[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 24463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10542]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XA406


Caribbean Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Caribbean Fishery Management Council's Scientific and 
Statistical Committee (SSC) will hold a meeting.

DATES: The SSC meeting will be held on May 24-25, 2011.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hampton Inn Hotel, 6530 Isla 
Verde Avenue, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00979.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 
268 Mu[ntilde]oz Rivera Avenue, Suite 1108, San Juan, Puerto Rico 
00918-1920, telephone: (787) 766-5926.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SSC will meet to discuss the items 
contained in the following agenda:
    1. Overview of SSC role, responsibilities and objectives of 
meetings.
    a. Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act (MSRA)/Annual Catch Limit 
(ACL) review of language--Overfishing Limit (OFL) vs. Acceptable 
Biological Catch (ABC) and legal implications of each.
    b. Role of SSC and how decisions/motions get treated at Council 
level.
    2. Review of decisions/logic behind 2010 amendment.
    a. Brief Annual Catch Limit Plan Development Group (ACLG), SSC, 
Southeast Data, Assessment and Review (SEDAR) data evaluation meeting 
summaries.
    b. 2010 decisions and summary of record.
    c. Consistent rationale or need to develop record that explains why 
2011 species should be treated differently than 2010 amendment.
    3. Use of annual average catch for determining OFL.
    4. Review of other methods for determining OFL and methods for 
determining ABC.
    5. Recommendations to the Council for OFL for each species/species 
group and jurisdiction.
    6. Recommendations to the Council for ABC for each species/species 
group and jurisdiction.

Other Business

Next Meeting

    The SSC will convene on May 24 and 25, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. until 5 
p.m. The meeting is open to the public, and will be conducted in 
English.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
For more information or request for sign language interpretation and/
other auxiliary aids, please contact Mr. Miguel A. Rol[oacute]n, 
Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 268 
Mu[ntilde]oz Rivera Avenue, Suite 1108, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00918-
1920, telephone: (787) 766-5926, at least 5 days prior to the meeting 
date.

    Dated: April 27, 2011.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-10542 Filed 4-29-11; 8:45 am]
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