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UFA & Salmon Task Force Update April 8, 2004
Joint Legislative Salmon Industry Task Force Status of Task Force Bills has been added to the website – see link at top of page: http://www.ufa-fish.org/taskforce/index.htm
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Table of Contents: 1. Seekins' bill on AK resident consumptive use passes Senate Resources (SB 318) 2. Senator Murkowski calls for the president’s help on ikura workers’ H-2B visas 3. UFA Endorses Lisa Murkowski 4. Senator Ted Stevens Introduces National Ocean Exploration Program Bill 5. ADFG posts 2004 Chinook Salmon Quota for Southeast Alaska 6. West Behm Canal Herring Fishery Likely Opened By End of Week.... 7. ADF&G Commits to Conservation with Behm Canal Herring Sustained Yield 8. Bill to allow 'dude' fishing 9. Bill would raise ship wastewater standards in U.S. 10. Valdez Fish Meal Plant Chased Out Of Town Core 11. Sites eyed for coral protection 12. Officials pressed to back fish farming 13. New Book Says Farming (includes fish) is Biggest Global Environmental Threat 14. Ridge Appoints Gov. Murkowski to Security Advisory Council Committee 15. 666 is the Beast - ADF&G Code number for Atlantic Salmon 16. Research trawler assessed for repairs after striking reef near Kodiak 17. Kodiak Tanner Fishery sees undersized crabs 18. Sharing Ground –videos show views on taking fish, game Subsistence 19. Dynamic New Film Explores Impacts of Salmon Farming 20.Sitnews: history of the Kah Shakes and West Behm Canal herring fisheries: 21. Marine Mammal Consortium finds Sea Lions don’t utilize heat of digestion 22. Shorebank launches Salmon Nation credit card 23. House set for clash with Bush on Highway Bill 24. Young proposal would get more people outdoors 25. U.S. considers Food Guide Pyramid changes 26. 84 year old Enid Magill - one of the first female salmon skippers in Alaska 27. U.S.-Chile fisheries talks to be held in Juneau 28. Kansas City: Worry Free dining with Pacific Halibut 29. Quotas would end B.C.'s 'race for salmon' 30. WA: State lists Puget Sound orca as in danger 31. WA water: Favor salmon over farmers, panel says 32. OR: NOAA seeks more time for salmon evaluation 33. Oregonian Live: Summer spills and the politics of salmon extinction 34. New Technologies Reduce Sea Turtle Mortality up to 92% 35. CA: Environmentalists target bond funds to buy boats, ocean land 36. Louisiana Labeling: Bill will kill Cajun Boy seafood imports 38. Debate over duties gets more heated - Free-trade group blasts U.S. shrimpers 39. Idaho added to USDA salmon habitat program 40. Pravda: Half a billion young salmons let go to the Pacific… 41. ME: Troubled salmon farm sold to Canadian company 42. BOF Proposal deadline April 9 43. NPRB announces Research Proposal fundings for 2004 44. Marine Safety Education Association offers safety trainings in Juneau –April 17 45. NMFS reallocates BSAI Pcod 46. NMFS issues Exempted Fishing Permit to AFDF for hook and line gear test 47. NMFS approves time period for Pribilof blue king crab rebuilding plan 48. NOAA reports Sea Lion shootings in SE AK 49. NOAA Enforcement report - investigation of six ton subsistence halibut sale 50. GAO Report on IFQs 51. MPA News April Newsletter: 52. CDFU seeks Executive Director
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1. Seekins' bill on AK resident consumptive use passes Senate Resources (SB 318) …Seekins argued that personal use should trump other uses, such as wildlife viewing or commercial fishing, when there is a conflict…
The committee members adopted an amendment
proposed by Sen. Scott Ogan, R-Palmer, that changed Seekins' language to
have the state assign a "very high preference" for consumptive uses… "I think this has huge, unintended consequences across the state," said Bob Thorstenson, president of United Fishermen of Alaska.” http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2070298,00.html
Next it will go to Senate Judiciary which Senator Seekins chairs, then a Senate floor vote and onward to the House if passed. To track this bill see:
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill.asp?
