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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 2, NO. 9 1 SEPTEMBER 2000
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2:09/01. TO THE BARRICADES! FRENCH FISHERMEN WIN
CONCESSIONS FROM GOVERNMENT AFTER WEEK LONG
PROTEST: Yesterday, 31 August, French fishermen called off their
nationwide protest over rising fuel prices after a week of demonstrations, the
Associated Press reported, after concessions were won from the government.
The demonstrations had included an hours long blockade of the tunnel under
the English Channel (Eurotunnel or "Chunnel"). The deal, ending the
demonstrations, was signed at the Agriculture Ministry in Paris where
Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany, who had met with fishing representatives,
agreed to a series of financial measures to offset rising diesel fuel prices.
Fishermen were demanding a cut in fuel prices from 30 cents a litre to 17
cents.
Earlier in the week the fishermen had blocked ports from Bayonne to Le
Harve, including six Atlantic coastal ports in Normandy and a port in
Vendee. In the southern Leanguedoc-Roussillon region fishermen paralyzed
oil refinery depots near Sete and Narbonne; in Provence they blocked access
to oil terminals in two ports; in Marseille, they blocked a car-ferry port;
and
in Calais they blocked the ferry, preventing its crossing of the English
Channel, and leaving the British in a snit. About 20 fishermen stopped most
traffic leading to the Eurotunnel, keeping buses and other vehicles from
boarding the trains that pass under the tunnel. A protest had been planned
for
Thursday in Paris by the fishermen's unions, but was called off when the
concessions with the Agriculture Ministry were agreed to.
2:09/02. WFF SET TO MEET IN BRITTANY IN OCTOBER: On the
heels of the successful protest by French fishermen, the World Forum of
Fish-Harvesters & Fishworkers (WFF) is set to meet in Loctudy, on 2-6
October, a fishing village on France's Brittany coast. The WFF, as opposed
to some other international fishing groups, represents primarily small-boat
and artesenal family fishermen and shore workers in fish plants. Among the
key issues for WFF are stopping the spread of multinational-owned factory
trawlers and industrial aquaculture operations as well as addressing the
impacts of new trade agreements on traditional fisheries and fish
conservation. One of the papers to be presented at the WFF meeting will be
from the Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR), supported by a grant from
the Mennen Environmental Foundation, on the impacts of World Trade
Organization (WTO) negotiations on fishermen and fish stocks. PCFFA
President Pietro Parravano is one of two U.S. delegates to the WFF. The
e-mail for the WFF French organizing committee is: peche.dev at wanadoo.fr
Their website is: http://assoc.wanadoo.fr/peche.dev/.
2:09/03. CALFED ROD SIGNED, GOVERNANCE AND FUNDING
BILLS FAIL PASSAGE AT END OF LEGISLATIVE SESSION: The
CALFED Record of Decision (ROD) was signed on Monday, 27 August,
(see Sublegals 2:08/21), but the legislation to enact its governance and the
Senate bill for authorization of $135 million for CALFED failed at eleventh
hour of the California Legislative session, which ended last night 31 August.
This decision affects the amount of water in Central Valley River for fish and
the amount of water allowed to flow through the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta to San Francisco Bay. Thus, the future productivity of Sacramento
fall-run chinook, which support the Pacific Coast ocean salmon fishery, as
well as efforts to recover winter-run and spring-run chinook, and protection
for herring, oysters and crab (Dungeness) populations that use San Francisco
Bay for spawning or nursery habitat are all affected.
The ROD is considered an improvement over the framework agreement
released on 21 July (see Sublegals 2:04/01, 9 Jun 00, 2 Jun 00) by providing
greater protection of:1) the 800,000 acre-feet of water allocated for fish
under
the 1992 Miller-Bradley Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA),
and 2) the environmental restoration programs. Nevertheless it contains all
of the fatal flaws PCFFA pointed out in its early criticism of the framework
agreement. That critique can be viewed at the top of PCFFA's website:
http://www.pond.net/~pcffa .
