New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting, 87565-87566 [2024-25587]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XE436]
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 Highly Migratory
Species (HMS) Committee will hold a
public meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 3
p.m. to 5 p.m. For agenda details, see
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via webinar. Webinar connection,
agenda items, and any additional
information will be available at
www.mafmc.org/council-events.
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Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N State
Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
telephone: (302) 674–2331;
www.mafmc.org.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, telephone: (302)
526–5255.
The MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council’s
HMS Committee will meet to review
and provide comments on the NOAA
HMS Proposed Rule for Electronic
Reporting Requirements for Atlantic
HMS. This action proposes to modify
and/or expand reporting requirements
for Atlantic HMS, including reporting
by commercial, for-hire, and private
recreational vessel owners and dealers.
The proposed rule includes: (1)
Requiring vessel owners, who currently
report in existing paper commercial
logbooks (i.e., Atlantic HMS logbook
and the Southeast Coastal Fisheries
Logbook Program), to report
electronically; (2) Implementing new
logbook requirements for vessel owners
holding HMS Charter/Headboat permits,
Atlantic Tunas General category
permits, Atlantic Tunas Harpoon
category permits, and/or Swordfish
General Commercial permits; (3)
Modifying reporting options for private
recreational vessel owners holding HMS
Angling permits; (4) Requiring HMS
dealers to report individual fish weights
for additional species (i.e., Atlantic
bigeye, albacore, yellowfin, and skipjack
tunas, swordfish, and pelagic sharks);
(5) Requiring electronic HMS reporting
for all permit holders, using systems or
applications approved by NOAA
Fisheries for Atlantic HMS; and 6)
Technical changes to clarify certain
HMS regulations.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to
Shelley Spedden at the Council Office,
(302) 526–5251, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: October 30, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XE433]
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a hybrid meeting of its
Scallop 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
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 9
a.m.
SUMMARY:
ADDRESSES:
Meeting address: This meeting will be
held at Hilton Garden Inn, Boston
Logan, 100 Boardman Street, Boston,
MA 02110, Phone (617) 567–5678.
Webinar registration URL
information: https://nefmc-org.zoom.us/
meeting/register/
tJcocOqtqD8qH9Z2sXIMG
e2LNCkb5NmQPHSH.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cate
O’Keefe, Executive Director, New
England Fishery Management Council;
telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Agenda
The Scallop Advisory Panel will meet
to discuss: Framework 39 (FW39):
Review specifications alternatives in
FW39 and select final preferred
alternatives. FW39 will set
specifications including the overfishing
limit (OFL), acceptable biological catch/
annual catch limit (ABC/ACLs), days-atsea (DAS), access area allocations for
Limited Access (LA) vessels, quota and
access area trip allocation to the Limited
Access General Category (LAGC)
Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ)
component, Total Allowable Landings
(TAL) for the Northern Gulf of Maine
(NGOM) management area, a targetTotal Allowable Catch (TAC) for LAGC
incidental catch and set-asides for the
observer and research programs for
fishing year 2025, and default
specifications for fishing year 2026. This
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action also considers modifying the
seasonal bycatch closure of Area II to
improve yield and reduce impacts to
northern windowpane flounder and
modifying the possession prohibition
for NGOM-permitted scallop vessels on
a declared NGOM trip to possess
scallops outside of the NGOM
management area. Other business will
be discussed, if necessary.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained on the agenda may come
before this Council for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject 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 the public has
been notified of the Council’s intent to
take final action to address the
emergency. The public also should be
aware that the meeting will be recorded.
Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy
of the recording is available upon
request.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Cate
O’Keefe, Executive Director, at (978)
465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: October 30, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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2025 Annual Determination To
Implement the Sea Turtle Observer
Requirement
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of annual
determination of fisheries.
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AGENCY:
NMFS is providing
notification that the agency will not
identify additional fisheries to observe
on the 2025 Annual Determination
(AD), pursuant to its authority under the
Endangered Species Act (ESA). Through
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the AD, NMFS identifies U.S. fisheries
operating in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of
Mexico, and Pacific Ocean that will be
required to take observers upon NMFS’
request. The purpose of observing
identified fisheries is to learn more
about sea turtle bycatch in a given
fishery, evaluate measures to prevent or
reduce sea turtle bycatch, and
implement the prohibition against sea
turtle takes. Fisheries identified on the
2020 and 2023 ADs (see table 1) remain
on the AD for a 5-year period and are
required to carry observers upon NMFS’
request until September 29, 2025, and
December 31, 2027, respectively.
DATES: Published on November 4, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Chief, Marine Mammal and
Sea Turtle Conservation Division, Office
of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Wendy Piniak, Office of Protected
Resources, 301–427–8402; Ellen Keane,
Greater Atlantic Region, 978–282–8476;
Dennis Klemm, Southeast Region, 727–
824–5312; Dan Lawson, West Coast
Region, 206–526–4740; Irene Kelly,
Pacific Islands Region, 808–725–5141.
Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the
hearing impaired may call the Federal
Information Relay Service at 800–877–
8339 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern
time, Monday through Friday, excluding
Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Sea Turtle Observer
Requirement
Under the ESA, 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.,
NMFS has the responsibility to
implement programs to conserve marine
life listed as endangered or threatened.
All sea turtles found in U.S. waters are
listed as either endangered or
threatened under the ESA. Kemp’s
ridley (Lepidochelys kempii),
loggerhead (Caretta caretta; North
Pacific distinct population segment
[DPS]), leatherback (Dermochelys
coriacea), green (Chelonia mydas;
Central West Pacific and Central South
Pacific DPSs), and hawksbill
(Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles are
listed as endangered. Loggerhead
(Northwest Atlantic Ocean DPS), green
(North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Central
North Pacific, and East Pacific DPSs),
and olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea)
sea turtles are listed as threatened,
except for breeding colony populations
of olive ridleys on the Pacific coast of
Mexico, which are listed as endangered.
Due to the inability to distinguish
between populations of olive ridley
turtles away from the nesting beach,
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NMFS considers these turtles
endangered wherever they occur in U.S.
Pacific waters. While some sea turtle
populations have shown signs of
recovery, many populations continue to
decline.
Bycatch in fishing gear is the primary
anthropogenic source of sea turtle injury
and mortality in U.S. waters. Section 9
of the ESA prohibits the take (defined to
include harassing, harming, pursuing,
hunting, shooting, wounding, killing,
trapping, capturing, or collecting or
attempting to engage in any such
conduct), including incidental take, of
endangered sea turtles. Pursuant to
section 4(d) of the ESA, NMFS has
issued regulations extending the
prohibition of take, with exceptions, to
threatened sea turtles (50 CFR 223.205
and 223.206). Section 11 of the ESA
provides for civil and criminal penalties
for anyone who violates the ESA or a
regulation issued to implement the ESA.
NMFS may grant exceptions to the take
prohibitions with an incidental take
statement or an incidental take permit
issued pursuant to ESA section 7 or 10,
respectively. To do so, NMFS must
determine that the activity that will
result in incidental take is not likely to
jeopardize the continued existence of
the affected listed species. For some
Federal fisheries and most state
fisheries, NMFS has not granted an
exception for incidental takes of sea
turtles primarily because we lack
information about fishery-sea turtle
interactions.
For most fisheries, the most effective
way for NMFS to learn more about
bycatch in order to implement the take
prohibitions and prevent or minimize
take is to place observers aboard fishing
vessels. In 2007, NMFS issued a
regulation (50 CFR 222.402) establishing
procedures to annually identify,
pursuant to specified criteria and after
notice and opportunity for comment,
those fisheries in which the agency
intends to place observers (72 FR 43176,
August 3, 2007). These regulations
specify that NMFS may place observers
on U.S. fishing vessels, commercial or
recreational, operating in U.S. territorial
waters, the U.S. exclusive economic
zone, or on the high seas, or on vessels
that are otherwise subject to the
jurisdiction of the U.S. Failure to
comply with the requirements under
this regulation may result in civil or
criminal penalties under the ESA.
NMFS will pay the direct costs for
vessels to carry the required observers.
These include observer salary and
insurance costs. NMFS may also
evaluate other potential direct costs,
should they arise. Once selected, a
fishery will be required to carry
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XE433]
New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a hybrid meeting of its Scallop 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 Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 9
a.m.
ADDRESSES:
Meeting address: This meeting will be held at Hilton Garden Inn,
Boston Logan, 100 Boardman Street, Boston, MA 02110, Phone (617) 567-
5678.
Webinar registration URL information: https://nefmc-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOqtqD8qH9Z2sXIMGe2LNCkb5NmQPHSH.
Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cate O'Keefe, Executive Director, New
England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Agenda
The Scallop Advisory Panel will meet to discuss: Framework 39
(FW39): Review specifications alternatives in FW39 and select final
preferred alternatives. FW39 will set specifications including the
overfishing limit (OFL), acceptable biological catch/annual catch limit
(ABC/ACLs), days-at-sea (DAS), access area allocations for Limited
Access (LA) vessels, quota and access area trip allocation to the
Limited Access General Category (LAGC) Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ)
component, Total Allowable Landings (TAL) for the Northern Gulf of
Maine (NGOM) management area, a target-Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for
LAGC incidental catch and set-asides for the observer and research
programs for fishing year 2025, and default specifications for fishing
year 2026. This
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action also considers modifying the seasonal bycatch closure of Area II
to improve yield and reduce impacts to northern windowpane flounder and
modifying the possession prohibition for NGOM-permitted scallop vessels
on a declared NGOM trip to possess scallops outside of the NGOM
management area. Other business will be discussed, if necessary.
Although non-emergency issues not contained on the agenda may come
before this Council for discussion, those issues may not be the subject
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 the public
has been notified of the Council's intent to take final action to
address the emergency. The public also should be aware that the meeting
will be recorded. Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy of the
recording is available upon request.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Cate O'Keefe, Executive Director, at (978) 465-
0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: October 30, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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