. Conflicts of interest within the Regional Fisheries Management Councils : hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries Management of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on ensuring that all rules, regulations, and laws have been followed by the council members, March 23, 1994. Fishery management -- United States; Fishes -- Conservation United States; Executive advisory bodies -- United States; Conflict of interests -- United States. 48. EDITORIALS CONFLICT OF INTEREST North Pacific fishery council needs makeover
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. Conflicts of interest within the Regional Fisheries Management Councils : hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries Management of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on ensuring that all rules, regulations, and laws have been followed by the council members, March 23, 1994. Fishery management -- United States; Fishes -- Conservation United States; Executive advisory bodies -- United States; Conflict of interests -- United States. 48. EDITORIALS CONFLICT OF INTEREST North Pacific fishery council needs makeover ^â â HE makeup of the federal council managing the Uruted I States' richest fishery does not serve the public interest. :-â Congress should change it Consumers, taxpayers, and the resource deserve better than fhe conflict of interest built into the North Pacific Fishery Management Council by its statutory composition. : The Fishery Conservation and Management Art of 1976 /created an 1 l-member council to manage the Alaska fishery in the federal zone between 3 and aQO.miles offshore. It has become a $l-billion-a-year fishery. Under the act pushed by the lale Sen. Warren G. Magnuson. .7 of the 11 members must be from the fishing mdustry. There .were fears that scientists (night set fishing limits too low. The council's acbons have resulted in millions of dollars in benefits to some council members or their companies. A detailed investigation by Duff Wilson in The Tunes last Sunday showed the depth of that self-interest. The conflict of interest emerged as American fishermen began batthng Amencan fishermen, rather than the Japanese. for shares of the resource, which is rich vvith groundfish , Conflict charges were raised when the council approved a jjlan to shift at least J250 million of annual "fish product from a ^eartlebased floatmg factory fleet to a largely Japanese-owned processing mdustry on the Alaska shore , Washington could lose more than 1, 000 jobs if the advis