2012-09-04 Joint Work Session f
CITY COUNCIL — BOROUGH ASSEMBLY
JOINT WORK SESSION AGENDA
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Assembly Chambers
7:30 p.m.
(City Chairing)
Joint work sessions are informal meetings of the City Council and Borough Assembly where
elected officials discuss issues that affect both City and Borough governments and residents.
Although additional items not listed on the joint work session agenda are sometimes discussed
when introduced by elected officials, staff, or members of the public, no formal action is taken at
joint work sessions and items that require formal action are placed on a regular City Council
and /or Borough Assembly meeting agenda. Public comments at work sessions are NOT
considered part of the official record. Public comments intended for the "official record" should be
made at a regular City Council or Borough Assembly meeting.
1. Public Comments (limited to 3 minutes each)
2. Fisheries Report — Denby Lloyd 1
a. Mayors' Letter to NPFMC
b. Discussion /Consensus for Fisheries Analyst to Speak on Behalf of City /KIB at
NPFMC Meetings
3. Discussion of Kodiak Capital Projects
Denby S. Lloyd Alaska Resource Consultancy
P.O. Box 152/
Kodiak AK 99615-1521
"Quarterly Report" for Fisheries Consultant
to the Kodiak Island Borough and the City of Kodiak
Joint Work Session
September 4, 2012
The previous written "quarterly" report of work conducted was presented as part of the fisheries
consultant presentation to the Joint Work Session of April 17, 2012.
A brief summary of work conducted since April 17 includes:
• Participated in five meetings of the KIB /City Fisheries Workgroup.
• Held several informal meetings with the Fisheries Workgroup chairs.
• Participated in two meetings of the KIB /City Joint Work Session (including today).
• Held one informal meeting with the City mayor.
• Held one informal meeting with the KIB mayor and Director of the NMFS /AFSC.
• Participated in one meeting of the Kodiak Fisheries Advisory Committee.
• Attended one meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.
• Made a presentation to the Kodiak Archipelago Rural Regional Leadership Forum.
• Made a presentation to the Kodiak Lunchtime Rotary Club.
• Prepared several drafts of' the Fisheries Workgroup principles on fishery management
programs.
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Overall Approach to Fishery Issues by the Kodiak fisheries Workgroup
And Recommendations to the Joint
Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and the Kodiak City Council
on Action by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council
to address Comprehensive Bycatch (PSC) Management
for Groundfish Fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska
August 27, 2012
The Kodiak Fisheries Workgroup, comprising three members of the Kodiak Island Borough and three
members of the Kodiak City Council, has adopted the following statement of their overall approach to
consideration of fishery management issues of interest and concern to the Kodiak region:
Overall approach for the Kodiak Fisheries Workgroup
1. Focus on overall impacts to the community and maintenance and growth of revenue streams.
2. Understand how various approaches will fundamentally impact fisheries and resources.
3. Frame benchmarks and objectives as positive statements.
4. Refrain from taking positions on allocative questions (to the extent possible, while
understanding that many issues and decisions will have allocative implications).
5. Focus on broad -scale program features (i.e., keep a 30,000 ft. viewpoint), unless specific
program elements threaten the goals outlined below.
The Kodiak Fisheries Workgroup recommends that this overall approach be adopted by the joint
city /borough government bodies as well.
In addition, the Fisheries Workgroup recommends that the following statements of overarching purpose
and goals for management programs be adopted by the joint city/borough governments as initial
comments to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council on pending actions regarding
comprehensive management of prohibited species catch (PSC) by the trawl fishery in the central Gulf of
Alaska (CGOA):
North Pacific Fishery Management Council Motion on GOA Comprehensive Bycatch Amendment:
The Council will schedule a specific agenda !tern, preferably for the October meeting, that begins
the process of developing o program to provide tools for effective management of PSC,
incentives for the minimization of bycatch, and vessel level accountability for the Central Gulf of
Alaska trawl groundfish fishery. The Council should develop a purpose and need statement with
goals and objectives for a new fishery management system at that time.
Overarching purpose
1. Maintain healthy, sustainable resources in the central (and western) Gulf of Alaska.
2. Promote a sustainable, vigorous economy in the Kodiak region with healthy and competitive
harvesting and processing sectors and support industries.
