UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEETING Silver Spring, Maryland Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 2 1 PARTICIPANTS: 2 PHILIP ANDERSON PFMC 3 JIM BALSIGER 4 Alaska Region 5 MEL BELL SAFMC 6 TONY BLANCHARD 7 CFMC 8 MIKE BURNER PFMC 9 JOHN CARMICHAEL 10 SAFMC 11 ROY CRABTREE South East Region 12 DALE DIAZ 13 GMFMC 14 WAREN ELLIOTT MAFMC 15 DIANA EVANS 16 NPFMC 17 TOM FRAZER GMFMC 18 JOHN FROESCHKE 19 GMFMC 20 MARC GORELNIK PFMC 21 JOHN GOURLEY 22 WPFMC Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 3 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 MARCOS HANKE CFMC 3 NICOLE HILL 4 Western Region 5 ADAM ISSENBERG NOAA GC 6 SIMON KINNEEN 7 NPFMC 8 MIKE LUISI MAFMC 9 JESSICA McCAWLEY 10 SAFMC 11 CHRIS MOORE MAFMC 12 TOM NIES 13 NEFMC 14 CHRIS OLIVER NOAA Fisheries 15 MIKE PENTONY 16 North East Region 17 JOHN QUINN NEFMC 18 SAM RAUCH 19 NOAA Fisheries 20 ERIC REID NEFMC 21 ALAN RISENHOOVER 22 NOAA Fisheries Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 4 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 MIGUEL ROLÓN CFMC 3 CARRIE SIMMONS 4 GMFMC 5 KITTY SIMONDS WPFMC 6 MICHAEL TOSATTO 7 Pacific Islands Region 8 BILL TWEIT NPFMC 9 JENNI WALLACE 10 NOAA Fisheries 11 GREGG WAUGH SAFMC 12 CISCO WERNER 13 NOAA Fisheries 14 DAVE WHALEY CCC 15 DAVID WITHERELL 16 NPFMC 17 Other Participants: 18 SARAH HEIL 19 DAVID O'BRIEN 20 ANJANETTE RILEY 21 LORA SNYDER 22 * * * * * Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 5 1 C O N T E N T S 2 ITEM PAGE 3 Welcome and Introductions 4 Background -- May CCC Minutes & Meeting Report 5 NMFS Update 6 FY20 Priorities 7 Best Available Scientific Information 8 Shifting Distribution Workshop 9 Policy Directive System 10 Aquaculture 11 Public Comment 12 Legislative Outlook and MSA Reauthorization 13 Legislative Workgroup Report 14 Roundtable Discussion with Congressional Members/Staff 15 16 17 * * * * * 18 19 20 21 22 Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 6 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 (1:40 p.m.) 3 MS. McCAWLEY: I want to welcome 4 everybody to this November CCC meeting. We look 5 forward to another productive meeting. So just a 6 couple of housekeeping things. If you are looking 7 for a restroom, there is one down there towards 8 the fitness center or you can take the two 9 stairwells up and then around the corner there -- 10 that are really convenient to this room. There is 11 water in the back of the room. If you want 12 coffee, food and other refreshments, you can go up 13 to the lobby level. There is a coffee shop up 14 there. 15 Lunch and dinner will be on your own. 16 And then we need to do a voice identification 17 around the table to help with the minutes. Please 18 state your name. Also, when you talk during the 19 meeting so that the comments are attributed to the 20 correct person so let's start over there with Bill 21 for the voice identification. 22 So you're looking for the person with a Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 7 1 little -- there's a head there and little bars in 2 front of him. That's how you turn the mic on. So 3 this can also be a test so that everyone can learn 4 how to turn the microphones on. 5 MR. TWEIT: Little squiggly grey things 6 in front of me. Good afternoon, I am Bill Tweit, 7 I am Vice-Chair of the North Pacific Fisher 8 Management Council. 9 MR. WITHERELL: Dave Witherell, 10 Executive Director of North Pacific Council. 11 MR. KINNEAN: Simon Kinnean, Chairman, 12 North Pacific Council. 13 MR. BALSINGER: Jim Balsinger, 14 Administrator of Alaska Fisheries. 15 MR. GORELNIK: Marc Gorelnik, Vice Chair 16 of the Pacific Counsel. 17 MR. BURNER: I'm Mike Burner, Deputy 18 Director with the Pacific Council. 19 MR. ANDERSON: Phil Anderson, Chairman 20 of the Pacific Council. 21 MS. HILL: Nicole Hill, Associate Deputy 22 Regional Administrator. Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 8 1 MS. SIMMONS: You need some Alabama 2 chrome in here. Carrie Simmons, Gulf Council, 3 Executive Director. 4 MR. DIAZ: Dale Diaz, Vice-Chair, Gulf 5 Council. 6 MR. CRABTREE: Roy Crabtree, South East 7 Regional Administrator. 8 MR. EISENBERG: Adam Eisenberg, NOAA GC. 9 MS. WALLACE: Jenny Wallace, Office of 10 Sustainable Fisheries. 