November 2021 Briefing Book

November 2021 Council Meeting

A. Call to Order

• A.3 Situation Summary: Executive Director’s Report
• A.4 Detailed November 2021 Council Meeting agenda

B. Open Comment Period

• B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
  • B.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region Fiscal Year 2021 Accomplishments
  • B.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 2: NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region Fiscal Year 2022 Priorities
  • B.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 3: NWFSC Annual Guidance Memorandum for Fiscal Year 2022
  • B.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 4: SWFSC Annual Guidance Memorandum for Fiscal Year 2022
  • B.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: West Coast Update FY2022 Priorities
  • B.1.b Supplemental Public Presentation 1: Climate change Adaptation Tools for California Current fisHeries (CATCCH) Chapman
  • B.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

C. Administrative Matters

• C.1 Situation Summary: Council Coordination Committee Meeting Report
  • C.1, Attachment 1: Final Agenda, Council Coordination Committee Meeting, October 19-21, 2021
  • C.1, Attachment 2: CCC News Release
  • C.1, Attachment 3: October 19-21, 2021 Council Coordination Committee Outcomes and Recommendations
  • C.1, Supplemental Attachment 4: CCC Letter to Representatives Huffman and Case on H.R. 4690, the “Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act of 2021”
  • C.1, Supplemental Attachment 5: CCC Legislative Work Group Draft Consensus Statements
  • C.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.2 Situation Summary: Marine Planning
  • C.2, Supplemental Attachment 1: PFMC Draft Letter to BOEM
  • C.2, Supplemental Attachment 2: News Release – BOEM Designates Wind Energy Area off Central California, requests public input
  • C.2, Supplemental Attachment 3: Invitation for Stakeholder Input & Study Ideas for BOEM-Funded Research in the Pacific OCS
  • C.2, Supplemental Attachment 4: U.S. Coast Guard – Pacific Coast Port Access Route Study
  • C.2.a, Supplemental NOAA Presentation 1: Aquaculture Opportunity Areas Atlases: A comprehensive regional marine spatial analysis
  • C.2.a, Supplemental BOEM Presentation 1: Pacific Offshore Wind Energy Activities
  • C.2.a, Supplemental MPC Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.3 Situation Summary: Final Regional Operating Agreement
  • C.3, Attachment 1: Draft Operating Agreement Among the Pacific Fishery Management Council; NOAA Fisheries West Coast Regional Office; NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center; NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center; NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, West Coast Division; NOAA General Counsel, Northwest Section; and NOAA General Counsel, Southwest Section
  • C.3, Attachment 2: Markup Draft Regional Operating Agreement
  • C.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • C.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.4 Situation Summary: Preliminary West Coast Regional Framework for Determining the Best Scientific Information Available
  • C.4, Attachment 1: West Coast Best Scientific Information Available Regional Framework
  • C.4, Attachment 2: West Coast Best Scientific Information Available Regional Framework Workbook (Excel Workbook – Electronic Only)
  • C.4, Supplemental Attachment 3: NMFS Draft West Coast Framework for Best Scientific Information Available
  • C.4.a, Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: Developing a West Coast Regional ‘Best Scientific Information Available’ Framework
  • C.4.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • C.4.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
  • C.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • C.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.5 Situation Summary: Fiscal Matters
  • C.5, Supplemental Attachment 1: Budget Committee Agenda
  • C.5, Supplemental Attachment 2: Executive Director’s Report to the Budget Committee, November 2021
  • C.5, Supplemental Attachment 3: Staff Report on Potential Projects for 2022 Budget Consideration
  • C.5.a, Supplemental BC Report 1
  • C.5.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.6 Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
  • C.6, Attachment 1: Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
  • C.6, Attachment 2: PFMC Letter Responding to Request for Comments on H.R. 4690
  • C.6.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
  • C.6.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.7 Situation Summary: Approval of Council Meeting Record
  • C.7, Attachment 1: Draft Council Meeting Record: 261st Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (September 8-11 & 13-15, 2021)
  • C.7, Attachment 2: Draft Council Meeting Record: 262nd Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (October 12, 2021)

