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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 3, NO. 6 6 FEBRUARY 2001
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BPA MAY SACRIFICE SALMON TO SAVE ITS BUDGET;
YUBA AND TRINITY RUNS TO BE SACRIFICED ALSO?: On 7
February, The Oregonian reported Bonneville Power Administration
(BPA) officials have told the Northwest Power Planning Council, the
federal agency created to assure the stability of the Northwest's power
systems, that it may be necessary to sacrifice salmon to keep BPA
financially solvent. BPA supplies power from the Northwest's federal
hydropower system at the cheapest rates in the nation, but a combination
of near-drought conditions and huge electricity price spikes triggered by
California's failed deregulation scheme have put the squeeze on BPA's
budget, making it hard for it to meet its upcoming U.S. Treasury
payments unless it generates more power. To do so, however, would
use water critically needed by this year's juvenile salmon runs to flush
them out to sea around the dams' turbines. BPA has already had to
declare one "energy emergency," allowing it to take more water than
salmon restoration measures ordinarily allow for five days running. In
its testimony to the Power Planning Council, BPA asked for an
exemption from salmon water flow requirements this year. Fishing and
conservation groups, however, pointed out that this was a false tradeoff,
and that power conservation measures should be able to help BPA
negotiate the crisis. Over the past 10 years nearly all of BPA's
significant conservation programs have been defunded. The Power
Planning Council has estimated at least 1535 megawatts of power could
be saved with readily available conservation measures. For more
information on BPA's proposed actions, see: http://www.oregonlive.com/
printer2.ssf?/news/oregonian/01/02/lc_51flows08.frame.
On the same day, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber proposed an
alternative to sacrificing the region's salmon runs in a Seattle speech
and in a letter to White House Budget Director Mitchell Daniels,
suggesting that the federal government should simply defer payment of
BPA's $700 million upcoming Treasury payment in light of the current
crisis to allow it to purchase the needed electricity rather than depleting
reservoirs. "This country is awash in money," said Kitzhaber. "This isn't
going to break the bank." However, BPA officials and some elected
officials fear that such a move would give more momentum to efforts by
some in Congress to strip BPA of the huge federal subsidies that give
the Northwest by far the cheapest electrical power rates in the nation.
(See: http://www.oregonlive.com/printer2.ssf?/news/oregonian/
01/02/nw_51kitz08.frame.)
Hydropower managers are currently justifying drawing down
Columbia reservoirs below recommended levels because additional
flows would not only produce more power but would apparently benefit
downriver chum salmon (also listed under the Endangered Species Act)
though at the expense of several other economically more important
ESA-listed upper river chinook, sockeye and steelhead runs that are also
protected by Tribal Treaties. Bob Heinith of the Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission calls this new chum-friendly flow regime "just
a convenient excuse for power generation." Another option, which BPA
is just beginning to pursue, is to buy out power from some of its largest
industrial users, which in turn can pay laid off employees during times
of power crises. Some big power users have been buying cheap power
directly from BPA and then turning around and reselling it on the open
spot market for up to hundreds of times the price they paid for it.
Columbia and Snake River salmon may not be the only runs
sacrificed because of current dry winter conditions in the west and the
present power delivery and price "crisis" that has hit California and is
now affecting the whole region. Today, 9 March, Mike Gardiner wrote
in a Copley News Service story that California Governor Gray Davis'
administration is proposing to trash the long-awaited instream flow
standards for the Yuba River needed to protect the Central Valley
system's largest remaining population of natural spawning chinook
salmon (see Sublegals, 3:01/06; 2:22/07; 2:21/06). The Davis
Administration is apparently willing to now sacrifice the fish run in
favor of maximizing hydroelectric generation from the Yuba River
dams.
