Cheri Patterson, NH Fish and Game

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Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program
External Program Review Operations Committee
Cheri Patterson, NH Fish and Game Chair
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Executive Committee
Coordinating Council
Finance Subcommittee
ASMFC
Stock Assessment Committee
Operations Committee
Law Enforcement Committee
Advisory Committee
Committee on Economic and Social Sciences
Recreational Technical Committee
Bycatch Prioritization Committee
Outreach Committee
Biological Review Panel
Commercial Technical Committee
Information Systems Committee

• Works closely with ACCSP Director, Advisory
  Committee and Coordinating Council

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Coordinating Council

• Sends cohesive recommendations to the
  Coordinating Council

Operations Committee

• Assimilates information from various committees
  and ACCSP administrative support.

Advisory Committee
Technical Committees
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Operations Committee

• Steering Committee Experienced staff person
  from each partner

• 22 members
• 3 meetings per year plus conference calls
• typical attendance 20 members

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Directs Development and Reviews Funding of
Program Standards
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Strategic Plan (2002-2006)
Implementation Plan (2004-2008)
Implementation Schedules to stage higher priority
activities across a five-year time horizon
Operations Plan (assessed annually)

• To continue development and implementation of
  ACCSP based on
• current or developing priorities
• logical progression of committee, staff, and
  partner work.

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Guides
ACCSP Administrative Grant

• detailing major tasks to be accomplished by
  staff and committees
• listing the responsible parties
• setting schedules

For Example
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Task 6. Conduct an external peer review of the
ACCSP (G1 G2 G3 G4). Lead Operations
Committee, ACCSP staff Schedule Spring 2006
Task 7. Update the Strategic Plan for 2007-2011
(G1 G2 G3 G4). Lead ACCSP staff, Operations
Committee, Coordinating Council Schedule
Spring/Summer 2006
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• Evaluate/Assess project proposals

Partner Total Funds Percent of Funds Rank
ACCSP Administrative Grant 9,251,999 39.93 1
Recreational Technical Committee 3,788,360 16.35 2
National Marine Fisheries Service - Northeast 1,699,850 7.34 3
Maine 1,100,451 4.75 4
Rhode Island 921,228 3.98 5
New York 864,683 3.73 6
ASMFC Committee on Economic and Social Sciences 619,837 2.68 7
North Carolina 579,123 2.50 8
Massachusetts 542,245 2.34 9
Maryland 523,604 2.26 10
New Jersey 520,291 2.25 11
Georgia 454,137 1.96 12
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New Hampshire 406,419 1.75 13
Virginia 387,774 1.67 14
South Carolina 332,510 1.44 15
National Marine Fisheries Service - Southeast 296,262 1.28 16
ASMFC 254,760 1.10 17
Florida 225,711 0.97 18
National Marine Fisheries Service - Headquarters 134,400 0.58 19
Connecticut 124,780 0.54 20
Delaware 83,657 0.36 21
United States Fish and Wildlife Service 56,722 0.24 22
Total 23,168,803  
Partners ACCSP has not funded

• District of Columbia
• Potomac River Fisheries Commission
• New England, Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic
  Fishery Management Councils

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Additional Funds Needed to Implement Program
Standards
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Future Implementation Goals Based on Developed
ACCSP Goals

• GOAL 1 - Produce complete, timely, and accurate
  fishery statistics.
• Improve SAFIS or other systems that are not
  meeting the vision of efficient, informative,
  user-friendly, and reliable systems of collecting
  and disbursing data.
• Continue to fund/encourage electronic reporting
  for catch/effort and other modules
• Increase funding to other modules other than
  Catch and Effort
• Work with/encourage partners that have not
  developed ACCSP standards in their fishery data
  collection systems.

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• GOAL 2 Increase public and industry confidence
  in fishery information.
• Continue to encourage partners to promote public
  confidence in commercial and recreational data
  collection standards and practices (e.g. MRFSS
  and SAFIS).
• Increase communication structure to promote
  ACCSP
• GOAL 3 - Develop and maintain active support and
  participation by all Program Partners.
• Continue to encourage program partners to be
  well represented in ACCSP committee meetings

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• GOAL 4 - Support the development and operation of
  a nationwide system for collecting, managing, and
  disseminating marine fisheries information.
• Continue the development of national metadata
  system with ACCSP
• Continue encouraging ACCSP staff and program
  partners to attend nationwide meetings with
  similar programs to incorporate improved methods
  into ACCSP program

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