June 2022 briefing book

June 2022 Council Meeting

A. Call to order

• A.3, Situation Summary: Executive Director’s Report
• A.4, Situation Summary June 2022 Detailed Agenda

B. Open comment period

• B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
  • B.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: Request for Public Comments on the NOAA Fisheries’ Draft Equity and Environmental Justice Strategy
  • B.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

C. Administrative

• C.1 Situation Summary: Council Coordination Committee Meeting Report
  • C.1, Attachment 1: Final Agenda, Council Coordination Committee Meeting, May 17 – 19, 2022
  • C.1, Supplemental Attachment 2: Meeting Report, Council Coordination Committee, May 17-19, 2022
  • C.1.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.2 Situation Summary: Financial Disclosure and Recusal Policy
  • C.2, Attachment 1: Procedures for Review of Fishery Management Council Financial Disclosures and Recusal Determinations
  • C.2.a, Supplemental NOAA GC Presentation 1: Briefing on Magnuson-Stevens Act Financial Disclosure and Recusal Requirements
  • C.2.c Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.3 Situation Summary: Marine Planning
  • C.3, Attachment 1, Draft Oregon Call Areas letter
  • C.3, Attachment 2, Draft Policy Guidance Document
  • C.3, Supplemental Attachment 3:  Meeting Agenda, Oregon Offshore Wind Energy Input Opportunity
  • C.3.a, Supplemental ODFW Report 1: ODFW comments on HB3375 report
  • C.3.a, Supplemental MPC Report 1
  • C.3.a, Supplemental MPC Presentation 1
  • C.3.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.3.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • C.3.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • C.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.3.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.4 Situation Summary: Fiscal Matters
  • C.4, Supplemental Attachment 1: Budget Committee Agenda
  • C.4, Supplemental Attachment 2: Executive Director’s Budget Report June 2022
  • C.4.a, Supplemental BC Report 1
  • C.4.c Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.5 Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
  • C.5, Attachment 1: Letter from U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Related Agencies
  • C.5.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
  • C.5.b, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • C.5.c Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.6 Situation Summary: Approval of Council Meeting Records
  • C.6, Attachment 1: Draft Council Meeting Record: 265th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council, March 8-14, 2022 (Electronic Only)
  • C.6, Attachment 2: Draft Council Meeting Record: 266th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council, April 7-13, 2022 (Electronic Only)

• C.7 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
  • C.7, Attachment 1: ODFW Letter Regarding Council Designees
  • C.7, Attachment 2: NMFS Letter Regarding Council Designees
  • C.7, Attachment 3: Council Operating Procedure 23 Proposal
  • C.7.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: NWIFC Statement on the Model Evaluation Workgroup Vacancy
  • C.7.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Letter from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation re: Nomination for the PFMC Habitat Committee
  • C.7.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 3: Letter and Supporting Documentation from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  • C.7.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • C.7.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.8 Situation Summary: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
  • C.8, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
  • C.8, Attachment 2: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, September 2022
  • C.8, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. 06/13/22)
  • C.8, Supplemental Attachment 4: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, September 2022 (v. 06/13/22)
  • C.8.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Investigation of Effort Forecasts Produced for Areas South of Cape Falcon Using the KOHM
  • C.8.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental MPC Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental REVISED GMT Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.8.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

D. Coastal pelagic species management

• D.1 Situation Summary: Central Subpopulation of Northern Anchovy Assessment and Harvest Specifications
  • D.1, Attachment 1: Draft Executive Summary of “Assessment of the Northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) central subpopulation in 2021 for U.S. Management” (print version, smaller file)
  • D.1, Attachment 1: Draft “Assessment of the Northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) central subpopulation in 2021 for U.S. Management” (Full version Electronic Only)
  • D.1, Attachment 2: Central Subpopulation of Northern Anchovy Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel Report
  • D.1.a, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Report 1
  • D.1.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • D.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • D.1.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • D.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.2 Situation Summary: Stock Assessment Terms of Reference
  • D.2, Attachment 1: Draft Terms of Reference for Coastal Pelagic Species Stock Assessments for 2023-2024
  • D.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: 2022-2023 CPS Workshops for Pacific Sardine
  • D.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • D.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • D.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • D.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.3 Situation Summary: Essential Fish Habitat Review – Phase 2 Action Plan
  • D.3.a, CPSMT Report 1
  • D.3.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • D.3.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • D.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

E. Habitat issues

• E.1 Situation Summary: Current Habitat Issues
  • E.1.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • E.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

