VOL. 4, NO. 11 14 SEPTEMBER 2001
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IN THIS ISSUE.....
THE TRAGEDY COMES HOME; ATTORNEY ALAN BEAVAN
AMONG THOSE KILLED. 4:11/01.
OREGON COHO PROTECTIONS REVOKED. 4:11/02.
EUROPEAN ISSUANCE OF PATENT FOR GENETICALLY
MODIFIED FARMED SALMON BLASTED. 4:11/09.
TRIBUTE TO NAT BINGHAM, MIKE MAAHS AT BIG RIVER
RALLY, NEW KRIS PROGRAM.. 4:11/12.
CELEBRATING SUSTAINABILITY. 4:11/14.
AND MORE.
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4:11/01. THE TRAGEDY COMES HOME; ATTORNEY ALAN
BEAVAN AMONG THOSE KILLED: The events of Tuesday make
what we report here seem trite and trivial, certainly insignificant. No
amount of words can help to comfort those who lost loved ones on
Tuesday, only time will help to heal, and never completely. Soon life
will return largely to what it was before the 11th. Indeed, that is
probably what most of the victims would have wanted, or we would
have wanted had we been victims. The search for survivors must go-on,
the recovery of the remains continues, the clean up proceeds, the
mourning unrepressed, and those responsible hunted and brought to
justice. We must go on. If we allow ourselves to be paralyzed, afraid to
act, or vengeful or hateful, those who perpetrated this tragedy will have
won. If we permit our humanity to be lost we will be the losers.
The events of Tuesday in New York, Washington DC and on a field
in Pennsylvania were not the worst disasters ever, nor the worst
instances of man's inhumanity to man, they were simply the worst in our
time, in our land. As we try to get back to normal, as we must, perhaps
the best way we can honor the thousands of victims is to pledge
ourselves to act toward one another more humanely. Let's take more
time to listen, to learn, to be more tolerant, to be more loving. Instead
of constantly looking for the worst in others and impugning their
motives, let's begin searching for the best in one another. Let's not act
out fear, but from a commitment to do what is right. Remember, the
root cause of the Tuesday tragedy was not merely zealots with knives,
but suspicion, hate and intolerance. If we begin striking out against the
suspicion, hate and intolerance and the misery and injustice that helped
bring much of it on, than we can win. That, in the long term, will be
much more effective than any cruise missile aimed at the clandestine
hideout of a terrorist cell. And, we can start making a difference right
here at home.
Our fisheries have been under considerable strain - a number of
stocks have been overfished, while others are threatened by pollution,
habitat destruction and, as yet unknown effects of global climate
change. Fishing families are stressed and many in the scientific and
conservation communities have become shrill. It is difficult right now
to talk about civility within this community - between commercial
fishermen and sport anglers, agencies and academics, environmentalists
and scientists. Yet fishing is one of humankind's oldest endeavors. It is a
proud heritage, an ancient calling that has survived 10,000 years and
more because it has been able to adapt. It is also one familiar with
hardship; one of the most dangerous professions, it is a stranger to
neither adversity, nor heroism. So who better than fishing men and
women are better equipped to set an example for others following this
tragedy?
Commercial fishermen are the heirs of Simon Peter, Matthew, Mark
and John - those who fished with Jesus on the Sea of Galilee. Anglers
trace their roots to Izaak Walton and his writings of a contemplative life.
The lineage of fishery scientists includes the likes of Livingston Stone,
Ed Ricketts, Rachel Carson, Joel Hedgepeth and many more.
Conservationists' ancestry harks back to the greats such as John Muir
and Aldo Leopold. Surely the combined pedigree of our respective
groups within the fishing community should provide us the strength and
wisdom to work together, to be civil to one another.
In honor of those who died, and out of respect to our collective
heritage, let's stop vilifying one another within our fishing community.
