JOINT GROUNDFISH ADVISORY SUBPANEL AND GROUNDFISH MANAGEMENT TEAM REPORT ON THE OMNIBUS PROJECT PRIORITIZATION

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1 Agenda Item G.4.a Supplemental / Report 1 November 2018 JOINT GROUNDFISH ADVISORY SUBPANEL AND GROUNDFISH MANAGEMENT TEAM REPORT ON THE OMNIBUS PROJECT PRIORITIZATION 2016 ommendation ommendation Items on which Council action has been completed and implementation is in progress (from 2016 list) Clarify Rules for Amendment 21 Phase 1 Sablefish Rule: Joint Registration and Prohibition of Processing IFQ Sablefish At-Sea, Revise Limited Entry Fixed Gear Permit Control Rule, Require E-Tickets for Sablefish Landings, Sablefish North of 36 Degrees - Allocation Correction, Fishery Declaration Enhancements Monitoring Amendment 26 Blackgill Rockfish and Non- Allocations Allocation Vessel Movement Monitoring: Monitoring Restricted s with VMS, Fishery Declaration Enhancements, Movement of IFQ Fish Pot Gear Across Lines Monitoring 5 Cost overy Corrections Cost overy 6 IFQ, MS Electronic Monitoring Exempted Fishing Permits (ongoing though 2018) Monitoring 7 IFQ, MS Electronic Monitoring Regulations for Whiting and Fixed Gear Monitoring 8 IFQ, MS 9 CP Pacific Dawn Lawsuit Appeal to 9th Circuit Court (Whiting Allocation) Glacier Fish Co Lawsuit Appeal to 9th Circuit Court (Cost overy); and Glacier Fish Co Lawsuit in District Court (2016 Fee Percentage). Lawsuit Lawsuit 10 IFQ Pacific Choice Lawsuit (Divestiture) Lawsuit 1

2 11 IFQ Update eticket for Web-based Submissions (deeming completed as part of the Phase I sablefish rule) ommendation ommendation ord ing 12 IFQ Widow Rockfish QS Reallocation and Divestiture Deadlines Allocation 13 IFQ Rename to "Removal of Selective Flatfish (SFFT) requirement between and 42 N. lat." as following being adopted via gear regs. package: Gear Changes: Carrying and Using Multiple Gears on a Single Trip, Eliminating Minimum Mesh Size, Eliminating Chafing Gear Restrictions, Eliminating Codend Restrictions, Allowing a New Haul to be Brought Onboard Prior to Stowing a Previous Haul, Changing SFFT Definition and Restrictions. Gear 14 LEFG, OA Logbooks for Fixed Gear ESA 15 reational Mid-water Sport Fishery in OR Gear Immediate and Long-Term Commitments and Measures 4, including New Measures 5 and Amendment 27 (June 2016) Routine Adopt Final Stock Assessment Plan and TOR for 2017 (June 2016) Routine 2017 Pacific Halibut Sharing Plan (June, Sept, and Nov 2016) Stock Assessment Methods Review Topic Selection (Sept, Nov 2016) Allocation Routine Salmon ESA Consultation (Sept, Nov 2016) ESA Fishery Ecosystem Plan Indicators Initiative (Sept 2016, Mar 2017) Ecosystem 2

3 Non- trawl, ommendation ommendation Sablefish Ecosystem Indicators (Sept 2016) Ecosystem Bmsy Stock Productivity, Historical onstruction Workshop Report (Mar 2017) Stock Assessment Fishery Ecosystem Plan Identify New Indicators (Mar 2017) Ecosystem California Current Ecosystem Report (Mar 2017) Ecosystem Endangered Species Workgroup Report (Apr 2017) ESA Inseason (June 2016 and beyond, excluding Mar 2017) Routine Pacific Whiting and Set- Asides (Apr 2017) Routine Stock Assessments for Biennium (June 2017) Routine Start of the Process to Establish and Regulations (June 2017) Gear Regulation Changes Fishing in Multiple s on the Same Trip (June 2016) Essential Fish Habitat and Rockfish Conservation Adjustments (Sept 2016, Mar 2017) Amendment 21 Allocation Revisions for POP and DRK, Set-Asides (June, Sept 2016) Routine Gear Allocation 3

