June 2017 Briefing Book

A. Call to Order

• Agenda Item A.4: Proposed June 2017 Council Meeting Agenda

B. Open Comment Period

• Agenda Item B.1: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
  • Agenda Item B.1.b, Supplemental Public Comment 1: Comments requesting an increased groundfish limit or separate limit for flounder as the use of lingcod bait
  • Agenda Item B.1.b, Supplemental Public Comment 2: Opposition to opening EFH Conservation Areas to bottom trawling

C. Administrative Matters

• Agenda Item C.1: Council Coordination Committee Meeting Report
  • Agenda Item C.1, Attachment 1: 2017 Council Coordination Committee Meeting, Beauport Hotel • Gloucester, MA, May 15-18, 2017, Agenda
  • Agenda Item C.1, Supplemental Attachment 2: Executive Director’s Report on the Council Coordination Committee Meeting
  • Agenda Item C.1, Supplemental Attachment 3: Letter from the CCC to Secretary Zinke and Secretary Ross regarding National Monument Review
  • Agenda Item C.1, Supplemental Attachment 4: Letter  with attachments, from the Western Pacific Council to Secretary Ross regarding review of Monument designations under the Antiquities Act (Electronic Only)
• Agenda Item C.2: Fiscal Matters
  • Agenda Item C.2, Supplemental Attachment 1: Executive Director’s Report to the Budget Committee (Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item C.2.a, Supplemental Budget Committee Report
• Agenda Item C.3: Legislative Matters
  • Agenda Item C.3, Attachment 1: Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
  • Agenda Item C.3, Attachment 2: Summary of HR 2023
  • Agenda Item C.3, Attachment 3: MSA with changes proposed by HR 200 and HR 2023 (Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item C.3, Attachment 4: Summary of California SB-402
  • Agenda Item C.3, Attachment 5: Text of SB-402
  • Agenda Item C.3, Attachment 6: Council letter to Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler on HR 200
  • Agenda Item C.3, Supplemental Attachment 7: Regional Fishery Management Council Positions on Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization Issues; Council Coordinating Committee Working Paper (Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item C.3, Supplemental Attachment 8: Congressional Activities Report for the Council Coordination Committee
  • Agenda Item C.3.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report
• Agenda Item C.4: Approval of Council Meeting Records
  • Agenda Item C.4, Attachment 1: Draft Council Meeting Record: 238th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (March 8-13, 2017)
  • Agenda Item C.4, Attachment 2: Draft Council Meeting Record: 239th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (April 7-11, 2017)
• Agenda Item C.5: Stock Assessment Improvement Plan Concepts
  • Agenda Item C.5, Attachment 1: “Implementing a Next Generation Stock Assessment Enterprise: An Update to NOAA Fisheries’ Stock Assessment Improvement (Full Version Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item C.5.a, Supplemental NMFS PowerPoint: Implementing a Next Generation Stock Assessment Enterprise An Update to NOAA Fisheries’ Stock Assessment Improvement Plan (Methot)
  • Agenda Item C.5.b, SSC Report: Scientific and Statistical Committee Report on Stock Assessment Improvement Plan Comments
  • Agenda Item C.5.b, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item C.5.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report
  • Agenda Item C.5.b, Supplemental GAP Report
• Agenda Item C.6: National Marine Fisheries Service White Paper on Best Scientific Information Available
  • Agenda Item C.6, Attachment 1: Framework for Determining that Fishery Management Decisions are Based on the Best Scientific Information Available
  • Agenda Item C.6.a, Supplemental NMFS PowerPoint: Best Scientific Information Available –Draft Document
  • Agenda Item C.6.b, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item C.6.b, Supplemental GAP Report
• Agenda Item C.7: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
  • Agenda Item C.7, Supplemental Attachment 1: DRAFT COP 4, SSC
  • Agenda Item C.7.b, Supplemental Public Comment
• Agenda Item C.8: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
  • Agenda Item C.8, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
  • Agenda Item C.8, Attachment 2: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, September 12-18, 2017 in Boise, Idaho
  • Agenda Item C.8, Attachment 3: Groundfish Workload Priorities
  • Agenda Item C.8, Supplemental Attachment 4: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (dated 06/14/2017)
  • Agenda Item C.8, Supplemental Attachment 5: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, September 12-18, 2017 in Boise, Idaho (Updated 06/14/2017)
  • Agenda Item C.8, Supplemental Attachment 6: Groundfish Workload Priorities (updated 06/14/2017)
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental NMFS Report: Rulemaking Update – Groundfish Midwater Sport Fishery in Oregon
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Scheduling the Development of Review and Additional, Non-STAR Assessment Products to Support Management in 2018-20
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental EFH/RCA Project Team Report
  • Agenda Item C.8.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report
  • Agenda Item C.8.b, Public Comment
  • Agenda Item C.8.b, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint: American Indians Born in Canada and the Right of Free Access to the United States (Fathali)

D. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

• Agenda Item D.1: Final Pacific Mackerel Stock Assessment and Management Measures
  • Agenda Item D.1, Attachment 1: Pacific Mackerel Biomass Projection Estimate
  • Agenda Item D.1.a, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item D.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report
  • Agenda Item D.1.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report
• Agenda Item D.2: Final Approval of Aerial Survey Methodology
  • Agenda Item D.2, Attachment 1: Methodology Review Panel Report
  • Agenda Item D.2.a, CDFW Report
  • Agenda Item D.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item D.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report
  • Agenda Item D.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report

E. Habitat

• Agenda Item E.1: Current Habitat Issues
  • Agenda Item E.1, Attachment 1: Letter to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the Permit Renewal and Expansion of the Coast Seafoods project
  • Agenda Item E.1, Attachment 2: Draft letter on Klamath Dam removal operations
  • Agenda Item E.1, Supplemental Attachment 3: Proposed Potential Comments for a Draft letter on National Pollution Discharge Elimination System general permit
  • Agenda Item E.1.a, Supplemental HC Report: Update on EPA’s new National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit program
  • Agenda Item E.1.a, Supplemental HC Report 2: Report on Habitat Issues

F. Groundfish Management

• Agenda Item F.1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Groundfish)
  • Agenda Item F.1.a, NMFS Report 1: Groundfish and Halibut Federal Register Notices
  • Agenda Item F.1.a, Supplemental REVISED NMFS Report 2: Rulemakings and Other Major Activities for Groundfish in 2017
  • Agenda Item F.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 3: Proposal to Extend the Gear EFP and a 2019 Implementation Date for the Gear Rule
  • Agenda Item F.1.b, Supplemental NWFSC PowerPoint: Groundfish Science Report
• Agenda Item F.2: Trawl Catch Shares Review Draft Report
  • Agenda Item F.2, Attachment 1: Calendars for Trawl Catch Share and Intersector Allocation Reviews
  • Agenda Item F.2, Attachment 2: Evaluating the Performance of Intersector Allocations Since Implementation of the Trawl Catch Share Program
  • Agenda Item F.2, Attachment 3: Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan for the California, Oregon, and Washington Groundfish Fishery, Description of Trawl. Rationalization (Catch Shares) Program Appendix E
  • Agenda Item F.2, Attachment 4: NMFS Procedural Instruction 01-121-01, Guidance for Conducting Review of Catch Share Programs
  • Agenda Item F.2.a, Catch Share Analysts Report: West Coast Groundfish Trawl Catch Share Program Five-year Review – Draft (Full Version Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.2.a, Supplemental Errata to Draft Analysis
  • Agenda Item F.2.a, Supplemental PowerPoint: Presentation of the Catch Shares Review Analysts
  • Agenda Item F.2.a, Supplemental Analysts Assessment of Requests for Analysis: Table. CAB requests for analysis and analysts assessment of doability, utility and optimal context
  • Agenda Item F.2.b, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item F.2.c, Supplemental CAB Report
  • Agenda Item F.2.c, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item F.2.c, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.2.d, Public Comment
  • Agenda Item F.2.d, Supplemental Public Comment 2
  • Agenda Item F.2.d, Supplemental Public Comment 3
  • Agenda Item F.2.d, Supplemental Public Comment 4 (Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.2.d, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint 1 (EDF)
  • Agenda Item F.2.d, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint 2 (Pacific Seafood)
• Agenda Item F.3: Scoping of Trawl Catch Shares Discard Survival Credits for Sablefish and Lingcod
  • Agenda Item F.3, Supplemental Agenda Item Overview PowerPoint: Scoping of Trawl Catch Shares Discard Survival Credits for Sablefish and Lingcod (Brett Wiedoff)
  • Agenda Item F.3, Attachment 1: Trawl IFQ – Discard Survival Credit for Lingcod and Sablefish Scoping Document
  • Agenda Item F.3.a, GMT Report 1: Sablefish and Lingcod Discard Mortality Rates
  • Agenda Item F.3.a, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item F.3.a, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item F.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report
• Agenda Item F.4: Final Stock Assessments and Catch Reports
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 1: Executive Summary of “2017 Assessment Update for the U.S. West Coast Stock of Arrowtooth Flounder.”
