November 2018 Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee Meeting

This is a meeting of the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, which advises NOAA and the Department of Commerce on living marine resource issues. PLEASE NOTE: LOCATION CHANGE! The meeting is now at NOAA Headquarters, 1315 East West Highway, Conference Room 4527, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

Each day of this meeting is accessible by the public via webinar and teleconference. At the top of each day's schedule is the information to access the meeting.

About

Primary goals of this meeting are to discuss: elevating consumer confidence in U.S. seafood (both wild caught and farmed); recreational fisheries surveys and electronic reporting; aquaculture activities; and the work and progress of the Columbia Basin Partnership Task Force to date.

Click here to view the Federal Register Notice

Meeting summary report (PDF, 16 pages)

Transcript, Day 1, November 6, 2018 (PDF, 224 pages)

Transcript, Day 2, November 7, 2018 (PDF, 257 pages)

Transcript, Day 3, November 8, 2018 (PDF, 136 pages)

Schedule

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3


Time	Subject	Presenter
8:30 - 8:45	Welcome, Introductions, & Agenda Review Introduction of Members attending their first meeting	Erika Feller, Chair Jennifer Lukens, Director, Office of Policy
8:45 - 9:05	Report from the Assistant Administrator	Chris Oliver, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries
9:05 - 10:00	Fishing Effort Survey What it measures and how it is different Update on the survey transition Implications of revised data Calibration outreach efforts Annotated agenda (PDF, 1 page) Presentation slides (PDF, 22 pages)	Kelly Denit, Division Chief, Domestic Fisheries, Office of Sustainable Fisheries David Van Vorhees, Division Chief, Fisheries Statistics Division, Office of Science & Technology
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:00	Electronic Recreational Fisheries Reporting Overview of MRIP certified e-reporting programs. Update on other e-reporting programs being implemented by Councils. Annotated agenda (PDF, 1 page) Presentation slides (PDF, 13 pages)	Rich Cody, ECS Federal LLC MRIP Program Management Team Member, Office of Science and Technology
11:00 - 12:00	Saltonstall-Kennedy grant-making process and review Overview of the S-K Grant Program Discussion of the review process and priority settings Opportunities for engagement and outreach Annotated agenda (PDF, 1 page) Presentation slides (PDF, 27 pages) Link to Salstonstall-Kennedy Act	Dan Namur, Director, External Funding Division, Office of Management and Budget Cliff Cosgrove, Manager, S-K Grant Program
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 2:30	Columbia Basin Partnership Task Force Update on qualitative and quantitative goals Update on report development Transmittal plan Next steps Presentation slides (PDF, 12 pages) Example of qualitative data gathered for one species, WCR steelhead (PDF, 2 pages) CBP Task Force Recommendations Report Table of Contents (PDF, 2 pages)	Barry Thom, Regional Administrator for the West Coast Heath Heikkila, Coastal Conservation Association, Pacific Norwest Fisheries Jennifer Anders, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Montana, Salish-Kootenai Tribes, and Kootenai Tribe of Idaho Katherine Cheney, Public Affairs Specialist, West Coast Region
2:30 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 4:15	Subcommittees (Open to all members) Recreational Fisheries Subcommittee Work plan Strategic Planning Subcommittee (Magnolia Pre-Function) S-K grant program Brainstorming on strategic planning topics	Richard Yamada, Serving for Bob Gill as Subcommittee Co-Chair Erika Feller, Subcommittee Chair
4:15	Adjourn
4:45	Convene at NOAA Gateway Exhibit NOAA Campus, Bldg 2, Plaza Level (Website here)	David Hall, Public Affairs Officer, NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, and a member of the NOAA Heritage Legacy Program team

Time	Subject	Presenter
9:00 – 9:30	Reports from the State Directors Meeting and Fisheries Commissions Outlook for year ahead	David Donaldson, Executive Director, Gulf States Randy Fisher, Executive Director, Pacific States Bob Beal, Executive Director, Atlantic States
9:30 – 10:30	NOAA Fisheries Budget Outlook & Administrative Update Presentation slides (PDF, 38 pages)	Paul Doremus, PhD, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Operations
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 11:45	NOAA Aquaculture Program Updates Administration activity on aquaculture Implementation of the Strategic Plan Developing a Strategic Aquaculture Science Plan (SASP) Presentation slides (PDF, 16 pages)	David O’Brien, Deputy Director, Office of Aquaculture Paul Doremus, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Operations
11:45 - 1:15	Lunch
1:15 – 2:00	Fish and Seafood Promotion Act Overview, history of the Act, and general marketing authorities Annotated agenda (PDF, 1 page) Presentation slides (PDF, 17 pages)	Jennifer Lukens, Director, Office of Policy
2:00 – 3:30	Elevating Consumer Confidence in U.S. Seafood *Panel discussion on U.S. Seafood Promotion* Panel experts will discuss consumer behavior and perceptions related to seafood consumption and consumer confidence in U.S. produced seafood. Background paper (PDF, 2 pages) Biographies of Panelists (PDF, 2 pages)	John Connelly, President, National Fisheries Institute Linda Cornish, President, Seafood Nutrition Partnership Steve Markenson, Director of Research, Food Marketing Institute, “The Power of Seafood”
3:30 – 3:40	Public Comment
3:45 - 5:15	Subcommittees (Open to all members) Commerce Subcommittee Conversation on consumer behavior and building consumer confidence will continue. Discussion/Approval of Task 2. Discussion/Approval of Aquaculture Task Force recommended topics for the Strategic Aquaculture Science Plan. Aquaculture Task Force topics as Vision Statement (PDF, 10 pages) Other Subcommittees -as needed	Roger Berkowitz, Subcommittee Co-Chair Sebastian Belle, Subcommittee Co-Chair
5:15	Adjourn

Time	Subject	Presenter
9:00 – 10:00	Science Enterprise Update	Francisco (Cisco) Werner, PhD, Director, Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor
10:00 – 11:30	Subcommittee Reports Commerce Recreational Fisheries Strategic Planning	Subcommittee Chairs: Roger Berkowitz and Sebastian Belle Richard Yamada Erika Feller
11:30 -12:00	Close Out: Review of Decisions, Action Items, Next Steps, Next Meeting	Erika Feller, Chair Jennifer Lukens, Director, Office of Policy
12:30 pm	Adjourn

Last updated by Office of Policy on 02/04/2022