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A WEEKLY QUOTA OF FISHERY SHORTS CAUGHT AND
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3:01/01. CALIFORNIA WATER USERS SUE TO OVERTURN
ESA SALMON HABITAT PROTECTIONS: Fearful of Endangered
Species Act (ESA) required water reforms, the Association of California
Water Agencies (ACWA), California State Water Contractors, Kern
County Water District and the Stockton East Water District recently filed
suit in August to overturn all of the National Marine Fisheries Service's
(NMFS) existing "critical habitat" designations for salmon and steelhead.
The case, Assocation of California Water Agencies v. Mineta was filed in
the Eastern District of the U.S. District Court of California (Case No.
CIVF-00 6148 REC DLB) but has received very little attention, and to date
there have been no intervenors from fishing interests or conservation
groups. Irrigators and water districts are challenging the critical habitat
designations on procedural grounds, alleging huge economic costs to their
irrigation operations if salmon habitat, including instream water flows, is
actually protected. The ESA has been the driving force behind crucial
water reforms in California's Central Valley Project (CVP), the country's
largest federal water project, since the first national ESA listing of salmon
(winter run chinook) in 1989. If successful, the irrigators suit would have
grave implications for salmon restoration efforts coastwide as well as
national implications for the ESA critical habitat designation process
itself.
For more information or copies of pleadings contact the Court Clerk, US
District Court of California, Eastern District at Fresno, 1130 O Street,
Fresno, CA 93721 (559)498-7483.
The ACWA lawsuit is in addition to that reported earlier (see Sublegals
2:23/01) by a group of land developer associations, led by the National
Homebuilders Association and Oregon Building Industry Association,
National Association of Home Builders et al. v. Mineta, that was filed in
DC Circuit Court on 20 November attacking the ESA critical habitat
designations for salmon, and also seeking to invalidate the Magnuson Act's
essential fish habitat (EFH) designation system. NMFS finally adopted
EFH designations for Pacific salmon this past September that will allow the
Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) to comment on proposed
federal actions that would destroy inland or marine salmon habitat.
3:01/02. FIRST ESA LAWSUITS CHALLENGE IDAHO WATER
DIVERSIONS: The Idaho Watersheds Project and the Committee for
Idaho's High Desert have filed their first ESA lawsuits against ranchers
over water diversions in Idaho's upper Salmon River watershed, following
up on the first of the more than fifty 60-day notices to sue their coalition
has previously filed (see Sublegals 2:15/03). The three initial lawsuits
claim that the water diversions are harming salmon, steelhead, and bull
trout habitat in violation of the ESA by trapping fish in ditches, blocking
migration, and completely dewatering parts of some streams. For more
information go to:
http://www.idahowatersheds.org/archives/email/newspt91.htm.
3:01/03. LOCKE PROPOSES SALMON RESTORATION
BUDGET: On the same day he issued his "State of the Salmon Report,"
Washington Governor Gary Locke proposed to the State Legislature that
$212 million in state and federal money be spent over the next two fiscal
years to help pay for the state's salmon restoration activities, reported the
Columbia Basin Bulletin today, 5 January. That is about $30 million less
than was spent over the previous two years. The $212.7 million budget for
the next biennium (1 July 2001 through 30 June 2003) includes federal
funds that are used for state programs. During the 1999 to 2001 biennium,
the figure was about $244 million. The state may need more for its salmon
recovery efforts, but a salmon advisor to Locke said he was happy with
what the governor proposed considering a very difficult budget year.
Locke's proposed salmon budget announcement follows on the
release in early December of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber's proposal
to triple that state's budget for salmon restoration (see Sublegals, 2:26/08).
For more information on Governor Locke's Washington Salmon Recovery
2001 Budget Policy Brief, go to:
http://www.governor.wa.gov/budpol/salmon.htm .
3:01/04. CALIFORNIA SALMON MEETINGS SCHEDULED: A
series of salmon meetings have been scheduled by non-governmental
organizations (NGO) or non-regulatory groups in California during the
early part of this year; these are in addition to the schedule of salmon
meetings for early 2001 by governmental/regulatory entities (see Sublegals,
2:26/05). They are as follows:
* CALIFORNIA SALMON COUNCIL will meet 16 January in
Sacramento beginning at 1000 HRS at the Farm Bureau Federation offices.
