March 2022 Briefing Book

March 2022 Council Meeting

A. Call to order

• A.3 Situation Summary Executive Director’s Report

• A.4 Situation Summary March 2022 Detailed Agenda

B. Open comment period

• B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
  • B.1.b Supplemental Public Presentation 1: CATCCH, Dr. Piers Chapman, Ph.D.
  • B.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

C. Administrative matters

• C.1 Situation Summary: Report of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
  • C.1.a National Marine Sanctuaries Report 1 (Electronic Only)
  • C.1.a, Supplemental NMS Presentation 1: Coordination Report (Bill Douros)
  • C.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.1.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.1.c Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.2 Situation Summary: Marine Planning
  • C.2.a, MPC Report 1
  • C.2.a, MPC Report 2
  • C.2.a, Supplemental MPC Report 3
  • C.2.a, Supplemental MPC Presentation 1: Council Marine Planning (Conroy)
  • C.2.a, Supplemental NOAA Presentation 1: Aquaculture Opportunity Areas NEPA PEIS Status Update (Windham)
  • C.2.a, Supplemental BOEM Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental ODFW Report 1
  • C.2.a, HC Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HC Report 2
  • C.2.a, EWG Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental EWG Report 2
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Presentation 1: Initial Comments; Recommendations (Conroy)
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • C.2.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.3 Situation Summary: Fiscal Matters
  • C.3, Supplemental Attachment 1: Budget Committee Agenda
  • C.3, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 2: Executive Director’s Report to the Budget Committee
  • C.3.a, Supplemental BC Report 1
  • C.3.c Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.4 Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
  • C.4, Attachment 1: Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
  • C.4.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
  • C.4.c Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.5 Situation Summary: Approval of Council Meeting Record
  • C.5, Attachment 1: Draft Council Meeting Record: 263rd Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (November 15-19, & 21-22, 2021)
  • C.5, Attachment 2: Draft Emergency Council Meeting Record: 264th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (January 21, 2022)

• C.6 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
  • C.6, Attachment 1: Council Staff Report on the Quick Response Procedure
  • C.6, Supplemental Attachment 2: Change in Enforcement Consultant Membership, OSP
  • C.6, Supplemental Attachment 3: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s intent to update designated Service personnel on the Pacific Fishery Management Council
  • C.6.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.7 Situation Summary: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
  • C.7, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
  • C.7, Attachment 2: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2022
  • C.7, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. 03/13/2022 15:16)
  • C.7, Supplemental Attachment 4: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2022 (v. 03/13/2022; 4:25 pm)
  • C.7.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental Revised HMSAS Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental Revised GAP Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • C.7.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

D. Salmon management

• D.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Salmon)
  • D.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • D.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2
  • D.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • D.1.c, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • D.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.2 Situation Summary: Review of 2021 Fisheries and Summary of 2022 Stock Forecasts
  • Review of 2021 Ocean Salmon Fisheries (Electronic Only)
  • D.2. Attachment 1: Excerpts from Chapter 3 of the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan
  • D.2.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Excerpts from the Review of 2021 Ocean Salmon Fisheries and 2022 Preseason 1 Report
  • D.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • Supplemental Preseason Report I: Stock Abundance Analysis and Environmental Assessment Part 1 for 2022 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations (Electronic Only)
  • D.2.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.3 Situation Summary: Identify Management Objectives and Preliminary Definition of 2022 Management Alternatives
  • D.3 Attachment 1: Guidance for Alternative Development and Assessment
  • D.3 Attachment 2: Emergency Changes to the Salmon FMP
  • D.3 Attachment 3: FR 97-22094: Policy Guidelines for the Use of Emergency Rules
  • D.3.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: 2022 Guidance Letter
  • D.3.b, Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: SRKW Chinook Low Abundance Threshold update (Jording)
  • D.3.d, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • D.3.e, Supplemental WDFW/Tribal Recommendations: 2022 Management Objectives for Puget Sound Chinook and Coho Salmon
  • D.3.e, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Letter from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  • D.3.e, Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Testimony on Behalf of the Columbia River Treaty Tribes before the PFMC March 10, 2022
  • D.3.e, Supplemental STT Report 1
  • D.3.e Supplemental SAS Report 1: SAS Proposed Initial Salmon Management Alternatives for 2022 Non-Indian Ocean Fisheries
  • D.3.f, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.4 Situation Summary: Recommendations for 2022 Management Alternative Analysis
  • D.4.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Collation of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2022 Ocean Fisheries
  • D.4.a, Supplemental STT Report 2: SRKW Chinook Prey Abundance Threshold
  • D.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.5 Situation Summary: Further Direction for 2022 Management Alternatives
  • D.5.a Supplemental STT Report 1: Collation of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2022 Ocean Fisheries (03/12/2022)
  • D.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.6 Situation Summary: Further Direction for 2022 Management Alternatives
  • D.6.a Supplemental STT Report 1: Collation of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2022 Ocean Fisheries (03/13/2022)
  • D.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.7 Situation Summary: Adopt 2022 Management Alternatives for Public Review
  • D.7.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Revised 2022 NMFS Guidance for the California Coastal Chinook Salmon Evolutionarily Significant Unit, March 14, 2022
  • D.7.a Supplemental STT Report 1: Analysis of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2022 Ocean Fisheries
  • D.7.a, Supplemental STT Report 2: 2022 Klamath River Fall Chinook de minimis exploitation rate
  • D.7.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Testimony on Behalf of the Columbia River Treaty Tribes before the PFMC March 14, 2022
  • D.7.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.8 Situation Summary: Appoint Salmon Hearings Officers
  • D.8 Attachment 1: Schedule of Salmon Fishery Management Alternative Hearings
  • D.8.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

