Updates

As with our in-person meetings, we will be accepting oral public comment for each agenda Item. You will still need to fill out a public comment card to sign up for an opportunity to speak, and oral comments will only be accepted before Council action on each agenda item.

The links below will take you to the public comment card sign up forms for each agenda item. We will use these sign up forms to create lists to call from during the public comment period of each agenda item. When your name is called, we will unmute you from the attendee list at which point you will have the opportunity to give your comment. If there are technical issues, we will move to the next person, and circle back at the end for a second chance.

Public comment sign up is now live. Each comment period will close at Council action for each agenda item.

B. Open Comment Period

• B.1 – Comments on Non-Agenda Items

C. Administrative Matters

• C.1 – NMFS Report
• C.2 – Fiscal Matters
• C.3 – Approval of the Council Meeting Record
• C.4 – Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
• C.5 – Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning

D. Highly Migratory Species

• D.1 – International Management Activities

E. Salmon Management

• E.1 – Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast Coho Endangered Species Act (ESA) Consultation Update
• E.2 – Southern Resident Killer Whale (SKRW) ESA Consultation Update
• E.3 – Amendment 20: Annual Management Schedule and Boundary Change

F. Groundfish Management

• F.1 – Final Action to Adopt Management Measures and Exempted Fishing Permits for 2021-2022 Fisheries
• F.2 – Stock Assessment Plan and Terms of Reference (TOR) – Final Action
• F.3 – Electronic Monitoring Program – Final Action
• F.4 – Inseason Adjustments – Final Action

G. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

• G.1 – Sardine Rebuilding Plan

(Summarized from a Congressional staff report)

NOAA Fisheries aims to distribute the Sec. 12005 funds as quickly as possible while accounting for regional variability in the size of commercial, charter, seafood processors and dealers, and aquaculture industries. NOAA Fisheries used multi-year averages of annual revenue information from the commercial fishing, charter fishing, marine shellfish and finfish aquaculture, and seafood-related businesses of coastal states, tribes, and territories to proportionately allocate the funding, taking into consideration negative impacts to subsistence, cultural, and ceremonial fisheries during the allocation process.

For commercial fishing, NOAA Fisheries generally used a five-year average of annual commercial fishing revenues as a baseline. Available multi-year averages of aquaculture revenues were also captured in the estimates of average commercial fisheries revenues.

For the west coast, average annual value-added estimates from the seafood sector (i.e., processors, dealers, and wholesalers/distributors) were calculated using regional models. Multipliers were applied to commercial fishing and aquaculture operations revenues to account for the value-add generated by these components of the seafood supply chain (e.g., processing crabs into crab meat). A multiplier was also applied to available multi-year averages of tribal and territorial commercial fishing operations to account for commercial, subsistence, cultural, and ceremonial fisheries. A five-year average of for-hire angler trip expenditures was used to calculate average annual for-hire fishing revenues.

In addition to allocating the funds proportionately based on readily available total average annual revenue data, NOAA Fisheries established a minimum and maximum funding level that each state and territory will receive ($1M and $50M, respectively).