November 2021 Briefing Book

November 2021 Council Meeting

A. Call to Order

B. Open Comment Period

C. Administrative Matters

  • 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.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)

D. Habitat Issues

E. Groundfish Management

  • 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.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)

F. Salmon Management

G. Pacific Halibut Management

H. Highly Migratory Species Management

I. Coastal Pelagic Species Management

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