4. Council IRA Project Update
A. Scenario Planning
B. Regulatory Review
C. Protected Species
D. Community Consultation
5. MSRA Priorities Review
6. State of Hawaii Holomua Maui and Hawaii Island Update
7. AP Strategic Planning for 2025
8. Other Business
9. Public Comment
10. Discussion and Recommendations
Schedule and Agenda for the Mariana Archipelago FEP Guam AP Meeting
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (ChST)
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Review of the Last AP Recommendation and Meeting
3. Council Fisheries Issues
A. Options for Commercial Fishing in the Marianas Trench MNM
4. Council IRA Project Update
A. Scenario Planning
B. Regulatory Review
C. Protected Species
D. Community Consultation
5. MSRA Priorities Review
6. Guam Territorial Fishery Management Plan
7. AP Strategic Planning for 2025
A. Guam Military Working Group Update
8. Other Business
9. Public Comment
10. Discussion and Recommendations
Special Accommodations
These meetings are accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Kitty M. Simonds, (808) 522–8220 (voice) or (808) 522–8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to the meeting date. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: November 14, 2025.
Rey Israel Marquez, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2025–20173 Filed 11–17–25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648–XF322]
Caribbean Fishery Management Council 188th Public Hybrid Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public hybrid meeting (in-person/virtual).
SUMMARY: The Caribbean Fishery Management Council (CFMC) will hold the 188th public hybrid meeting to address the items contained in the tentative agenda included in the SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION.
DATES: The 188th CFMC public hybrid meeting will be held on December 3, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on December 4, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. AST. The meeting will be held at the Westin Inn Beach Resort and Spa at Frenchman’s Reef, 5 Estate Bakkeroe, St. Thomas, USVI 00801.
ADDRESSES: You may join the 188th CFMC public hybrid meeting via Zoom, from a computer, tablet, or smartphone by entering the following address: Join Zoom Meeting: https:// us02web.zoom.us/j/84328130219 ?pwd=65MKg0lyTe4h1Wv1fAKe tKTPEdFAcx.1
Meeting ID: 843 2813 0219. Passcode: 856050. One tap mobile:
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Join instructions: https:// us02web.zoom.us/meetings/ 84328130219/invitations?signature= b92qQFAEhejZ6qk-OEv5Ay ZRE1oQnb3iNwa70NWCVk8.
In case there are problems and we cannot reconnect via Zoom, the meeting will continue using GoToMeeting. You can join the meeting from your computer, tablet, or smartphone. https:// global.gotomeeting.com/join/ 971749317
You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (408) 650–3123 Access Code: 971–749–317.
FORFURTHERINFORMATIONCONTACT: Miguel A. Rolo ´ n, Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 270 Munoz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918–1903, telephone: (787) 398–3717.
SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION: The following items included in the tentative agenda will be discussed: December 3, 2025
9 a.m.–9:30 p.m.
—Call to Order
—Roll Call
—Adoption of Agenda
—Consideration of 187th Council Meeting Verbatim Transcription —Executive Director’s Report
9:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
—Fishery Management Plans Amendments, Actions and Priorities
Update for 2026—Marı´a Lo ´ pezMercer, NOAA Fisheries, SERO
10:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
—Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.–11 a.m.
—Southeast Fishery Science Center Updates—Kevin McCarthy, Caribbean Fisheries Branch, NOAA Fisheries SEFSC
11 a.m.–12 p.m.
—Scientific and Statistical Committee Report—Vance Vicente, Chair
12 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
—Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
—St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Spiny Lobster Overfishing Limits, Acceptable Biological Catches, and Annual Catch Limits—Marı ´ a Lo ´ pez-Mercer/Graciela Garcı ´ aMoliner
2:30 p.m.–3 p.m.
—Accountability Measure Options for Pelagic Stocks
3 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
—Coffee Break
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
—Matrix review of stocks—need for conservation and management—Sarah Stephenson, NOAA SERO
4:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
—Public Comment Period (5-minute presentations)
4:45 p.m.–5 p.m.
