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UFA Update September 2, 2005 UFA will be working with Senator Lisa Murkowski’s office to help coordinate fishermen to fishermen help, once the situation has stabilized enough to move forward with getting back to fishing. An effort is also progressing to provide canned salmon promptly. We appreciate the calls from fishermen offering to help in any way possible. Stay tuned… Senator Murkowski’s
press release is available at
http://murkowski.senate.gov/betafolder/pressapp/ & The Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation has been established by the Louisiana Governor’s office and is now accepting donations online & by mail: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/doa/Gov_ldrfkatrina.htm Contents: 1. State misses deadline but plans to forge ahead with mixing zones 2. Deadline September 9 for comments on salmon enhancement at Hidden Lake 3. Fisheries council to take another look at charter halibut quotas 4. Court allows once-denied party into Crab fishery 5. Adak Fisheries and Sen. Ben Stevens sued 6. Kodiak - Pollock C season begins; boats still in harbor, fisherman says 7. Kodiak due for major pier repairs 8. Kodiak fishermen work to reauthorize Magnuson-Stevens 9. Salmon-laden crab boat smashes into cliff, sinks 10. Body ID'd as missing Juneau fisherman 11. Alaska's salmon season one of the best ever 12. NOAA issues 2004 Status of U.S. Fisheries report 13. NOAA declares two Alaska crab stocks `over-fished' 14. Annette Island roe herring tenders unpaid 15. Purse seiners see cause for some optimism 16. Big year for Yukon fall chum 17. Weak run of Mat-Su sockeyes is puzzle 18. Salmon tender vessel sinks near Seward 19. Alaska Quality Seafood Certification Pays Off for Kenai Seafood Plant 20. Dipnet fees fill Kenai city coffers 21. Online petition asks State, Fed to bill Exxon $100 M for long–term harm 22. National Park Service investigates orca death in Glacier Bay 23. Two botulism cases reported in Interior villages 24. Setting Standards for Organic Seafood 25. Pebble sparks both hopes and worries 26. Is market shrinking for farmed salmon? - Intrafish 27. ASMI August 2005 Foodservice Newsletter features Black Cod 28. Vital Choices Newsletter - Dietary Fat May Affect Kids’ Memories 29. Salmon spawns a cookbook 30. New DCCED commissioner Bill Noll no neophyte to commerce 31. BC: Protesting Salmon Fishermen Throw Their Nets in Front of DFO Offices 32. BC: Dirty Politics Fuel 'Salmon Wars' 33. Cal: Court says feds must increase protection for depleted groundfish 34. ME: Invasive Sea Squirt Could Threaten Fishing Industry 35. Wave of Marine Species Extinctions Feared 36. Sri Lanka reconstruction: Fisherfolk Out, Tourists In 37. Laine Welch's Fish Radio 38. MMPA List of Fisheries reopened for comment –five AK fisheries upgraded 39. Dillingham Salmon Roe Workshop rescheduled for Sept 26 40. MAP offers HACCP courses September in Kodiak, Kaknek, Anchorage… 41. New Deadline 10/21 on Federal Subsistence Jurisdiction in Southwest Alaska 42. USFWS issues 1999 & 2000 annual marine mammal reports on sea otters, walrus… 43. Comment deadline October 3 on species codes in AK EEZ groundfish fisheries… 44. MPA Center & USCG to include marine managed areas in U.S. Coast Pilot® series 45. SARDFA & AMSEA offer free 2-Day Workshops for Dive Harvesters 46. IPHC Halibut Landing Report No.10 - Quota Share Commercial Fisheries Update 47. NPFMC posts Draft on Chinook & Chum bycatch in BSAI groundfish fishery 48. AYK SSI Solicits Comments on "Draft Salmon Research and Restoration Plan" 49. Comment period extended on NS1 bycatch regs –new deadline October 21 50. NOAA Groundfish Observer Program for AK EEZ –Comment deadline Sept 7, 2005 51. NPFMC Crab Plan team to meet, Sept 7-9, Anchorage Hilton 52. Salmon Price Report for week of August 8 53. Catch or See an Atlantic Salmon? - Please Call 1-877-INVASIV (1-877-468-2748) 1. State misses deadline but plans to forge ahead with mixing zones The state missed a deadline Thursday to adopt a rule that would allow industries to discharge more pollution into fish spawning streams, but compliance with the deadline wasn't mandatory, regulators said Thursday… State officials said they would not allow companies to use mixing zones in streams where there would be harmful effects.
