# Pacific Bluefin Tuna 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 public meeting to discuss a Pacific bluefin tuna (PBF) long-term harvest strategy. This meeting is intended to prepare for potential discussions at the 2022 meeting of the Joint Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)—Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Northern Committee (NC) Working Group on a long-term harvest strategy for PBF fisheries across the Pacific Ocean. The meeting topics are described under the *SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION* section of this notice.
**DATES:**
The virtual meeting will be held on April 1, 2022, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. PST (or until business is concluded). You must complete the registration process by March 23, 2022, if you plan to attend the meeting (see *ADDRESSES* ). Members of the public may submit written comments on meeting topics or materials to Celia Barroso at *[email protected]* by March 23, 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/qQZzdp6LVXn2K9KD6.* Instructions for attending the meeting will be emailed to meeting participants before the meeting occurs.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Celia Barroso, NMFS West Coast Region at *[email protected],* 562-432-1850.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
During the 6th Meeting of the Joint IATTC-WCPFC NC Working Group (JWG) meeting (July 27-29, 2021, Japan Time), the International Scientific Committee on Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC) recommended that, in order to proceed with the development of a long-term harvest strategy for PBF, the JWG consider management objectives and metrics by which to measure whether a proposed harvest strategy will meet those management objectives. This April 1 meeting is to prepare for anticipated discussions at the 2022 meeting of the JWG regarding the process and information needed to evaluate the effectiveness of potential harvest strategies.
**PBF U.S. Stakeholder Meeting Topic**
The agenda for this meeting will be distributed to participants in advance of the meeting. The meeting agenda will include a discussion on management objectives and metrics to measure how potential future harvest strategies for PBF meet those objectives.
**Special Accommodations**
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be indicated when registering for the meeting (see *ADDRESSES* ) by March 23, 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 17, 2022.
Ngagne Jafnar Gueye,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.