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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

9:00 a.m. Reports on Recent Activities
Council Chairman, Council Executive Director, Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO) Regional Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) General Counsel, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC), Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA Enforcement, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

10:30 International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna Advisory Committee (Rick Bellavance)

10:45 Research Set-Aside Program Review (Dr. Mike Sissenwine)

11:00 Small-Mesh Multispecies (Whiting) Committee Report (Terry Alexander)

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:45 Enforcement Committee Report (Eric Reid)

2:30 Habitat Committee Report (Doug Grout)

Following the close of Council business, NOAA Fisheries will hold a feedback session to solicit suggestions for improving communication and utilization of results achieved by the Saltonstall-Kennedy (S-K) Grant Program.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

8:30 a.m. Saltonstall-Kennedy (S-K) Grant Program

9:00 Measuring the Effects of Catch Shares (Jill Swasey, MRAG Americas Inc. – New England)

9:15 Northeast Trawl Advisory Panel

9:35 Groundfish Committee Report (Terry Stockwell)

11:45 Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Report (SSC Chair Dr. Jason McNamee)

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:45 Open Period for Public Comment

2:00 Scallop Committee Report (Vincent Balzano)

3:30 Atlantic Herring (Peter Kendall)

4:00 Revised Stock Assessment Process (Deputy Director Chris Kellogg)

Following the close of Council business, NOAA Fisheries will hold a second feedback session to solicit suggestions for improving communication and utilization of results achieved by the Saltonstall-Kennedy (S-K) Grant Program.

Thursday, December 6, 2018

8:30 a.m. Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management (EBFM)

9:00 Spiny Dogfish (Jason Didden, MAFMC staff)

9:30 Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM) (Jason Didden, MAFMC)

10:00 Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team (ALWTRT)

11:15 Fishery Dependent Data Initiative (Barry Clifford, GARFO)

12:15 p.m. Lunch Break

1:15 Council Priorities (Executive Director Tom Nies)

3:30 Research Steering (Executive Director Tom Nies)

3:45 Other Business

This meeting will be recorded. Consistent with 16 USC 1852, a copy of the recording is available upon request.