June 2025 Council Meeting
A. Call to Order
B. Open Comment Period
- B.1 Situation Summary: Comments on Non Agenda Items
- B.1.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- B.1.b Positively Groundfish Presentation
C. Administrative Matters
- C.1 Situation Summary: Council Coordination Committee Meeting Report
- C.1 Attachment 1: Council Coordination Committee Meeting Agenda
- C.1 Supplemental Attachment 2: Summary of May 2025 Council Coordination Commitee Meeting
- C.1.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.2 Situation Summary: Legislative Matters
- C.2.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.3 Situation Summary: Fiscal Matters
- C.3.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.4 Situation Summary: Approve Council Meeting Records
- C.4 Attachment 1: DRAFT Council Meeting Record March 2025
- C.4 Attachment 2: DRAFT Council Meeting Record April 2025
- C.5 Situation Summary: Membership Appointments and Council Operating Procedures
- C.5 Attachment 1: NMFS Designee Change Request
- C.5 Attachment 2: Enforcement Consultant representation Change Request
- C.5.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- C.6 Situation Summary: Future Council Meeting Agenda and Workload Planning
- C.6 Attachment 1: Year at a Glance (YAG)
- C.6 Attachment 2: September Quick Reference (QR)
- C.6 Attachment 3: November Quick Reference (QR)
- C.6.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
D. Cross Fishery Management Plan (FMP)
- D.1 Situation Summary: Presidential Executive Orders and Administration Updates
- D.1 Attachment 1: EO Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness
- D.1 Attachment 2: EO Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth
- D.1 Attachment 3: NMFS Guidance to Executive Directors
- D.1 Attachment 4: Recommended Action Template
- D.1.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.2 Situation Summary: Council Response to Executive Orders and Administration Updates
- D.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- D.3 Situation Summary: Research and Data Needs – Final Action
- D.3 Attachment 1: Research and Data Needs – Council Preliminary Priorities
- D.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
E. Groundfish Management
- E.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- E.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on Recently Published Groundfish Rulemaking & Workload
- E.1.b Supplemental NWFSC PPT: Science Center Activities
- E.1.c Supplemental GAP Report 1: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel Report on National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- E.1.d Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.2 Situation Summary: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions: Gear Endorsements, Cost Recovery, and other Administrative Changes – Final Action
- E.2 Attachment 1: Draft EA/RIR/RFA/MSA Actions for Limited Entry Fixed Gear Analysis
- E.2.a NMFS Report 1: Updated Proposal for a Sablefish Permit Stacking Cost Recovery Program
E.2 Supplemental Staff Presentation: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions: Gear Endorsements, Cost Recovery, and Other Administrative Actions - E.2 Supplemental Attachment 2: Proposed Fishery Management Plan Revisions for Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions – Final Action
- E.2 Supplemental Attachment 3: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Analysis – Errata
- E.2.a Supplemental GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions
- E.2.a Supplemental GAP Report 1: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel Report on Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions; Gear Endorsements, Cost Recovery and Other Administrative Changes – Final Action
- E.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.3 Situation Summary: Inseason Management – Final Action
- E.3.a Supplemental GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Inseason Updates to Canary Rockfish, Petrale Sole, and Shortspine Thornyhead
- E.3.a Supplemental GMT Report 2: Groundfish Managment Team Report on Inseason Adjustments – Final Action
- E.3.a Supplemental GAP Report 1: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel Report on Inseason Management – Final Action
- E.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
E.4 Situation Summary: Adopt Stock Assessments(CANCELLED)E.4.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.5 Situation Summary: Intersector Allocation Review – Final Action
- E.5 Attachment 1: Intersector Allocation Review
- E.5.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.6 Situation Summary: Phase 2 Stock Definitions – Final Action
- E.6 Attachment 1: DRAFT Phase 2 Stock Definitions: Analysis of the Preliminary Preferred Alternatives for 47 Groundfish Species Adopted under Alternative 1 in March 2025
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 2: Phase 2 Stock Definitions: 10 Factor Analysis of 40 Groundfish Species and a Range of Alternatives to Support Council Decision-Making for a Preliminary Preferred Alternative
- E.6 REVISED Attachment 3: Draft Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan Language to Support Phase 2
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 4: Errata to Supplemental Attachment 2
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 5: Phase 2 Stock Definitions: Summary Decision Points for June 2025
- E.6.a Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Tribal Report on 40 Groundfish Species Selected for Additional 10 Factor Analysis
- E.6.a GMT Report 1: GMT Report on Ecosystem Component Species and their Fishery Mortality
- E.6.a Supplemental HC Report 1: Phase 2 Stock Definitions – Final Action
- E.6.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.7 Situation Summary: Harvest Specifications Flexibility – Scoping
- E.7 Supplemental Attachment 1: National Marine Fisheries Service and Pacific Fishery Management Council Staff Joint Report on Harvest Specifications Flexibilities and Adaptive Management in the Groundfish Fishery
- E.7.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- E.8 Situation Summary: 2027-28 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures Planning
