# Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
**AGENCY:**
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
**ACTION:**
Notice of a public meeting.
**SUMMARY:**
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will convene a meeting, which is open to the public, of its Coastal Pelagic Species (CPS) Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC).
**DATES:**
The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 11, 2016.
**ADDRESSES:**
The meeting will be held in the Pacific Conference Room of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8901 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037-1508.
*Council address:* Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE., Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, Oregon 97220.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Mr. Kerry Griffin, Staff Officer; telephone: 503-820-2409.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Agenda**
The primary purpose of the meeting is to review a biomass estimate for the central subpopulation of northern *anchovy.* The SSC CPS subcommittee will conduct the review, with one member each from the CPS Management Team and CPS Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS) serving as advisers. The subcommittee will submit a report to the full SSC, for further review at the November 15-21, 2016, Council meeting in Garden Grove, California. At that meeting, the Council will consider the biomass estimate along with any recommendations of the SSC, other advisory bodies, and public comment; and may consider taking management action.
**Special Accommodations**
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. Dale Sweetnam, at 858-546-7170, at least ten days prior to the meeting date.
**Authority:**
16 U.S.C. 1801 *et seq.*
Dated: September 7, 2016.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.