June 2025 Council Meeting
Meeting Agenda & Briefing Materials
Except for advertised public hearings and public comment sessions, the timing of agenda items may change.
The public comment session (Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, 4 p.m.), will allow for in-person and remote (via webinar) verbal public comment. Individuals intending to provide comments remotely are asked to sign up HERE. Those intending to provide verbal public comment in person will be asked to sign in at the meeting.
Written Comments:
Monday, June 9th, 2025
Snapper Grouper Commercial Sub-Committee/McCawley 8:30 am – 10:00 am
- Attachment 1: Updated Commercial Data Analyses
- Attachment 2: Amendment 60 (Commercial Permits and Trip Efficiency) Decision Document
Council Session I /Murphey 10:15 am – 12:00 pm (CLOSED)
During this closed session, the Council will receive a litigation briefing, consider appointments to advisory bodies, discuss Council Committee membership, and vote on the 2024 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.
Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Council Session I /Murphey 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
- Agenda and Overview
- Full Council 1 Minutes (March 2025)
- Full Council 2 Minutes (March 2025)
- Litigation Brief
- Reports
- Attachment 1a: NOAA Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) report
- Attachment 1b: NOAA OLE presentation (available on June 4)
- Attachment 1c: USCG briefing (available on June 4)
- Attachment 1d: Gulf Council Liaison Report
- Attachment 1e: Mid-Atlantic Council Liaison Report
- Attachment 1f: Staff Report
- Attachment 1g: CCC summary presentation (May 2025)
- Attachment 1h. Resilient Fisheries Projects Summary
- Attachment 1i. Southeast Regional Office (SERO) Report
- Attachment 1j. Dolphin Wahoo Advisory Panel (AP) Report
- Executive Orders Review
- SAFMC Research and Monitoring Plan Review
- Attachment 3a: SAFMC Research and Monitoring Plan Recommendations, 2025-2029 (available on June 4)
- Attachment 3b: SEFSC report on activities addressing items in the 2023-2027 Research and Monitoring Plan
- Attachment 3c: State Research and Monitoring Projects 2023-2025
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Council Session I/Murphey 8:30 am – 12:00 noon
- Attachment 4: For-Hire Reporting Improvement Amendment Decision Document
- Attachment 5: Terms of Reference for 2026 Gag Assessment (available on June 4)
- South Atlantic Headboats Report
- Attachment 6a: South Atlantic Headboats Report
- Attachment 6b: South Atlantic Headboats Presentation (available on June 4)
Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Mackerel Cobia/Roller 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
- Advisory panel report
- Attachment 2: Gulf Council CMP Stakeholder Engagement Effort Report
- Mackerel Port Meetings
Snapper Grouper/McCawley 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
- Agenda and Overview
- Snapper Grouper Minutes (March 2025)
- Snapper Grouper Advisory Panel Report (April 2025)
- April 2025 SSC Report (available on June 4)
- May 2025 SSC Report (available on June 4)
- SERO updates: Exempted Fishing Permit applications, Secretarial Amendment and 2025 recreational red snapper season, amendments recently submitted)
- Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) Proxies
- Attachment 1a: FWRI MSY Proxy Presentation
- Attachment 1b: Summary of MSY Proxy Applications to South Atlantic Species(available on June 4)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
Snapper Grouper Committee/ McCawley 8:30 am – 12:00 noon
- Black Sea Bass (Amendment 56)
- Attachment 3: Commercial Sub-Committee Report (available at meeting)
- Golden Tilefish Assessment Update (no attachment)
Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Snapper Grouper Committee/ McCawley 1:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Public Comments 4:00 pm – end
Public comments regarding any of the items on the Council agenda will be accepted from individuals attending the meeting (in-person and remotely). The Council Chair, based on the number of individuals wishing to comment, will determine the amount of time provided to each commenter. Those intending to provide verbal public comment via webinar can sign up HERE.
- Approval for scoping: potential modifications to the management of the commercial component of the snapper grouper fishery
- Approval for public hearings:
- Private Recreational Permit and Education Requirement (Snapper Grouper Amendment 46)
- Shrimp Fishery Access Area (Coral Amendment 11/Shrimp Amendment 12)
Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Snapper Grouper Committee/ McCawley 8:30 am – 12:00 noon
- Yellowtail Snapper & Mutton Snapper
- Attachment 6a: SEDAR 96 (Yellowtail Snapper) Presentation (available on June 4)
- Attachment 6b: SEDAR 79 (Mutton Snapper) Presentation
- Recreational Permit and Education Requirement (Amendment 46)
- Attachment 7a: NOAA Fisheries SEFSC and OST Presentation (available on June 4)
- Attachment 7b: Amendment 46 (Private Recreational Permitting and Education Requirement) Decision Document
- Attachment 7c: Amendment 46 (Private Recreational Permitting and Education Requirement) Draft Amendment
Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Snapper Grouper Committee/ McCawley 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
- Attachment 8: SEDAR 92 (Blueline Tilefish)
- Presentation (available on June 4)
- Fishery Overview (available on June 4)
- AP report (topics not covered on agenda)
- Management Strategy Evaluation Update (no attachment)
Habitat & Ecosystem and Shrimp/Murphey and Belcher 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
- Shrimp Fishery Access Area (Coral Amendment 11/Shrimp Amendment 12)
Friday, March 7th, 2025
Council Session II /Murphey 8:30 am – 12:00 noon
Committee Reports
- Executive (April 11, 2025)
- Full Council I (closed session)
- Full Council I (open session)
- Mackerel Cobia
- Habitat & Ecosystem and Shrimp
- Snapper Grouper
Other business
Adjourn

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