However, efforts in the closing hours of California's legislative session
to pass bills establishing a governing body for CALFED and provide it
funding ran out of time. SB 2042, a Senate bill taken over by Assembly
Water, Parks & Wildlife Chairman Mike Machado (D-Lynden), narrowly
failed passage in the Assembly on Thursday, amid accusations that Machado
had maligned Senator Maurice Johannessen (R-Redding) with an ethnic slur.
Time also ran out on the bill authorizing the expenditure of $135 million for
CALFED. The loss of this measure could jeopardize federal funding for the
Bay-Delta program. To view the CALFED ROD go to: http://calfed.ca.gov.
2:09/04. CITY OF SEATTLE ENDORSES SNAKE DAM
REMOVAL: On 21 August, the City of Seattle voted unanimously to
support bypassing the four lower Snake River dams as a necessary and
scientifically credible step in salmon recovery efforts in the Columbia,
noting
that the minor loss of energy could be replaced by renewable energy and
conservation. Seattle is not only the most populous city in the Northwest,
but
owns and manages the region's largest public utility (Seattle City Light), and
is therefore a major player in the Northwest energy debate, including the fate
of salmon regionally. The measure is Resolution 30230. For more
information see: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/dam242.shtml. Text of
the official Resolution is available via:
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/whatsnew.htm under the key words
"Snake River."
2:09/05. DUTCH HARBOR TOP U.S. FISHING PORT IN 1999:
According to a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) press release
issued today, commercial fishermen brought 678.3 million pounds of fish,
worth $140.8 million, to the port of Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska, in 1999,
making it the port with both the highest volume and greatest dollar value of
fish landings in the country. NMFS reported the port of Dutch
Harbor-Unalaska netted the top landings slot for the 12th straight year - with
an increase of 81.2 million pounds over 1998 landings. Meanwhile,
Empire-Venice, Louisiana, was ranked as the number two port for the
quantity of landings in 1999.
The value of landings at Dutch Harbor-Unalaska was $140.8 million, an
increase of $30.8 million from the 1998 value. New Bedford, Massachusetts
was second with landings valued at $129.9 million - an increase of $36.4
million, while the Kodiak, Alaska catch value was third at $100.8 million in
1999. Part of the increase in 1999 landings at Dutch Harbor-Unalaska was
due to an increase in walleye pollock quotas. In addition to the increased
pollock landings, fishermen also landed more flatfish, halibut and salmon.
Halibut and crab prices were high in 1999 and these two species accounted
for most of the increased value of 1999 Dutch Harbor-Unalaska landings.
The large increase in value of New Bedford landings was principally due to
sea scallops whose landings value increased from about $36 million in 1998
to almost $70 million in 1999. A complete list of commercial fishery
landings and value at 50 major U.S. ports for 1998 - 1999 is available at
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/news_releases_at_nmfs.htm .
2:09/06. ARCTIC ICE CAP MELTING MAY THREATEN
WORLD'S FISHERIES: Recent visitors to the North Pole have discovered,
to their astonishment, that the Arctic polar ice cap has melted at the pole,
leaving a mile wide stretch of open water according to accounts in the 19
August New York Times. Recent research has shown that the North polar ice
cap has lost 40 percent of its volume since 1958 and temperatures there are
at the warmest they have been in over 400 years, findings consistent with
current projections of global warming says the Christian Science Monitor in
its 17 August issue. Circulation of Arctic cold water currents are a key
driver
behind massive subsurface ocean currents that flow all the way from the
north Atlantic to the Pacific. Should the North polar ice cap melt entirely,
as
is currently predicted under several global warming models, some
researchers say that this may disrupt the North Atlantic Oscillation and slow
down or even halt important ocean currents that pump nutrient rich
upwellings to continental shelves in both oceans, potentially reducing the
overall carrying capacity of the oceans by 50 percent or more. For more
information about global warming and its potential impact on fisheries see:
http://www.pond.net/~pcffa/fn-jan98.htm .
