William Tweit, Interim Chair
David Witherell, Executive Director
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Executive Director's Report (including report on ideas for public forums and SSC survey workgroup report)
New Council Members
We have several new Council members joining us.
Mr. John Jensen is a commercial fisherman and owner-operator of Jensen's Boat Rentals for self-guided, recreational boating adventures based in Petersburg, Alaska. John's career in commercial fishing began in 1966, long-lining for halibut in the Gulf of Alaska and salmon seining in Southeast Alaska, and he has participated in twenty different commercial fisheries as permit and vessel owner/operator, and as crew. John was appointed to the Alaska Board of Fish in 2001 and has been a member of the board ever since then. John is also an advisory member to the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission.
Captain Allison J. Caputo is the Chief of Maritime Law Enforcement for the Seventeenth Coast Guard District. Captain Caputo holds a Master's Degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island. She has over 11 years of sea service aboard cutters in both the Atlantic and Pacific Areas, including over 100 boardings as a fisheries law enforcement officer in Alaska. While based in Honolulu, HI, she served as the USCG representative to the Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council. Captain Caputo also served as Chief of Living Marine Resources Enforcement at Coast Guard Headquarters where she implemented the Port States Measures Agreement to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Ms. Karla Bush, has returned to the Council as the official designee for Commissioner Cotton, taking over for Trent Hartill who left ADF&G to take another position.
Mr. Ivan Weinstein, who has succeeded Colin Brinkman as Foreign Affairs Officer with the Office of Marine Conservation, will be attending and sitting in the State Department seat for this Council meeting.
Mr. Chris Oli...
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