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Data Collection Committee Agenda, 

Monday, January 26, 2015, 10:30 a.m. 

until 12 noon: 

• Discussion of Technical 

Subcommittee for Electronic 

Charter Boat Reporting 

Recommendations 

• Review and Discussion of Marine 

Recreational Information Program 

(MRIP) Calibration 

• Review and Discussion of MRIP 

Red Snapper Workshop 

• Electronic Monitoring/Electronic 

Reporting Implementation Plan 

—Recess— 

Reef Fish Management Committee 

Agenda, Monday, January 26, 2015, 1:30 

p.m. until 5:30 p.m.: 

• Review of Red Snapper Update 

Assessment 

• Reevaluation of Gag Overfishing 

Limits (OFL) and Acceptable 

Biological Catch (ABC) for 2015–16 

• Review of Mutton Snapper Update 

Assessment 

• Review of Draft Amendment 39— 

Red Snapper Recreational Regional 

Management 

• Review of Revised Public Hearing 

Draft Amendment 28—Red Snapper 

Allocation 

• Review of Greater Amberjack Draft 

Framework Action 

• Report of the Ad Hoc For-hire Red 

Snapper AP 

• Final Action—Framework Action to 

Adjust Recreational For-Hire Red 

Snapper Management Measures 

• Review of Options Paper to Update 

Minimum Stock Size Threshold for 

Reef Fish Stocks with Low Natural 

Mortality 

• Discussion of Red Snapper 

Poaching by Mexican Lanchas 

—Recess— 

Reef Fish Management Committee 

Agenda, Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 

8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.: 

• Continuation of the previous day’s 

agenda 

—Recess— 

Immediately following committee recess 

Dr. Crabtree will hold a Red Snapper 

Update and Question & Answer Session. 

Mackerel Management Committee 

Agenda, Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 

8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.: 

• Discussion of Coastal Migratory 

Pelagics Amendment Renumbering 

• Review of SEDAR 38—Gulf of 

Mexico and South Atlantic King 

Mackerel Stock Assessment Report 

• Review of Coastal Migratory 

Pelagics Amendment 24 Scoping 

Document—South Atlantic Spanish 

Mackerel Allocations 

• Review of Coastal Migratory 

Pelagics Amendment 26 Scoping 

Document—Gulf of Mexico and 

South Atlantic King Mackerel 

Allocations and Mixing Zone 

Delineation 

• Review of Coastal Migratory 

Pelagics Amendment 28 Scoping 

Document—Gulf of Mexico and 

South Atlantic King and Spanish 

Mackerel Permit Split 

• Discussion of Gulf of Mexico King 

Mackerel Gill Net Fishery Issues 

Gulf SEDAR Management Committee 

Agenda, Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 

11:30 a.m. until 12 noon: 

• Review of SEDAR Schedule 

—Recess— 

Council Session Agenda, Wednesday, 

January 28, 2015, 1:30 p.m. until 5:30 

p.m.: 

1:30 p.m.–1:40 p.m.: Call to Order and 

Introductions, Adoption of Agenda 

and Approval of Minutes 

1:40 p.m.–1:50 p.m.: The Council will 

receive an update on Red Drum 

1:50 p.m.–2:50 p.m.: The Council will 

receive a briefing regarding the NOAA 

Fisheries Climate Science Strategy 

and discuss Council Member SEDAR 

Workshop for June 2015. 

—Recess— 

3 p.m.–5:30 p.m.: The Council will 

receive public testimony on Final 

Action—Framework Action to Adjust 

Recreational For-hire Red Snapper 

Management Measures and Revised 

Public Hearing Draft Amendment 

28—Red Snapper Allocation; and 

open public comment period 

regarding other fishery issues or 

concerns. People wishing to speak 

before the Council should complete a 

public comment card prior to the 

comment period. 

—Recess— 

Council Session Agenda, Thursday, 

January 29, 2015, 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m.: 

8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.: The Council will 

receive a committee report from the 

Reef Fish Management Committee 

1 p.m.–3:30 p.m.: The Council will 

receive committee reports from the 

Data Collection Management 

Committee, Gulf SEDAR Management 

Committee, Administrative Policy 

Committee and Mackerel Management 

Committee. 

3:30 p.m.–4 p.m.: The Council will 

review Other Business items: 

Financial Disclosure Requirements. 

—Adjourn— 

The Agenda is subject to change, and 

the latest version will be posted on the 

Council’s file server, which can be 

accessed by going to the Council Web 

site at http://www.gulfcouncil.org and 

clicking on FTP Server under Quick 

Links. For meeting materials see folder 

‘‘Briefing Books/Briefing Book 2015–01’’ 

on Gulf Council file server. The 

username and password are both 

‘‘gulfguest’’. The meetings will be 

webcast over the internet. A link to the 

webcast will be available on the 

Council’s Web site, http://

www.gulfcouncil.org. 

