Pacific Hake/Whiting Treaty: Joint Technical Committee Meeting, December 15, 2021

The Joint Technical Committee (JTC), created under the Pacific Hake/Whiting Treaty between the Governments of the United States and Canada, will meet by webinar-only on December 15, 2021, to prepare for the 2022 Pacific hake/whiting stock assessment.  The JTC meeting is open to the public and members of the Pacific hake/whiting treaty advisory bodies and interested parties are encouraged to attend.  Information to connect to the webinar is included below.  

Meeting Date and Time

                    Wednesday, December 15, 2021   
                    9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Agenda

9:00 am Survey, Fisheries, and Assessment

1.    Call to order and Introductions
2.    Update on 2021 integrated acoustic and trawl survey
3.    Report from the U.S. Advisory Panel on the 2021 fishery
4.    Report from the Canadian Advisory Panel on the 2021 fishery

Morning Break 10:30 -10:45am

5.    Report from the Joint Technical Committee on the 2021 fishery data
6.    Expectations for the 2021 stock assessment
7.    Comments from the public

Lunch 12:00 – 1:00pm

1:00 pm Management Strategy Evaluation and Research Updates
8.    Status update on the Management Strategy Evaluation
9.    Update on NMFS west coast survey design plans and vessel hard drive data collection
10.     Update on using acoustics from saildrones for Pacific Hake
11.     Comments from the public
12.     Closing remarks

Meeting Information

To join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone, click the link below:     
https://meet.google.com/
1) Enter the meeting code:  ddz-pyxt-rxw 
2) Click “Join”
3) Sign into a Google account    

- OR -  

if you do not have a Google Account, enter a nickname and click “Ask to join” meeting. The meeting organizer will you grant access.

To join the meeting by phone-only, call:  
        US (toll): +1-541-579-2865      
                US PIN:  620 034 819 #
        Canada (toll): +1-226-213-8281
                CA PIN:  109 490 111 9383 #

Information about the Pacific Hake/Whiting Treaty 

Background documents about the Pacific Hake / Whiting Treaty and a schedule of the 2021-2022 meetings.