September 2020 Briefing Book

September 2020 Council Meeting

A. Call to Order

• A.4 Situation Summary: Executive Director’s Report
  • A.4, Supplemental Attachment 1: CCC Draft Agenda (interim fall meeting)
  • A.4. Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• A.5 Supplemental REVISED Situation Summary: Detailed September 8-11, and 14-18, 2020 Agenda via Online Meetings

B. Open Comment Period

• B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non-Agenda Items
  • B.1.b, Supplemental Public PPT 1: Trawl Groundfish Bycatch Year to Date (Mann)
  • B.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

C. Administrative Matters

• C.1 Situation Summary: NMFS Report
  • C.1, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • C.1, Supplemental NMFS Report 2: NMFS Report on GAP Report Questions
  • C.1, Supplemental NMFS PPT 1: EO 13921 and Aquaculture Opportunity Area (Wulff)
  • C.1.a, NWFSC Report 1: Pacific Halibut Bycatch 2002-2019
  • C.1.a, NWFSC Report 2: Pacific Halibut Mortality Estimates – Workbook (Electronic Only)
  • C.1.a, NWFSC Report 3: Estimated Discard and Catch of Groundfish Species in the 2019 U.S. West Coast Fisheries
  • C.1.a, NWFSC Report 4: Estimated Discard and Catch of Groundfish Species in the 2019 U.S. West Coast Fisheries – Workbook (Electronic Only)
  • C.1.a, Supplemental NWFSC PPT 1: Estimated Discard and Catch of Groundfish Species in the 2019 U.S. West Coast Fisheries (McVeigh)
  • C.1.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.1.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.2 Situation Summary: Executive Order 13921: Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth — Final Recommendations
  • C.2, Attachment 1: E.O. Federal Register Notice; Executive Order 13921 of May 7, 2020: Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth
  • C.2, Attachment 2: Summary of E.O. 13921
  • C.2, Attachment 3: Letter from Chris Oliver to the Regional Fishery Management Councils requesting that each Council respond to Section 4 of EO 13921
  • C.2, Attachment 4: Guidance for Councils Response to E.O. 13921 Section 4
  • C.2, Attachment 5: NMFS EO 13921 Recommended Action Template
  • C.2, Supplemental Attachment 6: Summary of Recommendations Related to the Council Report Required Under Section 4 of E.O. 13291
  • C.2.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 2
  • C.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • C.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.3 Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
  • C.3, Attachment 1: Staff Summary of Federal Legislation
  • C.3.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
  • C.3.c. Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.4 Situation Summary: Fiscal Matters
  • C.4, Supplemental Attachment 1: Budget Committee Agenda
  • C.4, Supplemental Attachment 2: Executive Director’s Report to the Budget Committee, September 2020
  • C.4.a, Supplemental Budget Committee 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: 255th Session of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (June 10-12 & 15-19, 2020)
  • C.5. Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• C.6 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
  • C.6, Attachment 1: Proposed Changes to COP 9, Schedule 6, Annual Administrative Management Cycle and Activities
  • C.6.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • 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, November 20 Via Webinar
  • C.7, Supplemental Attachment 3: Pacific Council Workload Planning: Preliminary Year-at-a-Glance Summary (v. 9/17; 16:10)
  • C.7, Supplemental Attachment 4: Draft Proposed Council Meeting Agenda, November 20 Via Webinar (v. 09/17/2020; 4:18 PM)
  • C.7.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • C.7.a, Supplemental GAP Report
  • C.7.b. Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

