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August 28, 2018, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. 

Æ New Council Members Oath 

Æ Election of New Officers 

Æ Call to Order 

Æ Adoption of Agenda 

Æ Consideration of 162nd Council 

Meeting Verbatim Transcriptions 

Æ Executive Director’s Report 

Æ Scientific and Statistical Committee 

(SSC)) Meeting Report—Richard 

Appeldoorn 

Æ Island-based Fishery Management 

Plans 

—Review of Draft Environmental 

Impact Statements: 

—Puerto Rico 

—St. Thomas/St. John 

—St. Croix 

—Council selection of preferred 

alternatives 

—Council decision as to whether to 

take DEIS to public hearings 

Æ Spiny Lobster Control Rule 

Public Comment Period (5-minute 

presentations) 

August 28, 2018, 5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. 

Æ Administrative Issues 

Æ Closed Session 

August 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. 

Æ Outreach and Education Report— 

Alida Ortiz 

Æ Lionfish Project Report—Dr. J. Tookes 

Æ Puerto Rico Fisheries Socio-Economic 

Project Update—Dr. T. Seara 

Æ Western Central Atlantic Fishery 

Commission (WECAFC) 

—Overview and Status of Working 

Groups 

—Proposal for a Regional Fishery 

Management (RFMO)—DOS 

Æ 2018 Okeanos Expedition to PR and 

the USVI—Daniel Wagner 

August 29, 2018, 1 p.m.–6 p.m. 

Æ Field Trip to Visit St. Croix Fishing 

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August 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. 

Æ Exempted Fishing Permits (EFPs) 

Summary of Applications and 

Status 

Æ Emergency Location and Removal of 

Lost Fishing Gear in Puerto Rico: 

Avoiding Long Term Impacts of 

Ghost Gear—Raimundo Espinoza. 

Æ Enforcement Issues: 

—Puerto Rico-DNER 

—U.S. Virgin Islands-DPNR 

—U.S. Coast Guard 

—NMFS/NOAA 

Æ Meetings Attended by Council 

Members and Staff 

Æ Other Business 

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presentations) 

Æ Next Meeting 

The order of business may be adjusted 

as necessary to accommodate the 

completion of agenda items. The 

meeting will begin on August 28, 2018 

at 8:30 a.m. Other than the start time, 

interested parties should be aware that 

discussions may start earlier or later 

than indicated. In addition, the meeting 

may be extended from, or completed 

prior to the date established in this 

notice. 

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For more information or request for sign 

language interpretation and other 

auxiliary aids, please contact Mr. 

Miguel A. Rolo ́n, Executive Director, 

Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 

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telephone: (787) 766–5926, at least 5 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: July 31, 2018. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to the Sand Point 

City Dock Replacement Project in Sand 

Point, Alaska 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental 

harassment authorization. 

SUMMARY: NMFS has received a request 

from the Alaska Department of 

Transportation and Public Facilities 

(ADOT&PF) to issue an incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA) 

previously issued to ADOT&PF to 

incidentally take nine species of marine 

mammal, by Level A and Level B 

harassment, during construction 

activities associated with the Sand Point 

City Dock Replacement Project in Sand 

Point, Alaska. ADOT&PF reported that 

the project has been delayed. The IHA 

issued on October 13, 2017 has effective 

dates of August 1, 2018 through July 31, 

2019. ADOT&PF requested that a new 

IHA be issued to conduct their work 

between May 31, 2019 and May 30, 

2020. NMFS is, therefore, issuing a 

second IHA to cover the incidental take 

analyzed and authorized in the first 

IHA. The authorized take numbers 

would be the same as authorized 

previously, and the required mitigation, 

monitoring, and reporting would remain 

the same as authorized for the 2018 IHA 

referenced above. Pursuant to the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA), NMFS is notifying the public 

about the issuance of an IHA to 

ADOT&PF to incidentally take marine 

mammals, by Level A and Level B 

harassment only, during the specified 

activity. 

