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Methodology
The Department has conducted this
review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). For each of the
subsidy programs found
countervailable, we preliminarily
determine that there is a subsidy, i.e., a
government-provided financial
contribution that gives rise to a benefit
to the recipient, and that the subsidy is
specific. See sections 771(5)(B) and (D)
of the Act regarding financial
contribution; section 771(5)(E) of the
Act regarding benefit; and section
771(5A) of the Act regarding specificity.
In making these findings, we have
relied, in part, on facts available and,
because the Government of the PRC did
not act to the best of its ability to
respond to the Department’s requests for
information, we have drawn an adverse
inference in selecting from among the
facts otherwise available. See sections
776(a) and (b) of the Act. For further
information, see ‘‘Use of Facts
Otherwise Available and Adverse
Inferences’’ in the Preliminary
Determination Memorandum.
For a full description of the
methodology underlying the
Department’s conclusions, see
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of the Review
As a result of this review, we
preliminarily determine a net
countervailable subsidy rate of 5.23
percent ad valorem for Shanxi Yida
Special Steel Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. and
its cross-owned affiliates Shanxi Yida
Special Steel Group Co., Ltd. and
Shanxi Yida Petroleum Equipment
Manufacturing Co., Ltd., for the period
March 3, 2011, through December 31,
2011.
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Disclosure and Public Comment
The Department will disclose to
parties to this proceeding the
calculations performed in reaching the
preliminary results within five days of
the date of publication of these
preliminary results.1 Interested parties
may submit written arguments (case
briefs) within 30 days of publication of
the preliminary results and rebuttal
comments (rebuttal briefs) within five
days after the time limit for filing the
case briefs.2 Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309(d)(2), rebuttal briefs must be
limited to issues raised in the case
briefs. Parties who submit arguments are
requested to submit with the argument:
(1) Statement of the issue; (2) a brief
1 See
19 CFR 351.224(b).
2 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii) and 351.309(d)(1).
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summary of the argument; and (3) a
table of authorities.
Interested parties, who wish to
request a hearing, or to participate if one
is requested, must submit a written
request to the Assistant Secretary for
Import Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce within 30 days after the
date of publication of this notice.3
Requests should contain the party’s
name, address, and telephone number,
the number of participants, and a list of
the issues to be discussed. If a request
for a hearing is made, we will inform
parties of the scheduled date for the
hearing, which will be held at the U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230, at a time and
location to be determined.4 Parties
should confirm by telephone the date,
time, and location of the hearing.
Parties are reminded that briefs and
hearing requests are to be filed
electronically using IA ACCESS and
that electronically filed documents must
be received successfully in their entirety
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the due
date.
Unless the deadline is extended
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the
Act, the Department will issue the final
results of this administrative review,
including the results of our analysis of
the issues raised by parties in their
comments, within 120 days after
issuance of these preliminary results.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, the
Department shall determine, and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall assess, countervailing duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this
review. We intend to issue instructions
to CBP 15 days after publication of the
final results of this review.
Cash Deposit Instructions
The Department also intends to
instruct CBP to collect cash deposits of
estimated countervailing duties in the
amounts shown above. For all nonreviewed firms, we will instruct CBP to
collect cash deposits of estimated
countervailing duties at the most recent
company-specific or all-others rate
applicable to the company. These cash
deposit requirements, when imposed,
shall remain in effect until further
notice.
This administrative review and notice
are in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.213.
19 CFR 351.310(c).
4 See 19 CFR 351.310.
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Appendix I
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum:
1. Summary.
2. Background.
3. Scope of the Order.
4. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and
Adverse Inferences.
5. Subsidy Valuation Information.
6. Loan Benchmark Rates.
7. Analysis of Programs.
8. Conclusion.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XC607
Western Pacific Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
AGENCY:
The Western Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold meeting of its Pelagics Plan Team
(PPT) and Archipelagic Fishery
Ecosystem Plan Teams, in Honolulu, HI,
to discuss fishery issues and develop
recommendations for future
management.
