November 2023 Council Meeting
A. Call to order
B. Open comment period
- B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
- B.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
C. Administrative matters
- C.1 Situation Summary: Council Coordination Committee Report
- C.1 Supplemental Attachment 1: Draft CCC Meeting Report (October 11-13, 2023)
- C.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.2 Situation Summary: NMFS 2023 Accomplishments and 2024 Priorities
- C.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NWFSC Annual Guidance Memorandum Fiscal Year 2024
- C.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report 2: NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region Fiscal Year 2024 Priorities
- C.2.a Supplemental NMFS Presentation 1: West Coast FY2024 Priorities
- C.2.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.3 Situation Summary: Marine Planning
- C.3, Attachment 1: Fisheries Communication Plan flyer
- C.3, Attachment 2: RWE and Vineyard Wind draft Fisheries Communication Plan
- C.3 Supplemental Attachment 3: DRAFT Pacific Council Comment Letter Re: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Request for Comments: Draft Wind Energy Areas – Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Oregon Outer Continental Shelf
- C.3.a Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Makah Indian Tribe’s Comments on Draft Wind Energy Areas – Commercial Leasing For Wind Power Development on the Oregon Outer Continental Shelf BOEM-2023-0033
- C.3.a Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Makah Indian Tribe’s Technical Assistance Request for Offshore Wind Science Needs
- C.3.a Supplemental MPC Presentation 1 (Conroy/Chambers)
- C.3.a, MPC Report 1
- C.3.a Supplemental MPC Report 2
- 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: Staff Report on Inflation Reduction Act Funding Proposals
- C.4 Supplemental Attachment 2: Budget Committee Proposed November 2, 2023 Agenda
- C.4 Supplemental Attachment 3: Executive Director’s Report to the Budget Committee
- C.4.a Supplemental BC Report 1
- C.4.b Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
- C.4.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.5 Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
- C.5, Attachment 1: Summary of Federal Legislation in the 118th U.S. Congress
- C.5.a Supplemental LC Report 1
- C.5.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.6 Situation Summary: Approval of Council Meeting Record
- C.6, Attachment 1: Draft Council Meeting Record: 273rd Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council, September 7-14, 2023 (Electronic Only)
- C.7 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
- C.7 Supplemental Attachment 1: CDFW Enforcement Consultants Designee
- C.7.a Supplemental GAP 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, March 2024
- C.8, Attachment 3: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2024
- C.8, Supplemental Attachment 4: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. 11/07/2023)
- C.8, Supplemental Attachment 5: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, March 2024 (v. 11/7/2023 2:56 PM)
- C.8, Supplemental Attachment 6: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2024 (v. 11/7/2023 3:17 PM)
- C.8.a Supplemental HC Report 1
- C.8.a Supplemental MPC Report 1
- C.8.a Supplemental GMT Report 1
- C.8.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- C.8.a Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
- C.8.a Supplemental SSC Report 1
- C.8.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
D. Salmon management
- D.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report Including Stock Status Determinations
- D.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Letter from NMFS dated October 13, 2023 Re: 2023 Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan Stock Status Determinations
- D.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Periodic Review of the Lower Columbia River Tule Fall Chinook Abundance-Based Harvest Matrix (Draft)
- D.1.b Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Summary Report from “Salmon Ecosystem Indicators” Workshop Held July 18-20, 2023, in Seattle, WA + online participant
- D.1.c Supplemental STT Report 1
- D.1.d Supplemental Public Presentation 1 (Don Vernon)
- D.1.d, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.2 Situation Summary: FMP Amendment 24: Southern Resident Killer Whale Threshold Clarifications – Final
