New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC); Public Meeting, 18192-18193 [2015-07685]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 64 / Friday, April 3, 2015 / Notices
Notice of public meeting.
The Caribbean Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold its 152nd meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
April 21–22, 2015. The Council will
convene on Tuesday, April 21, 2014,
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and will
reconvene on Wednesday, April 22,
2015, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Divi Carina Beach Resort and
Casino, 25 Estate Turner Hole,
Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI 00820.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Caribbean Fishery Management Council,
˜
270 Munoz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401,
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; telephone:
(787) 766–5926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Council will hold its 152nd regular
Council Meeting to discuss the items
contained in the following agenda:
SUMMARY:
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April 21, 2015, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Call to Order
Adoption of Agenda
Consideration of 151st Council Meeting
Verbatim Transcriptions
Executive Director’s Report
SSC National Workshop Report—Dr.
Richard Appeldoorn
SSC Meeting Report—Dr. Richard
Appeldoorn
Island-Based Fishery ManagementSpecies Selection Criteria
Development
• Outcomes from the March 2015
DAP and SSC Meetings
-input from each of the three DAPs
-input from SSC
• Review Proposed Options, Provide
Guidance for Inclusion/Exclusion/
Addition
• Discuss Options and Next Steps in
Continuing the Development of this
Initiative.
Update on Timing of Accountability
Measure-based Closures Action
• Outcomes from the March 2015
DAP Meetings—input from each of
the three DAPs regarding the
options for times to schedule
closures for each of the alternatives
laid out in the Options paper
(islands/island groups and ACL
groupings)
• Review Proposed Options, Provide
Guidance for Inclusion/Exclusion/
Addition
• Discuss Next Steps
Update on Puerto Rico Commercial
Landings 2011–13, and Comparison to
Annual Catch Limits Permits Scoping
Paper
• Report from USVI and Puerto Rico
Regarding State Perspectives on
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Permits
• Review Outcomes from March
Scoping Meetings
• Discuss Options and Next Steps in
Continuing the Development of this
Initiative
Emergency Rule to Prohibit Sea
Cucumber and Sea Urchin Harvest
from U.S. Caribbean EEZ Waters
• Report on Availability of Pertinent
Landings Data
• Status and Next Steps
Modifications to Accountability
Measure Guidance in FMPs
• Council Receives Update on
Development of Plan Amendments
ABC Control Rule for Data-Poor Stocks
• Report from SSC
Abrir/Bajo/Tourmaline consistency of
regulations
• Consider Outcomes from February
Public Meetings in Mayaguez and
Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
• Evaluate and Confirm, or Modify,
Alternatives Including Preferred
Alternatives.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD (5-minutes
presentations)
April 21, 2015, 5:15 p.m.–6 p.m.
Administrative Matters
-Budget Update FY 2014/15
-SOPPs Approval for Submission to
NOAA Fisheries
-Closed Session:
-Membership of Island-Based District
Advisory Panels (DAPs) and
Consideration of Terms of
Reference for Winter 2015 DAP
Meetings
-SSC/OEAP Memberships
April 22, 2015, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Report on Stock Assessment Results and
Plan Actions from the SEFSC’s Stock
Assessment Programmatic Review
Update on Project Entitled: ‘‘Connecting
Fishers and Fisheries Data Using a
Cooperative Gear Development
Project to Improve Catch Reporting’’—
Anthony Iarocci
Request by Puerto Rico West Coast
Fishers on Trammel Net Phase Out
Revision of ACLs for Puerto Rico—
˜
Eugenio Pineiro
Proposed Rule to Revise the National
Standard 1, 3, and 7 Guidelines
Continuing Research: Assessing Queen
Conch Home Range, Habitat and
Movement in the USVI—Jennifer
Doerr and Ron Hill
MERP Report
Outreach and Education Report—Dr.
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Alida Ortız
Enforcement Issues:
-Puerto Rico-DNER
-U.S. Virgin Islands-DPNR
-U.S. Coast Guard
-NMFS/NOAA
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and Staff
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD (5-minute
presentations)
Other Business
Next Council Meeting
The established times for addressing
items on the agenda may be adjusted as
necessary to accommodate the timely
completion of discussion relevant to the
agenda items. To further accommodate
discussion and completion of all items
on the agenda, the meeting may be
extended from, or completed prior to
the date established in this notice.
