Comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Amendment 1

Ecosystem Workgroup Presentation for H.1.a. and H.1.b.

September 13, 2014

Agenda Item H.1.a & H.1.bSupplemental EWG PowerPoint

September 2014

Shared Ecosystem Component Species

OR

Shared EC Species

round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

• Revise Purpose and Need Statement

• Not enough squid – add more

• Analyze alternatives, allowing continuing minimal incidental catch

• Draft FMP amendment language

Section 1.2

Section 3.2.1.7

Chapters 2 & 4

Chapter 7

Amendment 15 to CPS FMP

Amendment 25 to Groundfish FMP

Amendment 3 to HMS FMP

Amendment 19 to Salmon FMP

1.0ComprehensiveEcosystem-BasedAmendment 1

2.0Ecosystem Trophic Role Pathway

No Action Alternative: the Federal List of Authorized Fisheries and Gear

NMFS published proposed rule on August 7, 2014

Alternative 2: Bring unfished forage fish species into the Fishery Management Plans and prohibit future directed fisheries, incidental retention allowed

Alternative 3: Bring unfished forage fish species into the Fishery Management Plans and prohibit future directed fisheries and incidental retention

Alternative 2: Bring unfished forage fish species into the Fishery Management Plans and prohibit future directed fisheries, incidental retention allowed

Alternative 3: Bring unfished forage fish species into the Fishery Management Plans and prohibit future directed fisheries and incidental retention

De minimis fishing:

§660.410(c) De minimis control rules. Klamath River fall Chinook and Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon have the same form of de minimis control rule described in the FMP, which allows for limited fishing impacts when abundance falls below SMSY. The control rule describes maximum allowable exploitation rates at any given level of abundance. The annual management measures may provide for lower exploitation rates as needed to address uncertainties or other year-specific circumstances. The de minimis exploitation rate in a given year must also be determined in consideration of the following factors:

The purpose of this action is to prohibit new directed commercial fishing in Federal waters on unmanaged, unfished forage fish species until the Council has had an adequate opportunity to both assess the scientific information relating to any proposed directed fishery and consider potential impacts to existing fisheries, fishing communities, and the greater marine ecosystem. This action is needed to proactively protect unmanaged, unfished forage fish of the U.S. West Coast EEZ in recognition of the importance of these forage fish to the species managed under the Council’s FMPs and to the larger CCE. This action is not intended to supersede tribal or state fishery management for these species, and coordination would still occur through the existing Council process.

3.2.1.7round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

3.0

round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

round and thread herring, mesopelagic fishes, Pacific sandlance, Pacific saury, Silversides, Osmerid smelts, and Pelagic squids(with the exception of Humboldt squid)

4.0

Alternative 3: Bring unfished forage fish species into the Fishery Management Plans and prohibit future directed fisheries and incidental retention

Alternative 2: Bring unfished forage fish species into the Fishery Management Plans and prohibit future directed fisheries, incidental retention allowed

5.06.0

Consistency with FMPs and Applicable Laws

Consistency with NEPA

7.1: Amendment 15 to CPS FMP

7.2: Amendment 25 to Groundfish FMP

7.3: Amendment 3 to HMS FMP

7.5: Amendment 19 to Salmon FMP

• Update list of FMP amendments• Add Shared EC Species to lists of

ecosystem component species• Add Shared EC Species to FMP

discussions of EC species• Explain process for evaluating future

potential fisheries for Shared EC Species

7.0

• COP 19, EFP Protocols for Groundfish

• COP 20, EFP Protocols for HMS• COP 23, EFP Protocols for CPS• COP 24, EFP Protocols for Shared

EC Species (Draft)

7.6

8.0Appendix

Sources

Council Policy on the Development of New Fisheries For Unfished Species

Richard Brodeur, NWFSC

Antonella Preti, SWFSC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6oov2ZmRaM

For those images where sources are not shown directly on image, all are courtesy of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, except:

Slide 2: Vancouver, Washington, City of Vancouver; Spokane, Washington, City of SpokaneSlide 3: Pacific saury, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (repeated at several subsequent slides); thread herring, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (repeated at several subsequent slides).Slide 5: Northeast Pacific Ocean; NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Slide 11: Octopoteuthis deletron, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research InstituteSlide 15: Sockeye salmon, Washington Department of Fish and WildlifeSlide 17: Common murre, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Rhinoceros auklets and sand lance, U.S. Geological Survey (repeated at Slide 18)Slide 19: Fishing boats in Monterey Bay, Deb Wilson-Vandenberg, CDFW; Wheat stack, Library of CongressSlide 24: Beaver, U.S. Department of Agriculture