Aleutian Islands Ecosystem Team Meeting
September 26-27, 2006
Agenda
Council guidance on what FEP should be
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Project Action Plan
Recommendations from Ecosystem Committee (5/06), adopted by the Council in June 2006
FEP discussion paper (3/06), which provided the basis for Committee/Council’s action in June
2006, and summarizes information below
Strawman table of contents from discussion paper (page 17 of discussion paper)
Guidance on FEP content
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Ecosystem Principles Advisory Panel Report, 1999 (recommendations – page 45 of discussion
paper, full report)
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission report, 2005 (especially pp. 9-17)
Interim report of ad hoc NMFS working group, 5/05
Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee Task Force Report, 2003
Aleutian Islands Ecosystem Information
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Fisheries Oceanography supplementary volume on the Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem Considerations chapter of the SAFE report
Existing fishery management goals for AI fisheries
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Groundfish (page 47 of discussion paper)
Crab (page 51 of discussion paper)
ecosystem assessment (page 55 of discussion paper)
Examples of glossy synthesis documents
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Ecology of the Northeast Continental Shelf: Toward an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
Management
The North Sea Fisheries Ecosystem Plan
Fisheries and Ecosystem Responses to Recent Regime Shifts in the North Pacific
Examples of other FEPs
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Chesapeake Bay
WPFMC’s archipelago plans (Hawaii, others)
SAFMC’s habitat/ecosystem plan