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2:17/01. CONGRESS PASSES ESTUARIES RESTORATION
ACT: On 25 October, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to revitalize
coastal communities and restore essential coastal habitat important for
fisheries. The Estuaries & Clean Water Act of 2000 (now a combination
of several related bills) was sponsored by the late Senator John Chafee
(R-RI) and Representative Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) and had broad
support among the west coast delegation. The legislation provides a
federal commitment and resources to restore one million acres of habitat
in America's estuaries: the bays, sounds, gulfs, harbors, lagoons, inlets
and deltas where fresh water mixes with the salt water of the ocean.
These areas are the nurseries for most of the nation's fisheries. The
legislation authorizes $275 million over five years for matching funds for
local restoration projects. Since European settlement, the United States
has lost more than six million acres of critical coastal wetlands habitat..
Estuaries and wetlands are essential to the vitality of the nation's fishing
economy. For the importance of wetlands to the fishing industry see
"Fisheries, Wetlands and Jobs" at:
http://www.pond.net/~pcffa/wetlands.htm
2:17/02. IFQ MORATORIUM EXTENSION NOT IN
CONTINUING RESOLUTION, LIKELY TO BE INSERTED IN
NEXT MEASURE SENT TO PRESIDENT AFTER EXPECTED
VETO OF CURRENT MEASURE: As of late today, the 27th, the
language for a two-year extension of the current U.S. moratorium on
development and implementation of individual fishing quotas (IFQs)
disappeared from the Commerce-Justice-State Appropriations continuing
resolution, along with the rider to exempt the Alaskan groundfish trawl
fishery from the closures ordered to protect Steller sea lions pursuant to
the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The President is expected to veto the
current CJS resolution being sent to the White House. Speculation is that
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) is waiting to drop in the language when the
bill comes back to Congress after the veto. Congress is now expected to
adjourn on Tuesday, so the final action is expected Monday, the 30th.
Meanwhile, there has been no word whether a processor-generated
amendment attached to moratorium language exempting the blackcod
(sablefish) fishery will be included. That language would require
fishermen to deliver to processors they delivered to in the past two years,
thereby creating an exclusive class of processors and making it
impossible for fishermen to negotiate a fair price.
2:17/03. WORLD'S MAJOR SEAFOOD PROCESSORS FORM
E-CARTEL: How to describe it - an e-commerce seafood cartel or an
internet Hanseatic League for fish? The 6 October issue of the U.K. trade
publication, Fishing News, reports (p.8) that some of the largest seafood
catching and processing companies from around the world, representing
over $5 billion (US) in sales, have established an e-commerce partnership
called Seafoodalliance.com. Members of the consortium include
American Seafoods of Seattle, WA; The Barry Group of Corner Brook,
Newfoundland; Clearwater Fine Foods, Inc. of Halifax, NS; Coldwater
Seafoods Corporation of Rowayton, CT; Fishery Products International
of St. John's Newfoundland; High Liner Foods, Inc, of Lundenburg, NS;
Pacific Trawlers of Seattle, WA; Pacific Seafood Group of Portland, OR;
SIF Group Ltd, of Iceland; Sanford Ltd, of New Zealand; Scandsea AB
of Sweeden; and Youngs Bluecrest Seafood Ltd, of the U.K. The
consortium was finalized at a recent meeting in New York, after several
months of work. For more information, go to Fishing News' website at:
www.fishingnews.co.uk .
2:17/04. COLUMBIA RIVER FALL-CHINOOK RETURNS
DOWN; STEELHEAD COUNT HIGH: FishWire reports fall chinook
salmon runs in the Columbia totaled 192,000 as of 24 October, a drop of
20 percent from last year's run. But jack counts are up considerably,
indicating a good run next year. Coho runs are double last year's and
steelhead numbers also are up, about 30 percent higher than last year's
run. Investigations, meanwhile, continue to examine a puzzling loss of
up to 80, 000 steelhead in the John Day Pool. For more information, go
to: http://www.newsdata.com/enernet/fishletter/.
