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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

9:00 a.m. Introductions and Announcements (Council Chairman Rip Cunningham)

9:05 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

*Status, Assessment and Management Information for NEFMC Managed Fisheries - November 2011
*Preliminary Catch and Landings Information for NEFMC FMPs

10:45 Implementation of the Coast Guard Authorization Act (Coast Guard Headquarters representative)

11:15 Experimental Fishery Permit (EFP) Applications (Chris Kellogg, NEFMC staff)

11:20 Amendment 5 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP) - Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Doug Grout)

Noon Open Period for Public Comment (Rip Cunningham) - The public will have an opportunity to briefly comment on items relevant to Council business but not otherwise listed on this agenda

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:45 Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) Report (John Weber, NROC)

2:30 Update - Council and NMFS Regional Office Responses to the Touchstone Report on the Fisheries Management Process in New England (Council Chairman Rip Cunningham; NMFS Regional Administrator Pat Kurkul)

4:30 Essential Fish Habitat Omnibus Amendment 2 Update (David Preble)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

8:30 a.m. Discuss and Approve 2012 Council Management Priorities (Council Executive Director Paul Howard)

10:30 Framework Adjustment 23 to the Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan Scallop (Mary Beth Tooley)

11:00 Standard Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM) Summary and Discussion (Dr. Paul Rago, Northeast Fisheries Science Center)

Noon Lunch Break

1:15 p.m. Stock Assessment Update (Dr. Jim Weinberg, Northeast Fisheries Science Center)

1:40 Groundfish Committee Report (Terry Stockwell)

4:30 Whiting Committee Report (David Goethel)

Thursday, November 17, 2011

8:30 a.m. Monkfish Committee Report (Mark Alexander)

10:30 Dogfish Committee Report (Frank Blount)

11:00 Enforcement Committee Report (Frank Blount)

11:45 Overview of an Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management (EBFM) Research Project (Ingrid Biedron)

Noon Scoping for a new amendment to the Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan (Jacqueline Wilson, HMS Division, NMFS Silver Spring)

12:30 p.m. Other Business

1:00 Adjourn