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Participants for SEDAR Workshops are
appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South
Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery
Management Councils and NOAA
Fisheries Southeast Regional Office and
Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
Participants include data collectors and
database managers; stock assessment
scientists, biologists, and researchers;
constituency representatives including
fishermen, environmentalists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s);
International experts; and staff of
Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
Each SEDAR workshop panel is asked
to provide research and monitoring
recommendations to improve future
assessments and feedback on the
process to help improve SEDAR itself.
Over time, certain key topics emerge
that reveal a research need or
procedural suggestion that is common to
multiple assessments. The SEDAR
Steering Committee endorses procedural
workshops such as that noticed here to
address those issues that affect multiple
assessments and require more time and
resources to resolve than are typically
available during the normal assessment
development process. The goal of these
workshops is to develop guidelines and
practices that will increase the
efficiency of subsequent SEDAR
assessments.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before these groups for discussion, in
accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during these meetings. Actions
will be restricted to those issues
specifically identified in this notice and
any issues arising after publication of
this notice that require emergency
action under Section 305 (c) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the
public has been notified of the Council’s
intent to take final action to address the
emergency.
Special Accommodations
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These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to the Council office
(see ADDRESSES) at least 10 business
days prior to each workshop.
Dated: September 10, 2008.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XK52
Fisheries of the South Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico; SEDAR; Public
Meetings
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Southeastern Data,
Assessment, and Review (SEDAR)
Procedural workshop - Caribbean Data
Evaluation.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Council-Federal
cooperative SEDAR process provides
stock assessments for fisheries resources
of the Southeast Region. Assessment
priorities are typically established by
management need or perceptions of
management or population problems,
and often do not consider data
availability. As a result, despite several
attempts by SEDAR, no acceptable
quantitative assessments have been
developed for Caribbean stocks because
data to support traditional stock
assessment methods simply do not
exist. It is clear that alternative methods
need to be developed that will allow
assessing Caribbean fisheries resources
in a manner that will withstand
independent peer review. Identifying
and evaluating available data sources
across all managed species is a strong
first step that is consistent with peer
review and assessment report
recommendations.
SEDAR will convene a workshop
including representatives from Federal
agencies, territorial governments, nongovernmental organizations, Council
technical and constituent advisors, and
university researchers. Participants will
catalog and evaluate basic data, address
alternative assessment methods that will
accommodate the available data, and
recommend assessment priorities that
are consistent with available data and
methods.
DATES: The SEDAR Caribbean Data
Evaluation Workshop will take place
January 26–29, 2009; SEDAR
Catchability Procedural Workshop
Schedule: January 26, 2009: 1 p.m. - 8
p.m.; January 27–28, 2009: 8 a.m. - 8
p.m.; January 29, 2009: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The SEDAR Caribbean Data
Evaluation Workshop will be held at the
Hotel El Convento, 100 Cristo Street,
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901;
telephone: (787) 723–9036.
Council address: South Atlantic
Fishery Management Council, 4055
PO 00000
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Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, North
Charleston, SC 29405.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie
Neer, SEDAR Coordinator, 4055 Faber
Place Drive, Suite 201, North
Charleston, SC 29405; telephone: (843)
571–4366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf
of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management
Councils, in conjunction with NOAA
Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf
States Marine Fisheries Commissions
have implemented the SEDAR process,
a multi-step method for determining the
status of fish stocks in the Southeast
Region. SEDAR includes three
workshops: (1) Data Workshop, (2)
Stock Assessment Workshop and (3)
Review Workshop. The product of the
Data Workshop is a data report which
compiles and evaluates potential
datasets and recommends which
datasets are appropriate for assessment
analyses. The product of the Stock
Assessment Workshop is a stock
assessment report which describes the
fisheries, evaluates the status of the
stock, estimates biological benchmarks,
projects future population conditions,
and recommends research and
monitoring needs. The assessment is
independently peer reviewed at the
Review Workshop. The product of the
Review Workshop is a Consensus
Summary documenting Panel opinions
regarding the strengths and weaknesses
of the stock assessment and input data.
Participants for SEDAR Workshops are
appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South
Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery
Management Councils and NOAA
Fisheries Southeast Regional Office and
Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
Participants include data collectors and
database managers; stock assessment
scientists, biologists, and researchers;
constituency representatives including
fishermen, environmentalists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s);
International experts; and staff of
Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
Each SEDAR workshop panel is asked
to provide research and monitoring
recommendations to improve future
assessments and feedback on the
process to help improve SEDAR itself.
Over time, certain key topics emerge
that reveal a research need or
procedural suggestion that is common to
multiple assessments. The SEDAR
Steering Committee endorses procedural
workshops such as that noticed here to
address those issues that affect multiple
assessments and require more time and
resources to resolve than are typically
available during the normal assessment
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development process. The goal of these
workshops is to develop guidelines and
practices that will increase the
efficiency of subsequent SEDAR
assessments.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before these groups for discussion, in
accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during these meetings. Actions
will be restricted to those issues
specifically identified in this notice and
any issues arising after publication of
this notice that require emergency
action under Section 305 (c) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the
public has been notified of the Council’s
intent to take final action to address the
emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to the Council office
(see ADDRESSES) at least 10 business
days prior to each workshop.
Dated: September 10, 2008.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E8–21471 Filed 9–12–08; 8:45 am]
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XK47
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its
Habitat/MPA/Ecosystem Committee, in
October, 2008, to consider actions
affecting New England fisheries in the
exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Recommendations from this group will
be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This meeting will be held on
Thursday, October 2, 2008, at 9:30 a.m.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at
the Radisson Hotel, 180 Water Street,
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The meeting will be held on
September 30, 2008, at 6 p.m.