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 these meetings. 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 Council’s intent to take final action 

to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Kathy Pereira at 

the Council Office (see ADDRESSES), at 

least 5 working 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: January 6, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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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 of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold a 3-day meeting on January 27–29, 

2015 to consider actions affecting New 

England fisheries in the exclusive 

economic zone (EEZ). 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 through 

Thursday, January 29, 2015, starting at 

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8:30 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, 

January 28 and 29. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Sheraton Harborside Hotel, 250 

Market Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801; 

telephone: (603) 431–2300; fax: (603) 

431–7805. For online information see 

www.sheratonportsmouth.com/. 

Council Address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950; 

telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 

The Council meeting will begin with 

introductions and brief reports from the 

NEFMC Chairman and Executive 

Director (to include a review and 

approval of an updated version of the 

Council’s Statement of Organization, 

Practices, and Procedures), the NOAA 

Fisheries Regional Administrator, the 

Northeast Fisheries Science Center and 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council liaisons, NOAA General 

Counsel and NOAA Law Enforcement, 

and representatives of the Atlantic 

States Marine Fisheries Commission 

(ASMFC), U.S. Coast Guard and the 

Northeast Regional Ocean Council. A 

brief closed session will follow during 

which the Council will approve 

Scientific and Statistical Committee 

appointments for 2015–17. The Council 

will then provide an opportunity for the 

public to provide brief comments on 

items that are relevant to Council 

business but otherwise not listed on the 

published agenda. 

During the afternoon session, the 

Council expects to discuss and 

determine an appropriate level of 

Council participation with ASFMC 

during the development of management 

measures for the Jonah Crab fishery in 

the EEZ. The Atlantic Coastal 

Cooperative Statistics Program staff 

(ACCSP) will provide an overview of its 

integrated data collection and 

distribution systems that are conducted 

in partnership with NOAA Fisheries, 

including dealer data collection and 

vessel trip reporting. During the a 

discussion of measures that will address 

recreational groundfish fishery 

activities, the Council will discuss 

recommendations for proactive 

accountability measures for Gulf of 

Maine haddock and Gulf of Maine cod 

for fishing year 2015. The day will close 

with a report, the Performance of the 

Northeast Multispecies Groundfish 

Fishery, May 2013–April 2014 to be 

presented by Northeast Fisheries 

Science Center staff. 

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 

The NEFMC Herring Committee will 

ask the Council to cover several issues 

that will continue until after the lunch 

break. They are as follows: (1) An 

update on the industry-based river 

herring bycatch avoidance program; (2) 

an update on the River Herring 

Technical Expert Working Group 

process, its timeline, and products; (3) 

a review of the NEFMC staff discussion 

document that addresses considerations 

related to adding river herring and shad 

as stocks in the Atlantic herring fishery; 

and (4) consideration and possible 

approval of related Herring Committee 

recommendations. The 

recommendations address cooperative 

research priorities for any research setaside that may be allocated in 2016–18 

during the Atlantic herring fishery 

specifications process; and approval of 

a scoping document for an amendment 

to the Atlantic Herring Fishery 

Management Plan that will address 

control rules for the Atlantic herring 

fishery to account for herring’s role as 

forage in the ecosystem. During the 

remainder of the afternoon the Council’s 

Observer Policy Committee will request 

that the Council review and approve a 

Draft Environmental Assessment for an 

omnibus amendment that could 

establish provisions for industry-funded 

monitoring (IFM) across all federallymanaged fisheries in the Northeast. 

Related recommendations provided by 

the both the Observer Policy and 

Herring Committees will be considered. 

It is also expected that the Council will 

select preferred alternatives as well as 

options proposed to address observer 

coverage requirements for Atlantic 

herring vessels. 

Thursday, January 29, 2015 

During the final day of the meeting 

the Council will focus on three reports. 

During the first, there will be an 

overview of the 2014 independent 

evaluation of the Northeast Fisheries 

Science Center’s processes and 

modeling approaches used to develop 

stock assessments. This will be followed 

by a briefing on NOAA Fisheries Draft 

Climate Science Strategy. The last will 

be an update on the annual state of the 

Northeast Continental Shelf ecosystem. 

Although other non-emergency issues 

not contained in this agenda may come 

before this Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subjects of formal 

action during this meeting. Council 

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 MagnusonStevens Act, provided that 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 (see ADDRESSES) at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: January 6, 2015. 

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 public meetings in American 

Samoa and Hawaii regarding the 

Council’s Fishery Ecosystem Plans and 

American Samoa fishery management 

issues. 

DATES: American Samoa Advisory Body 

Fishery Ecosystem Plan Review 

Meeting: Wednesday January 28, 2015 

from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Public Meeting 

on Large Pelagic Vessel Prohibited Area 

Thursday January 29, 2015 from 4 p.m. 

to 6:30 p.m.; American Samoa Regional 

Ecosystem Advisory Committee Fishery 

Ecosystem Plan Review Meeting: Friday 

January 30, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 

p.m.; Hawaii Council Advisory Body 

Fishery Ecosystem Plan Review 

Meeting: Wednesday February 4, 2015 

from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Hawaii Regional 

Ecosystem Advisory Committee Fishery 

Ecosystem Plan Review Meeting: 

Thursday February 5, 2015 from 9 a.m. 

to 12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for specific locations of 

meetings. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director; 

telephone: (808) 522–8220. 


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