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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. 4 26 JANUARY 2001
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3:04/01. FAO SAYS FISHING ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST
DANGEROUS PROFESSIONS: ABCnews.com reported 25 January that
a study from the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO)
attributes at least 70 deaths a day to fishing. In the U.S, the current
fatality
rate is 30 times that of the average occupation. Dwindling stocks of some
commercially valuable species have forced fishermen to fish further away
from shore and stay out longer at sea. With fishing further away from land
comes a need for increased skills in navigation, communications, and
weather forecasting, a skill some fishermen who have been forced from
their usual fishing zones might not have. In developing countries, a lack
of both technology and safety regulations can be blamed for most of the
fatalities says the FAO. For more information, go to:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/
un010125_fishing.html.
To aid fishermen in improving safety on-board their vessels, U.S.
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has introduced the Commercial Fishermen
Safety Act of 2001, offering tax credits to fishermen for 75 percent of the
purchase price of federally-required safety equipment up to $1,500. The
act hopes to reduce the occupational hazards of fishing. Members of the
fishing industry who feel this bill could be of assistance to them in the
purchase of mandated safety equipment are being encouraged to contact
their U.S. Senators at: www.senate.gov. For more information on the
legislation, contact the office of Senator Susan Collins at:
www.senate.gov/senator/collins.html
3:04/02. PETITION SUBMITTED TO LIST BOCACCIO UNDER
ESA: On 25 January, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and
other environmental groups submitted a proposal to list bocaccio, part of
the sebastes complex of Pacific rockfish (called Pacific Red Snapper in
restaurants), under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). Sharp
declines in populations from Northern California to Mexico of the once
dominant species of rockfish prompted the request. According to studies
by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), populations are reported
to have declined 98 percent since 1969. The status of bocaccio is not an
aberration from the population trends of other rockfish species and "unless
significant changes are made, more petitions are sure to follow" predicted
NRDC's Karen Garrison. The long life-span (up to 40 years) and slow
reproductive rate render rockfish especially vulnerable to intense fishing
pressure. The petition sites over-fishing, an increased number of boats, a
lack of management, and habitat degradation as the main factors
contributing to the decline. Among other things, the petition calls for the
creation of marine reserves. If listed, the bocaccio would be the first marine
commercial species listed under the ESA. The Secretary of Commerce has
a window of one year to decide whether or not to list the species. Potential
impacts of the listing on fishing include reduced harvest and sale of
bocaccio and those species of fish taken with bocaccio. For more
information, contact Karen Garrison at: kgarrison at nrdc.org
3:04/03. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AID TO WEST COAST
FISHING COMMUNITIES HIT BY GROUNDFISH QUOTAS: West
coast commercial fishing towns will receive $5 million in federal economic
compensation for the reduced groundfish harvests. The World Catch News
Network reported on 24 January that Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans
has released the money appropriated by Congress last year to fishing
communities for job training as well as rent and other basic needs. One
year ago, the West Coast groundfish harvest was sighted as a fishery
emergency on the heels of a drastic reduction in harvests by the Pacific
Fishery Management Council (PFMC). While the money was approved by
Congress last summer, and released this past week, bureaucratic hurdles
within the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) could prevent the
money from getting into fishing communities before May. California and
Oregon are expected to both receive $1.75 million and Washington $1.5
million.
European fishing communities are also facing financial hardship with
imminent white fish quota cuts and high fuel prices. The 5 January edition
of Fishing News reports governments in at least seven nations in the
European Union (EU) are providing financial support to the affected
fishing communities. One exception is the British government which has
not yet responded to requests by the National Federation of Fisherman's
Organizations (NFFO) for aid. Currently, the U.K. government has agreed
to "listen to the industry and consider the options." For more information,
go to: www.fishingnews.co.uk
3:04/04. WASHINGTON GOVERNOR AGREES TO
COMPREHENSIVE COLUMBIA AND SNAKE WATER
PLANNING PROCESS: In response to a formal petition for rulemaking
asking for a cap to all future Columbia and Snake River water withdrawals
in the State of Washington (see Sublegals 2:22/09), originally filed by the
Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CLEP) and in which both PCFFA
and IFR were co-petitioners, Washington Governor Gary Locke today, 26
January, agreed to sponsor a regional facilitated negotiation process to
develop a Washington State management strategy for all future water uses
and allocations from the Columbia and Snake Rivers. The original petition
asked the State Department of Ecology to close the Columbia and Snake
Rivers to any further water appropriations, based on biological opinions by
the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) that Columbia salmon
restoration efforts are now being seriously jeopardized by poor water flows
in the Columbia. An estimated 40 percent of historic flows in the
Columbia are now being diverted, mostly for agriculture. The Department
of Ecology has already acknowledged that many state water basins have
been over appropriated, and has imposed additional new water right
restrictions, including a partial moratorium on additional water permits, but
now has a backlog of more than 7,000 water rights applications statewide,
many of them seeking to tap Columbia and Snake River sources.
