Chafee nominates three for fisheries council

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee has nominated three people to serve on the New England Fisheries Management Council.
The governor nominated Theodore A. Platz, Seth S. Macinko and Jason D. Jarvis, in a March 14 letter to Eric Schwaab, assistant administrator for Fisheries at the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Schwaab had requested nominees for four seats, which are slated to become vacant on Aug. 10.
Platz has been a commercial fisherman for 26 years and remains active in the monkfish, skate and dogfish fisheries. He owns three commercial fishing vessels operating out of Newport, and also serves as a federal fish dealer. He is president of the Rhode Island Monkfish Association, and is also president of the Rhode Island Commercial Fisheries Center.
Macinko has fished commercially in the Alaskan crab fishery, and is currently preparing to re-enter the industry as a Rhode Island commercial fisherman. Since 1996, he has served on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Science and Statistical Committee.
Jarvis has served as a crew member aboard a Rhode Island-based commercial gill netter, and a deckhand aboard a Rhode Island-based party boat. He holds a Rhode Island multispecies commercial fishing license. &#8226