3. Maintain quality of life and social well -being in Kodiak.
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Goals for management programs
1. Provide effective controls of prohibited species catch and other bycatch to provide for balanced
and sustainable fisheries and healthy harvesting and processing sectors.
2. Maintain or increase target fishery landings and revenues to Kodiak.
3. Maintain or increase employment opportunities for vessel crews, processing workers, and
support Industries.
4. Provide increased opportunities for value -added processing.
5. Maintain opportunities for fishermen to enter the fishery.
6. Maintain opportunities for processors to enter the fishery.
7. Minimize adverse economic impacts of consolidation of the harvesting or processing sectors.
8. Maximize active participation by owners of harvesting vessels and fishing privileges.
9. Maintain the economic strength and vitality of Kodiak's working waterfront.
10. Establish methods to measure success and impacts of all programs, including collection and
analysis of baseline and after - action data.
The Kodiak Fisheries Workgroup has also identified and briefly considered the following specific
questions regarding limits to application of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's motion on
PSC management in the CGOA trawl fisheries. However, the Workgroup believes that, while these
questions will eventually need to be decided upon by the NPFMC, it is premature for them to be
considered by the joint borough /city governments.
Limits to application of NPFMC action on PSC management
1. Should the action apply only to Central Gulf trawl fisheries?
2. Should the action be restricted to prohibited (or bycatch) species only, or apply to target species
as well?
The Kodiak Fisheries Workgroup recommends that a letter, signed jointly by the city and borough
mayors and containing the items listed above under overarching purpose and goals for management
programs, be submitted as written comments to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council prior to
their October 2012 meeting. Further, the Workgroup recommends that the Borough Mayor and the City
Mayor, accompanied by the Fisheries Consultant, testify in person on these issues at the NPFMC
meeting in Anchorage.
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Narrative for a NPFMC Purpose and Need Statement for Comprehensive PSC
Management in CGOA Groundfish Trawl Fisheries:
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has identified the need to develop a
comprehensive approach to the management of prohibited species catch (PSC) and
other types of bycatch in the groundfish trawl fisheries of the central Gulf of
Alaska (CGOA). Any such comprehensive management program will have sweeping
effects on harvesters, processors, and support industries, and must be developed in a
way that will serve to benefit coastal communities.
A comprehensive management program must maintain healthy and sustainable
resources in the central Gulf of Alaska; promote a sustainable, vigorous economy in the
region (including healthy and competitive harvesting and processing sectors and
support industries), and promote high quality of life and social well- being. In particular,
the Council's actions need to provide effective controls on prohibited species catch and
other forms of bycatch while maintaining or allowing for increases in target fishery
landings and revenues. Any comprehensive management program must maintain or
increase employment opportunities for vessel crew, processing workers, and support
industries. It must provide for increased value -added processing, and maintain
opportunities for fishermen and processors to enter the fishery. Care must be taken to
minimize the adverse impacts of consolidation of harvesting or processing sectors and
to maximize the active participation of owners of harvesting vessels and fishing
privileges. The management program should be fashioned in ways to maintain the
economic strength and vitality of working waterfronts in the region. Finally, any such
management action must include methods to measure success and impacts of all
program elements, including the collection and analysis of baseline and after - action
data.
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Alaska Marine Conservation Council
Comprehensive Bycatch Management in the Gulf of Alaska
August 2012
Background
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (the Council) is in the beginning stages of examining
fisheries management regimes to comprehensively address bycatch issues in the Gulf of Alaska trawl
fisheries. Bycatch of economically and ecologically important species such as Chinook salmon and
halibut is the impetus and one of the foundational goals of this action. Giving the trawl fleet the "tools" or
ability to address bycatch issues is also a driver. However, dependent on the fishery management tools
selected, this management action has the potential to have significant economic and social impacts at an
individual, community and regional level. Whether the Council moves forward with tools targeted at
individual bycatch accountability or a broader catch share program for all or part of the Gulf of Alaska,
goals and objectives for the continued health and viability of our communities, working waterfronts and
fisheries must be clearly delineated and prioritized from the outset of program design.