D. Groundfish Management

• D.1 Situation Summary: Gear Switching and Sablefish Area Management Scoping
  • Agenda Item D.1, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1: Gear Switching & Sablefish Area Management Scoping–Staff Presentation (Doerpinghaus & Seger) September 2020
  • D.1, Attachment 1: Preliminary Assessment of Trawl Under-Attainment Issues and SaMTAAC Alternative Qualification Criteria (UPDATED), August 2020
  • D.1.a, SaMTAAC Report 1 Final Report To The Council
  • D.1.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • D.1.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • D.1.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • D.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.2 Situation Summary: Workload and New Management Measure Priorities–Including the Scoping of Mothership Utilization Issues
  • D.2, Supplemental Staff PPT1 Agenda Overview (Phillips)
  • D.2, Attachment 1: Conceptual Design of Groundfish New Management Measure Prioritization Process
  • D.2, Attachment 2: Program Review Planning: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Permit Stacking
  • D.2, Attachment 3: Joint Council/NMFS Staff Mothership Utilization Scoping Paper – Things to Consider
  • D.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • D.2.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 1
  • D.2.a, GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Workload and New Management Measures Update
  • D.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 2
  • D.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 3
  • D.2.a, Supplemental REVISED GMT Report 4
  • D.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • D.2.b, Supplemental Public PPT 1: MTC (Mann)
  • D.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.3 Situation Summary: Impact Analyses Methodology Review
  • D.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.4 Situation Summary: Assessment Methodology Review–Final Action
  • D.4, Attachment 1: 2020 Methodology Review of ROV Survey Designs and Methodologies
  • D.4, Attachment 2: Assessment Methodology Review of Length-Based Assessment Methods
  • D.4.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • D.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.5 Situation Summary: Inseason Adjustments–Final Action
  • D.5, REVISED Attachment 1: Corrected Sablefish Annual Catch Limits For 2021 And 2022 Harvest Specifications And Management Measures
  • D.5.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • D.5.a, Supplemental ODFW Report 1
  • D.5.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • D.5.a, Supplemental REVISED GAP Report 1
  • D.5.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.6 Situation Summary: Update on Humpback Whale ESA Consultation
  • D.6, Attachment 1: Groundfish ESA Workgroup Report: Excerpted Humpback Whale Section
  • D.6.a, NMFS Report 1: Update on Humpback Whale Endangered Species Act Consultation
  • D.6.a, Supplemental NMFS PPT 1: Update on Humpback Whale ESA Consultation (Lawson, Hooper et al)
  • D.6.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • D.6.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • D.6.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• D.7 Supplemental Situation Summary: Emergency Action to Consider a Season Extension for the 2020 Limited Entry Fixed Gear Primary Sablefish Fishery – Final Action
  • D.7 Supplemental Attachment 1: FR 97-22094: Policy Guidelines for the Use of Emergency Rules
  • D.7.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • D.7.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • D.7.a, Supplemental EC Report 1

E. Highly Migratory Species Management

• E.1 Situation Summary: Recommend International Management Activities
  • E.1, Attachment 1: ISC20 Plenary Report
  • E.1, Attachment 2: Letter from Ms. Dorothy Lowman and Mr. Masa Miyahara, Co-Chairs of the Joint Working Group on the Management of Pacific Bluefin Tuna
  • E.1, Supplemental Attachment 3: Virtual 5th Meeting of the IATTC-WCPFC Northern Committee Join Working Group
  • E.1.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • E.1.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • E.1.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • E.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.2 Situation Summary: Exempted Fishing Permits
  • E.2, Attachment 1: Summary of DSBG EFP applications received for the September 2020 Council meeting
  • E.2, Attachment 2: EFP Application From Tim Athens
  • E.2, Attachment 3: EFP Application From Kevin Dell
  • E.2, Attachment 4: EFP Application From Todd Dillman
  • E.2, Attachment 5: EFP Application From James Eberhardt
  • E.2, Attachment 6: EFP Application From Paul Fischer
  • E.2, Attachment 7: EFP Application From Romolo Ghio
  • E.2, Attachment 8: EFP Application From Nick Haworth and David Haworth
  • E.2, Attachment 9: EFP Application From Marc Herman
  • E.2, Attachment 10: EFP Application From Mark Lebeck
  • E.2, Attachment 11: EFP Application From Arthur Lorton and J. Anthony Lorton
  • E.2, Attachment 12: EFP Application From Robert Medland and James Castenada
  • E.2, Attachment 13: EFP Application From Troy Pack
  • E.2, Attachment 14: EFP Application From Nathan Perez and Thomas Carson
  • E.2. Attachment 15: EFP Application From Nathan Perez and Thomas Carson
  • E.2, Attachment 16: EFP Application From Andres Saraspe
  • E.2, Attachment 17: EFP Application From Andrii Sidielnikov
  • E.2, Attachment 18: EFP Application From Nicolas Tharp
  • E.2, Attachment 19: EFP Application From Andrew Volaski
  • E.2, Attachment 20: EFP Application From Miles Wallace
  • E.2, Attachment 21: EFP Application From Steve Weiser
  • E.2.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • E.2.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • E.2.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • E.2.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • E.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.3 Situation Summary: Biennial harvest Specifications and Management Measures — Preliminary
  • E.3, Attachment 1: Draft HMS Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) Document, Status of Stocks
  • E.3.a, Supplemental Joint NMFS-SWFSC Report 1
  • E.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 1
  • E.3.a, Supplemental HMSMT PPT 1: HMSAS Albacore Vessel Length Data Request
  • E.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• E.4 Situation Summary: EFH Review
  • E.4.a, HMSMT Report 1
  • E.4.a, Supplemental HMSMT Report 2
  • E.4.a, Supplemental HMSMT PPT 1: SWFSC Literature Review to Suggest Potential Changes to the Highly Migratory Species Essential Fish Habitat Descriptions
  • E.4.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • E.4.a, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • E.4.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

