April 2023 Council Meeting
A. Call to order
- A.3, Situation Summary: April 2023 Detailed Agenda
- A.4 Situation Summary: Executive Director’s Report
B. Open comment period
- B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
- B.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
C. Habitat issues
- C.1 Situation Summary: Current Habitat Issues
- C.1.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
- C.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
D. Pacific halibut
- D.1 Situation Summary: Incidental Catch Limits for the Salmon Troll Fishery – Final Action
- D.1, Attachment 1: Summary of Pacific Halibut Incidental Catch Management
- D.1.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
- D.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
E. Salmon management
- E.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Salmon)
- E.1.b Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Fisheries Science Center Activities
- E.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.2 Situation Summary: Tentative Adoption of 2023 Management Measures for Analysis
- Preseason Report II: Proposed Alternatives and Environmental Assessment – Part 2 for 2023 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations (Electronic Only)
- E.2, Attachment 1: Emergency Changes to the Salmon FMP
- E.2, Attachment 2: FR 97-22094: Policy Guidelines for the Use of Emergency Rules
- E.2.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Update of Estimated Impacts of March 2023 Alternatives for Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures
- E.2.b Supplemental Public Hearing Report 1: Westport, Washington
- E.2.b Supplemental Public Hearing Report 2: North Bend, Oregon
- E.2.b Supplemental Public Hearing Report 3: Santa Rosa, California
- E.2.c, Supplemental PSC Report 1: AABM Fisheries Preseason Abundance Indices for 2023 and Postseason Abundance Indices for 2022
- E.2.e, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
- E.2.e, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Comments from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
- E.2.e, Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Statement by the Columbia River Treaty Tribes
- E.2.e, Supplemental SAS Report 1: Proposed 2023 Ocean Salmon Management Measures For Tentative Adoption
- E.2.f, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.3 Situation Summary: Clarify Council Direction on 2023 Management Measures
- E.3.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Preliminary Analysis of Tentative 2023 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures
- E.3.a, Supplemental STT Report 2: Preliminary Analysis of Tentative 2023 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures (April 4, 2023)
- E.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.4 Situation Summary: Methodology Review Preliminary Topic Selection
- E.4.a, Supplemental MEW Report 1
- E.4.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
- E.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- E.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.5 Situation Summary: Sacramento and Klamath River Fall Chinook Conservation Objectives Scoping
- E.5.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1: Klamath Dam Removal Related Adjustments to Management Targets
- E.5.a, Supplemental CFGC Report 1
- E.5.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- E.5.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
- E.5.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
- E.5.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
- E.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.6 Situation Summary: Improvements to Southern Oregon/Northern California Coho Ocean Fishery Exploitation Rate Forecasts
- E.6, Attachment 1: Scoping Potential Improvements to Forecast Ocean Fishery Exploitation Rates on Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast Coho
- E.6.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
- E.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
E.7 Situation Summary: Southern Resident Killer Whale Chinook Threshold and Other Fishery Management Plan Clarifications – Scoping
- E.8 Situation Summary: Further Direction on 2023 Management Measures
- E.8.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Preliminary Analysis of Tentative 2023 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures (04/05/2023)
- E.8.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.9 Situation Summary: Klamath Dam Removal Update
- E.10 Situation Summary: 2023 Management Measures – Final Action
- E.10.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: STT Analysis of Tentative 2023 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures (04/06/2023)
- E.10.a, Supplemental STT Report 2: Klamath River Fall Chinook de minimis Exploitation Rate
- E.10.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Statement by the Columbia River Treaty Tribes to the PFMC, April 6, 2023
- E.10.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
F. Administrative matters
- F.1 Situation Summary: Regional Implementation of the National Equity and Environmental Justice Strategy
- F.1, Attachment 1: Existing Council Activities that Responsive to EEJ Concerns
- F.1.a, NMFS Supplemental Presentation 1: NOAA Fisheries EEJ (Scott Rumsey and Kristen Koch)
- F.1.b, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- F.1.b, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- F.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- F.1.b, Supplemental HC Report 1
- F.1.b, Supplemental STT Report 1
- F.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.2 Situation Summary: Council Meeting and Process Efficiencies
- F.2, Attachment 1: Staff White Paper on Formats for Council Advisory Body Meetings
- F.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report
- F.2.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
- F.2.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
- F.2.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.3 Situation Summary: North Pacific Fisheries Commission Update
- F.3.a, Supplemental NPFC Presentation 1: North Pacific Fisheries Commission Update (Rich Lincoln)
- F.3.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.4 Situation Summary: Marine Planning
- F.4, Supplemental Attachment 1: NOAA and BOEM Seeking Volunteers to Share Their Thoughts About Offshore Wind Energy on the Oregon Coast
- F.4.a, MPC Report 1