2:17/05. WILLAMETTE RIVER STUDY CONFIRMS
WIDESPREAD FISH DEFORMITIES: In a recent effort to verify
anecdotal reports, scientists observed about one-third of test fish using
Oregon's Willamette River (a tributary of the Columbia) were hatched
with severe deformities. Water quality in the Willamette has been
gradually degrading, mostly due to non-point source pollution from
agriculture and urban runoff, but also some point source industrial
polluters. "If the environment is inducing these changes to fish, then
there's a question about what it is doing to other organisms, including
humans," commented Stan Gregory, fisheries Professor at Oregon State
University. "This is not a trivial finding.." Several runs of salmon and
steelhead are now listed in the Willamette River, and Oregon has just this
year a pesticide tracking bill to ascertain what agricultural chemicals are
used near the river. Pesticides are widely used in the Willamette basin
and have been implicated in fish deformities as well. See "Diminishing
Returns: Salmon Declines and Pesticides," for more information on the
impacts of long-term exposures to sublethal levels of pesticides, go to
the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Website at:
http://www.pond.net/~fish1ifr/salpest.htm. Also see:
http://www.oregonlive.com/printer2.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/10/
lc_62crook20.frame.
2:17/06.NORTHWEST POWER COUNCIL ADOPTS NEW
FISH & WILDLIFE PLAN: On 19 October the Northwest Power
Planning Council formally adopted the first revision in more than six
years of its "Columbia River Basin Fish & Wildlife Program" salmon
restoration plan. The last plan revision in 1994 (Council Document
94-55) was never fully implemented due to political gridlock over flow
augmentation provisions requiring more water from Idaho. The
amendments incorporate the current strategies behind the recently
proposed National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Columbia River
Biological Opinion (see Sublegals 2:04/04). The NMFS BiOp deferred
much of the implementation of its measures to the Council, and thus the
Council's plan mirrors the strengths and weaknesses of the NMFS BiOp
itself, completely ignoring the issue of breaching the Snake River dams
in favor of patchwork habitat improvements. Furthermore, little of that
habitat benefit may occur in short enough time frames to prevent
extinctions caused by the hydropower system. "The overall document
appears to be a political compromise rather than driven by the real
biological needs of salmon," commented PCFFA's Glen Spain. "Its good
as far as it goes, but it clearly does not go far enough fast enough to
assure recovery." The program amendments are expected to be posted
on the Council's web site late next week at: http://www.nwppc.org or call
the Council publications office at (800)452-5161 to request a printed
copy.
2:17/07. CONSERVANCY DEVELOPS ACTION PLAN TO
MAXIMIZE TOTAL SALMON PRODUCTION (NATURAL AND
HATCHERY) IN UPPER SACRAMENTO RIVER: The Battle
Creek Conservancy has released its action plan for maximizing the total
production of all chinook salmon runs in the Upper Sacramento River
system and significantly increasing natural production in Battle Creek (a
tributary of the Sacramento coming in just below Shasta Dam). The
Sacramento River is now the largest chinook salmon producing system
on the Pacific Coast. Among other things, the plan, developed in
consultation with fishery biologists would move Coleman National Fish
Hatchery production of late-fall chinook and steelhead on Battle Creek
to an enlarged Livingston Stone Hatchery on mainstem Sacramento at
Keswick. By moving some of the hatchery production from Coleman to
Livingston Stone, it will be possible to increase natural production on
Battle Creek where some five or more antiquated hydro-electric dams are
slated for removal to open up fish habitat.
