[ODFW-News] Advisors help guide Hatchery Research Center

[ODFW News]

For immediate release Friday, June 3, 2005
 
Advisors help guide Hatchery Research Center

SALEM - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials today announced
15 fishers, scientists, educators and other public representatives have
been tapped as advisors to the new Hatchery Research Center, slated to
open this summer on the former site of the Fall Creek Fish Hatchery near
Alsea.

The center's mission is to investigate differences that may exist
between hatchery and wild salmon and steelhead, and develop ways to best
manage hatcheries to meet conservation and fisheries objectives. The
research will explore biological processes and how management decisions
affect watersheds, estuaries and the ocean.

The advisors are the following: 

Judy Gordon, of Longview, Wash., representing the federal government.
She is the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Abernathy Fish
Technology Center near Longview. 

Mark Labhart, of Tillamook, representing local government. Labhart
currently serves as a Tillamook County commissioner and recently retired
from a long career with the Oregon Department of Forestry. He was a
charter member of ODFW's Fish Restoration and Enhancement Board.

Dr. Wayne Hoffman, of Newport, representing conservation. Hoffman is a
member of the MidCoast Watershed Councils.

Dennis Richey, of West Linn, representing sport fishing interests.
Richey is a former science teacher with experience in marine research.
Four years ago he co-founded Oregon Anglers, which now has 3,200
members, and he currently serves as its executive director.

Bruce Buckmaster, of Warrenton, representing commercial fishing.
Buckmaster is president and CEO of Bio-Oregon, Inc., which manufactures
fish feed and fertilizers from fish byproducts in Warrenton. 

Stan Van de Wetering, of Siletz, representing tribal interests. He is
from the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

Chris Vandenberg, of Monmouth, representing resource users. Vandenberg
is a sheep and cattle rancher. He has a degree in freshwater fisheries
biology and is an avid angler.

Tom Davis, of Philomath, representing watershed councils. Davis has
served as chair of the Alsea Watershed Council for several years, and is
a tireless volunteer for fish enhancement projects in the Alsea
watershed.

Bill Hanshumaker, of Newport, representing K-12 education. Hanshumaker
is the public marine education specialist at OSU's Hatfield Marine
Science Center in Newport, where he researches and designs exhibits. 

Frank Bird, of Burns, representing the public at large. He runs a small
ranch near Burns and currently serves on the Oregon Fish Screening Task
Force. He retired from NOAA where he managed the Roseburg office. He
also worked in Alaska and Montana with hatchery and wild fish.

Cindy Heller, of Junction City, representing the public at large. Heller
is a long-time volunteer for ODFW's Salmon and Trout Enhancement
Program, chair of the Salmon and Trout Advisory Committee, and served
for six years on the Fish Screening Task Force. She has a graduate
degree in engineering. 

Dr. Thomas Ebert, of Alsea, representing science at large. Ebert lives
downstream from the Hatchery Research Center and is a population
biologist who taught and performed research at San Diego State
University. He served on several similar boards in California.

Jeff Hard, of Seattle, representing science at large. He works as a
population biologist for NOAA's Northwest Fish Science Center in
Seattle. 

Barry McPherson, of Newport, representing science at large. He is
president-elect of the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society,
which is comprised of more than 400 fisheries and aquatic science
professionals from federal, state and tribal agencies, colleges and
universities, and private employers.

Dr. Ben Stout, of Albany, representing science at large. Stout is a
former biology professor at Rutgers University, and Dean of the College
of Forestry at the University of Montana.
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