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090205/sta_ & ADN Opinion: Mixing zones, wild salmon don't mix http://www.adn.com/opinion/guest_columns/story/6881363p-6777852c.html 2. Deadline September 9 for comments on salmon enhancement at Hidden Lake Comments may be mailed to: Refuge Manager, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, P.O. Box 2139, Soldotna, Alaska 99669; or by fax to (907) 262-3599 (attention Refuge Manager); or by e-mail to robin_west@fws.gov . Comment notice:
http://alaska.fws.gov/nwr/planning/pdf/kenai_hidden_ Draft Compatibility
Background document:
http://alaska.fws.gov/nwr/planning/pdf/kenai_hidden_ "UFA supports the position that enhancement activities are not in conflict with the intent or purpose of wilderness areas."(From November 2005 letter regarding Tustumena Lake enhancement.) 3. Fisheries council to take another look at charter halibut quotas An individual fishing quota plan for the halibut charter fleet in Alaska will be up for discussion again when the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meets in October. The council passed the plan four years ago, but the head of the National Marine Fisheries Service has asked the council to reaffirm its support for the controversial program… For APRN Audio see:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/apti/news.newsmain? 4. Court allows once-denied party into Crab fishery A federal appeals court ruling has, for now, allowed an unexpected party to join the golden king crab fishery in progress under a new management system. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, issued on the eve of the Aleutian Islands golden king crab fishery, required fisheries officials to allocate 24.4 percent of the total allowable harvest for the western Aleutian fishery to a vessel owned by Partnership Alaska Trojan Fisheries, headquartered in Newport, Ore. Other participants in that fishery were allocated a reduced amount of crab as a result.
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/082805/hom_20050 5. Adak Fisheries and Sen. Ben Stevens sued On Adak Island, there is only one fish processing plant: Adak Fisheries. The company is broiled in a dispute that involves one of Alaska's most powerful political families: the Stevens…
http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/alaska_news/master 6. Kodiak - Pollock C season begins; boats still in harbor, fisherman says “I can tell you that not a single trawler has left the dock,” said Lee Woodard, skipper of the Leslie Lee, a trawling vessel. Jay Stinson of the Alaska Dragger’s Association said the group is holding another meeting today at 1 p.m. to discus pollock prices. The intent of the meetings, he said, is to determine “how we could work with the processors and the community and the salmon fishers to get the best out of everyone’s resources.” … http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=1882 7. Kodiak due for major pier repairs Councilmember Dave Woodruff said rationalization could change the face of fishing in Kodiak and therefore the city should reconsider replacing docks… Woodruff said the 300 boats in the harbors would probably be consolidated to 15 or 16 more efficient commercial fishing boats fishing all year round… http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=1875 8. Kodiak fishermen work to reauthorize Magnuson-Stevens The Kodiak fishermen who organized the 100 Fishermen March on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in December 2003, to protest processor quotas for crab, are working to organize deckhands and influence the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Steve Branson and Mark Montiero have been gathering video testimony from fishermen who have been or will be impacted by crab and groundfish rationalization, and are planning to send it to Congress as it continues to work on the MSA reauthorization process...
