Oct. 2022 SSC Meeting

Meeting Agenda & Briefing Materials

Public comment will be solicited at the beginning and at the end of the meeting. Those wishing to comment should indicate such in the manner requested by the Chair, who will then recognize individuals to provide comments.

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022

8:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

1. Introduction
   1. Approval of Revised Agenda (Attachment 1a)
   2. Approval of Transcript from August meeting (Attachment 1b)
2. Public Comment
3. Interim Analysis Strategy
   1. Presentation: Dr. Nikolai Klibansky and Dr. Cassidy Peterson, SEFSC (Attachment 3a) also in recent documents
   2. Full report (Attachment 3b)

Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm

1:30 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.

4. Snapper Grouper MSE Model
   1. Presentation: Dr. Adrian Hordyk, Blue Matter Science (Attachment 4a)
5. SEFSC MSE Strategic Plan
   1. Presentation: Dr. Cassidy Peterson and Dr. John Walter, SEFSC (Attachment 5a) also in recent documents

Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

8:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

6. Spanish Mackerel Revised Operational Assessment Review
   1. Presentation: Dr. Erik Williams, SEFSC (Attachment 6a) also in recent documents
   2. SAFMC Mackerel Cobia Committee Report: (Attachment 6b) also in recent documents
7. Release Mortality Reduction Framework Amendment 35
   1. Presentation: Dr. Heather Christiansen, FWC (Attachment 7a) also in recent documents
   2. Presentation: SAFMC Staff (Attachment 7b) also in recent documents

Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm

8. Red Snapper Recruitment Patterns
   1. Presentation: Dr. Mandy Karnauskas, SEFSC (Attachment 8a) also in recent documents
   2. Karnauskas et al. 2022 Fisheries Oceanography (Attachment 8b)
9. SEFSC: Minimizing Discards in Snapper Grouper Fishery
   1. Presentation: Dr. Scott Crosson and Dr. Kyle Shertzer, SEFSC (Attachment 9a) also in recent documents
10. Greater Amberjack Project Update
    1. Presentation: Dr. Mark Albins and Dr. Sean Powers, University of South Alabama (Attachment 10a) posted when available
    2. GAJ Project Narrative (Attachment 10b) also in recent documents
    3. Powers et al TRP Response (Attachment 10c) also in recent documents

Thursday, October 27th, 2022

8:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

11. SEDAR: Golden Tilefish, Blueline Tilefish, SADL survey
    1. Presentation: Ms. Kathleen Howington, SEDAR Staff
    2. Tilefish TORs option 1 (Attachment 11a)
    3. Tilefish TORs option 2 (Attachment 11b)
12. National SSC Meeting Summary
    1. Presentation: Dr. Scott Crosson and Dr. Amy Schueller, SEFSC (Attachment 12a)
    2. SCS7 Agenda (Attachment 12b)
13. SAFE Reports Review
    1. Presentation: Dr. Chip Collier, SAFMC Staff
    2. South Atlantic SAFE reports (Attachment 13a)
14. Fishery Management Plan Amendment Updates
    1. Presentation: Dr. Mike Schmidtke, SAFMC Staff
    2. Fishery management plan updates (Attachment 14a)
15. Other Business
16. Public Comment
17. Consensus Statement and Recommendations Review
18. Next Meetings

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Meeting Transcript

Recent Materials

• 03a Interim Analysis Klibansky et al.
• 05a MSE Strategic Plan SA
• 06a SEDAR 78 update MRIP 2020 data
• 06b SAFMC Sept2022 MCCommittee Report
• 07a FWC FDM Hook Analyses
• 07b SC Hook Analysis
• 08a Presentation Karnauskas Shertzer
• 09a SEFSC discards project SSC
• 10a Overall GAJ Project Presentation Albins 11 novid
• 10b GAJ Project Narative

Staff Contact

• Judd Curtis

  Quantitative Fishery Scientist

  judd.curtis@safmc.net