UFA Update

UFA Update

November 10, 2005

Results from UFA’s recent Board of Directors meeting have been mailed to members.

Please drop by UFA booth 449 at Pacific Marine Expo to discuss any of our positions and actions.

We will also be hosting the Alaska Fishing Industry Relief Mission in our booth, with Pete Gerica of the Lake Ponchartrain Fishermen’s Association.

Contents:

1. Pacific Marine Expo, November 17-19, Qwest Field and Event Center, Seattle

2. Local Kodiak governments consider joint rationalization plan

3. Help Wanted: Board of Fisheries Executive Director –deadline Nov 12.

4. Help Wanted: Alaska Quality Seafood® Program seeks Business Manager

5. NPFMC Draft Agenda for Anchorage, Dec 5-13

6. NMFS questioned on reconfirmation call for charter halibut IFQs

7. The time has come to put into practice halibut charter IFQs

8. NMFS questioned on reconfirmation call for halibut Qs

9. Halibut plan splits tourism group

10. Misconceptions about charter IFQs - Dan Hull

11. The rich get richer with charter quotas

12. View on halibut plan - Juneau Empire letter to the editor by Ed Hansen

13. Kodiak Borough passes Exxon resolution, raises travel pay

14: ExxonMobil Still Owes $5B To Alaska Fishermen For 1989 Oil Spill…

15. Salmon harvest marks third largest catch ever

16. Bristol Bay fishery considers brailer limits

17. Salmon fishermen no longer qualify for TAA

18. Southern Shrimpers also no longer qualify for USDA TAA.

19. Alaska Sea Grant to help Gulf Coast fishermen

20. ADF&G response to public comments on wild stock harvest by shellfish farmers

21. SE Red King crab fishery off to slow start

22. Fishermen press state to remedy low red run - Wasilla Meeting Nov 15

23. Cook Inlet fishing sparks lawsuit - Group says state unfairly limits fishing access

24. Adak dispute may end soon

25. Fishing: Is it still king in Southeast?

26. Laine Welch: King crab cops seek clues to Kodiak's crumbling catches

27. Governor Issues Disaster Declaration for September Sea Storm

28. Wild Catch - New business-to-business magazine for the wild seafood industry

29. Fish farming moves forward

30. Media Campaign Attempts to Get Farmed Salmon off the Hook

31. Study compares benefits and risks of eating farmed and wild salmon fish

32. Oregon Conference hears pros and cons of ocean aquaculture

33. Alaskans educate NY Photographer Lisa Fiel on wild salmon:

34. City salmon reel in funds - Anchorage spawners to get help

35. Biologist finds fish kills in Anchorage creek

36. Ship zone security revised

37. American Seafoods' Community Board calls for community grant program

38. Alaskans can count on DEC to protect their water

39. DEC Notice of Proposed Changes to Title 18 of the Alaska Administrative Code

40. Army Corps to suspend Kensington mine permit for internal review

41. HI: 2 fishing clubs allege violations by Western Pacific council

42. HI: Longline Fishing Rules Limit Bird Deaths

43. Laine Welch's Fish Radio

44. Revision of Critical Habitat for the Northern Right Whale in the Pacific Ocean

45. NOAA BSAI Crab Rationalization eLandings Reporting Frequently Asked Questions

46. NOAA: Seafood Consumption Reaches Record Levels in 2004

47. 2005 IPHC Interim Meeting, Seattle, November 29-30, 2005…

48. Federal Subsistence Board to Hold Rural Review Meeting – Anchorage Dec 6.

49. Marine Science In Alaska: 2006 Symposium Hilton Anchorage Jan. 22-25, 2006

50. MPA Public Dialogue session Seattle, December 13

51. NPRB posts Draft Summary from meeting, Anchorage, AK September 22-23, 2005

52. Proposed Changes in the Regulations of the Board Of Fisheries – Kenai sport areas

53. ASMI Seafood Market Bulletin available by email

54. Collaborative INSIGHTS Newsletter of Global Food Cooperative, Nov 1

55. BOF Notice of Meetings for 2006: PWS and Up. Copper/Up. Susitna Finfish, SE

56. BOF -Chignik: Notice of Proposed Changes in the Regulations of the Alaska BOF…

57. BOF Chignik Salmon Cooperative Meeting – November 15, Anchorage Marriott

58. DNR Extends Shellfish farm site comments to November 18

59. DEC proposed increase to Seafood Permit Certification, Waiver, Compliance, Lab 60. DEC NPDES Primacy Work Group Meeting, November 30, Anchorage

