Fisheries of the South Atlantic; Southeast Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting, 53107-53108 [2019-21653]
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participating in the BSAI pollock fishery
prior to the start of each fishing year.
• The AFA Inshore Vessel Contract
Fishing Notification is submitted by an
AFA inshore cooperative that intends to
contract with a non-member vessel to
harvest a portion of the cooperative’s
annual pollock allocation to notify
NMFS of vessels that might be reporting
with an alternative cooperative ID.
• The Application for Approval as an
Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook
Salmon PSC Allocation is submitted by
an entity representing the catcher/
processor sector or the mothership
sector to request approval to receive
transferable Chinook salmon PSC
allocations on behalf of members of the
sector. Once approved, an entity is not
required to reapply for or renew its
status. Entities sometimes submit
amendments to update contact and
other information related to the entity
and its members.
• The Application for Transfer of
Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC
Allocations is submitted by an
authorized representative of the catcher/
processor sector, the mothership sector,
an inshore cooperative, or a CDQ group
to transfer Chinook salmon PSC
allocations to another entity’s account.
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II. Method of Collection
All may be submitted to NMFS by
mail, fax, or delivery except the AFA
Inshore Vessel Contract Fishing
Notification, which is not accepted by
fax. The Application for Transfer of
Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC
Allocations and the Approval as an
Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook
Salmon PSC Application may be
submitted online through eFISH on the
NMFS Alaska Region website at https://
alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/webapps/efish/
login.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0393.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular Submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
27.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour
each for AFA Permit: Rebuilt,
Replacement, or Removed Vessel
Application and Application for
Transfer of Bering Sea Chinook Salmon
PSC Allocations; 2 hours for
Application for AFA Inshore Catcher
Vessel Cooperative Permit; 4 hours for
AFA Inshore Vessel Contract Fishing
Notification; 8 hours for Application for
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Approval as an Entity to Receive
Transferable Chinook Salmon PSC
Allocation.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 135 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $155 in recordkeeping and
reporting costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XV094
Fisheries of the South Atlantic;
Southeast Data, Assessment, and
Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 60 In-person
Workshop for South Atlantic Red Porgy.
AGENCY:
The SEDAR 60 assessment of
the South Atlantic stock of Red Porgy
will consist of a series of workshops and
webinars: An In-person Workshop to
address data and assessment needs, and
Assessment Webinars. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
DATES: The SEDAR 60 In-person
Workshop will be held on December 10,
2019, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; December
SUMMARY:
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11, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and
December 12, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. The established times may be
adjusted as necessary to accommodate
the timely completion of discussion
relevant to the assessment process. Such
adjustments may result in the meeting
being extended from or completed prior
to the time established by this notice.
ADDRESSES:
Meeting address: The SEDAR 60 Inperson Workshop will be held at the
Beaufort Hotel, 2440 Lennoxville Road,
Beaufort, NC 28516; phone: (252)728–
3000.
SEDAR address: South Atlantic
Fishery Management Council, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N
Charleston, SC 29405;
www.sedarweb.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathleen Howington, SEDAR
Coordinator, 4055 Faber Place Drive,
Suite 201, North Charleston, SC 29405;
phone: (843) 571–4366; email:
Kathleen.howington@safmc.net.
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 Southeast Data,
Assessment and Review (SEDAR)
process, a multi-step method for
determining the status of fish stocks in
the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a threestep process including: (1) Data
Workshop; (2) Assessment Process
utilizing webinars; 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 Assessment
Process 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
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,
Highly Migratory Species Management
Division, and Southeast Fisheries
Science Center. Participants include:
Data collectors and database managers;
stock assessment scientists, biologists,
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and researchers; constituency
representatives including fishermen,
environmentalists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs);
international experts; and staff of
Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
The SEDAR 60 In-person Workshop is
being held to address both data and
assessment concerns. The items for
discussion could include:
1. Participants could evaluate all
available data and select appropriate
sources for providing information on
life history characteristics, catch
statistics, discard estimates, length and
age composition, and fishery
independent and fishery dependent
measures of stock abundance, as
specified in the Terms of Reference for
the workshop, to develop an assessment
data set and associated documentation.
2. Participants might then consider
methods and configuration options for
models, recommend assessment
methods (i.e., model types) to pursue for
potential base model configuration,
identify likely issues to be addressed
and evaluated in developing the base
model, review base model alternatives
and recommend a base model approach
and configuration. Participants could
also, recommend sensitivities and
uncertainty evaluations, review
continuity, sensitivities and uncertainty
evaluations, recommend projection
approaches and configuration and
review projection results.
The In person Workshop is open to
the public. Additional information
about SEDAR 60, including a public
comment form is available from the
SEDAR website at: https://sedarweb.org/
sedar-60.
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
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 the public has been
notified of the intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is accessible to people
with disabilities. Requests for auxiliary
aids should be directed to the SAFMC
office (see ADDRESSES) at least 10
business days prior to the meeting.
Note: The times and sequence specified in
this agenda are subject to change.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
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Dated: October 1, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Pacific Coast
Groundfish Trawl Rationalization
Program Permit and License
Information Collection
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before December 3,
2019.
SUMMARY:
Direct all written comments
to Adrienne Thomas, PRA Officer,
NOAA, 151 Patton Avenue, Room 159,
Asheville, NC 28801 (or at
PRAcomments@doc.gov). All comments
received are part of the public record.