11 MR. RISENHOOVER: Alan Risenhoover, 12 Office of Sustainable Fisheries. 13 MR. RAUCH: Sam Rauch, Deputy Director, 14 National Fishery Service. 15 MR. OLIVER: Chris Oliver, NOAA 16 Assistant Administrator for Fisheries. 17 MS. McCAWLEY: Jessica McCawley, Chair 18 of South Atlantic Council. 19 MR. WAUGH: Gregg Waugh, South Atlantic 20 Council Executive Director through mid-December 21 and then most of you know John Carmichael over on 22 the right, he will be taking over for me and I Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 9 1 just noticed we have a longtime NMFS regional 2 administrator, Dan Furlong in the back. Some of 3 you may know Dan so -- thank you. 4 MR. BELL: Mel Bell, Vice Chair, South 5 Atlantic Council. 6 MR. REID: Eric Reid, I am the Vice 7 Chair of the New England Council. 8 MR. QUINN: John Quinn, Chair of the New 9 England Council. 10 MR. NIES: Tom Nies, Executive Director 11 of the New England Council. 12 MR. ELLIOT: Good afternoon, I am Warren 13 Elliot, Vice Chair of the mid-Atlantic Council. 14 MR. LUISI: Hi, I am Mike Luisi, Chair 15 of the mid- Atlantic Council. 16 MR. MOORE: Chris Moore, Executive 17 Director of the mid-Atlantic Council. 18 MR. PENTONY: Mike Pentony, Regional 19 Administrator for greater Atlantic Region. 20 MR. ROLON: Miguel Rolon, Council, 21 Executive Director. 22 MR. HANKE: Marcos Hanke, Caribbean Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 10 1 Council, Chair. 2 MR. BLANCHARD: Toni Blanchard, 3 Caribbean Council, Vice-Chair. 4 MS. SIMONDS: Kitty Simonds, the 5 Executive Director of the Western Pacific Fishery 6 Management Council. 7 MR. GOURLEY: John Gourley, Vice-Chair, 8 Western Pacific Fishery Management Council. 9 MR. TOSALTO: Mike Tosalto, Pacific 10 Islands Regional Administrator. 11 MS. McCAWLEY: Alright, I am going to 12 turn it over to you, Chris for any -- 13 MR. OLIVER: Very briefly because I am 14 going to have a few -- a little more extensive 15 remarks in a few minutes but just good afternoon, 16 great to see everybody and I particularly welcome 17 Eric, I believe the newest CCC member. I think 18 you were unanimously elected as Vice-Chair 19 recently so welcome, Eric. 20 And in addition to Dan Furlong, there is 21 another CCC alumnus in the room and that's Rick 22 Robbins so I was really happy to see both of them. Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 11 1 Good to see you guys. So I'll talk a little bit 2 more about some recent major issues and priorities 3 in a minute. For the moment, I'll just look 4 forward to the discussions we are going to have 5 over the next three days on several important 6 items. 7 MS. McCAWLEY: Alright, thanks, Chris. 8 I am going to turn it over to Gregg to cover the 9 next couple of items on the agenda. 10 MR. WAUGH: Thank you. Just to call 11 your attention to the transcript from the past 12 meeting that's been posted and the meeting report 13 and I certainly found the meeting report helpful 14 to keep track on. What we are supposed to do 15 between CCC meetings so hopefully that's something 16 you all may consider continuing in the future but 17 we got the EDs, divvied up topics and we will be 18 tracking any motions and putting together a report 19 from this meeting. 20 We will review the major items briefly 21 on Thursday and just in terms of a topical order. 22 This afternoon, we were trying to put together a Anderson Court Reporting -- 703-519-7180 -- www.andersonreporting.net 11/05/19 Council Committee Meeting Page: 12 1 roundtable discussion with Congressional members 2 and staff. We are going to have a couple of 3 staffers here but they may participate more in the 4 legislative outlook and MSA reauthorization so if 5 we have some extra time this afternoon, we are 6 going to knock out a couple of the work group 7 reports that are scheduled for Thursday. Thank 8 you, Madam Chair. 9 MS. McCAWLEY: Thanks, Gregg. Alright, 10 Chris, I am going to turn it back to you. 11 MR. OLIVER: Okay, well I just want to 12 cover a few items to kick off generally, talk a 13 little bit about priorities in general. 14 This past Summer, we released our NOAA 15 Fisheries Strategic Plan for 2019 to 2022.