The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) has developed an educational program to better inform sportsmen, managers, legislatures and those interested in Fishery Management and Science of the how and why of the Council Management Process. Tim Klassen, Dan Wolford (PFMC Commissioner) and I were invited to attend a scoping meeting last week in Portland. The Group is funded by the Packard and Betty Moore Foundation. That got my antennae up since those were the players in the Marine Life Pro-tection Act out here in California some years back. We spent a day and a half discussing the merits of the program and what our emphasis would be and who might be interested in attending and participating in lecturing at the sessions.