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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. ,1epbv.Uovd(ulvmail.com (907) 321.1490 1 • 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. Page 1 1 2 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. Page 2 3 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. 0 - CO 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 several overarching principles which should be central to \1 �" t '• r 1 y i • �` , t P ro xs� gram t Y' Yn b design: t a Y� '{ . t o "� 1. Maintain Kodiak's vibrant working waterfronts, ' - gy p' 4 - - y community based fisheries, and protect and promote t ; t' 1 , 1 ; 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. PO Box 10114.5 Anchorage. AK 99510 www.akmarine.org o a. ' co .n' a tel O fax 90 2 emoil emcee' akmarine.or 9 7.2775357 j J 7 775J75 O g _ Bycatch `Wedges' Table 2.1. - (source: PFMC) 1 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 ( P ) Tradable? & Promote Sustainability in 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) . t T TOTAL w! TAKINGS LEVEL... Gear Restrictions: We can design and articulate bycatch Trawl Mesh size Footrope diameter /length reduction strategies using existing tools. x 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 . 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 ■ 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 ._; - ,, ,, _' i 4 . 4 _ -.,•; . - , , ;N, - 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... / 1 \ --