4 34 Five Year Share Review Including Scoping for Intersector Allocation Review (Sept, Nov 2016 & June 2017) 35 Cost overy Report (Apr 2017) 36 IFQ 37 Non-, EM Bottom and Non-Whiting Midwater EFP Update and Confirm FPA (Nov 2016) Nearshore Species (Mar 2017) Routine (program reviews) Cost overy; Routine ommendation ommendation Monitoring 38 LE FG LE Fixed Gear Sablefish Phase 2 (Sept 2016, Apr 2017) Permitting 39 LE FG 2017 Incidental Regulations for Pacific Halibut (Mar and Apr 2017) Routine 40 IFQ 41 IFQ QS/QP Control Rule - Safe Harbor for Risk Pools - post 5-year review Resolve Long-term Whiting Surplus Carryover Provision - post 5- year review Accumulation Limits 42 IFQ Develop Criteria for Distributing Adaptive Program QP Allocation Candidate Items for Prioritization in September (2016) 43 Non-, Rebuilding Revision Rules (signal vs. noise) 44 Non-, Further Consideration for Reorganizing Stock Complexes 45 Non-, Ecosystem Port Sampling White Paper / Ecosystem 46 Non-, Further Consideration for Ecosystem Component Species 47 Non-, Analysis of a Multi-Year Average Policy 4

5 , (LE) Create 60-Mile Bank RCA Lines Groundfish Conservation s for Rougheye Rockfish New Dressed to Round Conversion Factors for Sablefish ommendation ommendation, but low priority Eliminate Permit Size Endorsements Permitting 52 Non- ESA Seabird ESA IFQ, MS, CP Move the Seaward Non- RCA Line Closer to Shore for Pot Vessels Allow Between Sector Transfer of Unneeded Overfished Species Allocation 55 IFQ, MS Allow Between Sector Transfer of Rockfish from IFQ to MS Allocation IFQ, MS, CP IFQ, MS, CP Revise Length of Time Required for the Fleet to Retain ords Year Round Whiting Season and Other Season Date Modifications 58 IFQ Remove Certain Midwater - Restrictions 59 IFQ Remove Certain Restrictions on Gear Configuration (Gear Regs Update II); targeting whiting with bottom trawl, eliminate distinction between whiting and non-whiting midwater, eliminate distinction between midwater and bottom trawl 60 IFQ Resolve Long-term Non-Whiting Surplus Carryover Provision 61 IFQ Carryover when Units Change ord ing Season Structure Gear 62 IFQ Allow Trading of Previous Year Quota Pounds in Current Year Allocation 63 IFQ Discard Survival Credit for Lingcod and Sablefish 5

6 ommendation ommendation 64 IFQ Require Posting of First eiver Site Licenses ord ing 65 MS, CP Eliminate the Prohibition on At-Sea Processing S. of 42 ESA 66 Non- Discard Mortality Rates for Commercial Nearshore Fisheries 67 LEFG, OA Commercial Gear Restriction for Targeting Flatfish in CA Gear 68 LEFG, OA Retain Halibut in the Sablefish Fishery (South of Pt. Chehalis) 69 reational Discard Mortality Rates for the reational Fisheries 70 reational 50 fm Depth Restriction (WA and OR) Items Newly Identified Since the 2016 List Season Structure N-1 IFQ Gear Switching and Sablefish Allocation N-2 all N-3 IFQ Rename to "Increasing IFQ Carryover from 10 Percent" from original title of "Flexibility in ACL Response" Aggregate Non-whiting QS Control Limits and Individual Species Weighting Accumulation Limits item to increase IFQ carryover limits as low priority N-4 All /Non-trawl Amendment 21 Allocations Allocation N-5 CCA revisions N-6 MS Mothership Sector Utilization Accumulation Limits N-7 Fixed Gear Moving Platt/Emley EFP into Regulations Gear TBD N-8 reational Allow Natural Bait in the Oregon Longleader Gear Fishery Gear TBD a/ 6

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Changing Groundfish Fisheries

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