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/23/Bills/SB0318B.PDF
“United Fishermen of Alaska vigorously opposes the current Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 318 or any other form or version of the content of this legislation in Senate Resources or any other committee of either body of the legislature.” – Bob Thorstenson, UFA President, in letter to Senate Resources chair Senator Scott Ogan
Buyers will not buy the Alaska roe unless the
seven different grades of roe per salmon species are overseen by their
experts. And since roe sales are vital to the economics of processing some
types of salmon, some processors may not buy any salmon this season if they
are denied the profits from roe sales… Murkowski, when first notified of the problem two weeks ago, quickly helped craft legislation to give the Department of Homeland Security statutory authority to address the visa problem…
http://murkowski.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=220290 UFA wrote Senator Murkowski about this two weeks ago and appreciate her quick response.
3. UFA Endorses Lisa Murkowski http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/040404/sta_endorse.shtml
Senator Lisa Murkowski writes on The Future of
Commercial Fishing: Alaska's Rational Self Interest http://murkowski.senate.gov/opinion_031103.html
4. Senator Ted Stevens Introduces National Ocean Exploration Program Bill April 5, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) introduced the National Ocean Exploration Program Act (the Program), which establishes a national ocean exploration program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other appropriate federal agencies. http://stevens.senate.gov/pr040504.htm
5. ADFG posts 2004 Chinook Salmon Quota for Southeast Alaska
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game
announced that this year’s Southeast Alaska chinook harvest quota will be
slightly higher than last year. The result provides somewhat improved catch
opportunities for Southeast chinook harvesters. The Pacific Salmon Commission’s Chinook Technical Committee determined that the 2004 Abundance Index for chinook salmon in Southeast Alaska is 1.83. According to the June 30, 1999, Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement, this translates into an all-gear catch for Southeast Alaska of 373,870 treaty chinook salmon, up from last year by about 8,000 fish. Most chinook salmon produced in Alaska hatcheries are not factored into the Abundance Index, and may be caught by Alaskans in addition to the Treaty limit… http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/news/2003/4-6-04nr.php
6. West Behm Canal Herring Fishery Likely Opened By End of Week....
After more than twenty years without a herring
fishery in the West Behm Canal, the State Department of Fish and Game says
gillnetters likely will begin fishing the area by the end of this week. KRBD Audio report: http://www.krbd.org/NewsReports/040604_behm_fishery.html
7. ADF&G Commits to Conservation with Behm Canal Herring Sustained Yield …The fishery will be conducted under a number of constraints to insure the long-term sustainability of the resource. • The fishery will open only if the total stock is 6000 tons or more of mature herring. • The fishery will be permitted to harvest only 10% of the stock unless the resource substantially increases. • Areas near Ketchikan including Naha Bay, Clover Pass, and Tongass Narrows will remain closed creating a sanctuary for a significant portion of the spawning herring stock. • The fishery will not take place unless the department’s on-the-spot surveys indicate that the herring stock will be sufficient to support the fishery and provide for conservation of the herring stock. http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/news/2003/3-26-04nr.php (See also story # 20 below)
8. Bill to allow 'dude' fishing
HB458 in the Legislature would create
temporary commercial fishing crew-member licenses. It is intended to open up
a market for tourists interested in being a crew member on a fishing boat
for a day…
House Bill 458 would create a one-day license
for $30 and a three-day license for $50… For complete story by Masha Herbst in Juneau empire see:
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/040604/ A similar story by Associated press writer Cathy Brown ran in California North County (San Diego) Times, Billings Montana Gazzette, and Corvallis Oregon Gazzette-Times
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/06/news/
If this bill passes, UFA members are invited to use the UFA website to post ads…
9. Bill would raise ship wastewater standards in U.S. Legislation would ban all dumping within state's Inside Passage
A far-reaching federal cruise ship pollution
bill introduced in Congress last week effectively would ban all wastewater
dumping in the narrow channels of Alaska's Inside Passage.
