Planning Overview

Caribbean Strategic Planning Team

In Progress

Create a portfolio (slide deck) of who we are and what projects we work on

Status: In Progress

Contact: Adyan Rios

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Internal Culture and Communication
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2022

Identify regional data sources with emphasis on federal funding

Status: In Progress

Contact: Rachel Eckley

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Data Analysis
  • Lead Program: CIMAS
  • Organizations: SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2022

Identify steps to fix shell catch (commercial landings) database issues; Improve logbook information to better estimate removals of managed species (i.e. landings and discards)

Status: In Progress

Contact: Kim Johnson

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Data Collection
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2022

Establish an effective coordination strategy among working groups, branches, divisions, other NMFS offices, and Caribbean partners

Status: In Progress

Contact: Shannon Cass Calay

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Internal Culture and Communication
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2023

Establish a protocol to have formal and informal communications with stakeholders in the language of their choice (e.g., Spanish translation)

Status: In Progress

Contact: Stephanie Martinez

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: External Collaboration and Communication
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2023

Develop life history data gap team to develop and prioritize data inventory

Status: In Progress

Contact: Noemi Pena

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Reduce data gaps that inform management (including life history, FD, FI, environmental, and socioeconomic data)
  • Lead Program: PR DNER
  • Organizations: SSC, SEFSC, USC-A
  • Start Year: 2023

Establish a team to define needs and mechanisms for establishing a funding governance structure

Status: In Progress

Contact: Nicole Angeli

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Establish funding governance structures that are equitable for fishers, contractors, agencies, and islands and allow for the collection of necessary data gaps to inform fisheries management
  • Lead Program: USVI DPNR
  • Organizations: SEFSC, NPS, SERO, PR DNER, CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2023

Define current communication groups and mechanism

Status: In Progress

Contact: Stephanie Martinez

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Improve communication of knowledge to better engage stakeholders in fisheries management processes
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: EBFM TAP, SERO, CFMC
  • Start Year: 2023

Establish a team to determine available data appropriate methods to inform management

Status: In Progress

Contact: Mandy Karnauskas

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Expand the toolbox, with decision tools, to inform fisheries management (includes traditional stock assessment, EBFM, alternative management strategies, and incorporation of socioeconomic data into management tools)
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: SEFSC, EBFM TAP, UPR
  • Start Year: 2023

Develop socioeconomic data gap team to develop and prioritize data inventory

Status: In Progress

Contact: Tarsila Seara

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Reduce data gaps that inform management (including life history, FD, FI, environmental, and socioeconomic data)
  • Lead Program: UNH
  • Organizations: SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2023

Develop FD data gap team to develop and prioritize data inventory

Status: In Progress

Contact: Larry Beerkircher

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Reduce data gaps that inform management (including life history, FD, FI, environmental, and socioeconomic data)
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: PR DNER, SSC, SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2023

Develop habitat/environmental data gap team to develop and prioritize data inventory

Status: In Progress

Contact: Liajay Rivera Garcia

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Reduce data gaps that inform management (including life history, FD, FI, environmental, and socioeconomic data)
  • Lead Program: CFMC
  • Organizations: USVI DPNR, CFMC, NCCOS, SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2023

Develop FI data gap team to develop and prioritize data inventory

Status: In Progress

Contact: Kate Overly

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Reduce data gaps that inform management (including life history, FD, FI, environmental, and socioeconomic data)
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Organizations: NPS, SEFSC, UVI, SEFSC, CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2023

USVI Commercial & Recreational Dockside Intercept Survey

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial, Recreational
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Catch, Effort, Size Comp
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, USVI DFW
  • Start Year: 2021

USVI Commercial Trip Interview Program

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Size Comp
  • Organizations: SEFSC, USVI DWF
  • Start Year: 1983

USVI Commercial Logbook Program

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel, Shoreline
  • Metrics: Catch, Effort
  • Organizations: SEFSC, USVI DWF
  • Start Year: 1974

USVI Commercial Lobster Trap Size-Selectivity

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Size Comp
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, USVI DWF, NPS, UVI
  • Start Year: 2022