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 1 (Full): “2017 Assessment Update for the U.S. West Coast Stock of Arrowtooth Flounder” (Full Version Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 2: Executive Summary of “DRAFT Stock assessment update of blackgill rockfish, Sebastes melanostomus, in the Conception and Monterey INPFC areas for 2017”
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 2 (Full): “DRAFT Stock assessment update of blackgill rockfish, Sebastes melanostomus, in the Conception and Monterey INPFC areas for 2017” (Full Version Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 3: Executive Summary of “Stock Assessment Update: Status of Bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis, in the Conception, Monterey and Eureka INPFC areas for 2017”
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 3 (Full): “Stock Assessment Update: Status of Bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis, in the Conception, Monterey and Eureka INPFC areas for 2017″ (Full Version Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 4: Executive Summary of “Status of the Darkblotched Rockfish Resource off the Continental U.S. Pacific Coast in 2017 (Update of 2015 Assessment Model)”
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 4 (Full): “Status of the Darkblotched Rockfish Resource off the Continental U.S. Pacific Coast in 2017 (Update of 2015 Assessment Model)” (Full Document Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.4, Attachment 5: Total Mortality for Cowcod (Sebastes levis) and Related Harvest Specifications, 2013-2016
  • Agenda Item F.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item F.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report
• Agenda Item F.5: Scoping of Multi-Year Average Catch Policy
  • Agenda Item F.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item F.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report
• Agenda Item F.6: Electronic Ticket Reporting Timeline Requirements
  • Agenda Item F.6, Supplemental Attachment 1: Draft Options for Meeting the 24-hour E-Ticket Reporting Requirement From Remote locations and/or After Business Hours on Weekends or Holidays
  • Agenda Item F.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item F.6.a, Supplemental EC Report
  • Agenda Item F.6.a, Supplemental GAP Report
• Agenda Item F.7: Specifications and Management Measures Process for 2019-2020 Fisheries
  • Agenda Item F.7, Attachment 1: Proposed Schedule for Developing the 2019-2020 Groundfish Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
  • Agenda Item F.7, Attachment 2: Council Operating Procedure 9 Management and Activity Cycles (Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.7, Attachment 3: Council Operating Procedure 25 Groundfish Methodology Reviews (Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.7, Attachment 4: Council Operating Procedure 19 Protocol for Consideration of Exempted Fishing Permits for Groundfish Fisheries (Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item F.7.a, Supplemental SSC Report
  • Agenda Item F.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item F.7.a, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.7.b, Supplemental Public Comment
• Agenda Item F.8: Coastwide Non-Whiting Midwater and Gear Modification Exempted Fishing Permit Progress Reports
  • Agenda Item F.8, Supplemental Attachment 1: Midwater Trawl EFP Proposal
  • Agenda Item F.8, Supplemental Attachment 2: Gear EFP Progress Report
  • Agenda Item F.8.a, Supplemental NMFS Report: Trawl Gear Modification Exempted Fishing Permit Update
  • Agenda Item F.8.a, Supplemental GMT Report
  • Agenda Item F.8.a, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.8.a, Supplemental EC Report
  • Agenda Item F.8.b, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint: Selective Flatfish Trawl EFP Progress Report (participants)
• Agenda Item F.9: Final Action on Updated Coordinates for the 125 Fathom Rockfish Conservation Area Line in California
  • Agenda Item F.9.a, CDFW Report: California Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Corrections to the 125 fm RCA line between 40° 10′ and 34° 27′ N. Latitude
  • Agenda Item F.9.a, Supplemental GAP Report
• Agenda Item F.10: Final Action on Inseason Adjustments
  • Agenda Item F.10.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1:  Informational Report on Updated Nearshore Discard Mortality Rates for Rockfish
  • Agenda Item F.10.a, REVISED Supplemental GMT Report 2: Inseason Adjustments
  • Agenda Item F.10.a, Supplemental GMT Report 3: Developing Criteria for Releasing the POP, Darkblotched Rockfish, and Canary Rockfish Buffers to the At-Sea Sectors
  • Agenda Item F.10.a, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item F.10.a, Supplemental SAS Report
  • Agenda Item F.10.b, Supplemental Public Comment