Let's begin working together to protect our fish stocks, so that we will
have something to pass along to future generations, so that our children's
children may be commercial fishermen or recreational anglers and live
in fishing communities. Mourn we must, but let's do more than just
waive flags and light candles, more than refrain from being vengeful or
destructive, let's try to be better. We can and must distinguish ourselves
by our humanity, our efforts to build or rebuild,not destroy, by being
civil to one another, and it all begins here at home. We owe that much
to the victims, to ourselves. - The staffs at IFR and PCFFA
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Among those lost Tuesday was San Francisco attorney Alan Beavan,
who was aboard United Flight 93 that went down in Pennsylvania.
Beavan, 48, was a native of New Zealand, and represented PCFFA in its
1993 Clean Water Act (CWA) lawsuit, PCFFA v. Shell Oil Company,
brought against the petroleum company's Martinez, California refinery
for its discharge of selenium into San Francisco Bay. The case was
settled in February of 1995, a settlement that included $2.2 million Shell
agreed to pay into a fund for Bay-Delta restoration, included funding for
the commercial salmon stamp program, a marsh restoration program,
habitat and fish passage projects conducted by the California Academy
of Sciences, and the John Krautkramer Memorial Fund for Bay-Delta
habitat work (see PCFFA FRIDAY, 17 February 1995; 28 May 1993).
Beavan had also represented Long Island commercial fishermen and the
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) in similar CWA
actions. Beavan, who is survived by a wife, daughter, and two sons, was
preparing to leave for Bombay, India on sabbatical working for world
peace and tolerance on behalf of the Syda Foundation. In other news
related to Tuesday's events, both the Pew Oceans Commission meeting,
scheduled for next week in Des Moines, Iowa, and the Pacific States
Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) meeting that was to be held
16-19 September in Portland, Oregon, were cancelled.
4:11/02. OREGON COHO PROTECTIONS REVOKED: On 10
September, U. S. District Court Judge Michael Hogan in the case Alsea
Valley Alliance v. Evans (District of Oregon Case No. 99-6265-HO),
revoked the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) listing, under
the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), of all central Oregon coho
(silver) salmon. Calling the decision 'arbitrary and capricious' because
NMFS failed to distinguish between wild coho and hatchery-bred
silvers, and failed to present evidence of any genetic difference between
the two to the court, Judge Hogan dissolved all ESA protections for this
particular depressed run of coho, and remanded the status decision back
to NMFS to redetermine the status of this stock 'consistent with this
opinion,' based on the best available science. The federal government
has 60 days from that date to either appeal the decision to the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals, or to make another determination based on
new genetic evidence.
The case was brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), as part
of a strategy to invalid ESA listings of salmon coastwide to relieve their
clients from responsibility for fish habitat destruction. The groups
represented by PLF believe that if they can show that all salmon are
hatchery salmon, that ESA protections become impossible as any
number of additional hatcheries could be constructed to keep
populations up. Many fishery scientists, however, believe there are
distinct genetic differences between most hatchery and wild fish, and
that the evolved biological diversity of wild salmon is being threatened
by competition as well as by genetic intermingling with hatchery stocks.
Though this ruling has no impact on the State of Oregon's own efforts to
restore salmon habitat, it does remove a backstop to those efforts, as
well as relieve the federal government from legal duties to protect
salmon in federal projects.
The impact of Hogan's ruling may be limited: in most other listing
decisions there were clear genetic differences between wild and
hatchery fish. Moreover, the same factors that have destroyed many
wild salmon runs, including dewatering rivers, dams and habitat loss,
affect both wild and hatchery fish. Coho salmon populations are in most
areas less than 1 to 4 percent their historic numbers. For more
information, see the 14 September Oregonian at:
http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/
xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/100046852532619110.xml .