SUMMARY:
The meeting of the PPT will be
held between April 23 and 24, 2013,
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the
Archipelagic Fishery Ecosystem Plan
Teams will be held between April 22
and April 25, 2012, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at
the Council Office Conference Room,
Western Pacific Fishery Management
Council, 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400,
Honolulu, HI 96813; telephone: (808)
522–8220.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director;
telephone: (808) 522–8220.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PPT
will meet at the Council Pelagics
Conference Room to discuss the
following agenda items:
DATES:
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8.30 a.m.
1. Introduction
2. Annual Report
a. Review 2012 Annual Report
3 See
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Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
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modules and recommendations
i. Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands (CNMI)
ii. American Samoa
iii. Guam
iv. Hawaii
v. International
vi. Recreational
b. 2012 Annual Report region wide
recommendations
Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 8.30 a.m.
3. Ninth Regular Session of the Western
and Central Pacific Fishery
Commission
4. South Pacific albacore and American
Samoa longline costs earnings study
5. North Pacific striped marlin
6. Pacific bluefin tuna
7. Cook Islands/Forum Fisheries Agency
sub-regional office in Pago Pago
8. Update on false killer whale Take
Reduction Plan
9. Biological opinion for deep set tuna
fishery
10. Outstanding Fishery Ecosystem Plan
amendments
11. Other business
12. Public comment
13. Pelagic Plan Team
Recommendations
The Hawaii and Pacific Remote Island
Areas (PRIAS) Archipelago Fishery
Ecosystem Plan Team Meeting will meet
at the Council’s Conference Room to
discuss the following agenda items:
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Tuesday, April 22, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Approval of the Agenda
3. Assignment of Rapporteurs
4. Status of Fishery Monitoring
Programs and Research Projects
A. Coral Reef Fisheries
B. Crustacean Fisheries
C. Precious Coral Fisheries
D. Bottomfish Fisheries
i. Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI)
Annual Catch Target (ACT)
Monitoring
ii. Market Delay Amendment
E. National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) Pacific Islands Regional
Office (PIRO PIRO Administrative
Activities
F. Discussions
5. Improving Annual Catch Limit (ACL)
specifications and stock
assessments
A. Recalculation of gold coral
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)
B. New black coral research to
support ACL re-specification
C. Discussions
6. Data collection and reporting issues
A. Recreational fishing updates
B. Update on Omnibus Data
Collection Improvement Proposal
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C. Discussions
7. Review of the Council Five-Year
Research Priorities
8. Update Cooperative Research and
developing priorities
9. General Discussions
10. Other Business
11. Public Comment
12. Hawaii and PRIA Archipelago Plan
Team recommendations
The Joint American Samoa and
Marianas Archipelago Fishery
Ecosystem Plan Team will meet at the
Council’s Conference Room to discuss
the following agenda items:
Wednesday–Thursday, April 23–24,
2013, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
13. Welcome and Introductions
14. Approval of the Agenda
15. Assignment of Rapporteurs
16. Report on previous Plan Team
recommendations and Council
actions
17. Review of the Status of the Western
Pacific Insular Fisheries
A. Commonwealth of Northern
Mariana Islands
i. Coral reef fisheries
ii. Bottomfish fisheries
iii. Potential use of Bio-Sampling data
to improve fishery data
iv. Update of fishery dependent and
independent studies
v. Administrative and regulatory
updates
vi. Discussions
B. Guam
i. Coral reef fisheries
ii. Bottomfish fisheries
iii. Potential use of Bio-Sampling data
to improve fishery data
iv. Update of fishery dependent and
independent studies
v. Administrative and regulatory
updates
vi. Discussions
C. American Samoa
i. Coral reef and crustacean fisheries
ii. Bottomfish fisheries
iii. Potential use of Bio-Sampling data
to improve fishery
iv. Update of fishery dependent and
independent studies
v. Administrative and regulatory
updates
vi. Discussions
18. Review of the Council Five-Year
Research Priorities
19. Update of Cooperative Research and
Developing Priorities and Projects
20. General Discussions
21. Other Business
22. Public Comment
23. Annual Catch Limits
A. Evaluating 2012 catches relative to
its respective ACLs
B. Using model based approaches to
determine MSY and depletion-
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corrected average catches for
Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC)
specification
C. Discussions
24. Improving Fishery Data Collection
in the Western Pacific Region
A. Update on Status of Fishery Data
Collection Improvement Actions
B. Data collection in military
installations in Guam
C. Update on the status of the
Omnibus Fishery Data Collection
Improvement Proposal
D. Using Bio-Sampling data to
enhance creel surveys
25. Protected Species
A. Update on the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) Petitioned Species
i. Pacific humphead wrasse
ii. Eight species of coral reef fish
26. Other Business
27. Public Comments
28. Rapporteur reports
29. General discussions and Plan Team
recommendations
Plan Team Training: A Brief
Introduction to Length-Based Mortality
Assessment for Coral Reef Fishes
30. Length-based stock assessment
approach: pros and cons, some
examples from Florida, Caribbean,
and Hawaii.
