Minutes 14 from August 3-4, 2016 Meeting
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1 GULF OF MEXICO FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL 2 3 JOINT MEETING OF THE SPECIAL CORAL SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL 4 COMMITTEE AND CORAL AND SHRIMP ADVISORY PANELS 5 6 Gulf Council Office Tampa, Florida 7 8 September 16, 2019 9 10 CORAL AP VOTING MEMBERS 11 J.P. Brooker....................................Ocean Conservancy 12 Scott Hickman.......................................Galveston, TX 13 Morgan Kilgour..........................................Sacto, CA 14 Shelly Krueger.......................................Key West, FL 15 Rob Ruzicka....................................St. Petersburg, FL 16 Portia Sapp.................................................FDACS 17 18 SPECIAL CORAL SSC VOTING MEMBERS 19 Sandra Brooke......................................St. Teresa, FL 20 Paul Sammarco...........................................Houma, LA 21 G.P. Schmahl..............................Flower Garden Banks NMS 22 23 SHRIMP AP VOTING MEMBERS 24 Corky Perret...................................................MS 25 Steven Bosarge.....................................Pascagoula, MS 26 Thu Bui.............................................Lafayette, LA 27 Glenn Delaney............................Southern Shrimp Alliance 28 Gary Graham..........................................Brazoria, TX 29 Harris Lasseigne................................New Braunfels, TX 30 Lance Nacio..........................................Montegut, LA 31 Thomas Shultz..........................................Biloxi, MS 32 Thomas Shultz, Jr..............................................MS 33 Franklin Parker........................................Biloxi, MS 34 John Williams..................................Tarpon Springs, FL 35 36 STAFF 37 Zeenatul Basher.......................Coral and Habitat Biologist 38 Matt Freeman............................................Economist 39 John Froeschke....................................Deputy Director 40 Lisa Hollensead.................................Fishery Biologist 41 Natasha Mendez-Ferrer...........................Fishery Biologist 42 Camilla Shireman........Administrative & Communications Assistant 43 Carrie Simmons.................................Executive Director 44 45 OTHER PARTICIPANTS 46 Heather Blough...............................................NMFS 47 Leann Bosarge...............................................GMFMC 48 David Dale...................................................NMFS 1 1 Kenneth Daniels......................................Seminole, FL 2 Beth Dieveney...............................................FKNMS 3 Benny Gallaway.................................LGL Ecological, TX 4 Susan Gerhart................................................NMFS 5 Frank Helies.................................................NMFS 6 Sharon McBreen..............................Pew Charitable Trusts 7 Kelli O’Donnell..............................................NMFS 8 Lauren Waters................................................NMFS 9 Stephen Werndli.............................................FKNMS 10 11 - - - 12 2 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 3 Table of Contents................................................2 4 5 Table of Motions.................................................3 6 7 Introduction of Members..........................................5 8 9 Election of Coral Advisory Panel Chair and Vice Chair............8 10 11 Adoption of Agenda...............................................9 12 13 Approval of Joint Shrimp AP, Coral AP, and Coral SSC Minutes 14 from August 3-4, 2016 Meeting....................................12 15 16 Update on the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary 17 Expansion........................................................12 18 19 Update on the Implementation Status of Coral 9...................42 20 21 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Expansion.................43 22 23 Presentation on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease..................110 24 25 Other Business...................................................132 26 Discussion of the Decline of Nesting of the Kemps-Ridley 27 Sea Turtle...............................................132 28 Discussion of Beginning Coral Amendment 10..................136 29 30 Coral Reef Conservation Program Update...........................147 31 32 Adjournment......................................................152 33 34 - - - 35 3 1 TABLE OF MOTIONS 2 3 PAGE 38: Motion to request that the NOAA sanctuary agency 4 provide the language on transiting through the sanctuary. The 5 motion carried on page 39. 6 7 PAGE 79: Motion to request that staff include all relevant 8 information regarding shrimp effort point data for the FKNMS 9 expansion, not just the point data in the GMFMC jurisdiction, 10 for consideration for making recommendations about the FKNMS 11 expansion. The motion carried on page 81. 