61. NOAA seeks comment on data collections for IFQ & Seabird avoidance

62. Magnuson-Stevens - House Resources Testimony from 10/27 hearing

63. State of Alaska position on reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act

64. Federal Subsistence Regional Advisory Councils Fall Meetings Statewide

1. Pacific Marine Expo, November 17-19, Qwest Field and Event Center, Seattle

See UFA and Alaska Fishing Industry Relief Mission(AFIRM) in booth 449.

http://www.pacificmarineexpo.com

2. Local Kodiak governments consider joint rationalization plan

In an emotional meeting Tuesday the City Council and Borough Assembly met in a joint session to discuss fisheries issues.

Assemblyman Tom Abell said he had requested a joint session as a way to see how the city and borough could coordinate efforts to speak out on the myriad of rationalization issues with potentially drastic effects on Kodiak.

“Right now, the city is carrying the whole load,” he said, referencing the current borough policy, “that we can’t talk about fish politics.”

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=2230

3. Help Wanted: Board of Fisheries Executive Director –deadline Nov 12.

Scroll to bottom of this Update for reprint of classified ad.

4. Help Wanted: Alaska Quality Seafood® Program seeks Business Manager

http://www.alaskaqualityseafood.com/pdf/AQSbusmgr.pdf

Alaska Quality Seafood Homw page: http://www.alaskaqualityseafood.com/pdf/AQSbusmgr.pdf

5. NPFMC Draft Agenda for Anchorage, Dec 5-13

http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/Agendas/1205Agenda.pdf

NPFMC Home Page: http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/

6. NMFS questioned on reconfirmation call for charter halibut IFQs

As stakeholders and fishing groups get ready for another round of debate on how best to manage halibut in the face of an expanding charter boat industry, some industry activists accuse National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of deliberately stalling on individual fishing quotas (IFQs) for the charter industry.

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=2221

7. The time has come to put into practice halibut charter IFQs

Kodiak Daily News Guest Opinion by Linda Behnken

I read the recent article on halibut charter individual fishing quotas in which Commissioner Mckie Campbell is quoted at length with much dismay and a depressing sense of déjà vu all over again. With all due respect to the current commissioner, I have listened for 10 years to state representatives say they will solve the halibut charter management problems with a suite of half-described measures that will supposedly come together in some magical way to be effective…

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=2227

8. NMFS questioned on reconfirmation call for halibut Qs

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=2221

9. Halibut plan splits tourism group

A proposal to impose a catch limit on halibut charter boats is dividing Alaska's tourism industry, and with regulators set to take up the matter in December, strong emotions are pouring out…

http://www.adn.com/money/story/7160507p-7069845c.html

10. Misconceptions about charter IFQs - Dan Hull

Donna Bondioli's assertion that charter trip prices will rise to pay for the cost of purchasing charter sector quota share is refuted by the original North Pacific Fishery Management Council analysis of the charter IFQ program. In "Impacts on Anglers of the Proposed Halibut Charter IFQ System," resource economist Dr. James Wilen writes that "while this is a commonly held view, it is a mistaken one in that it gets the direction of causality reversed. The actual mechanism is that sports charter trip costs will determine IFQ prices rather than the other way around."

http://juneauempire.com/stories/110905/let_20051109006.shtml

11. The rich get richer with charter quotas

Since the introduction of individual fishing quotas for the commercial fisheries was introduced in 1995 it has risen 65 percent. Total number of commercial boats in 1995 was 7,030 with a quota of 37.4 million pounds. Today that number is 6,690 boats and a total catch of 56.9 million pounds.

