. 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. 49 THE SEATTLE TIMES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22; 1992.1 U.S. urged to reject proposal
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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. 49 THE SEATTLE TIMES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22; 1992.1 U.S. urged to reject proposal to split Alaska. by David Schaefer Times Washington bureau WASHINGTON - The top in- vestigator at the U.S. Commerce Department is recommending that the department reject a proposed division of the lucrative Alaska pollock industry that would give Alaska canneries the rights to fish previously processed by Seattle- based factoiy ships. Inspector General Frank De- George yesterday recommended rejecting the plan approved last summer by the North Pacific Fish- ery Management Council, which said that 45 percent of the bottom fish caught off Alaska's coast should be reserved for land-based fish processors in Alaska. DeGeorge briefed some House and Senate members yesterday on his report. Last year, factory trawlers based in Washington state "caught .^d processed about 70 percent of Alaska pollock and cod, a $1 bO- lion-a-year industry. The local companies said as many as 1, 000 jobs for Washington state residents could be at stake. : The General Accounting Office found that ownership of the Wash- ington factory trawlers is about 70 percent American, while four of the five Alaska plants are owned by Japanese interests. The dispute involves the richest fishery in U.S. waters and how the resource is managed under the 1976 Magnuson Act. Until then, mostly foreign boats fished off Alaska. Former Sen. Warren Magnuson sought to cre- ate an Ajneilran industry, arid the act named for him'