—Adjourn for the day
5 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
—Closed Session
December 4, 2025
9 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
—IRA Updates—Martha Prada, CFMC IRA Coordinator
9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
—Marine Aquaculture Workshop
—Marine Aquaculture NOAA Guidelines
—Marine Aquaculture Workshop 2026
10:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
—Coffee Break
10:45 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
—Outreach and Education Advisory Panel (OEAP) Report—Jannette Ramos, Chair
—CFMC Social Networks—Cristina Ola ´ n
Federal Register /Vol. 90, No. 220/Tuesday, November 18, 2025/Notices
—CFMC Liaison Officers Reports
—St. Thomas/St. John, U.S.V.I.— Nicole Greaux
—Puerto Rico—Wilson Santiago
11:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
—Letter sent to NOAA on E.O. 14276 Restoring America’s Seafood Competitiveness
12 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
—Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
—District Advisory Panel Reports (15 mins each)
—St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.—Julian Magras, Chair
—St. Croix, U.S.V.I.—Gerson Martinez, Chair
—Puerto Rico—Nelson Crespo, Chair
2:15 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
—Enforcement Reports (10 minutes each)
—Puerto Rico DNER
—U.S.V.I. DPNR
—U.S. Coast Guard
—NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement
2:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
—Upcoming SEDAR 103 Procedural Workshop Updates
3:15 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
—Advisory Bodies Membership
3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
—Other Business
3:45 p.m.–4 p.m.
—Public Comment Period (5-minute presentations)
—Next Meetings
4 p.m.
—Adjourn
Note (1): Other than starting time and dates of the meetings, the established times for addressing items on the agenda may be adjusted as necessary to accommodate the timely completion of discussion relevant to the agenda items. To further accommodate discussion and completion of all items on the agenda, the meeting may be extended from, or completed prior to the date established in this notice. Changes in the agenda will be posted to the CFMC website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as practical.
Note (2): Financial disclosure forms are available for inspection at this meeting, as per 50 CFR part 601. The order of business may be adjusted as necessary to accommodate the completion of agenda items. The meeting will begin on December 3, 2025
at 9 a.m. AST, and will end on December 4, 2025 at 4 p.m. AST. Other than the start time on the first day of the meeting, interested parties should be aware that discussions may start earlier or later than indicated in the agenda, at the discretion of the Chair.
Special Accommodations
For any additional information on this public virtual meeting, please contact Diana Martino, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 270 Munoz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918–1903, telephone: (787) 226–8849.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: November 14, 2025. Rey Israel Marquez, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2025–20172 Filed 11–17–25; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [RTID 0648–XF154]
Endangered Species; File No. 21516
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit modification.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that NMFS has issued a modification to Incidental Take Permit (ITP) (No. 21516–01) to Virginia Electric and Power Company, d.b.a. Dominion Virginia Power (Dominion) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended, for the incidental take of Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) associated with the otherwise lawful operation of the Dominion Chesterfield Power Station (CPS) in Chesterfield, VA.
ADDRESSES: The modified incidental take permit and other related documents are available on the NMFS Office of Protected Resources website at https:// www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ endangered-species-conservation/ incidental-take-permits.
FORFURTHERINFORMATIONCONTACT: Lynn Lankshear, (978) 282–8473, Lynn.Lankshear@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION: Section 9 of the ESA and Federal regulations prohibits the ‘‘taking’’ of a species listed as endangered or threatened. The ESA defines ‘‘take’’ to mean harass, harm,
pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct. NMFS may issue permits, under limited circumstances to take listed species when the take is incidental to, and not the purpose of, otherwise lawful activities. Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA provides for authorizing incidental take of listed species. The regulations for modifying permits and issuing incidental take permits for threatened and endangered species are promulgated at 50 CFR 222.306 and at 50 CFR 222.307.
Background
NMFS issued Permit No. 21516 to Dominion, published on January 11, 2021 (86 FR 1945). NMFS subsequently re-issued the permit with modified permit conditions for operational changes (88 FR 82324; November 24, 2023). NMFS published notice in the Federal Register on December 20, 2024, that Dominion had requested further modification of their ITP to allow for the incidental take of eggs from the Chesapeake Bay Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of Atlantic sturgeon (89 FR 104105). NMFS has modified Permit No. 21516–01 to authorize the take by entrainment of up to 18,363 eggs per year belonging to the Chesapeake Bay DPS of Atlantic sturgeon. All of the eggs will be free-floating, non-viable eggs, prior to their entrainment at CPS.
National Environmental Policy Act
Issuing an ESA section 10(a)(1)(B) permit constitutes a federal action requiring NMFS to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) as implemented by NOAA Administrative Order 216–6A, Compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (2016). NMFS prepared a Supplemental Information Report explaining why the potential impacts to sturgeon and other resources fall within the scope of the 2020 Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact developed in support of the original permit. We concluded that there would be little change in the impacts from this action, relative to those described in the original EA. Further, we concluded that there are no significant new circumstances or information that would result in changes to the impacts of the permit requirements as considered in the previous analyses.
Authority: This notice is provided pursuant to section 10(c) of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).