Briefing Books: 2013

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March 2013 Briefing Book

A. Call to Order

  • Agenda Item A.3, Supplemental Attachment 1: February 2013 Council Coordination Committee Agenda
  • Agenda Item A.4: March 2013 Council Meeting Agenda

B. Open Comment

  • Agenda Item B.1.b, Supplemental Open Comment: Testimony of Jeff Lackey
  • Agenda Item B.1.b, Supplemental Open Comment 2: Midwater Trawlers Cooperative (Heather Mann)

C. Salmon Management

  • Agenda Item C.1: Review of 2012 Fisheries and Summary of 2013 Stock Abundance Forecasts
    • Review of 2012 Ocean Salmon Fisheries (Published February 2013)
    • Supplemental Preseason Report I: Stock Abundance Analysis and Environmental Assessment Part 1 for 2013 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations (Regulation Identifier Number 0648-XC438)
    • Agenda Item C.1.a, Attachment 1: Excerpts from Chapter 3 of the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan Updated Through Amendment 17
    • Agenda Item C.1.b, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item C.2: Identification of Management Objectives and Preliminary Definition of 2013 Salmon Management Alternatives
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 1: Guidance for Alternative Development and Assessment
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 2: Emergency Changes to the Salmon FMP
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 3: FR 97-22094: Policy Guidelines for the Use of Emergency Rules
    • Agenda Item C.2.c, Supplemental NMFS Report: Letter Summarizing NOAA Fisheries’ Consultation Standards and Guidance Regarding the Potential Effects of the 2013 Season on Listed Salmonid Species
    • Agenda Item C.2.c, Supplemental WDFW/Tribal Recommendations
    • Agenda Item C.2.c, Supplemental CRITFC Tribal Report
    • Agenda Item C.2.c, Supplemental Coastal Tribal Recommendations
    • Agenda Item C.2.c, Supplemental SAS Report: Proposed Initial Salmon Management Alternatives for 2013 Non-Indian Ocean Fisheries
  • Agenda Item C.3: NMFS Report (Salmon)
    • Agenda Item C.3.b, Attachment 1: December 11, 2012 letter from NMFS Assistant Regional Administrator Barry Thom regarding long-term salmon and steelhead recovery in the Columbia Basin
    • Agenda Item C.3.b, Attachment 2: February 5, 2013 letter from NMFS Regional Administrator William W. Stelle, Jr. to Council Chair Dan Wolford approving Amendment 17 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan
    • Agenda Item C.3.b, Supplemental Attachment 3: NOAA Technical Memorandum – California Coastal Chinook Salmon: Status, Data, and Feasibility of Alternative Fishery Management Strategies, Published December 2012
    • Agenda Item C.3.b, Supplemental Attachment 4: Letter to Dan Wolford from Rodney McInnis, Stating the SOC has Determined that the Sacramento River Fall Chinook Salmon Stock is Rebuilt
    • Agenda Item C.3.c, Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint (Lawson)
    • Agenda Item C.3.c Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint 2 (Fresh)
    • Agenda Item C.3.d, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item C.3.d, Supplemental HC Report
  • Agenda Item C.4: Council Recommendations for 2013 Management Alternative Analysis
    • Agenda Item C.4.b, Supplemental STT Report
  • Agenda Item C.5: Further Council Direction for 2013 Management Alternatives
    • Agenda Item C.5.b, Supplemental STT Report: Initial Analysis of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2013 Ocean Fisheries
  • Agenda Item C.6: Adoption of 2013 Management Alternatives for Public Review
    • Agenda Item C.6.b, Supplemental STT Report: Analysis of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2013 Ocean Fisheries (March 11, 2013)
    • Agenda Item C.6.b, Supplemental Tribal Report: Testimony of the Columbia River Tribes
    • Agenda Item C.6.d, Supplemental Tribal Motion
  • Agenda Item C.7: Salmon Hearings Officers
    • Agenda Item C.7.a, Attachment 1: Schedule of Salmon Fishery Management Alternative Hearings

D. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

  • Agenda Item D.1: Exempted Fishing Permit for 2013 Northwest Aerial Sardine Survey
    • Agenda Item D.1.a, Attachment 1: Notice of Intent to Conduct EFP Activities
    • Agenda Item D.1.a, Attachment 2: West Coast Aerial Sardine Survey 2012 Application for Exempted Fishing Permit
    • Agenda Item D.1.a, Attachment 3: Addendum to West Coast Aerial Sardine Survey 2012 Application for Exempted Fishing Permit
    • Agenda Item D.1.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Northwest Aerial Sardine Survey Tables 6 and 7
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report

E. Habitat

  • Agenda Item E.1: Current Habitat Issues
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, Supplemental HC Report

F. Administrative Matters

  • Agenda Item F.1: Research Planning
    • Agenda Item F.1.a, Attachment 1: Research and Data Needs, Public Review Draft, 2013
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.2: Approval of Council Meeting Minutes
    • Agenda Item F.2.a, Attachment 1: Draft Minutes: 214th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (June 2012)
    • Agenda Item F.2.a, Attachment 2: Draft Minutes: 215th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (September 2012)
  • Agenda Item F.3: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
    • Agenda Item F.3.a, Attachment 1: IPHC Management Strategy Evaluation Framework
  • Agenda Item F.4: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
    • Agenda Item F.4.a, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item F.4.a, Attachment 2: Preliminary Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 5-11, 2013 in Portland, Oregon
    • Agenda Item F.4.a, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-At-A-Glance Summary (as of March 2013)
    • Agenda Item F.4.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Preliminary Proposed Pacific Council Meeting Agenda, April 5-11, 2013, Portland, OR
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Supplemental STT Report
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item F.4.c, Supplemental Public Comment

G. Pacific Halibut Management

  • Agenda Item G.1: Report on the International Pacific Halibut Commission Meeting
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Attachment 1: IPHC News Release
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Attachment 2: 2013 Area 2A Pacific Halibut Allocations
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, IPHC Meeting Summary: Report on the 2013 International Pacific Halibut Commission Annual Meeting
    • Agenda Item G.1.c, Supplemental IPHC PowerPoint
  • Agenda Item G.2: Pacific Halibut Management South of Humbug Mountain
    • Agenda Item G.2.b, Attachment 1: Summary of the South of Humbug Pacific Halibut Policy Committee Meeting
  • Agenda Item G.3: Incidental Catch Recommendations for the Salmon Troll and Fixed Gear Sablefish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 1: Summary of Pacific Halibut Incidental Catch Management
    • Agenda Item G.3.b, NMFS Report: National Marine Fisheries Service Report on Changes to Incidental Halibut Retention in the Salmon Troll and Sablefish Primary Fisheries
    • Agenda Item G.3.b, WDFW Report: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Incidental Catch Recommendations for the Fixed Gear Sablefish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item G.3.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.3.b, Supplemental SAS Report

H. Groundfish Management

  • Agenda Item H.1: National Marine Fisheries Report (Groundfish)
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Attachment 1: Federal Register Notices Published Since the Last Council Meeting
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental Attachment 2: Federal Register Notice Dated March 5, 2013 Regarding Proposed Rule for 2013 Tribal Fishery For Pacific Whiting
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental NMFS Science Center PowerPoint
  • Agenda Item H.2: Status Determination Criteria for Data-Moderate Stocks
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Attachment 1: Draft Summary Minutes of the Data-Moderate Status Determination Webinar
    • Agenda Item H.2.b, Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint (Hastie)
    • Agenda Item H.2.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.2.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.2.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.2.d, Supplemental WDFW Motion
  • Agenda Item H.3: Consideration of Inseason Adjustments, Including Carryover
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.3.c, Public Comment
  • Agenda Item H.4: Amendment 24 – Improvements to the Groundfish Management Process
    • Groundfish Amendment 24 Informational Briefing (Thursday, March 7); This informal briefing is provided by staff to help with understanding various issues and objectives associated with developing a new management process for groundfish fisheries under Amendment 24
    • Agenda Item H.4.a, Attachment 1: Groundfish Biennial Process Improvements, Including Amendment 24 (Summary Table)
    • Agenda Item H.4.a, Attachment 2: Initial Proposal (Proposed Action & Alternatives) for a 10-year (2015-2024) NEPA Evaluation of Establishing and Adjusting Groundfish Harvest Specifications (“Tier 1” NEPA Document), Council Staff White Paper
    • Agenda Item H.4.a, Supplemental Attachment 3: Recent History of Harvest Control Rules for Setting Annual Catch Limits/Optimum Yields and Considerations for Developing Default Harvest Control Rules
    • Agenda Item H.4.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Amendment 24 Informational Briefing Presentation With Speakers Notes (Dr. Dahl)
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, Supplemental Ad Hoc Amendment 24 Workgroup Report
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, Supplemental GAP Report

I. Highly Migratory Species Management

  • Agenda Item I.1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Highly Migratory Species)
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Attachment 1: NMFS Southwest Regional Office Update on Legal and Regulatory Activities
    • Agenda Item I.1.c, Attachment 1: NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.c, Supplemental SWFSC PowerPoint (Vetter)
    • Agenda Item I.1.c, Supplemental SWFSC PowerPoint 2, (Chugey Sepulveda; with Video)
    • Agenda Item I.1.d, Supplemental HMSAS Report
  • Agenda Item I.2: Swordfish Management Report on Potential Changes to the Turtle Conservation Area and Take Limits
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Attachment 1: PacFIN Landings Data Relevant to Proposed Pacific Leatherback Conservation Area (PLCA) Modification
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Supplemental Attachment 2: Letter to Assemblymember Paul Fong (CA) from Rod McInnis Regarding Proposals to Modify the PLCA; North Pacific Swordfish Fact Sheet
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, NMFS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, HMSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report 3
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental HMSMT PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Public Comment (Full Version, Available on CD/Website Only)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment 3
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment 4
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment 5
    • Agenda Item I.2.c Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint (Oceana)
    • Agenda Item I.2.d Supplemental Motion In Writing: To Provide Guidance on Potential Changes in the Boundaries and Timing of the Pacific Leatherback Turtle Conservation Area and Incidental Sea Turtle Take Limits for the Drift Gillnet Fishery
  • Agenda Item I.3: Recommendations for International Management Activities
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Attachment 1: December 18, 2012, letter From Regional Administrator Michael Tosatto to Council Chair Dan Wolford
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Attachment 2: November 20, 2012, letter from Executive Director Donald McIsaac to Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Ocean and International Scientific Affairs, Department of State, and Eric Schwab, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Attachment 3: December 11, 2012, letter from Assistant Secretary Kerri-Ann Jones to Dr. McIsaac
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Attachment 4: December 26, 2012 letter from Acting Assistant Administrator Samuel Rauch III to Dr, McIsaac
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Attachment 5: January 21, 2013, letter from Canadian Consul General Denis Stevens to Dr. McIsaac
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Attachment 6: Report of the 2012 Intercessional Meeting of the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-Like Species in the North Pacific Ocean Plenary Session, December 19-21 2012 Webinar
    • Agenda Item I.3.a Supplemental Attachment 7: Report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council on the Canada-United States Pacific Albacore Treaty Negotiations, February 13-14, 2013, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Supplemental Attachment 8: Letter to Eric Schwaab and Kerri-Ann Jones, Dated June 26, 2012, Regarding U.S. – Canada Albacore Treaty Annex C Negotiations
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental NMFS Report
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental NMFS SWFSC PowerPoint: Activities of the ISC and Summary of the Pacific Bluefin Tuna Stock Assessment (Kohin)
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.3.c, Public Comment: Washington Trollers Association, American Albacore Fishing Association, Kyle and Kathryn Vanderpool
    • Agenda Item I.3.c, Public Comment 2: American Albacore Fishermen and Stakeholders
    • Agenda Item I.3.c Supplemental Public Comment 3 (Chip Bissell, Includes Graphs)
    • Agenda Item I.3.c, Supplemental Public Comments 4 thru 18

