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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 17, 2018.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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May 8, 2018 Webinar
Listening Stations
1. Haddrell’s Point Tackle, 885 Ben
Sawyer Blvd., Mount Pleasant, SC
29464.
2. Southeast Regional Branch Library,
10599 Deerwood Park Blvd.,
Jacksonville, FL 32256.
3. NC Division of Marine Fisheries,
Southern District Office, 127 Cardinal
Drive Extension, Wilmington, NC
28405.
May 9, 2018 Webinar
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Listening Stations
1. Cocoa Beach Public Library, 550 N.
Brevard Ave., Cocoa Beach, FL 32931.
2. NC Division of Marine Fisheries,
Central District Office, 5285 Hwy 70
West, Morehead City, NC 28557.
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South Atlantic Fishery Management
Council; Public Hearings
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public hearings.
AGENCY:
The South Atlantic Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold a series of public hearings
pertaining to Vision Blueprint
Regulatory Amendments 26 and 27 to
the Snapper Grouper Fishery
Management Plan for the South Atlantic
Region. The amendments address
recreational (Amendment 26) and
commercial (Amendment 27) measures
as identified in the Council’s Vision
Blueprint for the Snapper Grouper
Fishery.
SUMMARY:
The public hearings will be held
via listening stations and webinar on
May 8, May 9, and May 10, 2018.
ADDRESSES: The hearings will be held
via webinar. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION for locations of listening
stations.
Council address: South Atlantic
Fishery Management Council, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N.
Charleston, SC 29405.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim
Iverson, Public Information Officer,
SAFMC; phone: (843) 571–4366 or toll
free: (866) SAFMC–10; fax: (843/769–
4520; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
public hearings will be conducted via
webinar with assigned listening
stations. The public hearings will begin
at 6 p.m. Registration for the webinars
is required. Registration information
will be posted on the Council’s website
at www.safmc.net as it becomes
available. Listening stations for each
hearing will be available at the
following locations:
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May 10, 2018 Webinar
Listening Stations
1. Murrells Inlet Community Center,
4462 Murrells Inlet Road, Murrells Inlet,
SC 29576.
2. Marathon Government Center,
BOCC, 2798 Overseas Highway, 2nd
Floor, Marathon, FL 33050.
3. Hatteras Community Building,
57689 NC Hwy 12, Hatteras, NC 27943.
Snapper Grouper Regulatory
Amendment 26 (Recreational
Visioning)
The draft regulatory amendment
contains actions to address recreational
measures as identified in the Council’s
Vision Blueprint for the Snapper
Grouper Fishery. The amendment
proposes modifying the species
composition of recreational aggregates
to better reflect how fishermen are
currently fishing and allow more
focused management measures (i.e., for
deep-water species). Alternatives for
aggregate bag limits, minimum size
limits and gear requirements are
included. The regulatory amendment
also proposes modification to the
spawning season closure for red grouper
off the North and South Carolina coasts
and modifying the minimum size limit
for gray triggerfish off the east coast of
Florida to bring consistency with
regulations in state waters.
Snapper Grouper Regulatory
Amendment 27 (Commercial Visioning)
The draft regulatory amendment
contains actions to address commercial
measures as identified in the Council’s
Vision Blueprint for the Snapper
Grouper Fishery. The amendment
addresses concerns over equitable
access for commercial fishermen fishing
in the snapper grouper fishery and
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proposes measures to help minimize
discards. The regulatory amendment
includes actions for split commercial
seasons for blueline tilefish, snowy
grouper, greater amberjack, and red
porgy. The amendment also includes
actions to modify the commercial trip
limit for blueline tilefish, greater
amberjack, red porgy, and vermilion
snapper. Other measures include
specifying a minimum size limit for
almaco jack, implementing a trip limit
for the Other Jacks complex, extending
the seasonal closure for red grouper in
federal waters off North Carolina and
South Carolina, removing the minimum
size limit for three deep-water snappers,
and reducing the commercial minimum
size limit for gray triggerfish off the east
coast of Florida.
During the public hearings, Council
staff will present an overview of each
amendment and will be available for
informal discussions and to answer
questions via webinar. Area Council
members will be present at each of the
Listening Stations. Members of the
public will have an opportunity to go on
record to offer their comments for
consideration by the Council.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for auxiliary aids should be
directed to the council office (see
ADDRESSES) 3 days prior to the public
hearings.
