LLTK Roundtable

Sven is Co-Producer of the documentary film, A Sea Change (2008). He is a retired independent school head who worked as a teacher and administrator at The Putney School for 30 years. He remains involved with non-profits to build organizational capacity and to plan for the long term. He has a B.A. in history from Yale.

Born in Norway, Sven Huseby's parents owned a fish market. After World War II, his father worked in a salmon cannery in a remote native village situated on an Alaskan fjord. Moving in the 1950s to the cultural security of Seattle, Sven spoke Norwegian in his neighborhood while developing his English at school, eating fish six days a week. He became the first in his family to attend college after admission to Yale.

In his film, A Sea Change, Sven documents the awakening of his environmental consciousness and the threats to his cultural identity. Revisiting the places where he grew up, he witnesses the cultural, economic and ecological changes already underway and assesses the problems that ocean acidification might hold for future generations. New questions haunt him: How will he explain to his oldest grandchild, Elias, what is happening to the oceans and their ecosystems? How will he teach Elias the traditions of his family, and their historic dependence on the sea? How will he help him look into a changing and uncertain future? What can each of us do to avoid contributing to a crisis threatening future generations?

Driven by these concerns, Sven embarks on an odyssey that leads him to small fishing villages whose cash crop is at risk, native communities whose way of life is being threatened, activists working to combat the crisis, and individuals who are changing their lifestyles to make a difference at the most local level.

Chris was Chef at Seattle's McCormick & Schmick’s and The Hunt Club before opening Flying Fish in 1995. Nearly 15 years later, she remains committed to simply prepared, locally-sourced seafood, and has additionally turned her interests to sustainable agriculture and organic farming. The Flying Fish menu states “All of our raw ingredients are organic or harvested from the wild.”

Chris and Flying Fish have received many accolades, including: James Beard Award / Best Chef Northwest and Hawaii, Robert Mondavi Culinary Award of Excellence, Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, Organic Style Magazine Green Cuisine Award. In 2006, Flying Fish was voted “Best of Citysearch” and was recognized the same year with the Sante Magazine Grand Award for Culinary Hospitality Restaurant of the Year.

From www.flyingfishrestaurant.com: “The idea for Flying Fish was born on a beach in Thailand. While traveling there I stopped for awhile on Koh Samui, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. There were several beach restaurants that served the catch-of-the-day simply grilled at tables perched in the sand on the water's edge. You could pick your fish out of the ice and it would reappear half an hour later in cooked form. It was so direct and so simple. It just seemed like a good idea.”

Nate's current research focuses on climate impacts on water resources and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and how climate information is or isn’t being used in resource management decisions. He received a BS from the University of California at Davis in 1988, and a PhD from the UW’s Department of Atmospheric Science in 1994. He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1994-95, and started his current position with the Climate Impacts Group in the fall of 1995.

In April 2000 Nate received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his climate impacts research and public outreach activities. He has served on the US Global Oceans Ecosystems Dynamics (US GLOBEC) scientific steering committee, the National Research Council panel on the Alaska Groundfish Fishery and Stellar Sea Lions, and on the North Pacific Marine Science (PICES) panel on Fisheries and Ecosystem Response to Recent Regime Shifts.

Clint is the Director of Resource Management for the sport-fishing association Puget Sound Anglers (PSA). He is the recent past president of the State board of PSA, and he founded the South Sound chapter.

PSA is dedicated to preserving quality fisheries, based on these principles: 1) Recreational fishing is an important part of NW culture and way of life, 2) fisheries should be managed for conservation of the resource first and secondly to provide quality, sustainable recreational fisheries, 3) fisheries laws, rules and agreements should be fully enforced, and 4) Hatchery Reform is critical to sustainable fisheries.

Clint is Chairman of the Puget Sound Recreational Fisheries Enhancement Oversight Committee, a member of the Hatchery Reform Coalition, and he participates in the North of Falcon season setting process for Puget Sound salmon fisheries. He serves as the Vice Chair of the Washington chapter of the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA), a 501c4 political advocacy organization for recreational fishing. He is a member of the WDFW Recreational Fisheries Planning Cabinet, an advisory panel appointed by (former) Director Koenings to help the Department move forward with marked selective fisheries.

Kit has been a biometrician and fisheries management biologist for nearly 30 years in Alaska and Washington State. Since 1986 he has been responsible for salmon stock assessment and monitoring, enhancement planning, development of harvest management plans, and coordination of management with other tribal managers, the State of Washington, and others for the Tulalip Tribes.

He was a member of the Pacific Fishery Management Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee (1991-1998), including a term as Chair of the salmon subcommittee. Since 1998, he has been involved in developing the technical basis for salmon recovery plans for Puget Sound, especially focusing on the integrated effects of habitat, harvest, and hatchery management. He is a member of the Puget Sound Recovery Implementation Technical Team and is also chair of the San Juan County Marine Resources Committee.

Kit holds a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Arizona and an M.S. in Biomathematics from the University of Washington.

Jim holds a master's degree in Fisheries from the University of Washington and has worked in the field of salmon recovery for two decades. He joined the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program in 1999 as Chief Scientist.

His primary area of expertise is biometrics, including computer simulation and analytical models of biological systems. This expertise has been applied in a variety of applications in domestic and international forums. Jim served as co-chair of the Pacific Salmon Commission Chinook Technical Committee from 1991 through 2001, and was a technical advisor for the renegotiation of the Pacific Salmon Treaty in 1999.

Jim's work has focused on developing procedures to evaluate the risks and benefits of artificial production and developing recovery plans for listed species of salmonids. As manager of the Science Division, he had the responsibility of assuring that the production and management of fish resources by WDFW was grounded on a sound scientific basis.