DATES:
The meeting will be held in
the Howard Rock A Ballroom, at the
Sheraton,401 East 6th Avenue,
Anchorage, AK.
Council address: North Pacific
Fishery Management Council, 605 W.
4th Ave., Suite 306, Anchorage, AK
99501–2252.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Fina, North Pacific Fishery
Management Council; telephone: (907)
271–2809.
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Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery
Management Council’s (Council) Crab
Socioeconomic Data Collection
Committee will meet in Anchorage, AK.
Dated: September 10, 2008.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E8–21402 Filed 9–12–08; 8:45 am]
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul
J. Howard, Executive Director, at (978)
465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Notice of a public committee
meeting.
ACTION:
The
committee will discuss the collection of
social and economic fisheries data, and
potential analytical uses of those data.
These data include revenue, cost, crew,
labor, and community information,
which may be collected from vessels
and processing plants participating in
the fisheries, as well as data from other
sources.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, in
accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Actions will
be restricted to those issues specifically
identified in this notice and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
Section 305 (c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
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Plymouth, MA 02360; telephone: (508)
747–4900; fax: (508) 747–8937.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul
J. Howard, Executive Director, New
England Fishery Management Council;
telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee will continue development
of analytical aspects of Phase II of the
Omnibus Habitat Amendment 2. The
Committee will also review preliminary
vulnerability assessment for
determining adverse effects on essential
fish habitat caused by fishing and
develop Committee recommendations
for Magnuson Stevens Act required fiveyear update of Council research
priorities. The Committee may also
consider other topics at their discretion.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Action will
be restricted to 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
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XK46
North Pacific Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
AGENCY:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Gail
Bendixen, (907) 271–2809, at least 5
working days prior to the meeting date.
Dated: September 10, 2008.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XK52
Fisheries of the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico; SEDAR; Public
Meetings
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Southeastern Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR)
Procedural workshop - Caribbean Data Evaluation.
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SUMMARY: The Council-Federal cooperative SEDAR process provides stock
assessments for fisheries resources of the Southeast Region. Assessment
priorities are typically established by management need or perceptions
of management or population problems, and often do not consider data
availability. As a result, despite several attempts by SEDAR, no
acceptable quantitative assessments have been developed for Caribbean
stocks because data to support traditional stock assessment methods
simply do not exist. It is clear that alternative methods need to be
developed that will allow assessing Caribbean fisheries resources in a
manner that will withstand independent peer review. Identifying and
evaluating available data sources across all managed species is a
strong first step that is consistent with peer review and assessment
report recommendations.
SEDAR will convene a workshop including representatives from
Federal agencies, territorial governments, non-governmental
organizations, Council technical and constituent advisors, and
university researchers. Participants will catalog and evaluate basic
data, address alternative assessment methods that will accommodate the
available data, and recommend assessment priorities that are consistent
with available data and methods.
DATES: The SEDAR Caribbean Data Evaluation Workshop will take place
January 26-29, 2009; SEDAR Catchability Procedural Workshop Schedule:
January 26, 2009: 1 p.m. - 8 p.m.; January 27-28, 2009: 8 a.m. - 8
p.m.; January 29, 2009: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The SEDAR Caribbean Data Evaluation Workshop will be held at
the Hotel El Convento, 100 Cristo Street, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
00901; telephone: (787) 723-9036.
Council address: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC 29405.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie Neer, SEDAR Coordinator, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC 29405; telephone:
(843) 571-4366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management Councils, in conjunction with NOAA
Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commissions
have implemented the SEDAR process, a multi-step method for determining
the status of fish stocks in the Southeast Region. SEDAR includes three
workshops: (1) Data Workshop, (2) Stock Assessment Workshop and (3)
Review Workshop. The product of the Data Workshop is a data report
which compiles and evaluates potential datasets and recommends which
datasets are appropriate for assessment analyses. The product of the
Stock Assessment Workshop is a stock assessment report which describes
the fisheries, evaluates the status of the stock, estimates biological
benchmarks, projects future population conditions, and recommends
research and monitoring needs. The assessment is independently peer
reviewed at the Review Workshop. The product of the Review Workshop is
a Consensus Summary documenting Panel opinions regarding the strengths
and weaknesses of the stock assessment and input data. Participants for
SEDAR Workshops are appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic,
and Caribbean Fishery Management Councils and NOAA Fisheries Southeast
Regional Office and Southeast Fisheries Science Center. Participants
include data collectors and database managers; stock assessment
scientists, biologists, and researchers; constituency representatives
including fishermen, environmentalists, and non-governmental
organizations (NGO's); International experts; and staff of Councils,
Commissions, and state and federal agencies.
Each SEDAR workshop panel is asked to provide research and
monitoring recommendations to improve future assessments and feedback
on the process to help improve SEDAR itself. Over time, certain key
topics emerge that reveal a research need or procedural suggestion that
is common to multiple assessments. The SEDAR Steering Committee
endorses procedural workshops such as that noticed here to address
those issues that affect multiple assessments and require more time and
resources to resolve than are typically available during the normal
assessment
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development process. The goal of these workshops is to develop
guidelines and practices that will increase the efficiency of
subsequent SEDAR assessments.
Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come
before these groups for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act),
those issues may not be the subject of formal action during these
meetings. Actions will be restricted to those issues specifically
identified in this notice and any issues arising after publication of
this notice that require emergency action under Section 305 (c) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the public has been notified of the
Council's intent to take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to the Council office (see ADDRESSES)
at least 10 business days prior to each workshop.
Dated: September 10, 2008.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E8-21471 Filed 9-12-08; 8:45 am]
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