31. Age and growth of tropical boney
fishes. Age at length relationship
(e.g., von Bertalanffy). Fitting
growth curves. Allometric (WeightLength) growth.
32. Mortality rates and abundance
estimation. Development of
exponential mortality model,
average population size, and
population biomass models.
Assessing life span, maximum age
and natural mortality, size-age of
first capture, selectivity.
33. Integrating the parts. Model
development and assessing
exploitation rates via average size in
the exploited phase of the
population.
34. Fisheries-independent and fisheriesdependent surveys to obtain
average length in the exploited
phase.
35. Computer Laboratory—Estimating
mortality rates using a length-based
mortality model in Excel.
The order in which the agenda items
are addressed April change. The PPT
will meet as late as necessary to
complete scheduled business.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda April come
before the PPT for discussion, those
issues April not be the subject of formal
action during these meetings. Plan Team
action will be restricted to those issues
specifically listed in this document and
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any issue arising after publication of
this document that requires emergency
action under section 305(c) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act,
provided the public has been notified of
the Councils 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 Kitty M. Simonds,
(808) 522–8220 (voice) or (808) 522–
8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: April 2, 2013.
William D. Chappell,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
AGENCY:
The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold a three-day meeting on to consider
actions affecting New England fisheries
in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
April 23–25, 2013 starting at 9 a.m. on
Tuesday, and at 8:30 a.m. on both
Wednesday and Thursday.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hilton Hotel, 20 Coogan Blvd.,
Mystic, CT 06355–1900; telephone:
(860) 572–0731; fax: (860) 572–0328; or
online at www.hiltonmystic.com.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950;
telephone: (978) 465–0492.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management
Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The New England Council will hold
a closed session on Tuesday from 9 a.m.
to 10 a.m. to address appointments to its
Scientific and Statistical Committee.
Following the closed session, the
Chairman will make any necessary
introductions and announcements. The
Council will then receive brief reports
from the NEFMC Chairman and
Executive Director, NOAA Fisheries
Regional Administrator, the Northeast
Fisheries Science Center and MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council
liaisons, as well as NOAA General
Counsel, and representatives of the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission, Coast Guard, and staff
from NOAA Enforcement/VMS. The
Council also will receive an update
about Northeast Regional Ocean Council
activities. Prior to the lunch break, an
open period for public comments is
scheduled during which any interested
party may provide brief remarks on
issues relevant to Council business but
not listed on the meeting agenda.
During the afternoon session the
Council will receive a report from the
Northeast Fisheries Science Center staff
summarizing the findings of the 56th
Stock Assessment Workshop/Stock
Assessment Review Committee
meetings. The species addressed were
surf calms and ocean quahogs and white
hake. The Transboundary Management
Guidance Committee will brief the
Council on its February intersessional
meeting held to discuss quota trading,
assessment timing, alternative
management strategies and the U.S./
Canada Resource Sharing
Understanding. The Groundfish
Committee report will follow and
include: an update on the development
of Amendment 18 to the Northeast
Multispecies Fishery Management Plan
(FMP); a presentation by the Northeast
Fisheries Science Center’s Social
Sciences Branch on its fishing year 2011
Groundfish Report; and a discussion
about cod catch reporting in the Eastern
Georges Bank Area.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The Council will begin its second day
of meetings with a brief update on
recent recommendations concerning
habitat management areas, dedicated
habitat research areas, and the inclusion
of gear modification measures in the
Omnibus Habitat Amendment 2.