The purpose is to review the marketing board's 2001 budget and marketing
program. For more information, call (916) 358-2960 or visit the Council's
website at: www.calkingsalmon.org
* SALMON UNLIMITED, which at 45 years makes it the west coast's
oldest salmon conservation organization, will meet 21 January in Ukiah,
beginning at 1000 HRS, at the Farm Bureau office. The purpose will be to
elect officers and outline a strategy for 2001. For more information, call
(707) 964-5859.
* FOR SAKE OF THE SALMON, the three-state restoration
collaborative made up of governmental and non-governmental
organizations, will hold its board meeting on 2 February at the Gulf of the
Farallones National Marine Sanctuary office at The Presidio in San
Francisco. For more information, visit For Sake of the Salmon's website
at: http://www.4sos.org .
* SALMONID RESTORATION FEDERATION will hold its 19th
annual conference 1-4 March in Chico. The conference's keynote speaker
will PCFFA Executive Director Zeke Grader. For more information call
(707) 268-8182 or visit the federation's website at:
www.northcoast.com/srf/ .
* FISHING FOR OUR FUTURE is the title of a two-day symposium
on salmon and steelhead trout scheduled for 16-17 March at the Cocoanut
Grove in Santa Cruz. It is being sponsored by a number of organizations
in the Monterey Bay area. PCFFA President Pietro Parravano will be one
of the featured speakers. For more information, call (831) 647-4255 or e-
mail Liz Love at: liz.love at noaa.gov .
*WATERSHED CONFERENCE 2001: THE CHALLENGE OF
COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT is the title of a conference on
salmon and steelhead watersheds being sponsored by the University of
California Davis on 29 March at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento. For
more information, call (800) 752-0881.
3:01/05. FOREST ROADLESS AREAS PROTECTIONS
FINALIZED: In what is touted as one of the most sweeping efforts to
protect U.S. public lands in history, today 5 January, President Bill Clinton
finalized his Administration's federal forestlands roadless areas policy,
effectively prohibiting most new logging in those areas by limiting the
building of new logging roads. Logging roads are a major source of
sediments which choke streams and kill fish. There are currently at least
377,000 miles of logging roads in US national forests, about eight times the
length of the entire U.S. Interstate Highway system, or enough road miles
to circle the Earth more than 15 times. The US Forest Service estimates a
road maintenance backlog of more than $440 million dollars and 292,000
miles of its logging roads in poor condition. The new policy, adopted after
more than 600 public hearings nationwide and receiving more than 1.6
million comments, affects 58.5 million acres of public lands (about 31%
of the US Forest Service's forest land base, or about 2% of total U.S. land
area), and establishes road maintenance for the existing road inventory as
the policy priority, rather than building of new logging roads. Logging
road building has been criticized by a number of government reports and
many members of Congress as a huge subsidy to the timber industry that
encouraged building roads at government expense that could not be
maintained, and which later became serious sediment hazards for salmon
and other aquatic species. Though the timber industry and several
members of Congress, including U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), have
vowed to overturn Clinton's roadless policy with the help of the next
Administration, only four percent of the nation's logs now come from
roadless areas, so the actual economic impact is likely to be very small.
Congress has never provided the funds necessary to bring backlogged road
maintenance problems on these lands current.
In a major departure from the draft policy, the new policy also
immediately includes Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the nation's
largest national forest and one vitally important to Alaska wild salmon
production, while compromising by allowing the inventory of already
approved or sold timber to be harvested, estimated to be enough for Alaska
sawmill needs for the next seven years. Additionally, the final policy
closes what many considered a large loophole often used by the timber
industry to justify patently commercial harvests in the name of improving
"forest health." As defined, "stewardship logging" would be limited to
instances of noncommercial thinning and genuine forest health
improvement. For more information see the White House press release at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/hot_releases/January_5_2001_2.html
and for the details of the new roadless policy see:
http://roadless.fs.fed.us/.
3:01/06. CALIFORNIA STATE WATER BOARD TO TAKE UP
YUBA RIVER FLOWS AGAIN IN FEBRUARY: California's State
Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) put over until 15 February its
decision on implementing flows needed to protect and restore Yuba River
salmon populations (see Sublegals, 2:22/07; 2:21/06). The Yuba has the
largest natural spawning salmon population of any of the tributaries of the
Sacramento River system. Protection of this run is seen as critical to
maintaining a balance between natural and hatchery (mitigation hatcheries
to offset habitat losses from major dams) production in the basin. Public
testimony was taken during the week of 5 December and will be taken
again on 11 January by the SWRCB. For more information, go to:
www.syrcl.org .
