Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting, 5618-5619 [2020-01873]
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Pacific Fishery Management Council;
Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting
(webinar).
AGENCY:
The Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Pacific Council)
will convene a webinar meeting of its
Groundfish Management Team (GMT) to
discuss items on the Pacific Council’s
March 2020 meeting agenda. The
meeting is open to the public.
DATES: The webinar meeting will be
held Tuesday, February 25, 2020, from
1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
The scheduled ending time for the GMT
webinar is an estimate, the meeting will
adjourn when business for the day is
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This meeting will be held
via webinar. A public listening station
is available at the Pacific Council office
(address below). To attend the webinar
(1) join the meeting by using this link:
https://meetings.ringcentral.com/join,
(2) enter the Meeting ID provided in the
meeting announcement (see https://
www.pcouncil.org) and click JOIN, (3)
you will be prompted to either
download the RingCentral meetings
application or join the meeting without
a download via your web browser, and
(4) enter your name and click JOIN.
Note: We require all participants to use
a telephone or cell phone to participate.
(1) You must use your telephone for the
audio portion of the meeting by dialing
the TOLL number provided on your
screen followed by the meeting ID and
participant ID, also provided on the
screen. (2) Once connected, you will be
in the meeting, seeing other participants
and a shared screen, if applicable.
Technical Information and System
Requirements: PC-based attendees are
required to use Windows® 10, 8; Mac®based attendees are required to use Mac
OS® X 10.5 or newer; Mobile attendees
are required to use iPhone®, iPad®,
AndroidTM phone or Android tablet (See
the RingCentral mobile apps in your app
store). You may send an email to Mr.
Kris Kleinschmidt (kris.kleinschmidt@
noaa.gov) or contact him at 503–820–
2280, extension 412 for technical
assistance.
Council address: Pacific Fishery
Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland,
OR 97220–1384.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Todd Phillips, Staff Officer; telephone:
(503) 820–2426; email: todd.phillips@
noaa.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
primary purpose of the GMT webinar is
to prepare for the Pacific Council’s
March 2020 agenda items. The GMT
will discuss items related to groundfish
management and administrative Pacific
Council agenda items. A detailed
agenda for the webinar will be available
on the Pacific Council’s website prior to
the meeting. The GMT may also address
other assignments relating to groundfish
management. No management actions
will be decided by the GMT.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in the meeting agenda may be
discussed, 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 Fishery
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Conservation and Management Act,
provided the public has been notified of
the GMT’s intent to take final action to
address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
The public listening station is
physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Mr. Kris
Kleinschmidt (503) 820–2412,
kris.kleinschmidt@noaa.gov) at least 10
days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: January 28, 2020.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council’s (Council)
Tilefish Advisory Panel will hold a
meeting.
SUMMARY:
The meeting will be held on
Thursday, February 20, 2020, beginning
at 9 a.m. and conclude by 1 p.m. For
agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
DATES:
The meeting will be held
via webinar with a telephone-only
connection option: https://
mafmc.adobeconnect.com/tf2020ap/;
Conference Number: 800–832–0736;
Room Number: 5068609.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N. State
Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
telephone: (302) 674–2331 or on their
website at www.mafmc.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, telephone: (302)
526–5255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the meeting is to create
fishery performance reports for blueline
and golden tilefish by the Council’s
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Tilefish Advisory Panel. The intent of
these reports is to facilitate a venue for
structured input from the Advisory
Panel members for the Tilefish
specifications processes, including
recommendations to the Council and its
Scientific and Statistical Committee.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aid should be directed to M.
Jan Saunders, (302) 526–5251, at least 5
days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: January 28, 2020.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to THwaites
Offshore Research (THOR) Project in
the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental
harassment authorization.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA) to the
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Office of Polar Programs on behalf of the
University of Houston to incidentally
harass, by Level B harassment only,
marine mammals during a low-energy
marine geophysical survey in the
Amundsen Sea, Antarctica.
DATES: This Authorization is effective
for one year from the January 24, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bonnie DeJoseph, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
Electronic copies of the application and
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supporting documents, as well as a list
of the references cited in this document,
may be obtained online at: https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/
incidental-take-authorizations-undermarine-mammal-protection-act. In case
of problems accessing these documents,
please call the contact listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
18 species of marine mammals, by
harassment. Neither NSF nor NMFS
expects serious injury or mortality to
result from this activity and, therefore,
an IHA is appropriate. The planned
activity is not expected to exceed one
year.