- D.2 Attachment 1: Pacific Salmon Fishery Management Plan Amendment 24: Proposed revision to Section 6.6.8
- D.2 Supplemental REVISED Attachment 2 (Electronic Only): DRAFT Pacific Coast Salmon FMP (as amended through Amendment 24)
- D.2.a Supplemental STT Report 1
- D.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.3 Situation Summary: Final Methodology Review
- D.3, Attachment 1: Methodology Review Materials (Electronic only)
- D.3 Supplemental Attachment 2: Erratum; An Evaluation of Preseason Ocean Abundance Forecasts for Oregon Production Area Hatchery Coho Salmon
- D.3 Supplemental Attachment 3: Final Additional Material Requested at the 2023 Salmon Methodology Review Meeting
- D.3.a Supplemental STT Report 1
- D.3.a Supplemental SSC Report 1
- D.3.a Supplemental Tribal Report 1
- D.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.4 Situation Summary: Final 2024 Preseason Management Schedule and 2024 Management Framework for California Chinook Fisheries
- D.4, Attachment 1: Pacific Fishery Management Council Proposed Schedule and Process for Developing 2024 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures
- D.4.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: Relationship of the Management Framework for California Coastal Chinook Salmon (CC Chinook) to the Re-initiated ESA Consultation for CC Chinook
- D.4.a Supplemental NMFS Report 2: DRAFT Regulatory Language Implementing the California Coastal Chinook Management Framework
- D.4.a Supplemental NMFS/CDFW Presentation 1: California Coastal Chinook Salmon; Conservation Objective, Management Framework, and Reinitiated Biological Opinion (Tony Siniscal, NMFS; and Kandice Morgenstern, CDFW)
- D.4.a Supplemental SAS Report 1
- D.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.5 Situation Summary: Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup Progress Report
- D.5.a Supplemental Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup Report 1
- D.5.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
E. Groundfish management
- E.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (Groundfish)
- E.1, Attachment 1: Federal Register Notice: Scoping for a Marine Mammal Take Reduction Team to Address Incidental Mortality and Serious Injury of Humpback Whale Stocks in the Pacific (Electronic Only)
- E.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on Recently Published Groundfish Rulemakings & Workload
- E.1.b, NWFSC Report 1: Pacific Halibut Bycatch for 2002-2022
- E.1.b, NWFSC Report 2: Pacific Halibut Bycatch 2002-2022 Infographic
- E.1.b, NWFSC Report 3: Pacific Halibut Bycatch for 2002-2022 – Tables (Excel File Electronic Only)
- E.1.b, NWFSC Report 4: Observed and Estimated Bycatch of Salmon in U.S. West Coast Fisheries, 2002-2022
- E.1.b, NWFSC Report 5: Observed and Estimated Bycatch of Salmon in U.S. West Coast Fisheries, 2002-2022 Report – Tables (Excel File Electronic Only)
- E.1.b Supplemental NWFSC 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 Quillback Rebuilding Analyses, Catch-Only Projections, and Revised Projections
- E.2, Attachment 1: DRAFT 2023 Rebuilding Analysis for Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger) in U.S. Waters Off the Coast of California Based on The 2021 Stock Assessment
- E.2, Attachment 2: Catch Update for Chilipepper Rockfish (Sebastes goodei) off the U.S. West Coast
- E.2, Attachment 3: Catch-only Projection for Yellowtail Rockfish (Sebastes Flavidus) North Of 40° 10′ North Latitude off the U.S. West Coast
- E.2, REVISED Attachment 4: Harvest Specification Projections for Select West Coast Groundfish Stocks in 2025 and Beyond Informed by the Sigmas Implemented in 2020
- E.2 Supplemental REVISED Attachment 5: Revised forecasts for vermilion rockfish and sunset rockfish in U.S. waters off California (v. 11/04/23)
- E.2.a Supplemental ODFW Report 1: ODFW Report on Projections for Oregon Black Rockfish
- E.2.a Supplemental CDFW Report 1: 2024 Projected Quillback Rockfish Removals in California
- E.2.a Supplemental CDFW Report 2
- E.2.a Supplemental GMT Report 1: GMT Report on Quillback Rockfish Removals Calculation for the Quillback Rockfish Rebuilding Analysis
- E.2.a Supplemental GMT Report 2
- E.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
- E.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.3 Situation Summary: Final Inseason Adjustments for 2023 and 2024, Including 2024 Whiting Set-Asides – Part I
