATES and ADDRESSES).
NMFS intends to conduct the TRT process in a way that provides for
national consistency yet accommodates the unique regional
characteristics of the fishery and marine mammal stocks involved. Take
Reduction Teams are not subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(5 App. U.S.C.). Meetings are open to the public.
Dated: September 11, 2006.
James H. Lecky,
Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. E6-15265 Filed 9-13-06; 8:45 am]
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