Moving more hatchery production to Livingston Stone is also
expected to increase natural spawning in the upper 29 miles of the river,
where habitat (spawning gravels, water temperature) has been improved
but is still underutilized. Battle Creek has had overescapement for the
past few years with as many as 100,000 to 130,000 fall-run spawners
ripping up each others redds and depleting the oxygen in the stream. The
Livingston Stone Hatchery was built in 1997 as a result of the efforts of
PCFFA's late Habitat Conservation Director Nat Bingham who sought
a facility on the mainstem of the Sacramento as was called for in 1940 to
mitigate the impacts of Shasta Dam. Prior to its construction, all of the
mitigation production took place at Coleman, located on lower Battle
Creek. For a copy of the action plan, "Battle Creek: One View of the
Next Step" e-mail the Conservancy's Bob Lee at: rlee at lassen.com .
2:17/08. SETTLEMENT REACHED TO PROVIDE $800
MILLION FOR IRON MOUNTAIN CLEANUP, AIMED AT
PREVENTING TOXIC WATER RELEASES INTO SACRAMENTO
RIVER: On 20 October, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that state and
federal regulators had reached an agreement with Aventis Crop Sciences
USA Inc. that could raise an additional $800 million to clean-up acid
run-off at the Iron Mountain Superfund site, which produces what may be
the most contaminated water in the world. Under the terms of the
settlement, Aventis, a French firm, would ensure 95 percent fo the acidic
water coming fromthe decommissioned mine near Redding will be
neutralized before if reaches the Sacramento River. Under the agreement,
Aventis will buy a $160 million insurance annuity now that will pay up to
$300 million over 30 years, plus a final payment of $514 million in 2030.
Although cleanup of the site has been under way for several years,
the settlement should help speed the timetable for satisfactory mitigation
of the pollution, said the Chronicle report. The agreement was largely
brokered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is the
largest environmental settlement in the EPA's Region IX, covering
California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.
2:17/09. KLAMATH BASIN WATER SUPPLY
ENHANCEMENT BILL ON WAY TO WHITE HOUSE: Senate Bill
2882, cosponsored by Oregon Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden,
is now on its way to the White House for signature, with broad backing
from irrigators, conservation groups and by PCFFA. The bill authorizes
a study of ways to increase overall storage and delivery of water within
the Klamath Project in the Upper Klamath Basin. This year saw
widespread fights over diminishing water supplies, including suits by
PCFFA and others to protect downriver fish runs, suits among water
users over allocation, and a complete cutoff of water to the wildlife
refuges during critical waterfowl migration times. PCFFA supported the
bill after certain provisions were changed and fish and wildlife needs
were also taken into account. The studies will be conducted in
consultation with stakeholder groups, which PCFFA believes should also
include lower river interests. The bill only authorizes the studies; no
funds have been appropriated as yet and this may be difficult this late in
the appropriations season. However, passage of the bill means that funds
will likely be in the new Administration's budget for FY 2002 to be
submitted early next year. For more information on this bill, go to the
Library of Congress THOMAS bill index at: http://thomas.loc.gov.
2:17/10. KLAMATH FISH & WILDLIFE BIBLIOGRAPHY
AVAILABLE, KLAMATH HYDRO RELICENSING PENDING: In
May, 2000 Kier Associates, on contract with PacifiCorp as owners of the
Klamath Hydroelectric Project, published a comprehensive annotated
bibliography of scientific studies and data on fish and wildlife in the
Klamath Basin, available from PacifiCorp on CD-ROM. PacifiCorp
prepared the bibliography as part of its pending relicensing of the Project
under Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) License No. 2082, which
expires in 2006. PacificCorp will be taking the first steps toward
relicensing of the Project by publishing its preliminary documents for
public review in December of 2000. For a copy of the CD, "Klamath
Hydroelectric Project Annotated Bibliography of Aquatics and Wildlife
(May 2000," or to get on PacifiCorps' relicensing contact and document
distribution list, contact Todd Olson, Licensing Project Manager,
PacifiCorp at 825 N.E. Multnomah, Suite 1500, Portland, OR 97232,
(503) 813-6657.
