Overview

• Agenda

Agenda and Meeting Materials

Wednesday - January 25, 2012

• 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Manuel Duenas/Sam Rauch

• 9:30 - 12:00 Council Reports on Status of Implementing MSA Provisions and Other Current Activities of Interest, Chairmen/EDs

  • Mid-Atlantic FMC Report

  • New England FMC Report

  • South Atlantic FMC Report

  • Western Pacific FMC Report

  • Western Pacific FMC Presentation

• 1:30 - 3:00 Budget, Lindsay Fullenkamp

  • Budget Issues

• 3:15 - 3:45 Update on National Ocean Council, Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning, Michael Weiss/Jeff Luster

  • National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes

• 3:45 - 4:30 Marine Recreational Information Program Update, Gordon Colvin

  • MRIP Improved Recreational Catch Estimation

• 4:30 - 5:30 Allocation of Fishery Resources Report, George Lapointe

  • Fishery Resources Project Allocation Update

Thursday - January 26, 2012

• 9:00 - 9:30 Statement of Operational Practices & Procedures (SOPPs), William Chappell

  • Approval of Council SOPPs

  • Handout: Model SOPP

• 9:30 - 10:00 Report: 2011 National SSC Workshop, MAFMC/NMFS

• 10:15 - 11:00 Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) Q&A, Lee Beneka

  • BREP Questions & Answers

• 11:00 - 12:15 Habitat Blueprint, Brian Pawlak

  • Habitat  Blueprint Presentation

  • Habitat Blueprint Fact Sheet

  • Blueprint Regional Initiatives

• 1:45 - 2:45 Managing Our Nation's Fisheries (MONF) III Conference, Don McIsaac / NMFS

• 3:00 - 4:00 Outreach/Communications, Laurel Bryant/Connie Barclay/Don McIsaac/Kitty Simonds

  • Fisheries National Communications

  • South Atlantic FMC Outreach

• 4:00 - 4:45 Other Business, Manuel Duenas