J. Enforcement Issues

  • Agenda Item J.1: Current Enforcement Issues
    • Agenda Item J.1.b, USCG Report: January 16, 2013 Letter from Captain McAvoy
    • Agenda Item J.1.b, Supplemental USCG Report 2: Update on U.S. Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Requirements
    • Agenda Item J.1.b, Supplemental USCG PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item J.1.c, NMFS Report: Division Enforcement Priorities for 2013-Draft
    • Agenda Item J.1.c, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item J.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report

Informational Reports

  • Supplemental Informational Report 1: California Fish and Game Commission Notice of Findings – White Shark

Ancillary Meetings (Advisory Body and Committee Agendas)

  • Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
  • Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
  • Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda
  • Habitat Committee (HC) Agenda
  • Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel (HMSAS) Agenda
  • Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) Agenda
  • Salmon Advisory Subpanel (SAS) Agenda
  • Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
    • DRAFT November 2012 SSC Minutes
  • SSC Economic Subcommittee Agenda
  • SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Agenda
  • Salmon Technical Team (STT) Agenda

Committee and Advisory Body Memos

  • Coastal Pelagic Species Memo: Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team, Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel, and Interested Persons
  • Enforcement Consultants Memo: Enforcement Consultants
  • Groundfish Memo: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel, Groundfish Management Team, and Groundfish Interested Persons
  • Highly Migratory Species Memo: Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel, Highly Migratory Species Management Team, and Interested Persons
  • Salmon Memo: Salmon Advisory Subpanel, Salmon Technical Team, Model Evaluation Workgroup, and Interested Persons
  • SSC Memo: Scientific and Statistical Committee

General Information

  • General Information: Chair’s Reception, Driving Directions, Seating Chart, Hotel Information, Restaurant Information, Tax Exempt Form

Salmon Management Documents

  • Review of 2012 Ocean Salmon Fisheries (Published February 2013)
  • Supplemental Preseason Report I: Stock Abundance Analysis and Environmental Assessment Part 1 for 2013 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations (Regulation Identifier Number 0648-XC438)

April 2013 Briefing Book

A. Call to Order

  • Agenda Item A.4: April 2013 Council Meeting Agenda

B. Administrative Matters

  • Agenda Item B.1: Formalization of Council Decisions at the March 2013 Council Meeting
    • Agenda Item B.1.a, Attachment 1: Draft Voting Log, Pacific Fishery Management Council, 217th Meeting, March 2013
    • Agenda Item B.1.a, Attachment 2: Decision Summary Document, Pacific Fishery Management Council, March 7-11, 2013
  • Agenda Item B.2: Proposed Expansion of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries
    • Agenda Item B.2.a, Attachment 1: Federal Register Notice regarding plans for expansion of National Marine Sanctuaries
    • Agenda Item B.2.b, Supplemental NMS Report: Informational Flyer Regarding Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Proposed Northern Expansion (January 2013)
    • Agenda Item B.2.b Supplemental NMS PowerPoint (animation NOT included in this version)
    • Agenda Item B.2.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item B.2.c, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item B.2.d, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item B.2.d, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Full Version With Signatories Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item B.3: Ocean Observation Initiative Report
    • Agenda Item B.3.b, Supplemental OOI PowerPoint: NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative: Building Research Infrastructure for the Pacific Northwest and the Broader Community (Presented by Ed Dever)
  • Agenda Item B.4: Legislative Matters
    • Agenda Item B.4.a, Attachment 1: April 2013 Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
    • Agenda Item B.4.a, Attachment 2: Staff Summary of MSA Reauthorization Hearing
    • Agenda Item B.4.a, Attachment 3: Council Letter on HR 6362, the Revitalizing the Economy of Fisheries in the Pacific Act of 2012
    • Agenda Item B.4.b, Supplemental LC Report
    • Agenda Item B.4.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item B.4.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item B.4.c, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item B.4.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item B.4.c, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item B.5: Approval of Council Meeting Minutes
    • Agenda Item B.5.a, Attachment 1: Draft Minutes: 216th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (November 2012)
  • Agenda Item B.6: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
  • Agenda Item B.7: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
    • Agenda Item B.7.a, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item B.7.a, Attachment 2: Preliminary Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, June 20-25, 2013 in Garden Grove, California
    • Agenda Item B.7.a, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (dated April 11, 2013)
    • Agenda Item B.7.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Preliminary Proposed Pacific Council Meeting Agenda, June 18-25, 2013 in Garden Grove, California
    • Agenda Item B.7.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item B.7.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item B.7.b, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item B.7.c, Supplemental Public Comment

C. Open Comment

  • Agenda Item C.1, Open Comment 1: Announcement for the Briefing and Screening of “Ocean Frontiers” Hosted by Green Fire Productions, Sunday April 7
  • Agenda Item C.1, Supplemental Open Comment 2: Letter From Ocean Pacific Seafood Regarding the “Drift Net Swordfish Turtle Problem”
  • Agenda Item C.1, Supplemental Open Comment 3: Fisheries Rebuilding Report by the Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Agenda Item C.1, Supplemental Open Comment 4: Letter from Bill James on Behalf of Port San Luis Commercial Fishermen’s Association Regarding Requests for the Next Groundfish Spec Cycle 2015-2016

D. Groundfish Management

  • Agenda Item D.1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Groundfish)
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Attachment 1: Federal Register Notices Published Since the Last Council Meeting
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental Attachment 2: March 28, 2013 Federal Register Notice; Final Rule Reconsideration of Allocation of Whiting for the Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Dawn LLC Filing, March 29, 2013
    • Agenda Item D.1.c, Supplemental NMFS Science Center PowerPoint (Michelle McClure)
  • Agenda Item D.2: Status of the Rationalized Fishery
    • Agenda Item D.2.a, Supplemental Attachment 1: PFMC Webpage – Trawl Rationalization (Amendment 20) and Intersector Allocation (Amendment 21) Trailing Actions
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Attachment 1: Whiting Mothership Cooperative: An Amendment 20 Mothership Catcher Vessel Cooperative Report on the 2012 Pacific Whiting Fishery
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Attachment 2: Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative Amendment 20 Catcher/Processer Cooperative Final Annual Report 2012
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Supplemental At-Sea Co-op PowerPoint: Whiting Mothership Cooperative
    • Agenda Item D.2.b Supplemental At-Sea Co-op PowerPoint: Why a Shorebased Whiting Risk Pool?
    • Agenda Item D.2.c, NMFS Office of Law Enforcement Report: TRAT Compliance Summary, 2012
    • Agenda Item D.2.c, Supplemental NMFS Report: Annual Catch Report for the West Coast Groundfish, Shorebased IFQ Program in 2012
    • Agenda Item D.2.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item D.2.d, Public Comment: Fort Bragg – Central Coast Risk Pool Annual Summary Report 2012
  • Agenda Item D.3: Stock Complex Assemblages
    • Agenda Item D.3.a, Attachment 1: Initial Proposal (Proposed Action, Alternatives, and Considerations) for Restructuring Groundfish Stock Complexes
    • Agenda Item D.3.a, Supplemental Agenda Item Overview PowerPoint: Considerations for Restructuring Groundfish Stock Complexes (DeVore/Cope)
    • Stock Complex Results in Graphical Form (PFMC FTP Site)
    • Agenda Item D.3.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.3.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item D.3.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item D.4: Implementation of the 2013 Pacific Whiting Fishery Under the U.S.-Canada Pacific Whiting Agreement
    • Agenda Item D.4.a, Attachment 1: Full Version – Status of the Pacific hake (Whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian Waters in 2013. (Full Version Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item D.4.b, JMC Report: March 19, 2013 Letter from the Joint Management Committee Detailing Their Recommendations on the 2013 Total Allowable Catch of Pacific Whiting
    • Agenda Item D.4.c, Supplemental NMFS Report: Categorical Exclusion Determination Under NEPA for Rule to Establish an Interim 2013 Tribal Whiting Allocation
    • Agenda Item D.4.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.4.c, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item D.5: Consider Barotrauma Device Mortality Rates
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, GMT Report: Groundfish Management Team Report on Proposed Discard Mortality for Cowcod, Canary Rockfish, and Yelloweye Rockfish Released Using Descending Devices in the Recreational Fishery
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental ODFW Report: Incorporation of discard mortality for rockfish released with descending devices into management of Oregon recreational fisheries
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental WDFW Report: Proposed Implementation of Council Approve Mortality Estimates for Yelloweye and Canary Rockfish Released With Descending Devices
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental CDFW Report: Accounting for Use of Descending Devices in the California Recreational Fishery
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, REVISED Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item D.5.b Supplemental GMT PowerPoint: Proposed Mortality Estimates Reflecting the Use of Descending Devices in the Recreational Fishery
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental GMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item D.5.c, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint (Ken Franke)
  • Agenda Item D.6: Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Synthesis Report and Request for Proposals
    • Agenda Item D.6.a, Attachment 1: Request for Proposals to Modify Essential Fish Habitat for Pacific Coast Groundfish
    • Agenda Item D.6.b, NMFS Synthesis Report: Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Synthesis Report. (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item D.6.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: User Guide and Conclusions: Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Synthesis Report
    • Agenda Item D.6.b Supplemental NMFS Synthesis Report 2: APPENDICES to NMFS Groundfish EFH Synthesis Report (Available on Briefing Book Website Only)
    • Agenda Item D.6.b, Supplemental NMFS PowerPoint: Synthesis – Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Information (McClure/Wakefield)
    • Agenda Item D.6.c, Supplemental EFHRC Report
    • Agenda Item D.6.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item D.6.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.6.c, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item D.6.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item D.6.d, Public Comment 1
    • Agenda Item D.6.d, Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item D.6.d, Supplemental Public Comment 3
  • Agenda Item D.7: Trawl Rationalization Trailing Actions – Electronic Monitoring Regulatory Process
    • Agenda Item D.7.a, Attachment 1: Terms of Reference for the Pacific Council Workshop on Electronic Monitoring for Vessels Participating in the Groundfish Trawl Catch Share Program
    • Agenda Item D.7.a, Attachment 2: Trawl Rationalization Goals and Objectives and Provisions for Tracking and Monitoring
    • Agenda Item D.7.b, EM Workshop Report: Trawl Catch Share Program Electronic Monitoring Workshop Report
    • Agenda Item D.7.b, Supplemental EM Workshop PowerPoint (Seger)
    • Agenda Item D.7.c, PSMFC Report 1: Electronic Monitoring Program: Review of the 2012 Season
    • Agenda Item D.7.c, PSMFC Report 2: Electronic Monitoring Program: Plan for the 2013 Season
    • Agenda Item D.7.c, Supplemental PSMFC Videos (Link goes to FTP Site for Two Videos submitted by PSMFC, Large Files
    • Agenda Item D.7.d, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item D.7.d, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.7.d, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item D.7.d, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item D.7.e, Supplemental Public Comment
  • Agenda Item D.8: Consideration of Inseason Adjustments
    • Agenda Item D.8.b, Supplemental WDFW Report
    • Agenda Item D.8.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.8.b, Supplemental GAP Report