3:01/07. CALIFORNIA, OREGON SALMON LANDINGS UP IN
2000, STILL SHORT OF HISTORIC AVERAGE HOWEVER: In
preliminary figures for ocean landings of salmon along the Pacific coast
(i.e., California, Oregon, Washington), the Pacific Fishery Management
Council (PFMC) reports that California salmon landings for both the
commercial and sport fishery were well above those for the previous two
years. Spawning escapement was also at an all-time high within the
Central Valley river system, which now produces the lion's share of
salmon harvested off the three states, causing concern about over-
escapement and instances of oxygen depletion in some streams from too
many fish. For California's troll fishery, 587,816 king salmon were
recorded landed, or about 6 million pounds, compared to 264,500 and
226,900 for 1999 and 1998 respectively. This number is still far below the
landing of 10 million and 14 million pounds of chinook for California
trollers in 1987 and 1988 respectively or the historic average of 7 million
pounds. The state's recreational anglers hooked 174,451 chinook in 2000
compared with 87,600 and 122,000 for 1999 and 1998 respectively.
Oregon's troll catch was up also in 2000 with 115,483 kings being
landed compared to 58,000 and 120,200 in 1999 and 1998. Washington
troll landings for kings were down in 2000 from the past two years at 7,558
chinook landed compared to 23,730 in 1999 and 13,200 in 1998. Coho
landings, however, were up for Washington trollers (coho can be harvested
off the northern Oregon and Washington coasts) with 22,057 being landed
in 2000, up from 13,214 in 1999 and 3,810 in 1998. Oregon's sport salmon
fishery was up considerably over the past two years, as was Washington's
thanks to the heavy catch of silvers. For more information on the 2000
landings, visit the PFMC website at: http://www.pcouncil.org .
The good catches for 2000 come on the word that returns for many
systems too were better than in recent years, including the Central Valley
and Columbia/Snake systems. On 29 December, the Associated Press
reported that Idaho Department of Fish & Game (IDFG) were estimating
that up to 103,000 spring-chinook would reach Idaho from the estimated
365,000 springers staging at the mouth of the Columbia. The primary
component of the run is expected to be hatchery fish which were produced
by adults spawned in 1997. The expected surplus of hatchery chinook
could mean sport and tribal fishing in 2001. The composition of the adult
return might range from 59,000 to 83,300 hatchery fish and from 13,900
to 19,600 wild ones because only 19 percent of the return is projected to be
naturally produced. For hatchery fish, the most recent high return was
33,800 adults last spring. For wild spring chinook, it was 11,300 in 1992.
This year's natural return still will be half or fewer of the wild fish that
returned to the Snake Basin in the 1970s. For more information, on the
Columbia spring-run chinook runs go to:
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-
story.asp?date=122900&ID=s901360&cat=section.Hunting_and_fishing
3:01/08. PCFFA AND IFR BOARDS TO MEET: The Board of
Directors of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
(PCFFA) will meet Wednesday, 10 January, at Fort Mason (Building C,
Room 205) in San Francisco beginning at 0900 HRS. On the agenda are
salmon, crab and nearshore fishery issues and discussions of state and
federal legislation for 2001. For more information, call (415) 561-5080.
The Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR) will meet the following day,
Thursday 11 January, at the conference room of Underwater World at Pier
39 in San Francisco. The purpose of the meeting is board training and a
status review of current projects. For more information, call (415) 561-
3474.
3:01/09. CHILEAN FARMED SALMON EXPORTS INCREASED
IN 2000: WorldCatch News Network reported today, 5 January, that
Chilean farmed salmon exports increased 29 percent in 2000 over the same
period in 1999. The 2000 exports amount to 180,000 metric tons with
purchases in Europe increasing by 66 percent and the U.S. by 43 percent.
Chile's salmon farm industry (salmon are not native to the southern
hemisphere) was developed under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet,
with U.S. assistance, and has resulted in the displacement of some of that
nation's artisinal fisheries. For more information, go to:
http://worldcatch.com
3:01/10. NEW STUDY INDICATES HIGH LEVELS OF TOXICS
IN AQUACULTURE FISH FEED: In a press release issued 3 January,
the David Suzuki Foundation reported new scientific evidence from
Canada and the U.K. indicating potentially dangerous levels of toxic
chemicals are contained in the feed given to farmed salmon in Canada and
Scotland. The Suzuki Foundation release follows on an earlier New York
Times report that high levels of dioxin were found in European fish and
especially in fish meal (see Sublegals, 2:25/10). The studies on the fish
feed were conducted in Canada by Dr. Michael Easton for the David
Suzuki Foundation and in Britain by Dr. Miriam Jacobs in conjunction with
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The research shows that
the contaminants, known as persistent organic pollutants, are especially
dangerous for children, nursing mothers and pregnant women or women
considering pregnancy.
