Notice2025-14044
Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
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Published
July 25, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Groundfish Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will convene an in-person meeting to review 2025 groundfish stock assessments. The full SSC will convene an advance virtual meeting to review the recommendations of the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee for a subset of 2025 groundfish stock assessments, in addition to those reviewed during the September Pacific Council meeting. Both the full SSC and the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee meetings are open to the public with a web broadcast that provides the opportunity for remote listening and public comment.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 141 (Friday, July 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35283-35284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14044]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XF077]
Pacific Fishery Management Council; 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: The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council)
Groundfish Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee
(SSC) will convene an in-person meeting to review 2025 groundfish stock
assessments. The full SSC will convene an advance virtual meeting to
review the recommendations of the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee for a
subset of 2025 groundfish stock assessments, in addition to those
reviewed during the September Pacific Council meeting. Both the full
SSC and the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee meetings are open to the public
with a web broadcast that provides the opportunity for remote listening
and public comment.
DATES: The SSC Groundfish Subcommittee's meeting will be held Tuesday,
August 12, 2025, from 8 a.m. Pacific Time until business for the day is
completed, and reconvenes Wednesday, August 13, 2025, from 8 a.m.
Pacific Time until business for the day has been completed. The SSC
meeting will be held Wednesday, September 3, 2025, from 1 p.m. Pacific
Time until 5 p.m. or until business for the day is completed.
ADDRESSES: The SSC Groundfish Subcommittee meeting will be held at the
University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS)
Room 203, 1122 NE Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98195; telephone: (206) 543-
4270.
The full SSC meeting will be held virtually with an opportunity for
remote public comment.
Specific meeting information, materials, and instructions for how
to connect to these meetings remotely will be provided in the meeting
announcement on the Pacific Council's website (see <a href="http://www.pcouncil.org">www.pcouncil.org</a>).
In the event an outage occurs, or technical issues arise that impact
the experience of remote attendees, we will attempt to resolve them but
ultimately, we cannot guarantee that they will be resolved
satisfactorily.
Please send an email to Kris Kleinschmidt
(<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c4afb6adb7eaafa8a1adaab7a7aca9ada0b084b4a7abb1aaa7ada8eaabb6a3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0269706b712c696e676b6c71616a6f6b66764272616d776c616b6e2c6d7065">[email protected]</span></a>) or contact via phone at (503) 820-2412
for technical assistance.
Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, P.O. 97220.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marlene A. Bellman, Staff Officer,
Pacific Council; telephone: (503) 820-2414;
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#91fcf0e3fdf4fff4bff3f4fdfdfcf0ffd1e1f2fee4fff2f8fdbffee3f6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="630e02110f060d064d01060f0f0e020d2313000c160d000a0f4d0c1104">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SSC's Groundfish Subcommittee will
review full benchmark assessments and stock assessment review (STAR)
reports for yellowtail rockfish in the area North of 40[deg]10' N
latitude, quillback rockfish off California, chilipepper rockfish,
rougheye/blackspotted rockfish, and sablefish. They will also review
two update stock assessments for yelloweye rockfish and widow rockfish.
Lastly, catch-only projections for petrale sole, canary rockfish,
shortspine thornyhead, darkblotched rockfish, black rockfish off
Oregon, and bocaccio will be reviewed. The SSC Groundfish Subcommittee
will prepare their recommendations for the SSC and Pacific Council
consideration at their meetings in September.
During the online meeting September 3, 2025, the SSC will review
2025 full benchmark assessments and stock assessment review (STAR)
reports for yellowtail rockfish in the area North of 40[deg]10' N
latitude, quillback rockfish off California, and chilipepper rockfish.
The remainder of the 2025 full and update stock assessments and catch-
only projections will be reviewed by the SSC at the September 2025
Council meeting in Spokane, WA.
Assessment recommendations may include endorsing these new stock
assessments for management use or requesting further analyses to be
reviewed at the late September Supplemental Review panel (this process
is outlined in the Pacific Council's Terms of Reference for the
Groundfish Stock Assessment Review Process for 2025-2026 which can be
found at <a href="https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/06/terms-of-reference-for-the-groundfish-stock-assessment-review-process-for-2025-2026-june-2024.pdf/">https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/06/terms-of-reference-for-the-groundfish-stock-assessment-review-process-for-2025-2026-june-2024.pdf/</a>).
Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agendas
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action
during these meetings. Action will be restricted to
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those issues specifically listed in this document and any issues
arising after publication of this document 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 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#7e150c170d5015121b17100d1d1613171a0a3e0e1d110b101d171250110c19"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0a617863792461666f636479696267636e7e4a7a69657f646963662465786d">[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 22, 2025.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-14044 Filed 7-24-25; 8:45 am]
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