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Monday, September 26, 2011
9:00 a.m. Introductions and Announcements (Acting Council Chairman Rip Cunningham)
9:05 Swearing in of Reappointed Council Members and Election of 2011-2012 Council Officers/Tab 1 (Pat Kurkul, NOAA/NMFS Regional Administrator)
10:30 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, NOAA Enforcement/VMS, and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Preliminary Catch and Landings Data for NEFMC FMPs and Status, Assessment and Management Information for NEFMC Managed Fisheries September 21, 2011
12:00 Experimental Fishery Permit Applications/Tab 14 (Chris Kellogg, NEFMC staff)
12:10 Open Period for Public Comments - Opportunity for the public to provide comments on items relevant to Council business but not listed on the meeting agenda
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 NOAA and Council Response to the Touchstone Fisheries Management Process Report (Pat Kurkul (NOAA/NMFS Regional Administrator) and Frank Almeida (NEFSC Acting Science and Research Director) on Regional Office and Science Center initiatives; Patricia Fiorelli (Council staff) on improving communications with stakeholders; and Rip Cunningham about the development of a shared vision and strategy to guide the fishery management process
4:00 Initial Discussion of 2012 Council Management Priorities(Executive Director Paul J. Howard)
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
8:00 a.m. Monkfish Committee Report (Council member Terry Stockwell)
9:30 Skate Committee Report (Council member David Goethel)
10:30 Summary of the June 2011 Stock Assessment Workshop/Stock Assessment Review Committee Meetings (SAW/SARC 52) (NEFSC liaison Dr. Jim Weinberg)
11:15 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) (Maureen Bornholdt, BOEMRE)
12:15 p.m. Lunch Break
1:15 Scientific and Statistical Committee Report (Dr. Chris Legault, SSC Chairman)
2:15 Scallop Committee Report (Council member Dr. David Pierce)
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
8:00 a.m. Groundfish Oversight Committee Report (Rip Cunningham)
12:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:00 Overview of the report At-sea and Dockside Monitoring Programs in the Northeast (Marcus Hartley, Northern Economics)
1:45 Update to the NEFSC Report Performance of the Northeast Groundfish Fishery Interim Report for Fishing Year 2010 (May 2010 – January 2011) (Drew Kitts, NEFSC)
2:45 Whiting Committee Report (David Goethel)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
8:00 a.m. Herring Amendment 5 Draft EIS Review/Approval (Council member Doug Grout)
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 Herring agenda items - continued
4:30 Other Business