Appointed members serve 3-year terms, and can be reappointed until they have served a maximum of 3 consecutive terms.
Appointments are to either obligatory or at-large seats.
This year's appointees will begin their terms on August 11, 2000. Their terms will expire on August 10, 2003. Karen Bell , a seafood dealer and restaurateur, Cortez, Florida, and currently a member of the Gulf Council's Reef Fish Advisory Panel, has been appointed the Florida obligatory seat to replace Karl Lessard, who has completed his second term and declined to be nominated to another term.