Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission

ASMFC Winter Meeting - February 4-6, 2020

The Westin Crystal City 1800 S. Eads Street Arlington, VA 22202 703.486.1111 Final Agenda The agenda is subject to change. The agenda reflects the current estimate of time required for scheduled Board meetings. The Commission may adjust this agenda in accordance with the actual duration of Board meetings. Interested parties should anticipate Boards starting earlier or later than indicated herein. For ease of access, all Board meeting documents have been combined into two documents: Main Meeting Materials and Supplemental Materials. Not included in the Main Meeting Materials are the two Atlantic menhaden benchmark stock assessments, which can be found below (under Atlantic Menhaden Board) in two separate links. Links to individual board/committee materials can be found below.
Live-Streaming Board meeting proceedings will be broadcast daily via webinar beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 4^th and continuing daily until the conclusion of the meeting (expected to be 12:30 p.m.) on Thursday, February 6^th. The webinar will allow registrants to listen to board deliberations and view presentations and motions as they occur. No comments or questions will be accepted via the webinar. Should technical difficulties arise while streaming the broadcast the boards/sections will continue their deliberations without interruption. We will attempt to resume the broadcast as soon as possible. To register, please go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3853611638258510347.
Public Comment Guidelines With the intent of developing policies in the Commission’s procedures for public participation that result in a fair opportunity for public input, the ISFMP Policy Board has approved the following guidelines for use at management board meetings: For issues that are not on the agenda, management boards will continue to provide opportunity to the public to bring matters of concern to the board’s attention at the start of each board meeting. Board chairs will use a speaker sign-up list in deciding how to allocate the available time on the agenda (typically 10 minutes) to the number of people who want to speak. For topics that are on the agenda, but have not gone out for public comment, board chairs will provide limited opportunity for comment, taking into account the time allotted on the agenda for the topic. Chairs will have flexibility in deciding how to allocate comment opportunities; this could include hearing one comment in favor and one in opposition until the chair is satisfied further comment will not provide additional insight to the board. For agenda action items that have already gone out for public comment, it is the Policy Board’s intent to end the occasional practice of allowing extensive and lengthy public comments. Currently, board chairs have the discretion to decide what public comment to allow in these circumstances. In addition, the following timeline has been established for the *submission of written comment for issues for which the Commission has NOT* established a specific public comment period** (i.e., in response to proposed management action). Comments received 3 weeks prior to the start of a meeting week will be included in the briefing materials. Comments received by 5:00 PM on the Tuesday immediately preceding the scheduled ASMFC Meeting (in this case, the Tuesday deadline will be January 28, 2020) will be distributed electronically to Commissioners/Board members prior to the meeting and a limited number of copies will be provided at the meeting. Following the Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:00 PM deadline, the commenter will be responsible for distributing the information to the management board prior to the board meeting or providing enough copies for the management board consideration at the meeting (a minimum of 50 copies). The submitted comments must clearly indicate the commenter’s expectation from the ASMFC staff regarding distribution. As with other public comment, it will be accepted via mail, fax, and email.
General Background Materials
Travel Reimbursement Guidelines Travel Authorization Travel Voucher Official Roster Proxy Form AP Nomination Form Financial Disclosures and Conflict of Interest Policy & Form Compact, Rules and Regulations ISFMP Charter 2019-2023 Strategic Plan 2020 Action Plan Appeals Process Conservation Equivalency Guidance Document Stock Status Overview Assessment Schedule 78th Annual Meeting Summary
Final Agenda
Tuesday, February 4
9:30 - 11 AM	Atlantic Herring Management Board Supplemental Presentations Audio Welcome/Call to Order (C. O’Keefe) Board Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from October 2019 Public Comment Consider Draft Addendum III for Public Comment (K. Rootes-Murdy) Action Set Sub-Annual Atlantic Herring Fishery Catch Limit Specifications for the 2020 Fishing Year (K. Rootes-Murdy) Final Action Elect Vice-Chair Action Other Business/Adjourn