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/040804/sta_
10. Valdez Fish Meal Plant Chased Out Of Town Core On a vote of 5-0, the Valdez city council rejected a plan for the city to link up with processors SeaHawk Seafoods and Norquest to develop a fish grinding plant at the Sea Hawk site…Instead, city manager Dave Dengel was directed to negotiate with the two processors to find a site "outside of the core area." The "core area" of the town was defined as that area west of the Duck Flats. http://www.valdezstar.net/story_one.html
11. Sites eyed for coral protection Federal fishery managers on Sunday selected a list of ocean sites where commercial fishing might be restricted or banned to prevent damage to coral and other important fish habitat…Many of the sites are along the Aleutian Islands, where federal scientists in submarines have discovered spectacular groves of coral and sponge. Conservationists are anxious to protect the areas against damage from trawl nets, traps and strings of fishing hooks… For associated Press story in Fairbanks News-Miner see:
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2065719,00.html NOAA Online Magazine: U.S. coral reef task force meets in Washington, D.C.., to provide progress reports on implementation of the national action plan to conserve coral reefs… http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/magazine/stories/mag129.htm
12. Officials pressed to back fish farming
Federal officials say they intend to finally
spark a national debate about ocean ranching. Existing law doesn't address
offshore fish farming, which otherwise would be subject to the same size and
bag limits imposed on fishing in federal waters. NOAA, a division of the Department of Commerce, submitted draft legislation to the secretary of commerce about three weeks ago that would allow and regulate offshore fish farms, said Timothy Keeney, deputy assistant secretary for NOAA.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
NOAA Online Magazine Article: Noaa's National Marine Aquaculture Initiative: Seafood and Technology for the Future: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/magazine/stories/mag25.htm
13. New Book Says Farming (includes fish) is Biggest Global Environmental Threat “…The seafood that Americans consume is mostly produced by aquaculture. Much of this industry has huge environmental impacts. "When you consider that most species are over-fished, the trend of concern in aquaculture is the growth of open ocean systems producing carnivorous fish," said Clay. These fish require three to five pounds of wild fish to produce one pound of farmed fish. It's not a good trade-off. It's inefficient…" http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1366D000000FBCB4B414E66DCB4F2
14. Ridge Appoints Gov. Murkowski to Security Advisory Council Committee Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge is pleased to announce the appointments of Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski and Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval to serve as members of the State and Local Officials Senior Advisory Committee (SLSAC) of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=3410
15. 666 is ADF&G Code number for Atlantic Salmon …Mecum said his staff came up with a unique code number: 666… “It just seemed appropriate,” Mecum said with a laugh, “since farmed salmon is viewed by many as inherently evil.” http://www.kinyradio.com/fishfactor.html
16. Research trawler assessed for repairs after striking reef near Kodiak
The Miller Freeman, a National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration vessel, was traveling at 11 knots in 66-foot-deep
water when it struck an uncharted reef ledge, according to NOAA officials.