Objectives for GOA Program
Regardless of the specific type of program adopted, there are 1 < ` ; n "“ 4
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1. Maintain Kodiak's vibrant working waterfronts, ' - gy p' 4 - - y
community based fisheries, and protect and promote t ; t' 1
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fishery dependent communities. Specifics will vary
based on program design, but key priorities include _ --
anchoring quota in fishery dependent communities,
preventing excessive consolidation, limiting permit or program duration to provide opportunities
to adjustments to the program in the future, ensuring access and participation for working
fishermen and providing entry level opportunities for future generations of independent fishermen
to enter the fishery and grow a viable business.
2. Provide for catch limits and ecosystem protections which ensure the Tong -term sustainability
of our fisheries. Catch limits are already a central part of management in the North Pacific, it is
critical that we manage all species for long -term health, such that fisheries do not only yield short-
term profits but long -term stable income for future generations.
3. Minimize bycatch of halibut, Chinook salmon and crab. More significant reductions in bycatch
of these economically and ecologically important species is the driving reason for undertaking this
new management system, and is important to the long -term health and diversity of Kodiak's
fisheries.
4. Improved data collection. A program to address bycatch management should, by necessity,
include improved observer coverage and data collection on bycaught species. In a new
management program, data should also be collected on a number of fishery characteristics to track
performance under the program and make adjustments as necessary.
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Bycatch Mitigation Toolbox Individual In Policy Debate
Bycatch Transitional Possibilities to Abate
Harvest Levels Quotas - IBQs
O timum Yield) Tradable or Non- Human Effects on Ecosystems
ABC /OY
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Trip Landing Limits
Catch Limits L N PPs North Pacific Fisheries — Alaska
Individual Quotas
Sector Allocations - if Ecoribmidally ■ � Adequate GOA GROUNDFISH PSC/
Efficient to CONSUMERS`, t•• BYCATCH REDUCTION
Discard Caps (limits & prohibitions) .
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TOTAL w! TAKINGS LEVEL...
Gear Restrictions: We can design and articulate bycatch
Trawl Mesh size
Footrope diameter /length reduction strategies using existing tools.
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Some of the most likely are trip and landing
Net Height _ limits, trawl net design, BRDs, area and
Codend mesh & dimensions depth closures. These make up the
Design: on -bottom or pelagic" "wedges" that can lead to reduction of PSC
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Bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) -- - -;.''
Line Number of hooks to acceptable levels...
Hook sizes WE JUST HAVE TO OPEN UP THE
Line length EXISTING TOOLBOX's DRAWERS
Retrieval requirements & Make PRACTICABLE changes...
Pot/Trap Number of pots
Pot size 4
Escape panel in net/pots
Retrieval requirements Yet an inescapable fact
OtherSetnets (gill and trummel nets) - remains that the first
'4 `, and most effective
Time /Area Restrictions
Seasons measure is: to stop
Area Closures targeting of secondary
species, especially
Depth Closures 'Secondary Species' P r--: ` ry P when primary catch
Marine Reserves , Political Targeting = has already
Capacity (number of participants) unacceptable been attained...
i?a Can resolve by correcting Po - tical roadblock to
Permits /licenses /endorsements legislation & Avoid by ope • ing the drawers
Limited entry
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Implementing GAO of bee science tools.
r, i Capacity (Vessel Restrictions)
recommendations
Vessel size Slowing Down! - -- -
Engine Power Reducing Net 1 Incidental Bycatch — acceptable
Vessel Type Sizes & Tow
Times l (When practicable)
Monitoring /Reporting Requirements Sustainable Harvest Levels i,,
Permits /licenses
(w/ G of 100% retention)
Registrations y'r 411 Fish Tickets (commercial landings/
sales receipts) Primary/Target Species GHL /ACL
_ Vessel Logbooks
- Surveys - incl. new Specified to� Acceptable Harvest le
< evaluate measures of Tools -
Punch cards /tags (recreational) 1 r 1.
Port sampling /on -shore observers tom.,,, , , at ._; - ,, ,, _'
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- On -board observers
Vessel monitoring systems (VMS) The cho to privatize is a choice to give u o n,using the
Onboard video recording devices c, available tools of industry& scientific management.
Enforcement - NOAA OLE+ .+ NPFMC! We need the SSC anctAP to determine the possible
wedges/drawers &their their magnitudes = capatile of "'-
_ reducing overall bycatch..., and getting rid of the secondary ~•.
/ I species target profiteering. on PSC...
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