E. Salmon Management

  • Agenda Item E.1: Tentative Adoption of 2013 Ocean Salmon Management Measures for Analysis
    • Preseason Report II: Proposed Alternatives and Environmental Assessment Part 2 for 2013 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations; Regulation Identifier Number 0648-XC438
    • Agenda Item E.1.a, Attachment 1: Emergency Changes to the Salmon FMP
    • Agenda Item E.1.a, Attachment 2: FR 97-22094: Policy Guidelines for the Use of Emergency Rules
    • Agenda Item E.1.c, Supplemental Public Hearing Report 1 (Westport)
    • Agenda Item E.1.c, Supplemental Public Hearing Report 2 (Coos Bay)
    • Agenda Item E.1.c, Supplemental Public Hearing Report 3 (Eureka)
    • Agenda Item E.1.f, Supplemental SAS Report: Proposed Salmon Management Measures for Tentative Adoption (April 6, 2013)
    • Agenda Item E.1.f, Supplemental NMFS Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.f, Supplemental Yurok Tribal Comments
    • Agenda Item E.1.f, Supplemental Hoopa Valley Tribe Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.f, Supplemental CRITFC Tribal Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.f, Supplemental Tribal PowerPoint (Ellis): Snake River Fall Chinook A Success Story: Presentation to the Pacific Fishery Management Council
    • Agenda Item E.1.f, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.g, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item E.1.g, Supplemental Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item E.1.g, Supplemental Public Comment 3
    • Agenda Item E.1.g, Supplemental Public Comment 4
    • Agenda Item E.1.h, Supplemental Tribal Statement: Tentative Adoption of 2013 Management Measures
  • Agenda Item E.2: Clarify Council Direction on 2013 Management Measures
    • Agenda Item E.2.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Letter to Don McIsaac From Bob Turner Regarding Recommended Language for 2013 Salmon Fisheries as it Relates to NOAA Fisheries’ Consideration of Inseason Actions
    • Agenda Item E.2.b, Supplemental STT Report: Preliminary Analysis of Tentative 2013 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures (April 7, 2013)
  • Agenda Item E.3: Salmon Amendment 18 – Essential Fish Habitat Revisions
    • Agenda Item E.3.b, NMFS Report: EFH and ESA Section 10(j) Issues
    • Agenda Item E.3.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Additional Alternatives for Consideration
    • Agenda Item E.3.b, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item E.3.c, Supplemental Public Comment
  • Agenda Item E.4: Final Action on 2013 Management Measures
    • Agenda Item E.4.b, Supplemental STT Report: Analysis of Tentative 2013 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures, April 10, 2013
    • Agenda Item E.4.b, Supplemental NMFS Report
    • Agenda Item E.4.b, Supplemental Tribal Report (CRITFC)
    • Agenda Item E.4.b, Supplemental Tribal Report 2
  • Agenda Item E.5: Methodology Review Process and Preliminary Topic Selection for 2013
    • Agenda Item E.5.b, REVISED Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item E.5.b, Supplemental MEW Report
    • Agenda Item E.5.b, Supplemental STT Report
    • Agenda Item E.5.b, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item E.5.b, Supplemental Tribal Report
  • Agenda Item E.6: Council Guidance on Columbia Basin Situation Assessment
    • Agenda Item E.6.a, Attachment 1: December 11, 2012 Letter from Mr. Barry A. Thom Regarding the Columbia Basin Assessment
    • Agenda Item E.6.b, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item E.6.b, Supplemental SAS Report

F. Habitat

  • Agenda Item F.1: Current Habitat Issues
    • Agenda Item F.1.a, Attachment 1: Council Letter to the Department of the Interior
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.c, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.c, Supplemental SAS Report 2

G. Pacific Halibut Management

  • Agenda Item G.1: Final Incidental Catch Regulations for Salmon Troll and Fixed Gear Sablefish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item G.1.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item G.1.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2

H. Ecosystem Based Management

  • Agenda Item H.1: Final Fishery Ecosystem Plan
    • Agenda Item H.1.a, Attachment 1: Public Review Draft Pacific Coast Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the U.S. Portion of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item H.1.a, Attachment 2: Public Review Draft Ecosystem Initiatives Appendix to the Pacific Coast Fishery Ecosystem Plan (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Habitat Committee Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental EAS Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Full Version With Signatories Electronic Only)
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental Public Comment 3
    • Agenda Item H.1.d, Supplemental WDFW Motion

I. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

  • Agenda Item I.1: Pacific Sardine Harvest Parameters Workshop
    • Agenda Item I.1.a, Attachment 1: Terms of Reference
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Attachment 1: Report of the Pacific Sardine Harvest Parameters Workshop, February 2013
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Attachment 2: Initial Analyses Related to Evaluating Parameter Value Choices for Pacific Sardine
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Attachment 3: Table 4.2.5-1 from CPS FMP Control Rule Options
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental Attachment 4: Initial Analyses Related to Evaluating Parameter Value Choices for Pacific Sardine, Additional Sensitivity Analyses
    • Agenda Item I.1.b Supplemental Workshop and Risk Assessment PowerPoint: (Andre Punt)
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.c, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.d, Supplemental Public Comment
    • Agenda Item I.1.d, Supplemental Public Comment 2
  • Agenda Item I.2: Coastal Pelagic Species – Shifting Sardine Fishery Start Date
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, CPSMT/CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report

J. Enforcement Issues

  • Agenda Item J.1: Regulations for Vessel Monitoring System Declarations
    • Agenda Item J.1.a, Attachment 1: Vessel Monitoring Program: Revisions of the Enhanced Mobile Transmitter Unit Reimbursement Program
    • Agenda Item J.1.a, Attachment 2: Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Situation and Possible Solutions
    • Agenda Item J.1.a, Attachment 3: NMFS HMS Report for the March 2013 Council Meeting – Excerpt
    • Agenda Item J.1.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item J.1.b, Supplemental GAP and SAS Report

Ancillary Meetings (Advisory Body and Committee Agendas)

  • Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS) Agenda
  • Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (CPSMT) Agenda
  • Ecosystem Advisory Subpanel (EAS) Agenda
  • Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
  • Essential Fish Habitat Review Committee (EFHRC) Agenda
  • Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
  • Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda
  • Habitat Committee (HC) Agenda
  • Legislative Committee (LC) Agenda
  • Model Evaluation Workgroup (MEW) Agenda
  • Salmon Advisory Subpanel (SAS) Agenda
  • Joint Session of the SAS and the STT (SAS/STT Joint Session Agenda)
  • Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
  • SSC: Draft March 6-7, 2013 SSC Summary Minutes
  • SSC Economics Subcommittee Agenda
  • Salmon Technical Team (STT) Agenda

Committee and Advisory Body Memos

  • Coastal Pelagic Species Memo: Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team, Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel, and Interested Persons
  • Enforcement Memo: Enforcement Consultants
  • Ecosystem Memo: Ecosystem Advisory Subpanel, Ecosystem Plan Development Team and Interested Persons
  • EFHRC Memo: Essential Fish Habitat Review Committee and Interested Persons
  • Groundfish Memo: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel, Groundfish Management Team, and Groundfish Interested Persons
  • Salmon Memo: Salmon Advisory Subpanel, Salmon Technical Team, Model Evaluation Workgroup and Interested Persons
  • SSC Memo: Scientific and Statistical Committee

General Information

  • General Information: Chair’s Reception, Driving Directions, Seating Chart, Hotel Information, Restaurant Information, Tax Exempt Form

Salmon Management Documents

  • Preseason Report II: Proposed Alternatives and Environmental Assessment Part 2 for 2013 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations; Regulation Identifier Number 0648-XC438

June 2013 Briefing Book

A. Call to Order

  • Agenda Item A.3: Executive Director’s Report
    • Agenda Item A.3, Attachment 1: Columbia Basin Salmon Recovery Situation Assessment: Interview Questions and Process Backgrounder
  • Agenda Item A.4: June 2013 Council Meeting Agenda

B. Open Comment Period

  • Agenda Item B.1, Open Comment 1: Letter to Dr. McIsaac From Dr. Werner Regarding Annual Peer Review of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center La Jolla Laboratory
  • Agenda Item B.1, Open Comment 2: Letter from WFOA Regarding Alternative to Marine Stewardship Council Certification
  • Agenda Item B.1, Open Comment 3: Letter from Wild Oceans Regarding Forage Fish Status Indicator for the California Current Ecosystem
  • Agenda Item B.1, Supplemental Open Comment 4: NOAA’s Draft Northwest Region Saltwater Recreational Fishing Action Agenda
  • Agenda Item B.1, Supplemental Open Comment 5: Letter to USCG From Weil & Associates, Regarding Foreign Fishing Vessel Admeasurement
  • Agenda Item B.1.a, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item B.1.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report

