🎣Key Public Meetings on 2025 Fisheries Management Assessments Announced
The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Groundfish Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will convene an in-person meeting to review 2025 groundfish stock assessments. The full SSC will convene an advance virtual meeting to review the recommendations of the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee for a subset of 2025 groundfish stock assessments, in addition to those reviewed during the September Pacific Council meeting. Both the full SSC and the SSC Groundfish Subcommittee meetings are open to the public with a web broadcast that provides the opportunity for remote listening and public comment.
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NMFS reviewed the Alaska, Atlantic, and Pacific regional marine mammal stock assessment reports (SAR) in accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). SARs for marine mammals in the Alaska, Atlantic, and Pacific regions were revised to include new information. NMFS is soliciting public comments on the draft 2024 SARs and requesting new information for strategic stocks that were not updated in 2024.
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