DATES: The IHA is valid May 31, 2019, 

through May 30, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: An electronic copy of the 

final Authorization previously issued 

for 2018–2019, ADOT&PF’s application, 

and related documents may be obtained 

by visiting https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ 

marine-mammal-protection/incidentaltake-authorizations-constructionactivities. In case of problems accessing 

these documents, please call the contact 

listed below (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rob 

Pauline, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the 

MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) direct 

the Secretary of Commerce (as delegated 

to NMFS) to allow, upon request, the 

incidental, but not intentional, taking of 

small numbers of marine mammals by 

U.S. citizens who engage in a specified 

activity (other than commercial fishing) 

within a specified geographical region if 

certain findings are made and either 

regulations are issued or, if the taking is 

limited to harassment, a notice of a 

proposed authorization is provided to 

the public for review. 

An authorization for incidental 

takings shall be granted if NMFS finds 

that the taking will have a negligible 

impact on the species or stock(s), will 

not have an unmitigable adverse impact 

on the availability of the species or 

stock(s) for subsistence uses (where 

relevant), and if the permissible 

methods of taking and requirements 

pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring 

and reporting of such takings are set 

forth. 

NMFS has defined ‘‘negligible 

impact’’ in 50 CFR 216.103 as an impact 

resulting from the specified activity that 

cannot be reasonably expected to, and is 

not reasonably likely to, adversely affect 

the species or stock through effects on 

annual rates of recruitment or survival. 


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The MMPA states that the term ‘‘take’’ 

means to harass, hunt, capture, kill or 

attempt to harass, hunt, capture, or kill 

any marine mammal. 

Except with respect to certain 

activities not pertinent here, the MMPA 

defines ‘‘harassment’’ as any act of 

pursuit, torment, or annoyance which (i) 

has the potential to injure a marine 

mammal or marine mammal stock in the 

wild (Level A harassment); or (ii) has 

the potential to disturb a marine 

mammal or marine mammal stock in the 

wild by causing disruption of behavioral 

patterns, including, but not limited to, 

migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, 

feeding, or sheltering (Level B 

harassment). 

National Environmental Policy Act 

To comply with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

NOAA Administrative Order (NAO) 

216–6A, NMFS must review our 

proposed action (i.e., the issuance of an 

incidental harassment authorization) 

with respect to potential impacts on the 

human environment. 

This action is consistent with 

categories of activities identified in CE 

B4 of the Companion Manual for NOAA 

Administrative Order 216–6A, which do 

not individually or cumulatively have 

the potential for significant impacts on 

the quality of the human environment 

and for which we have not identified 

any extraordinary circumstances that 

would preclude this categorical 

exclusion. Accordingly, NMFS had 

determined that the issuance of the 

2018–2019 IHA qualified to be 

categorically excluded from further 

NEPA review and signed a Categorical 

Exclusion memo in October 2017. Since 

the new 2019–2020 IHA covers the same 

work covered in the former 2018–2019 

IHA, NMFS is relying on this same 

Categorical Exclusion memo for the 

issuance of this IHA. 

History of Request 

On September 16, 2016, NMFS 

received an application from ADOT&PF 

for the taking of marine mammals 

incidental to replacing the city dock in 

Sand Point, Alaska. On April 11, 2017, 

ADOT&PF submitted a revised 

application that NMFS determined was 

adequate and complete. ADOT&PF 

proposed to conduct in-water activities 

that may incidentally take, by Level A 

and Level B harassment, nine species of 

marine mammals. Proposed activities 

included as part of the Sand Point City 

Dock Replacement Project with 

potential to affect marine mammals 

include impact hammer pile driving and 

vibratory pile driving and removal. We 

published a notice of a proposed IHA 

and request for comments on July 6, 

2017 (82 FR 31400). We subsequently 

published the final notice of our 

issuance of the IHA on October 23, 2017 

(82 FR 48987), making the IHA valid for 

August 1, 2018–July 31, 2019. The 

specified activities are expected to 

result in the take of nine species of 

marine mammals including harbor seal 

(Phoca vitulina), Steller sea lion 

(Eumetopias jubatus), harbor porpoise 

(Phocoena phocoena), Dall’s porpoise 

(Phocoenoides dalli), killer whale 

(Orcinus orca), humpback whale 

(Megaptera novaeangliae), Fin whale 

(Balaenoptera physalus), gray whale 

(Eschrichtius robustus), and minke 

whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). 