http://www.homernews.com/stories/090105/seawatch_ 9. Salmon-laden crab boat smashes into cliff, sinks Everyone on vessel escapes unharmed; longtime captain fell asleep at the wheel A 100-foot crab boat packed with salmon from Prince William Sound sank Friday morning after the captain fell asleep at the wheel and hit a cliff near Cape Resurrection, the Coast Guard said Tuesday… http://www.adn.com/front/story/6881264p-6777719c.html 10. Body ID'd as missing Juneau fisherman A body found Thursday morning under at least 80 feet of water about 18 miles south of town was identified as a Juneau gillnetter whose boat was seen washed up on mud flats early Tuesday…
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090205/loc_ & Coast Guard suspends search for Juneau fisherman Gillnetter's boat found washed up in mud flats early Tuesday morning
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090105/loc_ 11. Alaska's salmon season one of the best ever Alaska's salmon harvest has already topped 200 million fish, making it one of the best seasons ever. And, for the third year in a row, the fishery will show an increase in value. "The statewide, all species harvest is going to be up there in the top five or six seasons," said Geron Bruce, deputy director of the state Commercial Fisheries Division. The pre-season forecast for the 2005 salmon season was 181 million fish… http://www.sitnews.us/LaineWelch/082605_fish_factor.html 12. NOAA issues 2004 Status of U.S. Fisheries report NOAA Press release:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/docs/status_of_stock_press_ Complete downloadable pdf files of reports are available at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/reports.htm & Marine Conservation Alliance press release: Alaska Fisheries Remain Healthy, Federal Report Shows - Annual Report Confirms No Overfishing of Groundfish Stocks http://www.marineconservationalliance.org/press/pr83105.pdf & Groundfish population healthy, report says Groundfish stocks in Alaska are strong, with only minor overfishing problems on select crab stocks in the Bering Sea, according to a National Marine Fisheries Service report… http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=1929 13. NOAA declares two Alaska crab stocks `over-fished' Two Alaska crab stocks are back on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's `over-fished' list. St. Matthew Island blue crabs and Eastern Bering Sea Bairdi Tanner crabs are categorized that way in the 2004 `Status of U.S. Fisheries' report put out yesterday by NOAA. – KDLG Audio:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/apti/news.newsmain? 14. Annette Island roe herring tenders unpaid Tenders who worked this spring's herring fishery on Annette Island haven't been paid because the Annette Island Packing Co. is grappling with financial problems… http://www.adn.com/money/story/6861173p-6757019c.html 15. Purse seiners see cause for some optimism New niche market for pinks, likelihood of fewer permit holders liven prospects… Things are looking up for seiners: Fisherman Sean Kveum mends webbing last week aboard the Steadfast at Auke Bay harbor. The seine season is drawing to a close and many purse-seine fishermen are preparing for the long-lining season…
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082805/loc_ 16. Big year for Yukon fall chum What was expected to be a mediocre crop of fall chum salmon in the Yukon River this year is turning into the largest fall chum season on record. At last report, approximately 1.5 million fish had passed a sonar counter at Pilot Station at Mile 123 of the Yukon River. That's about double what biologists were projecting. The preseason projection for this year's run was 776,000… http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3029383,00.html 17. Weak run of Mat-Su sockeyes is puzzle While Kenai Peninsula anglers revel in an unexpected bounty of sockeye salmon this year, an extremely low return left setnetters with one of their smallest harvests ever in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough… Sockeye returns to the Mat-Su have been shrinking for years, but numbers this year were shockingly low. The Yentna River, the main measuring spot for Valley sockeye, saw its worst return since records started being kept in 1981. http://www.adn.com/life/story/6861153p-6757005c.html & Reasons unknown for Mat-Su's low salmon returns
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp? 18. Salmon tender vessel sinks near Seward A 105-foot crab vessel, serving as a salmon tender, sank this morning near Seward. No one was injured. Authorities say 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 244,000 pounds of king salmon were on board…