- E.3, Attachment 1: Historical Mortality of Pacific Whiting in Research and Pink Shrimp, 2011-2022
- E.3.a Supplemental CDFW Report 1
- E.3.a Supplemental ODFW 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: Sablefish Gear Switching – Preliminary Preferred Alternative
- E.4 Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Seger/Doerpinghaus)
- E.4, Attachment 1: Synopsis of Gear Switching Alternatives, Options, Comparisons, and Issues
- E.4, Attachment 2: Range of Gear Switching Alternatives Adopted for Analysis
- E.4, REVISED Attachment 3 (Electronic Only): Analysis to Inform Selection of Preliminary Preferred Alternative for Sablefish Gear Switching
- E.4, Supplemental Attachment 4: Supplemental Analysis of the Sablefish Gear Switching Alternatives
- E.4.a Supplemental SSC Report 1
- E.4.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- E.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.5 Situation Summary: Harvest Specifications and Management Measures for 2025-2026 – Part I
- E.5, Supplemental REVISED November 5 2023 Attachment 1 (Electronic Only): Draft Harvest Specification Section of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery 2025-2026 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures (v. 11/05/2023)
- E.5.a Supplemental GMT Report 1: GMT Report on Proposed Changes to Shortspine Thornyhead ACL Apportionment Method
- E.5.a Supplemental GMT Report 2: Harvest Specifications
- E.5.a Supplemental REVISED GMT Presentation 1
- E.5.a Supplemental SSC Report 1
- E.5.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- E.5.b Supplemental Public Presentation 1: Economic Analysis for Groundfish Closures in Northern California (Larry Phillips)
- E.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.6 Situation Summary: Preliminary Exempted Fishing Permits for 2025-2026
- E.6, Attachment 1: California Department of Fish And Wildlife 2025-2026 Exempted Fishing Permit Application And 2023 Interim Report September 27, 2023
- E.6, Attachment 2: Vertical Hook and Line Research Estimate [WITHDRAWN, see Supplemental Attachment 6] (Platt/Yoakum)
- E.6, Attachment 3: Interim Report for the Emley Platt EFP (2023-2024) [See Supplemental Attachment 7]
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 4: Year-Round Trawl Gear (Midwater Rockfish) EFP: Monitoring and Minimizing Salmon Bycatch When Targeting Rockfish in the Shorebased IFQ Fishery, 2025-2026 (West Coast Seafood Processors Association)
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 5: Year-Round Trawl Gear (Midwater Rockfish) 2023 Trawl Gear EFP Interim Report; West Coast Seafood Processors Association
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 6: Proposal for a Vertical Hook and Line Research Estimate (Dan Platt/Dan Yoakum) [Replacing Attachment 2]
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 7: Email Regarding termination of the Emley/Platt EFP for 2024 [See Attachment 3]
- E.6, Supplemental Attachment 8: Summary of EFP and Report Attachments
- E.6.a Supplemental GMT Report 1
- E.6.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- E.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.7 Situation Summary: Harvest Specifications and Management Measures for 2025-2026 – Part II
- E.7, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 1: DRAFT REVISED 2025-26 Action Item Checklist
- E.7.a, NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on Directed Open Access Fishery Permit
- E.7.a Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Preliminary 2025-2026 Tribal Management Measures
- E.7.a Supplemental Tribal Report 2: Makah Treaty Groundfish Fisheries in 2025-2026
- E.7.a Supplemental WDFW Report 1
- E.7.a Supplemental CDFW Report 1
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Presentation 1: Covers GMT Supplemental Report 2; Action Items #2 & 3 Area Management Measures & Off-the-Top Deductions
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Presentation 2: Covers Supplemental GMT Report 3; Action Items #4-10 ACTs, Allocations, and Harvest Guidelines/Shares
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Presentation 3: Covers Supplemental GMT Report 4; Action Items #11-20 Trip Limits, Bag Limits, Season Structures, “New” Management Measures, Rebuilding Plan
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Report 1
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Report 2
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Report 3