The meeting is open to the public,
and will be conducted in English.
Fishers and other interested persons are
invited to attend and participate with
oral or written statements regarding
agenda issues.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be subjects for 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
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, provided that the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. For more
information or request for sign language
interpretation and/other auxiliary aids,
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please contact Mr. Miguel A. Rolon,
Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery
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Management Council, 270 Munoz
Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, 00918, telephone (787)
766–5926, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Dated: March 31, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting DeputyDirector, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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New England Fishery Management
Council (NEFMC); Public Meeting
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Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 64 / Friday, April 3, 2015 / Notices
ACTION:
Notice of a public meeting.
The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold a three-day meeting on April 21–
23, 2015 to consider actions affecting
New England fisheries in the exclusive
economic zone (EEZ).
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, April 21 through Thursday,
April 23, 2015, starting at 9 a.m. on
Tuesday, April 21, and 8 a.m. on
Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday,
April 23, 2015.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hilton Hotel, 20 Coogan Boulevard,
Mystic, CT 06355–1900. The telephone
number is (860) 572–0731, and fax is
(860) 572–0328. For online information
see 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:
SUMMARY:
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
The Council meeting will begin with
introductions and a brief closed session
during which the NEFMC will approve
additional Scientific and Statistical
Committee appointments for 2015–17.
Brief reports will follow from the
NEFMC Chairman and Executive
Director, the NOAA Fisheries Regional
Administrator, the Northeast Fisheries
Science Center and Mid-Atlantic
Fishery Management Council liaisons,
NOAA General Counsel and NOAA Law
Enforcement, and representatives of the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission, U.S Coast Guard and the
Northeast Regional Ocean Council.
NOAA General Counsel will then
provide a presentation on the
Magnuson-Stevens Act provisions on
Council member financial disclosure
and recusal requirements. During the
Observer Committee’s Report to follow
the NEFMC will review and likely
approve committee recommendations
for additional industry-funded portside
sampling and electronic monitoring
options in the Atlantic herring fishery.
The options are intended to be part of
an omnibus amendment (vs. a
framework adjustment) that would
address industry-funded monitoring
across all federally managed fisheries in
the Northeast. A report from the
Monkfish Committee report will include
an update on the development of
Framework Adjustment 9 to the
Monkfish Fishery Management Plan
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(FMP), as well as Monkfish Plan
Development Team analyses on use of
less than 10-inch mesh stand-up gillnets
while on a monkfish day-at-sea, and
allowing a vessel to switch from a
monkfish day to a monkfish research
set-aside day while at sea. Just prior to
a lunch break the Council will provide
an opportunity for the public to provide
brief comments on items that are
relevant to Council business but
otherwise not listed on the published
agenda.
Following the break, there will be a
presentation on a Northeast Fisheries
Science Center report titled
Performance of the Northeast
Multispecies Groundfish Fishery, May
2013–April 2014. Following receipt of
this information, the Council is
expected to approve the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement
associated with Amendment 18 to the
Northeast Multispecies Fishery FMP
and identify preferred alternatives for
the purpose of public review and
comment. The amendment measures
focus primarily on accumulation limits
and the concentration of fishing effort in
the inshore Gulf of Maine.
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adjourn after the consideration of any
outstanding business.
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
issues arising after publication of this
notice that require emergency action
under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided that the public
has been notified of the Council’s intent
to take final action to address the
emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to
Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least
5 days prior to the meeting date.
