PORTLAND — Chuck Tracy, a Hockinson resident, has been named the new executive director of the Pacific Fishery Management Council.
Tracy has been serving as acting executive director since the retirement of Don McIsaac in April. Tracy had been deputy director for four years and has been with the council since 2001.
The Pacific council is one of eight regional fishery management councils established by the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. The councils manage fisheries off the U.S. coastline.
The Pacific council covers Washington, Oregon and California.
Tracy has a degree in biological oceanography from Humboldt State University with graduate work in estuarine ecology.
He also has worked for the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife, including Columbia River sturgeon research and salmon management.
