Overview

• Agenda

Agenda and Briefing Materials

Wednesday - February 20, 2013

• 9:00 - 9:20 Welcome and Opening Remarks

• 9:20 - 9:30 Report on Kona meeting actions and issues

  • Summary of CCC May 2012 Outcome Statements and Recommendations

• 9:30 - 11:15 Council Reports on Status of Implementing MSA Provisions and Other Current Activities of Interest

  • Caribbean FMC Report

  • Gulf of Mexico FMC Report

  • Mid-Atlantic FMC Report

  • New England FMC Report

  • South Atlantic FMC Report

  • Western Pacific FMC Report

• 11:15 - 12:15 Budget

  • Management and Budget Presentation to the Council Chairs Committee

• 1:45 - 2:30 Councils/Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee Endangered Species Act Working Group Update

  • Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee Endangered Species Act Working Group Terms of Reference

  • Case Study i

  • Case Study ii

  • Case Study iii

• 2:30 - 3:30 National Standard 1 Update

  • National Standard 1 Guidelines Update

• 3:45 - 4:30 NOAA/NOAA Fisheries Policy on National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)

  • MEMO: NEPA Compliance for Council-initiated Fishery Management Actions under the MSA

  • Introduction to NMFS Policy Directive: NEPA Compliance for Fishery Mgmt Actions under the MSA

  • CCC Letter to NMFS on NEPA Policy Directive

• 4:30 - 5:30 Fisheries Allocation

  • Marine Fishery Allocation Issues Presentation

  • Marine Fishery Allocation Issues Report

Thursday - February 21, 2013

• 9:00 - 9:45 Update on Inspector General Report on MSA Rulemaking

  • OIG Action Plan

    • NOAA Needs to Continue Streamlining the Rulemaking Process & Improve Transparency & Consistency in Fisheries Management (FINAL REPORT NO. OIG-13-011-A)

• 9:45 - 10:15 National Science Programs Review

  • NOAA Fisheries Science Program Reviews

• 10:30 - 11:30 Electronic Monitoring of Fisheries

  • Electronic Monitoring: Toward a Cost-Effective and Regionally-Appropriate Strategy for Fishery-Dependent Monitoring

  • Electronic Monitoring White Papers

  • Electronic Monitoring Annotated Agenda

  • Fisheries Monitoring Roadmap

• 11:30 - 12:00 Fisheries Litigation Update

  • Guidance to Council Coordination Committee (CCC) Regarding Meetings

    • Letter to CCC Chairman Dan Wolford from Sam Rauch

      • Terms of Reference for the CCC

        • CCC Litigation Update

• 1:30 - 2:30 Council records retention, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and meeting guidance

• 2:30 - 3:15 MSA Reauthorization

  • Positions of RFMC Chairs on Reauthorization of the MSA

    • Sumary Table of Councils' 2005 and 2006 positions

• 3:30 - 4:15 Managing Our Nation's Fisheries (MONF) 3 Conference

  • MONF3 Schedule

  • CCC and MONF3 Schedule

  • MONF3 Conference Purpose Statement, Session Themes, and Focus Topics

  • MONF3 Session 1: Improving Fishery Management Essentials

  • MONF3 Session 2: Advancing Ecosystem-Based Decision Making

  • MONF3 Session 3: Providing for Fishing Community Stability

• 4:15 - 4:30 Recognition of service to fisheries     

• 4:30 - 5:00 Other business, updates and next annual CCC meeting

  • May 2013 CCC Agenda-DRAFT-