Currents were too strong in the area for ship divers to immediately assess the damage, so the vessel retreated to Kodiak waters. http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~26794~2065559,00.html
17. Kodiak Tanner Fishery sees undersized crabs
The season for the whole Kodiak area opened
Jan. 15. The Northeast section closed Feb. 1 by emergency order and the
other two sections, the Eastside and the Southeast closed by regulation
March 31, Cavin said. The quota for the Northeast section was 245,000 pounds, and the preliminary number for the harvest was 259,531 pounds, exceeding the quota by 15,000 pounds _ less than 1 percent. http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~26794~2065556,00.html
18. Sharing Ground –videos show views on taking fish, game Subsistence Seven-part series is culmination of five-year focus on subsistence http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/033004/loc_fishgame.shtml For more information about this project see: http://www.afsc.org/pacificnw/altas.htm
19. Dynamic New Film Explores Impacts of Salmon Farming NET LOSS: THE STORM OVER SALMON FARMING Alaska One and KAKM/Anchorage - Thursday, April 8, 10 p.m. KQED/San Francisco - Sunday, April 18, 5 p.m., KCTS/Seattle - Wednesday, April 21, 8 p.m. VHS review tapes available, photographs available electronically from producers http://www.movingimages.org/page18.html
20.Sitnews: history of the Kah Shakes and West Behm Canal herring fisheries: In southeast Alaska, from the turn of the twentieth century until the early 1960s, hundreds of millions of pounds of herring were caught in the reduction fishery. At one time, 68 plants in Southeast supported over 2,000 workers year 'round. Try that for one week today! Although herring were never fished while spawning, it didn't prevent them from being severely depleted. http://www.sitnews.us/0404Viewpoints/040104_khag.html
21. Marine Mammal Consortium finds Sea Lions don’t utilize heat of digestion …Rosen and Trites found no evidence that heat generated from digestion is used by sea lions to stay warm. “This was quite surprising to us”, said Dr. Rosen, “but it is consistent with the results from other studies… http://www.marinemammal.org/2004/thermal.php
22. Shorebank launches Salmon Nation credit card …the new Visa will support the Salmon Nation initiative of Portland-based Ecotrust, a non-profit organization promoting the interdependency of regional economic and ecological systems. Launched last fall, Salmon Nation is raising awareness of issues and behavioral choices that contribute to enhancing the health of regional watersheds and the economies of the people that live in them. More than 3,500 people have declared their Salmon Nation citizenship to date…
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?
23. House set for clash with Bush on Highway Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a
six-year transportation bill Friday, just a day after Rep. Don Young added
several hundred million dollars for bridges near Anchorage and Ketchikan and
other projects…Young last week ushered a bill out of the Transportation
Committee, which he chairs, with $96 million in specific earmarks for
Alaska. While that total itself dwarfed states of similar size, Young wasn't
done. Thursday morning, in a lengthy amendment approved by the Rules Committee just prior to the bill's appearance on the House floor for debate, Young added at least another $435 million for Alaska.
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2060792,00.html
Rep. Don Young Press release:
http://www.house.gov/donyoung/press_latest.htm Veto Threatened on Highway Bill:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/politics/01ROAD.html?ei=
24. Young proposal would get more people outdoors "I am 71 years old. I believe I look 28 years old," Young told the crowd, to much laughter. "But the importance of this is because I have spent thousands of hours outside. It is my cathedral. It's what's important to me. But it keeps me physically able." "I have watched a new generation of people spending time in front of the computer doing this," Young said, curling over an imaginary keyboard. "And as they do that, they do this," he said, spreading his hands wide.
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2058364,00.html Rep. Young’s press release: http://www.house.gov/donyoung/press_latest.htm
25. U.S. considers Food Guide Pyramid changes The suggestions range from wacky to reasonable, but plenty of people have ideas about how to revamp the federal Food Guide Pyramid, that iconic graphic that supposedly guides how people eat...Eric Jaffa wants the "Meat and Beans" group renamed "Beans and Meat" to encourage people to eat more of the former and less of the latter. But the United Fishermen of Alaska want it renamed "Meat, Fish and Beans.” http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/aphealth_story. asp?category=1500&slug=FIT%20Food%20Pyramid&
The USDA CNPP website for this ongoing project, including all public comments, is at:
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/pyramid-update/FGP%20docs/Additional%20Info.html
UFA’s letter is posted at: http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/pyramid-update/Comments/oct-27-2003%20f%20--%2029%20comments.pdf
