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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:34:47 EST
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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 1, NO. 12 24 March
2000
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MARINE FISH CONSERVATION NETWORK EXPANDS
NATIONAL AGENDA WITH DECLARATION ADVOCATING
SUSTAINABLE FISHING: The Marine Fish Conservation Network
(MFCN) is a coalition of national and regional environmental
organizations, commercial and recreational fishing groups, and marine
science groups dedicated to conserving marine fish and promoting their
long-term sustainability, issued the following declaration last week at its
Washington D.C. trustee meeting:

The Marine Fish Conservation Network (Network) is dedicated to the
achievement of sustainable fishing. This includes the protection of
healthy fish stocks and the recovery of depleted stocks. It therefore seeks
a transformation of all fisheries to management based on: 1) a
precautionary approach; 2) a full understanding of fish resources, their
behavior and habitats; 3) the elimination of overfishing; 4) the use of
selective and non-destructive fishing gear; and 5) the preservation and
restoration of fish habitat. Moreover the achievement of sustainable
fishing on a permanent basis can best be accomplished where participants
in the fishery have a long-term stake in abundant fish resources and the
assurance there will be fisheries they can pass on to their children or crew
and future generations. To that end, preference should be given to fishing
operations that demonstrate, in practice, the principles supported by the
Network that promote sustainable fishing and fisheries conservation, in
particular, to those smaller scale, community or family based, or owner
operator commercial fleets, as well as recreational fleets that demonstrate
such principles.

PACIFIC FISHERIES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL SCHEDULE OF
PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS: The Pacific Fisheries
Management Council(PFMC) will hold a series of hearings on its
regulatory options for the 2000 ocean salmon season. These meetings will
be held at select locations in California, Washington, and Oregon at 1900
hrs on Monday 27 March and Tuesday 28 March. For specific locations
and more information, call (503) 326-6352 or visit:
http://www.pcouncil.org. Written comments should be received at
the council office by 1630 hrs. Pacific Standard Time on 29 March 2000.

Public comment on the Options will also be accepted during the April
Council meeting which will be held 3-7 April at the Doubletree Hotel -
Columbia River in Portland Oregon. Also on the agenda for this meeting
will be; groundfish management, marine reserves, salmon management
and habitat issues. For a complete agenda and other information please
call the council office at the above mentioned telephone number or visit
their website.

AUSTRALIA ACCEPTS WTO IMPOSED IMPORTS OF
CANADIAN SALMON: Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile
announced on Tuesday 21 March that the Australian Government had
decided not to appeal a World Trade Organization (WTO) decision
allowing Canada to export salmon to Australia. The WTO did
accept some Australian caveats to the decision including proposals that
imported salmon be head-off, gilled and gutted and that farms with the
salmon disease ISA be quarantined The state of Tasmania with its $120
million uncontaminated salmon industry fears infection from imported
diseases (Sublegals 25 February, 2000) and has erected its own barriers to
the imported fish. For more information, go to:
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0002/19/A27905-2000Feb19.shtml.

OCEANS AS ECOSYSTEMS: The University of Alaska Sea Grant
College Program has announced the publication of a new text entitled
Ecosystem Approaches for Fisheries Management. The book contains 50
scientific papers on how ecosystems information can be incorporated into
practical fishery management. For more information, visit the Alaska Sea
Grant website at: http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant .



SEAWEB AQUACULTURE CLEARINGHOUSE: A new
organization founded by Pew Charitable Trusts now exists outside of the
aquaculture industry itself to provide critical analysis of aquaculture's
environmental impacts and information on aquaculture generally. The
Clearinghouse has also published a list of aquaculture-related events,
conferences, etc. coming up through July 2000 at:
http://www.seaweb.org/campaigns/sac/salmoncalendar.html They also
maintain a useful newsletter of aquaculture reform issues and campaigns
called "FishFarmOpen FF List" to which you can subscribe by emailing
<bmott at seaweb.org>. Their website is:
http://www.seaweb.org/campaigns/sac

PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S
ASSOCIATIONS (PCFFA) PROPOSES GUIDELINES FOR
PRESIDENT'S $100 MILLION FOR SALMON: The $100 million of
Federal money that the Administration has proposed for Pacific salmon in
the coming year has to date no guidelines at all governing its use. The
$100 million proposed by the president for the four pacific states could
potentially go a long way towards restoring habitat and increasing the
numbers of Pacific salmon, but not if it is spent on paving roads or
repairing culverts. "We do not believe it necessary for the federal
government to micromanage how the money is spent," said Zeke Grader,
the executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's
Associations (PCFFA) "but we do believe, at minimum, guidelines are
needed." PCFFA recommended guidelines are: 1) that funds should be
expended only on projects pursuant to an approved salmon fishery
restoration or recovery plan; 2) no funds should be expended on projects
that outline work which is already obligated under existing law; and 3) no
funds should be used for projects unless there is reasonable certainty
that the work will not be damaged or destroyed by other activities going
on in the area. For more information call the PCFFA office at (415)
561-5080.

INVASIVE SPECIES, HOW DO WE PROTECT OURSELVES?: Last
year the California legislature passed a measure, the first of its kind in
this
nation, requiring ships to empty ballast water at sea, not in port. This
move may protect coastal waters from invasives such as the green crab
(that feed on such species as the Pacific coast's indigenous Dungeness
crab), saving more than $1 billion annually that such invasives cost
the nation. For more information see the article "California raises the bar
on invasive-species control" in the April 2000 issue of National Fisherman
or go to their website at http://www.nationalfisherman.com. For
interested parties there will be a workshop on future steps for ballast water
management in Oakland on 11 May 2000. For more information on the
workshop, "Vessels and Varmints," contact Steve Moore, California
Regional Water Quality Control Board, (510) 622-2439 or Jody Zaitlin,
Port of Oakland (510) 627-1179.

NATIVE OYSTERS FOUND IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY: The
results of genetics tests run on oysters found in the San Francisco Bay
were released in a report by Bodega Marine Laboratory scientists this
week. The project was done in conjunction with the Institute for Fisheries
Resources (IFR) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
Inspiration for the project came when IFR researchers discovered a relict
oyster population in Westpoint Slough, on property owned by USAREI
USAREI's San Mateo County holdings include the site of the Morgan
Oyster Co., the region's principal supplier of market oysters. The Morgan
Oyster Co. operated on the site literally from the Gold Rush until its
operations were overwhelmed by water pollution in the 1920s. Analysis
of the DNA of oysters collected on this site confirm that these remnant
oyster beds are, indeed, the San Francisco Bay's Native oysters. For more
information contact the Institute for Fisheries Resources at (415)
561-3474.

AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY SCIENTISTS TAKE STANCE,
AT RISK MARINE FISH NEED PROTECTION: In a 17 March press
release the American Fisheries Society (AFS), an international
organization of 9,000 fisheries scientists and professionals, announced the
adoption of four policy statements, based on scientific evidence, calling
for immediate action to protect stocks of marine fish that are at risk of
extinction. The policy statements call for more and better research. The
statements call specifically for better protection of and more research on
species of concern, such as sharks and rays whose long life spans, and
slow reproductive rates have led to general declines in their populations.
There are also specific statements for Reef fish and Pacific rockfish, both
groups having very specific life histories require special protections. For
more information on these policy statements please contact Beth Tyler at
(301)897-8616, ext 220, or visit their website at:
http://www.fisheries.org/marinestocks_index.htm.

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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