- F.4.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NOAA Aquaculture Opportunity Areas Public Scoping Report
- F.4.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
- F.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- F.4.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
- F.4.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.5 Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
- F.5, Attachment 1: Summary of Federal Legislation in the 118th U.S. Congress
- F.5, Supplemental Attachment 2: Letter from The Honorable Representative Boomer Wright House, District 09 (OR) re: HB 3382
- F.5.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
- F.5.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.6 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
- F.6, Attachment 1: Proposed Changes to COP 9, Schedule 3
- F.6, Supplemental Attachment 2: Letter from Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission; Change in Designee
- F.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- F.6.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
- F.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.7 Situation Summary: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
- F.7, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
- F.7, Attachment 2: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, June 2023
- F.7, Supplemental Attachment 3: Council Staff Proposal; Advisory Body Meeting Formats
- F.7, Supplemental Attachment 4: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. April 6, 2023)
- F.7, Supplemental Attachment 5: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, June 2023 (version April 6, 2023)
- F.7.a, EWG Report 1
- F.7.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- F.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- F.7.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- F.7.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
- F.7.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
- F.7.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
G. Groundfish management
- G.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Groundfish)
- G.1.a, Supplemental REVISED NMFS Report 1: Proposed Rule to List the Sunflower Sea Star as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. (Electronic Only)
- G.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Recently Published Groundfish Rulemakings & Workload
- G.1.a Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: Briefing: Proposed Rule to List the Sunflower Sea Star as Threatened Under the ESA (Dr. Dayv Lowry)
- G.1.b, NWFSC Report 1: Pacific Halibut Bycatch in U.S. West Coast
Groundfish Fisheries, 2002 – 2021 (update and correction) - G.1.b, NWFSC Report 2: Pacific Halibut Bycatch in the U.S. West Coast
Groundfish Fisheries, 2002-2021 Excel Tables. (Electronic Only) - G.1.b, Supplemental NWFSC Presentation 1: Science Center Activities (Craig Russell)
- G.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- G.2 Situation Summary: Trawl Cost Recovery Annual Report
- G.2.a, NMFS Report 1: Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program 2023 Cost Recovery Annual Report: Fee Calculation for 2023 and Fishing Year 2022 Payments
- G.2.a, NMFS Report 2: National Marine Fisheries Service Report on Cost Savings and Efficiencies in the Trawl Rationalization Program
- G.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program Cost Recovery Annual Report; Fee Calculation for 2023 and Fishing Year 2022 Payments
- G.2.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.2.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- G.3 Situation Summary: Trawl Catch Share Cost Project – Update
- G.3, Attachment 1: An Initial Review Draft of a Comparative Cost Study for the West Coast Groundfish Trawl Catch Share Program (Electronic Only)
- G.3.a, Supplemental Presentation 1: Initial Review of Catch Share Cost Study (Darrell Brannan)
- G.3.b, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- G.3.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.3.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- G.4 Situation Summary: Inseason Adjustments – Final Action
- G.4.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1: Report on Final Harvest of Select Groundfish Species of Interest in 2022
- G.4.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 2: Informational Report on Initial Harvest of Select Groundfish Species of Interest in 2023
- G.4.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- G.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- G.5 Situation Summary: Sablefish Gear Switching –Check-in and Refine the Range of Alternatives
- G.5, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Seger)
- G.5, Attachment 1: Synopsis of Gear Switching Alternatives, Options, Comparisons, and Issues
- G.5, Attachment 2: Range of Gear Switching Alternatives Adopted for
Analysis by the Council at its September 2021, June 2022, and November 2022 Meetings - G.5.a, NMFS Report 1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report on Implementation of Revised Gear Switching Alternatives
- G.5.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1: Check-In and Refine the Range of Alternatives
- G.5.a, Council Member Report 1: Council Member Report on Sablefish Gear
Switching (Anderson) - G.5.a, Supplemental Council Member Report 2 (Anderson)
- G.5.a, Supplemental Council Member Report 3 (Christa M. Svensson)
- G.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- G.5.a, GAP Report 1
- G.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report 2
- G.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- G.6 Situation Summary: Considerations for a Sablefish Assessment Update
- G.6.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Overview of the Status of Age Reading to Support Planned 2023 Groundfish Assessments
- G.6.a, Supplemental NWFSC Presentation 1: Update on Ageing to Support 2023 Stock Assessments and Information Related to a Potential Limited Assessment Update for Sablefish in 2023
- G.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- G.6.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- G.6.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
H. Coastal pelagic species management
- H.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (CPS)
- H.1.a, Supplemental REVISED NMFS Report 1: Report from the Pacific Sardine Stock Structure Workshop, November 2022 (updated v. 04/06/2023)
