Gulf Council Motions

August 1, 2007 - San Antonio, Texas

 

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Joint Reef Fish/Mackerel/Red Drum

Aquaculture Amendment

Motion: to have the IPT incorporate and address the concerns raised by public review, SSC, Council and have General Counsel review the document and provide their input to the IPT

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: to tie the purpose and need section to the objectives of each FMP

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: Action 3: Preferred Alternative 3 to remove “one or more of” so the sentence would read: “Establish the following permit conditions”

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: Action 3: Preferred Alternative 3 subsection b) to remove “one or more of”; so the text would read “Describe plans for the following”

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: Action 3: Preferred Alternative 3, b), add a sub v: emergency disaster plan for hurricanes, net and/or cage failure, escapement or pollution event

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: Items 1-9 on Page 23 be added to the preferred alternative 3 for Action 3

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: Action 4: Preferred Alternative 4 be reworded:  Allow the aquaculture of all marine species in the Gulf of Mexico managed by the Council and send a letter to NOAA Fisheries Service requesting development of concurrent rulemaking to allow aquaculture of highly migratory species.  Do not allow non-native species, transgenic species or otherwise genetically modified species to be used for aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico

Motion carried with no objection

Motion:  Action 6: Preferred Alternative 4: Do not establish marine aquaculture areas but establish general siting criteria to be applied on a case-by-case basis to ensure reliable offshore growing system technology is used to provide environmental safeguards. Siting criteria would include but not be limited to the items in table 6.7-1 and requirements of ACOE, MMS, EPA, NOAA Fisheries Service, and other regulatory agencies with authority in the EEZ as applied to aquaculture.

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: Action 8:  Preferred Alternative 2: delete “one or more of”

Motion carried with no objection

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Red Drum

Motion: to establish a long term program to collect age structure by cooperative research program, MARFIN, and similar programs that could use recreational and commercial harvesters to collect samples and associated data

Motion carried by voice vote

Motion: to recommend holding a SEDAR assessment on Red Drum for 2009

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: to convene the Ad Hoc Red Drum Advisory Panel to begin to establish the long term research program to collect age structure by cooperative research program, MARFIN, and similar programs that could use recreational and commercial harvesters to collect samples and associated data

Motion carried with no objection

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Reef Fish

Reef Fish Amendment 30A – gray triggerfish and greater amberjack

Greater Amberjack

Motion:  Preferred Alternative be Alternative 1 Status Quo:  Maintain the allocation of TAC between the recreational and commercial greater amberjack fisheries as specified in Amendment 1 to the Reef Fish FMP as the average share during the years 1981 through 1987.  The recreational fishery would receive 84 percent of the TAC and the commercial fishery would receive 16 percent.

Motion failed by roll call vote

Horn                No

Teehan            No

Gill                  No

Adams                Absent

McIlwain          No

Crabtree          Abstained

Daughdrill         No

Minton             Yes

Perret              No

Hendrix            No

Villere             Yes

Pearce            No

Morris             No

Shipp             Yes

Walker              Yes

Foote             No

Riechers         Abstained

Gray Triggerfish

Motion:  Action 7: Alternative 2 be the Preferred Alternative: Establish a constant F rebuilding plan for gray triggerfish defined by the constant FOY projection from the 2006 assessment. Directed TAC levels for the 2008 through 2012 would be set at the directed yield for each year; TAC for 2008 would be 0.5 mp, TAC in 2009 would be 0.58 mp, TAC in 2010 would be 0.66 mp, TAC in 2011 would be 0.73 mp, and TAC in 2012 would be 0.79 mp.

Motion carried with no objection

Motion:  Action 8: The preferred alternative be Alternative 4:  If commercial and/or recreational gray triggerfish landings, as estimated by the SEFSC, exceed the three-year running average TAC associated with fishing at FOY (Table 2.2.3), then the Regional Administrator shall issue a notice reducing the length of the fishing season for the sector experiencing the overage by a percentage equal to the average percentage overage during the previous three years. In year-1 of the rebuilding plan, the accountability measure will be the same as for Alternatives 2 and 3, in year-2 of the rebuilding plan overages will be based on average landings during 2008 and 2009, thereafter, a three-year running average will be used. 

Motion carried with no objection

Motion: to add a new alternative 5. If commercial and/or recreational gray triggerfish landings, as estimated by the SEFSC, exceed the three-year running average TAC associated with fishing at FOY (Table 2.2.3), then the Council shall request the Regional Administrator to implement temporary regulations in the following year to return landings to the target annual TAC level (annual catch limit) as specified in the preferred rebuilding plan in Action 6. In year-1 of the rebuilding plan, the accountability measure will be the same as for Alternatives 2 and 3, in year-2 of the rebuilding plan overages will be based on average landings during 2008 and 2009, thereafter, a three-year running average will be used.

Motion carried with no objection

Substitute Motion: For Action 8 have Alternative 5 be the preferred alternative

Substitute Motion failed

Motion: For Action 9, the Preferred Alternative be Alternative 1. Status Quo, Maintain allocation of gray triggerfish TAC between the recreational and commercial fisheries as the average share during the years 1981 through 1987. The recreational fishery would receive 93 percent of the TAC and the commercial would receive 7 percent

Motion failed 10 to 4 by roll call vote

Foote            No

Morris            No

Villere            Yes

Pearce           No

Daughdrill        No

Gill                 No

Adams              Absent

Horn              No

Shipp            Yes

Crabtree         Abstained

Perret            No

Minton           Yes

Hendrix          No

Walker             Yes

McIlwain        No

Teehan          No

Riechers         Abstained