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Council Members

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The Council is composed of 15 members; 11 voting and 4 non-voting. Seven of the voting members are appointed by the Secretary of Commerce upon the recommendation of the governors of Alaska and Washington. The governors must submit three names for each vacancy occurring on the Council and may indicate a preferred choice.  Further details can be found on the NOAA website here.

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The Governor of Alaska nominates candidates for five seats, the Governor of Washington two seats. Each member is appointed to a three-year term and may be reappointed, but may not exceed three consecutive terms. There are four mandatory voting members; they are the leading fisheries officials from the states of Alaska, Washington and Oregon and the Alaska Regional Director for the National Marine Fisheries Service.

The four non-voting members are the Executive Director of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, the Area Director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Commander of the 17th Coast Guard District, and a representative from the U.S. State Department. From the voting membership, the Council elects a Chairman and Vice-Chairman to serve one-year terms. For more information, please contact Peggy Kircher: 907-271-2809.

Related Documents

  • Minutes from the Council meetings
  • A listing of Council Terms of Office
  • Financial Disclosures 2021; Fillable Form
  • Statement of Organization Practices and Procedures (Council SOPPs, Approved June 2020)
  • Regional Operating Agreement (Revised October 2016)

Council Members – Meet the Council

Back row, L to R:  Dr. Jim Balsiger, Craig Cross, Bill Tweit, John Jensen, Simon Kinneen,
Andy Mezirow, Ivan Weinstien (former), Glenn Merrill

Front row: Buck Laukitis (term end 8/19), Capt. Allison Caputo (former), Theresa Peterson (term end 8/19), Kenny Down,
Sam Cotten (former ADF&G commissioner), Dave Hansen, Steve Marx

Contacts

IMPORTANT NOTE: The following information is provided as a public service and is intended for general communication purposes. If you wish to submit comments on an Agenda item to be made available to the Council family as part of the record, they must be submitted to  meetings.npfmc.org and must be received by the deadline date noticed in that meeting’s agenda.

Name Address Phone/Fax E-mail Address
Voting Dr. Jim Balsiger
NMFS Regional Director
Alternates: Glenn Merrill, Dr. Anne Marie Eich, Alicia Miller
NOAA Fisheries
PO Box 21668
Juneau, AK 99802
907-586-7221
Fax: 907-586-7249
jim.balsiger@noaa.gov glenn.merrill@noaa.gov
annemarie.eich@noaa.gov
Alicia.M.Miller@noaa.gov
RADM Matthew Bell Jr.
US Coast Guard
Alternates: CAPT Jason Brennell and LCDR Jedediah Raskie
17th Coast Guard District, MPO
PO Box 25517
Juneau, AK 99802
907-463-2283  

jason.a.brennell@uscg.mil

Voting Cora Campbell Silver Bay Seafoods
208 Lake Street, Suite 2E
Sitka, AK 99835
907-966-3110 Cora.campbell@silverbayseafoods.com
Holly Carroll
(US Fish & Wildlife Service)
Alternate for Greg Siekaniec
USFWS
1011 E Tudor Rd
Anchorage, AK 9950
907-786-3510 holly_carroll@fws.gov
Voting Craig Cross Aleutian Spray Fisheries
2157 N. Northlake Way, Ste 210
Seattle, WA 98103
206-784-5000
Fax: 206-784-5500
craigc@starboats.com
Voting Kenny Down 3123 W. Harley St.
Seattle, WA 98199
206-972-4185 kennydown@comcast.net
Dave Hanson
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
PSMFC
205 SE Spokane St. Ste 100
Portland, OR 97202
503-595-3100
Fax: 503-595-3232
DHanson@psmfc.org
Voting John Jensen Jensen Boat Rentals
P.O. Box 681
Petersburg, AK 99833
907-518-0121 i.fishjensen@gmail.com
Voting Nicole Kimball Pacific Seafood Processors Association
721 West 1st Avenue, Ste 100
Anchorage, AK 99501
907-223-1648 Nicolek@pspafish.net
Voting Simon Kinneen
Chair
Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation
PO Box 358
Nome, AK  99762
907-443-2477
Fax: 907-443-2478
simon@nsedc.com
Staci MacCorkle
US State Department
Office of Marine Conservation
Washington, DC 20520-7878
202-647-3010 MacCorkleSK@state.gov
Voting Steve Marx
Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Alternate for Curt Melcher
PO Box 1754 Bend,
Oregon 97709
541-602-6299 SLMarx@msn.com
Voting Andy Mezirow Gray Light Fisheries, LLC
PO Box 2794
Seward, AK 99664
907-362-1600 graylight@alaskan.net
Voting Bill Tweit
Vice Chair
Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Alternate for Kelly Susewind
WDFW
600 Capitol Way N
Olympia, WA 98501-1091
360-902-2723
Fax: 360-902-2207
tweitwmt@dfw.wa.gov
Voting Doug Vincent-Lang
Alaska Dept. Fish & Game Commissioner
Alternate: Rachel Baker
ADF&G
333 Raspberry Road
Anchorage, AK 99518
907-267-2257 doug.vincent-lang@alaska.gov
rachel.baker@alaska.gov

 

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