2:09/07. CALIFORNIA DAM FIXING AND REMOVAL BILL
FAILS PASSAGE AT END OF SESSION: While the City of Seattle was
endorsing the removal of the four lower Snake River dams, the California
Legislature sat on SB 1540 by State Senator Byron Sher (D-Palo Alto) that
would have established a state program to study and recommend dams for
removal or fixing (see Sublegals 9 Jun 00, 31 Mar 00, 18 Feb 00). Even after
all significant opposition to SB 1540 was effectively neutralized by a series
of compromises made with critics, the bill died in the final hours of the
1999-2000 Legislative session Thursday night. The measure apparently fell
victim to backroom political infighting that had nothing to do with the bill
itself, and was held without a vote in the Assembly Appropriations
Committee.
SB 1540, introduced as the River Restoration & Dam Study Act and
renamed the Marc Reisner Memorial River Restoration Act of 2000, sought
to compile a statewide inventory of dams, and study which could be modified
or removed without a loss of essential benefits in order to revive fisheries
threatened with extinction. It was sponsored by Friends of the River, the
South Yuba River Citizen's League, and the Pacific Coast Federation of
Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA). The deadline for bills to pass out of the
Legislature and move to the Governor's desk was Thursday at midnight.
Significantly, in the later hours of the session, Governor Gray Davis' office
stepped in and supported the bill. For more information on the bill contact
Kathie Schmiechen at: kathie at friendsoftheriver.org.
2:09/08. NMFS AND NFI FINALLY DECIDE TO DO A LITTLE
SOMETHING FOR FISH HABITAT: In a press release issued 1
September by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the federal
fishery agency said it would be partners with the National Fisheries Institute
(NFI) and Ocean Trust in a $146,000 habitat restoration programs planned
for the states of Massachusetts, Texas and Washington. NFI is a DC-based
organization representing primarily fish importers and other shoreside sectors
in the U.S. fishing industry. Ocean Trust is a non-profit organization
established by NFI. To put the funding in perspective, it is about one-fifth
to
one-tenth the amount raised annually by California's commercial salmon
stamp program for fish supplementation and habitat restoration just in
California. The salmon stamp program was established in the late 1970's by
California fishermen concerned with the impacts of fish habitat losses.
"We're delighted that the importers and processors have finally decided
to kick in a little effort and money for fish habitat restoration after being
missing in action for the past 25 years, while a few fishermen's groups and
conservationists fought the good fight alone protecting habitat, clean water
and flows," said PCFFA Executive Director Zeke Grader of the
announcement. "It'll be interesting to watch and see if NMFS actually
develops a backbone and if NFI finally joins working fishermen fighting for
sustainable fisheries including a strong Clean Water Act, Magnuson-Stevens
Act and Endangered Species Act." For more information on the three-state,
$146,000 effort, visit Ocean Trust's website at:
http://www.oceantrust.org/projects or contact Michelle Crockett at
michelle.a.crockett at ofa.noaa.gov.
2:09/09. ADFG WORRIES ABOUT FARM FISH IN WILD, GMO
SALMON READY FOR SALE, TEACH-IN PLANNED FOR
SEATTLE: The Associated Press reported on 28 August that the Alaska
Department of Fish & Game (ADFG) is raising concerns about the possible
impact escaped Atlantic salmon from British Columbia aquaculture
operations will have on native Alaska stocks. To date, commercial fishermen
in Southeast Alaska have caught more than 20 Atlantic salmon, raising
concerns that the farmed salmon will spread disease to wild species. All the
Atlantic salmon were caught south of Ketchikan. Last week, Canadian
gillnetters caught thousands of Atlantics during a sockeye opening following
a massive escape of the farmed fish off Johnston Strait (see Sublegals
2:08/03, 2:07/09). The Atlantic salmon pose a threat to Pacific salmon
because of competition for food in the open ocean, and they also carry a
threat of disease from viruses and external parasites. It was once believed
that Atlantic salmon would not venture into freshwater, but several
pen-reared salmon have been found in fresh water streams. In 1998, an
Atlantic salmon was recovered north of Ketchikan at Ward Creek. The
Atlantic salmon was sexually mature and had a mate that eluded capture.