F. Groundfish management

• F.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Groundfish)
  • F.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Groundfish Rulemakings and Workload
  • F.1.b, Supplemental NWFSC Report 1: Potential of wind-energy areas currently-identified off Oregon to adversely impact future groundfish surveys conducted by the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
  • F.1.b, Supplemental Science Center Presentation 1 (Craig Russell, Jim Hastie)
  • F.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.2 Situation Summary: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Catch Share Program Review
  • F.2, Attachment 1: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Permit Stacking Program Review—Public Review Draft
  • F.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.3 Situation Summary: Stock Assessment Plan and Terms of Reference – Final Action
  • F.3, Attachment 1: Summary of Final Information to Inform Selection of Species for Assessment in 2023, Workload, and Other Considerations
  • F.3, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 2: NMFS Assessment Prioritization Workbook (Electronic Only)
  • F.3, Attachment 3: Description of assessment prioritization methodology applied to U.S. West Coast groundfish stock to inform the selection of species assessments in 2023 and 2025
  • F.3, Attachment 4: Detailed summary of available data to support West Coast groundfish stock assessments in 2023 (Electronic Only)
  • F.3, Attachment 5: California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program: Data availability for stock assessments
  • F.3, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 6: Draft Terms of Reference for the Groundfish Stock Assessment Process for 2023-2024
  • F.3.a, Supplemental NWFSC Presentation 1: Review and Selection of Pacific Coast Groundfish Species for Assessment in 2023
  • F.3.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.3.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.3.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.4 Situation Summary: Stock Definitions – Scoping
  • F.4, Attachment 1: Scoping an Amendment to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan to Define Stocks
  • F.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.4.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.5 Situation Summary: Sablefish Gear Switching
  • F.5, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Agenda Item Overview)
  • F.5, Attachment 1: Schematic Overview of The Gear Switching Range of Alternatives
  • F.5, Attachment 2: Range of Gear Switching Alternatives Adopted for Analysis by the Council at Its September 2021 Meeting, February 2022
  • F.5, Attachment 3: Provisions on Which Council Guidance Is Needed
  • F.5, Attachment 4: Gear Switching Alternatives Analysis – Annotated Outline
  • F.5.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1
  • F.5.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.6 Situation Summary: Exempted Fishing Permits, Harvest Specifications, and Management Measures for 2023-2024 Fisheries – Final Action
  • F.6, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 1: Action Item Checklist
  • F.6, Attachment 2: Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery 2023-2024 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures Analytical Document. (Electronic Only)
  • F.6, Attachment 3: A Correction to the Estimated Apportionment of Copper Rockfish in California North and South of 40°10’ N lat
  • F.6, Attachment 4: Groundfish EFP Proposal: Yellowtail Rockfish Jig Fishing off California. (San Francisco Community Fishing Association and Dan Platt)
  • F.6, Attachment 5: Monterey Bay Regional Exempted Fishing Permit Targeting Chilipepper Rockfish (Real Good Fish)
  • F.6, Attachment 6: Year-Round Coastwide Midwater Rockfish EFP: Monitoring and Minimizing Salmon Bycatch When Targeting Rockfish in the Shorebased IFQ Fishery, 2023-2024. (West Coast Seafood Processors Association; Oregon Trawl Commission; Midwater Trawlers Cooperative; Environmental Defense Fund)
  • F.6, Attachment 7: California Department of Fish and Wildlife; 2023-2024 Exempted Fishing Permit Application (CDFW)
  • F.6, Attachment 8: Proposal for an Exempted Fishery Permit, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Enhanced Yelloweye Recreational Fishery Biological Sampling (WDFW)
  • F.6, Attachment 9: Proposed Language for Amendment 30 to the Pacific Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
  • F.6, Attachment 10, Joint Council Staff and National Marine Fisheries Service Report: Amendment 30 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan, 2023-2024 Harvest Specifications, and Management Measures Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment and Regulatory Impact Review
  • F.6, Supplemental Attachment 11 (Electronic Only):  Preliminary Draft Socioeconomic Analyses for the 2023-2024 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
  • F.6, Supplemental Attachment 12: Corrections to Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery 2023-2024 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures: Draft Management Measure Analytical Document
  • F.6.a, NMFS Report 1. National Marine Fisheries Service Report for 2023-2024 Groundfish Biennial Management Measures
  • F.6.a, Supplemental REVISED WDFW Report 1: Washington Department Of Fish and Wildlife Report on 2023 and 2024 Groundfish Management Measures
  • F.6.a, Supplemental REVISED CDFW Report 1: Final Preferred Alternative – Management Measures for the 2023-2024 Biennium
  • F.6.a, Supplemental REVISED GMT Report 1. Groundfish Management Team Report on Block Area Closures for Groundfish Mitigation
  • F.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report 2: 2023-24 Harvest Specifications and Accountability Measures for Quillback Rockfish and Copper Rockfish off California
  • F.6.a, Supplemental REVISED GMT Report 3: 2023-24 EFPs and Management Measures
  • F.6.a, Supplemental REVISED GMT Presentation 1: Final Preferred 2023-2024 EFPs, Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
  • F.6.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.6.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: 2023-2024 Tribal Management Measures
  • F.6.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • F.6.a, Supplemental REVISED GAP Report 1
  • F.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.7 Situation Summary: Inseason Adjustments – Final Action
  • F.7.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1: 2022 Groundfish Harvest in California
  • F.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.7.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

