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an effort to improve the quality,
timeliness, objectivity, and integrity of
stock assessments and other scientific
information used in managing fishery
resources in the Pacific Islands Region.
Meeting Agenda for WPSAR Review
The meeting schedule and agenda
follow. The WPSAR panel will meet
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The
agenda order may change and the
meeting will run as late as necessary to
complete scheduled business.
Day 1 Monday June 25, 2018
1. Welcome and introductions
2. Background information—Objectives
and Terms of Reference
3. Fishery operation and management
4. History of stock assessments and
reviews
5. Data
a. State of Hawaii fishery data reporting
system
b. Post-release mortality and sex ratio
6. Presentation and review of stock
assessment
a. Life history
b. Catch (reported and unreported)
c. Catch per unit effort
d. Assessment model
i. Base case model and priors
ii. Base case results
e. Retrospective analysis
f. Sensitivities
g. Projections
Day 2 Tuesday June 26, 2018
7. Continue presentation and review of
stock assessment
Day 3 Wednesday June 27, 2018
8. Continue review of stock assessment
Day 4 Thursday June 28, 2018
9. Continue review of stock assessment
10. Public comment period
11. Panel discussions (Closed)
Day 5 Friday June 29, 2018
12. Panel discussions (Closed)
13. Panel presents recommendations
(afternoon)
14. Adjourn

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Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Please direct
requests for sign language interpretation
or other auxiliary aides to Michael Seki,
Director, PIFSC, tel (808) 725–5360, fax
(808) 725–5360, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: May 30, 2018.
Jennifer M. Wallace,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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interests across RFMOs in which the
United States participates.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

Special Accommodations

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Public Meeting on the Definition of
Fish Aggregating Devices
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

NMFS announces a public
meeting to seek input on the definition
of fish aggregating devices (FADs) that
could be applied for conservation
measures by international fishery
management organizations in which the
United States participates.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Friday June 29, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to
1:00 p.m. PDT.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
the Pacific Conference Room (Room
300) at NMFS, Southwest Fisheries
Science Center, 8901 La Jolla Shores
Drive, La Jolla, California 92037–1508.
Please notify Dawn Graham (see FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) by June
22, 2018, if you plan to attend the
meeting in person or remotely. The
meeting will be accessible by webinar—
instructions will be emailed to meeting
participants who provide notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rachael Wadsworth by email at
rachael.wadsworth@noaa.gov, or by
phone at (562) 980–4036; or Dawn
Graham by email at dawn.graham@
noaa.gov, or by phone at (858) 546–
7081.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS
would like to meet with interested
members of the public to discuss and
receive public input on the various
definitions of FADs used in regional
fishery management organizations
(RFMOs) in which the United States
participates. This could include the
effect of the definitions on the
management of FAD fishing, tropical
tuna stock health, and U.S. fishing
interests; whether NMFS should pursue
efforts to adopt a common definition of
FADs that could be applied across
organizations; and if so, the scope and
content of that definition. Additionally,
NMFS requests public input on defining
non-entangling FADs and active
beacons on FADs. NMFS is also
interested in any public input on
alternative approaches to addressing
stakeholder concerns related to the
management of FAD fishing, tropical
tuna stock health, and U.S. fishing
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The meeting location is physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Dawn Graham (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) by
June 15, 2018.
Dated: May 31, 2018.
Samuel D. Rauch, III,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Regulatory Programs, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Fishery Capacity Reduction
Program Buyback Requests.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0376.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a currently approved information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Average Hours per Response:
Implementation plan, 6,634 hours;
referenda votes, bids, seller/buyer
reports and annual fee collection
reports, 4 hours each; completion of fish
ticket, 10 minutes; monthly fee
collection report, 2 hours; advising
holder/owner of conflict with accepted
bidders’ representations, 1 hour;
potentially 270 hours-state approval/
review of plans.
Burden Hours: 15,579.
Needs and Uses: This request is for an
extension of a current information
collection.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) established programs to reduce
excess fishing capacity by paying
fishermen to surrender their vessels/
permits. These fishing capacity
reduction programs, or buybacks, are
conducted pursuant to the Magnuson-