• C.8 Situation Summary: Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology – Final Action
  • C.8, Attachment 1 – Draft Amendment Language to West Coast Fishery Management Plans
  • C.8.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • C.8.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.8.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.9 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
  • C.9, Attachment 1: Summary Listing of Nominations for the 2022-2024 Advisory Body Term
  • C.9, Supplemental Attachment 2: All Advisory Body Nominations for the 2022-2024 Term
  • C.9.a, CPSMT Report 1: Proposed Changes to Council Operating Procedure 9
  • C.9.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.9.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.10 Situation Summary: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
  • C.10, Attachment 1: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary
  • C.10, Attachment 2: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, March 2022
  • C.10, Attachment 3: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2022
  • C.10, Supplemental Attachment 4: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. 11-21-2021; 14:14)
  • C.10, Supplemental Attachment 5: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, March 2022 (v. 11-21-2021; 3:49PM)
  • C.10, Supplemental Attachment 6: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2022 (v. 11-21-2021; 3:49PM)
  • C.10.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • C.10.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • C.10.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.10.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.10.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.10.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.10.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • C.10.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • C.10.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

D. Habitat Issues

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

E. Groundfish Management

• E.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (groundfish)
  • E.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Recently Published Groundfish Rulemakings and Workload
  • E.1.b, Supplemental REVISED NMFS Report 1: Observed and Estimated Bycatch of Salmon in U.S. West Coast Fisheries, 2002-2020
  • E.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Report 2 – Electronic Only: Observed and Estimated Bycatch of Salmon in U.S. West Coast Fisheries, 2002–2020 (Excel WorkBook)
  • E.1.b, Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: Science Center Activities (Craig Russell)
  • E.1.c, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.2 Situation Summary: Adopt Stock Assessments
  • E.2, Attachment 1: The status of copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) in U.S. waters off the coast of California south of Point Conception in 2021 using catch and length data (Electronic Only)
  • E.2, Attachment 2: The status of copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) in U.S. waters off the coast of California north of Point Conception in 2021 using catch and length data (Electronic Only)
  • E.2, Attachment 3: Rebuilding analysis for copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) in U.S. waters off the coast of California south of Point Conception based on the 2021 stock assessment (Electronic Only)
  • E.2, Attachment 4: Status of quillback rockfish (Sebastes maliger) in U.S. waters off the coast of California in 2021 using catch and length data (Electronic Only)
  • E.2, Attachment 5: Rebuilding analysis for quillback rockfish (Sebastes maliger) in U.S. waters off the coast of California based on the 2021 stock assessment (Electronic Only)
  • E.2, Attachment 6: Status of the Pacific Spiny Dogfish shark resource off the continental U.S. Pacific Coast in 2021 (Electronic Only)
  • E.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • E.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.3 Situation Summary: Harvest Specifications for 2023-2024 Including Final Overfishing Limits and Acceptable Biological Catches
  • E.3, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 1: 2023 and 2024 Groundfish Harvest Specifications under Default Harvest Control Rules
  • E.3, Attachment 2: Draft Status of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery – Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (Electronic Only)
  • E.3, Attachment 3: Catch Only Projections for Black Rockfish (Sebastes melanops) off Oregon in 2021
  • E.3, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 4: Harvest Specification Projections for Select West Coast Groundfish Stocks Under Alternative Harvest Control Rules for 2023 and Beyond
  • E.3, Attachment 5: Evaluating available information to determine stock management delineation for copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) off the U.S. West Coast
  • E.3, Attachment 6: Evaluating available information to inform stock management delineation for quillback rockfish (Sebastes maliger) off the U.S. West coast
  • E.3.a, GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Biennial Harvest Specifications for 2023-24 Including Overfishing Limits and Acceptable Biological Catches
  • E.3.a, GMT Report 2: Groundfish Management Team Report on Stock Complexes
  • E.3.a, Supplemental GMT Report 3
  • E.3.a., Supplemental GMT Presentation 1: PPA for the 2023-2024 Biennial Harvest Specifications
  • E.3.a., Supplemental GMT Presentation 2: Stock Complex Evaluation
  • E.3.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • E.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.4 Situation Summary: Preliminary Exempted Fishing Permit Approval for 2023-2024
  • E.4, Attachment 1: Council Operating Procedure 19, Protocol for Consideration of Exempted Fishing Permits for Groundfish Fisheries (Electronic Only)
  • E.4, Attachment 2: California Department of Fish and Wildlife Report On 2023-2024 Exempted Fishing Permits and Interim Report of Progress to Date (California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
  • E.4, Attachment 3: Proposal for an Exempted Fishery Permit Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Enhanced Yelloweye Recreational Fishery Biological Sampling (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)
  • E.4, Attachment 4: Yellowtail Rockfish Jig Fishing off California (San Francisco Community Fishing Association and Dan Platt)
  • E.4, Attachment 5: Year-Round Coastwide Midwater Rockfish EFP (West Coast Seafood Processors Association; Oregon Trawl Commission; Midwater Trawlers Cooperative; Environmental Defense Fund)
  • E.4, Attachment 6: Commercial Midwater Hook & Line Rockfish Fishing in the RCA off the Oregon Coast (Scott Cook)
  • E.4, Attachment 7: Monterey Bay Regional Exempted Fishing Permit Targeting Chilipepper Rockfish (Real Good Fish)
  • E.4, Attachment 8: Enhanced Yelloweye Recreational Fishery Biological Sampling Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 2021 Preliminary Report of Results
  • E.4, Attachment 9: Letter of Intent for 2022 from Real Good Fish/Local Bounty plus the Monterey Bay Regional Chilipepper Rockfish Final EFP for 2019-2020 (including 2021 EFP data)
  • E.4, Attachment 10: 2021 Interim Report for Emley/Platt EFP
  • E.4, Supplemental Attachment 11: 2021 Rockfish EFP Interim Report
  • E.4, Supplemental Attachment 12: Monterey Bay Regional Exempted Fishing Permit Addendum
  • E.4.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1: Report on EFP for Yelloweye Rockfish
  • E.4.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.4.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.5 Situation Summary: Biennial Management Measures for 2023-2024
  • E.5, Attachment 1: Action Item Checklist
  • E.5.a, NMFS Report 1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report on Biennial Management Measures For 2023-24 And Beyond
  • E.5.a, ODFW Report 1: Oregon Department of Fish And Wildlife Report on 2023-2024 Groundfish Management Measures: Targeted Shortbelly Rockfish Fishing Prohibition
  • E.5.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • E.5.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Makah Treaty Groundfish Fisheries in 2023-2024
  • E.5.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Preliminary 2023-2024 Tribal Management Measures
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1: Off-the-Top Deductions
  • E.5.a, Supplemental REVISED GMT Report 2: Management Measure Items 1, 2, and 4 through 11 from the Action Item Checklist
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 3: Management Measure Items 12 through 18 from the Action Item Checklist
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 4: Research and Incidental Open Access mortality for Copper and Quillback Rockfish South of 40° 10′ N. LAT.
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GMT Presentation 1: Action Item 3 Off-the-Top Deductions
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GMT Presentation 2: Action Items 1, 2, and 4-11
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GMT Presentation 3: Action Items 12-18
  • E.5.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.5.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • E.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.6 Situation Summary: Non-trawl Sector Area Management Measures
  • E.6, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Todd Phillips/Brett Wiedoff)
  • E.6, Attachment 1 (Electronic Only): Non-Trawl Sector Management Measures: Analysis To Support The Development Of A Range Of Alternatives
  • E.6.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1
  • E.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.6.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.6.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • E.6.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • E.6.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1 (Oceana)
  • E.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.7 Situation Summary: Inseason Adjustments Including Pacific Whiting Set-Asides for 2022- Final Action
  • Supplemental REVISED E.7, Attachment 1: Historical Mortality of Pacific Whiting in Research and Pink Shrimp, 2011-2020
  • E.7.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • E.7.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 2
  • E.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • E.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 2
  • E.7.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • E.7.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