http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/alaska_news/master. 19. Alaska Quality Seafood Certification Pays Off for Kenai Seafood Plant Kenai Landing Custom Processors, the first seafood processing plant fully certified under the Alaska Quality Seafood® (AQS) program, announced that it has successfully completed its first season of operation, charting a new course for both the AQS program and the industry. The plant is the first to fully adopt AQS standards for the processing of all fish in its operation, and the first to have its quality assurance staff certified under the new program… http://www.sitnews.us/0805news/082505/082505_klcp.html 20. Dipnet fees fill Kenai city coffers As the popularity of salmon dipnet fishing continues to grow in Kenai, the city’s coffers from the resource are netting more and more money each year… Total revenue for the three-week personal-use fishery were $173,464 this year, up from $169,952 a year ago…
http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/082305/news_ && (8/6) Kenai faces trashy situation once dipnetters head home Southcentral mobs' aftermath requires a week of city workers' time… http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/6786656p-6675919c.html 21. Online petition asks State, Fed to bill Exxon $100 M for long–term harm …Request the federal government and State of Alaska to be responsible stewards of the public trust and claim the full $100 million still due from Exxon for long-term oil spill damage to wildlife and wild lands in Alaska.”… http://www.petitiononline.com/payup/petition.html A hard copy of a similar petition is available as a pdf at http://www.soundtruth.info/takeaction.htm# 22. National Park Service investigates orca death in Glacier Bay The National Park Service is investigating the death of a juvenile female killer whale discovered on a beach in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve on Friday. The whale, which weighed 600 to 1,000 pounds, was found on the northwest shore of Young Island, with the remnants of fishing gear attached to the inside of its mouth…
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/083105/sta_ 23. Two botulism cases reported in Interior villages The state Division of Public Health has reported two recent botulism outbreaks in Interior Alaska villages, but it hasn't named the villages. Health officials sent nurse practitioners to two separate Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta villages Monday. They went to help with four people who became ill after eating fermented salmon, a traditional village meal…
http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/alaska_news/master. 24. Setting Standards for Organic Seafood The organic food industry is the fastest growing segment for food sales in the U.S., rising by 20 percent a year. Produce, poultry, dairy and meat can be certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And now, purveyors of seafood are trying to cash in and get their products certified organic, as well. But, as Rachel Gotbaum reports, creating organic standards for fish is a complicated matter… “Wild salmon is exactly what consumers are thinking of when they think of the word "organic." – Bill Woolf, staff of Senator Lisa Murkowski… http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=05-P13-00034&segmentID=1 25. Pebble sparks both hopes and worries The proposed large Pebble copper/gold mine on the Alaska Peninsula southwest of Anchorage is spurring conflicted feelings among those who live near where the mine would be built…
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/082805/hom_ & Northern Dynasty will take on partner before permitting
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/082805/hom_ 26. Is market shrinking for farmed salmon? - Intrafish http://www.intrafish.no/global/article92236.ece 27. ASMI August 2005 Foodservice Newsletter features Black Cod http://www.alaskaseafood.org/alaska_foodserv/ 28. Vital Choices Newsletter - Dietary Fat May Affect Kids’ Memories …The results of a new
study suggest another reason why parents should be concerned about their
kids' fat consumption. But, rather than decrying fat intake as a key
source of excess calories-which it can be-the issue raised by this study is
the type of fat children consume…
http://newsletter.vitalchoice.com/e_article000447149.cfm?x= Complete newsletter & home page… http://www.vitalchoice.com/newsletter_index2.cfm 29. Salmon spawns a cookbook Salmon (Chronicle Books, 2005, $24.95) by Diane Morgan is focused on a favorite fish of the moment. The author, a cooking teacher and cookbook writer based in Portland, Ore., did her research by traveling around salmon-producing areas, including Alaska, Norway and Scotland… http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/food/12460547.htm 30. New DCCED commissioner Bill Noll no neophyte to commerce Bill Noll, Alaska's new economic development and commerce commissioner, knows a thing or two when it comes to patiently nurturing along big development projects, particularly the endurance it takes…
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/082805/hom_ 31. BC: Protesting Salmon Fishermen Throw Their Nets in Front of DFO Offices Fishermen who would normally be using their nets in the lucrative Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery instead tossed their nets in front of the Department of Fisheries downtown offices Friday...