On 25 August, National Fisherman reported Massachusetts-based A/F
Protein, an international biotech corporation, is close to presenting a
farm-raised product that could wind up in supermarket seafood cases in the
near future, as well as in the wild if the fish escape their net pens like
other
farmed salmon have done. A/F Protein developed a genetically modified
strain of Atlantic salmon that, as the result of an introduction of a gene
that
promotes growth year round, can reach market size in 18 months. Currently,
it takes three years to raise a typical Atlantic salmon. The company says it
has orders for 15 million eggs it has been raising on Canada's Prince Edward
Island. The transgenic or "GMO" (Genetically Modified Organism) fish still
need to get government approval before they can reach U.S. supermarkets.
Currently, a White House panel is attempting to decide which federal agency
should have jurisdiction over the concept of genetically modified fish; the
Food & Drug Administration (FDA), NMFS or the U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service. For more information visit National Fisherman's website at:
http://www.nationalfisherman.com/ondeck/news/news.html .
A teach-in, meanwhile, is scheduled for Wednesday, 13 September, in
Seattle, titled "Genetically Engineered Salmon -- Threatening Our Oceans,
Fisheries and Food Supply." The session is in response to the U.S.
Government's pending action to grant the world's first commercial permit
for transgenic salmon and is intended to inform fishermen, conservation
groups and the public about the risks and what actions they can take. The
teach-in will be held at the Pike Street Market, Atrium Room, Suite 307, at
1900 HRS on the 13th. For more information, contact Kimberly Wilson at:
kimberly.wilson at sfo.greenpeace.org
2:09/10. BIG EYE TUNA CLOSURE IN PACIFIC SET FOR 14
SEPTEMBER: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has
announced a three-month closure of the purse seine fishery for tuna on
floating objects in the eastern Pacific Ocean, to comply with
recommendations by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
(IATTC) that have been approved by the U.S. Department of State under the
terms of the Tuna Conventions Act. The closure takes effect on midnight
Thursday, 14 September, and runs through midnight 15 December 2000.
NMFS will accept comments on the proposed rule through 14 September;
they should be submitted to: Rebecca Lent, Regional Administrator,
Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 W. Ocean Boulevard, Suite 4200, Long
Beach, CA 90802-4213.For more information, contact: Svein Fougner at
(562) 980- 4040.
2:09/11. HIGHLY MIGRATORY SPECIES WORKSHOP OPENS
IN HONOLULU: The Multilateral High Level Conference on the
Conservation & Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the
Western and Central Pacific opened on Wednesday, 30 August in Honolulu,
National Fisherman reported. Delegates from 28 Pacific nations will be
working on a plan for regulating commercial tuna fishing in the Pacific
Ocean. But, key nations, including Japan, Taiwan and the two Koreas, have
been slow to accept proposed ground rules on quotas, electronic monitoring
and the ability of an international commission to board ships at sea. Another
issue is how the commission would be funded. This is the group's third
meeting in Honolulu in 18 months, and the seventh since the conferences
began in the Solomon Islands in December 1994. For more information,
visit: http://www.nationalfisherman.com/ondeck/news/news.html.
Western Fishboat Owners Association (WFOA) which represents
Canadian, U.S., New Zealand and Pacific Island nations albacore fishermen,
has updated its' website to keep its members appraised of the international
negotiations and the meeting. WFOA is represented at the Honolulu session.
The updated website is: http://www.wfoa-tuna.org and is now online with a
brand new section with details on HMS management located at the "fisheries
management center" on the home page. There are also links to American
Fishermen's Research Foundation (AFRF) website at: http://www.afrf.org .
