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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

9:00 a.m. Introductions and Announcements (Council Chairman John Pappalardo)

9:05 Reports on Recent Activities - Council Chairman, Executive Director, NMFS Regional Administrator, NOAA General Counsel, Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council liaisons, and representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard, NMFS Enforcement/VMS, and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission

10:15 Review Experimental Fishery Permit (EFP) Applications (Council Deputy Director Chris Kellogg)

10:20 Habitat Committee Report (David Preble)

10:30 Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Report (Dr. Michael Fogarty, NEFMC SSC)

11:50 Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Presentation (OOI representative Al Plueddemann, Woods Hole

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:30 Open Period for Public Comments (John Pappalardo)

1:45 Skate Committee Report (David Goethel)

3:30 Report on the November 2010 Stock Assessment Workshop/Stock Assessment Review Committee (SAW/SARC) Meetings (Dr. Jim Weinberg, Northeast Fisheries Science Center)

4:15 International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Report (David Preble)

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

8:30 a.m. Groundfish Committee Report (Rip Cunningham)

10:30 Herring Committee Report (Doug Grout)

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00 Herring agenda itemcontinued until meeting adjournment at the end of the day

Thursday, January 27, 2011

8:30 a.m. Groundfish Committee Report (Rip Cunningham)

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00 General Counsel Review (Mitch MacDonald, NOAA General Counsel, Northeast Region)

2:00 Scallop Committee Report (David Pierce)

3:30 Monkfish Committee Report (Terry Stockwell)

4:30 Other Business