Audio files
from November 2008 PFMC meeting in San Diego
IFQ Issue

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If you wish to download audio files, then click the right mouse bottom and select "save target as". Save to a location that you will remember. Speaks are listed in the order that speaker cards were submitted. In some cases speakers were moved to an earlier position to accommodate travel. In other cases speakers were call but not present. In total there are 122 speakers listed.

Track 1: Introduction and Staff reports and presentations

Track 2: Staff reports and presentations, continued

Track 3: Staff reports and presentations, continued, Including NOAA Counsel report

Track 4: Agency comments, SSC, GMT, GAP, and Enforcement consultants

Track 5: Public Hearing reports - Public comments begins around 25 minutes into this track with the following speakers:

Ms. Julie Sherman, Marine Fish Conservation Network, Portland, OR
Mr. Chris Voss, California Abalone Association, Santa Barbara, CA
Ms. Karen Garrison, NRDC, San Francisco, CA
Ms. Laura Pagano, NRDC, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Barry Cohen, Olde Port Fisheries, Avila Beach, CA
Mr. Pierre Marchand, Jessie’s Ilwaco Fish Company, Ilwaco, WA
Mr. Larry Holly, F/V Margret E., Coos Bay, OR
Ms. Leesa Cobb, Port Orford Resource Team, Port Orford, OR
Mr. Zeke Grader, PCFFA, San Francisco, CA
Ms. Meghan Jeans, Ocean Conservancy, San Francisco, CA
Ms. Jan Kansien, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Gene Bugatto, California Shellfish Company, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Mr. Doug Heater, Bornstein Seafoods, Astoria, OR
Ms. Ann Espedal, Bornstein Seafoods, Astoria, OR
Mr. Ralph Brown, trawler, Brookings, OR

Track 6: Public comments with the following speakers:

Mr. Robert Alverson, Fishing Vessel Owners Association, Seattle, WA
Mr. Ben Bowman, Food and Water Watch, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Shaun Cutting, F/V Bernadette, F/V Cape Foulweather, Charleston, OR
Mr. Gerald Gunnari, F/V Coast Pride, Charleston, OR
Mr. Steve Bodnar, Coos Bay Trawlers Assocation, Coos Bay, OR
Mr. Denny Burke, F/V Timmy Boy, Newport, OR
Mr. Jerry Bates, Bates Fish Company, Newport, OR
Mr. John Gillespie, F/V Windwalker, Santa Margarita, CA
Mr. Kevin Dunn, F/V Iron Lady, Astoria, OR
Mr. Paul Kujala, F/V Cape Windy, Warrenton, OR
Mr. Rick Algert, Harbor Master, City of Morro Bay, CA
Mr. Tommy Ancona, Tommy’s Marine Service, Fort Bragg, CA
Mr. Vince Doyle, F/V Verna Jean, Fort Bragg, CA

Track 7: Public comments with the following speakers:

Mr. Brian Jourdain, F/V Pacific Blue, Fort Bragg, CA
Mr. Tom Estes, Jr., F/V Tara Dawn, Fort Bragg, CA
Mr. Ron Hensley, Pacific Choice Seafoods, Eureka, CA
Mr. Owen Hooven, Pacific Choice Seafoods, Eureka, CA
Mr. Darin Reef, trawler, Astoria, OR
Mr. Mark Bowers, trawler, Astoria, OR
Mr. Bruce Campbell, fisherman, Eureka, CA
Mr. Mike Anderson, fisherman, Eureka, CA
Mr. John Holt, trawler, Eureka, CA
Mr. Jason Moon, F/V Grumpy J, White City, OR
Mr. Brett Hearne, F/V Last Straw, Newport, OR
Mr. Dennis Rankin, Rankin Fish Inc., Astoria, OR
Mr. Blair Miner, Fishermen’s Marketing Association, Astoria, OR
Mr. Lloyd Whaley, F/V Miss Sarah, Brookings, OR
Ms. Denise Vandecoevering, F/V Chellisa Michelle, Garibaldi, OR
Mr. Gerry Hemmingsen, trawler, Crescent City, CA
Mr. Bill James, fisherman, Salem, OR
Mr. Randy Smith, trawler, Crescent City, CA
Mr. Robert Smith, fisherman, Newport, OR
Mr. Robert L. Seitz, trawler, Chinook, WA
Mr. Mark Cooper, Cooper Fishing Inc., Toledo, OR

Track 8: Public comments with the following speakers:

Mr. Matt Love, Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Seattle, WA
Dr. Richard Young, Harbor Master, Crescent City, CA
Mr. Kurt Cochran, F/V Marathon, Newport, OR
Mr. Omar Allison, trawler, Bellingham, WA
Mr. Craig Cochran, F/V Bay Islander, Newport, OR
Mr. Kelly Smotherman, F/V Miss Mary, Warrenton, OR
Mr. Tom Estes, F/V Tara Dawn, Fort Bragg, CA
Ms. Kelley Rankin, Rankin Fish, Inc., Astoria, OR
Ms. Julee Estes, F/V Tara Dawn, Fort Bragg, CA
Ms. Michelle Lee, Pacific Shrimp Company, Newport, OR
Mr. Dave Wright, Bandon Pacific Seafoods, Newport, OR
Mr. Wylde Gillen, Pacific Shrimp Company, Newport, OR
Mr. Wayne Edgerton, Bandon Pacific Seafoods, Newport, OR
Mr. Marion Larkin, trawler, Mt. Vernon, WA

