November 2024 Council Meeting
A. Call to Order
B. Open Comment Period
- B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non Agenda Items
- B.1.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
C. Administrative Matters
- .C.1 Situation Summary: Council Coordination Committee Report
- C.1.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.2 Situation Summary: Fiscal Matters
- C.2.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.3. Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
- C.3.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- Link to Legislative Materials
- C.4 Situation Summary: Approval of Council Meeting Record
- C.4 Attachment 1: DRAFT Council Meeting Record (Electronic Only)
- C.5 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures – Including Final 2025-27 Advisory Body Appointments
- C.5 Attachment 1: Summary of Term-Limited Advisory Body Positions for the 2025-2027 Term
- C.5 Attachment 2: Proposed Ad Hoc National Standard Guidelines Committee and Charge
- C.5.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.6 Situation Summary: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
- C.6 Attachment 1: Year at a Glance (YAG)
- C.6 Attachment 2: March 2025 Quick Reference (QR)
- C.6 Attachment 3: April 2025 Quick Reference (QR)
- C.6.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
D. Cross Fishery Management Plan
- D.1 Situation Summary: NMFS 2024 Accomplishments and 2025 Priorities
- D.1.a NMFS Report 1: Annual Guidance Memorandum Fiscal year 2025
- D.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.2 Situation Summary: Marine Planning
- D.2 Attachment 1: Inslee Letter to WCMAC
- D.2.a MPC Report 1: Marine Planning Committee Report on Marine Planning Issues
- D.2.b CDFW Report 1: CDFW Report on the California Marine Protected Area Petition Process
- D.2.b NMFS Report 1: Socioeconomic Characterization of West Coast Fisheries in Relation to Offshore Wind Energy Development (Electronic Only)
- D.2.b NMFS Report 2: NMFS West Coast Offshore Wind Energy Strategic Science Plan (Electronic Only)
- D.2.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.3 Situation Summary: Research and Data Needs
- D.3 Attachment 1: Research and Data Needs: Perspectives on Top Management and Science Challenges
- D.3 Attachment 2: Framework for the PFMC Research and Data Needs (RDN) Five-Year-Update Cycle
- D.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.4 Situation Summary: Council Operations and Priorities
- D.4 Attachment 1: Summary of Council Recommendations, Timeline, Status, and Next Steps
- D.4.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
E. Habitat Issues
- E.1 Situation Summary: Current Habitat Issues
- E.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
F. Salmon Management
- F.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- F.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.2 Situation Summary: Final Methodology Review Results and Proposed Council Operating Procedure (COP) 15 Updates
- F.2 Attachment 1: Cohort Reconstruction for Sacramento River Fall Chinook Salmon and Comparison with the Sacramento Index (Electronic Only)
- F.2 Attachment 2: Updated Fmsy Proxy and Smsy/Smp Ratio
- F.2 Attachment 3: Proposed Edits to Council Operating Procedure 15
- F.2.a Tribal Report 1: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Statement on the Model Evaluation Workgroup and Salmon Methodology
- F.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.3 Situation Summary: Queets Spring/Summer Chinook Rebuilding Plan – Final
- F.3 Attachment 1: Draft Rebuilding Plan Analysis for Queets River Natural Spring/Summer Chinook October 2024 (Electronic Only)
- F.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.4 Situation Summary: Final 2025 Preseason Management Schedule
- F.4 Attachment 1: PFMC Proposed Schedule and Process for Developing 2025 Ocean Salmon Fishery Management Measures
- F.4.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.5 Situation Summary: Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup Progress Report and Recommendations
- F.5.a KRWG Report 1: Report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council on Klamath River Fall Chinook Interim Management Measures (Electronic Only)
- F.5.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.6 Situation Summary: Sacramento River Fall Chinook Workgroup Progress Report and Recommendations
- F.6 Attachment 1: Methods for assessing and responding to bias and uncertainty in U.S. West Coast salmon abundance forecasts (Electronic Only)
- F.6.a SRWG Report 1: Sacramento Fall Chinook Ad Hoc Workgroup Progress Report
- F.6.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
G. Pacific Halibut Management
- G.1 Situation Summary: 2025 Catch Sharing Plan and Annual Regulations – Final
- G.1 Attachment 1: Area 2A 2024 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan
- G.1. Attachment 2: 2024 2A Fishery Allocation Calculations
- G.1.a ODFW Report 1: ODFW Report on Proposed Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for the 2025 Fishery
- G.1.a WDFW Report 1: WDFW Report on Proposed Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan and 2025 Annual Regulations
- G.1.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- G.2 Situation Summary: Commercial Fishery Regulation Changes: Vessel Monitoring Systems, Seabird Avoidance, and Catch Reporting – Final
- G.2 Attachment 1: Non-Tribal Commercial Halibut Regulatory Changes: Vessel Monitoring Systems, Seabird Avoidance Measures, and Catch Reporting Analysis (Electronic Only)
- G.2.a OLE Report 1: Office of Law Enforcement Report re: Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Update
- G.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
H. Highly Migratory Species Management
- H.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- H.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- H.2 Situation Summary: International Management Activities Including Bluefin Tuna Trip Limits
- H.2.a NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on International Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Management Activites
- H.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- H.3 Situation Summary: Biennial Harvest Specifications and Management Measures – FINAL
- H.3 Attachment 1: Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2023 (Electronic Only)
