I attend the UW, in the graduate program in the ME department. Usually an academic discussion group is mediated by a professor, and sometimes only ideas deemed correct by the mediator are permitted to be aired. It sounds as if your discussion group wasn't a place to freely air certain thoughts. I wonder how much outside FOS funding comes from commercial fishing?
I can't believe I-696 failed, and with all the new edangered/threatened listings. No on else seems to be offering any solutions. I guess the fishery has to totally collapse before drastic changes are made. Commercial fisherman are the whalers of the 90s.--mike