MAFAC Meeting October 2010

October 19-21, 2010
Historic Inns of Annapolis, Annapolis, Maryland

ADVANCE MATERIALS

BP Deepwater Horizon - status update

Science enterprise

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: The Science for Monitoring, Assessment, and Mitigation of the Deepwater Horizon Event
• NOAA Administrator's Keynote Address on NOAA Science and the Gulf Oil Spill delivered September 30, 2010 at the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) Law Summit in New Orleans (Click here)

Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) activities

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Webinar, Sept. 1 2010
• Response to MAFAC inquiry re: public involvement and restoration criteria
• Diagram - Assessing the Impacts of Oil: First Steps
• Resource Restoration Planning Process Begins for BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Sept. 29, 2010 (Click here)
• Notice of Intent to Conduct Restoration Planning in Response to Discharge of Oil From Deepwater Horizon/Macondo Well, Gulf of Mexico (Click here)
• DAARP website, with updates (Click here)

Other updates

• The “Mabus Report:” America's Gulf Coast: A Long Term Recovery Plan after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Click here for report and associated documents)
• Recovery Resource Guide for the Gulf Coast (Click here)
• Current Federal Fisheries Closure and Other Information (Click here for NMFS website)

MAFAC Administration

• Nominations
• Time, Place, Agenda topics-next meeting
• Committee assignments
• Action items update

Budget and Strategic Planning

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: NOAA's Next Generation Strategic Plan - Overview for the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee
• FY2011 budget status briefing to MAFAC

National Ocean Policy and Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP)

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: National Ocean Policy

NOAA's Law Enforcement update and compliance assistance program

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: Enforcement Program Update
• Secretary Locke to Appoint Special Master to Review NOAA Law Enforcement Cases, Restricts Use of the Asset Forfeiture Fund , Sept 23, 2010 (Click here)
• Dr. Jane Lubchenco Responds to Inspector General's Final Report on Fisheries enforcement , September 24, 2010 (Click here)
• Fisheries Law Enforcement Updates: Announcing Fisheries Law Enforcement Complaint e-Hotline , September 27, 2010 (Click here)
• NOAA Proposed Policy on Prohibited and Authorized Uses of the Asset Forfeiture Fund. Click here for the policy in the Federal Register (Sept. 29, 2010) with commenting instructions.
• National Enforcement Summit - (Click here)
• Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Commercial Compliance Guide
• Enforcement Considerations for Regional Fishery Management Councils
• Precepts for Developing Efficient, Enforceable Aquaculture Regulations

Marine habitats assessments

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: Development of the Marine Fisheries Habitat Assessment Improvement Plan
• NMFS Habitat Assessment Improvement Plan May 2010

Critical habitat designation process

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: Critical Habitat

Current and future NMFS services to stakeholders

• Annotated Agenda
• Presentation: Strategic Planning – Future of NMFS Services

College Creek Living Shoreline Restoration Site

Subcommittees and Workgroups

Recreational Fisheries

• Meeting Notes , Webinar on the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP), October 4, 2010
• Presentation: MRIP upcoming actions
• Video: Counting Catch (Click here)
• MRIP Self-Guided Training Presentation (Click Here)
• MRIP Webinar Presentation to RFWG

Strategic Planning, Budget and Program Management

Ecosystem Management

Protected Resources

Commerce

AGENDA

Federal Register Notice

Meeting Overview & Recommendations

Transcripts

• October 19, 2010
• October 20, 2010
• October 21, 2010