4:11/03. HEARINGS SCHEDULED ON CALIFORNIA LISTED
SALMON ESUS: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has
announced public hearings on its "Proposed Rule Governing Take of
Four Threatened Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs) of West Coast
Salmonids: California Central Valley Spring-run chinook; California
Coastal chinook; Northern California steelhead; Central California
Coast coho." On 17 August, NMFS proposed an Endangered Species
Act (ESA) 4(d) protective rule for four threatened salmonid ESUs that
occur in California. The proposed 4(d) rule would apply the take
prohibitions in Section 9(a)(1) of the ESA in most circumstances to
California Central Valley spring chinook, California Coastal chinook,
and Northern California steelhead, which currently have no 4(d)
protective regulations in place. However, for these three threatened
ESUs, NMFS is proposing 10 categories of activities for which the take
prohibitions would not apply. For the threatened Central California
Coast coho salmon ESU, NMFS is proposing to amend the existing 4(d)
rule to establish the same 10 limitations on the take prohibitions that are
being proposed for the other threatened ESUs
covered by this rule.
Public hearings on the proposed ESA 4(d) rule will be held as
follows:
* 18 September. 1800-2100 HRS, Eureka Inn, 518 7th Street, Eureka
* 20 September, 1800-2100 HRS, Ukiah Valley Conference Center, 200
South School Street, Ukiah
Written comments on the proposed 4(d) rule must be received on or
before 1 October and should be sent to the Assistant Regional
Administrator, Protected Resources Division, NMFS, 501 W. Ocean
Blvd., Suite 4200, Long Beach, CA 90802-4213. For more information,
contact: Craig Wingert at (562) 980-4021, or Miles Croom at (707)
575-6068. Copies of the Federal Register documents and additional
salmon-related materials are available via the Internet at
http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov.
4:11/04. KLAMATH HEAD GATE PROTESTERS DISBAND:
Protesting Klamath Project irrigators agreed to end their summer-long
encampment and suspend all protests at the Klamath Project head-gates
in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in light of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New
York and Washington, DC, thus allowing federal marshals and other
federal police forces to be redeployed elsewhere. About 20 federal
officers guarding the head-gates that were stationed there to prevent a
repeat of four previous illegal break-ins will be reassigned as soon as
new fencing and security facilities are installed, and local police have
pledged to begin to enforce trespassing laws previously ignored. The
irrigators say their agreement will last until 1 January 2002. The total
additional costs to the Bureau of Reclamation of the additional security
forces needed to protect the head-gates has run to well in excess of
$500,000, money that in the words of one Bureau official, "could have
been better spent obtaining more water." At the going rate of $33 per
acre-foot of water, $500,000 could have provided over an additional
15,000 acre-feet of surplus groundwater from neighboring non-Project
farms, many of which had surplus well water for sale. Throughout the
summer, the Bureau had far more surplus well water available to it than
it had the money to purchase it with. As it is, Klamath Project irrigators
finally got more than 245,000 acre-feet of water, about 57% of a normal
water year's allotment, even though the region is in the midst of one of
the worst droughts in its history (see Sublegals 4:01/01).
4:11/05. CALVERT CALFED REAUTHORIZATION CLEARS
HOUSE COMMITTEE, BUT WITH ANTI-FISH AMENDMENTS: On
Thursday, 13 September, the Water & Power Subcommittee of the U.S.
House of Representatives' Resources Committee passed H.R. 1985, one
of two current House bills to reauthorize the CALFED Bay-Delta
program. Among other things, this program arising out of a 1994
state-federal Bay-Delta accord is intended to restore Central Valley
habitat and salmon populations. H.R. 1985 by the Subcommittee
Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA) give the go-ahead to several major new
water storage projects at an estimated cost of at least $3 billion over
seven years. According to Save the Bay, the bill would considerably
weaken protections for fish, including Central Valley fall-run chinook,
the mainstay of the west coast ocean salmon fishery, and would also:
* Transfer an environmental restoration fund from the U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service (USFWS) to CALFED (renamed the Water Security
Board).
* Effectively amend the Endangered Species Act to provide for
"independent scientific peer review" of USFWS and NMFS biological
opinions (bi-ops) on listed species.
* Drop language that would have made clear that the Calvert bill could
not be construed to invalidate other environmental and fish protection
statutes.