Dated: March 31, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The second day of the meeting will
begin with a NOAA Fisheries
presentation regarding possible changes
to National Standards 1, 3, and 7 and
Council discussion of these issues. The
NEFMC’s Scientific and Statistical
Committee will review its discussions
about the proposals to change the
National Standards, as well as NOAA’s
Draft Climate Science Strategy. Later in
the morning, and as part of the
Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management
(EBFM) Committee’s report, the Council
will receive an updated status report on
Northeast Continental Shelf Marine
Ecosystem, review committee
recommendations on a process to
develop an EBFM policy, and review
committee comments on NOAA’s Draft
Climate Science Strategy. The Habitat
Committee will report prior to a lunch
break. It seeks approval of final
management measures to be included in
Omnibus Essential Fish Habitat
Amendment 2. Pending NOAA
Fisheries approval, measures could
affect all New England Council FMPs.
This agenda item will be the subject of
discussion for the remainder of the
working day.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
The Council will continue
consideration of the habitat agenda
items listed above during this final day
of the meeting. The meeting will
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AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold
a three-day meeting on April 21-23, 2015 to consider actions affecting
New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 21 through Thursday,
April 23, 2015, starting at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 21, and 8 a.m. on
Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 23, 2015.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Hotel, 20 Coogan
Boulevard, Mystic, CT 06355-1900. The telephone number is (860) 572-
0731, and fax is (860) 572-0328. For online information see
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:
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
The Council meeting will begin with introductions and a brief
closed session during which the NEFMC will approve additional
Scientific and Statistical Committee appointments for 2015-17. Brief
reports will follow from the NEFMC Chairman and Executive Director, the
NOAA Fisheries Regional Administrator, the Northeast Fisheries Science
Center and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council liaisons, NOAA
General Counsel and NOAA Law Enforcement, and representatives of the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, U.S Coast Guard and the
Northeast Regional Ocean Council.
NOAA General Counsel will then provide a presentation on the
Magnuson-Stevens Act provisions on Council member financial disclosure
and recusal requirements. During the Observer Committee's Report to
follow the NEFMC will review and likely approve committee
recommendations for additional industry-funded portside sampling and
electronic monitoring options in the Atlantic herring fishery. The
options are intended to be part of an omnibus amendment (vs. a
framework adjustment) that would address industry-funded monitoring
across all federally managed fisheries in the Northeast. A report from
the Monkfish Committee report will include an update on the development
of Framework Adjustment 9 to the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan
(FMP), as well as Monkfish Plan Development Team analyses on use of
less than 10-inch mesh stand-up gillnets while on a monkfish day-at-
sea, and allowing a vessel to switch from a monkfish day to a monkfish
research set-aside day while at sea. Just prior to a lunch break the
Council will provide an opportunity for the public to provide brief
comments on items that are relevant to Council business but otherwise
not listed on the published agenda.
Following the break, there will be a presentation on a Northeast
Fisheries Science Center report titled Performance of the Northeast
Multispecies Groundfish Fishery, May 2013-April 2014. Following receipt
of this information, the Council is expected to approve the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement associated with Amendment 18 to the
Northeast Multispecies Fishery FMP and identify preferred alternatives
for the purpose of public review and comment. The amendment measures
focus primarily on accumulation limits and the concentration of fishing
effort in the inshore Gulf of Maine.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The second day of the meeting will begin with a NOAA Fisheries
presentation regarding possible changes to National Standards 1, 3, and
7 and Council discussion of these issues. The NEFMC's Scientific and
Statistical Committee will review its discussions about the proposals
to change the National Standards, as well as NOAA's Draft Climate
Science Strategy. Later in the morning, and as part of the Ecosystem
Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) Committee's report, the Council will
receive an updated status report on Northeast Continental Shelf Marine
Ecosystem, review committee recommendations on a process to develop an
EBFM policy, and review committee comments on NOAA's Draft Climate
Science Strategy. The Habitat Committee will report prior to a lunch
break. It seeks approval of final management measures to be included in
Omnibus Essential Fish Habitat Amendment 2. Pending NOAA Fisheries
approval, measures could affect all New England Council FMPs. This
agenda item will be the subject of discussion for the remainder of the
working day.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
The Council will continue consideration of the habitat agenda items
listed above during this final day of the meeting. The meeting will
adjourn after the consideration of any outstanding business.
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 issues arising after publication of this notice that require
emergency action under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act,
provided that the public has been notified of the Council's intent to
take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 days
prior to the meeting date.
Dated: March 31, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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