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.

• Final Agenda

• CMOD Program Information

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.

• Gulf Council

• Mid-Atlantic Council

• North Pacific Council

• South Atlantic Council

• New England Council

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

• COMPASS Message Box