- H.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: CPS Regulatory Activities
- H.1.b, Supplemental SWFSC Presentation 1: Southwest Fisheries Science Center Coastal Pelagic Species Research Update (Annie Yau)
- H.1.c, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- H.1.c, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
- H.1.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
- H.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- H.2 Situation Summary: Exempted Fishing Permits for 2023-2024 – Final Action
- H.2, Attachment 1: California Wetfish Producers Association Point Sets Sampling Proposal
- H.2, Attachment 2: California Wetfish Producers Association Biological Sampling Proposal
- H.2, Attachment 3: March 13, 2023 Letter from West Coast Pelagic Conservation Group Withdrawing EFP Proposal
- H.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
- H.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
- H.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- H.3. Situation Summary: Fishery Management Plan (FMP) Housekeeping – Final Action
- H.3, Attachment 1: Underline/Strikethrough of Public Review Draft of CPS FMP (November 2022) (Electronic Only)
- H.3, Attachment 2: Public Review Draft of CPS FMP (November 2022)
(Electronic Only) - H.3, Attachment 3: April 2023 Proposed Edits on Underline/Strikethrough of
Public Review Draft of CPS FMP (Electronic Only) - H.3, Attachment 4: April 2023 Proposed Edits to Public Review Draft of CPS FMP (Electronic Only)
- H.3.a, CPSMT Report 1
- H.3.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 2
- H.3.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
- H.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- H.4: Situation Summary: Sardine Harvest Specifications and Management Measures for 2023-2024 – Final Action
- H.4, Attachment 1: Update Assessment of the Pacific Sardine Resource in 2022 for U.S. Management in 2022-2023 (Electronic Only)
- H.4.a Supplemental CDFW Report 1: Pacific Sardine Landings 2015-2023
- H.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- H.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report 2
- H.4.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
- H.4.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
- H.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- H.5 Situation Summary: Coastal Pelagic Species Essential Fish Habitat Amendment
- H.5, Attachment 1: Draft Alternatives Document
- H.5, Supplemental Attachment 2 (Electronic Only): Draft Proposed EFH Appendix
- H.5, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1: CPS EFH; Range of Alternatives/PPA (Kerry Griffin)
- H.5.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
- H.5.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
- H.5.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
- H.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
Advisory body and committee agendas
- Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel
- Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team
- Enforcement Consultants
- Groundfish Advisory Subpanel
- Groundfish Management Team
- Legislative Committee
- Habitat Committee
- Model Evaluation Workgroup
- Salmon Advisory Subpanel
- Scientific and Statistical Committee
- Scientific and Statistical Committee: DRAFT March 4-5, 2023 Minutes
- Coastal Pelagic Species Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee Review of aspects related to assessment of Pacific Sardine and other CPS Species (March 20-21, 2023 meeting)
- Salmon Technical Team
- All One File: Committee agendas for the April 2023 briefing book (all one file bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)
Advisory body and committee memos
- Committee memos for the April 2023 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)
Informational reports
- Informational Report 1: 2022 Trawl Rationalization Compliance Summary (NMFS OLE, March 2023)
- Informational Report 2: NOAA Fisheries Proposes Listing Sunflower Sea Star as Threatened under Endangered Species Act
- Informational Report 3: NOAA Fisheries Seeks Public Comment on Enforcement Priorities for 2023–2027
- Supplemental Informational Report 4: NMFS West Coast Geographic Strategic Plan
- Supplemental REVISED Informational Report 5: In Loving Memory, Michele Longo Eder
General Information
- General Information: Chairs reception, Covid protocols, Seating chart; Council meeting schedule
Recent reports
- April 2023 Council meeting record
- April 2023 Council Meeting Transcripts
- TABLE 3. 2023 Treaty Indian troll management measures for ocean salmon fisheries – Council adopted. (April 6, 2023)
- TABLE 2. 2023 Recreational management measures for non-tribal ocean salmon fisheries – Council adopted (April 6, 2023)
- TABLE 1. 2023 Commercial troll management measures for non-tribal ocean salmon fisheries – Council adopted (April 6, 2023)
- Pacific Fishery Management Council Adopts 2023 West Coast Ocean Salmon Seasons
- F.7, Supplemental Attachment 5: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, June 2023 (version April 6, 2023)
- F.7, Supplemental Attachment 4: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. April 6, 2023)
- F.7.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- F.7.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
- E.10.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Statement by the Columbia River Treaty Tribes to the PFMC, April 6, 2023
- G.6.a, Supplemental NWFSC Presentation 1: Update on Ageing to Support 2023 Stock Assessments and Information Related to a Potential Limited Assessment Update for Sablefish in 2023
- F.7.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
- E.10.a, Supplemental STT Report 2: Klamath River Fall Chinook de minimis Exploitation Rate
- E.10.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: STT Analysis of Tentative 2023 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures (04/06/2023)
- G.5, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Seger)
- F.5.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
- G.5.a, Supplemental Council Member Report 3 (Christa M. Svensson)
- G.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report 2
- F.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
- F.4.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
- F.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.6.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.5.a, Supplemental Council Member Report 2 (Anderson)