Irrigations and the City of Pasco sued in early November to break the
moratorium. The new regional water planning process will involved a
wide variety of stakeholders as well as an independent science review team
over the next 18 months. In return for the Governor's commitment, the
rule-making petition has now been withdrawn. For additional information
contact Kristie Carevich, CLEP, 1165 Eastlake Ave., East, Suite 400,
Seattle, WA 98109 or call (206)223-8454. CLEP's website is at:
www.clep.org .
3:04/05. CALIFORNIA FISH & GAME COMMISSION TO HEAR
CONTROVERSIAL FISHERY ISSUES AT SACRAMENTO
MEETING: The California Fish & Game Commission will take up a
number of controversial fishery matters at its 2-3 (Friday-Saturday)
meeting in Sacramento. At its Friday session, the Commission will
consider:
* Department of Fish & Game (CDFG) status report on the proposed
Channel Islands Marine Ecological Reserve Proposal.
* Establishment of a moratorium on the issuance of commercial spot
prawn permits.
* Request of the Maidu Tribe for a permit to utilize their traditional
fishing methods to take salmon during the Feather River First
Salmon Ceremony.
* Request to publish notice on Klamath-Trinity River salmon
regulations and selection of in-river fall chinook salmon
allocation.
* CDFG report and recommendation on petition to list coho salmon
under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).
On Saturday, the Commission will take up, among others, the
following items:
* Request by United Anglers of Southern California to restrict
commercial fishing in nearshore waters to recreational fishing gear
(i.e., rod-and-reel with limit of two hooks per line).
* Request to publish notice on ocean salmon sport fishing
regulations.
* Request to publish notice for "clean-up" amendments to pink
shrimp limited entry regulations.
The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Resources Building,
1416 Ninth Street in Sacramento. For more information, go to:
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fg_comm/02-02-01agd.html.
3:04/06. NEW WEBSITE ADDRESSES FOR PCFFA AND IFR:
The new website address for the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's
Association is: www.pcffa.org, and for the Institute for Fisheries Resources
it is: www.ifrfish.org.
3:04/07.NEARSHORE FISHERY SCOPING WORKSHOPS:
The California Department of Fish & Game (CDFG) is holding
several Scooping Workshops in order to receive public comment on
CDFG's approach for developing a nearshore fishery management plan and
options. The meetings are: Wednesday, 7 February at City Hall, 100 Santa
Rosa Avenue in Santa Rosa from 1900-2200; Saturday, 10 February at City
Hall, Corner of Pacific and Madison Streets in Monterey from 1300 to
1600; and Tuesday , 13 February, at Dumke Auditorium, California State
University, 401 Golden Shore in Long Beach from 1900-2200. To RSVP
or for more information contact: Maura Leos at (831)-649-2829 or
Mleos at dfg.ca.gov.
3:04/08. LOS ANGLES GETS NEW TMDL FOR TRASH: On 21
January, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board formally
adopted a "zero tolerance" water pollution standard (TMDL or 'total
maximum daily load') for trash and other debris in the Los Angeles River.
The TMDL arose out of a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC), Santa Monica BayKeeper and Heal the Bay against the
State of California and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
for lack of action in protecting Los Angeles and Ventura Counties' 150
plus impaired water bodies. The new standard applies to 53 cities in the
watershed, which must reach a zero trash level in these waterways (now
over 5,500 tons of trash per year) within 12 years. For more information
see the Updates and News section of the Regional Board's home page at:
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb4.
3:04/09. WORLD'S, NORTHWEST'S FRESH WATER SYSTEMS
CONTINUE DEGRADING: Fresh water systems around the world are
becoming so environmentally degraded that many are losing their ability
to support human, animal and plant life, according to a recent World
Resources Institute report. The report is part of a comprehensive study by
the Institute on how human activity is changing the world's ecosystems.
Four out of every ten people worldwide now live in river basins with water
scarcity, the report says, but only about one percent of the planet's water
is fresh water available for human use. Agriculture accounts for 93 percent
of all fresh water use, but produces runoff, sediments and chemicals that
degrade the very resources upon which it depends. The World Resources
Institute can be found at: http://www.wri.org.