Instead of bringing more boats and jobs into the industry by spreading that extra 20 million pounds to new owners, it was divided up among people that already have quotas. Basically the rich get richer…

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=2246

12. View on halibut plan - Juneau Empire letter to the editor by Ed Hansen

I read the article "Halibut plan splits group" on Nov. 2 in the Anchorage Daily News and would like to share some additional perspectives…

If the charter industry does not support and allow the implementation of the halibut charter IFQ program they will be capped at the GHL and the fishery limited by annual regulatory actions or closed in season to prevent the over-harvest of the halibut resource…

http://juneauempire.com/stories/111005/let_20051110025.shtml

13. Kodiak Borough passes Exxon resolution, raises travel pay

Skipper Bob Bowhay told the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly that fellow fishermen are still waiting for justice 16 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

He urged the assembly at Thursday’s meeting to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Department of Justice and the state to reopen the 1991 civil lawsuit stemming from the Exxon Valdez oil spill…

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=2247

See Item #43 below for Laine Welch’s Fish Factor of Nov 4: Fishermen plan demonstration against Exxon at Fish Expo

14: ExxonMobil Still Owes $5B To Alaska Fishermen For 1989 Oil Spill…

After sixteen years, ExxonMobil has still not compensated Alaska fishermen five billion dollars for damages caused by the eleven million gallons of crude oil dumped in Prince William Sound during the 1989 tanker spill.

ExxonMobil was ordered to pay the five billion dollars in a 1994 lawsuit. Since then, the company has been appealing the case in the Ninth Court Of Appeals.

More than 700 miles of coastline, used as the primary source of income for Alaska’s fishing and boating industries, were affected by the spill. Greenpeace sent out press releases yesterday to call on Exxon to compensate the fishermen…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/11/09/exxonmobil-still-owes-5b_n_10358.html

15. Salmon harvest marks third largest catch ever

Alaska's commercial fisheries harvested 206.1 million salmon of all species in 2005, with an estimated total value of $295.3 million, making the catch the third largest on record, state fisheries officials said Oct. 31.

http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/110605/hom_
20051106017.shtml

16. Bristol Bay fishery considers brailer limits

According to the Associated Press, Peter Pan Seafoods is considering setting a 900-pound limit for brailers in the Bristol Bay sockeye fishery.

Norm VanVactor with the company's plant in Bristol Bay says they haven't set the policy yet. But the cannery is considering it as a means to improve the quality of fish delivered to the company. VanVactor says to produce higher quality salmon, fishermen have to stop stuffing as many salmon as they can into their holds…

http://www.ktva.com/Stories/0,1413,163~34723~
3116523,00.html

17. Salmon fishermen no longer qualify for TAA

Salmon fishermen in Alaska and Washington are not eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) certification for the 2004 marketing year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency’s (USDA,FSA) office in Alaska announced last week…

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=2260

18. Southern Shrimpers also no longer qualify for USDA TAA.

the Administrator determined that U.S. imports of shrimp fell by 7.9 million pounds

between 2003 and 2004, a decline of 0.9 percent. Therefore, imports were no longer a contributing factor for program eligibility…

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-22228.htm

Shrimp Antidumping Duties For India and Thailand Remain In Place

http://www.fas.usda.gov/ffpd/Fish-Circular/Market_News/market.html

19. Alaska Sea Grant to help Gulf Coast fishermen

Book, video proceeds will aid hurricane-ravaged seafood industry

Alaska Sea Grant, publisher of books and videos about Alaska's marine resources for fishermen, teachers, and scientists, will donate a percentage of earnings to U.S. Gulf Coast fishermen affected by hurricanes in 2005…

Ten percent of sales from November 1, 2005, to April 30, 2006, will be given to the Alaska Fishing Industry Relief Mission, Inc. (AFIRM), a nonprofit charity established by Alaska seafood harvesters and processors, seafood transportation companies, and the seafood banking industry, in the wake of the Gulf Coast disasters.

http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/NewsMedia/05news/11-10-05afirm.html

See Grant publications and gifts are perfect for anyone on your list - to shop SeaGrant see their home page at http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/ .