Congressman George Miller (D-CA) is the author of a second
CALFED reauthorization bill that emphasizes water reclamation, reuse,
recycling, desalination and groundwater banking projects. Miller, who
co-authored with former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley the 1992 Central
Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA), voted against Calvert's bill.
For a complete analysis of the Calvert bill, contact Save the Bay
attorney Cynthia Koehler at: ck at savesfbay.org.
4:11/06. FALL CHINOOK RUN PEAKS ON THE COLUMBIA;
REPORT ISSUED REGARDING RIVER'S MISMANAGMENT: The
Northwest Fishletter (No. 130-09/11/01) reports that Columbia River
fall-run chinook returning spawners have surpassed their expectations
with 50,000 passing Bonneville Dam last weekend. Meanwhile the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) revised its estimate of last
year's return of the listed Snake River chinook that passed Lower
Granite Dam downward by 40 percent. For more, see:
http://www.newsdata.com/enernet/fishletter/fishltr130.html#1. This
news comes on the heels of a new report from American Rivers finding
federal dam management on the Columbia and Snake Rivers is "failing
to meet federal standards" for water quality and temperature in violation
of the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act, says a 7 September
Environmental New Service article. In the first year of the new salmon
recovery plan "federal dam managers have missed their flow and
temperature targets by the widest margin ever." For more, go to:
http://www.americanrivers.org.
4:11/07. SALMON GIVE-AWAY CONTINUES IN OLYMPIA TO
PROTEST DUMPING OF CHILEAN FARMED SALMON ON U.S.,
WORLD MARKETS: Salmon were given-away in Olympia,
Washington's capitol on Monday, as part of a continuing protest by
Columbia River salmon fishermen about Chilean dumping on U.S.
markets, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported 11 September (see
Sublegals, 4:10/01). "We are working to make the entire country aware
of Chile's unlawful dumping practices and are calling for a united front
of U.S. consumers, fishermen and processors to lobby Congress to enact
legislation that will protect our markets by being responsive to rapidly
changing market conditions and protect us from foreign market raiders,"
said Gary Soderstrom, president of the Columbia River Fishermen's
Protective Union. Farmed fish account for about 60 percent of the
world's salmon market, about twice as much as it did 20 years ago.
Much of the fish is being sold in Japan, which used to buy much of the
Pacific salmon catch. For the full article, see:
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/38466_fish11.shtml.
4:11/08. CHILEAN SALMON PRODUCTION EXPECTED TO
INCREASE DESPITE NORWEGIAN AND JAPANESE CONCERNS:
WorldCatch News Network reported 11 September that Chile is
expected to significantly increase its salmon production despite a world
glut of farmed salmon and criticism from the Japanese salmon industry,
along with Norway, for Chile helping drive prices down by 20 percent
this year. The predictions for an increase in this Southern Hemisphere
nation's salmon production comes from Norwegian professor Hermann
Kopp, currently teaching at Universidad Gabriella Mistral in Santiago.
The reasons Chile has been able to produce salmon so cheaply have to
do with the low wages paid by the salmon farms, the country's lack of
regulation or environmental standards for the aquaculture operations,
and government subsidies and corruption (see Sublegals, 4:10/02,
4:09/02). Kopp made his conclusions about increased output after
having gained access to the business plans of a number of Chilean fish
farms. It is believed that many companies are planning to quadruple
production. To see the complete WorldCatch article, go to:
www.worldcatch.com.
4:11/09. EUROPEAN ISSUANCE OF PATENT FOR
GENETICALLY-MODIFIED FARMED SALMON BLASTED: On 10
September, the environmental organization, Greenpeace, issued a
scathing denunciation of the European Patent Office (EPO), based in
Munich, for issuing the first ever patent on genetically modified (GMO)
fish. The Canadian company Seabright, according to Greenpeace,
obtained patent EP 578 653 on Atlantic Salmon and all other fish
species carrying an additional gene for faster growth. In the patent
application the company reports on experiments leading to fish eight
times bigger than normal salmon. The patent was granted under the
controversial EU Directive on "Biotechnological Inventions"
(98/44/EC), which was implemented by the EPO (a non- EU body) in
June 1999. Some EU member states, the Council of Europe, as well as
expert groups on ethics, churches, physician associations, fishermen and
farmer organizations have also voiced their opposition against patents
on plants, animals and genes. Until Monday, only a few member states
have implemented the EU Directive, which allows for such kinds of
patents.
