[Federal Register: June 15, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 114)]
[Notices]
[Page 33361-33362]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 060804D]
Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Scientific
and Statistical Committee (SSC) and NOAA Fisheries will hold a workshop
to promote the exchange of data, information, ideas, and solutions for
recreational catch per unit effort (CPUE) statistics as indicators of
West Coast groundfish stock abundance.
DATES: The two-day workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June
29 and will continue until business for the day is completed. The
workshop will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 and
will continue until business is completed. Public comments will be
allowed at times to be specified by the chair.
ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held at the Southwest Fisheries
Science Center, Meeting Room 188, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA
95060.
Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97220-1384.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Steve Ralston, SSC Groundfish
Subcommittee Chair, telephone: (831) 420-3949; Mr. John DeVore, Pacific
Fishery Management Council, telephone: (503) 820-2280; or Ms. Stacey
Miller, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, telephone: (206) 860-3480.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Recreational CPUE
Statistics Workshop is to review existing sources of recreational data
on the West Coast and to reach a broad consensus and understanding of
the availability of recreational fisheries data and methods to
calculate CPUE statistics for use in stock assessments. The importance
of recreational CPUE statistics in groundfish stock assessments has
grown in recent years. Council- sponsored assessments of bocaccio,
cabezon, cowcod, black rockfish, lingcod, and yelloweye rockfish have
all evaluated time series of recreational CPUE as indicators of stock
abundance. As more of the minor groundfish species become assessed,
CPUE statistics derived from catch rates in sport fisheries will likely
play an important role in stock evaluation.
Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda
may come before the workshop participants for discussion, those issues
may not be the subject of formal workshop action during this meeting.
Workshop 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 Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, provided the public
has been notified of the workshop participants' 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 Ms. Carolyn Porter at (503) 820-2280 at least 5
days prior to the meeting date.
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Dated: June 8, 2004.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E4-1339 Filed 6-14-04; 8:45 am]
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