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Tab A, No. 4 1 GULF OF MEXICO FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL 2 3 253RD MEETING 4 5 FULL COUNCIL SESSION 6 7 Golden Nugget Casino Hotel Biloxi, Mississippi 8 9 APRIL 1-2, 2015 10 11 April 1, 2015 12 13 14 VOTING MEMBERS 15 Kevin Anson (designee for Chris Blankenship)..............Alabama 16 Martha Bademan (designee for Nick Wiley)..................Florida 17 Leann Bosarge.........................................Mississippi 18 Doug Boyd...................................................Texas 19 Roy Crabtree..................NMFS, SERO, St. Petersburg, Florida 20 Pamela Dana...............................................Florida 21 Dale Diaz (designee for Jamie Miller).................Mississippi 22 Myron Fischer (designee for Randy Pausina)..............Louisiana 23 Johnny Greene.............................................Alabama 24 Campo Matens............................................Louisiana 25 Harlon Pearce...........................................Louisiana 26 Corky Perret..........................................Mississippi 27 Lance Robinson (designee for Robin Riechers)................Texas 28 John Sanchez..............................................Florida 29 Greg Stunz..................................................Texas 30 David Walker..............................................Alabama 31 Roy Williams..............................................Florida 32 33 NON-VOTING MEMBERS 34 LCDR Jason Brand.............................................USCG 35 Dave Donaldson..............................................GSMFC 36 37 STAFF 38 Steven Atran.............................Senior Fishery Biologist 39 Assane Diagne...........................................Economist 40 John Froeschke.....................Fishery Biologist/Statistician 41 Doug Gregory...................................Executive Director 42 Karen Hoak.................Administrative and Financial Assistant 43 Ava Lasseter.......................................Anthropologist 44 Mara Levy....................................NOAA General Counsel 45 Cathy Readinger............................Administrative Officer 46 Ryan Rindone......................Fishery Biologist/SEDAR Liaison 47 Bernadine Roy......................................Office Manager 48 Charlotte Schiaffo............Research & Human Resource Librarian 1 1 Bryan Schoonard.......................................GIS Analyst 2 3 OTHER PARTICIPANTS 4 Pam Anderson................................Panama City Beach, FL 5 Billy Archer.......................Seminole Wind, Panama City, FL 6 Tom Ard..........................................Orange Beach, AL 7 Holly Binns..................................Pew Charitable Trust 8 Randy Boggs......................................Orange Beach, AL 9 Susan Boggs......................................Orange Beach, AL 10 Dick Brame....................................................... 11 Steve Branstetter............................................NMFS 12 Eric Brazer......................Reef Fish Shareholder’s Alliance 13 Karyl Brewster-Geisz.........................................NMFS 14 JP Brooker..................Ocean Conservancy, St. Petersburg, FL 15 James Bruce............................................Cutoff, LA 16 Gary Bryant.......................................Fort Morgan, AL 17 Rick Burris..................................................MDMR 18 Shane Cantrell........................Galveston Charter Fleet, TX 19 Kim Chauvin...........................................Chauvin, LA 20 Bubba Cochrane......................................Galveston, TX 21 Cliff Cox..............................................Destin, FL 22 Dean Cox......................................................... 23 Jason Delacruz..........Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance/Gulf Wild 24 Dewey Destin...........................................Destin, FL 25 Mike Eller.............................................Destin, FL 26 Martin Fisher..................................................FL 27 Maurice Fitzsimmons....................................Daphne, AL 28 Troy Frady............................................Lillian, AL 29 Jim Green..............................................Destin, FL 30 Buddy Guindon.......................................Galveston, TX 31 Derrick Gutierrez...................................Galveston, TX 32 Ken Haddad......................American Sportfishing Association 33 Ben Hartig..................................................SAFMC 34 Scott Hickman.......................................Galveston, TX 35 Roy Howard....................................................... 