March 2023 briefing book

March 2023 Council Meeting

A. Call to order

• A.3, Situation Summary: March 2023 Detailed Agenda
• A.4, Situation Summary: Executive Director’s Report
  • A.4, Attachment 1: Review of Robert’s Rules of Order and the November 2022 Motion to Reconsider on Gear Switching
  • A.4, Supplemental Attachment 2:  Memo Dated February 24, 2023 re:  A.4 Executive Director’s Report

B. Open comment period

• B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
  • B.1.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1:  Pacific Coast Salmon and Climate Initiative (Jacques White, Long Live the Kings)
  • B.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

C. Pacific halibut

• C.1. Situation Summary:  Annual Report of the International Pacific Halibut Commission
  • C.1, Attachment 1: 2019-2023 Area 2A Pacific Halibut Fishery Catch Exploitable Yield
  • C.1, Attachment 2: National Report of the United States to the International Pacific Halibut Commission
  • C.1.a, Supplemental IPHC Presentation 1:  Outcomes of the 99th Session of the IPHC Annual Meeting (AM099) – Electronic Only
  • C.1.a, Supplemental IPHC Report 1 (Electronic Only):  Report of the 99th Session of the IPHC Annual Meeting (AM099)
  • C.1.b, IPHC Representative Report 1: Report on the 2023 International Pacific Halibut Commission Annual Meeting
  • C.1.c, Supplemental CDFW Report 1:  Results of Online Public Survey Solicit Input on Recreational Fishery Season Dates from Stakeholders
  • C.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.1.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.2. Situation Summary: Incidental Catch Recommendations: Options for Salmon Troll and Final Action on Recommendations for Fixed Gear Sablefish Fisheries
  • C.2, Attachment 1: Summary of Pacific Halibut Incidental Catch Management
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • C.2.b Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

D. Salmon management

• D.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (salmon)
  • D.1.b, NMFS Report 1
  • D.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.2 Situation Summary: Review of 2022 Fisheries and Summary of 2023 Stock Forecasts
  • D.2, Attachment 1: Excerpts from Chapter 3 of the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan
  • Review of 2022 Ocean Salmon Fisheries: Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation Document for the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan (Electronic Only)
  • Supplemental Preseason Report I: Stock Abundance Analysis and Environmental Assessment Part 1 for 2023 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations (Electronic Only)
  • D.2.a, Supplemental STT Report 1:  Excerpts from the Review of 2022 Ocean Salmon Fisheries and 2023 Preseason 1 Report
  • D.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • D.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.3 Situation Summary: Identify Management Objectives and Preliminary Definition of 2023 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: 62 FR 44421 (Document Number 97-22094): Policy Guidelines for the Use of Emergency Rules
  • D.3.a, Supplemental PSC Report 1
  • D.3.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: 2023 Guidance Letter
  • D.3.e, Supplemental WDFW/Tribal Report 1:  Tribal and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 2023 Management Objectives for Puget Sound Chinook and Coho Salmon
  • D.3.e, Supplemental Tribal Report 1:  Comments from The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  • D.3.e, Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Statement by the Columbia River Treaty Tribes to the Pacific Fishery Management Council SeaTac, Washington
  • D.3.e, Supplemental SAS Report 1: SAS Proposed Initial Salmon Management Alternatives for 2023 Non-Indian Ocean Fisheries
  • D.3.f, Supplemental Public Presentation 1:  James Stone, Nor-Cal Guides and Sportsmen’s Association
  • D.3.f, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
• D.4 Situation Summary: Recommendations for 2023 Management Alternative Analysis
  • D.4.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Collation of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2023 Ocean Fisheries (v. March 7, 2023)
  • D.4.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1 (Bob Sparre)
  • D.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.5 Situation Summary: Further Direction for 2023 Management Alternatives
  • D.5.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Collation of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2023 Ocean Fisheries (v. March 8, 2023)
  • D.5.a,Supplemental Tribal Report 1:  Hoopa Valley Tribal Comments on Recommendations for 2023 Management Alternative Analysis
  • D.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.6 Situation Summary: Further Direction for 2023 Management Alternatives
  • D.6.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Collation of Preliminary Salmon Management Alternatives for 2023 Ocean Fisheries (v. March 9, 2023)
  • D.6.a, Supplemental STT Report 2: REVISED TABLE 5 and TABLE 7 (11:36 a.m., March 9, 2023)
  • D.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.7 Situation Summary: Adopt 2023 Management Alternatives for Public Review
  • D.7.a, Supplemental STT Report 1: Analysis of Preliminary Salmon Management
    Alternatives for 2023 Ocean Fisheries (March 10, 2023)
  • D.7.a, Supplemental STT Report 2:  2023 Klamath River Fall Chinook de minimis exploitation rate
  • D.7.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1:  Statement by the Columbia River Treaty Tribes
  • 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. Habitat issues