PR Commercial Dockside Intercept Survey

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Catch, Effort
  • Organizations: MER, SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2016

PR Recreational Dockside Intercept Survey

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Recreational
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Catch, Effort, Size Comp
  • Organizations: PR DNER, MER, SEFSC, CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2022

PR Commercial Trip Interview Program

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Size Comp
  • Organizations: SEFSC, PR DNER
  • Start Year: 1983

PR Commercial Logbook Program

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel, Shoreline
  • Metrics: Catch, Effort
  • Organizations: SEFSC, PR DNER
  • Start Year: 1979

PR Commercial Lobster Trap Size-Selectivity

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Size Comp
  • Organizations: SEFSC, MER
  • Start Year: 2022

PR & USVI NCRMP Diving Survey

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Depth Range: 0-33 m
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, HJR, UVI, NPS
  • Start Year: 2012

PR Research Fishing & Camera Survey

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Depth Range: 50-500 m
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, HJR, Comm. Fishers
  • Start Year: 2016

USVI Tech Diving Survey

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Depth Range: 30-60 m
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, HJR, UVI, NPS
  • Start Year: 2016

PR Spiny Lobster Juvenile Trap Survey

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Spiny Lobster
  • Depth Range: 0-33 m
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, HJR, Comm. Fishers
  • Start Year: 2022

PR & USVI Trip Interview Program Biosampling

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Life History
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Organizations: SEFSC, PR DNER, USVI DFW

PR Fishery-Independent Biosampling

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Life History
  • Fleet: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Organizations: SEFSC, HJR, Comm. Fishers
  • Start Year: 2022

Florida Keys Unfished Species Biosampling

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: FK
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Life History
  • Fleet: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, FWC, USCA
  • Start Year: 2020

PR Reproductive Maturity

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Life History
  • Fleet: Commercial, Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, PR DNER, FWC
  • Start Year: 2020

USVI Hogfish and Redtail Parrotfish Life History

Status: In Progress

Contact: NA

  • Region: USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Life History
  • Fleet: Commercial, Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Reef Fish
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, UVI, USCA
  • Start Year: 2021

Complete

Pass Center-wide strategic initiatives to relevant Center objective owners

Status: Complete

Contact: Shannon Cass Calay

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Internal Culture and Communication
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2022
  • End Year: 2022

Train staff in desired project management tool

Status: Complete

Contact: Vivian Matter

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Data Management / Automation
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2022
  • End Year: 2023

Year 2 strategic planning workshop to include SEFSC and regional partners

Status: Complete

Contact: Kevin McCarthy

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Internal Culture and Communication
  • Lead Program: SEFSC
  • Start Year: 2022
  • End Year: 2023

Identify internal sources of funding including working with partners who can assist in securing funding support

Status: Complete

Contact: Steve Smith

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Planning
  • Partition: Strategic Planning
  • Goal: Funding
  • Lead Program: CIMAS
  • Start Year: 2022
  • End Year: 2023

Planned

USVI Auxiliary Surveys for Total Effort and Price/Cost

Status: Planned

Contact: NA

  • Region: USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Commercial
  • Mode: Vessel
  • Metrics: Effort, Price/Cost
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, USVI DWF
  • Start Year: 2024

PR & USVI Shoreline Intercept Surveys

Status: Planned

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Dependent
  • Fleet: Recreational
  • Mode: Shoreline
  • Metrics: Catch, Effort, Size Comp
  • Organizations: NOAA S&T, SEFSC, CIMAS, USVI DWF
  • Start Year: 2025

PR & USVI Spiny Lobster Diving & Trap Survey

Status: Planned

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Spiny Lobster
  • Depth Range: 0-60 m
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, HJR, UPR, UVI, NPS, USVI DFW, Comm. Fishers

PR & USVI Conch Diving Survey

Status: Planned

Contact: NA

  • Region: PR, USVI
  • Category: Data
  • Partition: Fishery-Independent
  • Target Species: Conch
  • Depth Range: 0-60 m
  • Organizations: SEFSC, CIMAS, HJR, UPR, UVI, NPS