20. ADF&G posts response to public comments on wild stock harvest by shellfish farmers

http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/geninfo/enhance/
maricult/mar_regs/explanation.pdf

21. SE Red King crab fishery off to slow start

Fishing has been unusually slow on the commercial red king crabbing grounds around Juneau this fall. But Juneau crabber Al Morin said despite a slow start, the crab fleet's success rate around Juneau is now improving…

The Southeast Alaska-wide red king crab fishery opened Nov. 1 after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shut it down last year due to poor results in its 2004 crab population survey…

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110805/loc_
20051108001.shtml

22. Fishermen press state to remedy low red run - Wasilla Meeting Nov 15

Matanuska-Susitna area fishing advocates want state fisheries officials to do more about the Valley's poor red salmon runs. But so far, they've been fighting a losing battle…

Mat-Su fishermen hope to press their case again at a Nov. 15 meeting with Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials in Wasilla. The meeting, requested by area legislators, including Rep. Bill Stoltze, R-Chugiak, is scheduled to take place at the Legislative Information Office on East Railroad Avenue at 5:30 p.m…

http://www.adn.com/money/story/7160699p-7069906c.html

23. Cook Inlet fishing sparks lawsuit - Group says state unfairly limits fishing access

After years of mounting frustration over what they consider increasing limited access to the waters in which they fish, Cook Inlet commercial fisherman have asked the court to intercede…

“We’re asking the court to declare whether or not (Commercial Fishery Entry Commission) permits are property and whether or not these regulations that the Board of Fisheries has developed over a series of years, starting about 1996, have resulted in a taking of property because they have severely restricted access of the permits,” Robinson said…

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/110405/news
_1104new003.shtml

24. Adak dispute may end soon

Adak Fisheries and the Aleut Corp. say they're on the verge of settling their long-running dispute over the lease to the sole fish-processing plant on Adak Island and the rights to millions of dollars worth of Aleutian-area pollock…

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/fishing/story/
7187388p-7097520c.html

25. Fishing: Is it still king in Southeast?

Tourism industry may be closing in on the No. 1 spot

The commercial fisherman arguably is one of the few enduring icons of Southeast Alaska's traditional outdoor life.

Though the industry has shrunk in size - commercial fishing permit holders dropped by 22 percent to 3,097 from 1990 to 2004 - several thousand men and women, mostly residents, continue to go down to the sea to harvest the Panhandle's marine riches…

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110605/
sta_20051106020.shtml

26. Laine Welch: King crab cops seek clues to Kodiak's crumbling catches

King crab detectives are digging deep to find answers to Kodiak's disappearing crab stocks. More than 100 million pounds of king crab crossed the Kodiak docks in the 1960s. The catch dwindled to a few million pounds a year in the early 1970s, and by 1983 the "King Crab Capital of the World" was no more. Now, crab researchers are trying to solve what happened.

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/fishing/

27. Governor Issues Disaster Declaration for September Sea Storm

Governor Frank H. Murkowski issued a state disaster declaration for the Northwest Arctic Borough, the Bering Strait, Kashunamiut, Lower Yukon, and Lower Kuskokwim Rural Education Attendance Areas in response to a fall sea storm that caused widespread damage in late September…

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php?id=2036

28. Wild Catch - New business-to-business magazine for the wild seafood industry

Demand for wild seafood is on the rise. Fueled by an ever-aging baby-boomer population that is concerned about healthy lifestyle choices, it is expected that this trend - and wild seafood consumption - will only continue to grow…

The only business-to-business magazine of its sort, Wild Catch covers the entire wild seafood supply chain - 'From Net to Market' - and serves to act as a business, marketing and educational tool for its primary target audience of retail and food service individuals providing wild seafood products, and everyone else involved in wild-capture fisheries.

http://www.restaurantnewsresource.com/article19519.
html?NID=8e5de4b0f9d6119d8ad5fd78c683f7e9

29. Fish farming moves forward

Bad news for Alaska fisheries? Aquaculture producers say they're solving environmental problems; offshore, deep-water pens are one innovation…

In Alaska, where offshore fishing remains a major industry, the Republican-controlled legislature quickly passed a resolution opposing the plan. “The global fish farming industry is bad news for Alaska and for fishermen nationwide,” said co-sponsor Bill Thomas, a Haines representative who co-chairs the House Special Committee on Fisheries. “In Alaska, we produce seafood the way it should be done, and we will fight for the well-being of our industry and our communities.

http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives-2005/featurevol14ed45.html

30. Media Campaign Attempts to Get Farmed Salmon off the Hook

Industrial salmon farming corporations have learned an important lesson from their corporate cousins about what to do with their tarnished images of ecological and social injustice: simply pour money into a public relations campaign and overwhelm dissent. After years of bad publicity, the salmon farming industry is adopting a damage control PR campaign. A recent example of the industry's multinational makeover strategy is the half page ads that ran in the New York Times, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle claiming that Ocean-Farmed Salmon is "Good for you. Good for the Oceans" (October 2005)…

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/clausen031105.html

31. Study compares benefits and risks of eating farmed and wild salmon fish

By David Liu, Ph.D.

