“You can’t just look at the oceans as feed lots. These are food webs that are extremely complex and extremely valuable,” said Geoff Shester, California program director for Monterey-based Oceana. Most people probably never have heard of the hundreds of species protected by Tuesday’s vote at the council’s meeting in Vancouver, Washington. They fall into seven broad categories: Pacific saury, Silversides, round and thread herring, Pacific sand lance, Osmerid smelts, mesopelagic fishes and pelagic squids.