Representatives of the trawl and processing sector presented the council with a voluntary, industry‑led report produced after a two‑day workshop. The report outlines near‑term and longer‑term recommendations intended to inform the forthcoming trawl Catcher ("CATCHER") program review.

Highlights from the industry report

- Monitoring and validation: Workshop participants recommended the council analyze alternative approaches to observer, electronic monitoring (EM) and dockside catch monitoring. Suggestions included using EM to validate vessel logs, reviewing catch‑handling and discard sorting requirements by species groups, and expanded use of dockside cameras for fish ticket validation.

- Adaptive Management Program (AMP) quota options: The report presented two AMP pathways for consideration — (1) allocation of AMP pounds annually to active participants or (2) ending the AMP and reallocating AMP quota shares to current IFQ quota‑share holders in proportion to holdings.

- Accumulation limits and utilization: Participants suggested the council consider vessel limits during the biennial harvest specification process to improve utilization rates.

- Economic data collection: The group recommended exploring refinements to the mandatory economic data collection program, including potentially reducing frequency or the amount of information collected.

- Cost recovery: Workshop members asked the council to consider refinements to reduce implementation burden on the trawl sector.

Wider council reaction and next steps

Council staff placed the voluntary workshop report in the briefing materials as an informational item. Members of the trawl workshop said the work was volunteer‑funded and not council supported, and that participants offered to help craft concrete options for analysis. The council did not take action on the report at this meeting but the document was made available as supplemental informational material for the trawl program review process.

Ending: The report is intended to seed the formal CATCHER program review and related council analysis.