"We are calling on the Canadian government to immediately heed these
findings and to fund the next stage of research needed to determine the
safety of farmed salmon and salmon feed for people who consume this fish
regularly," said Jim Fulton, executive director of the David Suzuki
Foundation. "Our research, conducted by Dr. Easton, is a pilot study that
examined a small sample size. But the results demonstrate reason for
concern and the need for further study. We believe it is now the
responsibility of the
federal government to fund research that can shed more light on these
findings."
The research by Drs. Easton and Jacobs shows the farmed fish sampled
contained much higher levels of pollutants, including 10 times more
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), than wild fish. Their studies were
conducted independently of each other. While the contaminant levels
discovered by Drs. Easton and Jacobs were below government-approved
safety levels, both scientists said they are concerned for people who
regularly eat farmed salmon, and also about how governments establish
risk-assessment values for human consumption of chemicals and
pollutants.
"The results were very, very clear," Dr. Easton, a Vancouver-based
geneticist and expert in ecotoxicology, told the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) in a television documentary to be aired Sunday, 7
January. "Farmed fish and the feed that they were fed appeared to have a
much higher level of contamination with respect to PCBs, organochlorine
pesticides and polybrominated diphenyl ethers than did wild fish. In fact,
it was extremely noticeable. It is a function of how the feed is made, of
their concentrating of these different materials to produce high-protein
diets for the fish and ultimately the contaminants apparently get
concentrated as well," he added, saying that these pollutants affect the
nervous system, the immune system and can cause cancer.
For more information on the study, contact the David Suzuki
Foundation at (604) 732-4228, ext. 229 or visit its website at:
www.davidsuzuki.org.
3:01/11. MUTANT NINJA CATFISH IN ALABAMA WHILE
ALASKA SEEKS GREATER CONTROL OVER AQUACULTURE
OPERATIONS: The Los Angeles Times reported on 2 January that a fish
farm in rural Alabama raising catfish "laced with DNA from salmon, carp
and zebrafish," risks and "environmental disaster" according to scientists.
The greatest fear of the scientists is that the catfish, which grow "60%
faster
than normal," could escape and "wipe out other fish species," or alter the
ecological balance in unforeseen ways. An "equally troubling concern" is
that the "federal government has limited legal authority to protect the
environment" from the genetically engineered catfish and the system for
reviewing the impacts is "full of holes."
Meanwhile, National Fisherman reported on 4 January, that the State
of Alaska is proposing new rules for that state's mariculture industry. The
proposal would set strict quarantine rules for transferring shellfish between
locations, the Daily News reports. And they would enable the state to
prohibit a clam or oyster farm if it might disrupt shorebirds, salmon or
threatened wildlife within a critical habitat area, or if it is located on a
site
that might be used for cultural or ceremonial purposes or for
commercial fishing. Details of the proposed regulations, which are open
for public comment until 12 February, can be viewed on the Alaska
Department of Fish & Game's (ADFG) website at
http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/ . Hearing on the proposal have been
scheduled of Ketchikan and Anchorage. To view the full National
Fisherman report, go to the magazine's website at:
http://www.nationalfisherman.com/ondeck/news/news.html.
3:01/12. US SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE FIELD
HEARING ON WEST COAST GROUNDFISH DECLINES: On 16
January at 1300 hours at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, in Newport,
Oregon U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) will host a field hearing of the
U.S. Senate Commerce Science & Transportation Committee to discuss the
west coast groundfish disaster. In the past five years, landings of west
coast groundfish have dropped drastically and the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) has listed eight species as "overfished." In
November 1999, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC)
imposed dramatic cuts, ranging from 14 to 85 percent depending on the
species, in the amount of allowable groundfish harvest. In January 2000,
then Secretary of Commerce William Daley declared the groundfish
fishery a disaster. In June 2000, Congress approved $5 million for
community assistance for distressed coastal communities on the west coast.
In October 2000, the PFMC released its Strategic Plan that calls for the
elimination of at least 50 percent of the current harvest capacity from the
fishery. NMFS estimates that it could take 10 to 30 years for groundfish
stocks to recover. The Committee hearing will explore the causes, impacts
and potential solutions to this kind of fisheries collapse, seeking ways to
avoid similar collapses in the future. For more information contact
Commerce Committee staff at (202)224-5115 or go to the Committee
website at: http://www.senate.gov/~commerce.
