Notice2025-09793
Management Track Assessment for Black Sea Bass, Bluefish, Scup, and Summer Flounder; Public Meeting
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Published
May 30, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
NMFS will convene the Management Track Assessment Peer Review Meeting for the purpose of reviewing black sea bass, bluefish, scup, and summer flounder stocks. The Management Track Assessment Peer Review is a formal scientific peer-review process for evaluating and presenting stock assessment results to managers for fish stocks in the offshore U.S. waters of the northwest Atlantic. Assessments are prepared by the lead stock assessment scientist and reviewed by an independent panel of stock assessment experts. The public is invited to attend the presentations and discussions between the review panel and the scientists who have participated in the stock assessment process.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 103 (Friday, May 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23031-23032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09793]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XE945]
Management Track Assessment for Black Sea Bass, Bluefish, Scup,
and Summer Flounder; 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: NMFS will convene the Management Track Assessment Peer Review
Meeting for the purpose of reviewing black sea bass, bluefish, scup,
and summer flounder stocks. The Management Track Assessment Peer Review
is a formal scientific peer-review process for evaluating and
presenting stock assessment results to managers for fish stocks in the
offshore U.S. waters of the northwest Atlantic. Assessments are
prepared by the lead stock assessment scientist and reviewed by an
independent panel of stock assessment experts. The public is invited to
attend the presentations and discussions between the review panel and
the scientists who have participated in the stock assessment process.
DATES: The Management Track Assessment Peer Review Meeting will be held
from June 24, 2025-June 25, 2025. The meeting will conclude on June 25,
2025 at 12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Please see SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION for the daily meeting agenda.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the S.H. Clark Conference Room
in the Aquarium Building of the National Marine Fisheries Service,
Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), 166 Water Street, Woods
Hole, MA 02543 and virtually using this Google Meet link: <a href="https://meet.google.com/tdh-rcmm-cnv">https://meet.google.com/tdh-rcmm-cnv</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Hooper, 508-258-9580;
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0664746f6768286e6969766374466869676728616970"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ae8f8e3ebe4a4e2e5e5faeff8cae4e5ebeba4ede5fc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information, please visit the
NEFSC website at <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-mid-atlantic/population-assessments/fishery-stock-assessments-new-england-and-mid-atlantic">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-mid-atlantic/population-assessments/fishery-stock-assessments-new-england-and-mid-atlantic</a>. For additional information about management track
assessment peer review, please visit the NEFSC web page at <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-mid-atlantic/population-assessments/management-track-stock-assessments">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-mid-atlantic/population-assessments/management-track-stock-assessments</a>.
Daily Meeting Agenda--Management Track Peer Review Meeting
The agenda is subject to change; all times are approximate and may
be changed at the discretion of the Peer Review Chair.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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Time Stock Topic Presenter(s)
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9 a.m............................. ..................... Welcome/Logistics Conduct Brian Hooper, Kristan
of Meeting. Blackhart, Olaf Jenson,
Chair.
9:15 a.m.......................... Bluefish............. Terms of Reference (TOR) Tony Wood, Panel.
Review & Panel Questions.
10:15 a.m......................... Bluefish............. Public Comment............ Public.
10:30 a.m......................... Bluefish............. Panel Deliberations....... Panel.
11 a.m............................ ..................... Break.....................
11:15 a.m......................... Bluefish............. Panel Conclusions/ Panel.
Recommendations and Final
Stock Wrap Up.
11:30 a.m......................... Scup................. TOR Review & Panel Sam Truesdell, Panel.
Questions.
12:30 p.m......................... ..................... Lunch.....................
1:30 p.m.......................... Scup................. Public Comment............ Public.
1:45 p.m.......................... Scup................. Panel Deliberations....... Panel.
2:15 p.m.......................... Scup................. Panel Conclusions/ Panel.
Recommendations and Final
Stock Wrap Up.
2:30 p.m.......................... ..................... Break.....................
2:45 p.m.......................... Summer Flounder...... TOR Review & Panel Sam Truesdell, Panel.
Questions.
3:45 p.m.......................... Summer Flounder...... Public Comment............ Public.
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4 p.m............................. Summer Flounder...... Panel Deliberations....... Panel.
4:30 p.m.......................... Summer Flounder...... Panel Conclusions/ Panel.
Recommendations and Final
Stock Wrap Up.
5 p.m............................. ..................... Adjourn...................
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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Time Stock Topic Presenter(s)
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9 a.m............................. ..................... Welcome/Logistics......... Brian Hooper, Olaf
Jensen, Chair.
9:05 a.m.......................... Black Sea Bass....... TOR Review & Panel Emily Liljestrand, Panel.
Questions.
10:30 a.m......................... Black Sea Bass....... Public Comment............ Public.
10:45 a.m......................... ..................... Break.....................
11 a.m............................ Black Sea Bass....... Panel Deliberations....... Panel.
11:30 a.m......................... Black Sea Bass....... Panel Conclusions/ Panel.
Recommendations and Final
Stock Wrap Up.
12 p.m............................ ..................... Adjourn...................
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Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Special requests should be directed to Brian Hooper, via the email
provided in the ADDRESSES section.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: May 21, 2025.
Kelly Denit,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-09793 Filed 5-29-25; 8:45 am]
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