G. Pacific Halibut Management

• Agenda Item G.1: Scoping of Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan Allocation Changes
  • Agenda Item G.1, Attachment 1: 2017 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for Area 2A
  • Agenda Item G.1, Attachment 2: Visual Representation of the 2017 Area 2A Catch Sharing Plan for Pacific Halibut
  • Agenda Item G.1, Attachment 3: Historical Catch Sharing Plan Allocations and Catch
  • Agenda Item G.1.a, IPHC Letter: Council Request for IPHC Regulatory Area 2A Spatial Data for Pacific Halibut
  • Agenda Item G.1.a, Supplemental IPHC Letter 2: Re: Commercial derby fishery in IPHC Regulatory Area 2A
  • Agenda Item G.1.a, Supplemental IPHC PowerPoint: Estimates of Pacific halibut stock distribution within Area 2A
  • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental WDFW Report
  • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental CDFW Report
  • Agenda Item G.1.b, Supplemental SAS 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

H. Highly Migratory Species Management

• Agenda Item H.1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (HMS)
  • Agenda Item H.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report: HMS Activities
  • Agenda Item H.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2
  • Agenda Item H.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 3
  • Agenda Item H.1.b, Supplemental SWFSC PowerPoint: SWFSC HMS Activities (DiNardo/Koch)
  • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental HMSMT Report
  • Agenda Item H.1.c, Supplemental HMSAS Report
  • Agenda Item H.1.d, Supplemental Public Comment
  • Agenda Item H.1.d, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint (Oceana)
• Agenda Item H.2: Amendment 4 to the Fishery Management Plan for West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species
  • Agenda Item H.2, Supplemental Staff Agenda Item Overview PowerPoint: Amendment 4 to the HMS FMP; Review of Proposed Changes (Kit Dahl)
  • Agenda Item H.2, Attachment 1: Fishery Management Plan For U.S. West Coast Fisheries For Highly Migratory Species; Amendment 4: “Housekeeping” Changes (Draft For Council Review)
  • Agenda Item H.2.a, HMSMT Report
  • Agenda Item H.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
  • Agenda Item H.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report: Joint Report Between NMFS West Coast Region and SWFSC on Amendment 4: Specifying MSY-Based proxies for status determinations
  • Agenda Item H.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report
• Agenda Item H.3: Authorization of Deep-Set Buoy Gear and Federal Permitting
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Report
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, HMSMT Report
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT PowerPoint: Authorization of Deep-Set Buoy Gear and Federal Permitting
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, Supplemental NMFS Report: DSBG range of alternatives
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 2
  • Agenda Item H.3.a, Supplemental EC Report
  • Agenda Item H.3.b, Public Comment
  • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental Public Comment 2 (FULL VERSION Electronic Only)
  • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint (McLeod)
  • Agenda Item H.3.b, Supplemental Public Comment PowerPoint 2 (Shester)
• Agenda Item H.4: Proposed Deep-Set Buoy Gear Exempted Fishing Permits
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 1: Explanatory Letter From Roger Cullen and DSBG EFP Application Submitted in March 2017
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 2: Revised DSBG EFP application from A. Lorton & D. Haworth
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 3: DSBG EFP application from B. Ball
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 4: DSBG EFP application from J. Ford
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 5: DSBG EFP application from M. Graves
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 6: DSBG EFP application from R. Kennedy
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 7: DSBG EFP application from A. Lutoshkin
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 8: DSBG EFP application from L. Maassen
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 9: DSBG EFP application from S, Masuda
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 10: DSBG EFP application from M. McCarthy
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 11: DSBG EFP application from M. McCorkle
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 12: DSBG EFP application from R. Rynkevic
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 13: DSBG EFP application from D. Selck
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 14: DSBG EFP application from A. Shvets
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 15: DSBG EFP application from A Sidielnikov
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 16: DSBG EFP application from T. Sokolova
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 17: DSBG EFP application from P. Spinale
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 18: DSBG EFP application from B. & J. Stephens
  • Agenda Item H.4, Attachment 19: DSBG EFP application from V. Sviridov
  • Agenda Item H.4.a, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Report
  • Agenda Item H.4.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report
  • Agenda Item H.4.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
  • Agenda Item H.4.a, Supplemental HMSMT PowerPoint: EFP Applications
  • Agenda Item H.4.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report
• Agenda Item H.5: Recommendations for International Management Activities
  • Agenda Item H.5, Attachment 1: Draft Summary of Additional PBF Projections, International PBF Stakeholders Meeting, 25-27 April 2017, Mita Kaigisho, Japan
  • Agenda Item H.5, Attachment 2: August 17, 2016, letter from William Stelle, Jr., to Chairman Pollard notifying the Council that National Marine Fisheries Service has determined that the Western and Central North Pacific Ocean stock of striped marlin in overfished and subject to overfishing
  • Agenda Item H.5, Attachment 3: WCPFC Conservation and Management Measure 2010-01 for Striped Marlin
  • Agenda Item H.5, Attachment 4: April 28, 2017, letter from Michael Tosatto, NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Administrator to Edwin Ebisui, Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Chair, notifying councils that NMFS will begin monitoring and reporting stock status of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) separately for the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) stock and the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) stock
  • Agenda Item H.5.a, Supplemental NMFS Report
  • Agenda Item H.5.a, Supplemental REVISED NMFS Report 2
  • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental HMSMT Report
  • Agenda Item H.5.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report

