Notice2024-09765
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
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Published
May 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
A sub-panel of the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils' Scientific and Statistical Committees (SSC) and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Assessment Science Committee will hold a meeting.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 88 (Monday, May 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 37179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09765]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XD924]
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
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SUMMARY: A sub-panel of the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery
Management Councils' Scientific and Statistical Committees (SSC) and
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Assessment
Science Committee will hold a meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, starting at
9:30 a.m. and continue through 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 2024. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for agenda details.
ADDRESSES: This will be an in-person meeting with a virtual option.
Participants and members of the public will have the option to
participate in person at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Narragansett Lab, 28 Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI, or virtually via
webinar. Webinar connection instructions and briefing materials will be
available at: <a href="http://www.mafmc.org">www.mafmc.org</a>.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N
State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331;
website: <a href="http://www.mafmc.org">www.mafmc.org</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: (302)
526-5255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The joint sub-panel, consisting of Mid-
Atlantic and New England SSC members and ASMFC Assessment Science
Committee members, will meet to review and provide input on the
Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) draft survey mitigation
plans relative to offshore wind development. NOAA Fisheries and the
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) developed the Federal Survey
Mitigation Strategy (Strategy) which describes the impacts of wind
energy development on fisheries-independent surveys and outlines the
goals, objectives, and actions to guide the development and
implementation of a program to mitigate the impacts on fisheries-
independent surveys. To address the actions outlined in the Strategy,
the NEFSC developed the Northeast Survey Mitigation Program and survey-
specific mitigation plans to ensure NEFSC can continue to provide equal
or higher quality science for each of the long-term, recurring surveys
conducted by NEFSC that will be impacted by offshore wind development.
The survey mitigation plans include descriptions of the impacted
survey, specific stakeholders for the data collected, impacts of
offshore wind development, and planned mitigation measures to address
the impacts of wind energy development on scientific surveys.
To ensure the survey mitigation plans represent the best science
available, the joint sub-panel will peer review the draft survey
mitigation plans prepared by the NEFSC for eight existing fishery-
independent surveys and three new supplemental surveys. The sub-panel
will evaluate the detail and scientific soundness of the mitigation
approaches described in each plan, following a set of Terms of
Reference. The NEFSC will consider the feedback received from the sub-
panel and will address and/or incorporate into revised survey
mitigation plans as appropriate.
A detailed agenda and background documents will be made available
on the Council's website (<a href="http://www.mafmc.org">www.mafmc.org</a>) prior to the meeting.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aid should be directed to Shelley Spedden, (302) 526-5251, at
least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C 1801 et seq.
Dated: May 1, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-09765 Filed 5-3-24; 8:45 am]
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