1. Collaborative Fisheries Research West Peter Nelson, PhD Collaborative Fisheries Research - West

2. fit with OPC objectives fosters interagency collaboration & improves funding efficacy strong contribution towards implementing EBM, as well as MLPA and MLMA involves distinct groups throughout California, fostering regional study & management contributes to scientific understanding of ocean resources offers an affordable, long- term approach to ocean monitoring including climate change informs habitat restoration efforts contributes to sustainable fisheries & seafood markets increases public awareness of marine resources and fosters individual and collective stewardship

3. proposal outreach campaign to fishing communities CFR projects to meet critical management needs establish CFR program & assure partners of its longevity create management “tools” in the form of successful, local CFR models and improved relationships among parties

4. aerial surveys of sardine stocks PFMC recommended additional indices supplement acoustic data for quotas aerial transects estimate school biomass point sets for empirical measurements survey funding

5. N Coast rockfish population biology DFG, NMFS, HSU, Humboldt Bay Harbor District & CPFVs hypothesis-driven baseline MPA data stock assessment regional management

6. CFR contributes to healthy, sustainable California fisheries quality data collaborative management resource stewardship

7. potential early projects effort & gear loss in D crab fishery participatory web-based data ecosystem squid paralarvae surveys lobster CPUE effectiveness of trap destruction devices 50% maturity data for smoothhound sharks effects of urchin harvest on kelp communities bycatch in salmon trolling review existing data for opportunities hagfish trap retention use of bycatch reduction devices in flatfish trawl gear