Contentious issues such as red snapper and aquaculture highlighted the agenda at the Guy Harvey Fisheries Symposium at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, November 13 and 14. Panels consisted of scientists, state and federal fishery-management representatives and commercial fishermen. Eileen Sobeck, Assistant Administrator for NOAA Fisheries, was part of the panel discussing the updates on the fisheries issues on the Gulf. After the first day, she spoke with Sport Fishing concerning the usefulness of the symposium. "I'm not usually the expert on the details of these issues. I have every confidence in Dr. Roy Crabtree, the NOAA Regional Administrator for the Southeast Region, and his staff to work through them and to have a really deep understanding, which then is given to me and then presented to the leadership in ...![Sport Fishing Mag]()
