Full Council Session

Full Council Session

SOUTH ATLANTIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL FULL COUNCIL SESSION Hilton Garden Inn/Outer Banks Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 6-7, 2018 Summary Minutes Council Members Jessica McCawley, Chair Mel Bell, Vice-Chair Anna Beckwith Chester Brewer Dr. Kyle Christiansen Chris Conklin Dr. Roy Crabtree Tim Griner Doug Haymans Dr. Wilson Laney LCDR Jeremy Montes Stephen Poland Art Sapp David Whitaker Spud Woodward Council Staff Gregg Waugh John Carmichael Dr. Brian Cheuvront Myra Brouwer Dr. Chip Collier Dr. Mike Errigo John Hadley Kathleen Howington Kim Iverson Kelly Klasnick Roger Pugliese Cameron Rhodes Amber Von Harten Christian Wiegand Julia Byrd Mike Collins Observers and Participants Rick DeVictor Nik Mehte Shep Grimes Erika Burgess Dr. Jack McGovern Monica Smith-Brunello Dr. Clay Porch Dr. Erik Williams Tony Dilernia Dale Diaz Charlie Phillips Michael Larkin Brett Pierce Vivian Matter Heather Coleman Kelley Elliott Full Council Session December 6-7, 2018 Kitty Hawk, NC The Full Council Session of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council convened at the Hilton Garden Inn/Outer Banks, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Thursday afternoon, December 6, 2018, and was called to order by Chairman Jessica McCawley. MS. MCCAWLEY: We are going to move into Full Council. We need to go around the table and do voice identification, and we’ll start over there with Spud. MR. WOODWARD: Spud Woodward. DR. CHRISTIANSEN: Kyle Christiansen. MR. HAYMANS: Doug Haymans, Georgia. MR. SAPP: Art Sapp. MR. BREWER: Chester Brewer, Florida. MR. WHITAKER: David Whitaker, South Carolina. MR. BELL: Mel Bell, South Carolina. MR. CONKLIN: Christopher Conklin, South Carolina. DR. LANEY: Wilson Laney, Fish and Wildlife Service. MR. WAUGH: Gregg Waugh, council staff. MS. MCCAWLEY: Jessica McCawley, Florida. MR. DIAZ: Dale Diaz, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. MR. DILERNIA: Tony DiLernia, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. MS. BECKWITH: Anna Beckwith, great state of North Carolina. MR. POLAND: Stephen Poland. North Carolina. MR. GRINER: Tim Griner, North Carolina. MS. MCCAWLEY: We don’t want to keep going around the table here? DR. WILLIAMS: Erik Williams, Southeast Fisheries Science Center. DR. PORCH: Clay Porch, Southeast Fisheries Science Center. MS. SMIT-BRUNELLO: Monica Smit-Brunello, NOAA General Counsel. DR. CRABTREE: Roy Crabtree, NOAA Fisheries. 2 Full Council Session December 6-7, 2018 Kitty Hawk, NC DR. MCGOVERN: Jack McGovern, NOAA Fisheries. LT. MONTES: Jeremy Montes, Coast Guard. MS. MCCAWLEY: Thanks, everyone. We would like to welcome our new council member, David Whitaker, to his first meeting. Also, as you heard, we have Dale, our Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council liaison, and Tony, the Mid-Atlantic Council liaison, and we also have Clay, our Southeast Fisheries Science Center Director, and Jeremy Montes, our Coast Guard rep, with us today. Our first order of business is Approval of the Agenda. Are there any changes or additions to the agenda? Any objections to approval of the agenda? Seeing none, the agenda stands approved. The next order of business is Approval of the Minutes. Any modifications to the minutes from the last meeting? Any objection to approval of the minutes? Seeing none, the minutes stands approved. We don’t necessarily have any awards at this particular meeting, but we would like to thank Steve for the hospitality on Tuesday night, and, also, I want to recognize Mike Collins. This is his last meeting, after thirteen years of service to the council, and we are certainly going to miss him. He leaves some big shoes for Kelly to fill, and we recognized Mike earlier this week, but I just wanted to also recognize him at the end of this week as well. Thank you so much, Mike, for all that you’ve done for the council over the thirteen years. (Applause) We will be coming to visit you at the Villages. Next up, we’re going to go into the Council Staff Reports, and we’re going to start with Gregg on the Executive Director’s Report. MR. WAUGH: Thank you, Madam Chair. My report is included as Attachment 1, and it’s short. We have covered the stuff under Executive Finance. As everybody has experienced, it’s been a very busy end to the year, since our council meeting got postponed due to the hurricane. We’ve been looking, and it was just a two-week delay, but it certainly seems to have snowballed, because we just feel like we’ve been playing catch-up the entire rest of the year. We’ve got a new council member from the State of South