E. Groundfish management

• E.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
  • E.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • E.1.b, Supplemental Science Center Presentation 1: Science Center Activities, Survey Updates (Craig Russell)
  • E.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.2 Situation Summary: Pacific Whiting Utilization – Final Action
  • E.2, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1: Pacific whiting utilization-Final Action (Doerpinghaus)
  • E.2, Attachment 1: Analytical Document for Pacific Whiting Utilization- Final Action (Electronic Only)
  • E.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.3 Situation Summary: Stock Definitions
  • E.3, Supplemental Attachment 1: Potential Pathways to Defining Stocks in the FMP
  • E.3.a, NMFS Report 1: Defining stocks and stock complexes in the Groundfish FMP
  • E.3.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • E.3.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.4 Situation Summary: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Catch Share Program Review
  • E.4, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1: LE Fixed Gear Catch Share Review – Draft and Process (Doerpinghaus)
  • E.4, Attachment 1: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Permit Stacking Program Review—Draft for Council Review
  • E.4.a, NMFS Report 1: Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Sablefish Permit Stacking Program Cost Recovery
  • E.4.a, NMFS Report 2: NMFS Report on Base Permit Designation
  • E.4.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 3
  • E.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • E.4.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.4.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • E.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.5 Situation Summary: Fixed Gear Logbooks – Final Action
  • E.5.a, NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on Groundfish Fixed Gear Logbooks, March 2022
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.5.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • E.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.6 Situation Summary: Workload and New Management Measure Priorities
  • E.6, Attachment 1: Conceptual Design of Groundfish New Management Measure Prioritization Process, March 2022
  • E.6.a, GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Workload and New Management Measures Update, March 2022
  • E.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report 2
  • E.6.a, Supplemental GMT Presentation 1: Workload and New Management Measures Prioritization (Mattes)
  • E.6.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.7 Situation Summary: Inseason Adjustments – Final Action
  • E.7.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1: 2021 Groundfish Harvest in California
  • E.7.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.8 Situation Summary: Initial Stock Assessment Plan and Terms of Reference
  • E.8, Attachment 1: Description of assessment prioritization methodology applied to U.S. West Coast groundfish stock to inform the selection of species assessments in 2023 and 2025
  • E.8, Attachment 2: Detailed summary of available data to support West Coast groundfish stock assessments in 2023
  • E.8, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 3: NMFS Assessment Prioritization Workbook (Electronic Only – Excel File)
  • E.8, Attachment 4: Draft Terms of Reference for the Groundfish and Coastal Pelagic Species Stock Assessment Process for 2023-2024
  • E.8, Attachment 5: Draft Terms of Reference for the Groundfish Rebuilding Analysis for 2023-2024
  • E.8, Attachment 6: SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Report on Groundfish Stock Assessment Process Review Webinar held on January 25, 2022
  • E.8.a, Supplemental NOAA FSC Presentation 1: Preliminary Analysis and Ranking of Pacific Coast Groundfish Species for Assessment in 2023 (Dr. Hastie and Dr. Wetzel)
  • E.8.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • E.8.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.8.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.8.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • E.8.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.9 Situation Summary: Update on 2023-2024 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
  • E.9, Attachment 1: Update to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan Regarding Block Area Closures. March 2022
  • E.9.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • E.9.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1
  • E.9.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • E.9.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.9.a, Supplemental GMT Presentation 1 (Mattes)
  • E.9.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.9.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • E.9.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