F. Salmon Management

• F.1 Situation Summary: Final Methodology Review
  • F.1, Attachment 1: Updated Documentation of the Fishery Regulation Assessment Model (FRAM)
  • F.1, Attachment 2: Evaluation of post-season Chinook FRAM performance (Electronic Only)
  • F.1, Attachment 3: A proposed forecast methodology for natural-origin Willapa Bay Coho (O. kisutch). (Electronic Only)
  • F.1, Attachment 4: Oregon Production Index Hatchery forecast methodology summary
  • F.1.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.1.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
  • F.1.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • F.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.2 Situation Summary: 2022 Preseason Management Schedule
  • F.2, Attachment 1: Pacific Fishery Management Council Proposed Schedule and Process for Developing 2022 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures
  • F.2.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • F.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.3 Situation Summary: Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast Coho Endangered Species Act Harvest Control Rule – Final Action
  • F.3.a, SONCC Workgroup Report 1 (Electronic Only): Fishery Harvest Control Rule Risk Assessment
  • F.3.a, Supplemental SONCC Workgroup Report 2
  • F.3.a, Supplemental SONCC WG Presentation 1
  • F.3.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • F.3.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Letter from Yurok Tribe re: SONCC Harvest Control Rule Recommendation
  • F.3.a, Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Hoopa Valley Tribe Comments
  • F.3.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • F.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

