date:Apr 11, 2013
serves on Oregons Ocean Policy Advisory Council and helped write the program, called it a milestone, but added that it faces challenges because of the difficulty of measuring things like forage fish numbers.
In the forest, you can go out and count the trees, he said. You cant do that in the ocean.
Brad Pettinger, director of the Oregon Trawl Commission, a fishing-industry group, said West Coast fisheries have rebounded since the 2002 groundfish collapse, with strong catches of shrimp and whit