C. Administrative Matters

  • Agenda Item C.1: Reports on Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries 3 Conference and the Council Coordination Committee Meeting
    • Agenda Item C.1.a, Attachment 1: MONF3 Press Release
    • Agenda Item C.1.a, Attachment 2: Detailed Agenda from the Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries 3 Conference
    • Agenda Item C.1.a, Attachment 3: Summary of Findings from the Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries 3 Conference
    • Agenda Item C.1.a, Attachment 4: Draft Decision Summary Document, 2013 Annual Council Coordination Committee Meeting, May 6, 9-10, 2013, Washington, District of Columbia
  • Agenda Item C.2: Approval of Council Meeting Minutes
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 1: Draft March 2013 Minutes: 217th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council
  • Agenda Item C.3: Legislative Matters
    • Agenda Item C.3.a, Attachment 1: June 2013 Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
    • Agenda Item C.3.a, Supplemental Attachment 2: Survey on Sustainability Certification for U.S. Harvested Seafood
    • Agenda Item C.3.b, Supplemental LC Report
  • Agenda Item C.4: Coastal Marine Spatial Planning Update
    • Agenda Item C.4.a, Attachment 1: Final National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item C.4.a, Attachment 2: Marine Planning Fact Sheet
    • Agenda Item C.4.b, Supplemental CMSP Overview PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item C.4.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item C.4.c, Supplemental HC Report
  • Agenda Item C.5: Fiscal Matters
    • Agenda Item C.5.b, Supplemental Budget Committee Report
  • Agenda Item C.6: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
    • Agenda Item C.6.a, Attachment 1: Management Strategy Advisory Board Membership
    • Agenda Item C.6.a, Attachment 2: Draft Council Operating Procedure 3 – Plan, Technical, and Management Teams
    • Agenda Item C.6.a, Attachment 3: Draft Terms of Reference for the Pacific Coast Groundfish and Endangered Species Work Group
    • Agenda Item C.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: CDFW Designees
    • Agenda Item C.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 5: NOAA News Release, Commerce Announces 2013 Regional Fishery Council Appointments
    • Agenda Item C.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 6: Composition of Ecosystem Advisory Bodies
  • Agenda Item C.7: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
    • Agenda Item C.7.a, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item C.7.a, Attachment 2: Preliminary Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, September 12-17, 2013 in Boise, Idaho
    • Agenda Item C.7.a, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item C.7.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Preliminary Proposed Pacific Council Meeting Agenda, September 12-17, 2013 in Boise, Idaho
    • Agenda Item C.7.b, NMFS Report: Sam Rauch Letter Regarding NMFS Furlough Dates
    • Agenda Item C.7.b, Supplemental OIG Sablefish LAPP Questions
    • Agenda Item C.7.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item C.7.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report

D. Highly Migratory Species Management

  • Agenda Item D.1: NMFS Report on Highly Migratory Species
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, NMFS Report
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Letter to Chairmen Wolford and Palacios, From Rodney R. McInnis, Regarding Outcomes of the 85th Meeting of the IATTC
    • Agenda Item D.1.d, Supplemental HMSAS Report
  • Agenda Item D.2: U.S.-Canada Albacore Treaty Update
    • Agenda Item D.2.a, Attachment 1: Summary of April 16-17, 2013, Meeting Between the U.S. and Canada to Discuss Albacore Treaty Issues (Prepared by Council Staff)
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report
  • Agenda Item D.3: Preliminary Exempted Fisheries Permit Approval
  • Agenda Item D.4: Response to Pacific Bluefin Tuna Overfished Status
    • Agenda Item D.4.a, Attachment 1: April 8, 2013, Letter From Rodney McInnis, NMFS Southwest Region Administrator to Dan Wolford, Council Chair
    • Agenda Item D.4.a, Attachment 2: March 26, 2012, Letter from Executive Director, Donald McIsaac, to Deputy Assistant Secretary, David Balton
    • Agenda Item D.4.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.4.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
  • Agenda Item D.5: North Pacific Albacore Tuna Precautionary Management Framework
    • Agenda Item D.5.a, Attachment 1: Summary Report of the Eighth Regular Session of the WCPFC Northern Committee, Attachment E; North Pacific Albacore Reference Points, Requests to the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, HMSMT Report
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental HMSMT PowerPoint (Hughes)
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item D.5.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report

E. Enforcement Issues

  • Agenda Item E.1: Vessel Monitoring System and Declaration Regulations
    • Agenda Item E.1.a, Attachment 1: Need For Fishery Declarations For Active VMS Units
    • Agenda Item E.1.a, Attachment 2: NMFS Highly Migratory Species Report for the March, 2013 Council Meeting – Excerpt
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, EC Report: Enforcement Consultant Report on Vessel Monitoring System and Declaration Regulations
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report

F. Groundfish Management

  • Agenda Item F.1: NMFS Report (Groundfish)
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Attachment 1: Federal Register Notices Published Since the Last Council Meeting
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Draft Rulemaking Plan for 2013, Groundfish and Halibut
    • Agenda Item F.1.c, Supplemental Science Center PowerPoint
  • Agenda Item F.2: Status of the Rationalized Fishery
    • Agenda Item F.2.b, EDCP Report 1: Economic Data Collection Program Administration and Operations (Full Document Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.2.b, EDCP Report 2: Economic Data Collection Program First Receiver and Shorebased Processor (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.2.b, EDCP Report 3: Economic Data Collection Program Catcher Vessel Report (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.2.b, EDCP Report 4: Economic Data Collection Program Catcher-Processor Report (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.2.b, EDCP Report 5: Economic Data Collection Program Mothership Report (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.2.b, Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint (Lee/Steiner)
    • Agenda Item F.2.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item F.2.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.2.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item F.2.d, Public Comment: Letter from Dr. Hans Radtke
  • Agenda Item F.3: Mid-Water Recreational Fishery
    • Agenda Item F.3.b, ODFW Letter: ODFW Letter of Support
    • Agenda Item F.3.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.3.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item F.3.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item F.3.c, Holloway Proposal: Recreational Midwater Rockfish Fishery
  • Agenda Item F.4: Seabird Avoidance Regulations
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Preliminary Draft EA: Measures to Minimize Take of Short-tailed Albatross in the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item F.4.b, Supplemental EC Report
  • Agenda Item F.5: Approve Stock Assessments
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 1: Data-moderate Stock Assessments for Brown, China, Copper, Sharpchin, Stripetail, and Yellowtail Rockfishes and English and Rex Soles in 2013 (Entire Version on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 2: Pacific Coast Groundfish Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel Report for Data-Moderate Assessments
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 3: Available Age and Length Composition Data for the Nine Data-Moderate Stocks Undergoing Assessment in 2013
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 4: Status of the Darkblotched Rockfish Resource off the Continental U.S. Pacific Coast in 2013 (Entire Version on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 5: Darkblotched Rockfish Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel Report
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 6: Status of the U.S. Petrale Sole Resource in 2012 (Entire Version on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 7: Petrale Sole Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel Report
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 8: Status of Bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis, in the Conception, Monterey and Eureka INPFC areas as evaluated for 2013 (Entire Version on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 9: Canary Rockfish Catch Report for 2011-12
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 10: Pacific Ocean Perch Catch Report for 2011-12
    • Agenda Item F.5.a, Attachment 11: Yelloweye Rockfish Catch Report for 2011-12
    • Agenda Item F.5.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item F.5.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.5.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.6: Trawl Rationalization Trailing Actions
    • Agenda Item F.6.a, Supplemental Agenda Item Overview PowerPoint (Seger)
    • Agenda Item F.6.a, Attachment 1: Electronic Monitoring – Objectives, Calendar, and Advisory Body Budget
    • Agenda Item F.6.a, Attachment 2: Initial Draft Whitepaper: Electronic Monitoring and Performance Standards
    • Agenda Item F.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 3: Unofficial Partial Transcripts from the April 2013 Council Meeting, Including Both Agenda Items D.7.f (Trawl Rationalization Trailing Actions – Electronic Monitoring Regulatory Process) and B.7.d (Future Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning)
    • Agenda Item F.6.b, WDFW Report: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Trawl Rationalization Trailing Actions
    • Agenda Item F.6.b, PSMFC Report: Final Report, Electronic Monitoring Program: Review of the 2012 Season
    • Agenda Item F.6.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Proposal to Review Pre- and Post-Trawl Rationalization Regulations
    • Agenda Item F.6.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.6.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item F.6.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.7: Consideration of 2015-2016 and Beyond Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
    • Agenda Item F.7.a, Attachment 1: Draft Annotated Outline for the Harvest Specifications EIS
    • Agenda Item F.7.a, Attachment 2: Proposed Revisions to COP 9
    • Agenda Item F.7.a, Attachment 3: Schedule for Developing Groundfish Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
    • Agenda Item F.7.b, WDFW Report
    • Agenda Item F.7.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item F.7.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.7.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item F.7.b, Supplemental Tribal Comment
    • Agenda Item F.7.c, Supplemental Public Comment
  • Agenda Item F.8: Adopt Preliminary Stock Complex Aggregations
    • Agenda Item F.8.a, Attachment 1: Considerations for Restructuring West Coast Groundfish Stock Complexes: Preliminary Alternatives and Analyses
    • Agenda Item F.8.a, Supplemental Attachment 2: Figures and Tables Depicting At-Sea Hake and Recreational Fishery Catch and Effort Data for Slope Rockfish, Cartilaginous Fishes, and Roundfishes
    • Agenda Item F.8.b, GMT Report: Groundfish Management Team Report on Methods and Results That May Be Used to Evaluate Alternatives for Stock Complex Reorganization
    • Agenda Item F.8.b, ODFW Report: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on the Oregon Commercial Sampling Program and Potential Changes to Species Complexes
    • Agenda Item F.8.b, Supplemental GMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item F.8.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item F.8.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.9: Consideration of Inseason Adjustments
    • Agenda Item F.9.b, NMFS Letter 1: Surplus Carryover Decision
    • Agenda Item F.9.b, NMFS Report: Lingcod Surplus Carryover Option
    • Agenda Item F.9.b, NMFS Letter 2: RCA Recommendations for April 15-April 30
    • Agenda Item F.9.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item F.9.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item F.9.c, Supplemental Public Comment