Background
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals, with certain
exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and
(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce
(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon
request, the incidental, but not
intentional, taking of small numbers of
marine mammals by U.S. citizens who
engage in a specified activity (other than
commercial fishing) within a specified
geographical region if certain findings
are made and either regulations are
issued or, if the taking is limited to
harassment, a notice of a proposed
incidental take authorization may be
provided to the public for review.
Authorization for incidental takings
shall be granted if NMFS finds that the
taking will have a negligible impact on
the species or stock(s) and will not have
an unmitigable adverse impact on the
availability of the species or stock(s) for
taking for subsistence uses (where
relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe
the permissible methods of taking and
other ‘‘means of effecting the least
practicable adverse impact’’ on the
affected species or stocks and their
habitat, paying particular attention to
rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of
similar significance, and on the
availability of the species or stocks for
taking for certain subsistence uses
(referred to in shorthand as
‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements
pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring
and reporting of the takings.
The definitions of all applicable
MMPA statutory terms cited above are
included in the relevant sections below.
NSF plans to conduct a low-energy
marine seismic survey in the Amundsen
Sea during February 2020. The survey
will complement Thwaites Glacier and
other Amundsen Sea oceanographic and
geological/geophysical studies and
provide reference data that can be used
to initiate and evaluate the reliability of
ocean models. Data obtained by the
project would assist in establishing
boundary conditions seaward of the
Thwaites Glacier grounding line,
obtaining records of external drivers of
change, improving knowledge of
processes leading to the collapse of
Thwaites Glacier, and determining the
history of past change in grounding line
migration and conditions at the glacier
base.
Seismic surveys will be conducted
over approximately 8400 square
kilometers (km2) between 75.25°–73.5°
S and 101.0°–108.5°W of the Amundsen
Sea for approximately eight days
beginning on or about February 6, 2020.
Sixty-five percent of data acquisition
will occur in intermediate depths (100–
1000 meters (m)) and 35 percent in deep
waters (1000–< 2000 m). The surveys
will involve one source vessel, the
Research Vessel/Icebreaker (RVIB)
Nathaniel B. Palmer (Palmer). NSF has
stated the possibility of deploying
multiple configurations of generator
injector (GI) airgun(s) with one 100–300
m, solid-state, hydrophone streamer
towed behind the Palmer. If the
preferred airgun configuration (two 45/
105 cubic inch (in3) gun array in true GI
mode does not provide data to meet
scientific objectives, alternate
configurations would be utilized (Table
1). All possible configurations will be
towed at a depth of 3 m with a total
maximum discharge volume for the
largest, two-airgun array of 420 in3
along predetermined track lines,
approximately 1600 km. Because of the
extent of sea ice in the Amundsen Sea
that typically occurs between January
and February annually, icebreaking
activities are expected to be required
during the cruise.
Summary of Request
On July 24, 2019, NMFS received a
request from NSF for an IHA to take
marine mammals incidental to
conducting a low-energy marine
geophysical survey and icebreaking as
necessary in the Amundsen Sea. The
application was deemed adequate and
complete on November 22, 2019. NSF’s
request is for take of small numbers of
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); 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 Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council)
Tilefish Advisory Panel will hold a meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, February 20, 2020,
beginning at 9 a.m. and conclude by 1 p.m. For agenda details, see
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held via webinar with a telephone-only
connection option: https://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/tf2020ap/; Conference
Number: 800-832-0736; Room Number: 5068609.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N.
State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331 or
on their website at www.mafmc.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: (302)
526-5255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the meeting is to create
fishery performance reports for blueline and golden tilefish by the
Council's
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Tilefish Advisory Panel. The intent of these reports is to facilitate a
venue for structured input from the Advisory Panel members for the
Tilefish specifications processes, including recommendations to the
Council and its Scientific and Statistical Committee.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aid should
be directed to M. Jan Saunders, (302) 526-5251, at least 5 days prior
to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: January 28, 2020.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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