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Report 4
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Report 5
- E.7.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- E.7.a Supplemental EC Report
- E.7.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.8 Situation Summary: Phase 2 Stock Definitions – Planning
- E.8 Supplemental REVISED Staff Presentation 1 (Todd Phillips)
- E.8, Attachment 1: Stock Definitions Phase II: Planning
- E.8, Attachment 2: Proposed Schedule for Developing the Phase 2 Stock Definitions
- E.8.a Supplemental SSC Report 1
- E.8.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- E.8.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.9 Situation Summary: Final Inseason Adjustments for 2023-2024 – Part II, If Necessary
F. Highly migratory species management
- F.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report (HMS)
- F.1.a, NMFS Report 1
- F.1.b Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
- F.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.2 Situation Summary: Highly Migratory Species Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Amendment – Final
- F.2 Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Griffin)
- F.2, Attachment 1: Summary of HMS EFH proposed modifications
- F.2, Attachment 2: HMS EFH Appendix F (Electronic Only)
- F.2, Attachment 3: Underline/strikethrough proposed FMP language
- F.2, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 3: Track Changes Version: proposed FMP language
- F.2.a Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
- F.2.a Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
- F.2.a Supplemental HC Report 1
- F.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.3 Situation Summary: Highly Migratory Species Roadmap Workshop
- F.3.a Supplemental CDFW Report 1
- F.3.a, HMSMT Report 1
- F.3.a Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
- F.3.a Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
- F.3.b Supplemental Public Presentation 1 (Wild Oceans, Theresa Labriola)
- F.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
G. Pacific halibut
- G.1 Situation Summary: 2024 Catch Sharing Plan and Regulations – Final
- G.1 Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Ehlke)
- G.1, Attachment 1: 2023 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for Area 2A
- G.1, Attachment 2: Visual Representation of the 2023 Area 2A Catch Sharing Plan for Pacific Halibut
- G.1, Attachment 3: Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan: Proposed Changes to Management Objectives and Fishery Flexibility
- G.1, Attachment 4: Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan: Proposed Changes to Non-tribal Sport Allocations
- G.1, Supplemental Attachment 5: Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan: Proposed Changes to Inseason Flexibility Provisions
- G.1, Supplemental Attachment 6: Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan: Proposed Changes to Regulatory Items
- G.1.a, NMFS Report 1: Report on the 2023 Pacific Halibut Fisheries in Area 2A
- G.1.a, ODFW Report 1: Proposed Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for the 2024 Fishery
- G.1.a Supplemental WDFW Report 1: Preliminary Analysis of the Recreational Fishery Options Adopted for Public Review by the Council at its September 2023 Meeting
- G.1.a Supplemental WDFW Report 2: Report on Proposed Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan and 2024 Annual Regulations
- G.1.a Supplemental CDFW Report 1
- G.1.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- G.1.a Supplemental EC Report 1
- G.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)
Advisory body and committee agendas
- Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
- Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
- Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda
- Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel (HMSAS) Agenda
- Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) Agenda
- Legislative Committee (LC) Agenda
- Marine Planning Committee (MPC) Agenda
- Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
- Groundfish Subcommittee of the SSC (SSC GFSC) Agenda
Advisory body and committee memos
- Enforcement Consultants Memo
- Groundfish Memo: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel, Groundfish Management Team, and Groundfish Interested Persons
- HMS Memo: Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel, Highly Migratory Species Management Team, and Interested Persons