"Several leading marine biologists and fishery organisations have
expressed strong concerns that, once released into the environment,
genetically modified fish could become invasive species and cause
irreversible damage to wild fish stocks and to the wider marine
ecosystem", said Greenpeace's Christoph Then. "Yet the granting of this
patent encourages the development and commercialisation of these
'monster' salmon and any future genetically modified fish carrying the
growth hormone gene. The European governments and the EU should
immediately introduce legislation banning the release of this genetically
manipulated fish."
The patent was granted on 17 July. Seabright (now renamed
"Genesis") has licensed the use of the growth hormone genetic
modification technology to its related company, A/F Proteins. An
application for the commercialization of genetically modified salmon
for use in aquaculture (fish farm) operations has been recently filed also
with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) (see Sublegals,
4:02/06; 3:19/03). A/F Proteins claims to have 15 million genetically
modified fish eggs ready for sale to fish farms around the world after
being granted the authorities' approval. For further information on
Seabright and for their links to AF/Proteins, go to:
http://www.mun.ca/seabright/af_protn.html. More information is also
available at: http://www.mun.ca/seabright/AF_protn.html 2. Copies of
the patent documents are available at:
http://www.greenpeace.de/Intl-patents/patents.htm, also see:
http://www.greenpeace.org/.
4:11/10. CAMPAIGN TO STOP U.S. APPROVAL OF
GENETICALLY-MODIFIED SALMON: The Center for Food Safety
(CFS) is warning that the U.S. government is in the process of approving
the first genetically engineered fish - a super growing salmon developed
by A/F Proteins. If approved these aquacultured fish would be allowed
to swim in open ocean waters and be sold in markets without labeling.
These GMO fish further threaten the survival of native salmon stocks.
In response to this concern, on 9 May, CFS filed legal petitions with the
Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and four other federal agencies
demanding a moratorium on the domestic marketing and importation of
genetically engineered fish and a permanent ban on the use or release of
these fish into open water including net pens and ponds. Over 70
consumer and environmental organizations, along with numerous
commercial fishing organizations (including PCFFA) have signed on to
the petitions. CFA is now encouraging concerned fishing groups to
submit their comments to the FDA and support the Center's petition.
For more information, go to: http://www.foodsafetynow.org.
4:11/11. GRAY WHALES IN NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC
THREATENED BY SEISMIC OIL AND GAS TESTING SAY
SCIENTISTS, BUT EXXON-MOBIL REFUSES TO HALT SAKHALIN
OPERATIONS: The effects of seismic testing, used for oil and gas
exploration under the seabed, on fishing operations and fish populations
was well-documented in the Santa Barbara Channel during the early
1980's. Now comes news that seismic testing as part of the offshore oil
and gas development occurring off Sakhalin Island and other parts of the
Russian Far East coast is threatening the survival of gray whales there.
And it is the same oil company that refused to halt its seismic testing in
the Santa Barbara Channel, during the hook-and-line commercial fishery
there, that now refuses to suspend operations while gray whales are
present off Sakhalin (see Sublegals, 4:10/10). In a letter sent 1
September to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, written by Dr.
Robert Brownell, Dr. David Weller, Dr. A. M. Burdin, and by G. A.
Tsidulko of Moscow State University (all part of a Russian/American
team that has been studying the Western Pacific population of gray
whales for six years, concentrating mostly on the Piltun Bay region off
Sakhalin), the scientists said, "It is our recommendation that the Exxon
Oil Company immediately stop its seismic testing, especially now as the
company enters its next stages of exploration off of Sakhalin Island.