The energy "crisis" is providing cover, too, for the Westlands Water
District and other San Joaquin Valley agribusiness diverters, who have
been illegally receiving Trinity River water for nearly 40 years, to
challenge Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's Record of Decision (ROD)
for the Trinity that increased flows in the river from approximately 30
percent (70 percent of the Trinity flows were being diverted into the
federal Central Valley Project) to 48 percent (see Sublegals, 2:25/02;
2:24/05; 2:23/16; 2:20/02; 2:18/09). Presently, the power generated by
diverting the Trinity into the Sacramento amounts to about one percent
of the state's hydropower generation. Jim Jones, who has written
extensively on California's river system, points out that "the power
difference resulting from allowing 50 percent of the Trinity River to stay
in its channel rather than the current 30 percent is small. In fact, the only
net positive power benefit is the peaking effect. There is actually a net
power loss, because it takes more power to pump the water up to
Whiskeytown than what is recovered as the Trinity River's water flows
into the Sacramento River. Intuitively, it seems to me that the power
could be recovered, or there could even be an increase by
additional/improved generation through the Trinity and Lewiston Dam
outlets."
3:06/02. BUSH'S ENERGY ADVISORY TEAM: A list of U.S.
President George W. Bush's new Energy Advisory Team has been
compiled and posted from public disclosure records, complete with brief
accounts of their past energy experience and their total political
donations. The makeup of the Advisory Team will be of interest to
fishing and conservation groups and fishery scientists given proposals to
waive fish protections in favor of power generation. The Advisory
Team, with a heavy majority of members from oil, gas and nuclear
power interests, can be seen at:
http://www.presidentbushwatch.org/energyteam.html.
3:06/03. CALFED SET ASIDE OF $60 MILLION FOR FISH
WATER: California and federal agencies under the rubric of the
CALFED process have established a water account "to protect
endangered fish" the San Diego Union-Tribune reported 30 January.
State and federal officials have allocated $60 million this year to buy up
to 500,000 acre-feet of water to be used if "low river flows threaten
endangered fish." This would be the first implementation of the
"environmental water account," as part of the on-going CALFED
program to shore-up water deliveries in California. The idea is to
purchase water and bank it for dry years such as this year to take the
pressure of agricultural and urban users so that fish can survive without
tapping other sources. Many regional water providers have said they
would participate. For more information see: http://www.uniontrib.com
in the archive page using key words "endangered fish." Fishing interests
are still voicing concern with the CALFED process which could result in
a net decrease in inflows into San Francisco Bay thereby affecting
economically important, or once-important, species such as herring,
oysters and crab.
The announcement of the $60 million for the CALFED
environmental water account came just prior to a 7 February Fresno Bee
article that reported the California Department of Water Resources had
spent $150 million of its water budget (some from CALFED) to buy
electricity prior to the State Legislature authorizing it to spend up to $1
billion for energy purchases. The revelations came in a California Senate
Agriculture & Water Committee hearing on Tuesday. To view the
article, go to: www.fresnobee.com.
3:06/04. ALL PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC HYDRO DAM
SALES HEARINGS CANCELED, COMMENT DEADLINE ON
DRAFT IMPACT REPORT EXTENDED TO 9 MARCH: The
deadline for comments on the pending Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on the company's still
active plan to sell off most of its hydropower dams to privately
controlled (and unregulated) holding companies has been extended to 9
March (see Sublegals, 2:26/03; 2:25/06). However, citing the current
energy crisis, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
summarily canceled all planned public hearings, thus curtailing public
review and the ability to comment on the plan. The DEIR looks at the
impact of a deregulation plan by which PG&E, northern California's
largest electrical utility and the owner of many salmon-killing
hydropower projects, would sell off most of its hydropower dams to
third party private corporations which would then not be regulated by
the CPUC. The CPUC application is No. 99-09-053 and information on
this application can be obtained from the CPUC by calling (877) 779-
2782 or by visiting the CPUC's plan web site at: http://cpuc-
pgehydro.support.net. The DEIR is available online and a CD-ROM
version can also be requested from the CPUC. Comments should be
sent to Bruce Kaneshiro, c/o Public Affairs Management, California
Public Utilities Commission, 100 The Embarcadero, Suite 210, San
Francisco, CA 94105 or via e-mail to: cpuc-pgehydro at pamsf.com.
PCFFA has led the charge, working with other groups, in using this
divestiture effort to first evaluate these structures for their impact on
salmon, to retrofit or renovate those structures which can be improved,
or to decommission those whose impact on salmon is too great. For
more information see: http://www.pond.net/~pcffa/cal-dams.htm.