Comments will generally be posted
without change. All Personally
Identifiable Information (for example,
name and address) voluntarily
submitted by the commenter may be
publicly accessible. Do not submit
Confidential Business Information or
otherwise sensitive or protected
information.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Jahnava Duryea, National
Marine Fisheries Service, California
Central Valley Office, 650 Capital Mall,
Suite 5–100, Sacramento, CA 95814,
(916) 930–3725 or via email at
jahnava.duryea@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) requests comments on the
extension of a currently approved
information collection for the West
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Coast Region’s Pacific Coast Groundfish
Trawl Rationalization Program.
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, 16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq., provides that the
Secretary of Commerce is responsible
for the conservation and management of
marine fisheries resources in the
Exclusive Economic Zone (3–200 miles)
of the United States. NMFS West Coast
Region manages the Pacific Coast
Groundfish Fishery in the Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ) off the coasts of
Washington, Oregon, and California
under the Pacific Coast Groundfish
Fishery Management Plan (FMP).
In January 2011, NMFS implemented
a trawl rationalization program, which
is a catch share program, for the Pacific
Coast Groundfish Limited Entry Trawl
Fishery. The program was implemented
through Amendments 20 and 21 to the
Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP and the
corresponding implementing
regulations at 50 CFR part 660.
Amendment 20 established the trawl
rationalization program that consists of
an individual fishing quota (IFQ)
program for the shorebased trawl fleet
(including whiting and nonwhiting
sectors) and cooperative programs for
the at-sea mothership and catcher/
processor trawl fleets (whiting only).
Amendment 21 set long-term allocations
for the limited entry trawl sectors of
certain groundfish species.
Under the trawl rationalization
program, new permits, accounts,
endorsements and licenses were
established. These consist of: Quota
share (QS) permits/accounts, vessel
accounts, first receiver site licenses,
mothership endorsements on certain
limited entry trawl permits, mothership
catcher vessel endorsements on certain
limited entry trawl permits, catcher/
processor endorsements on certain
limited entry trawl permits, a
mothership cooperative permit, and a
catcher/processor cooperative permit.
NMFS collects information from
program participants required to: (1)
Establish new permits, accounts, and
licenses; (2) renew permits, accounts,
and licenses; (3) allow trading of QS
percentages and quota pounds (QP) in
online QS and vessel accounts, and
allow transfer of catch history
assignments between limited entry trawl
permits; (4) track compliance with
program control limits; and (5)
implement other features of the
regulations pertaining to permits and
licenses.
As part of its fishery management
responsibilities, NMFS requires this
information to determine whether a
respondent complies with regulations
that pertain to the issuance, renewal,
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XV094
Fisheries of the South Atlantic; Southeast Data, Assessment, and
Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 60 In-person Workshop for South Atlantic Red
Porgy.
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SUMMARY: The SEDAR 60 assessment of the South Atlantic stock of Red
Porgy will consist of a series of workshops and webinars: An In-person
Workshop to address data and assessment needs, and Assessment Webinars.
See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
DATES: The SEDAR 60 In-person Workshop will be held on December 10,
2019, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; December 11, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 6
p.m.; and December 12, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The established
times may be adjusted as necessary to accommodate the timely completion
of discussion relevant to the assessment process. Such adjustments may
result in the meeting being extended from or completed prior to the
time established by this notice.
ADDRESSES:
Meeting address: The SEDAR 60 In-person Workshop will be held at
the Beaufort Hotel, 2440 Lennoxville Road, Beaufort, NC 28516; phone:
(252)728-3000.
SEDAR address: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N Charleston, SC 29405; www.sedarweb.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen Howington, SEDAR Coordinator,
4055 Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC 29405; phone:
(843) 571-4366; email: [email protected].
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 Southeast Data, Assessment and Review
(SEDAR) process, a multi-step method for determining the status of fish
stocks in the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a three-step process
including: (1) Data Workshop; (2) Assessment Process utilizing
webinars; 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 Assessment Process 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 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, Highly Migratory Species
Management Division, and Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
Participants include: Data collectors and database managers; stock
assessment scientists, biologists,
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and researchers; constituency representatives including fishermen,
environmentalists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
international experts; and staff of Councils, Commissions, and state
and federal agencies.
The SEDAR 60 In-person Workshop is being held to address both data
and assessment concerns. The items for discussion could include:
1. Participants could evaluate all available data and select
appropriate sources for providing information on life history
characteristics, catch statistics, discard estimates, length and age
composition, and fishery independent and fishery dependent measures of
stock abundance, as specified in the Terms of Reference for the
workshop, to develop an assessment data set and associated
documentation.
2. Participants might then consider methods and configuration
options for models, recommend assessment methods (i.e., model types) to
pursue for potential base model configuration, identify likely issues
to be addressed and evaluated in developing the base model, review base
model alternatives and recommend a base model approach and
configuration. Participants could also, recommend sensitivities and
uncertainty evaluations, review continuity, sensitivities and
uncertainty evaluations, recommend projection approaches and
configuration and review projection results.
The In person Workshop is open to the public. Additional
information about SEDAR 60, including a public comment form is
available from the SEDAR website at: https://sedarweb.org/sedar-60.
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 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 the public has been notified of the intent to
take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is accessible to people with disabilities. Requests
for auxiliary aids should be directed to the SAFMC office (see
ADDRESSES) at least 10 business days prior to the meeting.
Note: The times and sequence specified in this agenda are
subject to change.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: October 1, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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