February 23, 2017 — Interested in learning about how federal biologists manage fisheries across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Atlantic Seaboard from Florida north to North Carolina?
How about taking a spot on the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council’s Coastal Migratory Pelagics Advisory Panel?
Here’s your chance: There’s a March 17 deadline for applying for membership on the advisory panel, a three-year term for the group which will merge the biology of pelagic fish – most of the offshore species, fish that do not live on the bottom nor near the shore – and the folks who catch those species into advice for the 17-member Gulf Council.
The message from the Gulf Council stated, “Advisory panel members are appointed by the Council and will serve a three-year term.” Most advisory panels meet no more than twice each year and per-day and travel expenses are paid for ad-hoc panel members.