3:06/05. CORRECTIONS ON SWAP MEET: The "West Coast's
Largest Commercial Fishing Swap Meet" will be held Saturday, 10 March
at the Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Hall on 55 Hegenberger
Road (not 99 Hegenberger) Road in Oakland, California (see Sublegals,
3:05/03). For more information, go to the Small Boat Commercial Salmon
Fishermen's Association website at: www.sbcsfa.com or e-mail Larry
Grace at: themaryc at pacbell.net .
3:06/06. FIRST KLAMATH PROJECT PACIFICORP
RELICENSING DOCUMENTS OUT FOR COMMENT: The "First
Stage Consultation Documents" for Pacific Power & Light
Corporation's (PacifiCorps) pending relicensing of the Klamath River
Hydroelectric Project (FERC License No. 2082) have hit the streets and
are out for public review and comment by 27 March (see Sublegals,
3:04/15; 3:03/06). Comments can be made either requesting additional
studies which need to be done to assess the impacts of the project, or
other comments, and the publication of these documents begins the
formal federal hydropower project relicensing process with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). For more information, go to
PacifiCorps' website at:
http://www.pacificorp.com/paccomp/pacpower/hydro/klamath.
From 1908 to 1962 PacifiCorp and its predecessors constructed seven
hydroelectric facilities and one flow regulation dam without generation
facilities, and also operates (but does not own) the Bureau of
Reclamation's Link River Dam. These dams and water diversions
necessary to power the turbines have considerable impact on the upper
Klamath water flows, including blocking fish passage above Iron Gate
Dam. The current hydropower license must be renewed in 2006,
probably for 30 to 50 years. PacifiCorps has also published a report on
fish passage potential of the dams (on website in documents section) as
well as a CD-ROM "Annotated Bibliography of Aquatics and Wildlife"
compiling all the available scientific information on project area fish and
wildlife. For hard copy of these documents or a copy of the CD, and to
put yourself on the company distribution list for future relicensing
information, contact Todd Olson, PacifiCorp, Licensing Project
Manager, 825 NE Multnomah, Suite 1500, Portland, OR 97232; Tel:
(503)813-5000 or contact him at: todd.olson at pacificorp.com.
On 2 February, in related news, California State Senator Wesley
Chesbro announced the introduction of a bill in the State Legislature that
would allow the northern California counties of Del Norte, Modoc,
Siskiyou and Shasta to essentially take over PacifiCorp power
transmission and generation facilities within California. Under
California's deregulation scheme, PacifiCorp would have had to sell
either its transmission system or its generating facilities, and under
Chesbro's bill (SBX1 22 introduced on 29 January) the counties would
be allowed to combine to buy them and to establish their own joint
power authority to serve their residents directly.
3:06/07. NEW ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT WEBSITE: The
U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has
announced its new Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) website at:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/habitatprotection/essentialfishhabitat.
htm. This site provides background information on the EFH provisions
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act, and
implementation of the EFH requirements by the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) and regional Fishery Management Councils.
Eventually the site will also include summaries of EFH designation via a
Geographic Information System (GIS). The site is maintained by
NMFS' Office of Habitat Conservation, and it may also be accessed
through the website at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/index.html.
3:06/08. CANADIAN AUDITOR GENERAL BLASTS
DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES & OCEANS (DFO) FOR NOT
PROTECTING WILD SALMON FROM FARM FISH: In a 6
February press release, the Auditor General, Canada's governmental
watchdog, concluded that Canada's federal Department Fisheries &
Oceans (DFO) is not meeting its legislative obligations under the
Fisheries Act to protect wild Pacific salmon stocks and habitat from the
potential effects of salmon farming in British Columbia. "Salmon
farming has become an established industry in British Columbia," noted
the Auditor General. "However, there are conflicting views on its effects
on wild salmon stocks and the environment. In light of the potential
risks at stake, it is fundamental that Fisheries & Oceans conserve and
protect wild salmon and its habitat as the Fisheries Act requires it to."
The DFO is categorically assuming salmon farming poses a very low
environmental risk when such an assumption is simply not warranted by
the science, according to the report.
