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operate to the disadvantage of such 

endangered species; and (3) are 

consistent with the purposes and 

policies set forth in Section 2 of the 

ESA. 

Authority: The requested permits 

have been issued under the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216), the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 

et seq.), and the regulations governing 

the taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR parts 222–226), as applicable. 

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Julia Marie Harrison, 

Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service. 

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RIN 0648–XG283 

North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council (NPFMC); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will host 

an Assessment Methods Workshop in 

June. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, June 27, 2018, from 8 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. and on Thursday, June 28, 

2018, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Traynor Room, Building 4 at the 

Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7700 

Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115. 

Teleconference number: 1–877–953– 

3919 (PP: 5944500). 

Council address: North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council, 605 W 

4th Ave., Suite 306, Anchorage, AK 

99501–2252; telephone (907) 271–2809. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diana Stram, Council staff; telephone: 

(907) 271–2801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

Wednesday, June 27 and Thursday, 

June 28, 2018 

The workshop will review ensemble 

stock assessment modeling and evaluate 

how it fits in the NPFMC system. To 

also discuss considerations for 

potentially reducing an ABC from the 

maximum to account for observations 

and uncertainties not included in the 

assessment model or Tier system; and 

produce recommendations and a report 

to be considered by the September Joint 

Groundfish Plan Team. The Agenda is 

subject to change, and the latest version 

will be posted at http://www.npfmc. 

org/. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Shannon Gleason 

at (907) 271–2809 at least 7 working 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public meeting of its 

Fishery Data for Stock Assessment 

Working Group to consider actions 

affecting New England fisheries in the 

exclusive economic zone (EEZ). 

Recommendations from this group will 

be brought to the full Council for formal 

consideration and action, if appropriate. 

DATES: This meeting will be held on 

Monday, June 25, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the School for Marine Science and 

Technology (UMASS Dartmouth), 836 

South Rodney French Boulevard, New 

Bedford, MA 02744; telephone: (508) 

999–8193. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

The Fishery Data for Stock 

Assessment Working Group will present 

and discuss work to address the group’s 

four main deliverables; begin 

discussions on working group 

recommendations and address other 

business as necessary. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meetings. 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 MagnusonStevens Act, provided the public has 

been notified of the Council’s intent to 

take final action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. This meeting 

will be recorded. Consistent with 16 

U.S.C. 1852, a copy of the recording is 

available upon request. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at 

(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Fisheries of the South Atlantic; 

Southeast Data, Assessment, and 

Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 60 Data 

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SUMMARY: The SEDAR 60 assessment of 

the South Atlantic stock of Red Porgy 

will consist of a series of webinars and 

an in-person workshop. See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

DATES: A SEDAR 60 Data Scoping 

webinar will be held on Friday, June 29, 

2018, from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES:

Meeting address: The meeting will be 

held via webinar. The webinar is open 

to members of the public. Those 

interested in participating should 

contact Julia Byrd at SEDAR (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) to 

request an invitation providing webinar 

access information. Please request 

webinar invitations at least 24 hours in 

advance of each webinar. 

SEDAR address: South Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 4055 

Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, 

N Charleston, SC 29405. 

www.sedarweb.org. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julia 

Byrd, SEDAR Coordinator, 4055 Faber 

Place Drive, Suite 201, North 

Charleston, SC 29405; phone: (843) 571– 

4366; email: julia.byrd@safmc.net. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf 

of Mexico, South Atlantic, and 

Caribbean Fishery Management 

Councils, in conjunction with NOAA 

Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf 

States Marine Fisheries Commissions, 

have implemented the Southeast Data, 

Assessment and Review (SEDAR) 

process, a multi-step method for 

determining the status of fish stocks in 

the Southeast Region. The product of 

the SEDAR webinar series will be a 

report which compiles and evaluates 

potential datasets and recommends 

which datasets are appropriate for 

assessment analyses, and describes the 

fisheries, evaluates the status of the 

stock, estimates biological benchmarks, 

projects future population conditions, 

and recommends research and 

monitoring needs. Participants for 

SEDAR Workshops are appointed by the 

Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and 

Caribbean Fishery Management 

Councils and NOAA Fisheries Southeast 

Regional Office, Highly Migratory 

Species Management Division, and 

Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 

Participants include: Data collectors and 

database managers; stock assessment 

scientists, biologists, and researchers; 

constituency representatives including 

fishermen, environmentalists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); 

international experts; and staff of 

Councils, Commissions, and state and 

federal agencies. 

The items of discussion in the Data 

Scoping webinar are as follows: 

Participants will identify who will be 

providing updated and/or new datasets. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

identified 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 to take final action 

to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is accessible to people 

with disabilities. Requests for auxiliary 

aids should be directed to the SAFMC 

office (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 

business days prior to the meeting. 

Note: The times and sequence specified in 

this agenda are subject to change. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Pacific Fishery Management Council; 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery 

Management Council’s (Pacific Council) 

adhoc Sablefish Management and Trawl 

Allocation Attainment Committee 

(SaMTAAC) will hold a meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held Friday, 

June 29, 2018, starting at 8 a.m. and will 

end when business for the day has been 

completed. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Waterton Hotel, 4242 Roosevelt Way 

NE, Seattle, WA 98105; telephone: (206) 

826–4242. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Jim Seger, Pacific Council; telephone: 

(503) 820–2416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This will 

be the first SaMTAAC meeting and its 

primary purpose is to orient the 

SaMTAAC and its advisors around to its 

charge, review information and 

alternatives already developed, and 

identify additional information that may 

be helpful to the committee for its first 

full meeting. The committee’s charge is 

as follows: Identifying obstacles to 

achieving the goals and objectives of the 

catch share plan related to under 

attainment of non-sablefish trawl 

allocations and unharvested sablefish 

quota pounds (QP) south of 36° N 

latitude. As appropriate to overcome 

identified obstacles, the committee will 

discuss and develop options, including 

but not limited to, actions that may 

modify rules for gear switching by trawl 

permit holders and QP leasing to vessels 

using fixed gear, as well as options that 

may encourage increased utilization of 

sablefish QPs south of 36° N latitude. 

Although non-emergency 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 

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 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. 

Kris Kleinschmidt at kris.kleinschmidt@

noaa.gov or (503) 820–2411 at least 10 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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