The North Pacific Fishery Management Council announces that Executive Director David Witherell, the longest-serving NPFMC staff to date (33 years), has decided to retire at the end of October. He joined the Council staff in 1992, coming from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries where he was a resource assessment biologist. Says David: “I loved that job – great colleagues, going to sea regularly on fishing boats and research surveys, analyzing data, preparing stock assessments, a...