• E.1 Situation Summary: Current Habitat Issues
  • E.1.a, HC Report 1, Habitat Indicators of Klamath and Sacramento Salmon Stocks
  • E.1.a, Supplemental HC Report 2
  • 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, NMFS Report 1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report on recently Published Groundfish Rulemakings and Workload
  • F.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2:  Maximizing the Utility and Benefit of Electronic Monitoring to Gather Information on Future Humpback Whale Bycatch Events
  • F.1.b, Supplemental NWFSC Presentation 1:  Science Center Activities (Craig Russell and Jim Hastie)
  • F.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.2 Situation Summary: Implementation of the 2023 Pacific Whiting Fishery under the U.S./Canada Agreement
  • F.2, Attachment 1 (Electronic Only): Status of the Pacific Hake (whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian waters in 2023. DRAFT SUBMISSION 1/27/2023
  • F.2.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • F.2.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.2.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.3 Situation Summary: Sablefish Pot Gear Marking – Feasibility Report
  • F.3.a, NMFS Report 1: Improving Gear Marking in the U.S. West Coast Sablefish Pot Fleet, Workshop Summary Report
  • F.3.a, NMFS Report 2: Comments Submitted in Response to Workshop Summary Report
  • F.3.a, NMFS Report 3: Sablefish Pot Gear Marking Feasibility Report
  • F.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.4 Situation Summary: Non-Trawl Area Management – Final Preferred Alternative
  • F.4, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Doerpinghaus/Wiedoff)
  • F.4, Attachment 1 (Electronic Only): Proposed Amendment to the Pacific Groundfish Fishery Management Plan for Non-Trawl Sector Area Management Measures
  • F.4.a, CDFW Report 1: California Department of Fish and Wildlife Report on Non-Trawl Area Management-Final Preferred Alternative
  • F.4.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 2:  Proposed Technical Correction to Modify one 75 Fathom Boundary Line Waypoint
  • F.4.a, Supplemental REVISED ODFW Report 1: Non-Trawl Area Management and the Proposed Yelloweye Rockfish Conversation
  • F.4.a, Supplemental ONMS Report 1:  Letter from ONMS, re: Potential Overlap Between the Draft Restoration Plan and NEPA Evaluation for the YFD-70 Dry Dock and the PFMC’s Non-Trawl Area Management Measures Action
  • F.4.a, Supplemental ONMS Presentation 1:  Draft Restoration Plan and NEPA Evaluation for the YFD-70 Dry Dock and the NT-RCA (Karen Reyna)
  • F.4.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.4.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • F.4.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • F.4.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1: Non-Trawl Area Management: Protect Habitat And Restore Groundfish Fishing Opportunities (Oceana)
  • F.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.5 Situation Summary: Electronic Monitoring Program Changes – Final Preferred Alternative
  • F.5, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Brett Wiedoff)
  • F.5, Attachment 1: Executive Summary – Draft Analytical Document for a Regulatory Amendment – West Coast Electronic Monitoring Program
  • F.5 Supplemental Attachment 2 (Electronic Only):  Draft Analytical Document for a Regulatory Amendment Under the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan – West Coast Electronic Monitoring Program
  • F.5.a, GEMPAC Report 1: Electronic Monitoring Program Changes – Final
    Preferred Alternatives
  • F.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.5.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • F.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.6 Situation Summary: Final Assessment Methodologies
  • F.6.a, SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Report 1
  • F.6.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.7 Situation Summary: Amendment 31 Groundfish Stock Definitions
  • F.7, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Todd Phillips)
  • F.7, Attachment 1: Range of Alternatives Analysis for Proposed Amendment 31 to the Pacific Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (Electronic Only)
  • F.7.a; NWFSC Report 1: Alternatives for setting catch limits when a stock is assessed using multiple independent sub-area assessment models
  • F.7.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.7.a, Supplemental REVISED version 2 GAP Report 1
  • F.7.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.8 Situation Summary: Workload and New Management Measure Priorities
  • F.8, Attachment 1: Conceptual Design of Groundfish New Management Measure Prioritization Process, March 2023
  • F.8.a, NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on Select Items in Groundfish Workload
    and New Management Measures List
  • F.8.a, GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Workload and New Management Measures Update, March 2023
  • F.8.a, Supplemental GMT Report 2
  • F.8.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1:  Report on Workload and New Management Measure Priorities
  • F.8.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.8.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • F.8.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • F.8.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.9 Situation Summary: Inseason Adjustments – Final Action
  • F.9.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.9.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

