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2019 October Meeting SOUTH ATLANTIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL HABITAT PROTECTION AND ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT ADVISORY PANEL Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute St. Petersburg, Florida October 22-23, 2019 SUMMARY MINUTES Habitat Protection & Eco AP Members Anne Deaton, Chair Cynthia Cooksey, Vice Chair Dr. Renee Baumstark David Webb Thomas Jones John Ellis David Glenn Rita Merritt Jeff Soss Dr. Lisa Havel Brian Hooker Dr. Wilson Laney Dr. Steve Ross Dr. Laurent Cherubin Council Members Steve Poland Council Staff Roger Pugliese Cierra Graham Other Observers and Participants Luke McEachron Tina Udoj Lauren Gentry David Dale Heather Coleman Shane Staples Kasey Cantwell Beth Dieveney Steve Werndli Kathleen O’Keife Other observers and participants attached Habitat Protection and Ecosystem-Based Management AP October 22-23, 2019 St. Petersburg, FL The Habitat Protection and Ecosystem-Based Management Advisory Panel of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council convened at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 22, 2019, and was called to order by Chairman Anne Deaton. MS. DEATON: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to our meeting in St. Petersburg. We’re glad to have everybody here. We have an interesting agenda for the next three days, and so I will just get right into it. First, are there any changes needed to the agenda? Is everybody good with the agenda? MR. PUGLIESE: Just a note that Wally Bubley will actually be doing the presentation on the SERFS fishery-independent surveys, combined surveys. Marcel wasn’t able to join us, but he will be giving it via webinar. MS. DEATON: All right, and so I hear consensus on the agenda. Next, we have Approval of the May 2019 Minutes. Does anybody have any changes they would like to see, after they reviewed them? If you find anything later, you can send it to Roger, and we’ll take care of that, and so the agenda and minutes are approved. Now we will go to introductions, and so why don’t we just go around the table and start with Steve Poland, and if you could just say your name, who you’re with, any special interests you might have related to the council work, and, also, I wanted to mention that the webinar is on, and so there is also folks listening. MR. POLAND: Thanks, Anne. Good morning. I am Steve Poland, and I’m with the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, and I’m a South Atlantic Council member and chair of the Habitat and Ecosystem Committee of the council. MR. HOOKER: I’m Brian Hooker, and I’m a biologist with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, specifically in the Office of Renewable Energy Programs, where I work very closely on fisheries and fish habitat issues. DR. BAUMSTARK: Good morning. I’m Rene Baumstark, and I am the Section Lead for the Information Science Management Section here in FWRI. Welcome to St. Petersburg. My interests are on the spatial side of the mapping, habitat mapping, and ecology. MR. WEBB: Good morning. Dave Webb from Islamorada, Florida. I’m a recreational angler, and I’m on the Citizens Advisory Panel for Water Quality in the Village of Islamorada and a Board Director at the West Palm Beach Fishing Club. MR. JONES: Tom Jones, the Georgia recreational fisherman representative, and I’m on the CCA Georgia Board and the Georgia Wildlife Federation Board, and I fish in St. Simons. MR. SOSS: My name is Jeff Soss, and I am the South Carolina recreational fisherman seat, and I also conduct fishing charters in Savannah, Georgia and am very involved with Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary. 2 Habitat Protection and Ecosystem-Based Management AP October 22-23, 2019 St. Petersburg, FL MS. HAVEL: I’m Lisa Havel, and I’m the Habitat Program Coordinator for the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Coordinator for the Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership. DR. LANEY: I am Wilson Laney, and my current affiliation, I guess, is the North Carolina State University Department of Applied Ecology, but I am also the -- They call me the Regional Habitat Liaison now from the Habitat AP to the South Atlantic Council, and I’m also still serving on the ASMFC Habitat Committee and the Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership. MR. PUGLIESE: Roger Pugliese, South Atlantic Council staff responsible for our habitat and ecosystem activities. MS. DEATON: I’m Anne Deaton, and I’m with the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, and I work on habitat protection and restoration issues, and, specifically, the coastal habitat protection plan and getting changes made across the division, across the different divisions and commissions in North Carolina to improve water quality and habitat. MS. COOKSEY: Good morning. I am Cindy Cooksey, and I am with NOAA Fisheries Habitat Conservation Division, which I think my division name kind of explains what I mostly do, and I’m also serving as Vice Chair, currently. MR. ELLIS: John Ellis, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Raleigh, North Carolina. I do permit review type stuff. MR. STAPLES: Shane Staples, Division of Coastal Management in North Carolina. I am writing those permits that he reviews. MR. GLENN: I’m David Glenn, and I’m here on the North Carolina conservation seat. My day- to-day job is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Newport and Morehead City, North Carolina, and I also serve on the Habitat and Water Quality Advisory Panel for North Carolina. DR. ROSS: I’m Steve Ross, and I’m a Research Professor with UNC Wilmington, and I’m also partly retired. I’m a fishery ecologist, and I work from estuaries to the deep sea, and I have been on this panel for a number of years, and I am also on the Coral AP. MS. MERRITT: Good morning. I’m Rita Merritt. I represent the Onslow Bay Artificial Reef Association, which is in the southeast part of North Carolina, and I previously had been on the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council. MS. DEATON: Thank you. We have a lot of expertise siting at this table, and so maybe we can solve some problems. The first thing on the agenda is a presentation from Todd Kellison remotely, and it will be about the NOAA Fisheries EBFM in the South Atlantic Region, an update on the activities they’ve been doing that relate to the FEP implementation plan, and his PowerPoint, I think, is one of the meeting handout materials. MR. PUGLIESE: Todd is getting hooked up right now. He will be joining us shortly. 3 Habitat Protection and Ecosystem-Based Management AP October 22-23, 2019 St. Petersburg, FL DR. KELLISON: This is Todd, and Mike Burton is here also, and so we’ve been listening in to the introductions, but it’s pretty difficult to hear over the phone. Can you hear me? MR. PUGLIESE: We can hear you fine, and so you’re not able to hear it on the webinar? DR. KELLISON: Maybe we’re fine, as long as we’re coming through on this end. MR. PUGLIESE: Okay. You’re good to go. DR. KELLISON: All right. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for making some time on the agenda to let us provide a brief update on some NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center ecosystem-focused activities, particularly activities that are related to the South Atlantic Council’s Fishery Ecosystem Plan II and the NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management Plan. Mike Burton is here with me on this end, and Kevin Craig also helped to generate this presentation, but he’s on travel today, and so he’s not here. In May, Kevin and I gave an update to the panel on the three activities that are highlighted there on the title slide, the development of a South Atlantic ecosystem status report -- I will focus on just ongoing developments with the ecosystem status report and the climate vulnerability assessment, and I will do those sequentially. Jumping into the ecosystem status report, as background, ecosystem status reports are defined and directed for all NMFS regions under the NMFS Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management Policy and the associated roadmap to that policy. Ecosystem status reports are intended for use by fishery management councils in particular, but also the other management bodies, and they are intended to be updated periodically, and so perhaps every three to five years, if not more frequently, and ecosystem status reports have been developed for almost all of the NMFS regions, and I have a list of them there in that figure, showing some of the regions for which they have been completed, but that figure is actually not so up-to-date. The ecosystem status reports have been completed for the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and one is progress for the Arctic, and there is one here for the West Hawaii Islands, and the California Current is completed. The Northeast U.S. is completed, and the Gulf of Mexico was completed in 2013, and an update was issued in 2017, and so we’re trying to fill in the gap here for the South Atlantic, and I think efforts have yet to be underway for the Caribbean. Ecosystem status reports provide trends, or convey trends, over time in multiple ecosystem components, which are also referred to as indicators in these reports, and, typically, those components are regional in scale and have at least annual, if not sub-annual, like monthly or daily, values, and these reports allow us to make some inferences about how ecosystem components or indicators have changed over time and potentially whether there are relationships between some of those different components.
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