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Key Stakeholders meet in Portland, Oregon
On November 12-13, 2008, the Wild Salmon Center organized and hosted the second annual Sustainable Fisheries coordination meeting with NGO and private sector partners, including World Wildlife Fund, Pacific Environment, and the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, amongst others. The purpose of this meeting was to identify and prioritize key barriers to sustainable salmon fisheries in the Russian Far East (RFE) and develop common strategies to address them. The meeting's participants discussed current sustainable fishery projects across the RFE, including Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) assessments and major seafood buyer's work for Russian salmon. Barriers to sustainable fisheries in the RFE, such as Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fisheries, administrative barriers, and hatchery impacts, were described and prioritized strategies developed.
Brian Caouette (WSC) and Meredith Lopuch
The two-day meeting culminated in a brisk hike in the Columbia River Gorge and dinner at Bamboo Sushi, the new MSC certified sushi restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
The Sustainable Fisheries program at Wild Salmon Center is working to improve the long term sustainability and support of well managed fisheries in Western Pacific salmon strongholds, which produce up to half the world's wild Pacific salmon.