Notice2022-02020
Advisory Committee Open Session on Management Strategy Evaluation for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
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Published
February 1, 2022
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
NMFS is holding a public meeting via webinar for the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and all interested stakeholders to receive an update and provide input on the development of the management strategy evaluation for Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5470-5471]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02020]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XB730]
Advisory Committee Open Session on Management Strategy Evaluation
for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: NMFS is holding a public meeting via webinar for the Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Section to the International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and all interested stakeholders
to receive an update and provide input on the development of the
management strategy evaluation for Atlantic bluefin tuna.
DATES: A virtual meeting that is open to the public will be held on
February 25, 2022, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST.
ADDRESSES: Please register to attend the meeting at: <a href="https://forms.gle/f8L6jxsmstXRC2b47">https://forms.gle/f8L6jxsmstXRC2b47</a>. Registration will close on February 24, 2022, at 5
p.m. EST. Instructions for accessing the virtual meeting will be
emailed to registered participants.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Keller, Office of International
Affairs and Seafood Inspection, (301) 427-7725 or at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7537070c141b5b3e1019191007351b1a14145b121a03"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1a5868637b7434517f76767f685a74757b7b347d756c">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a
process that allows fishery managers and stakeholders (e.g., industry,
scientists, and non-governmental organizations) to assess how well
different strategies achieve specified management objectives for a
fishery. After several years of work, ICCAT expects to finalize its
bluefin tuna MSE in 2022 and anticipates adopting a management
procedure in November 2022 to set Total Allowable Catch (TACs) for 2023
and future years for both the western Atlantic and eastern Atlantic and
Mediterranean stocks of bluefin tuna. NMFS and the United States more
broadly participate in this MSE development process and have been
engaging stakeholders and considering their input throughout the
process through various means, including consultation with the Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Section to ICCAT. The United States also
participates in the development of the bluefin tuna MSE through active
engagement by U.S. scientists in ICCAT's Standing Committee on Research
and Statistics (SCRS).
The February 25 meeting is intended to update stakeholders and
solicit their input on the MSE approach being developed by ICCAT. This
includes SCRS progress in developing initial candidate management
procedures (CMPs) illustrating potential management tradeoffs and the
related process by ICCAT to refine management objectives to assist the
SCRS in further refining and narrowing those CMPs. This open session
Advisory Committee meeting is primarily informational in nature and
intended to increase the opportunity for stakeholder awareness and
input on the bluefin tuna MSE process. Discussions at the meeting will
help to inform U.S. scientists who are participating in work of the
SCRS. In addition, while no binding decisions or formal, consensus-
based
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recommendations will be made, input provided during the meeting will be
considered by the United States to assist its preparations for a March
2022 meeting of ICCAT's Panel 2 and other ICCAT bluefin tuna MSE
meetings planned for 2022.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: January 27, 2022.
Alexa Cole,
Director, Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-02020 Filed 1-31-22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
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