Notice2023-20292
Advisory Committee Open Session on Management Strategy Evaluation for North Atlantic Swordfish
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Published
September 20, 2023
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
The Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), supported by NMFS, is holding a public meeting via webinar session to receive an update and provide input on the development of a management strategy evaluation (MSE) for North Atlantic swordfish. The meeting is open to all interested stakeholders.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 181 (Wednesday, September 20, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20292]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XD378]
Advisory Committee Open Session on Management Strategy Evaluation
for North Atlantic Swordfish
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
(ICCAT), supported by NMFS, is holding a public meeting via webinar
session to receive an update and provide input on the development of a
management strategy evaluation (MSE) for North Atlantic swordfish. The
meeting is open to all interested stakeholders.
DATES: A virtual meeting that is open to the public will be held by
webinar session on October 5, 2023, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT.
ADDRESSES: Please register to attend the meeting at: <a href="https://forms.gle/2wkHbTstzFDkHpYu9">https://forms.gle/2wkHbTstzFDkHpYu9</a>. Registration will close on October 3, 2023, at 5
p.m. EDT. Instructions for accessing the webinar session will be
emailed to registered participants.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Keller, Office of International
Affairs, Trade, and Commerce, (301) 427-7725, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4a0838332b2464012f26262f380a24252b2b642d253c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e7a5959e8689c9ac828b8b8295a789888686c9808891">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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. ICCAT expects to
finalize its North Atlantic swordfish MSE in 2023 and anticipates
adopting a management procedure in November 2023 to set the total
allowable catch (TAC) for 2024 and future years for the stock. NMFS,
and the U.S. Government more broadly, has been fully engaged in the MSE
development process, an important part of which involves considering
stakeholder input, including through periodic consultations with the
Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to ICCAT. The United States is
also participating in the development of the North Atlantic swordfish
MSE through the active involvement of U.S. scientists in the work
carried out by ICCAT's Standing Committee on Research and Statistics
(SCRS).
The October 5 meeting is primarily informational in nature. It is
intended to update U.S. stakeholders on the progress of the North
Atlantic swordfish MSE process and increase awareness and understanding
of that process. NMFS will provide information on the progress of the
SCRS in developing initial candidate management procedures (CMPs) and
testing them based on the input provided to-date by ICCAT's Panel 4 on
management objectives and other relevant matters. CMPs illustrate
tradeoffs associated with achieving identified management objectives
related to stock status, stock safety, yield, and TAC stability over
time. CMP testing assists ICCAT in refining management objectives and
narrowing the number of viable CMPs for possible adoption by the
Commission.
There will also be an opportunity for the Advisory Committee and
other stakeholders to provide input on the North Atlantic swordfish
MSE. Such input helps inform U.S. scientists who are participating in
the MSE work of the SCRS as well as U.S. managers participating in
North Atlantic swordfish MSE meetings at the Commission level later in
2023.
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)
Dated: September 14, 2023.
Alexa Cole,
Director, Office of International Affairs, Trade, and Commerce,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-20292 Filed 9-19-23; 8:45 am]
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