F. Pacific halibut management

• F.1 Situation Summary: Annual International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) Meeting Report
  • F.1, Attachment 1: 2018-2022 Area 2A Pacific Halibut Fishery Catch Exploitable Yield
  • F.1, Attachment 2: Annual IPHC Area 2A Enforcement Report to the International Pacific Halibut Commission
  • F.1.a, IPHC Report 1: Media Release: Completion of the 98th Session of the International Pacific Halibut Commission Annual Meeting (AM098)
  • F.1.a, Supplemental IPHC Presentation 1: Outcomes of the 98th Session of the IPHC Annual Meeting
  • F.1.b, IPHC Representative Report 1: Report on the 2022 International Pacific Halibut Commission Annual Meeting
  • F.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.2 Situation Summary: Incidental Catch Recommendations: Options for Salmon Troll and Final Action on Recommendations for Fixed Gear Sablefish Fisheries
  • F.2, Attachment 1: Summary of Pacific Halibut Incidental Catch Management
  • F.2, Attachment 2: IPHC Regulatory Area 2A License Applications Open for Submission (2022)
  • F.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • F.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

G. Habitat issues

• G.1 Situation Summary: Habitat Issues
  • G.1, Supplemental Attachment 1: Letter RE: Draft Environmental Impact Report for Nordic Aquafarms California, LLC Land-Based Aquaculture Project
  • G.1, Supplemental Attachment 2: Letter re: Humboldt Wind Energy Area Environmental Assessment
  • G.1.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • G.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

H. Ecosystem management

• H.1 Situation Summary: Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP) Five-Year Review – Final Action
  • H.1, Attachment 1: Pacific Coast Fishery Ecosystem Plan, Final Draft for Public Review, November 2021 (Electronic Only)
  • H.1.a, EWG Report 1
  • H.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT/CPSAS Report 1
  • H.1.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • H.1.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • H.1.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • H.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• H.2 Situation Summary: 2021-2022 California Current Ecosystem Status Report and Science Review Topics
  • H.2.a, CCIEA Team Report 1: 2021-2022 California Current Ecosystem Status Report and Appendices
  • H.2.a, Supplemental CCIEA Team Report 2
  • H.2.a Supplemental CCIEA Team Presentation 1: 2021-22 California Current Ecosystem Status Report (Harvey/Garfield)
  • H.2.b, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • H.2.b, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • H.2.b, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • H.2.b, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • H.2.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • H.2.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • H.2.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• H.3 Situation Summary: Review of Fishery Ecosystem Plan Initiatives
  • H.3, Supplemental FEP Pre-Meeting Recorded Presentation (deReynier)
  • H.3.a, EWG Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental EWG Report 2
  • H.3.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • H.3.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • H.3.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1 (Michele Robinson)
  • H.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

I. Highly migratory species management

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

• I.2 Situation Summary: International Management Activities
  • I.2, Attachment 1: Provisional Outcomes Document, 18th Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
  • I.2.a Supplemental WCPFC Report 1
  • I.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • I.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • I.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Presentation 1: Albacore Management Strategy Evaluation Interactive Web Tool
  • I.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

Advisory body and committee agendas

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

Advisory body and committee memos

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

Informational reports

• Informational Report 1: In loving memory, Bill James
• Informational Report 2: Draft Trawl Catch Share, Gear Switching Alternatives Available for Review
• Informational Report 3: Letter to BOEM from Barry Thom re: Humboldt Wind Energy Area Draft Environmental Assessment
• Informational Report 4: Letter to BOEM from Barry Thom re: Scoping on Morro Bay Wind Energy Area Environmental Assessment
• Informational Report 5: Announcing a 2022 Marine Resource Education Program (MREP)

General Information

• General Information: Hotel General Information; Seating Chart; Council Meeting Schedule