[ODFW-News] Oregon Hatchery Research Center selects advisory committee member

[ODFW News]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Oregon Hatchery Research Center selects advisory committee member
 
ALSEA - State fishery officials today announced the selection of Tom
Gilg to represent conservation issues on the 15-member Oregon Hatchery
Research Center Advisory Committee. 
 
The committee advises the OHRC senior scientist on activities and
functions related to the operation and maintenance of the facility,
located west of Alsea. 
 
Committee members represent the federal government, local governments,
conservation groups, sport-fishing groups, the commercial fishing
industry, tribes, natural resource producers, watershed councils and
education. Two members represent the public-at-large and four represent
the scientific community. 
 
A cooperative research project between Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife and Oregon State University, the center's mission is to develop
an understanding of the mechanisms that may create differences between
hatchery and wild fish and devise ways to manage the differences so that
hatcheries will be used to provide conservation and fishery benefits. 
 
Gilg is an R&D Software Engineer with Hewlet-Packard and currently
volunteers as a member of ODFW's Fish Restoration and Enhancement
Program Board, which recommends funding projects that benefit angling.
Gilg enjoys fly fishing and camping with his wife and often teaches
others to fish.
 
For more information about the OHRC, visit ODFW's Web site at
www.dfw.state.or.us/.  
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