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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 8 / Thursday, January 11, 2018 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Economic Survey
of Recreational Steelhead Fishermen
in Washington State
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before March 12, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
internet at [email protected]).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Robby Fonner, (206) 302–
2469 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
This request is for a new collection of
information.
The Northwest Fisheries Science
Center and Southwest Fisheries Science
Center are undertaking an economics
research project to assess the
preferences of recreational steelhead
anglers for trip attributes including
opportunities for catching wild and
hatchery steelhead. The Economic
Survey of Recreational Steelhead
Fishermen (ESRSF) will yield
information on angling preferences that
will inform management of recreational
steelhead resources and steelhead
hatchery operations in The Pacific
Northwest. More specifically, the ESRSF
will collect data needed to (1) assess the
socioeconomic characteristics of
recreational anglers; (2) assess the
economic value of steelhead
recreational fishing trips through
statistical estimation of models; and (3)
assess the change in these values
associated with possible changes in
recreational steelhead angling
opportunities, including catch rates of

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wild and hatchery fish, site attributes,
and travel costs.

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II. Method of Collection

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

A sample of Washington State fishing
license holders who intended to fish for
steelhead will be screened with an
email survey (screener), followed by an
internet survey. Sampled anglers who
do not have an email address in the
license database used for sampling will
be sent an invitation by mail to the webbased screener and subsequent survey.
Respondents to the internet survey will
submit data online.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–xxxx.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(new information collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
629.
Estimated Time per Response: Five
minutes for the screening survey; 25
minutes for the full survey.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 102.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: January 5, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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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.
AGENCY:

The Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Pacific Council)
and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
(SWFSC) will hold a meeting that is
open to the public.
DATES: The meeting will be held
Monday, January 29 through Friday,
February 2, 2018. The meeting will
begin at 1 p.m. the first day and at 8:30
a.m. each subsequent day. The meeting
will end each day at 5 p.m., or until
business for the day has been
completed.
SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held in
the Pacific Conference Room of the
NOAA SWFSC, 8901 La Jolla Shores
Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037–1508.
Council address: Pacific Fishery
Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland,
OR 97220; telephone: (503) 820–2280.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kerry Griffin, Pacific Council;
telephone: (503) 820–2409 or Dale
Sweetnam, SWFSC; telephone: (858)
546–7170.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the meeting is to conduct a
methodology review of the NOAA
acoustic-trawl survey methodology
(ATM), conducted regularly to collect
fisheries and oceanographic information
in U.S. West Coast waters. The ATM
survey has been approved for use in
stock assessments for Pacific sardine,
but has not yet been approved for use
in stock assessments for northern
anchovy, Pacific mackerel, or jack
mackerel. At its April 2018 meeting, the
Pacific Council will consider the results
of this review, and will consider
whether to approve the ATM for use in
stock assessments for stocks other than
Pacific sardine. An agenda and other
meeting materials will be available by
January 15, 2018, on the Pacific
Council’s ftp site: ftp://ftp.pcouncil.org/
pub/2018%20ATM%20Methodology
%20Review/.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in the meeting agenda may be
ADDRESSES:

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