Bob Alverson Looks Back on 1975-76: Critical Years of IPHC and the Magnuson Stevens Act
Earlier this month, Bob Alverson, the Manager of the Fishing Vessel Owners Association (FVOA) and U.S. Commissioner on the International Pacific Halibut Commission, was asked to make comments for the IPHC’s 100th Anniversary celebration last week. He admitted at the time he “kind of went overboard” and subsequently abbreviated his public remarks at the ceremony last week.
His full account of global forces impacting IPHC during 1975-76, as he entered the dynamic world of fisheries management, follows. Only 50 years earlier, the IPHC ...
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