…A recent study published in the Nov. issue of the Journal of Nutrition compared the cancer and non-cancer health risks of exposure to the pollutants in salmon. In addition, the study looked at the benefits associated with consumption of salmon fish…

http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/Benefits_and_risks
_of_eating_farmed_and_wild_salmon_fish.shtml

Read the Nutrition tudy:

http://www.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/135/11/2639

32. Oregon Conference hears pros and cons of ocean aquaculture

Should the United States - and particularly, Oregon - pursue the large-scale development of open ocean aquaculture, otherwise known as "fish farms?" Dr. Gil Sylvia, Superintendent of the Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station (COMES) presented the pros and cons of the question to the "Oregon's Ocean: Its Peril and Possibilities" conference in Florence this past weekend…

http://www.newportnewstimes.com/articles/2005/
11/02/news/news21.txt

33. Alaskans educate NY Photographer Lisa Fiel on wild salmon:

Fishermen are not the threat to wild salmon...

…There is so much misinformation concerning Wild Alaskan Salmon, as well as not enough information about those nasty little buggers called farmed salmon…

http://www.sitnews.us/1105Viewpoints/110505_frances
_field.html

Eat Wild Salmon

I am sorry that Ms. Fiel has been missed informed. Alaska unlike other places has done a magnificent job of managing its salmon population. Alaska is not fishing out its sea life population.

http://www.sitnews.us/1105Viewpoints/110305_
chasina_worman.html

34. City salmon reel in funds - Anchorage spawners to get help

For all the jokes about "Los Anchorage," this city of 270,000 has some pretty remarkable natural assets. Sprawl has nearly filled the Anchorage Bowl, but the steady march of civilization hasn't obliterated one of the city's most remarkable features -- the salmon that run in several city creeks…

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/7190941p-7101815c.html

35. Biologist finds fish kills in Anchorage creek

Scientists and city officials think higher-than-usual levels of sediment may be killing hundreds of salmon and other fish species in Anchorage's Little Campbell Creek.

Federal biologist Mark Schroeder found 469 dead or dying fish in both forks of the creek in August and September after rainstorms muddied the water. Similar fish kills were seen in fall 2004 and last spring…

http://ap.peninsulaclarion.com/pstories/state/ak/
20051106/3410796.shtml

36. Ship zone security revised

Coast Guard says 100-yard no-entry zones around cruise ships to include ferries

The U.S. Coast Guard is revising its proposed rule creating 100-yard no-entry zones around cruise ships in Alaska waters to include state ferries…

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110105/sta_
20051101004.shtml

37. American Seafoods' Community Board calls for community grant program

The Community Advisory Board (CAB) of American Seafoods Company, one of the nation's largest seafood processors, announced Friday that it is accepting applications for its Alaska community grant program.

The deadline to submit an application is November 21.

http://www.sitnews.us/1105news/110705/110705
_grant_program.html

38. Alaskans can count on DEC to protect their water

DEC Commissioner Kurt Frederickson on proposed mixing zone regulations…

http://www.adn.com/opinion/guest_columns/story/7167844p-7077264c.html

DEC Mixing Zones page – deadline for comment December 19

http://www.dec.state.ak.us/water/wqsar/trireview/
mixingzones.htm

39. DEC Notice of Proposed Changes to Title 18 of the Alaska Administrative Code dealing with Water Quality Standards…

DEC is proposing a change to the current water quality criteria for residues in fresh and marine waters based on federal Environmental Protection Agency guidance. The proposed change would repeal the narrative language in the current criteria and replace it with criteria based on whether the residues are considered objectionable, create a nuisance, or result in undesirable or nuisance species. The proposed change also includes factors to be considered in making residue permitting and compliance decisions…