G. Highly migratory species management

• G.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (HMS)
  • G.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • G.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.2 Situation Summary: International Management Activities
  • G.2, Attachment 1: DOCUMENT SAC-13 INF-R, Pacific Bluefin Tuna Stock Assessment Executive Summary
  • G.2, Supplemental Attachment 2: Dates for Meeting of the 7th Pacific Bluefin Tuna IATTC / WCPFC Northern Committee Joint Working Group
  • G.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: International Management Activities
  • G.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2 (Electronic Only): Summary of North Pacific Albacore Harvest Strategy Meeting April 5, 2022, Virtual
  • G.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 3: IATTC Draft Resolution on Harvest Strategy for North Pacific Albacore
  • G.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 4: Summary of Stakeholder Meetings on the International Long-term Harvest Strategy for Pacific Bluefin Tuna
  • G.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 5 (Electronic Only): Pacific Bluefin Stakeholder Meeting Summary May 4, 2022 Webinar
  • G.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 6: Request for Feedback from PFMC on Draft Proposal for Bluefin Tuna
  • G.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • G.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.3 Situation Summary: Exempted Fishing Permits
  • G.3, Attachment 1: HMS EFP Application from J. Bateman
  • G.3, Attachment 2: HMS EFP Application from R. & F. Devoe
  • G.3, Attachment 3: HMS EFP Application from S. Fukushima
  • G.3, Attachment 4: HMS EFP Application from G. Gershman, et al
  • G.3, Attachment 5: HMS EFP Application from G. Harold
  • G.3, Attachment 6: HMS EFP Application from K Honigs
  • G.3, Attachment 7: HMS EFP Application from R & M. Hupp
  • G.3, Attachment 8: HMS EFP Application from K. Jacobs & T. Gomez
  • G.3, Attachment 9: HMS EFP Application from M. Mandato
  • G.3, Attachment 10: HMS EFP Application from S. Mintz
  • G.3, Attachment 11: HMS EFP Application from N. Perez
  • G.3, Attachment 12: HMS EFP Application from PIER
  • G.3, Attachment 13: HMS EFP Application from M. Rippo
  • G.3, Attachment 14: HMS EFP Application from J. Souza
  • G.3, Attachment 15: Activity Reports for 2021 HMS EFPs
  • G.3.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • G.3.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1:  PIER Extended Linked Buoy Gear EFP Submission, Chugey Sepulveda, PhD; EFP Lead
  • G.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.4 Situation Summary: Drift Gillnet Fishery Hard Caps
  • G.4, Attachment 1: Information Paper on Council Action Setting Hard Caps for Protected Species in the California/Oregon Large-Mesh Drift Gillnet Fishery
  • G.4.a, HMSMT Report 1
  • G.4.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
  • G.4.a, Supplemental HMSMT Presentation 1
  • G.4.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.4.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • G.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

Advisory body and committee agendas

• Committee agendas for the June 2022 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)

Advisory body and committee memos

• Committee memos for the June 2022 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)

Informational reports

• Informational Report 1: Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative Amendment 20 Catcher/Processor Cooperative Annual Report 2021
• Informational Report 2: Whiting Mothership Cooperative – An Amendment 20 Mothership Catcher Vessel Cooperative Annual Report on the 2021 Pacific Whiting Fishery (Electronic Only)
• Informational Report 3: Shorebased Whiting Cooperative – Salmon Mitigation Plan Postseason Report on the 2021 Pacific Whiting Fishery
• Informational Report 4: Equity and Environmental Justice Strategy (Electronic Only)
• Informational Report 5: DRAFT Western Regional Action Plan to Implement the NOAA Fisheries Climate Science Strategy in 2022 – 2024 (Electronic Only)
• Informational Report 6: FY21 Annual Enforcement Report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council West Coast Enforcement Division

General Information

• General Information: Chairs Reception, Seating Chart; Council Meeting Schedule