Following this report, the Council will
continue to address groundfish
management issues as it discusses
recent correspondence that requests a
review of the impacts of climate change
on groundfish status determination
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criteria and catch advice and any follow
up action. Additionally, Council
members will consider Groundfish
Committee recommendations for new
alternatives in Omnibus Habitat
Amendment 2 that would improve
conservation of juvenile groundfish
habitat and protect concentrations of
large spawning groundfish. These new
area alternatives could replace some or
all of the status quo year-round
groundfish closed areas and rolling
closures. After the April Council
meeting, the groundfish management
alternatives will be consolidated and
possibly combined with the existing
habitat and dedicated habitat research
areas that have been proposed by the
Habitat Committee.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
The NEFMC’s Monkfish Committee
will review the development of
Amendment 6 to the Monkfish Fishery
Management Plan (FMP). This report
also will include a review of the April
2013 update assessment. Under this
agenda item the Council also may
discuss the ability of NOAA Fisheries to
provide data that adequately supports a
monkfish sector or ITQ program. The
Scallop Committee will initiate
Framework Adjustment 25 to the
Atlantic Sea Scallop FMP
(specifications for fishing year 2014 and
default measures for 2015). The action
will include accountability measures for
windowpane flounder, among other
issues. The Council also will approve
priorities for inclusion in the upcoming
scallop research set-aside program
announcement that will detail future
funding opportunities for sea scalloprelated research. The Enforcement
Committee will review
recommendations for possible approval
concerning sector managers and joint
liability; gear marking requirements
across all FMPs; small, seasonal closed
areas; and allowing vessels to
simultaneously carry nets with different
mesh sizes for different fisheries in the
regulated mesh areas. Prior to a lunch
break, the NOAA Fisheries Northeast
Regional Office will present a Draft
Environmental Assessment on Standard
Bycatch Reporting Methodology and
seek approval to finalize proposals for
public review. The day will conclude
with an initial discussion about
Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization
priorities.
Although other non-emergency issues
not contained in this agenda may come
before this Council for discussion, those
issues may not be the subjects of formal
action during this meeting. Council
action will be restricted to those issues
specifically listed in this notice and any
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XC607
Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
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SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will
hold meeting of its Pelagics Plan Team (PPT) and Archipelagic Fishery
Ecosystem Plan Teams, in Honolulu, HI, to discuss fishery issues and
develop recommendations for future management.
DATES: The meeting of the PPT will be held between April 23 and 24,
2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the Archipelagic Fishery Ecosystem
Plan Teams will be held between April 22 and April 25, 2012, 8:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Council Office Conference
Room, Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1164 Bishop St.,
Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI 96813; telephone: (808) 522-8220.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director;
telephone: (808) 522-8220.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PPT will meet at the Council Pelagics
Conference Room to discuss the following agenda items:
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8.30 a.m.
1. Introduction
2. Annual Report
a. Review 2012 Annual Report
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modules and recommendations
i. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
ii. American Samoa
iii. Guam
iv. Hawaii
v. International
vi. Recreational
b. 2012 Annual Report region wide recommendations
Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 8.30 a.m.