I. Enforcement Issues

• Agenda Item I.1: National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement Strategic Review
  • Agenda Item I.1, Attachment 1: NOAA Fisheries Office Of Law Enforcement Priority Setting Standards 2017 and Beyond
  • Agenda Item I.1, Attachment 2: NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement National and Division Enforcement Priorities for 2012-2017
  • Agenda Item I.1, Attachment 3: Letter from Dr. Donald McIsaac to William Giles and Martina Sagapolu, November 20, 2013
  • Agenda Item I.1, Supplemental Attachment 4: Draft National Priorities: 2018-2022
  • Agenda Item I.1.a, REVISED Supplemental HC Report
  • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental EC Report
  • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report
  • Agenda Item I.1.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report

Ancillary Meetings (Advisory Body and Committee Agendas AND Committee Memos)

ANCILLARY AGENDAS

• Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
• Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
• Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda
• Habitat Commmittee (HC) Agenda
• Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel (HMSAS) Agenda
• Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) Agenda
• Legislative Commmittee (LC) Agenda
• Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
• SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Agenda
• SSC DRAFT April 2017 Summary Minutes

ADVISORY BODY AND COMMITTEE MEMOS

• CPS 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
• Highly Migratory Species Memo: Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel, Highly Migratory Species Team, and Interested Persons
• Salmon Memo: Salmon Advisory Subpanel, Salmon Technical Team, Model Evaluation Workgroup, Sacramento River Winter Chinook Workgroup and Interested Persons
• SSC Memo: Scientific and Statistical Committee

Informational Reports, General Information, and Membership Roster

INFORMATIONAL REPORTS

• Informational Report 1: Letter from the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to Sam Rauch, dated April 25, 2017 re: North Pacific Fisheries Convention; Commissioner Appointment
• Informational Report 2: Executive Order, from The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, April 26, 2017: Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
• Informational Report 3: Improving Net Gains; Data-Driven Innovation for America’s Fishing Future
• Supplemental Informational Report 4: National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement West Coast Enforcement Division Report to Pacific Fishery Management Council, June 2017
• Supplemental Informational Report 5: Report on the 2017 West Coast Regional Recreational Fisheries Roundtables

GENERAL INFORMATION AND MEMBERSHIP ROSTER

• General Information: Chairs Reception, Tax Exempt Form, Seating Chart, and Hotel Information
• Membership Roster dated May 15, 2017 (for the June 2017 briefing book)

Protocol for Submitting Electronic Slide Presentation Materials at the Meeting

• Please see the Protocol Policy on submitting electronic slide presentation materials at the Council meetings for full direction, expectations, and equipment available for use during presentations