Carolina, and we did David’s orientation with him, and, as the Chair just indicated, Mike is headed off. Kelly is doing a super job. Kimberly Cole also is leaving to pursue another opportunity, after working with us for two years, and we’ll miss her, and we wish her well in her new endeavor, and we’ve already hired someone that you will meet at the next meeting to serve in that role, and her name is also Kim, and so it makes it easy on us in the office. Thank you, Madam Chair. That’s it. MS. MCCAWLEY: Thank you, Gregg. Next up on our list, we have our MyFishCount Update, and I think Chip is going to give us that. DR. COLLIER: We continue to work with MyFishCount, and we are providing an update on the number of users. As of the writing of this report, there are 821 users, and they have reported 866 trips. Looking in that trips number, I believe that does actually include some of the test trips. Looking at the promotions, we are continuing to promote it. We are doing some webinars, and we’ve had some success with getting people in those, and they have all indicated that it was very useful to have those trainings, and so we’re going to likely continue those trainings. 3 Full Council Session December 6-7, 2018 Kitty Hawk, NC We have been working on a Shiny app, which is just a web program, or a web portal, in order to look at some of the data, and I can show you what it looks like right now, and so I will pull that up, if you give me just one second, and I have two different versions of this. I have a test version, and then also a live version, and so what I’m going to show you right now is what is currently out on the web, and then it’s not updated, because I haven’t checked the most recent data, but this was through 9/26. In addition to that, while the computer is thinking about it, we are continuing to clean the data and to check for errors and also make it more streamlined. Then, finally, one of the biggest things that we’re trying to do with this reporting app is actually make it available so that several different systems could report into ACCSP, and, right now, the API is being developed, and we are able to submit some data through that process. Here is what we’re calling our Shiny app, and it welcomes you to the first page. It indicates the number of users and the number of trips. If you look at this through 9/26, and it gives you exactly what day it’s based up to, and then you can go into some of the information that’s been reported for the last two weeks, and this, once again, was 9/26 was the last two weeks, updated for this page. You can see the most common species that were reported, and there is no numbers associated with this. We’re just giving the rankings, and, also, some of the fish with the highest number reported. Within there, you can go into different pieces of information, and you can look at November, if you want to see some information from that, and so that was November of last year, is what that data was indicating. We don’t have November in there yet. What we’re thinking with this catch information is fishermen would find it useful when they’re designing their trips, and so what fish are typically caught in the South Atlantic region during this time period, and so the next piece of information, the next tab over, is MyFishCount fish, and this is information on the length distribution for fish that were kept and discarded. We have several different species here, black sea bass, gag, gray triggerfish, red snapper, vermilion snapper, and you can see the percent of fish by length distribution, depending on whichever species you pick, and then you can scroll further down and actually look at the reason for release, and so this focuses just on the released fish and whether or not it was over the bag limit, too small, other reasons, and you can scroll through the different species. Some of the species we don’t have that great information on, and red snapper is obviously one that we have been getting a lot of information on that species, and you can see the length distribution of fish that were caught, or kept, and then length distribution of fish that were released. Then you can go in there, and you can look at additional information for the releases. You can look at release treatment, and you can also look at reason for release in a different format. Then, finally, we go into some of the life history information for some of these higher-profile species, and so we have some information that I pulled from the Ecospecies database as well as the most recent SEDARs, and it focuses on the distribution, the spawning, reproduction, movement.

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