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office (see ADDRESSES) at least 10 

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: April 7, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

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 public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Pacific Council) 

will convene a Stock Assessment 

Review (STAR) Panel meeting to review 

the Pacific mackerel stock assessment. 

DATES: The STAR Panel meeting will be 

held Monday, April 27 through 

Wednesday, April 29, 2015. That 

meeting will begin the first day at 9 a.m. 

and at 8 a.m. each subsequent day. The 

meeting will conclude each day at 5 

p.m. or when business for the day has 

been completed. 

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held 

in the Pacific Conference Room of the 

NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science 

Center, 8901 La Jolla Shores Dr., La 

Jolla, CA 92037–1508. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kerry Griffin, Staff Officer; telephone: 

(503) 820–2409. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

primary purpose of the meeting is to 

review a full stock assessment for 

Pacific mackerel. The review panel will 

consist of two members of the Council’s 

Scientific and Statistical Committee’s 

Subcommittee on Coastal Pelagic 

Species, plus two independent experts. 

The Council will use the 2015 

assessment to establish Pacific mackerel 

fishery management measures and 

harvest specifications for both the 2015– 

16 and the 2016–17 fishing years. The 

Pacific mackerel fishing year begins July 

1 and ends the following June 30 each 

year. Representatives of the Council’s 

CPS Management Team and the CPS 

Advisory Subpanel will also participate 

in the review, as advisers. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, in 

accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Actions 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 

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 Mr. 

Dale Sweetnam, (858) 546–7170, at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: April 6, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold a workshop in conjunction with a 

joint meeting of the Council’s Mackerel, 

Squid, and Butterfish Advisory Panel 

and Ecosystems and Ocean Planning 

Advisory Panel. The purpose of the 

workshop is to refine spatial alternatives 

for deep sea coral protection zones for 

inclusion the Council’s Deep Sea Corals 

Amendment. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 through 

Thursday, April 30, 2015. For agenda 

details, see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at: 

Doubletree by Hilton BWI, 890 Elkridge 

Landing Road, Linthicum, MD 21090; 

telephone: (410) 859–8060. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N. State St., 

Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: 

(302) 674–2331. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D. Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council; telephone: (302) 

526–5255. The Council’s Web site, 

www.mafmc.org also has details on the 

meeting location, proposed agenda, and 

briefing materials. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

workshop will address spatial options 

for discrete coral protection zones 

proposed under the Council’s Deep Sea 

Corals Amendment to the Mackerel, 

Squid, and Butterfish Fishery 

Management Plan. The Council is 

developing this amendment to address 

the potential impacts of fishing activity 

on deep sea corals in the Mid-Atlantic. 

The Council will solicit the input of the 

Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish 

Advisory Panel, the Ecosystems and 

Ocean Planning Advisory Panel, 

members of the Fishery Management 

Action Team (FMAT), additional deep 

sea coral experts, and additional fishing 

industry participants in order to refine 

the current proposed boundaries and 

review alternative boundary proposals. 

The workshop will consist of a halfday meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 

from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and continue on 

Thursday, April 30, from 9 a.m. to 3 

p.m. Prior to the meeting, a detailed 

agenda and briefing materials will be 

posted on the Council’s Web site at: 

http://www.mafmc.org/. Background 

information and documents for the 

amendment can be found at: http://

www.mafmc.org/actions/msb/am16. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aid 

should be directed to M. Jan Saunders, 

(302) 526–5251, at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. 

Dated: April 7, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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