3:01/13. INTERIOR DEVELOPING NEW 5-YEAR OFFSHORE
OIL LEASING PLAN: On 12 December, the U.S. Department of
Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) announced the
development of its new 5-year outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing
program for 2002-2007, and will be soliciting public comments until 1
February 2001 on the scope of its future offshore oil lease programs. The
MMS is the agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other
mineral resources on the outer continental shelf, which are also the nation's
richest commercial fisheries. This plan will determine where and when
companies can lease parcels of ocean lands on which to explore and
produce oil and natural gas for the years 2002 though 2007. Areas included
in the plan would be considered for leasing, but need not be leased, but
areas not included in the plan would be exempt. Currently the whole west
coast is under a hard fought oil and gas leasing moratorium, primarily due
to fishing impact concerns, but that moratorium has always met strong
opposition from the oil industry, and may be lifted by the Bush
Administration, particularly with President-elect Bush's stated goal to
develop more U.S. oil reserves as the keystone of his proposed energy
policy. Gale Norton, Bush's nominee for Department of Interior (which
oversees the oil lease program) has stated her support for increasing U.S.
oil production in various public forums.
The Commerce Department, which houses the National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) charged with protecting U.S.
fisheries, however, will be headed by former oil company executive Don
Evans. This 5-year plan could either be the first step either toward lifting
that moratorium or, depending on the public comments received and how
the new Administration handles the issue, in maintaining it. For more
information and comment guidelines see:
http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2000/press1212.htm.
Making political use of current energy concerns, the National Ocean
Industries Association (NOIA), in a related press release issued on 15
December stated: "The tightness of the current energy market and the
distinct possibility of grave shortages in the near future dictate that the
MMS leave open the possibility that the moratoria may be reconsidered in
the next five years, and include these areas in the 5-year plan. To do
otherwise would rob the MMS of the flexibility necessary to properly
address our rapidly changing energy needs." NOIA is a national trade
association representing 270 companies including all segments of the
offshore oil industry with a business interest in the exploration and
production of oil and natural gas on the nation's Outer Continental Shelf.
NOIA's web site is at: http://www.noia.org.
3:01/14. HAWAIIAN FISHERIES/OCEAN FORUM. This year's
fisheries and oceans forum for the Hawaiian fishing industry will be held
Saturday, 13 January, starting at 0700 HRS at the Ala Moana Hotel in
Honolulu. The purpose of the forum is to give members of the fishing and
ocean community the opportunity to address pressing ocean issues directly
with policy makers. The goal of the Forum is to provide recommendations
for action in the upcoming legislative session and develop a consensus on
issues impacting our ocean resources through television broadcast
throughout the State. For more information, call (808) 262-6497.
3:01/15. CRAB SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULED FOR ALASKA: The
University of Alaska's Sea Grant Program will host its 19th Lowell
Wakefield Symposium this year from 17-10 January in Anchorage bringing
together crab experts to discuss global cold water crab populations, such
as Dungeness, snow and king. Researchers and managers from Europe,
North America, South America, Japan, and Australia will present findings
on crab reproduction, behavior, management strategies and economics.
One of the issues driving crab research is the crash of Alaska's opilio, or
snow crab, fishery. Harvest quotas have been slashed by managers to
protect stocks that show signs of being overfished. Dungeness populations
are also of concern with questions being asked about the differences in
quality along the Pacific coast. Symposium information and agenda are on
the web at: http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/Conferences/ and
http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/
3:01/16. PFLTF MEETING IN LA JOLLA: The five-state, and one
province (British Columbia), Pacific Fisheries Legislative Task Force will
meet 12-14 January at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla,
California. The meeting will consider groundfish disaster relief, fishery
funding and Pacific Fishery Management Council issues. For more
information, call (530) 333-0412.
3: 01/17. FISHERIES ECONOMICS FORUM: The First North
American Fisheries Economics Forum will be held 1-4 April 2001at the
Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans. The stated goals of the Forum are to
strengthen communications among industry, government and academic
fisheries economists. Special sessions will be held on topics including
seafood trade and the internet, economics of fishing cooperatives under the
American Fisheries Act, and economics and conflicts between commercial
and sport fisheries. Suggestions for additional special sessions are also
invited. For more information, see the conference web site at:
www.naafe.uaa.alaska.edu/forum.htm. The economics meeting precedes
another fisheries conference on marine invasives scheduled for 9 -11 April,
also in New Orleans (see Sublegals 2:23/11).
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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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