[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35442-35443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-15017]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XX02
Fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico; Southeast Data, Assessment, and
Review (SEDAR) Update; Greater Amberjack.
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR Data Webinar for Gulf of Mexico greater
amberjack.
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SUMMARY: The SEDAR update of the assessment of the Gulf of Mexico stock
of greater amberjack will consist of a series of webinars. This
assessment will update the stock assessment conducted under SEDAR 9.
See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
DATES: A Data Webinar will occur on July 16, 2010. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: The Webinars may be attended by the public. Those interested
in participating should contact Julie A. Neer at SEDAR (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) to request an invitation providing webinar access
information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie A. Neer, SEDAR Coordinator, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC 29405; (843) 571-
4366; email: [email protected]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management Councils, in conjunction with NOAA
Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commissions
have implemented the Southeast Data, Assessment and Review (SEDAR)
process, a multi-step method for determining the status of fish stocks
in the Southeast Region. A full benchmark assessment conducted under
SEDAR includes three workshops: (1) Data Workshop, (2) Stock Assessment
Workshop Process and (3) Review Workshop. The product of the Data
Workshop is a data report which compiles and evaluates potential
datasets and recommends which datasets are appropriate for assessment
analyses. The product of the Stock Assessment Workshop is a stock
assessment report which describes the fisheries, evaluates the status
of the stock, estimates biological benchmarks, projects future
population conditions, and recommends research and
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monitoring needs. The assessment is independently peer reviewed at the
Review Workshop. The product of the Review Workshop is a Review
Workshop Report documenting Panel opinions regarding the strengths and
weaknesses of the stock assessment and input data. Participants for
SEDAR Workshops are appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic,
and Caribbean Fishery Management Councils and NOAA Fisheries Southeast
Regional Office and Southeast Fisheries Science Center. Participants
include data collectors and database managers; stock assessment
scientists, biologists, and researchers; constituency representatives
including fishermen, environmentalists, and NGO's; international
experts; and staff of Councils, Commissions, and state and federal
agencies.
SEDAR conducts updates of benchmark stock assessments previously
conducted through the SEDAR program. Update assessments add additional
data points to datasets incorporated in the original SEDAR benchmark
assessment and run the benchmark assessment model to update population
estimates.
The greater amberjack update assessment will update the SEDAR 9
benchmark of Gulf of Mexico greater amberjack. The update process
consists of a series of webinars.
Greater Amberjack Update Schedule:
July 16, 2010; 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.; SEDAR Update Data Webinar
An updated assessment data set and associated documentation will be
presented and discussed during the Data Webinar. Participants will
evaluate updates of data employed or considered in SEDAR 9, providing
information on life history characteristics, catch statistics, discard
estimates, length and age composition, and fishery dependent and
fishery independent measures of stock abundance.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to the Council office (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT) at least 10 business days prior to the meeting.
Dated: June 17, 2010.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-15017 Filed 6-21-10; 8:45 am]
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