3. Ninth Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fishery
Commission
4. South Pacific albacore and American Samoa longline costs earnings
study
5. North Pacific striped marlin
6. Pacific bluefin tuna
7. Cook Islands/Forum Fisheries Agency sub-regional office in Pago Pago
8. Update on false killer whale Take Reduction Plan
9. Biological opinion for deep set tuna fishery
10. Outstanding Fishery Ecosystem Plan amendments
11. Other business
12. Public comment
13. Pelagic Plan Team Recommendations
The Hawaii and Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAS) Archipelago
Fishery Ecosystem Plan Team Meeting will meet at the Council's
Conference Room to discuss the following agenda items:
Tuesday, April 22, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Approval of the Agenda
3. Assignment of Rapporteurs
4. Status of Fishery Monitoring Programs and Research Projects
A. Coral Reef Fisheries
B. Crustacean Fisheries
C. Precious Coral Fisheries
D. Bottomfish Fisheries
i. Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) Annual Catch Target (ACT) Monitoring
ii. Market Delay Amendment
E. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Pacific Islands
Regional Office (PIRO PIRO Administrative Activities
F. Discussions
5. Improving Annual Catch Limit (ACL) specifications and stock
assessments
A. Recalculation of gold coral Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)
B. New black coral research to support ACL re-specification
C. Discussions
6. Data collection and reporting issues
A. Recreational fishing updates
B. Update on Omnibus Data Collection Improvement Proposal
C. Discussions
7. Review of the Council Five-Year Research Priorities
8. Update Cooperative Research and developing priorities
9. General Discussions
10. Other Business
11. Public Comment
12. Hawaii and PRIA Archipelago Plan Team recommendations
The Joint American Samoa and Marianas Archipelago Fishery Ecosystem
Plan Team will meet at the Council's Conference Room to discuss the
following agenda items:
Wednesday-Thursday, April 23-24, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
13. Welcome and Introductions
14. Approval of the Agenda
15. Assignment of Rapporteurs
16. Report on previous Plan Team recommendations and Council actions
17. Review of the Status of the Western Pacific Insular Fisheries
A. Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
i. Coral reef fisheries
ii. Bottomfish fisheries
iii. Potential use of Bio-Sampling data to improve fishery data
iv. Update of fishery dependent and independent studies
v. Administrative and regulatory updates
vi. Discussions
B. Guam
i. Coral reef fisheries
ii. Bottomfish fisheries
iii. Potential use of Bio-Sampling data to improve fishery data
iv. Update of fishery dependent and independent studies
v. Administrative and regulatory updates
vi. Discussions
C. American Samoa
i. Coral reef and crustacean fisheries
ii. Bottomfish fisheries
iii. Potential use of Bio-Sampling data to improve fishery
iv. Update of fishery dependent and independent studies
v. Administrative and regulatory updates
vi. Discussions
18. Review of the Council Five-Year Research Priorities
19. Update of Cooperative Research and Developing Priorities and
Projects
20. General Discussions
21. Other Business
22. Public Comment
23. Annual Catch Limits
A. Evaluating 2012 catches relative to its respective ACLs
B. Using model based approaches to determine MSY and depletion-
corrected average catches for Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC)
specification
C. Discussions
24. Improving Fishery Data Collection in the Western Pacific Region
A. Update on Status of Fishery Data Collection Improvement Actions
B. Data collection in military installations in Guam
C. Update on the status of the Omnibus Fishery Data Collection
Improvement Proposal
D. Using Bio-Sampling data to enhance creel surveys
25. Protected Species
A. Update on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) Petitioned Species
i. Pacific humphead wrasse
ii. Eight species of coral reef fish
26. Other Business
27. Public Comments
28. Rapporteur reports
29. General discussions and Plan Team recommendations
Plan Team Training: A Brief Introduction to Length-Based Mortality
Assessment for Coral Reef Fishes
30. Length-based stock assessment approach: pros and cons, some
examples from Florida, Caribbean, and Hawaii.
31. Age and growth of tropical boney fishes. Age at length relationship
(e.g., von Bertalanffy). Fitting growth curves. Allometric (Weight-
Length) growth.
32. Mortality rates and abundance estimation. Development of
exponential mortality model, average population size, and population
biomass models. Assessing life span, maximum age and natural mortality,
size-age of first capture, selectivity.
33. Integrating the parts. Model development and assessing exploitation
rates via average size in the exploited phase of the population.
34. Fisheries-independent and fisheries-dependent surveys to obtain
average length in the exploited phase.
35. Computer Laboratory--Estimating mortality rates using a length-
based mortality model in Excel.
The order in which the agenda items are addressed April change. The
PPT will meet as late as necessary to complete scheduled business.
Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda April
come before the PPT for discussion, those issues April not be the
subject of formal action during these meetings. Plan Team action will
be restricted to those issues specifically listed in this document and
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any issue arising after publication of this document that requires
emergency action under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, provided the public has been notified
of the Councils 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 Kitty M. Simonds, (808) 522-8220
(voice) or (808) 522-8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to the meeting
date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: April 2, 2013.
William D. Chappell,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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