2021 Board Of Directors

Becka Kelly is the newest member to the Board of the Central Coast Women for Fisheries. She grew up in Morro Bay and joined the Morro Bay Harbor Department in 2000 after a 6 year stint working on different boats as a marine biologist and commercial fishing in Morro Bay, Santa Cruz, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico and Australia. She worked her way up the ladder from Reserve Harbor Patrol Officer and Junior Lifeguard Coordinator to her present position of Harbor Patrol Supervisor. Becka’s love of the ocean, outdoors and helping people in the community she grew up in, makes this the perfect place to live and work. She is also lucky to work alongside her husband, Mike, a Paramedic Engineer for Morro Bay Fire and while raising their 2 children in this beautiful area. Becka, Mike and their kids are all avid surfers and love to take their 27’ Radon to sport fish and explore the coastline.

Sheri is from a 3rd generation Hemet, California family. She went to Cal State Long Beach and received a BS in Physical Therapy in 1984. She then moved to San Diego and worked for the Veteran’s Administration Hospital for 8 years. That is where she met her husband Tom Hafer when his father had a stroke and was in the VA. She and Tom then moved up to the Central Coast in 1992 and have a home in Atascadero. She has worked at Twin Cities Community Hospital for 27 years and has retired in 2019. She and Tom have 3 children Lucas, Katie, and Ben and 1 granddaughter Ellimae. They own the f/v Kathryn H and fish their live nearshore and salmon permits. She has been actively involved in the Fishing Community and fish politics since marrying Tom in 1986.  She has been the Secretary for CCWF for about 10 years and is now the Treasurer. She is also a director of REACT alliance - a  single purpose 501c opposing offshore wind energy.

Sharon joined Central Coast Women for Fisheries in 2005 and assists with the Fishing Heritage

Scholarship Program and the Pelorus, which is the quarterly newsletter. Sharon mostly grew up on California’s central coast in the small towns of Cambria and Harmony. She was inspired into the local jobs in the fishing industry because of her mother being involved in the charter fishing business and her husband, John Rowley, a commercial fisherman whom she met at the age of 20 in 1970. John and Sharon have worked their entire adult live in various fishing jobs until retiring in 2016. Sharon’s start was filleting fish on the San Simeon pier for Virg’s Landing, then as a deckhand on sport fishing boats based in Morro Bay. She also decked when needed for her husband when he had a trawler for a few years, mostly fishing for pink shrimp. Sharon also worked filleting fish in the companies that processed

fish the commercial boats unloaded, which at the time was tons that kept 30+ fish filleters busy full time in Morro Bay. She also worked on fishing nets for several years, a job she could do at home when their kids were little. In 1994 Sharon earned a 100 ton Coast Guard license in order to operate passenger vessels. Her main job for the next 21 years was taking anglers out fishing at Virg’s Landing in Morro Bay. Life was always busy with jobs, but she says the best job was raising their 2 children.

  Tabby Stamback is the newest Secretary for Women in Fisheries and brings a lifetime of experience and connection to the fishing community.

Growing up fishing as a child, the ocean has always been a big part of her life. Since 2007, she has worked on charter boats and has also commercial fished for black cod and Dungeness crab. She holds a 100-ton USCG Master’s license and has spent many years gaining firsthand experience on the water and learning the ins and outs of the fishing industry.

Today, she owns a marine store in Morro Bay, keeping her closely connected to the local fishing and boating community. Her passion for the ocean, fishing, and the people who make their living on the water continues to be a driving force in both her personal and professional life.

As the new Secretary, she is excited to become more involved with Women in Fisheries, meet and learn from other women in the industry, and help support and strengthen the fishing community she has been a part of for so many years.

  Jeff and Lori are 3 rd generation fisher folk in Morro Bay.  Lori has long supported the commercial fishing community. Currently, she sits on the American fisheries Advisory Council, PCFFA, the Chumash NMS advisory council, and am an alternate for the Morro Bay Harbor Advisory Board.  In her spare time, she holds a full time job for a local general engineer, runs her chicken business, tries to write stories about their way of life for Fisherman's News and  tries to keep on top of the laundry.