The federal advisory body responsible for managing fisheries in waters around Hawai'i and other parts of the Pacific on Thursday disputed a council member's assertion that the agency failed to provide financial documents.

Peter Young, a council member and the former head of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, said he was never provided the detailed budgets he repeatedly asked for until he filed a Freedom of Information Act request.

But the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council on Thursday e-mailed The Associated Press and other media a copy of a memorandum Young signed Sept. 27 acknowledging receipt of proposed budget requests for 2006 and 2007.

The memo also says Young received a copy of a 2006 audit report.

Young said, however, that he had asked the council for documents that were more detailed than the ones provided to him.

"When I signed a form, yes, I received a budget. When I finally reviewed it, it was like, no, that's not what I asked for. I asked for detail."

Young provided AP with an e-mail he sent to the council's executive director Sept. 21 saying he needed "detailed budgets and the minutes of the meetings when the budgets were approved by the council." He said he had earlier sent six other e-mails asking the council for the budget information.

Young said he received documents from the FOIA request a few weeks ago but hasn't had a chance to fully review them.

Kitty Simonds, the council's executive director, said the documents provided to Young in September were detailed.

"What he got is what we have," Simonds said.

The council is responsible for protecting fishery resources in the U.S. exclusive economic zones around western Pacific islands, including Hawai'i, Guam, the Northern Marianas and American Samoa.