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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 307]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31557]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XE570]

North Pacific Albacore United States Stakeholder Meeting; Meeting 
Announcement

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: NMFS announces a U.S. stakeholder meeting to discuss North 
Pacific albacore (NPALB) management. This meeting is intended to 
prepare for potential discussions at the 2025 annual meetings of the 
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and Western and Central 
Pacific Fisheries Commission Northern Committee (WCPFC NC) related to 
the results of the Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) for NPALB 
fisheries. The meeting topics are described under the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this notice.

DATES: The virtual meeting will be held on February 20, 2025, from 1 
p.m. to 4 p.m. PST (11 a.m.-2 p.m. HST). You must complete the 
registration process by February 13, 2025, if you plan to attend the 
meeting (see ADDRESSES).

ADDRESSES: If you plan to attend the meeting, which will be held by 
webinar, please register at https://forms.gle/7hDuYGSCtJbnHedS9. 
Instructions for attending the meeting will be emailed to meeting 
participants before the meeting occurs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Reynolds, Pacific Islands 
Regional Office, tel. 808-725-5039 or [email protected] or Tyler 
Lawson, West Coast Region Office, tel. 503-230-5421 at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2024, the WCPFC NC and IATTC requested 
the International Scientific Committee on Tuna and Tuna-like Species in 
the North Pacific Ocean (ISC) provide recommendations to relate fishing 
intensity to catch and/or effort. Additionally, the ISC's Albacore 
Working Group developed criteria for identifying exceptional 
circumstances for the NPALB MSE. This stakeholder meeting is intended 
to discuss these items as well as to prepare for anticipated 
discussions at the IATTC and WCPFC NC in 2025. For more information on 
fishing intensity recommendations and identifying exceptional 
circumstances, please see the ISC24 Plenary Report: https://isc.fra.go.jp/pdf/ISC24/ISC24_Plenary_Report_r1.pdf.

NPALB U.S. Stakeholder Meeting Topics

    The meeting agenda will be distributed to participants in advance 
of the meeting. The meeting agenda will include a discussion on 
translating fishing intensity into catch and/or effort limits for 
NPALB, identifying exceptional circumstances for the NPALB MSE, and 
logbook updates.

Special Accommodations

    Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be indicated when registering for the meeting (see ADDRESSES) by 
February 13, 2025.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 951 et seq., 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., and 16 
U.S.C. 6901 et seq.

    Dated: December 30, 2024.
Kelly Denit,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-31557 Filed 1-2-25; 8:45 am]
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