[ODFW-News] ODFW seeks candidates for Fish Restoration and Enhancement Program Board

[ODFW News]

For Immediate Release Thursday, June 8, 2006
 
ODFW seeks candidates for Fish Restoration and Enhancement Program Board
 
SALEM - The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking qualified
candidates to fill two open positions on the Fish Restoration and
Enhancement Program Board. Available positions include one sportfishing
representative and one gillnet fishery representative. 
 
Created by the Oregon Legislature in 1989, the Fish Restoration and
Enhancement Program is funded by a surcharge on sport and commercial
fishing licenses and commercial poundage fees. 
 
The program is overseen by a seven-member citizen board made up of three
sport fishing representatives, three representatives from the troll,
gillnet and seafood processing industries and one public-at-large
representative. The Board reviews grant proposals from various
organizations and agencies and recommends funding for fish restoration
and enhancement projects throughout the state.
 
Board members, who are appointed to four-year terms by the Oregon Fish
and Wildlife Commission, meet three or four times each year in various
communities throughout the state to review project funding applications,
hear public testimony, act as liaisons between the program and the
public and to conduct other program business. Board members are
volunteers, but Board-related business expenses are reimbursed.
 
The application deadline is June 26, 2006. Final appointments will be
made in the fall.
 
For more information or to obtain an application, contact Fish
Restoration and Enhancement Program coordinator Laura Tesler at (503)
947-6259.
 
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