Track 9: Public comments with the following speakers:

Ms. Donna Parker, mothership sector, Seattle, WA
Mr. Chris Garbrick, UCB, Seattle, WA
Ms. Ann Samuelson, Clatsop County Commision, OR
Mr. Ray Toste, Washington Dungeness Crab Fishermen’s Association, Westport, WA
Mr. Craig Urness, Pacific Seafood Group, Clackamas, OR
Mr. Todd Whaley, F/V Miss Sarah, Brookings, OR
Mr. David Pettinger, trawler, Harbor, OR
Mr. Pete Leipzig, Fishermen’s Marketing Association, McKinleyville, CA
Mr. Travis Hunter, trawler, Fields Landing, CA
Ms. Moriah Bettencourt, trawler, Half Moon Bay, CA
Mr. John Henderschedt, Premier Pacific Seafoods, Seattle, WA
Mr. David Jincks, Midwater Trawlers Cooperative, Newport, OR
Mr. Richard Carroll, Ocean Gold Seafoods, Westport, WA
Mr. Dennis Rydman, Ocean Gold Seafoods, Westport, WA
Mr. Joe Plesha, Trident Seafoods, Newport, OR
Mr. Chris Riley, Trident Seafoods, Newport, OR
Mr. Bill Oliveria, Trident Seafoods, Newport, OR

Track 10: Public comments with the following speakers:

Mr. Colin Bornstein, Bornstein Seafoods, Bellingham, WA
Mr. Andrew Bornstein, Bornstein Seafoods, Bellingham, WA
Master Ross Rydman, Ocean Gold Seafoods, Westport, WA
Mr. Tom Libby, Point Adams Packing Company, Astoria, OR
Mr. Steve Aarvik, F/V Wind Jammer, Lynnwood, WA
Mr. Dick Helberg, Warrenton City Council, Warrenton, OR
Mr. Dan Waldeck, Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative, Portland, OR
Mr. John Bundy, Glacier Fish Company, Seattle, WA
Mr. Jerry Boisvert, Pacific Coast Seafoods, Warrenton, OR
Mr. Rick Harris, Pacific Choice Seafoods, Eureka, CA
Mr. Brent Paine, United Catcher Boats, Seattle, WA

Track 11: Public comments with the following speakers:

Mr. Chris Peterson, UCB, Seattle, WA
Mr. Ben Parker, UCB, Seattle, WA
Mr. Peter Grenell, San Mateo County Harbor District, South San Francisco, CA
Mr. Joe Bersch, Supreme Alaska Seafoods, Seattle, WA
Mr. Frank Dulcich, Pacific Seafood Group, Clackamas, OR
Mr. Stuart Nelson, Nelson Bros. Fisheries, Inc., Surrey, BC, Canada
Mr. Mike Okoniewski, Pacific Seafoods, Woodland, WA

Track 12: Public comments with the following speakers:

Mr. Jim Caito, Caito Brothers, Fort Bragg, CA
Mr. Jay Bornstein, Bornstein Seafoods, Bellingham, WA
Ms. Carol White, Bornstein Seafoods, Bellingham, WA
Mr. Chris Lubetich, Bornstein Seafoods, Bellingham, WA
Ms. Johanna Thomas, Environmental Defense, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Shems Jud, Environmental Defense, Lake Oswego, OR
Ms. Dorothy Lowman, Environmental Defense, Portland, OR
Mr. Gary Winterstein, fisherman, Warrenton, OR
Mr. Jim Seavers for Mr. Mike Retherford, F/V Excalibur, Newport, OR
Ms. Danene Lethin, F/V Ballad, Chinook, WA
Mr. David Lethin, F/V Ballad, Chinook, WA
Mr. Brad Pettinger, Oregon Trawl Commission, Brookings, OR
Ms. Lynn Langford Walton, trawler, Soquim, WA
Mr. Allan Oakley, F/V Sound Leader, Blaine, WA
Mr. Michael Bell, The Nature Conservancy, San Luis Obispo, CA
Ms. Margaret Spring, The Nature Conservancy, CA
Ms. Erika Feller, The Nature Conservancy, CA
Mr. Will Stelle, The Environmental Defense Fund, Seattle, WA
Mr. Tony Vandecoevering, F/V George Allen, Garibaldi, OR
Mr. Bryan Salo, trawler, Astoria, OR
Mr. Mark Scheer, Attorney representing trawlers, Seattle, WA
Mr. Mike Hyde, American Seafoods Company, Seattle, WA
Ms. Angela Wratchford, F/V Mandy J, Eureka, CA
Ms. Janna Bird, Eureka, CA

Track 13: Council discussion and action

Track 14: Council discussion and action

Track 15: Council discussion and action