The comments must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. December 22, 2005

http://notes5.state.ak.us/pn/pubnotic.nsf/cc52605f7
c156e7a8925672a0060a91b/91f4d01f74604a98892570
ab008018be?OpenDocument

40. Corps to suspend Kensington mine permit for internal review

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to suspend a legally disputed permit for the Kensington gold mine's planned discharges into a subalpine lake to re-evaluate the permit, according to court filings…

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111005/sta_
20051110010.shtml

41. HI: 2 fishing clubs allege violations by Western Pacific council

Two Oahu fishing clubs are asking for a federal investigation of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council over how the council is handling proposed Northwestern Hawaiian Islands fishing regulations.

http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/09/news/story08.html

42. HI: Longline Fishing Rules Limit Bird Deaths

New rules for longline fishing in the islands are saving the lives of sea birds who attempt to steal bait from hooks meant for swordfish, the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council said Thursday…

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9189

43. Laine Welch's Fish Radio

This weeks topics:

Thursday 11/10/05 US seafood consumption reaches all time high; Top Ten List

Wednesday 11/9/05 Norway gets into marine gelatin industry

Tuesday 11/8/05 Symphony of Seafood calls for product entries

Monday 11/7/05 Managing Fisheries/Empowering Communities: All findings now available

Friday 11/4/05 Fishermen plan demonstration against Exxon at Fish Expo http://www.marineconservationalliance.org/fishradio.htm

….& see Laine Welch's Fish Factor at http://www.kinyradio.com/fishfactor.html

44. Revision of Critical Habitat for the Northern Right Whale in the Pacific Ocean

Proposed rule; Comment deadline January 3, 2006…

Requests for public hearings must be made in writing by December 19, 2005.…

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to revise the current critical habitat for the northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) by designating additional areas within the North Pacific Ocean. Two specific areas proposed for designation, one in the Gulf of

Alaska and another in the Bering Sea, comprise approximately 95,200 square kilometers (36,750 square miles) of marine habitat. Based upon the impacts analysis prepared for this action, NMFS has concluded that the benefits of exclusion of any area from the proposed critical habitat designation do not outweigh the benefits of inclusion.

Consequently, no exclusions are proposed…

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan
20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-21861.htm

NOAA Fisheries Proposed Critical Habitat for the Northern Right Whale home page:

http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/protectedresources/
whales/nright/rule/default.htm

45. NOAA BSAI Crab Rationalization eLandings Reporting Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/crab/
rat/reportfaq.htm

46. NOAA: Seafood Consumption Reaches Record Levels in 2004

Americans Eating More Shrimp, Fresh and Frozen Seafood Seafood consumption rose for the third straight year in 2004, as Americans ate a record 16.6 pounds of fish and shellfish per person, NOAA Fisheries Service announced today. This and more agency data will be officially released next week in the 2004 edition of its annual publication, “Fisheries of the United States.”…

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/docs/04%20seafood%20
consumption%20FINAL.pdf

Fact Sheet: 2004 Seafood Consumption Statistics:

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/docs/2004%20Seafood%20
Consumption%20Statistics.pdf

47. 2005 IPHC Interim Meeting, Seattle, November 29-30, 2005…

http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/newsrel/2005/
nr20051107.htm

48. Federal Subsistence Board to Hold Rural Review Meeting – Anchorage Dec 6.

The Federal Subsistence Board will hold a public meeting at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 6, 2005, at the Anchorage Downtown Marriott. At this meeting the Board will determine what additional information is needed as it continues its review of the rural status of Alaska communities. The Board will take public comment at this meeting. If necessary, the meeting will continue on December 7.

http://alaska.fws.gov/asm/news.cfm?gnr=1 (see posting from November 7)

49. Marine Science In Alaska: 2006 Symposium Hilton Anchorage Jan. 22-25, 2006

First Announcement and Call for Papers

The deadline for submitting abstracts for either an oral presentation or a poster is November 28th. You can submit your poster or presentation abstracts at http://www.gem.state.ak.us/Symposium/Registration.cfm after you register yourself for the Symposium.