There are 17 salmon farming companies, including 3 of the world's
largest, in British Columbia operating 105 active salmon farms. It is
estimated that, in 1999, they contributed $677 million to the Province's
economy. However, farmed salmon routinely escape from their
enclosures, as a result of net failures or tears, and can spread disease to
or compete with wild stocks. From 1991 to 1999, more than 345,000
farmed Atlantic salmon reportedly escaped from British Columbia
salmon farms and have been found well into Alaskan waters. The audit
found that DFO is not adequately monitoring salmon farms for their
effects on wild salmon and habitat with a view to enforcing the Fisheries
Act; while the Department is engaged in research and is working to
develop a regulatory framework, there are significant shortfalls in
research and monitoring to assess the impacts of salmon farming
operations, and; the Department has no formal plan for managing risks
or for assessing the potential cumulative environmental risks of
proposals for new sites.
The key section is Chapter 30,"Fisheries and Oceans - The Effects of
Salmon Farming in British Columbia on the Management of Wild
Salmon Stocks," and is available on the Office of the Auditor General of
Canada web site: http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca. For more information
contact: Johanne McDuff, Director of Communications, Tel.: (613) 952-
0213, ext. 6292, email at: mcduffjo at oag-bvg.gc.ca; or Geoffrey L.
Robins, Audit Principal (604) 666-7609, email at: robinsgl at oag-
bvg.gc.ca. The press release can be found at: http://www.oag-
bvg.gc.ca/domino/media.nsf/html/00pr30_e.html. The full report, "The
Effects of Salmon Farming in B.C. on the Management of Wild Salmon
Stocks" is at: http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/other.nsf/html/00fo_e.html.
3:06/09. PRIVATIZATION OF CONSERVATION: The Center
for Private Conservation has released a study tracing the history of
salmon conservation in Scotland from the 12th century to present day.
The struggle, according to the Center, is that for a balance between
conservation and commerce that has pervaded history. The author, Dr.
Iain A. Robertson, concludes that conservation efforts on the part of
sport and commercial fishermen today might be more wide-spread and
effective if the rights to the fish were more clearly defined. The study
can be found on the web at: www.cei.org .
3:06/10. FISHING POETS TO GATHER: On 7 February,
WorldCatch reported that the Fourth Annual Fisher [sic] Poets
Gathering will be held 23-25 February in Astoria, Oregon. Poets,
songwriters, essayists and short story writers from along the North
Pacific coast will read their stuff at the Wet Dog Cafe on Friday and
Saturday nights. There will be workshops on Saturday workshops at the
Columbia River Maritime Museum, and the Sunday morning readings
will accompany an arts display. The event, organized by Jon Broderick,
was recognized by the Library of Congress last year as one of its Local
Legacies -- a collection of American folk culture celebrating the
bicentennial of the National Library. For more information, contact Jon
Broderick at broderick at seasurf.net. or see the WorldCatch article at:
www.worldcatch.com .
3:06/11. DEATH OF A HERRING FISHERY FORETOLD: In
the December issue of Puget Sound Notes are the results of recent
surveys of Puget Sound's Cherry Point herring biomass, historically the
largest stock in the Puget Sound. However, herring biomass there
plunged during 2000 to its lowest recorded levels, and with 52 percent
of resulting larvae suffering from skeletal deformities and 86 percent
with no yolk sacs, scientists are forecasting even worse declines in the
future. Industrial pollution from petroleum processing and from
aluminum smelting plants along Cherry Point's shoreline are a suspected
cause. Other Puget Sound populations not exposed to these levels of
pollutants have been steadily increasing. The Cherry Point populations
are under consideration for listing under the federal Endangered Species
Act. The complete article can be found at URL:
http://www.wa.gov/puget_sound/Publications/psnotes_pdf/psnotes44.pdf.
3:06/12. WORKSHOPS PLANNED TO DETERMINE NEED
FOR DUNGENESS CRAB TRAP LIMITS: Commercial fishermen's
associations representing California Dungeness crab fishermen will be
holding a series of port meetings between 12-23 February to consider
whether trap limits are needed in the fishery and, if so, what type of plan
is needed. The results of the port workshops will be taken up by the
California Crab Committee at its meeting in Fort Bragg on 28 February.
For more information, e-mail: PCFFAfish at aol.com.
