New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting, 43792 [2019-18071]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XV033
New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its
Groundfish Advisory Panel 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
Monday, September 16, 2019 at 9 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hilton Garden Inn, 100 Boardman
Street, Boston, MA 02129; phone: (617)
567–6789.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management
Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Agenda
The Groundfish Advisory Panel will
review the draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) and recommend
preliminary preferred alternatives, as
well as discuss draft alternatives
focusing on (1) 2020 total allowable
catches for U.S./Canada stocks of
Eastern Georges Bank (GB) cod, Eastern
GB haddock, and GB yellowtail flounder
and (2) revisions to the GB cod
Incidental Catch TAC to remove the
allocation to the Closed Area I (CAI)
Haddock Special Access Program (SAP).
The Advisory Panel will also discuss a
draft list of possible groundfish
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priorities for 2020 and will also receive
an update on the Commercial Electronic
Vessel Trip Reporting (eVTR) Omnibus
Framework, which proposes to
implement electronic VTRs for all
vessels with commercial permits for
species managed by the Mid-Atlantic
and New England Fishery Management
Councils. They will also make
recommendations to the Groundfish
Committee, and discuss other business
as necessary.
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 these meetings. 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 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, Executive Director, at
(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date. This meeting will be
recorded. Consistent with 16 U.S.C.
1852, a copy of the recording is
available upon request.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 16, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic
Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization
Cost Recovery Program
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of fee percentage.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NMFS publishes notification
of a 1.70 percent fee for cost recovery
under the Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands Crab Rationalization Program.
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This action is intended to provide
holders of crab allocations with the
2019/2020 crab fishing year fee
percentage so they can calculate the
required cost recovery fee payment that
must be submitted by July 31, 2020.
DATES: The Crab Rationalization
Program Registered Crab Receiver
permit holder is responsible for
submitting the fee liability payment to
NMFS by July 31, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doug Duncan, (907) 586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
NMFS Alaska Region administers the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab
Rationalization Program (Program) in
the North Pacific. Fishing under the
Program began on August 15, 2005.
Regulations implementing the Program
can be found at 50 CFR part 680.
The Program is a limited access
privilege program authorized by section
313(j) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Program
includes a cost recovery provision to
collect fees to recover the actual costs
directly related to the management, data
collection, and enforcement of the
Program. The Program implemented
under the authority of section 313(j) is
consistent with the cost recovery
provisions included under section
304(d)(2)(A) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act. NMFS developed the cost recovery
provision to conform to statutory
requirements and to reimburse the
agency for the actual costs directly
related to the management, data
collection, and enforcement of the
Program. The cost recovery provision
allows collection of 133 percent of the
actual management, data collection, and
enforcement costs up to 3 percent of the
ex-vessel value of crab harvested under
the Program. The Program provides that
a proportional share of fees charged be
forwarded to the State of Alaska for
reimbursement of its share of
management and data collection costs
for the Program.
A crab allocation holder generally
incurs a cost recovery fee liability for
every pound of crab landed. Catcher
vessel and processor quota shareholders
split the cost recovery fees equally with
each paying half, while catcher/
processor quota shareholders pay the
full fee percentage for crab processed at
sea. The crab allocations subject to cost
recovery include Individual Fishing
Quota, Crew Individual Fishing Quota,
Individual Processing Quota,
Community Development Quota, and
the Adak community allocation. The
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XV033
New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its Groundfish Advisory Panel 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 Monday, September 16, 2019 at 9
a.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, 100
Boardman Street, Boston, MA 02129; phone: (617) 567-6789.
Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Agenda
The Groundfish Advisory Panel will review the draft Environmental
Impact Statement (DEIS) and recommend preliminary preferred
alternatives, as well as discuss draft alternatives focusing on (1)
2020 total allowable catches for U.S./Canada stocks of Eastern Georges
Bank (GB) cod, Eastern GB haddock, and GB yellowtail flounder and (2)
revisions to the GB cod Incidental Catch TAC to remove the allocation
to the Closed Area I (CAI) Haddock Special Access Program (SAP). The
Advisory Panel will also discuss a draft list of possible groundfish
priorities for 2020 and will also receive an update on the Commercial
Electronic Vessel Trip Reporting (eVTR) Omnibus Framework, which
proposes to implement electronic VTRs for all vessels with commercial
permits for species managed by the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery
Management Councils. They will also make recommendations to the
Groundfish Committee, and discuss other business as necessary.
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 these meetings. 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.
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, Executive Director, at (978) 465-
0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date. This meeting will be
recorded. Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy of the recording is
available upon request.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 16, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-18071 Filed 8-21-19; 8:45 am]
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