A recent assessment of the State of Washington's water resources by the
Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has also concluded
that many of the rivers, lakes and bays of that state are badly polluted, and
that the Puget Sound water systems in particular shows early signs of
catastrophic declines. The 133-page report, released by DNR's outgoing
State Lands Commissioner Jennifer Belcher, "Changing Our Water Ways,"
highlights patterns of decline she attributed partly to the state's growing
population, now more than 5.8 million, and partly to poor management.
Among the findings are that a quarter of the state's waterways cannot meet
the water needs of people or fish, that water rights in most of the state's
basins are over appropriated while populations continue to grow, and that
Washington's 1,025 dams have greatly changed river hydrology. Among
the report's recommendations are designating aquatic reserves for special
protection, purchasing or leasing water rights to devote to instream fish and
wildlife needs, cleaning up contaminated sediments and removing some
dams. The report is available from the Department and soon to be
available from its web site at: http://www.wa.gov/dnr.
3:04/10. "FISH GOTTA SWIM" - FEBRUARY ISSUE OF
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FEATURES WATER ISSUES: The
February 2001 issue of Scientific American has just been released, with a
cover section and special report devoted to the world's water problems.
Three separate articles describe the magnitude of the world''s pressing
water problems, prospects for improving water use efficiency in all sectors,
the challenges facing irrigated agriculture and world food production, and
some innovative approaches that might help contribute to solving the worst
problems, including desalination, water bags, recycling and reclamation,
and increased efficiency. As the Editors of Scientific American note, "A
water crisis may be in the cards for some, but not if we act quickly to
develop all the solutions at our disposal." The three articles are:
"Making Every Drop Count," by Peter H. Gleick,
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0201issue/0201gleick.html,
describes the history of water and human civilization and the nature of the
worst water problems facing humanity, and it offers strong arguments why
water planners in the new century should focus on improving water-use
efficiency rather than building new supply projects. Gleick, of Berkeley's
Pacific Institute, also offers examples of conflicts over freshwater
resources from his more comprehensive water-related conflict chronology
(available at http://www.worldwater.org/conflictIntro.htm).
"Growing More Food with Less Water," by Sandra Postel, here the
author argues that severe water scarcity presents the single biggest threat
to future food production and urges that low-cost irrigation devices, high-
efficiency systems, and environmentally sound technologies be produced,
distributed, and used. To view this article, go to:
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0201issue/0201postel.html.
"How We Can Do It," by Diane Martindale and Peter Gleick, following
the two lead articles, the authors offer four short essays on possible
solutions to some of the world's water problems, including desalination,
transporting freshwater in enormous bags towed through the oceans, fixing
leaks, and recycling wastewater for other uses. To view this article, go to:
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0201issue/0201how.html.
3:04/11. IDES OF MARCH EXECUTIVE BRIEFING ON
WATER: The Water Education Foundation will host its 18th Annual
Executive Briefing, "New Leaders and New Challenges" on 15 March in
Sacramento. The one-day briefing is intended to bring together leaders
from various stakeholder groups - urban, business, farming, fishing,
environmental and public interest to discuss the major water issues facing
the State of California, and will focus on: the new administration in
Washington; Colorado River/Mexican Delta; CALFED implementation;
area of origin; and water quality issues. For more information on the
briefing, go to the Water Education Foundation's website at:
www.watereducation.org.
3:04/12. NEWLY SELECTED ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR
CALIFORNIA WATER PLAN MEETS: The first meeting of the
California Water Plan Update Advisory Committee met 18 January in
Sacramento. The committee, charged with making recommendations on
the state's five-year update of its water plan, is the largest yet with 59
representatives of state, federal and local government and stakeholder
representatives. The two fishing representatives on the committee are
California Trout's Nick DiCroce and PCFFA's Zeke Grader. The
committee is scheduled to meet over the next two years, with the update
planned for release in 2003. For more information, contact Paul Dabbs at:
pdabbs at water.ca.gov.
3:04/13. CONFERENCE ON DRAINAGE OF TOXIC AG
WASTEWATER FROM SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY: "Beyond the
Drain" is the title of a one-day conference scheduled for 27 March in
Sacramento, hosted by the San Francisco Estuary Project. The conference
will look at the issues related to the drainage of selenium and pesticide
laden waste water from agriculture on the west side of California's San
Joaquin Valley. Toxic wastewater has already contaminated the Kesterson
National Wildlife Refuge, killing and deforming waterfowl and other
wildlife. The fear is that the waste water from an extended San Luis Drain
may empty into the Delta posing a serious threat to salmon, crab and other
fish and shellfish species. For more information on the conference, contact
the San Francisco Estuary Project at (510) 622-2465.
