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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 108 / Tuesday, June 8, 2021 / Notices Notice of public meeting.

The New England Fishery Management Council Council, NEFMC
will hold a three-day meeting to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone EEZ. Due to ongoing public safety considerations related to COVID19, this meeting will be conducted entirely by webinar.
DATES: The webinar meeting will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, June 2224, 2021, beginning at 9 a.m. each day.
ADDRESSES: All meeting participants and interested parties can register to join the webinar at https
attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/
575795962545827087.
Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950;
telephone: 978 4650492;
www.nefmc.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: 978 4650492, ext.
113.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

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Agenda Tuesday, June 22, 2021
After introductions and brief announcements, the Council will receive reports on recent activities from its Chairman and Executive Director, NMFSs Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office GARFO Regional Administrator, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center NEFSC Director, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council liaison, staff from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission ASMFC, and representatives from NOAA General Counsel, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAAs Office of Law Enforcement, the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the Northeast Trawl Advisory Panel. Next, members of the public will have the opportunity to speak during an open comment period on issues that relate to Council business but are not included on the published agenda for this meeting. The Council asks the public to limit remarks to 35 minutes. These comments will be received through the webinar. A guide for how to publicly comment through the webinar is available on the Council website at https s3.amazonaws.com/nefmc.org/
NEFMC-meeting-remote-participation_
generic.pdf. Following the public comment period, the Council will: 1
Receive a briefing from the Acting NOAA Fisheries Assistant
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Administrator on a draft White House report titled Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful; and 2 discuss how it applies to fisheries. Related to this report, the Council also will discuss the Council Coordination Committees CCC decision to form a CCC
subcommittee on area-based management to address items in the draft White House report related to increasing fisheries conservation through expanded usage of area-based management. Next, the Council will receive a presentation on a draft NMFS
procedural directive on applying information law to electronic monitoring EM data in U.S. fisheries.
The Council will approve comments on the draft directive.
Following the lunch break, the Council will receive the Habitat Committee Report, which will include:
1 Updates from GARFO, NEFSC, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management BOEM on offshore windrelated projects and activities; and 2
updates on the Councils habitat-related work, including efforts to revise the Councils Wind Energy Policy. The Scallop Committee Report will be next.
The Council will discuss and approve research priorities for the 202223
Scallop Research Set-Aside RSA
Program. It also will initiate Framework Adjustment 34 to the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan FMP, which will include 2022 fishery specifications, 2023 default specifications, and other measures.
Additionally, the Council will receive a short update on work being done to evaluate the scallop fisherys rotational area management program. Finally, the Council will review a letter from the Scallopers Campaign that was sent to NMFS requesting secretarial action to implement a scallop leasing program. At the request of GARFO, the Council will approve a response to this letter. As the final order of business for the day, the Council will receive an update from GARFO on the 2021 Atlantic Sea Scallop Biological Opinion to address turtle interactions in the fishery.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
The Council will start off the day with a progress report from its Atlantic Herring Committee, which will begin with a discussion of Framework Adjustment 9 to the Atlantic Herring FMP. First, the Council will: 1 Receive the Scientific and Statistical Committees SSC recommendations on herring rebuilding plan alternatives to address the overfished status of Atlantic herring; and 2 receive an update on the frameworks rebuilding plan alternatives, as well as measures to
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potentially adjust herring accountability measures. Second, the Council will receive an update on Framework Adjustment 7, which is an action to protect adult spawning herring on Georges Bank. Next, the Council will take up 202125 Council Research Priorities by first hearing the SSCs recommendations on research priorities and then discussing and approving the final list.
Following the lunch break, the Council will receive the Groundfish Report, which will cover three items.
The first item relates to acceptable biological catch ABC control rules.
The Council will receive a presentation on a draft report titled Evaluation of Alternative Harvest Control Rules for New England Groundfish, which will be followed by the SSCs comments on the ABC control rule presentation and report. The Council then will discuss the draft report, as well as the SSCs comments, and provide further guidance as needed on the work being done to evaluate an alternative ABC
control rule for groundfish. Next, the Council will receive a progress report on the Atlantic Cod Stock Structure Working Groups public workshops and other activities. Then, the Council will initiate Framework Adjustment 62 to the Groundfish FMP, which will include 1 2022 total allowable catches TACs for U.S./Canada shared resources on Georges Bank GB, 2
202224 specifications for GB cod, Gulf of Maine GOM cod, GB haddock, and GOM haddock, 3 202223
specifications for GB yellowtail and 2022 specifications for white hake, and 4 other measures. The Council then will adjourn for the day.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
The Council will begin the third day of its meeting with the Skate Committee Report, which will include three items:
1 An update on 202223
specifications; 2 an update on Amendment 5 to the Northeast Skate Complex FMP; and 3 consideration of updating the existing control dates for both the skate wing and skate bait fisheries. Then, the Council will discuss and approve comments on a draft NMFS
policy directive and procedural guidance for financial disclosures and recusals for regional fishery management councils. Next, the Council will hear from its Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management EBFM
Management Strategy Evaluation MSE
Steering Committee. The Council will review and approve the Steering Committees plan for informational workshops using public outreach materials and focusing on potential
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