On April 24, 2018, ADOT&PF 

informed NMFS that work would be 

postponed relevant to the specified 

activity considered in the MMPA 

analysis and construction will not start 

until spring of 2019. Therefore, 

ADOT&PF requested the IHA be reissued to be valid from May 31, 2019 

through May 30, 2020. 

Description of the Proposed Activity 

and Anticipated Impacts 

The 2018–2019 IHA covered the 

construction of a new dock in Sand 

Point, Alaska. Impact and vibratory 

driving of piles and vibratory pile 

removal were expected to take place 

over a total of approximately 32 working 

days within a 5-month window from 

August 1, 2019 through December 31, 

2019. However, due to the potential for 

unexpected delays, up to 40 working 

days may be required. The new dock 

would be supported by approximately 

52 round, 30-inch-diameter, 100-footlong permanent steel pipe piles. Fender 

piles installed at the dock face would 

consist of 8 round, 24-inch-diameter, 

80-foot-long permanent steel pipe piles. 

The single mooring dolphin would 

consist of 3 round, 24-inch-diameter, 

120-foot-long permanent battered steel 

pipe piles. This equates to a total of 63 

permanent piles. Up to 90 temporary 

piles would be installed and removed 

during construction of the dock and 

would be either H-piles or pipe piles 

with a diameter of less than 24 inches. 

NMFS refers the reader to the 

documents related to the previously 

issued IHA for more detailed 

description of the project activities. 

These previous documents include the 

Federal Register notice of the issuance 

of the 2018–2019 IHA for ADOT&PF’s 

Sand Point City Dock Replacement 

Project (82 FR 48987; October 23, 2017), 

ADOT&PF’s application, the Federal 

Register notice of the proposed IHA (82 

FR 31400; July 6, 2017) and all 

associated references and documents. 

Detailed Description of the Action—A 

detailed description of the proposed 

vibratory and impact pile driving 

activities at Sand Point City Dock is 

found in these previous documents. The 

location, timing (including the August 

1, 2019—December 31 2019 work 

window), and nature of the pile driving 

operations, including the type and size 

of piles and the methods of pile driving, 

are identical to those described in the 

previous notices. 

Description of Marine Mammals—A 

description of the marine mammals in 

the area of the activities is found in 

these previous documents, which 

remains applicable to this IHA as well. 

In addition, NMFS has reviewed recent 

draft Stock Assessment Reports, 

information on relevant Unusual 

Mortality Events, and recent scientific 

literature, and determined that no new 

information affects our original analysis 

of impacts under the current IHA. 

Potential Effects on Marine 

Mammals—A description of the 

potential effects of the specified 

activities on marine mammals and their 

habitat is found in these previous 

documents, which remains applicable to 

this IHA. There is no new information 

on potential effects. 

Estimated Take—A description of the 

methods and inputs used to estimate 

take anticipated to occur and, 

ultimately, the take that was authorized 

is found in these previous documents. 

The methods of estimating take are 

identical to those used in the previous 

IHA, as is the density of marine 

mammals. The source levels, were also 

unchanged from the previously issued 

IHA, and NMFS’ 2016 acoustic 

technical guidance was used to address 

new acoustic thresholds in the notice of 

issuance of the 2018 IHA. 

Description of Proposed Mitigation, 

Monitoring and Reporting Measures—A 

description of proposed mitigation, 

monitoring, and reporting measures is 

found in the previous documents, 

which are identical in this issued IHA. 