2:17/11. SAVAGE RAPIDS DAM DEMOLITION BILL
INTRODUCED: On 24 October Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and
Gordon Smith jointly introduced Senate Bill 3227 to bring up to $22.2
million in federal money to bear on the demolition of Savage Rapids
Dam, a 79-year old irrigation dam on Oregon's Rogue River. Although
the dam was built to irrigate agricultural lands, most of the water now
goes to lawns and hobby farms. Biologists have identified the dam as a
chief obstacle to upstream migration of adult salmon and steelhead, and
as a killer of young salmon and steelhead migrating downstream. PCFFA
intervened in litigation brought by the National Marine Fisheries Service
two years ago to have the dam replaced by more modern pumps that can
be screen to avoid fish kills. Federal studies estimate the economic loss
of fisheries caused by the dam at about $5 million/year. No action on the
bill is possible this year, but it will be reintroduced in the next Congress
and has the support of the dam's owners as well as conservation and
fisheries groups, including PCFFA. For more information on the
proposed Savage Rapids Dam demolition see:
http://www.oregonlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/10/
nw_41dam25.frame
2:17/12. ELECTION GUIDE 2000: The October issue of The
Fishermen's News, (pp.18-19) includes an article by PCFFA's Glen
Spain and Zeke Grader "Elections 2000: Vote Because Your Industry
Depends On It" with a guide for what fishing men and women should
look for in candidates and ballot initiatives in the 2000 U.S. federal and
state elections. In fact, there are on the 7 November ballot many candidates
and issues from the national to the local level that could impact on
fisheries. At the national level, for example, who is elected could mean
the difference of whether or not offshore oil drilling will be allowed off
the coast of California, Georges Bank, Florida's east coast and Bristol
Bay. Offshore oil drilling has displaced large areas of fishing grounds,
displaced fishermen in ports and the severity of the impacts of
hydrocarbon pollution associated with the drilling on fish stocks is only
now being revealed.
In California, at the state level, is a ballot initiative, Proposition
37,
sponsored by a number of polluting industries that would make it more
difficult for the Legislature to assess polluter fees ("polluter pays") to
mitigate and clean-up pollution, including that affecting water quality
and fish habitat. A "no" vote on 37 would stop the polluters. At the local
level, in San Francisco for example, is Proposition R designed to stop a
Cleveland Developer from turning Fishermen's Wharf Pier 45 from a
fishing pier to a Las Vegas-style tourist attraction (with nothing relating
to fishing or San Francisco Bay; it would include a miniature Haight
Ashbury complete with fake fog, a catwalk sized Golden Gate Bridge,
and a rollercoaster-like earthquake simulation). A "yes" vote on R
would help to restore a working/fishing waterfront for San Francisco.
For more information, visit our Fishermen's News archive website at:
http://www.pond.net/~pcffa/fn-oct00.htm. Remember to vote on Tuesday,
7 November.
2:17/13. MORATORIUM ON CALIFORNIA NEARSHORE
FISHERY PERMITS APPROVED: At its October meeting, the
California Fish & Game Commission adopted regulations establishing
a moratorium, effective Friday, 13 October 2000, on the issuance of
Nearshore Fishery Permits for the taking of nine marine fish species.
The regulations set the stage for the subsequent adoption of a formal
nearshore fishery restricted access program, reducing the number of
permits issued in future years to a number consistent with the ability of
the resources to sustain a harvest. For further information, visit the
California Department of Fish & Game's website at: www.dfg.ca.gov or
contact CDFG's Maria Melchiorre, License & Revenue Branch, at (916)
227-2284.
2:17/14. PCFFA BOARD MEETING SCHEDULED FOR 2-3
NOVEMBER IN MONTEREY: The Board of Directors of the Pacific
Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) will meet
Thursday-Friday, 2-3 November at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in
Pacific Grove. For more information on the meeting, call PCFFA
at: (415) 561-5080.