- H.3.a NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on Biennial Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
- H.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- H.4 Situation Summary: Highly Migratory Species Roadmap Workshop Report and Next Steps
- H.4 Attachment 1: HMS Roadmap Workshop: Expanding Options for HMS Fisheries
- H.4.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
I. Groundfish Management
- I.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- I.1.b NWFSC Report 1: Pacific Halibut Bycatch in U.S. West Coast Groundfish Fisheries, 2002-2023
- I.1.b NWFSC Report 2: Pacific Halibut Bycatch Summary Tables 2002-2023 (Excel File -Electronic Only)
- I.1.b NWFSC Report 3: Observed and Estimated Bycatch of Salmon in U.S. West Coast Fisheries, 2002-2023
- I.1.b NWFSC Report 4: Salmon Bycatch 2002-2023 (Excel File – Electronic Only)
- I.1.d Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- I.2 Situation Summary: Trawl Catch Share Program and Intersector Allocation Reviews: Hearing Officers and Locations
- I.2 Attachment 1: Staff Proposal for Trawl Catch Share Review and Intersector Allocation Hearings
- I.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- I.3 Situation Summary: Methodology Review: Final Fishery Impact Model Review Topics and Stock Assessment Methodologies
- I.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- I.4 Situation Summary: Stock Definitions for Species Assessed in 2005 and 2027 – Final
- I.4 Attachment 1: Analysis for Proposed Amendment to the Pacific Groundfish Fishery Management Plan in Support of the Final Preferred Alternative (Electronic Only)
- I.4 Attachment 2: Draft Language for the Proposed Amendment to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
- I.4.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- I.5 Situation Summary: Cordell Bank Conservation Area Revisions
- I.5 Attachment 1: Cordell Bank Fishery Regulation Changes Preliminary EA/RIR/MSA Analysis
- I.5.a CDFW Report 1: CDFW Report on Cordell Bank Fishery Regulation Changes – Range of Alternatives, Preliminary Preferred Alternative
- I.5.a ONMS Report 1: Cordell Bank Regulation Changes
- I.5.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- I.6 Situation Summary: Inseason Adjustments and Technical Corrections for 2025-2026 – Final Action
- I.6 Attachment 1: Historical Mortality of Pacific Whiting in Research and Pink Shrimp
- I.6.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
J. Coastal Pelagic Species Management
- J.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- J.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- J.2 Situation Summary: Pacific Sardine Rebuilding Plan Fishery Management Plan Amendment – Final
- J.2 Attachment 1: Revised Draft Pacific Sardine Rebuilding Plan (Electronic Only)
- J.2 Supplemental REVISED Attachment 2: Proposed Amendment to the CPS FMP for Sardine Rebuilding Plan
- J.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- J.3 Situation Summary: Stock Assessment Prioritization
- J.3 Attachment 1: Joint Council Staff/National Marine Fisheries Service Report on Stock Assessment Prioritization
- J.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
Advisory body and committee agendas
- Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS) Agenda
- Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (CPSMT) Agenda
- 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
- Salmon Advisory Subpanel (SAS) Agenda
- Salmon Technical Team (STT) Agenda
- Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda
Scientific and Statistical Committee Materials
- SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Report: Groundfish Methodology Review (Oct 1-2, 2024)
- Stock Assessment of Shortfin Mako Shark in the North Pacific Ocean Through 2022
- SSC Salmon Subcommittee Report: Salmon Methodology Review (Oct 4, 2024)
- SSC Draft September 2024 Meeting Minutes
Advisory body and committee memos
- Coastal Pelagic Species Memo
- Enforcement Consultants Memo
- Groundfish Memo
- Highly Migratory Species Memo
- Salmon Memo
- Scientific and Statistical Committee Memo
Informational reports
- Informational Report 1: NOAA Designate 3rd Largest National Marine Sanctuary
- Informational Report 2: CWPA EFP 2025-2026 Bio Sampling Fishing
- Informational Report 3: Krug Obituary
- Informational Report 4: Flexible Status Determination Criteria Examples and their Application White Paper
- Informational Report 5: NMFS West Coast Recreational Fisheries Roundtable
- Informational Report 6: CHNMS Final Rule letter
- Informational Report 7: Gonzalez in Memoriam
- Informational Report 8: NPFC Update
General Information and Membership Roster
- Reception Flyer
- Council Meeting Schedule
- Hotel Map
- Council Seating Diagram
- Illness Protocols
- Roster (as of October 18, 2024)
Recent reports
- J.2 Supplemental REVISED Attachment 2: Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan
- Legislative Agenda – November 2024
- D.2 Attachment 1: Inslee Letter to WCMAC
- Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda – November 2024
- Salmon Technical Team (STT) Agenda – November 2024
- Salmon Advisory Subpanel (SAS) Agenda – November 2024
- Legislative Committee (LC) Agenda – November 2024
- Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) Agenda – November 2024
- Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel (HMSAS) Agenda – November 2024
- Groundfish Management Team (GMT) Agenda – November 2024
- Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda – November 2024
- Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (CPSMT) Agenda – November 2024
- Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS) Agenda – November 2024
- Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda – November 2024
- SSC Draft September 2024 Meeting Minutes
- Coastal Pelagic Species Memo – November 2024
- Scientific and Statistical Committee Memo – November 2024
- Salmon Memo – November 2024
- Highly Migratory Species Memo – November 2024
- Groundfish Memo – November 2024
- Enforcement Consultants Memo – November 2024
- SSC Salmon Subcommittee Report: Salmon Methodology Review (Oct 4, 2024)
- Stock Assessment of Shortfin Mako Shark in the North Pacific Ocean Through 2022
- SSC Groundfish Subcommittee Report: Groundfish Methodology Review (Oct 1-2, 2024)
- J.3 Attachment 1: Joint Council Staff/National Marine Fisheries Service Report on Stock Assessment Prioritization