50. MPA Public Dialogue session Seattle, December 13

Envisioning a National System of Marine Protected Areas: Regional Public Dialogues

The National Marine Protected Areas Center is developing the framework for the national system of marine protected areas (MPAs), as directed by MPA Executive Order 13158…

To ensure that the national system of MPAs fully represents the nation's interests in the marine environment, the MPA Center is holding a series of regional public dialogues around the country to solicit and collect input that will be used to develop the national system. Each dialogue session will begin with a presentation from MPA Center staff on our current plans. We will then ask participants to break into small groups to ask questions, discuss relevant issues, and provide input on the national system.

December 13, 2005: Seattle, Washington

Dates, times, and locations will be announced soon…

http://mpa.gov/national_system/#envision

51. NPRB posts Draft Summary from meeting, Anchorage, AK September 22-23, 2005

http://doc.nprb.org/web/mtgs/nprb_meeting_summary
_200509.pdf

North Pacific Research Board home page: http://www.nprb.org/

52. Proposed Changes in the Regulations of the Board Of Fisheries – Kenai sport areas

The commissioner of the Department of Fish and Game, under a delegation of authority from the Alaska Board of Fisheries under AS 16.05.270, proposes to adopt regulation changes in Title 5, of the Alaska Administrative Code (AAC), dealing with sport fishing in the Kenai Peninsula and Susitna – West Cook Inlet Areas of Cook Inlet, and with various subsistence and commercial finfish and shellfish fisheries…

http://notes5.state.ak.us/pn/pubnotic.nsf/cc52605f7c
156e7a8925672a0060a91b/8ad05c5662efb620892570a
e00701c3e?OpenDocument

53. ASMI Seafood Market Bulletin available by email

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is pleased to offer e-mail delivery of the Seafood Market Bulletin, a seafood market monitoring newsletter that is free of charge to the Alaska seafood industry and its allies. The bulletin is prepared by the McDowell Group, as part of the ASMI Seafood Market Information Service.

The Seafood Market Bulletin, which has replaced the Salmon Market Bulletin, will be delivered to your inbox every other month, and will bring you up-to-date information on markets for Alaska's key seafood species. To quickly subscribe to the newsletter, go to ASMI home page www.alaskaseafood.org or

ASB signup page: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=
1101064654189

54. Collaborative INSIGHTS Newsletter of Global Food Cooperative, Nov 1

This edition features Wild Salmon Direct, a Kodiak based direct marketing operation, and DEC Food Safety and Sanitation Program…

http://www.imakenews.com/networkdirect/

Past notices, meetings, comment deadlines…still relevant:

55. BOF Notice of Meetings for 2006: PWS and Up. Copper/Up. Susitna Finfish, SE and Yakutat Finfish, SE and Yakutat Groundfish, Dungeness Crab, Shrimp, Misc. Shellfish, and Statewide Dungeness Crab, Shrimp, Misc. Shellfish Meetings (*PDF - 28KB)…

http://www.boards.adfg.state.ak.us/fishinfo/meetinfo/
2005_2006/SoEastPWS0506note.pdf

56. BOF -Chignik: Notice of Proposed Changes in the Regulations of the Alaska BOF…

The Alaska Board of Fisheries proposes to adopt regulation changes in Title 5 of the Alaska Administrative Code, dealing with commercial salmon fishing in the Chignik Area, including the following:

Fishery management measures related to a Chignik Area cooperative commercial salmon fishery, including, but not limited to, participation requirements for cooperative members, fishing seasons, periods, harvest levels or quotas, locations open and closed to fishing, methods and means, gear and vessel restrictions, operation of gear, registration and permit requirements, cooperative fishery application requirements, fish delivery requirements, harvest records, fish tickets, open and closed areas; allocations among beneficial uses; possession, transport, or release of fish; adjustments of management measures in the open fishery…

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57. BOF Chignik Salmon Cooperative Meeting – November 15, Downtown Anchorage Marriott

For a copy of the proposed regulation changes contact ADF&G Board Support Section, (907) 465-4110 or www.state.ak.us/adfg/boards/bofhome.htm

Meeting Notice:

http://www.boards.adfg.state.ak.us/fishinfo/meetinfo/
2005_2006/ChignikCoop1105Note.pdf

58. DNR Extends Shellfish farm site comments to November 18

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59. DEC proposed increase to Seafood Permit Certification, Waiver, Compliance and Lab Fees - deadline for comment Nov 21

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Public Notice of regulations changes:

The comments must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on November 21, 2005.

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