In crab news on the U.S. Atlantic seaboard, the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced it will close a 1,500 square mile
area off the mouth of Delaware Bay to fishing for horseshoe crabs
beginning 7 March. The ban is intended to provide additional protection
for migratory shorebirds who feed on the eggs during their migration to
Canadian nesting grounds. While horseshoe crabs are not commercially
valuable for food, they are used extensively for bait, research and
medicinal purposes, and for food by birds and other species. In 1999,
horseshoe crab landings were estimated at $3 million. The closure is a
result of a joint decision by NMFS, responsible for the crabs in federal
waters and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC),
who oversees state waters on the Atlantic Coast. For more information
contact: Robert Hansen at (202) 482-4594 or Robert.C.Hansen at noaa.gov.
3:06/13. WASHINGTON ADOPTS STRONG SHORELINE
PROTECTION RULES, IMMEDIATELY ATTACKED BY
DEVELOPERS: On 29 November, the Washington State Department
of Ecology adopted comprehensive new shoreline development master
guidelines (pursuant to Chapter 173-26 WAC) after a 5-year review and
extensive update of past inadequate state rules. The new guidelines
provide details on how local governments can achieve the levels of
environmental protection required under Washington's Shoreline
Management Act (SMA). Under the law, local governments must now
amend their local master plans to be consistent with these guidelines
within two years. The new rules would go a long way toward protecting
what little existing undeveloped state shorelines, coastal wetland and
estuaries still exist, and would help prevent erosion and other pollution
sources from entering estuaries and near shore areas, which are critical
as salmon habitat as well as important nurseries to other valuable
species including herring and Dungeness crab. Not surprisingly, real
estate development groups led by the Building Industry Association of
Washington as well as industrial logging, ranching and farming interests
seeking to profit from future coastal development almost immediately
attacked the new rules in court. For additional information on the rules
see:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/SMA/guidelines/newguid.htm.
Additional information on the new rules is also available from the
Washington Environmental Council, one of the rule's supporters, at:
http://www.wecprotects.org/voices/new_guidelines.html.
3:06/14. SQUAREHEAD COD GOES FOR RECORD FOR
BEING NETTED: A report from Reuters news service today, 9
February, reports a blind cod was clinging to life after surviving a
critical medical operation and 40 nettings by a Norwegian fisherman.
The fish, named "Balder" (after a handsome god in Norwegian
mythology) was caught off Norway for the 40th and final time
Wednesday by Harald Hauso, who sent the almost blind fish that
weighed a meager 4-6 pounds (too skinny to eat said Hauso, who felt
sorry for a cod that was no good for lutefisk) to retire in a private pool in
a marine park in Aalesund. The fish was stressed from gas and being
caught so many times, said the director of Aalesund's marine park.
Balder was first caught last March in Hardanger fjord by Hauso and kept
coming back to the nets every week thereafter.
3:06/15. FISHERMEN AND SCIENTISTS COLLABORATE ON
MONKFISH STUDY; SEMINAR SET FOR MONTEREY ON
FISHERMEN-SCIENTIST COLLABORATION: Researchers from
the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Rutgers University
are joining forces with commercial fishermen in a study designed to
improve and expand population data on monkfish (see Sublegals,
2:24/11). Two commercial trawlers, using gear and speeds specific to
monkfish harvest and a crew comprised of researchers and commercial
fishermen, will sample 450 sites over a 90 day period. The monkfish
fishing community is behind the study. Kathy Downey, a fish processor
and member of the Monkfish Defense Fund in New Bedford said, "It has
been our perception that the existing surveys were inadequate and
inappropriate in helping all of us, scientists and industry alike, get a
handle on the monkfish stock. The collaborative effort with the
government is a commitment from both industry and scientists to
improve the quality of the monkfish stock assessment." This study is a
follow-up to an original investigation on the growth rate of monkfish in
1999.
On the U.S. west coast, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, COMPASS
and others are hosting a seminar on 4 April, "Bridging the Gulf Between
Fishermen and Scientists" to be held that Wednesday evening in the
auditorium of the Monterey Bay Aquarium at Pacific Grove, California.
