MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION
(MFC) BUSINESS AND SOCIOECONOMIC WORKSHOP MEETING
SHERATON AND RIVERFRONT
CONVENTION CENTER
NEW BERN, NC
MAY 12-14, 2004
May
12 Business
Meeting/Sheraton
9 a.m. Call to Order/Invocation
Roll Call
Approval of Agenda and
Minutes*
Public Comment
Issues from Commission
Members
9:30
a.m. Chairman’s Report
Flounder Recreational Size
Limit in Internal Waters Rule Suspension (Action)
Flounder Recreational Size
Limit in Atlantic Ocean Rule Suspension (Action)
Primary Nursery Area Rule
Suspension (Action)
Public Hearing Dates
10
a.m. Committee Reports/Action
Items
-Environmental
Management Commission Legal Complaint vs. Rules Review Commission (Action)
-Pecan Grove Permit (Action)
-General Permits (Action)
-North Carolina Wildlife
Resolutions (Action)
-White Oak River
Shellfish Closure (Action)
-Atlantic Ocean Striped
Bass Commercial Fisheries Management (Kelly Schoolcraft Petition)(Action)
-Shrimp FMP Public
Information Brochure Approval (Action)
Noon Lunch
1:30
p.m. Draft Blue Crab Fishery
Management Plan (FMP)
-Blue Crab Stock Assessment
– Dr. Dave Eggleston (NCSU)
-Public Comments
-Results of Questionnaires
-Approval to Send Draft to Secretary of
Environmental and Natural Resources for review by the Joint Legislative
Commission on Seafood and Aquaculture (Action)
6:30
p.m. Adjourn
May
13 Socioeconomics Workshop/Riverfront
Convention Center
8:30
a.m. Welcome - Jimmy Johnson, MFC Chairman and Dr. Brian
Cheuvront, DMF Socioeconomist
Commercial Fisheries
8:45
a.m. Profiles of NC’s commercial
fishermen – Dr. Brian Cheuvront
9:10
a.m. Economic significance of
commercial fishing in N.C. - Alan Bianchi
9:35
a.m. N.C.’s changing fishing
communities – Dr. Kathy Kitner
10
a.m. Fisheries Diversity: Case
studies on the impacts of regulations and diversity – Dr. Louis Daniel
10:30
a.m. Break
10:45
a.m. Individual perspectives on
commercial fishing – Willie Etheridge and David Beresoff
11:15a.m. Capacity and fisheries – Dr.Vishwanie
Maharaj
11:40
a.m. Impact of imports: the shrimp
industry – Dr. John Maiolo
Noon Lunch
Recreational Fishing
1:15
p.m. Recent changes in
recreational fishing - Doug Mumford
1:35
p.m. Economic significance of
recreational fishing in NC - Brad Gentner
2
p.m. Socioeconomic
characteristics of RCGL fisheries -
Chris Wilson
2:20
p.m. An individual perspective
on recreational fisheries - Brian Horsley
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MFC Agenda
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2:30p.m. Break
Panel Discussion Question
and Answer Period
2:45
p.m. Socioeconomic implications
for fisheries management – Dr. Louis Daniel
3 p.m. Panel discussion and audience
questions to the speakers, representatives of commercial and recreational fishing interests, and NC fisheries
managers (Charlie Adams, Murray Fulcher, Steven Hissey, Susan West, Jimmy
Johnson and Preston Pate)
5
p.m. Adjourn
May
14 Business Meeting/Riverfront
Convention Center
8:30
a.m. N.C. Striped Bass FMP Final
Adoption (Action)
9:30
a.m. Overview of February 3,
2004 MFC Advisors Meeting
-Survey Results
-Meeting Summary
-Recommendations (Action)
10:30
a.m. MFC Conflict Resolution
Guidelines – Dr. Barbara Garrity-Blake
11
a.m. Southern Flounder FMP
-Overview
-Discussion/Public Meetings (Action)
Noon Lunch
1:30
p.m. Southern Flounder FMP (continued)
3:30
p.m. DMF Director’s Report
-Legislative Update
-Shellfish Gardening Update
-Coastal Habitat Protection
Plan Update
-River Herring Commercial
Harvest
-Summer Flounder
-Striped Bass
-Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council Updates – Red Munden
-Highly Migratory Species
Update – Dr. Louis Daniel
-South Atlantic Fishery
Management Council Update – Dr. Louis Daniel
-Marine Patrol Report –
Colonel Joe Lynch
4:30
p.m. Adjourn
*Times
indicated are merely for guidance. The
commission will proceed through the agenda until completed.
MFC
Meetings for 2004:
July
20-21 Jacksonville
September 27-29 Kill Devil Hills
December
1-3 Morehead City