Note: The times and sequence specified in
this agenda are subject to change.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: April 17, 2018.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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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).
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Title: West Coast Region Groundfish
Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch
Accounting Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0619.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (revision
and extension of a currently approved
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 153.
Average Hours per Response: 10
hours for a Provider permit, 2 hours for
an annual renewal, 4 hours each for
appeals and catch monitoring plans; 2
hours for an inspection; 10 minutes for
first receiver reports; 1 minute for
Pacific whiting disposition
recordkeeping; 30 minutes for daily atsea scale testing reports, 10 minutes for
daily at-sea scale catch and cumulative
weight reports, 1 minute each for at-sea
scale audit trail, at-sea scale calibration
log, and at-sea scale fault log, and 0
minutes for at-sea scale video
monitoring.
Burden Hours: 447.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection.
In January 2011, the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration’s
(NOAA) National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS) implemented a trawl
rationalization program, a catch share
program, for the Pacific coast groundfish
fishery’s trawl fleet. The program was
developed through Amendment 20 to
the Groundfish Fishery Management
Plan (FMP), under the authority of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) and consists of an
individual fishing quota (IFQ) program
for the shorebased trawl fleet (including
whiting and non-whiting fisheries); and
cooperative (coop) programs for the atsea mothership (MS) and catcher/
processor (C/P) trawl fleets (whiting
only). Fixed allocations to the limited
entry trawl fleet were developed
through a parallel process with
Amendment 21 to the FMP. The
regulations implementing the program
were effective January 1, 2011; all of the
necessary tracking systems to make the
program operational became active on
January 11, 2011, the date fishing began
under the new program. Since that time,
the Council and NMFS have been
addressing implementation issues as
they arise. To achieve individual
accountability for catch and bycatch and
track total catch, the shorebased IFQ
Program is subject to 100 percent
monitoring both at-sea and dockside. In
addition to 100 percent monitoring atsea, motherships and catcher/processors
are subject to flow scale requirements
that include daily testing, reporting, and
an annual inspection.
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Several of the information collections
have been merged into other
information collections (OMB Control
No. 0648–0620 and OMB Control No.
0648–0738) where they have a better fit,
and thus the burden and cost for this
collection has decreased.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; individuals or
households.
Frequency: Daily, weekly, on
occasion, annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
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: April 16, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting
webinar.
AGENCY:
The South Atlantic Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold a public meeting of its Coral
Advisory Panel.
DATES: The meeting will be held via
webinar on May 9, 2018, from 1 p.m.
until 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES:
Council address: South Atlantic
Fishery Management Council, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N.
Charleston, SC 29405.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim
Iverson, Public Information Officer,
SAFMC; phone: (843) 571–4366 or toll
free: (866) SAFMC–10; fax: (843) 769–
4520; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda
items for the Coral Advisory Panel
include the following: An update on
fishery plan amendments currently
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The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
auxiliary aids should be directed to the
Council office (see ADDRESSES) 3 days
prior to the public hearings.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: April 17, 2018.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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this agenda are subject to change.
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under review and those recently
approved by the Council; an overview of
Joint Coral Amendment 10, Golden Crab
Amendment 10, and Shrimp
Amendment 11 addressing allowable
fishing areas, Vessel Monitoring
Systems (VMS) for the golden crab
fishery and transit provisions for shrimp
trawlers; updates on coral disease in
Florida and deepsea coral research;
discussion of the Southeast Florida
Coral Conservation Area; and a
discussion of regulatory reform.
Advisory panel members will provide
recommendations as appropriate. They
will also elect a new chair and vicechair.
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Pacific Fishery Management Council;
Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting
(webinar).
AGENCY:
The Pacific Fishery
Management Council’s (Pacific Council)
Coastal Pelagic Species Management
Team (CPSMT) will hold a meeting via
webinar that is open to the public.
DATES: The webinar will be held
Tuesday, May 8, 2018, from 1 p.m. to
4 p.m., or until business has been
completed.
SUMMARY:
The meeting will be held
via webinar. A public listening station
is available at the Pacific Council office
(address below). To attend the webinar,
use this link: https://
www.gotomeeting.com (click ‘‘Join a
Webinar’’ in top right corner of page).
ADDRESSES:
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