MAFAC Meeting January 2005

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

MARINE FISHERIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SUMMARY REPORT

HILTON HAWAIIAN VILLAGE
January 11-14, 2005
Honolulu, Hawaii

Meeting Minutes

Transcriptions

• January 11, 2005
• January 12, 2005
• January 13, 2005
• January 14, 2005

Reports

• Ecosystem Approach to Management
• Cold Water Corals
• Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization

Associated Documents

• Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management, Report to Congress, April 1999
• Ecosystems Monitoring and Fisheries Management, NMFS, September 1987

Agenda

Presentations

NOAA Ecosystem Mission (Under Secretary Lautenbacher)
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State of the Fisheries 2004 - 2005 (Hogarth)
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Ecosystem Approach to Management

• Sissenwine (PPT)
• Dunnigan (PPT)

Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization

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Cold Water Corals

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PRE-BRIEF MATERIALS

I. Ecosystem Approach to Management - Discussion

A. Executive Order: Committee on Ocean Policy, December 17, 2004

B. Ocean Action Plan, December 17, 2004

C. United Nations General Assembly, Resolution, November 2004

D. Ecosystem-Based Approach Task Force, MAFAC, May 2003

1. Ecosystem Task Force Report (2 pgs)
2. Report by the Science Subcommittee (1 pg)
3. Strategic Guidance for Implementing an Ecosystem-based Approach (61 pgs)

E. Additional Background - Oceans Commission's Report

Achieving Sustainable Fisheries, Chapter 19
Protecting Marine Mammals and Endangered Marine Species, Chapter 20

II. Cold Water Corals – Discussion

A. Preserving Coral Reefs and Other Coral Communities, Chapter 21, Oceans Commission Report

B. Status of petition to protect deep-sea coral and sponge habitats in the EEZ

III. Overall Oceans Commission Recommendations

A. Summary Recommendations, Chapter 31, Oceans Commission

IV. Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization Discussion - background materials