36 Gary Jarvis............................................Destin, FL 37 Mike Jennings........................................Freeport, TX 38 Joe Jewell.....................................................MS 39 Bill Kelly...........................................Marathon, FL 40 Bobby Kelly......................................Orange Beach, AL 41 David Krebs............................................Destin, FL 42 Jack McGovern................................................NMFS 43 Paul Mickle..................................................MDMR 44 Bart Niquet.......................................Panama City, FL 45 Chris Niquet......................................Panama City, FL 46 Bob Perkins..................................................USCG 47 Bonnie Ponwith..............................................SEFSC 48 Tracy Redding....................................AAA Charters, AL 2 1 Mike Rowell......................................Orange Beach, AL 2 Sonny Schindler.................................Bay St. Louis, MS 3 G.P. Schmahl..............................Flower Garden Banks, TX 4 John Schmidt..................................................... 5 Dolph Scott...................................National Geographic 6 Bob Spaeth......................................Madeira Beach, FL 7 Bill Staff.......................................Orange Beach, AL 8 Tom Steber.......................................Orange Beach, AL 9 Andy Strelcheck..............................................NMFS 10 Brian Swindle..................................Dauphin Island, AL 11 Mike Thierry...................................Dauphin Island, AL 12 Skipper Thierry................................Dauphin Island, AL 13 Steve Tomeny....................................Port Fourchon, LA 14 Russell Underwood.................................Panama City, FL 15 David Veal.............................................Biloxi, MS 16 Wayne Werner..........................................Alachua, FL 17 Mike Whitfield.....................................Lynn Haven, FL 18 Jillian Williams....................................Galveston, TX 19 Johnny Williams.....................................Galveston, TX 20 Bob Zales, II.....................................Panama City, FL 21 Jim Zurbrick.....................................Steinhatchee, FL 22 23 - - - 24 25 The Full Council of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 26 Council convened at the Golden Nugget Casino Hotel, Biloxi, 27 Mississippi, Wednesday morning, April 1, 2015, and was called to 28 order at 10:48 a.m. by Chairman Kevin Anson. 29 30 CALL TO ORDER AND INTRODUCTIONS 31 32 CHAIRMAN KEVIN ANSON: Let’s get started. Welcome to the 253rd 33 meeting of the Gulf Council. My name is Kevin Anson, Chairman 34 of the Council. The Gulf Council is one of eight regional 35 councils established in 1976 by the Fishery Conservation and 36 Management Act, known today as the Magnuson-Stevens Act. 37 38 The council’s purpose is to serve as a deliberative body to 39 advise the Secretary of Commerce on fishery management measures 40 in the federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. These measures 41 help ensure that fishery resources in the Gulf are sustained, 42 while providing the best overall benefit to the nation. 43 44 The council has seventeen voting members, eleven of whom are 45 appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and include individuals 46 from a range of geographical areas in the Gulf of Mexico and 47 with experience in various aspects of fisheries. 48 3 1 The membership also includes five state fishery managers from 2 each Gulf state and the Regional Administrator from NOAA’s 3 Southeast Fisheries Service, as well as several non-voting 4 members. 5 6 Anyone wishing to speak during public comment should complete a 7 public comment registration card and drop it in the box or give 8 it to council staff. One card per person, please. A digital 9 recording of the meeting is used for the public record. 10 Therefore, for the purpose of voice identification, each member 11 is requested to identify him or herself, starting on my left. 12 13 MR. ROY WILLIAMS: Roy Williams, Florida. 14 15 MR. DAVE DONALDSON: Dave Donaldson, Gulf States Marine 16 Fisheries Commission. 17 18 LCDR JASON BRAND: Lieutenant Commander Jason Brand, U.S. Coast 19 Guard. 20 21 MR. DAVID WALKER: David Walker, Alabama. 22 23 MR. JOHNNY GREENE: Johnny Greene, Alabama. 24 25 MR. CAMPO MATENS: Camp Matens, Louisiana. 26 27 MR. HARLON PEARCE: Harlon Pearce, the great state of Louisiana. 28 29 MR. JOHN SANCHEZ: John Sanchez, Florida. 30 31 DR. PAMELA DANA: Pam Dana, Florida. 32 33 MS. MARTHA BADEMAN: Martha Bademan, Florida. 34 35 MR. BEN HARTIG: Ben Hartig, South Atlantic Council liaison. 36 37 MS. MARA LEVY: Mara Levy, NOAA Office of General Counsel. 38 39 DR. ROY CRABTREE: Roy Crabtree, NOAA Fisheries. 40 41 DR. STEVE BRANSTETTER: Steve Branstetter, NOAA Fisheries. 42 43 DR. BONNIE PONWITH: Bonnie Ponwith, NOAA Fisheries. 44 45