26. 84 year old Enid Magill recounts her days as one of the first female salmon skippers in Alaska Seafood News personal interest story of a remarkable woman: http://www.urnerbarry.com/news/130222.htm
27. U.S.-Chile fisheries talks to be held in Juneau Representatives of the Chilean government will be in Juneau at the end of July for fishing talks with U.S. officials… the location for the 2004 meeting with Chile, which will be held July 27-29, is a nod to the Chileans' desire to meet in one of the more exotic quarters of the country. http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/040104/loc_fishtalks.shtml
28. Kansas City: Worry Free dining with Pacific Halibut Pacific halibut, also known as Alaskan halibut, is sustainably harvested, relatively low in mercury and recently was named one of the top 10 best seafood choices for 2004 by the Seafood Choices Alliance conservation group in terms of taste and environmental impact.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/food/
29. Quotas would end B.C.'s 'race for salmon' A report to be submitted to the federal and provincial governments is widely expected to recommend an end to the "race for salmon" that has marked the commercial fishery since its inception. In its place, a report by co-authors Peter Pearse and Don McRae is expected to recommend that individual fishermen be issued quotas -- a system that has proven effective in other fisheries but effectively privatizes this controversial public resource. http://www.staging.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/ news/story.html?id=0bfc3447-185a-47c4-944d-e791d9601ad3
30. WA: State lists Puget Sound orca as in danger Hoping to send a message to the federal government, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission has added the region's killer whales to Washington state's list of endangered species.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/
31. WA water: Favor salmon over farmers, panel says Study looked at drought withdrawals from Columbia River… http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/167232_columbia01.html
32. OR: NOAA seeks more time for salmon evaluation
The federal agency responsible for protecting
salmon has asked a judge to give it an extra 90 days to finish an evaluation
of whether some populations of Pacific salmon should continue to be
protected by the Endangered Species Act. The demands of overhauling its policy on hatchery fish, prompted by a landmark court ruling dissolving threatened species status for Oregon coastal coho, has left NOAA Fisheries unable to meet today's court-approved deadline for reviewing threatened and endangered species listings for nine populations of salmon and steelhead, said spokesman Brian Gorman. http://www.tribnet.com/news/local/story/4907102p-4841844c.html
33. Oregonian Live: Summer spills and the politics of salmon extinction The plight of wild salmon results from thousands of small political and economic decisions, each seemingly sensible at the time. We built dams and destroyed habitat in the name of economics and progress. ("And don't worry, you fishermen and tribes, the hatcheries will always be there to keep you whole!") Today, the victims of this economic trade-off, which created disastrous effects to tribal cultures and coastal fishing communities, are treated like mere problems to be shut down or paid off.
http://www.oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/
34. New Technologies Reduce Sea Turtle Mortality up to 92% House Resources Press release:
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/Press/releases/
35. CA: Environmentalists target bond funds to buy boats, ocean land Environmentalists who successfully tapped taxpayer money to buy thousands of acres of California coastline to stop development are now targeting the Pacific Ocean, with a plan to curb human activity by buying boats, fishing permits and possibly underwater land…
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/
36. Louisiana Labeling: Bill will kill Cajun Boy seafood imports
Rep. Mickey Frith, D-Abbeville, said the name
"Cajun" is synonymous with Louisiana. "Your intent was to deceive from the
very beginning," he said…
Don Cazayoux, D-New Roads, questioned whether
the state can nullify the company's established trademark. But he said
Piazza was not blameless in selling Chinese catfish not marked so, in
violation of Louisiana law. "You were breaking the law, so I don't think you're coming in here with clean hands and telling us this," Cazayoux said. http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1754946&nav=EyAzLyPy
38. Debate over duties gets more heated - Free-trade group blasts U.S. shrimpers The Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition, a group representing industries that benefit from free trade, announced that it is joining forces with the American Seafood Distributors Association, the principal U.S. opponent of the proposed shrimp duties, to fight the tariffs. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/108089261943790.xml
Southern Shrimp Alliance responds – press release: http://www.shrimpalliance.com/Press%20Releases/4-1-04%20CITAC.pdf
39. Idaho added to USDA salmon habitat program Idaho has nearly half the spawning habitat for chinook salmon and steelhead in the Northwest. But it was left off a list of states eligible for federal money to improve that habitat. Senator Michael Crapo says Idaho has been added to the list at his request.
