No the PFMC is a Federal appointed board.

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 3 Jun 2005 13:18:23 -0700, wrote:

While the following press release is primarily addressing commercial
fishing, the phrase "large areas cold be declared off limits to
trawling and other activities" may have some repercussions for sports
fishermen:

Media Advisory

Contact: Kathleen Goldstein, Environmental Defense, 202-841-0295

Pacific Fishery Management Council to Address Critical Fishery
Management Issues

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Is the Pacific Fishery Management Council the agency charged with
regulating, controlling and establishing fisheries quotas or is this
council an invention of the Environmental Defense Fund?

Later,

Tom