2:17/15. MALAYSIA WILL APPEAL TO WTO TO OVERTURN
U.S. LAW PROTECTING SEA TURTLES: The Associated Press
reported on 24 October, that Malaysia, as expected, will ask the World
Trade Organization (WTO) to force the United States to repeal a law
"that bans imports of shrimp from countries which use trawling nets that
trap the turtles" (see Sublegals, 2:16/23, 2:12/18). Experts say nets
without turtle-excluder devices (TEDs) "are killing up to 150,000 turtles
a year." U.S. shrimpers are required to use TEDs. In response to a WTO
ruling declaring the U.S. law "illegal," the U.S. weakened its regulations
and will provide "assistance to countries to help them equip their fishing
fleets with turtle excluders" but Malaysia is still pushing the WTO to
pressure the U.S. into repealing the law all together. Ironically, the U.S.
has been a major promoter of the WTO at the same time this non-elected
body has been given authority to overturn the national laws of its
signatory members, including those laws aimed at promoting
conservation.
2:17/16. NEW LIST SERVE FOR GLOBAL FISHERIES
DISCUSSION: A web discussion site, The Global Fisheries Discussion
(GFD) Page has been set up to further the aims of global communication
between working fishing men and women and coastal communities. The
site can be found at http://www.geocities.com/globalfishdiscussion . A
low volume list serve for urgent notices and more detailed
discussion/debates has also ben set up. It is
globa-fish at interchange.ubc.ca. Instructions for subscribing can be
found on the GFD page. The list serve has been set up by Charles
Menzies at the University of British Columbia. The objectives of the list
serve include fostering and furthering discussion among fishers, fishing
community members, and supports in their struggle to build a global
organization. This is an ad hoc list that is not affiliated to any particular
organization. However, it has as its inspiration the goals and objectives
of the fishing men and women who organized the World Forum of Fish
Harvesters & Fish Workers (WFF) constituent assembly in early October
at Loctudy, France (see Sublegals, 2:15/01).
2:17/17. NEW COMMISSION ON FISHERIES RESOURCES:
The World Humanities Action Trust, a British Foundation, is sponsoring
a "Commission on Fisheries Resources" whose terms of reference are:
"To consider - in the context of human survival - the present status of fish
stocks world-wide and their trends in availability, primarily as a direct
source of food; to consider the necessary changes in management of
fisheries and how, and over what period, these could be implemented,
and to identify modifications to governance that would facilitate such
implementation." An overview of the Commission's report can be read
on line at: http://www.what.org.uk/newpub.htm#fisheries. The
Commission on Fisheries Resources membership is posted at:
http://www.what.org.uk/commiss.htm .
2:17/18. SLOW FOOD AND GROWTH SPEEDING ANTIBIOTICS:
The November-December issue of the Utne Reader, features a report
on the Slow Food movement, and other articles looking
at organic foods and the future of food production. The article by Tenaya
Darlington, "Slow is Beautiful (and Delicious)" (pp.54-59) will be of
interest to those promoting organic produce, meats and dairy products as
well as wild fish. The Slow Food movement, which began in Italy in
1989, is a reaction against fast foods and foods produced with pesticides,
hormones, antibiotics, and gene splicing (transgenic organisms). It
stresses natural and seasonal foods, heirloom crops and traditional
methods of small-scale food production. To view the articles, visit the
Utne Reader website at: www.utne.com .
In the November-December issue of Mother Jones, meanwhile, is a
short report (p.23) by Edwin Dobb, "Growing Resistance: Is
Agribusiness Squandering One of Medicine's Most Potent Weapons?"
regarding the use of antibiotics in animal feed (chicken, pork) to speed
growth. The use of these antibiotics can lead to the development of new
strains of bacteria with greater resistance to antibiotics used in human
medicine, thereby posing a threat to human health. This article should be
of interest to those concerned with the use of antibiotics in fish farming
operations and the potential human health threat presented. To view the
report, go to Mother Jones website at: www.motherjones.com .