G. Habitat

  • Agenda Item G.1: Current Habitat Issues
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Supplemental Attachment 1: Draft Letter to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Attachment 2: Final letter to the Department of Interior
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Attachment 3: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Request for Information
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Letter From the BOR in Response to PFMC’s April 24, 2013 Letter Recommending the DOI Provide Supplementary Flows To Prevent a Fish Die-Off in the Lower Klamath River
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Supplemental Attachment 5: Oregon’s Comments Regarding Researching the Environmental Effects of Offshore Wind at the First U.S. Facilities
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report

H. Ecosystem Based Management

  • Agenda Item H.1: Ecosystem Based Management: Update List of Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental EPDT Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental EPDT Report 2
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental EPDT PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental EAS Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Includes Signatories to PEW Petition, Website Only)
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental Public Comment 3

I. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

  • Agenda Item I.1: NMFS Report on CPS
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Northern Anchovy MSY Letter
    • Agenda Item I.1.c, Supplemental Fisheries Science Center PowerPoint (Vetter)
    • Agenda Item I.1.d, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.d, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.e, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint (Oceana)
  • Agenda Item I.2: Pacific Mackerel Management Status and Management Measures
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Attachment 1: 2011 Pacific Mackerel Assessment (Available on Briefing Book Website and CD Only)
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Attachment 2: Pacific Mackerel Biomass Projection Estimate
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental SWFSC PowerPoint (Hill)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
  • Agenda Item I.3: Sardine Fishery Start Date and Management Schedule
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item I.3.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report
  • Agenda Item I.4: Coastal Pelagic Species Management: Adjustment to Pacific Sardine Harvest Parameters
    • Agenda Item I.4.b, Attachment 1: Revised Analyses Related to Pacific Sardine Harvest Parameters
    • Agenda Item I.4.b, Supplemental Analyses Related to Sardine Harvest Parameters PowerPoint (Felipe Hurtado-Ferro)
    • Agenda Item I.4.c, Supplemental SWFSC Report
    • The Council requested a revised analysis report to be presented at the November 2013 Council meeting, after inclusion of correct temperature data. Based on that request, the Council decided to not entertain advisory body reports at this meeting
    • Agenda Item I.4.d, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item I.4.d, Supplemental Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item I.4.d, Supplemental Public Comment 3
    • Agenda Item I.4.d, Supplemental Public Comment 4

Informational Reports

  • Informational Report 1: Memo to PFMC From NOAA Office of General Counsel Regarding Fisheries-Related Civil Prosecution Activity; January 1, 2013 – May 15, 2013
  • Informational Report 2: NMFS Office of Law Enforcement, Pacific Coast Enforcement Highlights (Northwest/Southwest Divisions) April 1, 2012 – March 31, 2013

Ancillary Meetings (Advisory Body and Committee Agendas)

  • Budget Committee (BC) Agenda
  • Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS) Agenda
  • Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (CPSMT) Agenda
  • Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
  • Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
  • Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda
  • Habitat Committee (HC) Agenda
  • Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel (HMSAS) Agenda
  • Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) Agenda
  • Legislative Committee (LC) Agenda
  • Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
    • April 2013 SSC Summary Minutes
  • SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Agenda

Committee and Advisory Body Memos

  • Coastal Pelagic Species Memo: Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team, Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel, and Interested Persons
  • Enforcement Memo: Enforcement Consultants
  • Groundfish Memo: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel, Groundfish Management Team, and Groundfish Interested Persons
  • Salmon Memo: Salmon Advisory Subpanel, Salmon Technical Team, Model Evaluation Workgroup and Interested Persons
  • SSC Memo: Scientific and Statistical Committee
    • Statement of the SSC Economics and Groundfish Subcommittees’ Reviews Conducted in 2012-13 of Data and Models to be Used in the Socioeconomic Analysis for the 2015-16 Groundfish Biennial Specifications Process

General Information and Membership Roster

  • General Information: Chair’s Reception, Driving Directions, Hotel Information, Restaurant Information, Tax Exempt Form
  • Membership Roster: (Dated June 3, 2013); for the June 2013 Briefing Book

September 2013 Briefing Book

A. Call to Order

  • Agenda Item A.3, Supplemental Attachment 1: Letter to Michael Tosatto, PIRO, Regarding the Following Report “Pacific Fishery Management Council General Recommendations for the North Pacific Albacore Precautionary Management Framework Proposed by the Western and Central Pacific Commission Northern Committee”
  • Agenda Item A.3, Supplemental Attachment 2: Pacific Fishery Management Council General Recommendations for the North Pacific Albacore Precautionary Management Framework Proposed by the Western and Central Pacific Commission Northern Committee
  • Agenda Item A.3, Supplemental Attachment 3: Framework for a Precautionary Approach for North Pacific Albacore, Preliminary Draft Proposal, Version U.S. 2
  • Agenda Item A.3, Supplemental Attachment 4: Draft Northern Committee 9 Results Report
  • Agenda Item A.3 Supplemental NMFS Report: Northwest & Southwest Regional Offices’ Realignment: DRAFT Division Organizational Charts of the NMFS West Coast Regional Office
  • Agenda Item A.4: Proposed Detailed September 11-17, 2013 Agenda

B. Open Comment Period

  • Agenda Item B.1, Open Comment 1: American Albacore Fishing Association Paper on Biological Reference Points and Harvest Control Rules
  • Agenda Item B.1, Supplemental Open Comment 2: PowerPoint From TNC, California Central Coast RCA Study
  • Agenda Item B.1, Supplemental Open Public Comment 3: Proposal to the Pacific Fishery Management Council to Modify Groundfish EFH Designation, Conservation, and Enforcement (Oceana)

C. Enforcement Issues

  • Agenda Item C.1: Tri-State Enforcement Report
    • Agenda Item C.1.b Supplemental Tri-State Enforcement PowerPoint

D. Pacific Halibut Management

  • Agenda Item D.1: Pacific Halibut Bycatch Estimates
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, WCGOP Report: Pacific Halibut Bycatch in U.S. West Coast Groundfish Fisheries (2002-2012)
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, WCGOP Response to SSC: Supplemental Material for SSC Review of the NWFSC Observer Program Annual Report on Pacific Halibut Bycatch in the U.S. West Coast Groundfish Fisheries: Response to 2012 SSC Comments and Suggestions
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, WCGOP Request: Council Request for WCGOP Data
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Trawl Survey Request: Council Request for the NWFSC Bottom Trawl Survey Data
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental WCGOP Data: WCGOP Supplemental Data
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint: Pacific halibut bycatch in U.S. west coast groundfish fisheries (2002-2012) Jason Jannot
    • Agenda Item D.1.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item D.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item D.2: 2014 Pacific Halibut Regulations
    • Agenda Item D.2.a, Attachment 1: 2013 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for Area 2A
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, NMFS Report: Report on the 2013 Pacific Halibut Fisheries in Area 2A
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, ODFW Report: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Proposed Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for the 2014 Fishery
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, WDFW Report: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Proposed Changes to the Catch Sharing Plan and 2014 Annual Regulations
    • Agenda Item D.2.b Supplemental WDFW Report 2
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, CDFW Report: California Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Proposed Changes to the 2014 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Supplemental CDFW Report 2
    • Agenda Item D.2.b Supplemental CDFW PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Workgroup Report: South of Humbug Pacific Halibut Workgroup Preliminary Management Measures Analyses
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Policy Committee Report: Summary of the South of Humbug Pacific Halibut Policy Committee Meeting
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Supplemental IPHC Report
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Supplemental SOH Workgroup/Policy Group PowerPoint (Mattes)
    • Agenda Item D.2.b Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item D.2.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item D.2.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item D.2.c Supplemental Public Comment 2

E. Salmon Management

  • Agenda Item E.1: 2013 Salmon Methodology Review
    • Agenda Item E.1.a, Attachment 1: June 12, 2013 Email to the Agencies from Mike Burner Regarding Preliminary Topic Selection
    • Agenda Item E.1.a, Attachment 2: August 1, 2013 Letter From Dr. McIsaac to Mr. Will Stelle Regarding SRWC
    • Agenda Item E.1.b Supplemental NMFS Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, Supplemental MEW Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.b Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, Supplemental STT Report
    • Agenda Item E.1.b, Supplemental SAS Report
  • Agenda Item E.2: FMP Amendment 18; Update on EFH for Salmon
    • Agenda Item E.2.a, Supplemental PowerPoint on Amendment 18: – Update of Essential Fish Habitat (Griffin/Stadler)
    • Agenda Item E.2.a, Attachment 1: Draft Environmental Assessment and Initial Regulatory Impact Review – Pacific Coast Salmon Plan Amendment 18: Incorporating Revisions to Pacific Salmon Essential Fish Habitat (Electronic Only)
    • Agenda Item E.2.a, Attachment 2: Draft Appendix A to the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan: Identification and Description of Essential Fish Habitat, Adverse Impacts, and Recommended Conservation Measures for Salmon (Electronic Only)
    • Agenda Item E.2.a, Attachment 3: Pacific Salmon Amendment 18, Incorporating Changes to Essential Fish Habitat: Overview of Alternatives
    • Agenda Item E.2.a, REVISED Supplemental Attachment 4: FMP Strikethrough Language
    • Agenda Item E.2.c, Supplemental NMFS Report: Salmon EFH Notice and Comment Rulemaking
    • Agenda Item E.2.c Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item E.2.c, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item E.2.c, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item E.2.e, Supplemental NMFS Motion in Writing (as shown on screen)
  • Agenda Item E.3: Lower Columbia River Double-Crested Cormorant Management Plan
    • Agenda Item E.3.a, Attachment 1: Cormorant EIS e-Newsletter
    • Agenda Item E.3.a, Attachment 2: Draft Report: Benefits to Columbia River Anadromous Salmonids from Potential Reductions in Predation by Double-Crested Cormorants Nesting at the East Sand Island Colony
    • Agenda Item E.3.b, Supplemental SAS Report

F. Habitat

  • Agenda Item F.1: Current Habitat Issues
    • Agenda Item F.1.a, Attachment 1: Final Letter to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council
    • Agenda Item F.1.a, Attachment 2: Draft letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
    • Agenda Item F.1.a, Attachment 3: Draft letter to the Department of Energy
    • Agenda Item F.1.b Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.d, Supplemental Public Comment
    • Agenda Item F.1.d, Supplemental Public Comment 2