3:04/14. EPA RELEASES DRAFT NATIONAL COASTAL
CONDITION REPORT: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has released its draft National Coastal Condition Report for a 60-day
review and comment period. According to EPA, the National Coastal
Condition Report describes the condition of coastal waters based on
available information. The report concludes that the overall condition of
coastal waters is fair to poor with some variation in conditions from region
to region. A combination of data, mostly from EPA, the National Oceanic
& Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS), and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) is used to present
indicators of coastal condition and a broad baseline picture of the condition
of coastal waters. The Report also highlights several programs at the local,
state and federal levels that show coastal condition at various regional
scales. This Report is the first attempt to provide the public with a
comprehensive picture of the health of the Nation's coastal waters. It is
intended to serve as a benchmark for analyzing the progress of coastal
management programs in the future. In it, EPA acknowledges that data are
not currently available to characterize all the estuarine and near-coastal
waters of the country and that work is still needed in formulating improved
indicators of the coastal condition. Public input on the draft Report
regarding data completeness, the choice of indicators, the methodologies
used to synthesize data, the ``bars'' set for each indicator, the choice of
spatial scales and the overall Report presentation is important says EPA
in preparing this and future reports.
The draft Report can be downloaded from EPA's Internet site at the
Office of Water homepage at http://epa.gov/ow/ under What's New in
Water. The deadline for comment submittals is 26 March. Comments may
be submitted by e-mail to: burgan.barry at epa.gov; comments may also be
mailed to Barry Burgan at the following address: U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (4504-F), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20460. Submit comments as an ASCII file avoiding the
use of special characters and any form of encryption. Identify all comments
and data in electronic form by docket number.
3:04/15. KLAMATH RIVER PROJECTS RELICENSING: On 25 -
26 January, the Pacific Power & Light Corporation (PacifiCorp) of
Portland, Oregon held its First Stage Consultation Public Meetings on
relicensing of the Klamath Project FERC No. 2082 - in Yreka and
Eureka, California (see Sublegals, 3:03/06). PacifiCorp is looking to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the national agency
regulating electric power, natural gas, oil pipelines, and the hydroelectric
industry, to renew its license as manager of the Klamath River
hydroelectric project, which supplies 1.5 million people with 150
megawatts of power. PacifiCorp's current license expires in 2006 and if
renewed could last until 2056. For further information on the project, the
FERC relicensing process, or for an outline of the public meetings, contact
www.pacificorp.com/paccomp/pacpower/hydro/klamath/documents, or
Todd Olson, PacifiCorp Licensing Project Manager, at (503) 813-6657.
3:04/16. BUSH RECOMMENDS RELAXING ENVIRONMENTAL
REGULATIONS IN ORDER TO ALLEVIATE ENERGY CRISIS:
On 19 January, Greenwire reported that U.S.
President George W. Bush holds the State of California fully responsible
for the energy crisis currently facing the state. Bush points to a flawed
deregulation law as the culprit and feels that the state needs to address the
problem at a legislative level and not rely on federal intervention or
wholesale price caps to alleviate the problem. In addition, the President
believes that California's current environmental restrictions should be
compromised in order to increase production. "If there's any
environmental regulations that's preventing California from having 100
percent max output at their plants -- as I understand there may be then we
need to relax those regulations."
PCFFA has been involved in the energy debate at the California state
level, and proposed legislation that would have provided the state's two
largest utilities revenues in return for sale of their hydroelectric assets to
the state (see Sublegals, 3:03/03). The California Legislature, however, is
now considering the revenue bond funds, first proposed by PCFFA to
purchase Pacific Gas & Electric's (PG&E) hydro-dams, and instead buy
utility stocks, which PCFFA warns could "leave the State with a lot of
worthless paper." PCFFA Executive Director Zeke Grader also rejected
the claim that California's power crisis could be alleviated by lifting
environmental regulations as "crap," stating the problem "was caused by
an ill-begotten deregulation scheme pushed by the utilities and a lack of an
energy policy at either the state or federal levels, including incentives for
developing renewable energy sources." Grader went on to warn against
efforts to weaken protections for fish in the rush to deal with the "energy
crisis."
