# Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting
**AGENCY:**
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
**ACTION:**
Notice; public meeting.
**SUMMARY:**
The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting.
**DATES:**
The meeting will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, May 25-26, 2016, beginning at 1 p.m. on May 25 and conclude by 1 p.m. on May 26. For agenda details, see *SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION* .
**ADDRESSES:**
The meeting will at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court, 550 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202; telephone: (410) 234-0550.
*Council address:* Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N. State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331 or on their Web site at *www.mafmc.org.*
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: (302) 526-5255.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
Agenda items to be discussed at the SSC meeting include: Review fishery performance report and multi-year ABC specifications for long-finned and short finned squid, Atlantic mackerel and butterfish; discuss MAFMC risk policy and assignment of CVs for Mid-Atlantic assessments; review fishery performance report and recommend surfclam and ocean quahog ABC specifications for 2017-18.
Dated: May 3, 2016.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.