Notice2024-15956
Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
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Published
July 19, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
The Ecosystem-Based Management Subcommittee (SSC ES) of the Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will convene an online meeting to review the use of ecosystem risk evaluation tables and any other Ecosystem and Climate Information for Species, Fisheries, and Fishery Management Plan (Initiative 4) materials provided by the Council's Ecosystem Workgroup. In addition, they may review new analyses conducted by the NMFS California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team that may potentially inform future annual reports to the Pacific Council on the state of the California Current Ecosystem. The SSC ES meeting is open to the public.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 139 (Friday, July 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58720-58721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15956]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XE101]
Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public online meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Ecosystem-Based Management Subcommittee (SSC ES) of the
Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Scientific and
Statistical Committee (SSC) will convene an online meeting to review
the use of ecosystem risk evaluation tables and any other Ecosystem and
Climate Information for Species, Fisheries, and Fishery Management Plan
(Initiative 4) materials provided by the Council's Ecosystem Workgroup.
In addition, they may review new analyses conducted by the NMFS
California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team that may
potentially inform future annual reports to the Pacific Council on the
state of the California Current Ecosystem. The SSC ES meeting is open
to the public.
DATES: The SSC ES meeting will be held Monday, August 5, 2024, from 1
p.m. until 5 p.m. (Pacific Time) or until business for the day has been
completed.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be conducted as an online meeting.
Specific meeting information, including the agenda and directions on
how to join the meeting and system requirements, will be provided in
the workshop announcement on the Pacific Council's website (see
<a href="http://www.pcouncil.org">www.pcouncil.org</a>). You may send an email to Kris Kleinschmidt
(<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6b001902184500070e020518080306020f1f2b05040a0a450c041d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="640f160d174a0f08010d0a17070c090d0010240a0b05054a030b12">[email protected]</span></a>) or contact him at (503) 820-2412 for
technical assistance.
Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marlene A. Bellman, Staff Officer,
Pacific Council; telephone: (503) 820-2414; email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8fe2eefde3eae1eaa1edeae3e3e2eee1cfe1e0eeeea1e8e0f9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b8d5d9cad4ddd6dd96daddd4d4d5d9d6f8d6d7d9d996dfd7ce">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the SSC ES meeting is to
review a methodological framework to incorporate ecosystem risk
evaluation tables in the current Council process and any intersection
with the SSC's scientific uncertainty buffers and stock category
designations which result from the stock assessment process. Ecosystem
risk evaluation tables were developed by the Council's Ecosystem
Workgroup for several example groundfish species (i.e. sablefish and
petrale sole), and the approach was reviewed by the SSC Ecosystem-Based
Management and Groundfish Subcommittees in September 2023. At this
meeting, the SSC ES will review any new developments to the risk table
approach, including methodological frameworks for evaluating the
ecosystem, assessment uncertainty, and population dynamics
considerations the risk tables contain, and provide example
applications for fisheries management. In March 2024, the Pacific
Council also requested a retrospective analysis of how risk tables
would have impacted
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decision-making in past groundfish assessments if they had been used in
the manner currently envisioned. Sablefish was selected for a full
assessment and petrale sole for a catch-only projection in the 2025
stock assessment cycle. Thus, the Subcommittee may focus on
consideration or pathways for incorporation of these species risk
tables in the upcoming stock assessment cycle and 2027-2028 harvest
specification process.
In addition, they may review new analyses conducted by the NMFS
California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team that may
potentially inform future annual reports to the Pacific Council on the
state of the California Current Ecosystem.
No management actions will be decided by the meeting participants.
The participants' role will be development of recommendations and
reports for consideration by the SSC and the Pacific Council at a
future Council meeting. The Pacific Council and SSC are scheduled to
consider the Ecosystem and Climate Information for Species, Fisheries,
and Fishery Management Plan Initiative 4 at their September 2024
meeting in Spokane, WA, and to consider the California Current
Ecosystem Status Report at their March 2025 meeting in Vancouver, WA.
Although nonemergency 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 Conservation and Management Act,
provided the public has been notified of the intent of the workshop
participants to take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Kris Kleinschmidt (<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8de6ffe4fea3e6e1e8e4e3feeee5e0e4e9f9cde3e2ececa3eae2fb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cfa4bda6bce1a4a3aaa6a1bcaca7a2a6abbb8fa1a0aeaee1a8a0b9">[email protected]</span></a>;
(503) 820-2412) at least 10 days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: July 16, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-15956 Filed 7-18-24; 8:45 am]
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