Finally, in the 13 October issue of Science, is an article on transgenic
foods, "Can Genetically Modified Crops Go 'Greener'?" (pp. 253-254)
regarding plant research aimed at using a plant's own genes, not those
from another species, in genetic modifications. This article should be of
interest to those concerned with genetic modifications being made to
farmed salmon and other fish (see Sublegals, 2:16/11-13). To view the
article, go to the Science website at: www.sciencemag.org .
2:17/18. NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY, NO MORE SILENCE,
ASMI TO TAKE ON FARMED SALMON: WorldCatch News
Network reported on 11 October that the Alaska Seafood Marketing
Institute (ASMI) is about to change its longstanding policy against
criticizing salmon farming. With growing consumer concern over
genetically modified foods, some ASMI board members say the time is
right to consider a marketing campaign focusing on farmed salmon's
negative aspects. "One of the constraints I was told I have to operate on
is I can't go out and say bad things about farmed salmon," said David
Harrison, ASMI's newly hired strategic marketing director. Harrison's
outline of his "action plan for salmon" sparked the discussion at the
ASMI board meeting in Sitka earlier in the month. Alaska is the world's
largest producer of wild salmon and recently Alaska's salmon fishery
was certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
making it the first salmon so certified and only the third fishery in the
world to earn MSC certification.
2:17/19. EMERGENCY CLOSURE FOR LINGCOD: The
California Fish & Game Commission at its October meeting in San
Diego took emergency action to close all ocean-based fishing for lingcod
statewide during the final two months of the year, in response to concerns
that the harvest will exceed its allowable catch for 2000. The fishery has
been declared "overfished" by the National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) which will compliment the state action by restricting fishing for
lingcod from three to 200 miles offshore. The regulation will remain in
effect through December, after which, new regulations aimed at
protecting lingcod and other marine bottom feeding species are expected
to be in place. In a related matter, the Commission decided against
closing fishing for rockfish in Southern California during the lingcod
closure. According to Robert Treanor, the Commission's Exuctive
Director, the final harvest could be less than projected if anglers
continued to concentrate on other marine finfish species during the final
two months of the year. Both closure recommendations made by the
State's Department of Fish & Game follow multi-year rebuilding plans
developed for lingcod and bocaccio rockfish by the Pacific Fishery
Management Council (PFMC). For more information, go to the CDFG
website at: www.dfg.ca.gov or contact L.B. Boydstun at (916) 653-
6281.
2:17/20. GLOBAL WARMING APPEARS WORSE THAN
PROJECTED: New evidence shows man-made pollution has
"contributed substantially" to global warming and the earth is likely to
get a lot hotter than previously predicted, the United Nations-sponsored
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of hundreds of
scientists has recently concluded. The report's summary was being
distributed to government officials worldwide this week and is expected
to get final approval at a United Nations conference early next year. In
the first full-scale review and update of the state of climate science since
1995, the scientists, in revised estimates, concluded that if greenhouse
emissions are not curtailed the earth's average surface temperatures could
be expected to increase from 2.7 to nearly 11 degrees Fahrenheit by
2100, substantially more than estimated in its report five years ago. For
more information see:http://www.oregonlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf?/
news/oregonian/00/10wr_51warm26.frame. For more information on the
IPCC see: http://www.ipcc.ch.
Such a rapid rate of change could have disasterous impacts on sea life
as well as terrestrial species, forcing most into extinction. In the 18
October issue of Nature,"Cooler winters as a possible cause of mass
extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary," Linda Ivany, et. al.,
Volume 407 Number 6806 Page 887 - 890 (2000), scientists report that
they have reconstructed severe climate changes from fossil records that
occurred 34 million years ago of only seven degrees Fahrenheit which
resulted in the death of 90 percent of all sealife in the Gulf Coast, the
worst mass extinction since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million
years ago. To search for this article under the keyword "climate" go to:
http://www.nature.com/nature.
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