F. Ecosystem Management

• F.1 Situation Summary: Climate and Communities Initiative Update
  • F.1, Supplemental Scenarios Update Presentation 1: Developing Future Scenarios for Climate Change in the California Current Ecosystem (Star)
  • F.1, Attachment 1: Scenarios for West Coast Fisheries in 2040
  • F.1, Attachment 2: Climate Change Scenarios for West Coast Fishing: Proposal for Implications Workshops
  • F.1.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • F.1.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • F.1.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • F.1.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • F.1.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • F.1.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • F.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• F.2 Situation Summary: Fishery Ecosystem Plan Five-Year Review
  • F.2, Supplemental Pre-Recorded Video: Briefing Update on Fishery Ecosystem Plan (deReynier) – from Council’s YouTube channel
  • F.2, Attachment 1: Proposed Outline of Fishery Ecosystem Plan Chapters 4 and 5 (Excerpted from Agenda Item G.2.a, Supplemental EWG Report 1, March 2020)
  • F.2.a, EWG Report 1: Draft Revised Fishery Ecosystem Plan Chapter 3
  • F.2.a, Supplemental EWG Report 2
  • F.2.a, Supplemental EWG PPT 1: Fishery Ecosystem Plan Update (deReynier)
  • F.2.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental GMT Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • F.2.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • F.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

G. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

• G.1 Situation Summary: Pacific Sardine Rebuilding Plan–Final Action
  • G.1, Attachment 1: Pacific Sardine Rebuilding Plan Preliminary Environmental Analysis
  • G.1.a, NMFS Report 1: Pacific Sardine Rebuilding Analysis Based on the 2020 Stock Assessment
  • G.1.a, CPSMT Report 1
  • G.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 2
  • G.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 3
  • G.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT Report 4
  • G.1.a, Supplemental CPSMT PPT 1: CPSMT Presentation on the Pacific Sardine Rebuilding Plan
  • G.1.a, Supplemental SSC Report 1
  • G.1.a, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • G.1.a, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • G.1.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • G.1.b, Supplemental Public PPT 1 (Pleschner-Steele)
  • G.1.b, Supplemental Public PPT 2 (Shester)
  • G.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

H. Salmon Management

• H.1 Situation Summary: Salmon Reintroduction Above Grand Coulee Dam
  • H.1, Attachment 1: Fish Passage and Reintroduction into the U.S. and Canadian Upper Columbia Basin (Electronic Only)
  • H.1, Attachment 2: Fish Passage and Reintroduction Phase 1 Report: Investigations Upstream of Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams (Electronic Only)
  • H.1.a, CTCR Report 1: Letter to Pacific Fishery Management Council Chair Marc Gorelnik from Randy Cawston, Chair of the Business Council for The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  • H.1.a, Supplemental CTCR PPT 1: Reintroduction of Salmon Upstream of Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams (Cawston & Baldwin)
  • H.1.b, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • H.1.b, Supplemental HC Report 1
  • H.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• H.2 Situation Summary: Amendment 20: Management Schedule and KMZ Boundary Change–Final Action
  • H.2, Supplemental Staff Presentation 1 (Ehlke)
  • H.2, Attachment 1: Analytical Document Organized as a Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment with Updated Range of Alternatives for Amendment 20 of the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan: Proposed Change to the Preseason Schedule and to the Klamath Management Zone Boundary, August 2020
  • H.2, Supplemental REVISED Attachment 2: Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan: Amendment 20: Proposed housekeeping changes
  • H.2, Supplemental Attachment 3: Amendment 20 — Potential Changes for Review
  • H.2.a, Supplemental STT Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • H.2.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • H.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• H.3 Situation Summary: Southern Resident Killer Whale ESA Consultation
  • H.3.a, SRKW Workgroup Report 1: Pacific Fishery Management Council Salmon Fishery Management Plan Impacts to Southern Resident Killer Whales: Draft Range of Alternatives and Recommendations
  • H.3.a, Supplemental SRKW Workgroup Presentation 1 (Jording)
  • H.3.a, Supplemental NMFS Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental CRITFC Tribal Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental Joint Tribal Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • H.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • H.3.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 1 (Oceana)
  • H.3.b, Supplemental Public Presentation 2 (Ryan Johnson)
  • H.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