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Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act, and the MagnusonStevens Reauthorization Act (Pub. L.
109–479). The buybacks can be funded
by a Federal loan to the industry or by
direct Federal or other funding. Buyback
regulations are at 50 CFR part 600.
The information collected by NMFS
involves the submission of buyback
requests by industry, submission of
bids, referenda of fishery participants
and reporting of collection of fees to
repay buyback loans. For buybacks
involving State-managed fisheries, the
State may be involved in developing the
buyback plan and complying with other
information requirements. NMFS
requests information from participating
buyback participants to track
repayments of the loans as well as
ensure accurate management and
monitoring of the loans. The
recordkeeping and reporting
requirements at 50 CFR parts 600.1013
through 600.1017 form the basis for the
collection of information.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; state, local or tribal
government; individuals or households.
Frequency: Annually, monthly and on
occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Dated: May 31, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.

Stock Assessment Review Committee, or
SARC. The public is invited to attend
the presentations and discussions
between the review panel and the
scientists who have participated in the
stock assessment process.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

The public portion of the Stock
Assessment Review Committee Meeting
will be held from June 26, 2018—June
29, 2018. The meeting will commence
on June 26, 2018 at 10 a.m. Eastern
Standard Time. Please see
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for the
daily meeting agenda.

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ADDRESSES:

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Northeast Regional Stock Assessment
Workshop and Stock Assessment
Review Committee Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

NMFS and the Northeast
Regional Stock Assessment Workshop
(SAW) will convene the 65th SAW
Stock Assessment Review Committee
for the purpose of reviewing stock
assessments of Sea Scallop and Atlantic
Herring. The Northeast Regional SAW is
a formal scientific peer-review process
for evaluating and presenting stock
assessment results to managers for fish
stocks in the offshore U.S. waters of the
northwest Atlantic. Assessments are
prepared by SAW working groups and
reviewed by an independent panel of
stock assessment experts called the

SUMMARY:

10 a.m.–10:30 a.m .............................................

Welcome Introductions .....................................

10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m ........................................
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m ..........................................
1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m ............................................
3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m ............................................
3:45 p.m.–5:45 p.m ............................................
5:45 p.m.–6 p.m .................................................

Scallop Assessment Presentation ...................
Lunch.
Scallop Presentation (cont.) .............................
Break
Scallop SARC Discussion ................................
Public Comment Period.

DATES:

The meeting will be held in
the S.H. Clark Conference Room in the
Aquarium Building of the National
Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast
Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), 166
Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James Weinberg, 508–495–2352; email:
james.weinberg@noaa.gov.
For
further information, please visit the
NEFSC website at http://
www.nefsc.noaa.gov. For additional
information about the SARC meeting
and the stock assessment review, please
visit the NMFS/NEFSC SAW web page
at http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/saw/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Daily Meeting Agenda—SAW/SARC 65
Benchmark Stock Assessment for Sea
Scallop and Atlantic Herring (Subject to
Change; All times are approximate and
may be changed at the discretion of the
SARC Chair).
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
James Weinberg, SAW Chair; and SARC
Chair (TBD).
Dvora Hart.
Dvora Hart.
TBD, SARC Chair.

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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10:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m ........................................
10:45 a.m.–12:30 a.m ........................................
12:30–1:30 p.m ..................................................
1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m ............................................
3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m ............................................
3:45 p.m.–4 p.m .................................................
4 p.m.–6 p.m ......................................................

Herring Assessment Presentation ...................
Break.
Herring presentation (cont.) .............................
Lunch.
Herring SARC Discussion.
Public comments.
Break.
Revisit with Presenters (Scallop).

Jon Deroba.
Jon Deroba.

Thursday, June 28, 2018
8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m ..........................................
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