- MPC Memo: Marine Planning Committee and Interested Persons
- SSC Memo: Scientific and Statistical Committee Memo
SSC materials
For SSC meeting discussion, the following items are available (Electronic Only)
- Scientific and Statistical Committee DRAFT September 2023 minutes
- SSC’s Coastal Pelagic Species Subcommittee Report on Accepted Practices Guidelines for Coastal Pelagic Species Stock Assessments
- SSC’s Accepted Practices Guidelines for Coastal Pelagic Species Stock Assessments in 2024
- SSC’s Ecosystem-Based Management and Groundfish Subcommittees Report on the FEP’s Ecosystem and Climate Information Initiative
- SSC’s Groundfish Subcommittee Report on 2023 Stock Assessments and Harvest Specifications
- SSC’s Economics and Groundfish Subcommittees Report on Sablefish Daily Trip Limit Model (October 12, 2023)
- SSC Salmon Subcommittee Report on the Salmon Methodology Review (October 11, 2023)
- SSC’s Economics Subcommittee Report on Analysis to Inform Selection of Initial Preliminary Preferred Alternative for Sablefish Gear Switching (October 24, 2023)
Informational reports
- Informational Report 1: NOAA Fisheries Recreational Fisheries Roundtable (Flyer for 11/04/2023 forum)
- Informational Report 2: September 27, 2023 White House Memorandum on Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin
- Informational Report 3: Recommendations from the Permanent Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission October 2-3, 2023
- Informational Report 4: CWPA Letter of Intent to Renew EFP to Allow Take of Pacific Sardine in Point Sets in 2024-25 in Support of the CPS-NSC Research Program
- Informational Report 5: CWPA Letter of Intent to Request Renewal of EFP to Allow Collection of Pacific Sardine Biological Samples in 2024-25
- Informational Report 6 (Electronic Only): Tri-State Enforcement Report to Pacific Fisheries Management Council 2023
- Informational Report 7: E-Mail from Jennifer Quan to Merrick Burden Re: Determination from Secretary of Commerce That a Commercial Fishery Failure Due to a Fishery Resource Disaster Occurred Between 2017 and 2022 in Multiple West Coast and Alaska Fisheries
- Supplemental Informational Report 8: Council Staff Report Summarizing Relevant Council Record and Background Regarding Data-Moderate Stock Assessments within the Pacific Fishery Management Council Process
- Supplemental Informational Report 9: Summary of West Coast Groundfish Assessments Conducted in 2023
- Supplemental Informational Report 10: U.S. Coast Guard Memo “Covered Small Passenger Vessel” Fire Safety Interim Rule Implementation
General Information and Membership Roster
Recent reports
- D.2.a Supplemental MPC PPT 1: Marine Planning Committee Report
- November 2023 meeting record
- November 2023 meeting transcripts
- Motions on screen: C.7 Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
- C.8.a Supplemental SSC Report 1
- Motion in writing: C.6 Approval of Council Meeting Record
- Motion on screen: E.9 Final Inseason Adjustments for 2023 and 2024 – Part II
- C.8.a Supplemental GMT Report 1
- C.8, Supplemental Attachment 6: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, April 2024 (v. 11/7/2023 3:17 PM)
- C.8, Supplemental Attachment 5: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, March 2024 (v. 11/7/2023 2:56 PM)
- C.8, Supplemental Attachment 4: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. 11/07/2023)
- Motion as shown on screen: E.8 Phase 2 Stock Definitions – Planning
- Motions on screen: E.7 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures for 2025-2026 – Part II
- C.8.a Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
- C.8.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- E.8 Supplemental REVISED Staff Presentation 1 (Todd Phillips)
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Presentation 3: Covers Supplemental GMT Report 4; Action Items #11-20 Trip Limits, Bag Limits, Season Structures, “New” Management Measures, Rebuilding Plan
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Presentation 2: Covers Supplemental GMT Report 3; Action Items #4-10 ACTs, Allocations, and Harvest Guidelines/Shares
- E.7.a Supplemental GAP Report 1
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Report 5
- Motions on screen: G.1 Pacific Halibut 2024 Catch Sharing Plan and Regulations – Final
- E.7.a Supplemental GMT Report 4
- E.9.a Supplemental EC Report 1
- E.9.a Supplemental GMT Report 2
- E.9.a Supplemental GMT Report 1