April 2026 Social and Economic Panel Meeting

Meeting Agenda & Briefing Materials

Monday, April 13th, 2026

1:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.

1. Introductions 
   1. Agenda and Overview (Attachment 1a)
   2. April 2025 Minutes (Attachment 1b)
   3. February 2026 Minutes (Attachment 1c)
2. Recent and Developing Council Amendments (Attachment 2)
3. Citizen Science Program Update (Attachment 3)
4. Improving Communication with and Increasing Resilience of Fishing Communities (Attachment 4; also available in recent docs)
5. Snapper Grouper Management Strategy Evaluation Economics (Attachment 5; also in recent docs)
6. Risk Value Matrix Introduction and Economic Analysis
   1. Risk Value Matrix Introduction Presentation (Attachment 6a)
   2. CCC Letter to NMFS on Risk Value Matrix (Attachment 6b)
   3. Risk Value Matrix Economic Value Presentation (Attachment 6c; also in recent docs)

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026

8:30 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

7. Understanding citizen scientists’ experience with the SMILE
   1. Report (Attachment 7a)
   2. Presentation (Attchment 7b)
8. Risk Value Matrix Recap and Social Analysis (Attachment 8; also in recent docs)
9. Fishery Performance Report Text Analysis
   1. FPR Text Analysis Internal Documentation (Attachment 9a)
   2. FPR Text Analysis External Documentation (Attachment 9b)
   3. FPR Text Analysis Presentation (Attachment 9c)
10. Introduction to Social Science and Economics for Fishermen (Attachment 10)

Recent Docs

• SEP_A4_FishingCommunitiesProject.pdf
• SEP_A8_SEFSCRiskValuePresentation.pdf
• SEP_A6c_SEFSCRiskValuePresentation.pdf
• SEP_A5_SG_MSE_SummaryPresentation_202604.pdf

Additional Materials

• 202603-SAFMC-Comments-RiskValueMatrix.pdf

Staff Contact

• Christina Curtis

  Fishery Social Scientist

  christina.wiegand@safmc.net
• John Hadley

  Fishery Management Plan Coordinator & Fishery Economist

  john.hadley@safmc.net