[ODFW-News] Meeting to focus on ocean salmon season

[ODFW News]

For immediate release Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006
 
Meeting to focus on ocean salmon season
 
NEWPORT - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials today
announced a Mar. 2 meeting in Newport to review the 2005 ocean salmon
season and discuss projections for this year's season.

The Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association and the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife will host the annual Ocean Salmon Industry Group
meeting from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Hallmark Resort Hotel, 744 SW
Elizabeth St. 

Officials will review last year's season, provide 2006 forecasts of
abundance of salmon stocks, review current issues related to salmon
management and how those issues will be used to develop ocean salmon
regulation proposals for ODFW staff to take to the Pacific Fishery
Management Council.

"The forecasts indicate some salmon stocks are down in 2006," said Eric
Schindler, Ocean Salmon Project Leader for the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife. "Managers will be looking for suggestions from industry on
how to structure the season so it is equitable to all fishers and
protects the resource."

Ocean anglers, commercial salmon troll fishers, and others interested in
participating in the development of ocean salmon fishery regulations for
the 2006 season are encouraged to attend this meeting. 
 
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