http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=35606 Additional information on Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) and the Salmon Habitat Restoration Initiative is at http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/whip
40. Pravda: Half a billion young salmons let go to the Pacific… from Sakhalin and the Kurils http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2004/04/06/53236.html Tokyo to pay to Russia $ 5 million for salmon fishing http://www.urnerbarry.com/news/129684.htm
41. ME: Troubled salmon farm sold to Canadian company Atlantic Salmon of Maine, one of Maine's largest aquaculture operations which has fallen on hard times because of fish disease and litigation, is being sold to a Canadian company.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/
42. BOF Proposal deadline April 9
The board will address proposals for
regulation changes for the Lower Cook Inlet, Upper Cook Inlet, Kodiak, and
Chignik finfish fisheries, and for king and Tanner crab statewide during the
next meeting cycle. The deadline for receiving proposals is 5 pm on
Friday, April 9.
http://www.boards.adfg.state.ak.us/fishinfo/news/
43. NPRB announces Research Proposal fundings for 2004 The Board approved $3,623,677 for twenty three research projects at full or reduced funding as explained in the List of Approved Proposals:
http://www.nprb.org/research/res_2004.htm
Approved proposals:
http://www.nprb.org/pdf/04_Proposals/approved04.pdf
44. Marine Safety Education Association offers safety trainings in Juneau –April 17 $125 fee is waived for Commercial fishermen. For info call 747-3287 or see
45. NMFS reallocates BSAI Pcod … from vessels using jig gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet length overall using pot or hook-and-line gear … http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/infobulletins/bspcodre.html
46. NMFS issues Exempted Fishing Permit to AFDF for hook and line gear test The EFP authorizes the applicant to develop and test hook-and-line gear for rockfish harvest in the Southeast Outside District (SEO) of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) that historically had been harvested with trawl gear.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/
47. NMFS approves time period for Pribilof blue king crab rebuilding plan Amendment 17 specifies a time period for rebuilding the stock intended to satisfy the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Under the rebuilding plan, the Pribilof Islands blue king crab stock is estimated to rebuild, with a 50 percent probability, within 10 years. The stock will be considered ``rebuilt'' when it reaches the maximum sustainable yield stock size level in two consecutive years.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/
48. NOAA reports Sea Lion shootings in SE AK The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Law Enforcement Field Office in Petersburg, Alaska, has received complaints of marine mammals having been illegally shot or shot at over the past several months. http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2004/apr04/noaa04-r129.html
49. NOAA Enforcement report - investigation of six ton subsistence halibut sale “There were four reports of individuals taking subsistence halibut for commercial purposes. One of these reports has led to an investigation of four individuals from one of the larger subsistence communities in SE Alaska. Information and evidence uncovered in this investigation led to the serving of a search warrant on a fish wholesaler in Seattle, WA. Preliminary evidence gathered during the course of that search indicates that the four individuals may have unlawfully sold up to 12,000 pounds of fish in interstate commerce. Investigation ongoing…” (Page 5.)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ole/Alaska/enfreports/
50. GAO Report on IFQs
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=d04277.pdf&
51. MPA News April Newsletter: -Acoustic Tracking of Fish: How Continuous Data on Fish Movement Could Change the Planning of MPAs - Topics include: -UN Biodiversity Meeting Calls for Networks of MPAs -MPA Perspective When Is Coral Reef Rehabilitation an Appropriate Use of MPA Funding? -Notes & News: MPA finance tools - Lessons from Bunaken - Wetlands rehabilitation - Scientific consensus http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html#Apr%202004
52. CDFU seeks Executive Director Cordova District Fishermen United seeks an Executive Director. Applicants should have excellent communication (oral and written) and organizational skills, and the ability to work with a diverse Board of Directors and constituency. Applicants should also possess some knowledge about and be a strong advocate for Alaska's renewable resource industries and the management of those resources. Specific knowledge of the commercial fishing industry is desirable but not mandatory.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to, staff supervision, office management, and interacting in the political, statutory, and regulatory processes impacting Area E fisheries. Deadline for Application: April 30, 2004. For details call Melissa at CDFU Office (907)424-3447 or email cdvfva@ctcak.net
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