- E.8 Attachment 1: Proposed Schedule for Developing the2027-28 Groundfish Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
- E.8 Attachment 2: Groundfish Harvest Specifications and Accountability Measures: Definitions and use in Management
- E.8.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
F. Highly Migratory Species Management
- F.1 Situation Summary: National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- F.1.a NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on HMS Activities
- F.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.2 Situation Summary: International Management Activities
- F.2 Supplemental Attachment 1: Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting Summary
- F.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on International HMS Activities
- F.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Summary of a U.S. Stakeholder Meeting on North Pacific Albacore Management
- F.2.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.3 Situation Summary: Exempted Fishing Permits – Final Action
- F.3 Attachment 1: Exempted Fishery Permit Application for Night Deep-set Buoy Gear (NDSBG) and Night Linked Buoy Gear (NLBG)
- F.3 Attachment 2: Exempted Fishery Permit Application for Night Deep-set Buoy Gear (NDSBG) – Yacobucci
- F.3 Attachment 3: Night-set Buoy Gear (NSBG) EFP Extension Request – Perez
- F.3.b Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
- F.4 Situation Summary: Highly Migratory Species Roadmap Development
- F.4 Attachment 1: NMFS National Seafood Strategy and Alignment with the DRAFT HMS Roadmap
- F.4.a FIW Report 1: HMS Fisheries Innovation Workgroup (FIW) Report on HMS Roadmap Development
- F.4.a Supplemental FIW Report 2: Highly Migratory Species Fisheries Innovation Workgroup Report on Highly Migratory Species Roadmap Development
- F.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
G. Habitat Issues
- G.1 Situation Summary: Current Habitat Issues
- G.1.a Supplemental HC Report 1: Habitat Committee Report on Habitat Issues
- G.1.c Public Comment – (If received, Electronic Only)
Advisory body and committee agendas
- Enforcement Consultants (EC) Agenda
- Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) Agenda
- Groundfish Managment Team (GMT) Agenda
- Highly Migratory Species Advisory Subpanel (HMSAS) Agenda
- Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) Agenda
- Legislative Committee (LC) Agenda
- Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Agenda (Revised)
Groundfish Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee AgendaCANCELLED
Scientific and Statistical Committee Materials
Advisory body and committee memos
- Enforcement Consultants Memo
- Groundfish Memo
- Highly Migratory Species Memo
- Scientific and Statistical Committee Memo (Revised)
Informational reports
- Informational Report 1: FY24 Annual Enforcement Report to PFMC
- Informational Report 2a: Fishing Efforts in the 2002-2023 U.S. Pacific Coast Groundfish Fisheries
- Informational Report 2b: Tables (Excel Download)
- Informational Report 3a: Endangered Species Interactions with U.S. West Coast Federal Groundfish Fisheries, 2002-2023
- Informational Report 3b: Tables (Excel Download)
- Informational Report 4: Development and Use of California Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Data in Groundfish Stock Assessments
General Information and Membership Roster
Recent reports
- E.1.b Supplemental NWFSC PPT: Science Center Activities
- E.2.a Supplemental GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions
- E.3.a Supplemental GMT Report 2: Groundfish Managment Team Report on Inseason Adjustments – Final Action
- E.3.a Supplemental GAP Report 1: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel Report on Inseason Management – Final Action
- E.2.a Supplemental GAP Report 1: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel Report on Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions; Gear Endorsements, Cost Recovery and Other Administrative Changes – Final Action
- E.1.c Supplemental GAP Report 1: Groundfish Advisory Subpanel Report on National Marine Fisheries Service Report
- B.1.b Positively Groundfish Presentation
- E.6 Supplemental Revised Attachment 3: Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
- E.2 Supplemental Staff Presentation: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions: Gear Endorsements, Cost Recovery, and Other Administrative Actions
- F.4.a Supplemental FIW Report 2: Highly Migratory Species Fisheries Innovation Workgroup Report on Highly Migratory Species Roadmap Development
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 5: Phase 2 Stock Definitions: Summary Decision Points for June 2025
- E.6.a Supplemental Tribal Report 1: Tribal Report on 40 Groundfish Species Selected for Additional 10 Factor Analysis
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 4: Errata to Supplemental Attachment 2
- F.2 Supplemental Attachment 1: Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting Summary
- F.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on International HMS Activities
- F.2.a Supplemental NMFS Report 2: Summary of a U.S. Stakeholder Meeting on North Pacific Albacore Management
- C.1 Supplemental Attachment 2: Summary of May 2025 Council Coordination Commitee Meeting
- E.6.a Supplemental HC Report 1: Phase 2 Stock Definitions – Final Action
- G.1.a Supplemental HC Report 1: Habitat Committee Report on Habitat Issues
- E.1.a Supplemental NMFS Report 1: NMFS Report on Recently Published Groundfish Rulemaking & Workload
- E.7 Supplemental Attachment 1: National Marine Fisheries Service and Pacific Fishery Management Council Staff Joint Report on Harvest Specifications Flexibilities and Adaptive Management in the Groundfish Fishery
- E.2 Supplemental Attachment 2: Proposed Fishery Management Plan Revisions for Limited Entry Fixed Gear Actions – Final Action
- E.2 Supplemental Attachment 3: Limited Entry Fixed Gear Analysis – Errata
- E.6 Supplemental Attachment 2: Phase 2 Stock Definitions: 10 Factor Analysis of 40 Groundfish Species and a Range of Alternatives to Support Council Decision-Making for a Preliminary Preferred Alternative
- E.3.a Supplemental GMT Report 1: Groundfish Management Team Report on Inseason Updates to Canary Rockfish, Petrale Sole, and Shortspine Thornyhead