2:09/12. CALIFORNIA CLEARCUT MORATORIUM BILL FALLS
AT END OF SESSION: AB 717 by California Assemblyman Fred Keeley
(D-Bolder Creek), that would have placed a two-year moratorium on timber
clearcutting pending a review by the state, failed passage in the closing
hours
of the Legislature after being held up in the Senate Appropriations
Committee (see Sublegals, 2:08/18, 2:06/06). The bill was supported by
PCFFA, the Sierra Club, Friends of the River and other organizations.
2:09/13. IN PRAISE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR BOOSTING
COMMERCIAL FISH STOCKS: In his monthly column in World
Fishing, Menhakhem Ben-Yami makes the case in the May issue (p.8) for
promoting biodiversity to maintain the fish stocks fishermen depend upon.
"Aquatic biodiversity is an essential component of fishery ecosystems,"
argues Ben-Yami. The article, referencing a Canadian and an Australian
report, can be found at World Fishing's website:
http://www.thru.to/worldfishing.
2:09/14. THREE NEW BOOKS FOR LATE SUMMER READING:
Three very different works of non-fiction recently released should be of
interest to fishery readers for their late summer, or early fall, enjoyment
and
education. They are:
Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily, by Theresa Maggio
(2000). Perseus Press, Cambridge, MA., 279 pages, $25.00.
Change and Resilience in Fishing, by Susan Hanna and Madeline Hall-
Arber (editors) (2000). Oregon Sea Grant, Corvallis, OR, 176 pages, $10.00
(plus $3.00 handling). E-mail: sea.grant.communications at orsu.edu.
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, by Marq deVilliers
(2000). Houghton Mifflin, $26.00.
2:09/15. BENEFIT FOR FISHERMAN WHO LOST LEG: The Half
Moon Bay Fishermen's Marketing Association will host a benefit Salmon
Barbecue, Dance and Auction to help local Half Moon Bay, California
fisherman Bill Stevens who lost a leg in a freak accident this summer while
salmon fishing. The event will be held on Saturday evening, at the IDESST
Hall in Half Moon Bay. Limited seats are available; to order tickets, call
(650) 726-3111.
2:09/16. "RIGS-TO-REEFS" BILL GOES DOWN IN FINAL
HOURS OF LEGISLATIVE SESSION: SB 241, by State Senator Dede
Alpert (D-San Diego), the so-called "rigs-to-reefs," bill went down to defeat
in the final hours of the California Legislative session when the author and
proponents could not overcome objections raised by the California Resources
Agency and the Department of Fish & Game (CDFG) regarding potential
state liability for accidents resulting from the old oil platforms being left
on
the seafloor (see Sublegals, 2:08/17, 2:04/13). The bill would have allowed
oil companies to dismantle their obsolete platforms and leave them on the
seabed, rather than completely remove them and clean-up the ocean site as
their permits require. The bill would have resulted in substantial savings to
the oil companies in clean-up costs while setting aside a fraction of the
savings into a marine research account. The California Legislative Counsel
had raised questions in a May letter to the author about potential state
liability under the terms of the bill and whether the state's exposure would
outweigh any payments from the oil industry into a marine research fund.
SB 241 was supported by United Anglers of Southern California, the
Sportfishing Association of California and Chevron. It was opposed by
PCFFA, the Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara, Inc., Southern
California Trawlers Association, the Environmental Defense Center (a
Central-Southern California conservation organization), Sierra Club and Cal
PIRG. In addition to objections about potential state liability, the
opposition
also argued that it was bad public policy (i.e., allowing a company to escape
its legal obligations by making payments to a public fund for pennies on the
dollar of the cost of what is required of them) and would trash traditional
fishing grounds where clean-up had been promised. For a copy of the bill,
go to: http://www.senate.ca.gov .
