Frank,

I view this effort and coordination to this point as a first step.  As the Council representative on both SEACOOS and in SECOORA I plan on tapping into all our connections with state (SCDNR, FWRI, NCDMF and GDNR) and federal fishery scientists as well as our Scientific and Statistical Committee, industry and science representatives on our Species, Habitat and Coral Advisory Panels in providing input to this process as well as our Fishery Ecosystem Plan development process.  I apologize if that hasn’t gone as far as it could have by now but I have been out of the loop due to personal reasons and I wasn’t able to be involved until just recently.  This coordination and engagement of a broader group will happen.

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Muller-Karger [mailto:carib <at> marine.usf.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:15 PM
To: SEACOOS Ocean Circulation effect on Marine Fisheries Team
Subject: Spam:Re: [seacoos-team-fisheries-circulation] SEACOOS - Fisheries/Ecosystem team white paper

Dear everyone:
As I suspected, the "team" continues to be heavily loaded with "edu" types, with two (2) state (note only SC!), a couple fed (GOV, Seagrant) , and one (1) fisheries council representative.

Do I dare repeat that we need to engage industry folks, other state agencies in other states, not just by secretly sending the draft documents, but by openly inviting them and including in the "team"?

How do we open this process? Can the SEACOOS outreach representative(s) take charge of disseminating/engaging others, since the "team" does not seem to get to the point of doing this?

Fisheries "team" as per http://seacoos.org/teams/fisheries-circulation/ on 20 July 2005:

cbc <at> unc.edu wrote:

Quoting cisco <cisco <at> unc.edu>:

I attach the latest version of the white paper on fisheries/ecosystem.
It has been greatly improved (and it has grown a bit in length) in
response to your input.  There is an attempt to have general ideas as
well as specific examples for consideration.

Cisco,

Thanks for forwarding this version. With the receipt of this draft, your team
folder has been published:

http://seacoos.org/teams/fisheries-circulation/

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