2025 Council Member Ongoing Development Workshop
/The second Council Member Ongoing Development (CMOD) workshop was held April 30-May 1, 2025, in Vancouver, Washington. Hosted by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the workshop focused on understanding vulnerabilities, risks, and uncertainties associated with climate-related variability and change. The workshop also included a skills focus on effectively communicating complex fishery management topics.
Meeting Materials
Regional Background Documents
These short background documents provide information about Councils’ climate related activities and include links to Council documents and other resources.
Presentations
Day 1 Sessions
Framing presentation: approaches for setting harvest limits
Harvest control rules: strategies and climate resilience – Chris Free, PFMC SSC and UC Santa Barbara
Frameworks for considering and communicating climate related uncertainty and risk
North Pacific Ecosystem Information and Risk Tables – Diana Stram and Sara Cleaver, NPFMC
Western Pacific SEEM Process – Nate Ilaoa, WPFMC
New England Risk Policy – Jonathon Peros and Dan Salerno, NEFMC
Mid-Atlantic MSE on Risk Policy and HCR performance – Brandon Muffley, MAFMC
Responding to changes in productivity
North Pacific snow crab – Diana Stram, NPFMC
Southern New England winter flounder – Dan Salerno, NEFMC
South Atlantic & Mid-Atlantic black sea bass – Chip Collier, SAFMC and Brandon Muffley, MAFMC
Day 2 Sessions
Adapting management programs in response to change
Fisheries governance and representation (East Coast) – Brandon Muffley, MAFMC
Flexibility and adaptive capacity (North Pacific) – Anne Vanderhoeven, NPFMC
Fishery range contraction (Atlantic sea scallops) – Jonathon Peros, NEFMC
Protected species interactions (Pacific) – Gilly Lyons, PFMC
Skills Sessions
Communicating complex fishery management topics
The 2025 CMOD Workshop included skills sessions focusing on effectively communicating complex fishery management topics. These sessions were led by COMPASS Science Communications.
Communicating Risk and Making Messages Stick – Sarah Sunu, COMPASS