Wespac’s Aggressive Effort To Muscle In On State Control Of Fisheries From paying people to attend meetings to pushing legislation and even publishing a book, the federal fisheries panel spent years trying to influence state policy.
Over the past 15 years, the federal fishery panel that presides over more than a million square miles of the vast Western Pacific Ocean has invested considerable public resources much closer to home.
An underlying goal: to manipulate state resource management practices in a way that ultimately transfers more control to federal managers and commercial fishing interests that generally operate far offshore.