The following measures would apply to 

ADOT&PFs mitigation requirements: 

Establishment of Shutdown Zone— 

For all pile driving activities, ADOT&PF 

will establish a shutdown zone. The 

purpose of a shutdown zone is generally 

to define an area within which 

shutdown of activity would occur upon 

sighting of a marine mammal (or in 

anticipation of an animal entering the 

defined area). In this case, shutdown 

zones are intended to contain areas in 

which SPLs equal or exceed acoustic 

injury criteria for some authorized 

species, based on NMFS’ acoustic 


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technical guidance published in the 

Federal Register on August 4, 2016 (81 

FR 51693). 

Establishment of Monitoring Zones— 

ADOT&PF will identify Level A take 

zones which are areas beyond the 

shutdown zones where animals may be 

exposed to sound levels that could 

result in permanent threshold shift 

(PTS). During impact installation of 30- 

inch and 24-inch piles, a 100-meter 

shutdown zone would not be sufficient 

to prevent Level A take of lowfrequency cetaceans (i.e., humpback 

whales), high-frequency cetaceans (i.e., 

harbor porpoises), or phocid pinnipeds 

(i.e., harbor seals). For this reason, Level 

A take for small numbers of humpback 

whales, harbor porpoises, and harbor 

seals is authorized. To account for 

potential variations in daily 

productivity during impact installation, 

isopleths were calculated for different 

numbers of piles that could be installed 

each day. ADOT&PF will identify Level 

B disturbance zones which are areas 

where SPLs equal or exceed 160 dB rms 

for impact driving and 120 dB rms 

during vibratory driving. Observation of 

monitoring zones enables observers to 

be aware of and communicate the 

presence of marine mammals in the 

project area and outside the shutdown 

zone and thus prepare for potential 

shutdowns of activity. NMFS has 

established monitoring protocols 

described in the Federal Register notice 

of the issuance (82 FR 48987; October 

23, 2017) which are based on the 

distance and size of the monitoring and 

shutdown zones. The same protocols are 

contained in this 2019–2020 IHA. 

Soft Start—The use of a soft-start 

procedure is believed to provide 

additional protection to marine 

mammals by providing warning and/or 

giving marine mammals a chance to 

leave the area prior to the hammer 

operating at full capacity. For impact 

pile driving, contractors will be required 

to implement soft start procedures. Soft 

Start is not required during vibratory 

pile driving and removal activities. 

Pre-Activity Monitoring—Prior to the 

start of daily in-water construction 

activity, or whenever a break in pile 

driving of 30 minutes or longer occurs, 

the observer will observe the shutdown 

and monitoring zones for a period of 30 

minutes. The shutdown zone will be 

cleared when a marine mammal has not 

been observed within zone for that 30- 

minute period. If a marine mammal is 

observed within the shutdown zone, a 

soft-start cannot proceed until the 

animal has left the zone or has not been 

observed for 30 minutes for medium 

and large-sized odontocetes and 

mysticetes and 15 minutes for small 

cetaceans and pinnipeds. 

Visual Marine Mammal 

Observation—Monitoring will be 

conducted by qualified marine mammal 

observers (MMOs), who are trained 

biologists, with minimum qualifications 

described in the Federal Register notice 

of the issuance of the 2018–2019 IHA 

(82 FR 48987; October 23, 2017). In 

order to effectively monitor the pile 

driving monitoring zones, two MMOs 

will be positioned at the best practical 

vantage point(s). If waters exceed a seastate which restricts the observers’ 

ability to make observations within 100 

m of the pile driving activity (e.g., 

excessive wind or fog), pile installation 

and removal will cease. Pile driving will 

not be initiated until the entire 

shutdown zone is visible. MMOs shall 

record specific information on the 

sighting forms as described in the 

Federal Register notice of the issuance 

of the 2018–2019 IHA (82 FR 48987; 

October 23, 2017). At the conclusion of 

the in-water construction work, 

ADOT&PF will provide NMSF with a 

monitoring report which includes 

summaries of recorded takes and 

estimates of the number of marine 

mammals that may have been harassed. 

