Federal Subsistence Board endorses Fisheries Resource Monitoring Plan

The Federal Subsistence Board has unanimously endorsed a $1.8 million Fisheries Resource Monitoring Plan for 2016 and awaits concurrence from the Office of Subsistence Management, Assistant Regional Director, Eugene Peltola, Jr. The plan includes 22 (12 Stock, Status and Trend and 10 Harvest Monitoring and Traditional Ecological Knowledge) projects.

Office of Subsistence Management, Fisheries Division Chief, Stewart Cogswell was pleased with the outcome of the work session, “We have great visions for the Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program in years to come. We want to see this program develop into an ongoing conversation integrating people, knowledge and science. It’s so important to have transparency in what we do.”

The work session adjourned with a fond farewell to retiring board member, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Director, Geoffry Haskett and Office of Subsistence Management, Deputy Assistant Regional Director and Interagency Staff Committee member, Chuck Ardizzone. Haskett retires April 1, 2016 and Ardizzone takes a new position in Texas later this month.

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