2:09/17. NEW GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM
LAUNCHED FOR ALASKA, WASHINGTON AND OREGON
FISHING INDUSTRY: On 10 August, the Women's Coalition for Pacific
Fisheries announced it had finally put together, after years of effort, a
comprehensive and affordable group health insurance program for fishing
families in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. Because of California insurance
laws, however, the coverage is not available to fishing families in that
state.
PCFFA's subsidiary, Pacific Fisheries Insurance, had offered group health
coverage for fishermen in California and the west coast following the Reagan
closure of the Public Health Service (Marine Hospitals) facilities to
fishermen in 1981, but by the mid-1990's group coverage was impossible to
find for the fleet at an affordable rate.
Since 1997, WCPF has been working with Oregon Sea Grant Extension,
the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon Health Action,
Oregon Insurance Pool Governing Board, and Congressional representatives
attempting to find a solution for the health care crisis in the fishing
industry.
The work has paid off and a major insurance carrier (Regence Blue
Cross/Blue Shield ) has agreed to provide the coverage for the fleet. The
program is a comprehensive medical plan that includes routine and
preventative care (including physical exams, well-baby care, immunizations
and annual women's exams), as well as prescription drug benefits. It is
guaranteed issue (no health questions asked), offers free choice of doctors,
contains no pre-existing condition exclusions, and provides better benefits
overall than can be purchased on an individual basis. It is available to all
sectors of the fishing industry who earn a majority of their income from
fishing. To be eligible, individuals must belong to the Coalition. For
further
information on the West Coast Commercial Fishing Community Group
Health Insurance Program, go to the Women's Coalition for Pacific Fisheries
website at: http://wcpf.orst.edu.
2:09/18. CONGRESSIONAL DISASTER RELIEF FOR WEST
COAST GROUNDFISH FISHERY: The Congress has set aside $5 million
this year to address part of the West Coast groundfish disaster, declared
earlier in the year. The money will be split 35 percent for California, 35
percent for Oregon and 30 percent for Washington with the states required
to come up with a 25 percent match. Most of the focus has been on either
putting fishermen to work in groundfish research (there is a dearth of
information on most species in the groundfish complex) and community
assistance (e.g., counseling). Because the amount is so low, PCFFA has
argued that it be used to put fishermen to work doing needed research. Each
state must now come up with a spending plan and submit it to the National
Marine Fisheries Service.
On the East Coast, fishermen were utilized in fisheries research
following
the collapse of the groundfish fishery there. And, in the August issue of the
North American Journal of Fisheries Management, is a paper by Richard
Starr, John Heine and Korie Johnson, "Techniques for Tagging and Tracking
Deepwater Rockfishes" (pp.597-609) that provides one example of how
fishermen and their vessels can be used in groundfish research and
assessment programs. The Journal , published by the American Fisheries
Society, is available in electronic format at: http://afs.allenpress.com or
for
more information, visit AFS website at: http://www.fisheries.org .
2:09/19. CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL
EXTENDING SALMON STAMP, DUNGENESS CRAB LIMITED
ENTRY, PROHIBITION ON KRILL FISHING: In its closing hours of
its session, the California Legislature did manage to pass some bills,
including AB 2482 by Assemblywoman Virginia Strom-Martin (D-Duncan
Mills) extending the sunset date for the Commercial Salmon Stamp Program
and crab limited entry (see Sublegals, 2:04/07). The bill also bans the
fishery
on krill, making California the first state to protect marine critters at both
ends of the food chain -- white sharks at the top and krill near the bottom.
The bill, now on Governor Gray Davis' desk, was sponsored by PCFFA..
2:09/20. NEW EDITOR FOR SUBLEGALS: Natasha Benjamin, an
intern with the Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR) has been named acting
editor for Sublegals, taking over from Molly Thomas (see Sublegals,
2:08/22). Natasha is a Master's Degree candidate in Marine Affairs & Policy
at the University of Miami's Rosenteil School of Marine & Atmospheric
Science. A native of New York City, she did her undergraduate work at
Boston University.
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