I. Pacific Halibut Management

• I.1 Situation Summary: 2021 Catch Sharing Plan and Annual Regulations
  • I.1, Attachment 1: 2020 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for Area 2A
  • I.1, Attachment 2: Visual Representation of the 2020 Area 2A Catch Sharing Plan for Pacific Halibut
  • I.1, Attachment 3: Draft template of the updated Area 2A Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan
  • I.1.a, NMFS Report 1: Report on the 2020 Pacific Halibut Fisheries in Area 2A
  • I.1.a, CDFW Report 1: Report on the 2020 Recreational Pacific Halibut Fishery
  • I.1.a, Supplemental CDFW Report 2: Proposed Changes to the 2021 Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan
  • I.1.a, ODFW Report 1: Report on the Proposed Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for the 2021 Fishery
  • I.1.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1
  • I.1.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 2
  • I.1.a Supplemental SAS Report 1
  • I.1.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • I.1.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • I.1.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• I.2 Situation Summary: Transition of Area 2A Fishery Management
  • I.2, Supplemental PPT 1: Updated Range of Alternatives for the Proposed Transfer of Management Responsibilities for Area 2A Pacific Halibut Fisheries with Focus on the Non-Indian Directed Commercial Fishery (Ehlke)
  • I.2, Attachment 1: Updated Range of Alternatives for the Proposed Transfer of Management Responsibilities for Area 2A Pacific Halibut Fisheries with Focus on the Non-Indian Directed Commercial Fishery
  • I.2.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • I.2.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • I.2.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

• I.3 Situation Summary: Commercial Directed Fishery Regulations for 2021
  • I.3.a, ODFW Report 1: ODFW Report on 2021 the Directed Commercial Halibut Fishery Recommendations
  • I.3.a, ODFW Report 2: ODFW Report on 2021 the Directed Commercial Halibut Fishery Recommendations
  • I.3.a, Supplemental WDFW Report 1
  • I.3.a, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • I.3.a, Supplemental EC Report 1
  • I.3.b, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

J. Habitat Issues

• J.1 Situation Summary: Current Habitat Issues
  • J.1, Attachment 1: Draft letter to the California Energy Commission
  • J.1.a, Supplemental HC Report
  • J.1.b, Supplemental CPSAS Report 1
  • J.1.b, Supplemental HMSAS Report 1
  • J.1.b, Supplemental GAP Report 1
  • J.1.b, Supplemental EWG Report 1
  • J.1.b, Supplemental EAS Report 1
  • J.1.c, Public Comments (If received, Electronic Only)

Advisory Body and Committee Agendas AND Committee Memos

Advisory Body and Committee Agendas

• All Committee agendas for the September 2020 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)

Advisory Body and Committee Memos

• All Committee memos for the September 2020 briefing book (bookmarked in alphabetical order for easy navigation)

Informational Reports, General Information, and Membership Roster

Informational Reports

• Informational Report 1: National Standard 1 Technical Guidance for Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Carry-over and Phase-in Provisions (NMFS Technical Memo)
• Informational Report 2: NOAA News release; Update to West Coast Groundfish and Highly Migratory Species Fleets on Observer and Catch Monitor Coverage during COVID-19
• Informational Report 3: NOAA News release; Pacific Coast Groundfish Buyback
• Informational Report 4: Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee Letter to Wilbur Ross, Secretary DOC regarding offshore wind development
• Informational Report 5: California Offshore Renewable Energy project
• Informational Report 6: Wind energy workshop flyer, Save the Date: October 15, 16, & 30, 2020
• Supplemental Informational Report 7: Letter from Quinault Indian Nation
• Supplemental Informational Report 8: Informational Outreach Meeting Invitation: Central Coast Offshore Wind Energy
• Supplemental Informational Report 9: News release; USDA Supports U.S. Seafood Industry Impacted by Retaliatory Tariffs
• Supplemental Informational Report 10: Final rule to amend regulations that address disclosure of financial interests by, and voting recusal of, Council Members appointed by the Secretary of Commerce
• Supplemental Informational Report 11: Proposed rule – Regulations for Listing Endangered and Threatened Species and Designating Critical Habitat
• Supplemental Informational Report 12: Status Report of the 2020 Ocean Salmon Fisheries off Washington, Oregon, and California; Preliminary data through August 31, 2020

General Information and Membership Roster

• General Information for September 2020: Future Meeting Schedule, Seating Diagram, and Membership Roster