Determinations 

ADOT&PF proposes to conduct 

activities identical to those covered in 

the previous 2018 IHA. As described 

above, the number of estimated takes of 

the same stocks of marine mammals is 

the same as those authorized in the 2018 

IHA that were found to meet the 

negligible impact and small numbers 

standards. The authorized take of 

marine mammal species is shown in 

Table 1. Our analysis shows that 

between <0.01 percent and 2.89 percent 

of the populations of affected stocks 

could be taken by harassment. 

Therefore, the numbers of animals 

authorized to be taken for all species 

would be considered small relative to 

the relevant stocks or populations. 

TABLE 11—SUMMARY OF THE ESTIMATED NUMBERS OF MARINE MAMMALS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED TO LEVEL A AND

LEVEL B HARASSMENT NOISE LEVELS

Species (DPS/stock) 

Estimated 

number of 

individuals 

potentially 

exposed to 

the level A 

harassment 

threshold 

Estimated 

number of 

individuals 

potentially 

exposed to 

the level B 

harassment 

threshold 

DPS/stock bundance 

(DPS/stock) 

Percent of population 

exposed to level A 

or level B thresholds 

Steller sea lion (wDPS) ............................................................ 0 960 50,983 ....................... 1.88 

Harbor seal (Cook Inlet/Shelikof Strait) ................................... 27 53 27,386 ....................... 0.29 

Harbor porpoise (Gulf of Alaska) ............................................. 16 33 31,046 ....................... 0.16 

Dall’s porpoise (Alaska) ........................................................... 0 4 83,400 ....................... <0.01 

Killer whale (Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Bering 

Sea transient or Alaska resident).

0 14 587 (transient) ...........

2,347 (resident) .........

2.38 (transient) 

0.6 (resident) 

Humpback whale 1 (Central North Pacific/Western North Pacific).2 30 10,103 (Central NP) ..

1,107 (Western NP) ..

0.32 

2.89 

Fin whale (Northeast Pacific) ................................................... 0 6 2 1,368 ....................... 0.44 

Gray whale (Eastern North Pacific) ......................................... 0 2 20,990 ....................... <0.01 

Minke whale (Alaska) ............................................................... 0 3 3 2,020 ....................... <0.01 

Total .................................................................................. 45 1,105 N/A ............................ N/A. 

1The Hawaii DPS is estimated to account for approximately 89 percent of all humpback whales in the Gulf of Alaska, whereas the Mexico and 

Western North Pacific DPSs account for approximately 10.5% and 0.5%, respectively (Wade et al., 2016; NMFS 2016). Therefore, an estimated 

28 animals from Hawaii DPS; 3 from Mexico DPS; and 1 from Western North Pacific DPS. 2Based on 2010 survey of animals north and west of Kenai Peninsula in U.S. waters and is likely an underestimate (Muto et al., 2016b). 3Based on 2010 survey on Eastern Bering Sea shelf. Considered provisional and not representative of abundance of entire stock (Muto et al., 

2016a). 

N/A: Not Applicable. 


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This final IHA includes identical 

required mitigation, monitoring, and 

reporting measures as the 2018 IHA, and 

there is no new information suggesting 

that our analysis or findings should 

change. 

Based on the information contained 

here and in the referenced documents, 

NMFS has determined the following: (1) 

The required mitigation measures will 

effect the least practicable impact on 

marine mammal species or stocks and 

their habitat; (2) the authorized takes 

will have a negligible impact on the 

affected marine mammal species or 

stocks; (3) the authorized takes 

represent small numbers of marine 

mammals relative to the affected stock 

abundances; and (4) ADOT&PF’s 

activities will not have an unmitigable 

adverse impact on taking for subsistence 

purposes as no relevant subsistence uses 

of marine mammals are implicated by 

this action. 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) 

Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973 (ESA: 16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.) requires that each Federal 

agency insure that any action it 

authorizes, funds, or carries out is not 

likely to jeopardize the continued 

existence of any endangered or 

threatened species or result in the 

destruction or adverse modification of 

designated critical habitat. To ensure 

ESA compliance for the issuance of 

IHAs, NMFS consults internally 

whenever we propose to authorize take 

for endangered or threatened species. 