The speaker will be David Dobbs, author of The Great Gulf, the recent
book describing efforts of fishermen and NMFS scientists to resolve the
collapse of the Gulf of Maine groundfish stocks. The seminar is free to
the public. For more information, contact Aaron King at:
aaron.king at noaa.gov.
As part of the effort from NMFS and the commercial and recreational
fisheries to expand cooperative data gathering that takes advantage of
fishing industry resources and capabilities, the federal fishery agency
contracted with the National Fisheries Conservation Center (NFCC) to
conduct a nationwide evaluation of cooperative data gathering between
the fishing industry and government. Increased collaboration between
fishermen and scientists, it is believed, could improve the scientific
information available for fishery management and fish conservation
decisions. The NMFS-NFCC contract was intended to improve the
design and implementation of future cooperative studies promised in
NMFS Strategic Plan and mandated under Section 404(b) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act. The
resulting report is now available to download at www.nfcc-
fisheries.org/cs_io.html and can also be received via e-mail by sending
a request to nfcc at nfcc-fisheries.org. In addition to an in-depth
evaluation of seven cooperative data gathering efforts from the Bering
Sea to the North Atlantic, the report provides key recommendations for
the development and implementation of future cooperative studies based
on lessons learned from the past. Recommendations are grouped into
five categories, including: 1) motivation and goals; 2) building
relationships; 3) participation; 4) strategy; and 5) program management.
3:06/16. USGS WARNING ON EXOTICS; PCFFA/IFR TO BE
PRESENTER AT INVASIVES CONFERENCE: On 29 January, the
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) issued a public warning against
releasing aquarium fish into public waterways. Dumping of plants and
animals from aquariums is one of the major sources of invasive aquatic
species invasions, along with the discharge of ship's ballast water and
the escape of farmed fish from aquaculture operations. "Each year, more
than 2000 non-native fish species, representing nearly 150 million exotic
freshwater and marine fishes, are imported into the United States for use
in the aquarium trade," said a USGS spokesman. "Dumping them into
the nearest body of water when they are no longer wanted creates a
problem for the native fish species and for ecosystems in general."
If exotic fish survive and reproduce, they are difficult, if not
impossible, to control or eradicate. Their presence may lead to changes
in the native, or local, fish populations in an area through competition
with native species or by preying on them. Aquarium fish that are
dumped into the nearest stream may become susceptible to unfamiliar
parasites and diseases, but the real danger is that they may infect native
fish with exotic parasites or diseases. And, aquarium fishes may affect
the genetics of native species by hybridizing with them. Some aquarium
species may even pose a physical or public health threat, such as
piranhas and freshwater stingrays. For more information, go to
http://www.usgs.gov/ and click on "Invasive Species Threaten
America's Biological Heritage."
PCFFA/IFR will be one of the presenters at the National Conference on
Marine Bioinvasions to be held 9-11 April in New Orleans (see Sublegals,
2:23/11). The title of the paper is "The Utilization of Fishing Effort in
Controlling and/or Containing Certain Marine Invasive Species." In the
February issue of The Fishermen's News (pp.18-20) is an article by
PCFFA's Zeke Grader, "Five Initiatives for 2001" that highlights the
problems invasive species may pose to commercial fisheries and ways in
which commercial fishermen may help in controlling or reducing
populations of invasive species that have become established. To see the
article, go to PCFFA's Fishermen's News article archive website at:
www.pcffa.org.
3:06/17. SAVING OUR SEAS PUBLIC FORUMS: "Conservation
Visions for the New Millennium" is the title of three public forums
scheduled for 7 March, 18 April and 2 May exploring, respectively, the
values of oceans in all their dimensions, tales of past ocean abundances,
and the strengths and limitations of new ocean conservation tools. Hosted
by Julie Packard, Executive Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and
facilitated by Dr. Brock Bernstein, National Fisheries Conservation Center,
the forums will feature speakers Dr. Michael Orbach - Duke University
Marine Laboratory, Jim Lichatowich - Fisheries Biologist and author of
Salmon Without Rivers, and Dr. Rosamon Naylor - Stanford University,
among others. For program information contact:
www.mlml.calstate.edu/friends/friends.htm or
www.montereybayaquarium.org .
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