11:15 AM - 3 PM Lunch break will be 12:30 - 1 PM	Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board Supplemental Presentations Audio1 Audio2 (Please note there are couple of issues with the two audio files. The Audio1 volume may be low and on Audio2 the presentations and motions are only partially displayed. Presentations can be obtained via the prior link and motions can be obtained at http://www.asmfc.org/files/Meetings/2020WinterMeeting/2020WinterMeetingSummary.pdf.) Welcome/Call to Order (D. Borden) Board Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from October 2019 Public Comment Consider Addendum VI State Implementation Plans and Conservation Equivalency Proposals Final Action Review Implementation Plans and Conservation Equivalency Proposals (M. Appelman) Technical Committee Report (N. Lengyel Costa) Law Enforcement Committee Report (M. Appelman) Consider Approval of State Implementation and Conservation Equivalency Propopsals Review and Populate Advisory Panel Membership (T. Berger) Action Other Business/Adjourn
3:15 - 4 PM	Coastal Sharks Management Board Presentations Audio Welcome/Call to Order (C. Batsavage) Board Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from October 2019 Public Comment Update on Implementation of CITES Appendix II Provisions for Atlantic Shortfin Mako (USFWS Staff) Update from November 2019 Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas on Atlantic Shortfin Mako (K. Rootes-Murdy) Other Business/Adjourn
4:15 - 5 PM	Bluefish Management Board Supplemental Presentations Audio Welcome/Call to Order (C. Batsavage) Board Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from April 2018 Public Comment Consider Approval of Conservation Equivalency Proposals (D. Colson Leaning) Final Action Review Conservation Equivalency Proposals Technical Committee Report Law Enforcement Committee Report Elect Vice-Chair Other Business/Adjourn
Wednesday, February 5
8:30 AM - Noon	Atlantic Menhaden Management Board Single Species Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report ERP Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report Supplemental Presentations Audio Welcome/Call to Order (N. Meserve) Board Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from October 2019 Public Comment Atlantic Menhaden 2019 Single-Species and Ecological Reference Point Benchmark Stock Assessments and Peer Review Reports Action Overview of Single-Species Assessment (A. Schueller) Overview of Ecological Reference Point Assessment (M. Cieri) Presentation of Peer Review Reports (M. Jones) Consider Acceptance of 2019 Benchmark Stock Assessments and Peer Review Reports for Management Use (N. Meserve) Consider Management Response to 2019 Benchmark Stock Assessments (N. Meserve) Action Other Business/Adjourn
1 - 5 PM	South Atlantic State/Federal Fisheries Management Board Supplemental Presentations Welcome/Call to Order (P. Geer) Board Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from October 2019 Public Comment SEDAR 58 Cobia Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report Action Presentation of Stock Assessment Report (K. Siegfried) Presentation of Peer Review Report (J. Buckel) Consider Acceptance of Benchmark Stock Assessment, Reference Points, and Peer Review Report for Management Use (P. Geer) Consider Management Response to SEDAR 58 Cobia Assessment Action Presentation of Recommended Harvest Quota Options from the Cobia Technical Committee (A. Giuliano) Set Harvest Specifications (P. Geer) Consider Atlantic Croaker Addendum lll and Spot Addendum lll for Final Approval (M. Schmidtke) Final Action Review Options and Public Comment Summary Review Committee Reports Consider Final Approval of Atlantic Croaker Addendum lll and Spot Addendum lll Consider Management Action to Align State and Federal Management of Spanish Mackerel (P. Geer) Action Review Red Drum Stock Assessment Road Map and Consider Recommendations for Changes to the Assessment Timeline (J. Kipp) Possible Action Elect Vice-Chair Other Business/Adjourn
Thursday, February 6
8 - 10 AM	Executive Committee Supplemental Welcome/Call to Order (P. Keliher) Committee Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Meeting Summary from October 2019 Public Comment Discuss Potential Allocation of Remaining Plus-up Funds (R. Beal) Update on Advisory Panel and Public Input Process Review (R. Beal) Discuss Management Board Changes to Accommodate Shifts in Species Distributions (R. Beal) Discuss Use of Mode Splits in Recreational Fisheries Management (R. Beal) Future Annual Meetings Update (R. Beal) Other Business/Adjourn
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Interstate Fisheries Management Program Policy Board Presentations Audio Welcome/Call to Order (P. Keliher) Board Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from October 2019 Public Comment Update from Executive Committee (P. Keliher) Review and Discuss 2019 Commissioner Survey Results (D. Tompkins) Discuss Strategy to Incorporate Ecosystem Management into the Interstate Fisheries Management Process (T. Kerns, K. Drew) Progress Update on Benchmark Stock Assessments (J. Kipp) American Shad American Lobster Review and Consider Revisions to Stock Status Definitions (T. Kerns) Review Noncompliance Findings (If Necessary) Action Other Business/Adjourn
12:15 - 12:30 PM	Business Session Supplemental Audio Welcome/Call to Order (P. Keliher) Committee Consent Approval of Agenda Approval of Proceedings from October 2019 Public Comment Consider Noncompliance Findings (If Necessary) Final Action Update on Commonwealth of Virginia’s Compliance with Atlantic Menhaden FMP Other Business/Adjourn