http://afjournal.yellowbrix.com/pages/afjournal/Story.nsp? & BC: Federal Fisheries likely to announce small opening for Fraser River sockeye The federal Fisheries Department suggested Monday that new information would likely allow a small commercial fishery this week for Fraser River sockeye, only days after fishermen were outraged when told there would be no fishing this season…
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews 32. BC: Dirty Politics Fuel 'Salmon Wars' Fishermen 'scapegoated' says former BC fisheries advisor Dennis Brown., author of new book Salmon Wars: The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery… http://www.thetyee.ca/Views/2005/08/30/SalmonWars/ 33. Cal: Court says feds must increase protection for depleted groundfish A federal appeals court that the federal government must increase protections for a Pacific fish species whose population has been depleted by overfishing. The decision Wednesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower court ruling that the National Marine Fisheries Service did not violate federal law when it boosted fishing quotas for darkblotched rockfish…
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/ 9th Circuit Court ruling: http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3029383,00.html 34. ME: Invasive Sea Squirt Could Threaten Fishing Industry Scientists participating in a survey of marine invasives this month say one of the invasives identified in the bay — the tunicate, or sea squirt (Didemnum sp.) — could pose a threat to the commercial fishing industry that makes up a large portion of the region’s economy… Didemnum sp. was first documented on the East Coast of the United States in the 1970s when it was discovered in the Damariscotta River. Its presence there is widely believed to be the byproduct of importing Japanese oysters for aquaculture… http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/archive/2005/08-25-05/ea_news6_08-25-05.html 35. Wave of Marine Species Extinctions Feared …Now, some suspect the world is on the cusp of what Ellen K. Pikitch, executive director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, calls "a gathering wave of ocean extinctions." Dozens of biologists believe the seas have reached a tipping point, with scores of species of ocean-dwelling fish, birds and mammals edging toward extinction. In the past 300 years, researchers have documented the global extinction of just 21 marine species -- and 16 have occurred since 1972...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082200036.html 36. Sri Lanka reconstruction: Fisherfolk Out, Tourists In Sri Lanka’s tsunami reconstruction plans displace devastated coastal residents to make way for tourism industry expansion… http://www.dollarsandsense.org/0705nesiah.html 37. Laine Welch's Fish Radio This weeks topics: Monday 9/5/05- Labor Day-hats off to nation's oldest industry: commercial fishing Friday 9/2/05 - Seafood Rocket Pops top new product: Maker wants AK salmon, pollock Thursday 9/1/05 - Annual US status of stocks report for 2004 shows improvements Wednesday 8/31/05 - AAAS (Science Magazine writers) meet in Kodiak: Regime shifts, fish oils, future of seafood products, etc. Tuesday 8/30/05 - BBay red king crab catch could be down; Snow crab up http://www.marineconservationalliance.org/fishradio.htm ….& see Laine Welch's Fish Factor at http://www.kinyradio.com/fishfactor.html 38. MMPA List of Fisheries reopened for comment –five AK fisheries upgraded Comment deadline October 24 NMFS is reopening the comment period on the proposed 2005 LOF for an additional 60 days to allow the public to concurrently review and comment on both the draft EA and proposed 2005 LOF. …this proposal would reclassify five Alaska fisheries from Category III (remote likelihood of or no known incidental mortality and serious injury) to Category II (occasional incidental mortality and serious injury). The five Alaska fisheries include: BSAI flatfish trawl, BSAI Greenland turbot longline, BSAI pollock trawl, Bering Sea sablefish pot, and Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod longline. NOAA List of Fisheries Info: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/interactions/lof/ Federal Register Notice:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/ Online comment submission: http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3029383,00.html 39. Dillingham Salmon Roe Workshop rescheduled for Sept 26 The salmon roe processing workshop originally planned for August 15th has been rescheduled to Monday, September 26 at 8:00am. The UAF Marine Advisory Program and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation will hold this informational session in the Bristol Inn Conference Room in Dillingham. Please contact Todd or Charlene at BBEDC at 842-4370 to register. For more information contact Liz Brown at MAP at 842-1265. 40. MAP offers HACCP courses September in Kodiak, Kaknek, Anchorage… Courses in Sanitation and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) will take place in Kodiak on September 9 and 10; Naknek in September 19-22 and Anchorage September 27-30. Both courses result in a certificate from the Association of Food and Drug Officials upon successful completion. For the Kodiak HACCP classes, an AFDO certification will be optional. A UAF certificate will be offered instead at a reduced cost; DEC will accept this certificate as well. To register for the courses go to http://www.uaf.edu/map/haccp/register.html . For more information about the courses in Naknek, call Liz Brown at 842-1265, in Kodiak call Chuck Crapo at 486-1515, and in Anchorage call 274-9691. 