G. Groundfish Management

  • Agenda Item G.1: NMFS Report (Groundfish)
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Attachment 1: Federal Register Notices Published Since the Last Council Meeting
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Draft Rulemaking Plan for 2013 Groundfish and Halibut
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Initial Decision and Order; RCA Violation Court Case: F/V Risa Lynn
    • Agenda Item G.1.c, Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item G.1.d, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item G.2: Sablefish Permit Stacking Program Review
    • Agenda Item G.2.a Supplemental Agenda Item Overview PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item G.2.a, Attachment 1: Draft Sablefish Permit Stacking Review Calendar
    • Agenda Item G.2.a, Attachment 2: Possible Advisory Body Structure and Composition
    • Agenda Item G.2.a, Attachment 3: Draft Outline For The Pacific Coast Groundfish Limited Entry Fixed Gear Sablefish Permit Stacking Program Review
    • Agenda item G.2.a, Attachment 4: NOAA Catch Share Performance Indicator Series: Pacific Coast Sablefish Permit Stacking Program
    • Agenda Item G.2.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item G.2.b Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.2.b, Supplemental EC Report
  • Agenda Item G.3: Approve Stock Assessments
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 1: Stock Assessment of Aurora Rockfish in 2013 (full stock assessment available electronically only)
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 2: STAR Panel Report for Aurora Rockfish
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 3: The Status of Rougheye Rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) and Blackspotted Rockfish (S. melanostictus) as a Complex Along the U.S. West Coast in 2013 (full stock assessment available electronically only)
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 4: STAR Panel Report for Rougheye (and Blackspotted) Rockfish
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 5: Stock Assessment of Shortspine Thornyhead in 2013 (full stock assessment available electronically only)
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 6: Shortspine Thornyhead STAR Panel Report
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 7: Stock Assessment and Status of Longspine Thornyhead (Sebastolobus altivelis) off California, Oregon and Washington in 2013 (full stock assessment available electronically only)
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 8: Longspine Thornyhead STAR Panel Report
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 9: Status and Productivity of Cowcod, Sebastes levis, in the Southern California Bight, 2013 (full stock assessment available electronically only)
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 10: Cowcod STAR Panel Report
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 11: Status of the U.S. Pacific Sanddab Resource in 2013 (full stock assessment available electronically only)
    • Agenda Item G.3.a, Attachment 12: Pacific Sanddab STAR Panel Report
    • Agenda Item G.3.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item G.3.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item G.3.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item G.4: Science Improvements for the Next Groundfish Management Cycle
    • Agenda Item G.4.a, Attachment 1: STAR Panel Recommendations for Off-year Science Improvements
    • Agenda Item G.4.b, Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item G.4.c, Supplemental CDFW Report
    • Agenda Item G.4.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item G.4.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item G.4.c, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item G.5: Consideration of Inseason Adjustments
    • Agenda Item G.5.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item G.5.b, Supplemental GMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item G.5.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.5.c, Public Comment
  • Agenda Item G.6: Consideration of Trawl Rockfish Conservation Area Boundary Modifications
    • Agenda Item G.6.b, Draft EA: Trawl Rockfish Conservation Area Boundary Modifications
    • Agenda Item G.6.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Federal Register Notice Dated September 13, 2013 – Proposed Rule to Implement Revisions to the Boundaries of the RCA That is Closed to Vessels Fishing Groundfish with Bottom Trawl Gear
    • Agenda Item G.6.b Supplemental NMFS PowerPoint: EA Summary (Brady)
    • Agenda Item G.6.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item G.6.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.6.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item G.6.c, Supplemental Public Comment
    • Agenda Item G.6.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Atkinson slides)
  • Agenda Item G.7: Initial Actions for Setting 2015-2016 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item G.7.a, Attachment 1: Proposed Overfishing Limits and Potential Acceptable Biological Catches for 2015 and 2016 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item G.7.a, Attachment 2: Briefing paper authored by Dr. Andrè Punt: Management Strategy Evaluation for Rebuilding Revision Rules: A Proof of Concept
    • Agenda Item G.7.a, Attachment 3: Proposed Revisions to COP 9
    • Agenda Item G.7.a, Attachment 4: New Management Measures Process
    • Agenda Item G.7.a, Supplemental Attachment 5: Replacement Tables 4 and 5 for Agenda Item G.7.a, Attachment 1
    • Agenda Item G.7.b, SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Report: SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Statement Regarding a Change in Target SPR Rate for West Coast Elasmobranch Species
    • Agenda Item G.7.b, Supplemental GMT Report: GMT Report on the SSC Economics and GF Subcommittees’ Report on Data Models to be Used in the SocioEconomic Analysis for the 2015-16 Groundfish Biennial Specifications Process
    • Agenda Item G.7.b, Supplemental GMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item G.7.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item G.7.b, Supplemental CDFW Report
    • Agenda Item G.7.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.7.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item G.7.d, Supplemental Staff PowerPoint
  • Agenda Item G.8: Consider Stock Complex Aggregations
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Additional Methods that May Be Used to Evaluate Alternatives for Stock Complex Reorganization
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, GMT Report 2: Groundfish Management Team Report on the Classification of Stocks in the Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, GMT Report 3: Groundfish Management Team Report on Port Sampling Surveys
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, Supplemental GMT Report 4: Stock Complex Reorganization A Summary of Reports and Results by the Groundfish Management Team (GMT PowerPoint) Electronic Only
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, Supplemental GMT Report 5
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, Supplemental GMT Report 6
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, Supplemental GMT Report 7: Groundfish Management Team Report on Consider Stock Complex Aggregations
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item G.8.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item G.9: Trawl Rationalization Trailing Actions Scoping, Process, and Prioritization
    • Agenda Item G.9.a, Supplemental Staff Agenda Item Overview PowerPoint
    • Agenda Item G.9.a, Attachment 1: Trawl Trailing Action Scoping Issue Overview
    • Agenda Item G.9.a, Attachment 2: Trawl Rationalization Regulatory Evaluation Committee Report on Trailing Actions (From 2011)
    • Agenda Item G.9.a, Attachment 3: Trawl Gear Regulation Change Proposals Developed at Trawl Fishery Gear Workshop
    • Agenda Item G.9.b, NMFS Report 1: Initial Review of Pre- and Post-Trawl Rationalization Regulations
    • Agenda Item G.9.b, NMFS Report 2: National Marine Fisheries Service Report on the Adaptive Management Program for the Trawl Rationalization Program
    • Agenda Item G.9.b Supplemental NMFS PowerPoint: Flexibility and Efficiency in Groundfish Trawl Regulations
    • Agenda Item G.9.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item G.9.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.9.d, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item G.9.d, Supplemental Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item G.9.d, Supplemental Public Comment 3 (Ana Kujundzic)
  • Agenda Item G.10: Electronic Monitoring Scoping
    • Agenda Item G.10.a, Attachment 1: Information for Public Scoping of Electronic Monitoring in the Pacific Coast Limited Entry Trawl Groundfish Fishery
    • Agenda Item G.10.b, Supplemental GEMPC Report: GEM Committees Report to Council (August 2013)
    • Agenda Item G.10.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Informational Sheet – Electronic Technologies in Data Collection
    • Agenda Item G.10.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.10.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item G.10.c. Public Comment
    • Agenda Item G.10.d, Supplemental Motion in Writing

H. Administrative Matters

  • Agenda Item H.1: Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries 3 Conference Follow-Ups and Unrelated Legislative Matters
    • Agenda Item H.1.a, Attachment 1: Matrix of Findings from the Managing Our Nations Fisheries 3 Conference
    • Agenda Item H.1.a, Attachment 2: Preliminary Staff Compilation of Possible Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization Priorities for Consideration by the Pacific Council
    • Agenda Item H.1.a, Attachment 3: September 2013 Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
    • Agenda Item H.1.a, Attachment 4: Comparison of 2012 and 2013 version of REFI Act
    • Agenda Item H.1.a, Attachment 5: S 269 Original With Notations (Electronic Only)
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental EAS Report
  • Agenda Item H.2: Approval of Council Meeting Minutes
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Supplemental Attachment 1: Draft April 2013 Minutes: 218th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council
  • Agenda Item H.3: Fiscal Matters
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental Budget Committee Report
  • Agenda Item H.4: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
    • Agenda Item G.7.a, Attachment 3: Proposed Revisions to COP 9
  • Agenda Item H.5: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
    • Agenda Item H.5.a, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item H.5.a, Attachment 2: Preliminary Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, November 1-6, 2013 in Costa Mesa, California
    • Agenda Item H.5.a, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item H.5.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Preliminary Proposed Pacific Council Meeting Agenda, November 1-6, 2013 In Costa Mesa, CA
    • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental REVISED GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental EAS Report
    • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: DRAFT Regional Operating Agreements

I. Ecosystem Based Management

  • Agenda Item I.1: Update List of Fisheries
    • Agenda Item I.1.a, Attachment 1: ad hoc Ecosystem Workgroup Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental EAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item I.2: Unmanaged Forage Fish Protection Initiative
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental Ecosystem Workgroup Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental EAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental SAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Includes Full Signatories to PEW Petition, Website Only)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Received at the Meeting)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment 3

Informational Reports

  • Informational Report 1: Pacific Dawn II, Motion for Summary Judgement; Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support Thereof
  • Informational Report 2: Federal Register Notice Dated August 7, 2013 Regarding Proposed Information Collection From DOC – Statement of Financial Interests, RMFCs
  • Supplemental Informational Report 2.1: DRAFT Financial Disclosure Report for RFMC Voting Members, Nominees and Members of a Scientific and Statistical Committee
  • Informational Report 3: Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Review: Summary of Proposals Received and Process for Completion
  • Informational Report 4: Letter to Dr. McIsaac From Sam Rauch Regarding Final Action to Amend Guidelines for National Standard 2 of the MSA
  • Supplemental Informational Report 5: Notice for Vessel Owner/Operators of California Thresher Shark/Swordfish Drift Gillnet (≥14 inches mesh) Fishing Vessels
  • Supplemental Informational Report 6: News Release from the National Academies dated September 5, 2013 “Interactive Chart on Status of U.S. Fish Populations”; and Web Article from Saving Seafood – “National Research Council study finds rebuilding timelines for fish stocks inflexible, inefficient”
  • Supplemental Informational Report 7: Status Report of the 2013 Ocean Salmon Fisheries Off Washington, Oregon, and California (Preliminary Data Through August 31, 2013)

Ancillary Meetings (Advisory Body and Committee Agendas)