G. Administrative matters

• G.1. Situation Summary: United States Coast Guard (USCG) Annual Report
  • G.1.a, Supplemental USCG Report 1:  2022 Report to the PFMC
  • G.1.a, Supplemental USCG Video 1: Coast Guard Rescues Mariner in Distress as Wave Capsizes Vessel Near Mouth of Columbia River (external link)
  • G.1.a, Supplemental USCG Presentation 1:  U.S. Coast Guard West Coast Fishery Enforcement Report
  • G.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.2 Situation Summary: Report of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
  • G.2, Attachment 1 (OCNMS NOI)
  • G.2.a, National Marine Sanctuaries Report 1 (Electronic Only)
  • G.2.a, Supplemental ONMS Presentation 1:  ONMS Coordination Report
  • G.2.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • G.2.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.2.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.3 Situation Summary: Marine Planning
  • G.3.a, Supplemental NMFS/ODFW Presentation1:  Characterizing Fisheries Footprints for Offshore Wind Energy Planning
  • G.3, Attachment 1, WCOA Overview
  • G.3.a, Supplemental MPC Presentation 1
  • G.3.a, MPC Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental MPC Report 2
  • G.3.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • G.3.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • G.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.4 Situation Summary: Approval of Council Meeting Record
  • G.4, Attachment 1: Draft Council Meeting Record: 269th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council, November 2-8, 2022 (Electronic Only)

• G.5 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
  • G.5, Attachment 1: USCG Letter Regarding Council Designees
  • G.5, Attachment 2: ODFW Letter Regarding Council Designees
  • G.5, Attachment 3: Model Fishery Management Council Policy on Addressing Allegations of Harassment of Process Participants Other Than Council Employees
  • G.5, Attachment 4: Model Fishery Management Council Policy on Addressing Allegations of Harassment of Council Employees
  • G.5, Attachment 5: Staff Recommended Process for Incorporating the Council Coordination Committee (CCC) Harassment Policies and Recommendations for Defining Professional Meeting Decorum
  • G.5, Attachment 6: Suggested COP 1 Edits
  • G.5, Attachment 7: Suggested SOPP Edits
  • G.5.a, Tribal Report 1: Tribal Comments Regarding Model Fishery Management Council Policy on Addressing Allegations of Harassment
  • G.5.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.5.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • G.5.a Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • G.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.6 Situation Summary: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
  • G.6, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
  • G.6, Attachment 2: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2023
  • G.6, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. 03/09/2023)
  • G.6, Supplemental Attachment 4: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2023 (v. 03/09/2023)
  • G.6.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • G.6.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • G.6.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • G.6.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • G.6.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • G.6.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • G.6.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1:  Initiative 4 Workshops (Kirchner)
  • G.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

