# North Pacific Albacore United States Stakeholder Meeting; Meeting Announcement
**AGENCY:**
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
**ACTION:**
Notice of public meeting.
**SUMMARY:**
NMFS announces a U.S. stakeholder meeting open to the public to discuss North Pacific albacore (NPALB) management. This meeting is intended to prepare for potential discussions at the 2022 annual meetings of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Northern Committee (WCPFC NC) on a harvest strategy for NPALB fisheries. The meeting topics are described under the *SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION* section of this notice.
**DATES:**
The virtual meeting will be held on April 5, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. HST (or until business is concluded). You must complete the registration process by March 29, 2022, if you plan to attend the meeting (see *ADDRESSES* ). Members of the public may submit written comments on meeting topics or materials to Valerie Post at *[email protected]* by March 29, 2022, and may also provide oral comments during the virtual meeting.
**ADDRESSES:**
If you plan to attend the meeting, which will be held by webinar, please register at *https://forms.gle/eoY4EPsnkdLTyJMP7.* Instructions for attending the meeting will be emailed to meeting participants before the meeting occurs.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Valerie Post, Pacific Islands Regional Office at *[email protected],* (808) 725-5034.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
In 2021, the International Scientific Committee on Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC) completed a management strategy evaluation (MSE) on NPALB, [^1] and the ISC Albacore Working Group hosted a meeting among U.S. and Canadian stakeholders from March 22-25, 2021, to review the results of the MSE. As a follow-up to the ISC meeting in March 2021, NMFS hosted a U.S. virtual meeting on June 1, 2021, for U.S. stakeholders to express their priorities and consider future management of NPALB. This April 5 meeting, is intended to follow up to the June 2021 webinar, as well as to prepare for anticipated discussions at the IATTC and WCPFC NC.
[^1]*http://isc.fra.go.jp/working_groups/albacore.html.*
**NPALB U.S. Stakeholder Meeting Topic**
This meeting agenda will be distributed to participants in advance of the meeting. The meeting agenda will include a discussion on a potential future harvest strategy for NPALB and may include, but is not limited to, candidate limit and target reference points.
**Special Accommodations**
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be indicated when registering for the meeting (see *ADDRESSES* ) by March 29, 2022.
*Authority:* 16 U.S.C. 951 *et seq.,* 16 U.S.C. 1801 *et seq.,* and 16 U.S.C. 6901 *et seq.*
Dated: February 10, 2022.
Ngagne Jafnar Gueye,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.