41. New Deadline 10/21 on Federal Subsistence Jurisdiction in Southwest Alaska Coastal Waters The Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture have reopened the public comment period on a proposed rule which would revise and clarify the jurisdiction of the Federal Subsistence Management Program in coastal areas of southwestern Alaska. The new deadline for comment on this issue is Oct. 21, 2005… Federal Register Notice:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/ 42. USFWS issues 1999 & 2000 annual marine mammal reports on sea otters, walrus, polar bears… U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Biological Resources Discipline of the U.S. Geological Survey, have issued our combined Calendar Years 1999 and 2000 annual report on marine mammals under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Interior… Reports cover polar bear, sea and marine otters, walrus… Administrative actions discussed in our report include appropriations, status reports, research activities, scientific research and public display permits, international activities, law enforcement actions, and outer continental shelf operations and environmental studies… To request written copies see Federal Register Notice:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/ 43. Comment deadline October 3 on species codes in AK EEZ groundfish fisheries… NMFS proposes to revise Table 2 (species codes) to 50 CFR part 679 that is used in data collection, analysis, and monitoring of the Federal groundfish fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of Alaska. Within a database, species codes identify fish species that are landed, discarded, made into product, and transferred. This proposed action is necessary to standardize collection of species information with the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game, increase effectiveness of rockfish management, reflect current fisheries management interest in skates, and promote better enforcement of rockfish regulations… Written comments must be received by October 3, 2005. 44. MPA Center & USCG to include marine managed areas in U.S. Coast Pilot® series The MPA Center and NOAA's Office of Coast Survey are working jointly to include information about the nation's marine managed areas in the U.S. Coast Pilot® series to improve safe navigation and coastal stewardship. You can review Navigating the Nation's MMAs, which uses the coast of central California as a model to demonstrate our approach nationally…at http://www.mpa.gov/virtual_library/Publications/nav-mma 45. SARDFA & AMSEA offer free 2-Day Workshops for Dive Harvesters Craig – Thurs. Sept. 22 and Fri. Sept. 23 Petersburg – Thurs. Sept. 29 and Fri. Sept. 30 Ketchikan – Thurs. Oct. 6 and Fri. Oct. 7 Sitka – Thurs. Oct. 13 and Fri. Oct. 14 Wrangell – Thurs. Oct. 20 and Fri. Oct. 21 Presented by Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association & Alaska Marine Safety Education Association Sign up now to attend! Contact AMSEA at 907-747-3287 or www.amsea.org 46. IPHC Halibut Landing Report No.10 - Quota Share Commercial Fisheries Update
http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/newsrel/2005/ 47. NPFMC posts Draft on Chinook & Chum bycatch in BSAI groundfish fishery NPFMC Public Review Draft Environmental Assessment / Regulatory Impact Review / Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for Modifying existing Chinook and chum salmon savings areas - Proposed AMENDMENT 84 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area. Executive Summary:
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/analyses/SalmonBycatch For complete 325 pg document see:
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/analyses/SalmonBycatch NPFMC Home page: http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/ 48. AYK SSI Solicits Review Comments on "Draft Salmon Research and Restoration Plan" Between now and September 30, 2005 we are soliciting review comments on our newly released draft AYK Salmon Science Plan from a wide variety of agencies, organizations and communities in the AYK region and beyond as well as the general public. See item on right side of AYK-SSI home page: http://www.aykssi.org/prod/index.htm 49. Comment period extended on NS1 bycatch regs –new deadline October 21
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/ 50. NOAA Groundfish Observer Program for AK EEZ – Proposed rule & call for comments – Comment deadline Sept 7, 2005
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/ 51. NPFMC Crab Plan team to meet, Sept 7-9, Anchorage Hilton
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/ NPFMC Crab page:
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/current_issues/crab/ 52. Salmon Price Report for week of August 8 http://www.alaskaseafood.org/fishingprocessing/080805smb.pdf & look for latest report and Salmon Market Bulletins at ASMI SMIS Homepage: http://www.alaskaseafood.org/fishingprocessing/bulletin.htm 53. Catch or See an Atlantic Salmon? - Please Call 1-877-INVASIV (1-877-468-2748) call ADF&G hotline, keep fish whole and refrigerate if possible. |