In order to comply with the ESA, 

NMFS Alaska Regional Office (AKR) 

Protected Resources Division issued a 

Biological Opinion in September 2017 

under section 7 of the ESA, on the 

issuance of an IHA to ADOT&PF under 

section 101(a)(5)(D) of the MMPA. There 

are four distinct population segments 

(DPSs) of three marine mammal species 

that are listed under the ESA with 

confirmed or possible occurrence in the 

study area: The Western North Pacific 

DPS and Mexico DPS of humpback 

whale; the Western DPS of Steller sea 

lion; and fin whale. The Biological 

Opinion concluded that while the 

issuance of the authorization may 

adversely affect members of some listed 

species it is not likely to jeopardize the 

continued existence of any listed marine 

mammal species or destroy or modify 

any critical habitat. Note that the only 

modification to the IHA is a change in 

effective dates. No additional take has 

been requested or is being authorized 

and all mitigation measures described in 

the Biological Opinion will continue to 

be implemented to limit Level A and 

Level B exposures. For these reasons, 

we anticipate no new or changed effects 

of the action beyond what was 

considered in the 2017 Biological 

Opinion. 

Authorization 

NMFS has issued an IHA to 

ADOT&PF for the Sand Point City Dock 

Replacement Project for 2019–2020, 

provided the previously described 

mitigation, monitoring, and reporting 

requirements from the 2018–2019 IHA 

are incorporated. 

Dated: August 1, 2018. 

Elaine T. Saiz, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Meeting of the Columbia Basin 

Partnership Task Force of the Marine 

Fisheries Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

proposed schedule and agenda of a 

forthcoming meeting of the Marine 

Fisheries Advisory Committee’s 

(MAFAC’s) Columbia Basin Partnership 

Task Force (CBP Task Force). The CBP 

Task Force will discuss the issues 

outlined in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION below. 

DATES: The meeting will be held August 

22, 2018, 1–4 p.m., Pacific Time. 

ADDRESSES: There is no public access. 

Meeting is by conference call. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine Cheney; NFMS West Coast 

Region; 503–231–6730; email: 

Katherine.Cheney@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given of a meeting of MAFAC’s 

CBP Task Force. The MAFAC was 

established by the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary), and, since 1971, 

advises the Secretary on all living 

marine resource matters that are the 

responsibility of the Department of 

Commerce. The MAFAC charter and 

summaries of prior MAFAC meetings 

are located online at https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/ 

partners#marine-fisheries-advisorycommittee. The CBP Task Force reports 

to MAFAC and is being convened to 

develop recommendations for long-term 

goals to meet Columbia Basin salmon 

recovery, conservation needs, and 

harvest opportunities, in the context of 

habitat capacity and other factors that 

affect salmon mortality. More 

information is available at the CBP Task 

Force web page: http://

www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/ 

columbia_river/index.html. 

Matters To Be Considered 

The Committee is convening to 

discuss feedback from CBP Task Force 

members as they shared provisional 

goals with their constituents and 

communities; drafting of their 

recommendations and report; and next 

steps for the CBP Task Force. 

Time and Date 

The meeting is scheduled for August 

22, 2018, 1–4 p.m., Pacific Time by 

conference call and webinar. Access 

information for the public will be 

posted at http://

www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/ 

columbia_river/index.html by August 8, 

2018. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for auxiliary aids should be 

directed to Katherine Cheney, 503–231– 

6730 by August 8, 2018. 

Dated: August 1, 2018. 

Jennifer L. Lukens, 

Federal Program Officer, Marine Fisheries 

Advisory Committee, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

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Determination of Overfishing or an 

Overfished Condition 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This action serves as a notice 

that NMFS, on behalf of the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary), has found that 

the following stocks are overfished or 

subject to overfishing. Klamath River 

fall-run Chinook salmon, Queets coho 

salmon, Juan de Fuca coho salmon, 

Snohomish coho salmon, and 


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