Download Item 13_Federal Forage Fish-FGC-April13-2016

Update on Federal Actions to
Protect Unmanaged Forage Fish
California Fish and Game Commission Meeting
April 13, 2016
Santa Rosa
Deb Wilson-Vandenberg
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Marine Region
Overview
• Shared Ecosystem Component
Species
• Timeline of Federal Events
• Next Steps
Shared Ecosystem Component
Species
• Round and Thread herring
• Mesopelagic fishes (Myctophids or
lanternfish)
R. Kuiter
• Pacific sandlance
Alaskafisheries.noaa
• Pacific saury
J. Harding/NOAA
• Silversides
CDFW
• Osmerid (“true”) smelts
NOAA Fisheries
• Pelagic squids (not Humboldt squid)
CDFW
Shared Ecosystem Component
Species
NOAA Fisheries
MARE
Ray Troll
NOAA Fisheries
• Important for Fishery Management Plan Species
• Important for Birds, Marine Mammals, People
Deb Wilson-Vandenberg
Deb Wilson-Vandenberg
D. Micus
Federal Actions Timeline
• April 2013 – Adopted Fishery Ecosystem Plan
• Began Forage Fish Initiative
• April 2014 – Adopted Purpose and Need
Statement
• March 2015 – Adopted language for
Comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Amendment
(CEBA – 1)
• September 2015 – Finalized regulatory
language
• March 2, 2016 – NMFS approved CEBA –1
• Spring 2016 – Final rule publishes
Next Steps
• CDFW Director’s authority to conform state regulations
(FGC Section 7652)
• Exploring consistencies with existing State activities
CDFW
For More Information
• http://www.pcouncil.org/wpcontent/uploads/2015/08/D2a_SUP_NMFS_Rpt_forage_SEPT
2015BB.pdf
• http://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/publications/fishery_
management/ecosystem/ceba1_ea_final_march2016.pdf
Thank You and Questions?
NOAA Fisheries
Deb Wilson-Vandenberg
Senior Environmental Scientist
831-649-2892
[email protected]
Incidental Landing Limits
…“directed fishing” means that a fishing vessel lands Shared EC
Species without landing any species other than Shared EC
Species, or lands Shared EC Species with other species in
amounts more than:
10 mt combined weight from any fishing trip; or
30 mt combined weight in any year.
Restrictions on At-Sea processing: Process more than 1 mt of
Shared EC Species other than squid in any calendar year; or,
process more than 40 mt of any Shared EC squid species in any
calendar year.
Landings (Thousands of mt)
250
Commercial Landings for California
Forage Fish, 1978 - 2012
Minor Forage Species
200
Major Forage Species
150
100
50
0
1978
1983
1988
1993
1998
CalCOFI La Jolla December 2013
Data Source: Commercial Fisheries Information System Database
2003
2008
10