  • Budget Committee (BC) Agenda
  • Ecosystem Advisory Subpanel (EAS) Agenda
  • Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
  • Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
  • Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda
  • Habitat Committee (HC) Agenda
  • REVISED Start Time Legislative Committee (LC) Agenda
  • Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
  • DRAFT SSC June 2013 Minutes

Committee and Advisory Body Memos

  • Ecosystem Memo: Ecosystem Advisory Subpanel, ad hoc Ecosystem Workgroup, and Interested Persons
  • Enforcement Memo: Enforcement Consultants
  • Groundfish Memo: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel, Groundfish Management Team, and Groundfish Interested Persons
  • Salmon Memo: Salmon Technical Team, Salmon Advisory Subpanel, Model Evaluation Workgroup, and Interested Persons
  • SSC Memo: Scientific and Statistical Committee Memo

General Information and Membership Roster

  • General Information: Chair’s Reception, Driving Directions, Hotel Information, Restaurant Information
  • Supplemental General Information: Council Seating Chart (September 2013)
  • Membership Roster: (Dated August 22, 2013); for the September 2013 Briefing Book

November 2013 Briefing Book

A. Call to Order

  • Agenda Item A.3: Executive Director’s Report
    • Agenda Item A.3, Attachment 1: Draft Proposed Agenda for the October 23-34 Council Coordination Committee Webinar Meeting
    • Agenda Item A.3, Supplemental Attachment 2: Decisions Summary Document Council Coordination Committee Special Webinar Meeting October 23-24, 2013
  • Agenda Item A.4: Proposed Detailed November Council Meeting Agenda, 221st Session

B. Open Comment Period

  • Agenda Item B.1, Open Comment 1: California’s Deadliest Catch (Full Comment Electronic Only)

C. Salmon Management

  • Agenda Item C.1: NMFS Report (Salmon Management)
    • Agenda Item C.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Selected Recent Publications by SWFSC Relevant to Salmon Fisheries Management
    • Agenda Item C.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: DRAFT Federal Register Notice – Notice of Availability of a Management Strategy Evaluation for Sacramento River winter Chinook salmon; Request for Comments
  • Agenda Item C.2: Salmon Methodology Review
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 1: 2013 Technical Revision to the OCN Coho Work Group Harvest Matrix
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 2: Harvest Strategy Risk Assessment for Lower Columbia Natural Coho
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 3: Incorporating Recent Empirical Information on Sublegal Encounters into FRAM Modeling
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 4: Correction to FRAM Algorithms for Modeling Size Limit Changes
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 5: Expected future performance of abundance forecast 1models with application to Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 6: Status Determination Criteria for Willapa Bay Natural Coho
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 7: Conservation Objective for Southern Oregon Coastal Chinook
    • Agenda Item C.2.a, Attachment 8: Standardized Method to Calculate Chinook Age 2 FRAM Stock Recruit Scalars, Based Upon the Age 3 Forecast
    • Agenda Item C.2.b, Supplemental ODFW/WDFW PowerPoint Presentation: Development of a New Harvest Matrix for Columbia River Coho (Kern/LeFleur)
    • Agenda Item C.2.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item C.2.b, Supplemental MEW Report
    • Agenda Item C.2.b, Supplemental SAS Report
  • Agenda Item C.3: Preseason Salmon Management Schedule for 2014
    • Agenda Item C.3.a, Attachment 1: Pacific Fishery Management Council Schedule and Process for Developing 2014 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures
    • Agenda Item C.3.b, Supplemental SAS Report

D. Habitat

  • Agenda Item D.1: Current Habitat Issues
    • Agenda Item D.1.a, Attachment 1: Final Letter to the Department of Energy
    • Agenda Item D.1.b, Supplemental HC Report

E. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

  • Agenda Item E.1: NMFS Report (CPS Management)
    • Agenda Item E.1.c, Supplemental FSC PowerPoint (Werner)
  • Agenda Item E.2: 2014 Exempted Fishing Permits Notice of Intent
    • Agenda Item E.2.a, Attachment 1: NWSS EFP Proposal and Request
    • Agenda Item E.2.a, Attachment 2 Electronic Only: NWSS Prior EFP Proposal Including Addendum and Supplemental Tables
    • Agenda Item E.2.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item E.2.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item E.2.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report
  • Agenda Item E.3: Establish MSY Reference Point for Northern Anchovy
    • Agenda Item E.3.a, Supplemental Attachment 1: NMFS Report – Potential Alternatives for Establishing an Estimate of MSY For the Northern Subpopulation of Northern Anchovy
    • Agenda Item E.3.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item E.3.c, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item E.3.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item E.3.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item E.3.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item E.3.c, Supplemental Public Comment 3 (Oceana PowerPoint)
  • Agenda Item E.4: Methodology Preliminary Topic Selection and Review Process
    • Agenda Item E.4.a, Attachment 1: California Department of Fish and Wildlife/California Wetfish Producers Association proposal for Southern California Bight Aerial Survey
    • Agenda Item E.4.a, Attachment 2: Draft Council Operating Procedure 24
    • Agenda Item E.4.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item E.4.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item E.4.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item E.4.c, Public Comment
  • Agenda Item E.5: 2014 Pacific Sardine Stock Assessment and Management, Including Tribal Set-Aside
    • Agenda Item E.5.a, Attachment 1: Letter from Ed Johnstone, Quinault Fisheries Policy Spokesperson, Regarding the Quinault Indian Nation’s Intent to Establish a Tribal Allocation and to Participate in the January-June, 2014 Pacific Sardine Fishery
    • Agenda Item E.5.b, Supplemental Attachment 2: Pacific Sardine Biomass Projection in 2013 for U.S. Management During the First Half of 2014 (Executive Summary)
    • Agenda Item E.5.b, Supplemental SWFSC PowerPoint (Dr. Hill)
    • Agenda Item E.5.c, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item E.5.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item E.5.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item E.5.d, Supplemental Public Comment

F. Enforcement Issues

  • Agenda Item F.1: Federal Enforcement Priorities and Other Enforcement Issues
    • Agenda Item F.1.a, Attachment 1: December 14, 2011 Letter to OLE from Executive Director, Donald McIsaac, on Enforcement Priorities for 2012
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement; Pacific Coast Enforcement Highlights (Northwest/Southwest Divisions)
    • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item F.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report

G. Pacific Halibut Management

  • Agenda Item G.1: 2014 Pacific Halibut Regulations
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Attachment 1: 2013 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan For Area 2A
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Attachment 2: Council Blog Excerpt
    • Agenda Item G.1.a, Attachment 3: Current and Proposed Changes to the 2014 Catch Sharing Plan Allocations
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, ODFW Report: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Proposed Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for the 2014 Fishery
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental WDFW Report: Proposed Changes to the Catch Sharing Plan and 2014 Annual Regulations
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Report of the 2013 Pacific Halibut Fisheries in Area 2A (10/23/2013)
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental IPHC Report
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental CDFW Report
    • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item G.1.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item G.1.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item G.1.c, Supplemental Public Comment 3

