NPFMC will meet June 2-10 for an in person meeting in Newport, Oregon.
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will be holding an in-person Council meeting from June 2-10, 2025, in Newport, Oregon. The draft June 2025 schedule and eAgenda can be found at meetings.npfmc.org, along with a list of documents to review and when they will be available.
We recommend planning a full day of travel to/from Newport due to the flight schedules and commute time to/from the airport. The two closest airport options for the meeting in Newport are Eugene, OR (1.5 hour drive to Newport) and Portland, OR (2.5 hour drive to Newport). The EasyBiz discount code is ECMO165.
We have a discounted room block at the Best Western Plus Agate Inn, where the meetings will be held. The room rate is $189/night, the deadline for the discounted rate is May 1, 2025. We also have an overflow, alternative room block at the Hallmark Hotel, at $195/night, which is a 5-10 minute drive from the meeting venue. We are authorizing your hotel stay the night prior/after the meetings due to the extra travel time needed to get to/from Newport.
Please use the link below to book your room at the Best Western, or you can call the Hallmark and book under the “NOAA” room block. Book early to secure your room!
Meeting hotel: Best Western Plus Agate Inn
- To book use the link below: https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/book/hotel-rooms.38154.html?groupId=N36RL2U7
- Address: 3019 N Coast Hwy, Newport, OR 97365
- Phone: (541) 265-9411
- Booking deadline: May 1, 2025
Alternate room block: Hallmark Hotel Newport
- Booking deadline: May 1, 2025
- To book, call and reserve under room block “NOAA”
- Address: 744 SW Elizabeth St, Newport, OR 97365
- Phone: (855) 391-2484
The written public comment period for April will open on May 9, 2025, and close at noon on Friday, May 30, 2025. Signups for oral public testimony during the meeting will open once the meetings begin. You can listen to the meetings via our YouTube channel, or on zoom.
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This meeting is being conducted remotely with a web broadcast that provides the opportunity for remote public comment. In the event an outage occurs or technical issues arise that impact the experience of remote attendees, we will attempt to resolve them but ultimately we cannot guarantee that they will be resolved satisfactorily.
What to expect if you are attending remotely
To allow attendees to attend either in person or remotely, we will be broadcasting all three meetings, and will allow the public to testify either in person or virtually. We will use the eAgenda for public testimony signups, with an additional checkbox to indicate whether each person is intending to testify in person or remotely. If you would like to present a slideshow during your testimony, please include it as an attachment when you sign up and check the box that you will be using a visual aid and coordinate with npfmc.admin@noaa.gov. We can bring it up on screen for you to share from your attachment.
AP and Council members are expected to participate in person, and staff are encouraged to present in person but in some cases may not be able to.
For those accessing the meeting remotely, it will be broadcast on zoom and will continue to be streamed live and stored on YouTube. You will still also be able to follow along with any documents from the eAgenda.
Along with the ability to provide public comment remotely, here are some suggestions to make your comments as effective as possible.
- We have to be able to hear you. Please find somewhere quiet if you are in a noisy area. Pull over if you are driving. Make sure your dog has a good chew toy. In short, try and minimize distractions. Planes taking off overhead get amplified over large speakers in the meeting ballroom.
- If you are using your computer’s audio, please make sure to unmute yourself, make sure the correct microphone is selected, and that the volume on it is turned up. Ensure you have a stable internet connection.
- In the event you cannot testify via zoom, please call in with your telephone to the number listed on the eAgenda. Make sure you’re calling from the same number you signed up with – that way we know who to unmute when it is your turn. Make sure you have good cell service. If you are connected by zoom AND by phone, please mute your computer or go in another room or the feedback will prevent you from testifying.
- Listen for your name to be called. If you have concerns you won’t be available, please email npfmc.admin@noaa.gov.
What to expect if you are attending in person
The Council meetings have gone mostly paperless, and will continue to use our eAgenda for sharing documents. Because of this, you may want to bring your own phone, tablet, or laptop, although we will have some ipad reference stands available. The schedule purposely does not overlap the SSC and Council. With respect to COVID precautions, we strongly encourage all meeting attendees to follow CDC guidelinesto prevent getting sick. We obtain larger meeting space when possible to allow some additional distancing around the table and in the audience, and we ask that you do not attend the meeting if you feel symptomatic, and if you test positive for COVID, please let us know so we can post an alert in the meeting room.
We are using hybrid (in person and remote) procedures, and we ask that you be patient and flexible with us as we continue to refine our procedures. We are using both what works and what is manageable, and ask for feedback of your experience in the meeting to gauge what is sustainable for the long-term, and whether we can offer all of these same options, for example, at our coastal Alaska meetings in future. At times, there may be unpredictable circumstances that are out of our control and, for a brief time, we may not be able to offer the high quality, interactive, broadcasts that you’re used to. Council/SSC/AP meetings are always recorded, and while not immediate, the recordings are available to the public shortly after the meeting, and can help fill in the gaps in the event of an outage. Please contact the administrative staff at any time if you have questions or feedback of this process: npfmc.admin@noaa.gov.