3:04/17. AFS CAL-NEVA CHAPTER CONFERENCE ON
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION: The California-Nevada (Cal-
Neva) Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) will hold its 35th
annual meeting and symposia on 29-31 March at Santa Rosa, California.
The title of this year's conference is "Progress and Continuing Challenges
in Conservation and Restoration of Aquatic Species" Among the items on
the agenda are San Francisco Bay-Delta restoration; marine refugia; effects
of contaminants and water quality on aquatic species; and conservation
genetics. For more information, contact Elise Holland at:
eliseholland at tpl.org.
3:04/18. MARINE CONSERVATION SYMPOSIUM: The Marine
Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) and the Society for Conservation
Biology are hosting the Second Symposium on Marine Conservation
Biology at San Francisco State University 21-26 June. It is intended for
scientists and managers interested in the science of protecting, restoring
and sustainably using biodiversity in the world's estuaries, coastal waters
and oceans. For more information go to: http://www.mcbi.org or e-mail:
juliem at selway.umt.edu.
3:04/19. HOLD ON RECENT CLINTON RULES: Within hours of
taking office, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered a moratorium on the
publication of any more rules in the Federal Register from the Clinton
Administration. The order prevents any previous administration rule not
yet published in the Federal Register from being published, and for those
already published but for which the usually required 60-day time period
after publication had not yet run, from going into effect. The new
administration intends to review each and every one of the last
administrations final rulemaking efforts before allowing them to proceed.
Actions caught up in this moratorium which could affect fish include
new restrictions on arsenic in water, regulations on sewage outfalls,
regulations on pollution from commercial feed lots, a two-year mining
claim moratorium for the Siskiyou area in southern Oregon intended to
protect salmon runs (see Sublegals 3:03/12) and the Clinton
Administration's moratorium on new road building and logging in
wilderness areas. The new roadless area protection policy has drawn the
particular ire of certain members of Congress (see Sublegals 3:01/05).
Congress might also try to take advantage of an as yet unused law left over
from the prior Bush administration allowing Congress to invalidate a rule
by voting to disallow it within 60 days of its effective date. U.S. Senator
Larry Craig (R-ID), at the urging of timber industry lobbyists, has said he
will hold hearings on the Clinton road moratorium with that in mind.
Some Clinton land protection initiatives, however, could simply not be
completed in time. The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management
Project Plan, the most ambitious land use planning effort ever attempted by
the federal government, could not be finished and its fate is uncertain under
the Bush Administration. Unfortunately, the final end product of this
multi-state and multi-year planning process pleased nobody, ranching and
logging interests calling it too restrictive, conservationists calling it
essentially business as usual and many fisheries biologists opposed to it as
too little protection to recover depleted salmon and other fish populations.
Among the actions caught in the rule hold was also the Clinton
Administration's announced long term plan for reducing the size of the
"dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. The final plan, released earlier this
month by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), called for
improvement through a series of specific, practical, and cost-effective
voluntary actions and incentives for farmers. The "dead zone" is caused
when excessive nitrogen pollutants from fertilizer and animal wastes
increase growth of algae. To meet this goal, Clinton's plan called for
increases in financial and technical assistance for landowners
implementing conservation measures and the development of new
partnerships to reduce polluted runoff into the basin.
3:04/20. UN GLOBAL WARMING PANEL ISSUES DIRE
PREDICTIONS: Based on what has been called the most comprehensive
scientific assessment to date of the global warming issue, a United Nations
(UN)-sponsored conference meeting in Shanghai released on 22 January
its conclusion that human caused global warming is now not only
definitely occurring but that warming worldwide is accelerating at a far
faster rate than previously predicted. The conference, part of the U.N.'s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concluded that if present
observed trends continue as predicted that the world's average annual
temperatures could rise by as much as 10 degrees F. worldwide by 2100,
a rate of change not seen in many millions of years. Temperature changes
of this magnitude, the report says, would have severe consequences for the
world's agriculture and fisheries as well as accelerate already rapid
worldwide extinction rates. The final report will be issued in April of this
year. Robert Watson, a World Bank official who is chairman of the
Shanghai Conference, noted: "What this report is likely to conclude is that
climate change is, if anything, more serious than they thought before." The
models used in the report predict that over the next 100 years there will
likely be widespread and prolonged droughts, severe floods and violent
storms across much of the planet with melting polar ice melts causing sea
level rises sufficient to inundate many low lying coastlines. For more
information, go to: http://www.ipcc.ch.
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