12984 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 48 / Thursday, March 12, 2015 / Notices 

Dated: March 6, 2015. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

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Administration 

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Pacific Fishery Management Council; 

Nearshore Species’ Assessment 

Workshop 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public workshop. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Pacific Council) 

will sponsor a nearshore species 

assessment workshop to evaluate catch 

data and proposed catch-per-unit-effort 

(CPUE) indices for 2015 west coast 

groundfish stock assessments for black 

rockfish, China rockfish, and kelp 

greenling off Oregon. The Nearshore 

Species Assessment Workshop is open 

to the public. 

DATES: The Nearshore Species 

Assessment Workshop will commence 

at 1 p.m. PT, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 

and will continue through 5:30 p.m. or 

as necessary to complete business for 

the day. The workshop will continue on 

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 and 

Thursday, April 2, 2015 beginning at 

8:30 a.m. and ending at 5:30 p.m. each 

day, or as necessary to complete 

business. 

ADDRESSES: The Nearshore Species 

Assessment Workshop will be held at 

the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, 

8235 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR 

97220; telephone: (503) 281–2500. The 

workshop will be held in the Cascade 

A/B Room on March 31 and April 1, and 

will move to the Garden A/B Room on 

April 2. 

Council address: Pacific Council, 

7700 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 101, 

Portland, OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John DeVore, Pacific Council; 

telephone: (503) 820–2413. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the Nearshore Species 

Assessment Workshop is to evaluate 

available catch and effort data proposed 

for developing CPUE indices to inform 

2015 groundfish stock assessments for 

black and China rockfish, as well as the 

population of kelp greenling off Oregon. 

Recommendations regarding the data 

available for use in developing CPUE 

indices for black rockfish, China 

rockfish, and kelp greenling will be 

forwarded to Stock Assessment Teams 

that will be conducting the assessments 

for their consideration in preparing 

these assessments scheduled for formal 

review later in 2015. Other data and 

approaches to assessing the abundance 

and productivity of west coast black 

rockfish, China rockfish, and kelp 

greenling may also be discussed at the 

Nearshore Species Assessment 

Workshop. No management actions will 

be decided in this workshop. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

identified in the workshop agenda may 

come before the workshop participants 

for discussion, those issues may not be 

the subject of formal action during this 

workshop. Formal action at the 

workshop 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 workshop participants’ intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. 

Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 820–2425 at 

least 5 days prior to the workshop date. 

Dated: March 6, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Administration 

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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 

Ecosystem Based Fishery Management 

Committee 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, March 30, 2015 at 1 p.m. and 

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring 

Street, Portland, ME 04101; telephone: 

(207) 775–2311; fax: (207) 772–4017 

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: The 

Oversight Committee will evaluate 

available procedures to develop and 

implement Ecosystem Based Fisheries 

Management (EBFM) policy, based on a 

staff discussion document. To provide 

feedback to the EBFM Plan 

Development Team, the committee will 

discuss progress on developing 

scientific advice on modifying the 

Atlantic herring Acceptable Biological 

Catch control rule in Draft Amendment 

8 to account for forage considerations 

and herring’s role in the ecosystem. 

Finally, the committee will develop a 

letter commenting on NOAA Fisheries 

Draft Climate Strategy (documents 

available at http://www.nefmc.org/

library/briefing-on-noaa-fisheries-draftclimate-science-strategy). 

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 

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 

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. 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: March 6, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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