# Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings
**AGENCY:**
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
**ACTION:**
Notice of public meetings.
**SUMMARY:**
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold public meetings of the Council, including joint meetings with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board, the ASMFC Interstate Fishery Management Program Policy Board, and the ASMFC Bluefish Management Board.
**DATES:**
The meetings will be held Tuesday, August 8 through Friday, August 11, 2023. For agenda details, see *SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.*
**ADDRESSES:**
This meeting will be an in-person meeting with a virtual option. Council members, other meeting participants, and members of the public will have the option to participate in person at the Westin Annapolis, 100 Westgate Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401; phone: (410) 972-4300, or virtually via Webex webinar. Webinar connection instructions and briefing materials will be available at: *https://www.mafmc.org/briefing/august-2023.*
*Council address:* Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N. State St., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: (302) 674-2331; *www.mafmc.org.*
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D. Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; telephone: (302) 526-5255. The Council's website, *www.mafmc.org,* also has details on the meeting location, proposed agenda, webinar listen-in access, and briefing materials.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The following items are on the agenda, although agenda items may be addressed out of order (changes will be noted on the Council's website when possible.)
**Tuesday, August 8, 2023**
**Council Meeting With the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board**
**Summer Flounder 2024-2025 Specifications**
Review recommendations from the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC), Monitoring Committee, Advisory Panel, and staff
Adopt specifications for 2024-2025
Review and revise 2024-2025 commercial measures if needed
**Scup 2024-2025 Specifications**
Review recommendations from the SSC, Monitoring Committee, Advisory Panel, and staff
Adopt specifications for 2024-2025
Review and revise 2024-2025 commercial measures if needed
**Scup Commercial Discards Report**
Review commercial scup discards through 2022
Review Scup GRA analysis and discuss next steps
**Black Sea Bass 2024 Specifications**
Review recommendations from the SSC, Monitoring Committee, Advisory Panel, and staff
Adopt specifications for 2024
Review and revise 2024 commercial measures if needed
**ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board Only**
ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan
Review
Elect Board vice chair
**Wednesday, August 9, 2023**
**Council Meeting With the ASMFC Interstate Fishery Management Program (ISFMP) Policy Board**
**Recreational Harvest Control Rule Framework/Addenda 2.0**
Review progress and discuss next steps
**Council Meeting with the ASMFC Bluefish Management Board**
**Bluefish 2024-2025 Specifications**
Review recommendations from the SSC, Monitoring Committee, Advisory Panel, and staff
Adopt specifications for 2024-2025 including recreational management measures
**ASMFC Bluefish Board Only**
ASMFC Bluefish Fishery Management Plan Review
Elect Board vice chair
**Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Convenes**
**East Coast Scenario Planning Initiative**
Review outcomes and discuss MAFMC next steps
**NOAA Fisheries Climate Governance Policy**
Review NOAA Fisheries draft policy and SSC comments
Develop Council comments
**Award Presentations**
**Presentation of Award of Excellence, Ricks E Savage Award, and acknowledgement of outgoing Council member**
**Thursday, August 10, 2023**
**Atlantic Mackerel 2024-2025 Specifications**
Review results of 2023 Management Track Assessment and rebuilding progress
Review results of 2023 Canadian assessment/management actions
Review recommendations from the SSC, Monitoring Committee, Advisory Panel, and staff
Adopt specifications for 2024-2025
Consider emergency action request and/or Framework initiation if appropriate given assessment results
**River Herring and Shad (RH/S)**
Review RH/S update
Review recommendations from the RH/S Committee, RH/S Advisory Panel,
Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Monitoring Committee, and staff
Adopt RH/S cap (Atlantic mackerel fishery) for 2024-2025
**National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Electronic Monitoring and Reporting Grant Program—Gray Redding, NFWF**
Update on the NFWF electronic monitoring and reporting grant program
**Longfin Squid 2024-2026 Specifications**
Review results of 2023 Management Track Assessment
Review recommendations from the SSC, Monitoring Committee, Advisory Panel, and staff
Adopt specifications for 2024-2026
**Illex Hold Baseline FW Meeting #1**
Review recommendations from the Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Committee, Advisory Panel, and staff
Review and approve range of alternatives
**Research Set-Aside Program Redevelopment**
Update on the redevelopment of the Research Set-Aside program
**Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR): National Standard 4, 8, and 9 Comments**
Review comments developed for NOAA Fisheries related to National Standard 4, 8, and 9
**Friday, August 11, 2023**
**Swearing in of New Council Members and Election of Officers**
**Business Session**
Committee Reports (SSC, Ecosystem and Ocean Planning, Highly Migratory Species); Executive Director's Report; Organization Reports; and Liaison Reports
**Other Business and General Public Comment**
Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come before this group for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those issues may not be the subject of formal action during these meetings. Actions will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in this notice and any issues arising after publication of this notice that require emergency action under Section 305(c).
**Special Accommodations**
These meetings are physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aid should be directed to Shelley Spedden, (302) 526-5251, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
*Authority:* 16 U.S.C. 1801 *et seq.*
Dated: July 19, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.