Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
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1 GULF OF MEXICO FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL 2 3 265TH MEETING 4 5 FULL COUNCIL SESSION 6 7 Marriott Plaza San Antonio, Texas 8 9 AUGUST 9-10, 2017 10 11 VOTING MEMBERS 12 Kevin Anson ............................................ Alabama 13 Leann Bosarge ...................................... Mississippi 14 Patrick Banks ........................................ Louisiana 15 Doug Boyd ................................................ Texas 16 Roy Crabtree ................ NMFS, SERO, St. Petersburg, Florida 17 Pamela Dana ............................................ Florida 18 Dale Diaz .......................................... Mississippi 19 Tom Frazer ............................................. Florida 20 Johnny Greene .......................................... Alabama 21 Martha Guyas (designee for Nick Wiley) .................. Florida 22 Campo Matens ......................................... Louisiana 23 Paul Mickle (designee for Jamie Miller) ............. Mississippi 24 Robin Riechers............................................ Texas 25 John Sanchez ........................................... Florida 26 Greg Stunz ............................................... Texas 27 Ed Swindell .......................................... Louisiana 28 David Walker ........................................... Alabama 29 30 NON-VOTING MEMBERS 31 Glenn Constant............................................ USFWS 32 Dave Donaldson............................................ GSMFC 33 LCDR Stacy McNeer .......................................... USCG 34 35 STAFF 36 Steven Atran .......................... Senior Fishery Biologist 37 Assane Diagne ........................................ Economist 38 Matt Freeman ......................................... Economist 39 John Froeschke.................... Fishery Biologist-Statistician 40 Douglas Gregory.............................. Executive Director 41 Beth Hager .............................. Administrative Officer 42 Karen Hoak ................. Administrative & Financial Assistant 43 Ava Lasseter .................................... Anthropologist 44 Emily Muehlstein......................Public Information Officer 45 Bernadine Roy ................................... Office Manager 46 Carrie Simmons.................................. Deputy Director 47 48 OTHER PARTICIPANTS 1 1 Pam Anderson ............................. Panama City Beach, FL 2 Hughes Andry ................................. Sportco Marketing 3 Greg Ball ........................................ Galveston, TX 4 Tony Bess ............................................ Alvin, TX 5 Captain Murphys.......................... South Padre Island, TX 6 Susan Boggs ................................... Orange Beach, AL 7 Eric Brazer ...... Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance 8 Chester Brewer............................................ SAFMC 9 David Briggs ................................................ TX 10 Steven Briggs ................................................. 11 David Brown ................................................. TX 12 Michael Brown ................................ Port O’Connor, TX 13 B.J. Burkett ............................. Panama City Beach, FL 14 Shane Cantrell.................................... Galveston, TX 15 Bubba Cochrane.................................... Galveston, TX 16 Connor Cochrane................................... Galveston, TX 17 Mike Colby ...................................... Clearwater, FL 18 Jason Delacruz............................................... FL 19 Richard Fischer........... Louisiana Charter Boat Association, LA 20 Troy Frady .................................... Orange Beach, AL 21 Susan Gerhart ............................................. NMFS 22 Brad Gorst ..................................... Palm Harbor, FL 23 John Graham ................................................... 24 Jim Green ........................................... Destin, FL 25 Shepherd Grimes......................................... NOAA GC 26 Buddy Guindon .................................... Galveston, TX 27 Ken Haddad ............................................. ASA, FL 28 Chad Haggert .................................... Clearwater, FL 29 Scott Hickman ............................... CFA, Galveston, TX 30 Tom Hilton .................................................... 31 Dylan Hubbard ........................... FGA, Madeira Beach, FL 32 Donald Jackson............................................... TX 33 Mark Kelley .................................... Panama City, FL 34 Jason Klosterman..................................... Destin, FL 35 David Krebs ......................................... Destin, FL 36 Joey Lenderman..................................... Richmond, TX 37 Terrell Miller.................................. San Antonio, TX 38 Blake Osgood ................................................ TX 39 Mike Osgood ................................................. TX 40 Bonnie Ponwith............................................ SEFSC 41 Steven Rash ................................... Apalachicola, FL 42 Michael Regan .................................... Galveston, TX 43 Scott Robson ........................................ Destin, FL 44 Captain Fred Ruiz ............................................ TX 45 Lisa Schmidt ................................. Madeira Beach, FL 46 Clarence Seymour.............................. Ocean Springs, MS 47 Michael Short .................................... Galveston, TX 48 Line Check Charters ............................... Galveston, TX 2 1 Steve Tomeny ................................. Port Fourchon, LA 2 Russell Underwood ............................... Panama City, FL 3 Tom Wheatley ............................. Pew Charitable Trusts 4 Johnny Williams................................... Galveston, TX 5 Jim Zurbrick .................................. Steinhatchee, FL 6 7 - - - 8 3 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 3 Table of Contents ..............................................3 4 5 Table of Motions...............................................4 6 7 Call to Order, Announcements, and Introductions .................10 8 9 Adoption of Agenda and Approval of Minutes ......................11 10 11 Review of Exempted Fishing Permit Applications .................12 12 13 Presentations .................................................12 14 Texas Law Enforcement .....................................12 15 16 Public Comment.................................................20 17 18 Committee Reports ..............................................89 19 Outreach and Education Committee Report ....................89 20 Administrative/Budget Committee Report .....................95 21 Reef Fish Committee Report ................................103 22 Gulf SEDAR Committee Report ...............................171 23 Sustainable Fisheries Committee Report .....................189 24 25 Supporting Agencies Updates ....................................200 26 South Atlantic Council Liaison ............................200 27 Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission ....................201 28 U.S. Coast Guard ..........................................202 29 30 Other Business.................................................202 31 Update and Next Steps for Generic For-Hire Electronic 32 Reporting Amendment ....................................202 33 34 Adjournment ...................................................203 35 36 - - - 37 4 1 2 TABLE OF MOTIONS 3 4 PAGE 90: Motion that the O&E Technical Committee allow the use 5 of proxy attendees subject to the approval by council staff. 6 The motion carried on page 91. 7 8 PAGE 91: Motion to direct staff to develop a plan that would 9 create a data portal to collect public anecdotal information for 10 council-managed species and bring that information back to the 11 council. The motion carried on page 94. 12 13 PAGE 94: Motion to recommend that the O&E Technical Committee 14 members be allowed to participate via webinar with approval by 15 council staff. The motion carried on page 95. 16 17 PAGE 96: Motion to approve the budget as shown in Tab G, Number 18 4(a). The motion carried on page 96. 19 20 PAGE 97: Motion to modify the SOPPs so that council members 21 must be physically present to motion or vote. The motion 22 carried on page 101. 23 24 PAGE 103: Motion in Action 1 to make Alternative 2, Option a 25 the preferred. Alternative 2 is set the ACL equal to the ABC 26 recommended by the Scientific and Statistical Committee from 27 2018 through 2020-plus, based upon the SEDAR 33 update 28 assessment (2016). This alternative is projected to rebuild the 29 stock by 2027. Option a is apply the ACL/ACT control rule, 30 landings from 2013 through 2016, to establish a 13 percent 31 buffer to the commercial sector and a 17 percent buffer to the 32 recreational sector. The motion carried on page 103. 33 34 PAGE 103: Motion in Action 2 to make Alternative 4 the 35 preferred. Alternative 4 is modify the recreational closed 36 season to be January 1 through June 30. The motion carried on 37 page 105. 38 39 PAGE 106: Motion to approve the greater amberjack ACL and 40 management measures and that it be forwarded to the Secretary of 41 Commerce for review and implementation, and deem the codified 42 text as necessary and appropriate, giving staff editorial 43 license to make the necessary changes in the document. The 44 Council Chair is given the authority to deem any changes to the 45 codified text as necessary and appropriate. The motion carried 46 on page 108.