12 13 PAGE 91: Shrimp AP only motion to oppose the proposed 14 northwestern expansion of the FKNMS boundary. The motion 15 carried on page 97. 16 17 PAGE 106: Shrimp AP only motion that the Shrimp AP is not in 18 favor of the FKNMS southern boundary expansion. The motion 19 carried on page 110. 20 21 PAGE 132: Motion that, given the unexpected substantial 22 declines in nesting activity in Mexico in 2018 and 2019, there 23 is a critical need for a stock assessment update for Kemp's 24 Ridley sea turtles performed by competent sea turtle experts. 25 This stock assessment should address, among other things, if, 26 how, and to what degree density dependence, the 2010 Deep Water 27 Horizon spill, and marine debris may be contributing to this 28 decline. The motion carried on page 136. 29 30 PAGE 136: Coral AP and Coral SSC only motion to have the Gulf 31 Council start work on Coral Amendment 10. The motion carried on 32 page 147. 33 34 - - - 35 36 4 1 The Joint Special Coral Scientific and Statistical Committee and 2 Coral and Shrimp Advisory Panels of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery 3 Management Council convened at the Gulf Council Office on Monday 4 morning, September 16, 2019, and was called to order by Dr. 5 Natasha Mendez-Ferrer. 6 7 INTRODUCTION OF MEMBERS 8 9 DR. NATASHA MENDEZ-FERRER: Good morning, everybody. First of 10 all, I would like everybody to introduce themselves. I also 11 want to mention that this meeting will be transcribed, and so, 12 before you speak, please say your name, so that that can be 13 included in the documents. My name is Natasha Mendez-Ferrer, 14 and I am a fishery biologist with the Gulf Council, and we 15 continue introducing ourselves to my right. 16 17 MS. SHELLY KRUEGER: Good morning. My name is Shelly Krueger, 18 and I am the Florida Sea Grant agent in the Florida Keys for the 19 University of Florida IFAS Extension. 20 21 MR. SCOTT HICKMAN: Captain Scott Hickman from Galveston, Texas, 22 a thirty-five-year professional charter boat fisherman and 23 commercial fisherman, and I’m currently the Chair of the Flower 24 Garden Banks Advisory Council. 25 26 MR. G.P. SCHMAHL: Good morning. My name is G.P. Schmahl, and I 27 am the Superintendent of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine 28 Sanctuary based out of Galveston, Texas. 29 30 DR. MORGAN KILGOUR: Morgan Kilgour, and I am a Senior 31 Environmental Scientist with the State of California, but I’m 32 here because I have a lot of vested interest in corals in the 33 Gulf of Mexico. 34 35 DR. SANDRA BROOKE: Sandra Brooke, Florida State University, and 36 I’m a coral ecologist, and I’m on the Coral SSC. 37 38 MS. PORTIA SAPP: Portia Sapp, and I’m with the Florida 39 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and I’m the 40 Director of the Division of Aquaculture. 41 42 MR. FRANK PARKER: Frank Parker, and I’m a commercial fisherman 43 from Biloxi, Mississippi, and I’m on the Shrimp AP. 44 45 MR. STEVE BOSARGE: I’m Steve Bosarge, and I’m a commercial 46 fisherman and Vice Chair of the Shrimp AP, and I’m a 47 commissioner with the Department of Marine Resources, and I’ve 48 been doing this for a long time, and I’m looking forward to the 5 1 meeting. 2 3 MR. LANCE NACIO: I’m Lance Nacio, Anna Marie Seafood, and I’ve 4 a shrimp boat, and I have a reef fish boat, and I’ve been doing 5 it for a while. 6 7 MS. THU BUI: Thu Bui, and I’m with Louisiana Sea Grant and LSU 8 Ag Center, and I’m a Marine Extension personnel. 9 10 MR. HARRIS LASSEIGNE: Harris Lasseigne from New Braunfels, 11 Texas, retired commercial fisherman, invested in all phases of 12 the shrimp industry. 13 14 MR. CORKY PERRET: Corky Perret, Chairman of the Shrimp AP from 15 Poplarville, Mississippi. 16 17 MS. LEANN BOSARGE: Leann Bosarge, voting member on the Gulf 18 Council, serving as the liaison for the Shrimp AP meeting today. 19 20 MR. JOHN WILLIAMS: John Williams, Executive Director of the 21 Southern Shrimp Alliance. 22 23 MR. GARY GRAHAM: I’m Gary Graham, and I’m retired from Texas 24 Sea Grant as a fisheries specialist, and I’m also involved in 25 the commercial shrimp fishery. 26 27 MR. PAUL SAMMARCO: Paul Sammarco, and I’m Professor Emeritus at 28 Louisiana University’s Marine Consortium, or LUMCON, in 29 Louisiana, and coral reefs are my thing. 30 31 MR. THOMAS SHULTZ, JR: Thomas Shultz, commercial fisherman from 32 Biloxi, Mississippi. 33 34 DR. MATTHEW FREEMAN: Matt Freeman, one of the council staff 35 economists and the staff liaison for the Shrimp AP. 36 37 DR. ZEENATUL BASHER: Zeenatul Basher, and I’m the Coral Reef 38 and Habitat Biologist for the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 39 Council. 40 41 DR. MENDEZ-FERRER: We can continue with the members that are in 42 the back, and can we turn on the microphone? 43 44 DR.