[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 245 (Thursday, December 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76031-76032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-7697]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 120505C]
Large Coastal Shark 2005/2006 Stock Assessment Workshop
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public workshop.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces the time and location for the large coastal
shark (LCS) stock assessment workshop, the second of three workshops
for the LCS stock assessment to be conducted in 2005/2006.
DATES: The Assessment workshop will start at 1 p.m. on Monday, February
6, 2006, and will conclude at 1 p.m. on Friday, February 10, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The Assessment workshop will be held at the Doubletree Hotel
Coconut Grove, 2649 South Bayshore Drive, Miami, FL 33133.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie Neer at (850) 234-6541; or Karyl
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Brewster-Geisz at (301) 713-2347, fax (301) 713-1917.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Atlantic shark fisheries are managed
under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act. The Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Highly
Migratory Species (HMS FMP) is implemented by regulations at 50 CFR
part 635.
Stock assessments are periodically conducted to determine stock
status relative to current management criteria. Collection of the best
available scientific data and conducting stock assessments are critical
to determine appropriate management measures for rebuilding stocks.
Based on the last LCS stock assessment in 2002, NMFS determined that
the LCS complex is overfished and overfishing is occurring. LCS are
currently under a 26-year rebuilding plan. Potential changes to
existing management measures will be based, in large part, on the
results of this 2005/2006 stock assessment.
This assessment will be conducted in a manner similar to the
Southeast Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) process. SEDAR is a
cooperative process initiated in 2002 to improve the quality and
reliability of fishery stock assessments in the South Atlantic, Gulf of
Mexico, and U.S. Caribbean. SEDAR emphasizes constituent and
stakeholder participation in assessment development, transparency in
the assessment process, and a rigorous and independent scientific
review of completed stock assessments. SEDAR is organized around three
workshops. The first is a Data workshop where datasets are documented,
analyzed, reviewed, and complied for conducting assessment analyses.
This workshop was held from October 31 through November 4, 2005, in
Panama City, Florida. The second is an Assessment workshop where
quantitative population analyses are developed and refined and
population parameters are estimated. The third and final is a Review
workshop where a panel of independent experts reviews the data and
assessment and recommends the most appropriate values of critical
population and management quantities. All workshops are open to the
public. More information on the SEDAR process can be found at http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/sedar/.
NMFS announces the Assessment workshop, the second of three
workshops for the LCS 2005/2006 stock assessment, which will be held
from February 6 - February 10, 2006, at the Doubletree Hotel Coconut
Grove, Miami, FL (see DATES and ADDRESSES). Prospective participants
and observers will be contacted with the Assessment workshop details.
This workshop is open to the public. Persons interested in
participating or observing the Assessment workshop should contact Julie
Neer (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). The final workshop, the
Review workshop, will be announced at a later date in the Federal
Register.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Julie Neer at (850) 234-6541 by
January 30, 2006.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.
Dated: December 16, 2005.
Emily Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E5-7697 Filed 12-21-05; 8:45 am]
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