H. Groundfish Management

  • Agenda Item H.1: Seabird Avoidance Regulations
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Preliminary Draft EA: Measures to Minimize Take of Short-tailed Albatross in the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental EC Report
  • Agenda Item H.2: Exempted Fishing Permits
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Attachment 1: 2013 Progress Report on Evaluation of an Epibenthic Trolled Longline to Selectively Catch Chilipepper Rockfish (Sebastes goodei) off California
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Attachment 2: Application for a 2015-16 EFP: Evaluation of an Epibenthic Trolled Longline to Selectively Catch Chilipepper Rockfish (Sebastes goodei) off California
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Attachment 3: Interim Report: Exempted Fishing Permit Testing Commercial Jig Fishing Gear Targeting Yellowtail Rockfish for 2013-2014 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Attachment 4: Groundfish EFP Proposal: Yellowtail Rockfish Jig Fishing off California
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Attachment 5: Interim Progress Report on Supporting a Spatial Analysis of the Distribution and Size of Rebuilding Stocks in the Rockfish Conservation Areas Through Directed Fishing Surveys
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Supplemental Attachment 6: Proposal for Electronic Monitoring Exempted Fishing Permit to Test The Effectiveness of Electronic Monitoring Without the Effect of On-Board Observers (Dated October 21, 2013)
    • Agenda Item H.2.a, Supplemental Attachment 7: Interim Report: Exempted Fishing Permit Testing Commercial Jig Fishing Gear Targeting Yellowtail Rockfish for 2013/2014 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.2.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.2.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.2.c, Supplemental Public Comment
  • Agenda Item H.3: Sablefish Permit Stacking Program Review Scoping
    • Agenda Item H.3.a, Attachment 1: Sablefish Permit Stacking Review Calendar
    • Agenda Item H.3.a, Attachment 2: Notice Soliciting Comment on Potential Changes for the Program
    • Agenda Item H.3.a, Attachment 3: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Sablefish Permit Stacking Program – Indicators For Evaluating Program Performance
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Sablefish Permit Stacking Program Review: Potential Changes to the Own and Hold Regulations
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Sablefish Permit Stacking Program Review: Potential Changes to Catch Accounting
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.3.c, Public Comment
  • Agenda Item H.4: Stock Complex Restructuring
    • Agenda Item H.4.a, Supplemental Attachment 1: Stock Complex Alternatives
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, GMT Report: Groundfish Management Team Report on Restructuring the Other Fish Complex
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, GMT Report 2: Groundfish Management Team Report on the Classification of the Other Fish and Like Stocks in the Groundfish FMP
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, Supplemental GMT Report 3: GMT Recommendations on Classification of Stocks in the FMP and the Other Fish Stock Complex Alternatives
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Minor Slope Complex Stocks With Consistent Overfishing Unit Contribution Overages; Council Consideration of Reorganization of Blackgill, Rougheye, and Shortraker Rockfish for Additional Analysis
    • Agenda Item H.4.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item H.5: Stock Assessments and Rebuilding Analyses
    • Agenda Item H.5.a, Supplemental Attachment 1: Available Age and Length Composition Data for the Nine Data-Moderate Stocks Undergoing Assessment in 2013
    • Agenda Item H.5.a, Supplemental Attachment 2: 2013 Cowcod Rebuilding Analysis
    • Agenda Item H.5.a, Supplemental Attachment 3 (Not available for this meeting)
    • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item H.6: Biennial Specifications for 2015-2016 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Attachment 1: Proposed Overfishing Limits, Acceptable Biological Catches, and Presumptive Annual Catch Limits for 2015 and 2016 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Attachment 2: Proposed Revisions to COP 9
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Attachment 3: SSC Ecosystem-Based Management Subcommittee on Ecosystem Consideration in the Groundfish Harvest Specifications EIS Analysis
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Considerations for Deciding the Overfishing Probability (P*) When Specifying an ABC
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 5: The Use of Harvest Guidelines for Assessed Stocks Managed in a Stock Complex
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 6: Deriving Estimates of OFL for Species in the “Other Fish” Complex or Potential Alternative Complexes
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 7: Proposed Overfishing Limits, Acceptable Biological Catches, and Presumptive Annual Catch Limits for 2015 and 2016 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.6.b, GMT Report: Groundfish Management Team Report on Revising Council Operating Procedure 9
    • Agenda Item H.6.b, Supplemental GMT Report 2: GMT Report on the Biennial Harvest Specifications for 2015-2016 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.6.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.6.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Electronic Only: Ecosystem Workshop Materials (Workshop Scheduled for Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 8 am, Emerald Bay 2 Room)
  • Agenda Item H.7: EFH Review Phase 2 Report and Proposals to Modify EFH
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 1: Environmental Defense Fund Proposal (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 2: Fishermen’s Marketing Association Proposal (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 3: Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Proposal and Cover Letter (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 4: Greenpeace Proposal and Supporting Materials (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 5: Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Proposal and Supporting Materials (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 6: Marine Conservation Institute Proposal and Supporting Materials (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 7: Oceana/Natural Resource Conservation Council/Ocean Conservancy Proposal and Supporting Materials (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.a, Attachment 8: Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary/Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Proposal and Cover Letter (Electronic only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.b, Supplemental Attachment 1: Draft EFHRC Phase 2 Report(10/23/13)
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, National Ocean Service, Office of Marine Sanctuaries West Coast Region Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental Congressional Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental Tribal Report (Hoh)
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental Tribal Report 2 (Quinault)
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental Tribal Report 3 (Quileute)
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental HC Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.7.d, Public Comment (Full Signatories Electronic Only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.d, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Full Signatories Electronic Only)
    • Agenda Item H.7.d, Supplemental Public Comment 3
    • Agenda Item H.7.d, Supplemental Public Comment 4
    • Agenda Item H.7.d, Supplemental Public Comment 5
  • Agenda Item H.8: Electronic Monitoring Alternatives
    • Agenda Item H.8.a, Supplemental Electronic Monitoring Alternatives PowerPoint (Wiedoff)
    • Agenda Item H.8.a, Attachment 1: Draft Alternatives for Groundfish Electronic Monitoring Policy Advisory Committee (GEMPAC) Consideration
    • Agenda Item H.8.b Supplemental PSMFC PowerPoint (Colpo)
    • Agenda Item H.8.b, Supplemental PSMFC Videos: Please contact PSMFC at 503-595-3100 for more information
    • Agenda Item H.8.b, Supplemental GEMPC Report
    • Agenda Item H.8.b, Supplemental NMFS Report: Electronic Monitoring Compliance Program – Electronic Monitoring System / Observer Exemption Criteria
    • Agenda Item H.8.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item H.8.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item H.8.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.8.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item H.9: Consideration of Inseason Adjustments
    • Agenda Item H.9.b, Supplemental GMT Report
    • Agenda Item H.9.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.9.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item H.9.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2
  • Agenda Item H.10: Biennial Management Specifications 2015-2016 Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.10.a, Attachment 1: Recent Year Catch Estimates Relevant to Deciding a Range of 2015-2016 Allocations
    • Agenda Item H.10.a, Supplemental Attachment 2: Status quo 2014 harvest specifications and final preferred overfishing limits, acceptable biological catches, ecosystem component species, and preliminary preferred alternative annual catch limits for west coast groundfish stocks and stock complexes in 2015 and 2016
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, GMT Report: GMT Report on Management Measures for the 2015- 2016 Biennial Harvest Specifications
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, Supplemental GMT Report 2
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, Supplemental GMT Report 3
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, Supplemental GMT Report 4
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, Supplemental CDFW Report: Range of Management Measures for California’s 2015-2016 Commercial and Recreational Groundfish Fisheries
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, Supplemental Tribal Report (Makah)
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Proposed 2015-2016 Tribal Management Measures
    • Agenda Item H.10.b, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item H.10.c, Public Comment
    • Agenda Item H.10.c, Supplemental Public Comment 2
    • Agenda Item H.10.d, Supplemental Tribal Motion in Writing

I. Administrative Matters

  • Agenda Item I.1: Regional Operating Agreement
    • Agenda Item I.1.a, Attachment 1: Draft Operating Agreement Among the Pacific Fishery Management Council; NOAA Fisheries Service West Coast Regional Office; NOAA Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science Center; NOAA Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center; NOAA Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement, Northwest; NOAA Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement, Southwest; NOAA General Counsel, Northwest Section; and NOAA General Counsel, Southwest Section
    • Agenda Item I.1.a, Supplemental Attachment 2: REVISED DRAFT Operating Agreement Among the Pacific Fishery Management Council; NOAA Fisheries Service West Coast Regional Office; NOAA Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science Center; NOAA Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center; NOAA Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement, Northwest; NOAA Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement, Southwest; NOAA General Counsel, Northwest Section; and NOAA General Counsel, Southwest Section
  • Agenda Item I.2: MSA Reauthorization Priorities and Other Legislative Matters
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Attachment 1: Draft Fact Sheet on Potential Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization Issues
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 2: Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization Priorities Identified at the September 2013 PFMC Meeting
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Attachment 3: November 2013 Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Attachment 4: Draft Letter to Del. Madeleine Bordallo and Senator John “Jay” Rockefeller on H.R. 69 (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2013) and S. 269 (International Fisheries Stewardship and Enforcement Act)
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Attachment 5: Letter to Representative Jaime Herrera-Beutler on H.R. 2646 and S. 1275, The Revitalizing the Economy of Fisheries (REFI) in the Pacific Act of 2013
    • Agenda Item I.2.a, Attachment 6: Letter to Tribes on Proposed Change to Tribal Council Seat
    • Agenda Item I.2.b, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report
    • Agenda Item I.2, Supplemental Draft Letter as per I.2: Letter to Chairman Hastings and Senator Begich (DRAFT)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Tribal Report (Yurok Tribe)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Tribal Report 2 (Quileute Tribal Council)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental Tribal Report 3 (Quinault Indian Nation)
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental CPSAS Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental GAP Report
    • Agenda Item I.2.c, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item I.3: Approval of Council Meeting Minutes
    • Agenda Item I.3.a, Supplemental Attachment 1: Draft Minutes: 219th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (June 2013)
  • Agenda Item I.4: Fiscal Matters
    • Agenda Item I.4.a, Supplemental November 1999 Council Meeting Agenda (For reference purposes)
    • Agenda Item I.4.b, Supplemental Budget Committee Report
    • Agenda Item I.4.c, Supplemental NMFS Report: Letter Dated October 22, 2013 to Dorothy Lowman, Chair, From Will Stelle, Jr. Regarding the WCR and Science Centers Fiscal and Workload Related Issues at the Restart of Government Operations
  • Agenda Item I.5: Advisory Body Position Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
    • Agenda Item H.6.a, Attachment 2: Proposed Revisions to COP 9
    • Agenda Item I.5.a, Attachment 1: DRAFT: Council Operating Procedure 9 – Management and Activity Cycles
    • Agenda Item I.5.a, Attachment 2: DRAFT: Council Operating Procedure 10 – Preseason Salmon Management Process
    • Agenda Item I.5.a, Supplemental Attachment 3: Proposed Revisions to COP 9
    • Agenda Item I.5.b, Supplemental Tribal Report
  • Agenda Item I.6: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
    • Agenda Item I.6.a, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item I.6.a, Attachment 2: Preliminary Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, March 8- 13, 2014 in Sacramento, California
    • Agenda Item I.6.a, Attachment 3: Preliminary Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 5- 10, 2014 in Vancouver, WA
    • Agenda Item I.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 4: Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
    • Agenda Item I.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 5: DRAFT Proposed PFMC Meeting Agenda, March 7‐13, 2014 in Sacramento, California
    • Agenda Item I.6.a, Supplemental Attachment 6: DRAFT Proposed PFMC Meeting Agenda, April 4‐10, 2014 in Vancouver, Washington
    • Agenda Item I.6.b, Supplemental SSC Report
    • Agenda Item I.6.b, Supplemental EC Report
    • Agenda Item I.6.b, Supplemental CPSMT Report
    • Agenda Item I.6.c, Supplemental Public Comment

Informational Reports

  • Supplemental Informational Report 1: Status Report of the 2013 Ocean Salmon Fiseries off Washington, Oregon, and California (Preliminary Data Through October 31, 2013)
  • Supplemental Informational Report 2: Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative Amendment 20 Catcher/Processor Cooperative Preliminary Annual Report 2013
  • Supplemental Informational Report 3: Whiting Mothership Cooperative – An Amendment 20 Mothership Catcher Vessel Cooperative, Preliminary Report on the 2013 Pacific Whiting Fishery
  • Supplemental Informational Report 4: Estimated Discard and Catch of Groundfish Species in the 2012 US West Coast Fisheries (Electronic Only)

Ancillary Meetings (Advisory Body and Committee Agendas)

  • Budget Committee (BC) Agenda
  • Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS) Agenda
  • Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (CPSMT) Agenda
  • Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
  • Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
  • Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda
  • Habitat Committee (HC) Agenda
  • Legislative Committee (LC) Agenda
  • Salmon Advisory Subpanel (SAS) Agenda
  • Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
  • SSC Ecosystem-Based Management Subcommittee Agenda
  • SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Agenda
  • Draft SSC September 2013 Minutes
  • SSC Future Agenda Planning

Committee and Advisory Body Memos

  • Coastal Pelagic Species Memo: Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team, Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel, and Interested Persons
  • Enforcement Memo: Enforcement Consultants
  • Groundfish Memo: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel, Groundfish Management Team, and Groundfish Interested Persons
  • Salmon Memo: Salmon Technical Team, Salmon Advisory Subpanel, Model Evaluation Workgroup, and Interested Persons
  • SSC Memo: Scientific and Statistical Committee

General Information and Membership Roster

  • General Information: Chair’s Banquet, Driving Directions, Hotel Information, Restaurant Information, Council Seating Chart, Tax Exempt Forms
  • 2013 Annual Banquet Form due to Renee Dorval no later than Monday, October 28, 2013
  • Membership Roster: (Dated October 10, 2013); for the November 2013 Briefing Book