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Five Meetings Focus On Groundfish Management

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife — 5/5/2006

NEWPORT - Meetings in four Oregon ports are scheduled to discuss sport and commercial groundfish issues for 2007 and 2008.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council currently is setting harvest levels and management measures for the next two years of recreational and commercial groundfish fishing. Seven West Coast groundfish species are declared over-fished, and five of those species affect fisheries off Oregon's coast. These species drive management measures for all groundfish fisheries.

In April the PFMC adopted preferred harvest levels for both depleted and healthy stocks, as well as a range of management measures for all groundfish fisheries. At the next PFMC meeting, June 11-16 in Foster City, Calif., the council will take final action and adopt management measures that will be recommended to the National Marine Fisheries Service for implementation.

"It is important that fishers attend the ODFW meetings so they can let Oregon's representatives to the PFMC know what messages to give the council," said Gway Kirchner, ODFW Groundfish Management project leader.

The meetings will take place:

May 15 in Brookings at the Brookings Best Western Beachfront, 16008 Boat Basin Road, Harbor, Ore.
May 16 in Coos Bay at the Southwestern Oregon Community College, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.
May 17 in Newport at the Best Western Agate Beach Inn, 3019 North Coast Highway, Newport.
May 18 in Astoria at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites, 204 West Marine Drive, Astoria.

The meetings in Brookings, Coos Bay and Astoria will run from 6 to 9 p.m. and consist of a general session to discuss harvest levels, then commercial and recreational breakout sessions to discuss specific management measures. In Newport commercial and recreational fishers will have separate meetings, with the commercial meeting from 1 to 4 p.m. and recreational from 6 to 9 p.m.

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