G. Pacific Halibut Management

• G.1 Situation Summary: Commercial-Directed Fishery Regulations for 2022- Final Action
  • G.1.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • G.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• G.2 Situation Summary: 2022 Catch Sharing Plan and Annual Regulations – Final Action
  • G.2, Attachment 1: 2021 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for Area 2A
  • G.2, Attachment 2: Visual Representation of the 2021 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for Area 2A
  • G.2.a, NMFS Report 1: National Marine Fisheries Service Report on the 2021 Pacific Halibut Fisheries in Area 2A
  • G.2.a, Supplemental ODFW Report 1
  • G.2.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1
  • G.2.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • G.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • G.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

H. Highly Migratory Species Management

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

• H.2 Situation Summary: International Management Activities
  • H.2, Attachment 1: Summary Report of the Seventeenth Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Northern Committee (Electronic Only)
  • H.2, Attachment 2: Recommendations from the Permanent Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Web Conference – October 13-15, 2021
  • H.2, Attachment 3: Provisional Annotated Agenda, 18th Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, December 1-7, 2021
  • H.2, Supplemental Attachment 4: Brief summary of IATTC Pacific Bluefin Tuna outcomes to JWG participants
  • H.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1: HMS International Activities
  • H.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Discussion on implementation of IATTC Resolution C-21-05 (Measures for the Conservation and Management of Pacific Bluefin Tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean)
  • H.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • H.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• H.3 Situation Summary: Drift Gillnet Fishery Hard Caps
  • H.3.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • H.3.a, HMSMT Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
  • H.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Presentation 1: DGN Hard Caps
  • H.3.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • H.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

I. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

• I.1 Situation Summary: Preliminary Review of New Exempted Fishing Permits for 2022
  • I.1, Attachment 1: California Wetfish Producers Association Notice of Intent and Proposal for Biological Sampling
  • I.1, Attachment 2: California Wetfish Producers Association Notice of Intent and Proposal for Aerial Survey Point Sets
  • I.1, Attachment 3: West Coast Pelagic Conservation Group Notice of Intent and Proposal for Biological Sampling
  • I.1, Supplemental Attachment 4: Preliminary Summary of the 2021 West Coast Pelagic Conservation Group Collaborative Nearshore Coastal Pelagic Species Surveys
  • I.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • I.1.a Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • I.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• I.2 Situation Summary: Fishery Management Plan Management Categories
  • I.2.a, CPSMT Report 1
  • I.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Presentation 1: Management Categories
  • I.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • I.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

Advisory Body and Committee Agendas AND Committee Memos

Advisory Body and Committee Agendas

• Committee agendas for the November 2021 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation) Updated November 10, 2021 with Supplemental REVISED SSC agenda

Advisory Body and Committee Memos

• Committee memos for the November 2021 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)

Informational Reports and General Information

Informational Reports

• Informational Report 1: NMFS Budget Structure and Allocation Review; National Academy of Public Administration (Electronic Only)
• Informational Report 2: NOAA Fisheries Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2022–2025
• Informational Report 3: 2021 Tri-State Enforcement Report
• Informational Report 4: West Coast Whiting Trawl Seabird Cable Strike Meeting Announcement
• Informational Report 5: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Public Briefing announcement: Data and Management Strategies for Recreational Fisheries with Annual Catch Limits
• Informational Report 6: Texas A&M; Request for PFMC Assistance: Combining high-resolution climate simulations with ocean biogeochemistry, fisheries and decision-making models to improve sustainable fisheries
• Supplemental Informational Report 7: Request for Information on NOAA Actions To Advance the Goals and Recommendations in the Report on Conserving and Restoring America The Beautiful, Including Conserving At Least 30 Percent of U.S. Lands and Waters By 2030
• Supplemental Informational Report 8: North Pacific Fisheries Commission Annual Activity Status Report to PFMC (Rich Lincoln)
• Supplemental Informational Report 9: NOAA announces process to designate national marine sanctuary off central California
• Supplemental Informational Report 10: Status Report of the 2021 Ocean Salmon Fisheries off Washington, Oregon, and California, preliminary data through October 2021
• Supplemental Informational Report 11: An Aquaculture Opportunity Area Atlas for the Southern California Bight
• Supplemental Informational Report 12: Save-the-Date: Offshore Wind Energy Guidance for Mitigating Impacts to Fisheries Meetings
• Supplemental Informational Report 13: BOEM Public Meetings on Potential Central California Offshore Wind Energy Activities

General Information and Membership Roster

• General Information: Hotel information; “Seating Chart”; Council Meeting Schedule