H. Ecosystem management

• H.1 Situation Summary: California Current Ecosystem Annual Report
  • H.1.a, CCIEA Team Report 1 (Electronic Only): 2022-2023 California Current Ecosystem Status Report and Appendices
  • H.1.a, CCIEA Team Report 2: Ecosystem Status Report Topics for SSC-ES Review in September 2023
  • H.1.a, Supplemental CCIEA Team Presentation 1:  (Powerpoint)
  • H.1.a, SSC-ES Report 1: Scientific and Statistical Committee Ecosystem Subcommittee Report of September 16, 2022 Webinar
  • H.1.b, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • H.1.b, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • H.1.b, Supplemental EAS Report
  • H.1.b, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • H.1.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • H.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • H.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• H.2 Situation Summary: Fishery Ecosystem Plan Initiative Workplan
  • H.2.a, EWG Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental EWG Report 2
  • H.2.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • H.2.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1 (Michele Conrad)
  • H.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

I. Highly migratory species management

• I.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
  • I.1.a, NMFS Report 1
  • I.1.b, Supplemental SWFSC Presentation 1:  SWFSC Highly Migratory Species: Research Update
  • I.1.c, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • I.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• I.2 Situation Summary: International Management Activities
  • I.2, Attachment 1: WCPFC19 Provisional Outcomes Document
  • I.2, Attachment 2: Staff Summary of the Outcomes of the Nineteenth Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
  • I.2.b, NMFS Report 1: February 8, 2023, Letter from Sarah Malloy, Acting Regional Administrator, Pacific Islands Region, to Council Chairs summarizing WCPFC19 Outcomes
  • I.2.b, NMFS Report 2: Regional Fishery Management Organizations Meetings
  • I.2.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 3:  Summary of the U.S. Stakeholder Meeting on a North Pacific Albacore Harvest Strategy, February 15, 2023 (Pacific Islands Regional Office and West Coast Region)
  • I.2.b Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • I.2.b Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • I.2.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• I.3 Situation Summary: Drift Gillnet Hard Caps Update
  • I.3, Attachment 1: Staff Paper on Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Regulatory Impact Review (Executive Order 12866) for the California Drift Gillnet Hard Caps Action
  • I.3, Attachment 2: Staff Compilation of Amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act by the Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act
  • I.3.a, SWFSC Report 1: Technical Memorandum, Revised Bootstrap Methodology to Compare the Operation of the West Coast Large Mesh Drift Gillnet Fishery under Alternatives for Individual and Variable Length Hard Caps
  • I.3.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • I.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • I.3.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • I.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

Advisory body and committee agendas

• Committee agendas for the March 2023 briefing book (all one file bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)
  • Ecosystem Advisory Subpanel
  • Enforcement Consultants
  • Ad hoc Ecosystem Workgroup
  • Groundfish Advisory Subpanel
  • Groundfish Management Team
  • Habitat Committee
  • Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel
  • Highly Migratory Species Management Team
  • Salmon Advisory Subpanel
  • Scientific and Statistical Committee Agenda
    • Scientific and Statistical Committee DRAFT November 2022 Minutes
  • Salmon Technical Team

Advisory body and committee memos

• Committee memos for the March 2023 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)

Informational reports

• Informational Report 1:  Range of Gear Switching Alternatives Adopted for Analysis by the Council at Its September 2021, June 2022, and November 2022 Meetings
• Informational Report 2:  Federal Register Notice; Draft 2022 Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports
• Informational Report 3: NOAA Fisheries Draft Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports
• Informational Report 4:  Proposed Rule; Amendment 6 to the Fishery Management Plan for West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species; Authorization of Deep-Set Buoy Gear
• Informational Report 5:  Federal Register; Framing the National Nature Assessment
• Informational Report 6: Nomination Period ls Now Open for the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee
• Supplemental Informational Report 7:  NOAA’s National Seafood Strategy
• Supplemental Informational Report 8 (Electronic Only):  U.S. Pacific Coast Federal Fisheries Scenario Planning Summary Report
• Supplemental Informational Report 9:  U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Information Bulletin – Reporting Sexual Misconduct on U.S. Vessels

General Information

• General Information: Chairs reception, Covid protocols, Seating chart; Council meeting schedule