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Committee Minutes June 2008 SOUTH ATLANTIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL SNAPPER GROUPER COMMITTEE Renaissance Orlando Hotel Airport Orlando, FL June 11-12, 2008 SUMMARY MINUTES Committee Members: Mac Currin, Chairman Mark Robson, Vice Chair David Cupka Dr. Brian Cheuvront George Geiger Rita Merritt Dr. Roy Crabtree Susan Shipman Tom Swatzel Council Members: Robert H. Boyles, Jr. Wilson Laney Duane Harris Anthony Iarocci Lt. Brian Sullivan John Wallace Council Staff: Bob Mahood Gregg Waugh Rick DeVictor Mike Collins Kim Iverson Dr. Andi Stephens Myra Brouwer Kate Quigley John Carmichael Julie O’Dell Dale Theiling Gregg Swanson Observers/Participants: Monica Smit-Brunello Dr. Jack McGovern Otha Easley Dr. Tom Jamir Hal Robbins Kay Williams Scott Zimmerman Libby Fetherston Dr. Bonnie Ponwith Dr. George Sedberry Dr. Jim Waters Dr. Joe Kimmel Bobby Cardin Eileen Dougherty Tom Burgess Mike Jepson Dick Brame Ben Hartig Dave Allison Scott Raborn Maj. Brett Norton Eric Williams Snapper Grouper Committee Orlando, FL June 11-12, 2008 Daniel Parshley Kate Michie Frank Helies Carolyn Belcher Luiz Barbieri Andy Cooper Bill Kelly Richard Stiglitz Joe O’Hop Wes Patrick Stephen Holiman Bill Sharp Mark Marhefka Stacy Harter Darden Rice Buffy Baumann Jess H. Dick Margot Stiles Cindy Grace Tricia Choe Sera Drevenak Karen Raine Joshua Giordano-Silliman Sid Preskitt Dennis O’Hern Shawn Dick Kristan Raabe Jim Reeves Beth Curry Christy Clow Debbie Foste Greg DeBrango Larry Yarbrough Scott Reynolds Greg Otto 2 Snapper Grouper Committee Orlando, FL June 11-12, 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Adoption of Agenda.........................................................................................................................5 Approval of March 2008 Minutes....................................................................................................5 Gray’s Reef Draft Environmental Assessment Concerning Spearfishing Activities.......................5 Catch Characterization and Discards within the Snapper Grouper Vertical Hook-and-Line Fishery............................................................................................................................................15 Oculina Monitoring Report............................................................................................................22 Conversion of Recreational Landings in Weight to Numbers for Snowy Grouper.......................30 SSC Report on SEDAR Assessments, Snapper Grouper Amendments 15B, 16 and 17...............32 Presentation on Circle Hooks and J-Hooks ...................................................................................46 Pre-Closure Survey of Proposed MPAs in Amendment 14...........................................................50 SEDAR Assessment Results for Mutton Snapper .........................................................................57 Amendment 15B ............................................................................................................................63 Overview of SDEIS Comments.....................................................................................................70 Amendment 15B Committee Discussion.......................................................................................71 Summary of AP Comments on Amendment 15B..........................................................................78 Amendment 16...............................................................................................................................86 Review Public Comments for Amendment 16 ..............................................................................86 Summary of AP Comments on Amendment 16 ............................................................................89 Committee Discussion and Actions on Amendment 16 ................................................................97 Discussion of Fuel Prices on Numbers of Trips ..........................................................................120 Amendment 18.............................................................................................................................132 Amendment 17.............................................................................................................................132 3 Snapper Grouper Committee Orlando, FL June 11-12, 2008 ACL Presentation and Status of Proposed Rule/Guidelines........................................................134 Overview of Amendment 17 Options Paper................................................................................143 Amendment 14 Transit Discussion..............................................................................................182 Adjournment ................................................................................................................................185 4 Snapper Grouper Committee Orlando, FL June 11-12, 2008 The Snapper Grouper Committee of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council convened in the Vienna Ballroom of the Renaissance Orlando Hotel Airport, Orlando, Florida, Wednesday morning, June 11, 2008, and was called to order at 10:27 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Mac Currin. Mr. Currin: I’ll call the Snapper Grouper Committee to order. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for adjusting your schedule to the revised schedule that we have here and I especially want to thank our presenters, who were available and ready to go, to help us jump ahead. We have a very busy schedule for our committee. I hope that we will keep that in mind and work as efficiently as we can through our agenda. The agenda is before you. If, as usual, you will allow me some latitude to make minor adjustments to accommodate schedules and timing, I would appreciate that. With that caveat, without objection, we will approve our agenda. Seeing none, we have minutes from our March meeting. Everyone has received those and I hope has had time to go through and -- I would open the floor for comments or changes to our March meeting minutes. Seeing none, without objection then, we will approve our minutes. We will adjust our schedule to try to take a number of the presentations that were scheduled for later in our agenda. Dr. Sedberry from Gray’s Reef has graciously agreed to kick us off, with his presentation on the status of their research area. I believe you’re going to address that and in addition, an issue regarding spearfishing and a proposal that you have for the council I believe for action in that area. George, welcome and we’re glad to see you. Dr. Sedberry: Thank you. Actually, I’m going to concentrate on spearfishing and just give a brief little update on the research area. The purpose today is to formally provide the council with the opportunity to draft Sanctuary fishing regulations for spearfishing within Gray’s Reef, as per the National Marine Sanctuaries Act and our memorandum of understanding with the council. A brief history of this -- This has been presented to you before and there’s greater detail on it in your briefing book and your briefing materials, but in 1981, NOAA considered a spearfishing ban within the Sanctuary when the first management plan was drawn up. The alternative that was chosen was to ban powerheads only. In 2003, during revision of the management plan and reconsideration of the management plan, again a spearfishing ban was proposed, but based on public comment during the scoping process, spearfishing was not banned, but again, the powerhead prohibition was continued. However, at that time, when that management plan was adopted in 2006, there was a provision in the management plan to do a socioeconomic analysis of spearfishing within Gray’s Reef, to see what the effects might be, and to revisit the concept of a spearfishing ban within two years. Those two years are upon us and now, in 2008, we’re conducting an environmental assessment of spearfishing and a spearfishing ban within the Sanctuary and as part of that environmental assessment, we’re giving the council opportunity to draft fishing regulations. Our analysis has consisted of three parts. There’s a biological component, a socioeconomic 5 Snapper Grouper Committee Orlando, FL June 11-12, 2008 component, and a law enforcement component. Again, the details of this are in your briefing materials, but based on the analysis of those three components, NOAA, Gray’s Reef, has concluded that given the mounting evidence of biological impacts from spearfishing, concerns regarding the enforceability of the existing powerhead ban, the negligible socioeconomic effects, and abundant substitution opportunities that exist for spear fishermen and actually powerhead fishermen to go elsewhere, we suggest that all spearfishing activities be prohibited within the Sanctuary. The biological considerations -- Again, these have been reviewed at the last council meeting and are in the briefing materials, but basically, spearfishing is a highly efficient harvesting gear that alters abundance and size structure of grouper and other fish populations. It’s shown to have a greater overall impact on reef fishes than hook and line fishing and the effectiveness has resulted in over harvest and restrictions on this type of fishery in other parts of the world. Spear fishing targets the largest fish and for protogynous species like grouper that change sex, with females changing to males, selective fishing on the large males can make the population susceptible to sperm limitation. These large fish that are selectively targeted by spearfishing are important as predators, maintaining an ecological balance within
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