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A WEEKLY QUOTA OF FISHERY SHORTS CAUGHT AND
LANDED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES
AND THE PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S
ASSOCIATIONS
VOL 2, NO. 7 18 AUGUST 2000
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2:07/01. LOBSTERMEN LEAD EFFORT TO PROTECT
NEARSHORE HABITAT IN PROPOSED SAN DIEGO BEACH
REPLENISHMENT PROGRAM: A beach replenishment proposal by the
San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) has raised concerns
about potential damage to nearshore habitats, critical to fish and lobster
populations off San Diego County. The federal and state permitting agencies
for the proposed beach replenishment are the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(COE) and the California Coastal Commission. The California Lobster &
Trap Fishermen's Association has called on the COE to impose strict
conditions on any permit to protect kelp, seagrass and the subtidal habitat.
The lobstermen have also taken SANDAG to court for failure to comply with
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and they are asking the
support of other commercial and recreational fishing groups and
environmental organizations to support their efforts to assure the nearshore
habitats are protected in any beach replenishment program.
The deadline for comments to the COE is 15 September. They should be
mailed or e-mailed to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District
Regulatory Branch, ATTN: CESPL-CO-R-1999-15076-RLK, P.O. Box
53271, Los Angeles, CA 90053-2325 or e-mail: rkaiser at spl.usace.army.mil.
For more information on the position of the California Lobster & Trap
Fishermen's Association to protect the nearshore habitat in a proposed beach
replenishment program, e-mail: tunaug at compuserve.com.
2:07/02. FAULTY GAUGES CREATE SERIOUS WATER LEVEL
DEFICITS IN UPPER KLAMATH LAKE, THREATENS
DOWNSTREAM SALMON RUN: Recent reports from the Bureau of
Reclamation and the 8/15/00 Klamath Herald & News indicate that two of
three gauges in Upper Klamath Lake have been giving faulty readings, thus
overestimating the lake level by at least half a foot in an already dry year.
This creates a serious water shortage throughout the basin at a time when in-
stream flows provided to lower river fisheries by the Klamath Irrigation
Project have already been seriously reduced. The Bureau has provided full
irrigation allotments so far this year, however, but only by taking more water
out of the lower river in-stream allocation, over the strenuous objection of
the
California Department of Fish & Game and fisheries restoration groups. As
a result, down-river releases by the Project have already been so curtailed
that major fish kills are happening in the lower river. Litigation blasting
the
inadequacy of Project releases to protect ESA-listed lower river coho salmon
(and most recently, steelhead) was brought by PCFFA and other
organizations concerned about the impacts of reduced lower river flows on
these fish, and this suit is currently pending in the Northern California US
District Court. For more information see: http://www.heraldandnews.com
2:07/03. SIXTH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA ESA AND WATER
CONFERENCE: During the past five years, water policies in California
have been scrutinized as never before under both the Federal and California
Endangered Species Acts, as well as under new 4(d), TMDL rules, the
CALFED process and legislation that have changed the regulatory landscape.
On 13 September, the University of California/Davis Extension will be
hosting this conference on the impact of state and federal ESA laws on water
resources in California at the Sacramento Hilton Inn, 2200 Harvard Street,
Sacramento, CA. Mary Nichols, California Secretary of Resources, will be
the keynote speaker. Registration is $225. For further information and
registration packets contact Katherine Renn, UC Davis Extension, Land Use
& Natural Resources Section, 1333 Research Park Drive, Davis, CA 95616
or call her at (530) 757-8604.
2:07/04. NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR FEDERAL MARINE
PROTECTED AREA COMMITTEE: The 14 August Federal Register
(Volume 65, Number 157) reports the U.S. Department of Commerce is
establishing a Federal Advisory Committee on Marine Protected Areas
(MPA) pursuant to Executive Order 13158 and is seeking nominations for
membership on this Committee. In Executive Order 13158, the Department
of Commerce and the Department of the Interior were directed to seek the
expert advice and recommendations of non-Federal scientists, resource
managers, and other interested persons and organizations through a Marine
Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee will
provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce and the
Secretary of the Interior in implementing Section 4 of the Executive Order,
and specifically on strategies and priorities for developing a national system
of MPAs and on practical approaches to further enhance and expand
protection of new and existing MPAs. Initial committee members will be
selected for two or three year terms of service. The full text of the
executive
order can be found at the following address: http://www.mpa.gov
Nominations must be postmarked on or before 2 October 2000 and should be
sent to Office of Policy & Strategic Planning, NOAA, 14th and Constitution
Avenue, NW, Room 6117, Washington, DC 20230 ATTN: Federal Advisory
Committee on Marine Protected Areas. For more information, contact: Anne
Marie Goldsmith, NOAA, (202) 482-2160, or e-mail:
Anne.Marie.Goldsmith at noaa.gov.
2:07/05. RECORD HEAT HITS HARD: The first six months of 2000
were the hottest first six months in the US on record, according to the
National Climate Data Center, hotter even than the first six months of 1998,
1997 and 1995 which are the three hottest years since record keeping began
back in 1860. This news follows on January through March being the hottest
first quarter on record. All of this does not look good for the rest of the
summer as the National Weather Service updated its long-range summer
forecast. "The forecast for the coming summer months continues to call for
hotter, drier conditions in many parts of the United States," the Weather
Service said, noting at much of the Southeast continues to suffer from severe
drought conditions. A meteorologist at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
stated that the nation is lucky to have not yet experienced a major,
widespread heat wave. But there have been localized hot spells, such as San
Francisco where 22 lives were claimed, as well as four in Houston and one
in South Carolina. Full text available at:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s454.htm . Hot dry weather is also
a contributing factor in widespread wildfires still raging in western states.
Global temperatures were also elevated well above the long term mean for
the same time period, tied for the third warmest first six months since
records
have been kept starting in 1880. High air temperatures are also contributing
to record high water temperatures threatening salmon runs in both the
Columbia and Klamath River basins (see Sublegals, 2:06/15).
2:07/08. PROCEEDINGS OF NORTH ATLANTIC RESPONSIBLE
FISHING CONFERENCE NOW AVAILABLE: The proceedings of an
international conference initiated by the Scottish White Fish Producers
Association in collaboration with representatives from Canadian fisheries,
the North Atlantic Fishing Conference, is now available. The 60-page report
on the conference that was held on 21-22 March 2000 in Fraserburgh,
Scotland should be of interest to fishing groups worldwide tackling the issue
of responsible fisheries. For more information, e-mail: Mr. George MacRae
of the Scottish White Fish Producers Association at: NEFJGTA at GEL-
TRAINING.COM or Mr .Andrew Duthie of Fisheries & Oceans Canada at:
DuthieA at DFO-MPO.gc.ca.
2:07/09. MASSIVE ESCAPE OF FARMED FISH OFF CANADA:
The Associated Press reported on 18 August, that as many as many
as 50,000 farmed salmon have escaped off the British Columbia coast
The farmed Atlantic salmon escaped into the waters between Vancouver
Island and the British Columbia mainland from the Stolt Sea Farms earlier
this week, but it took authorities until Wednesday to trace them to a single
massive pen operated by the company in the Johnstone Strait.
GOT NEWS?: Submit news items to Molly Thomas, editor at:
ifrfish at aol.com or call the IFR office with the news and a source at either:
(415) 561-FISH (Southwest Office) or (541) 689-2000 (Northwest Office).
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