Program: IIFET 2000: Microbehavior and Macroresults
Friday July 14
Period 1
9:00 a.m. Opening remarks, Barry Fisher9:15 Joe Easley, Commercial fisherman and Administrator, Oregon Trawl Commission.
History of Trawling Off the Pacific Coast
9:30 Barry Fisher, Commercial fisherman and President, Midwater Trawlers Cooperative, Newport, Oregon.
The groundfish sector just before and just after the Magnuson Act: structural changes in the fleet, how it fishes and what it catches; some east coast - west coast comparisons.
9:45 Ralph Brown, Commercial fisherman, Coos Bay, Oregon, and PFMC member.
Fishing under the Federal Management Structure: the mid 1980s to the present
10:00 Discussion
10:30 Coffee
Period 2
11:00 Susan Hanna, COMES and Agricultural and Resource Economics, OSU.Setting the Fishery Management Stage: Evolution of West Coast Groundfish Management
11:15 Jim Branson, Former Executive Director, North Pacific Fishery Management Council.
The Alaska fisheries and their management: pre-statehood, under state management and post-Magnuson Act.
11:30 Bob Schoning, Former Director of the Oregon Fish Commission and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Over fifty years of government fisheries service, then and now: state, federal and international levels.
11:45 Clinton Atkinson, Former Director, BCF (now NMFS) Biological Laboratory, Seattle; Regional Fisheries Attache, U.S. Embassy; Chief, Middle and South Atlantic Fisheries Investigation (BCF); Biologist, International Pacific Salmon Commission.
A Review of Fisheries Research in the Pacific Area
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Period 3
2:00 John McGowan, Former Vice President of the Columbia River Packers Association and Former President, Bumble Bee Seafoods.The history of fish processing, especially canning, of Alaska, Washington and Oregon salmon and tuna.
2:15 Paul Heikkila, Commercial fisherman and Coos County, Oregon,Extension Agent.
Ninety years of salmon trolling.
2:30 Lee Wiegardt, Wiegardt Brothers Oyster Company, Willapa Bay, Washington.
The history of West Coast oyster production, processing and marketing.
2:45 Nick Furman, Administrator, Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission and Oregon Albacore Commission (tentative)
The Dungeness Crab Fishery: A Historical Perspective
3:00 Discussion
3:30 Coffee
Period 4
4:00 Glen Spain, Charting a Path Through an Uncertain Future: Lessons from Our HistoryZeke Grader, Executive Director, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, San Francisco
History of seafood processing in California and Oregon
4:15 Christopher DeWees, Marine Fisheries Specialist, Sea Grant Extension program, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis
The California fisheries: an historical perspective, with particular reference to harvesting in central and southern California
4:30 General Discussion
6:30 Reception (Courtesy of Central Oregon Marine Experiment Station)
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