[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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