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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. SEDAR is a three 

step process including: (1) Data 

Workshop; (2) Assessment Process 

utilizing webinars; and (3) Review 

Workshop. The product of the Data 

Workshop is a data report which 

compiles and evaluates potential 

datasets and recommends which 

datasets are appropriate for assessment 

analyses. The product of the Assessment 

Process is a stock assessment report 

which describes the fisheries, evaluates 

the status of the stock, estimates 

biological benchmarks, projects future 

population conditions, and recommends 

research and monitoring needs. The 

assessment is independently peer 

reviewed at the Review Workshop. The 

product of the Review Workshop is a 

Summary documenting panel opinions 

regarding the strengths and weaknesses 

of the stock assessment and input data. 

Participants for SEDAR Workshops are 

appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South 

Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery 

Management Councils and NOAA 

Fisheries Southeast Regional Office, 

HMS 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 

Workshop agenda are as follows: 

1. An assessment data set and 

associated documentation will be 

developed. 

2. Participants will evaluate all 

available data and select appropriate 

sources for providing information on 

life history characteristics, catch 

statistics, discard estimates, length and 

age composition, and fishery dependent 

and fishery independent measures of 

stock abundance, as specified in the 

Terms of Reference for the workshop. 

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 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for auxiliary aids should be 

directed to the council office (see 

ADDRESSES) three (3) 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: October 22, 2014. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD576 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council’s (Council) 

Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea 

Bass Monitoring Committee will hold a 

public meeting, jointly with the Atlantic 

States Marine Fisheries Commission’s 

(ASMFC’s) Summer Flounder, Scup, 

and Black Sea Bass Technical 

Committee. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, from 

12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., on Thursday, 

November 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., 

and on Friday, November 14, from 8:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for meeting topics. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Doubletree by Hilton BWI Airport, 

890 Elkridge Landing Road, Linthicum, 

MD 21090; telephone: (410)-859–8060. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N. State 

Street, 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, 800 N. State 

Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; 

telephone: (302) 526–5255. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council’s 

Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea 

Bass Monitoring Committee, together 

with the Atlantic States Marine 

Fisheries Commission’s Technical 

Committee, will meet from Wednesday, 

November 12 through Friday, November 

14 (see DATES and ADDRESSES). Topics to 

be addressed include: 

1. Review of updates to a statistical 

model for recommending recreational 

management measures; 

2. Monitoring Committee 

recommendations for recreational 

management measures for the summer 

flounder, scup, and black sea bass 

fisheries for the 2015 fishing year; 

3. Technical Committee review of 

fishery independent indices for black 

sea bass. 

A detailed agenda and background 

documents will be made available on 

the Council’s Web site (www.mafmc.org) 

prior to the meeting. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to M. 

Jan Saunders at the Mid-Atlantic 

Council Office, (302) 526–5251, at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: October 21, 2014. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South 

Atlantic Fishery Management Council 

(SAFMC); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council’s (Council) 

Oculina Experimental Closed Area 

Evaluation Team will meet to discuss 

the Oculina Evaluation Team Report. 

The meeting will be held via webinar. 

See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 


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DATES: The webinar will be held on 

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, from 1 

p.m. until 4 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 Chip Collier at the Council 

office (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT below) to request an invitation 

providing webinar access information. 

Please request webinar invitations at 

least 24 hours in advance of the 

webinar. 

Council address: South Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 4055 

Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N. 

Charleston, SC 29405. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chip Collier, Fishery Biologist; 

telephone: (843) 571–4366; email: 

chip.collier@safmc.net. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Council extended the snapper grouper 

bottom fishing restrictions for the 

Oculina Experimental Closed Area 

(OECA) for an indefinite period in 

Snapper Grouper Amendment 13A. The 

amendment required that the size and 

configuration of the OECA be reviewed 

within 3 years of the implementation 

date of 13A and that a 10-year reevaluation be conducted. The Oculina 

Evaluation Team is meeting to review 

and provide final recommendations for 

the ongoing research and monitoring, 

outreach, and law enforcement 

components of the Evaluation Plan for 

the Oculina Experimental Closed Area 

and will finalize the 10-Year Reevaluation Report. The Team is 

comprised of law enforcement 

representatives, research scientists, 

resource managers, commercial 

fishermen, recreational fishermen, 

outreach experts, and non-governmental 

organization representatives. 

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 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: October 21, 2014. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Western Pacific Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meetings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold advisory body meetings in Hawaii 

and in the Marianas Archipelago during 

the month of November 2014 regarding 

the Council’s Fishery Ecosystem and 

Program Plans. All Marianas Fishery 

Ecosystem Plan Review meetings will 

follow the same agenda. 

DATES: The Marine Planning and 

Climate Change Committee will meet on 

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, and 

Thursday, November 13, 2014, from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m.; Guam Marianas 

Archipelago Regional Ecosystem 

Advisory Committee will meet on 

Thursday, November 13, 2014, from 9 

a.m. to 12 p.m.; Guam Plan Team, 

Advisory Panel, and other advisors on 

Thursday, November 13, 2014, from 2 

p.m. to 8 p.m.; Commonwealth of the 

Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Plan 

Team, Advisory Panel, and other 

advisors on Saturday, November 15 

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and the CNMI 

Marianas Archipelago Regional 

Ecosystem Advisory Committee on 

Monday, November 17 from 9 a.m. to 12 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The Marine Planning and 

Climate Change Committee will meet at 

the Council office, 1164 Bishop Street, 

Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI; telephone: 

(808) 522–8220. The meetings on Guam 

will be held in the Gallery at the Guam 

Hilton, 202 Hilton Road, Tamuning, 

Guam; telephone: (671) 646–1835. The 

meetings in the CNMI will be held in 

the Asuzena 2 meeting room, Fiesta 

Hotel, Coral Tree Avenue, Garapan, 

Saipan; telephone: (670) 234–6412. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director; 

telephone: (808) 522–8220. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Marine Planning and Climate Change 

Committee Meeting 

November 12, 2014 

1. Introductions 

2. Approval of draft agenda 

3. Approval of September 15, 2014, 

Committee meeting minutes 

4. Implementation plan for Council 

actions related to marine planning 

& climate change 

A. Review Committee’s categorization 

& prioritization of Council’s marine 

planning and climate change action 

items 

B. Review comments from Scientific & 

Statistical Committee 

C. Review comments from Council 

D. Public comment 

E. Committee discussion and 

recommended plan for 

implementing action items 

5. Round-robin of area updates related 

to marine planning & climate 

change (time permitting) 

November 13, 2014 

6. Draft Marine Planning and Climate 

Change Policy 

A. Review of fisheries in Council’s 

jurisdiction 

B. Review of Magnuson-Stevens 

Fisheries Conservation and 

Management Act’s National 

Standards 

C. Review of Council’s structure and 

federal fishery decision-making 

process 

D. Overview of ongoing amendments 

to Council’s fishery ecosystem 

plans and programs 

E. Review draft MPCC policy 

statement 

F. Public comment 

G. Committee discussion and 

recommendations 

7. Election of Officers 

8. Other business and next meeting 

Guam and CNMI Meetings 

Council advisors and other 

participants will review current issues 

related to the Council’s program plans 

and fishery ecosystem plans and 

provide input to assist in the evaluation 

and update of the fishery ecosystem 

plans. The meetings may result in 

formal recommendations on these 

topics. 

Agendas (all meetings on Guam and 

CNMI will follow this same agenda): 

1. Welcome and Introductions 


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