The sooner Exxon quits this work, the greater the chances that this
species of gray whale will recover and return to its feeding grounds
before migrating south for the winter."
In their letter the researchers expressed a growing concern for the
condition of these whales, in light of the ever-mounting development of
oil and gas on the Sakhalin offshore shelf. This shelf provides the only
known summer habitat for the Western Pacific gray whale. Running
narrowly along a distance of 60 kilometers off the northeast shores of
Sakhalin, this shelf harbors two of the largest offshore deposits of oil
and gas, the so-called Odoptu and Piltun-Astokhskoye deposit sites.
They have documented a behavioral change in the whales related to the
testing that has resulted in the animals leaving their traditional feeding
grounds and many subsequently have been found in an emaciated state.
For the full text of the letter written by these scientists, or for any
additional information on this issue, contact Sakhalin Environmental
Watch at: watch at dsc.ru.
4:11/12. TRIBUTE TO NAT BINGHAM, MIKE MAAHS AT BIG
RIVER RALLY, NEW KRIS PROGRAM TO BE DEMONSTRATED:
The Mendocino Land Trust will host a rally on 22 September at
Mendocino, along California's north coast, calling for permanent
protection of the Big River tidal estuary. The event will include a
special tribute and remembrance for community members, Nat and
Kathy Bingham, Mike Maahs, and Chuck Hinsch whose pioneering
work on behalf of the Big River watershed helped demonstrate the need
for protection of Big River, one of the larger coastal salmon bearing
streams in Mendocino County. Bingham, a commercial fisherman, was
president of PCFFA for nine years and then went on to head the
organization's habitat protection program until his death in 1998.
Maahs, a fisherman/biologist, was active in restoration activities along
the coast and was president of Salmon Unlimited until his tragic death
crab fishing in early 1999. The rally, which will begin at 1400 HRS on
22 September, is aimed at solidifying government support for a
7400-acre land purchase in the Big River watershed needed to protect
the estuary.
In addition to historical and wildlife exhibits, the rally will premiere
the newest KRIS resource information system, developed by IFR in
collaboration with Kier Associates, for Big River. This is one of a
three-part KRIS program developed for some key Mendocino County
(KRIS Mendocino) watersheds (the others are KRIS Noyo and KRIS
Ten Mile) under a grant from the California Department of Forestry &
Fire Protection. For more information on the rally, contact the
Mendocino Land Trust at: mlt at mcn.org.
4:11/13 FEDERAL OCEAN COMMISSION HOLDS FIRST
MEETING IN WASHINGTON: Despite the events of the 11th,
members of the federal Commission on Ocean Policy, created by the
Oceans Act of 2000, will hold their first meeting on 17-18 September in
Washington, DC. The Commission was charged by Congress with
developing (in coordination with the states, a scientific advisory panel,
and the public) a National Oceans Report to provide recommendations
for "a coordinated and comprehensive national ocean policy." For
information about its members, scope of recommendations, public
meeting requirements, staffing, funding and more, including the full text
and legislative history of the Ocean's Act of 2000, go to:
http://oceancommission.gov.
4:11/14. CELEBRATING SUSTAINABILITY: "Why save the fish
Sylvia, if you can't eat them?" was the question actor Ted Danson put to
Dr. Sylvia Earle after both had been presented "Environmental Hero"
awards at the 1998 National Oceans Conference (Nat Bingham was a
posthumous "Hero" award recipient at that conference). Danson is also
president of American Oceans Campaign (AOC), and the latest issue of
Splash, AOC's newsletter, features a recipe for halibut (p.3) in the first
of many promised to promote sustainably harvested seafood. AOC is
also carrying the banner of sustainable seafood to its 2 October
"Partner's Award Dinner" at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles,
featuring entertainers Ray Charles and Bill Maher and honoring former
U.S. President Bill Clinton. Preparing the fish will be some of the
nation's renowned chefs. For more information, go to:
http://www.americanoceans.org/.
On 13 October, the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Saturday afternoon outdoor
reception at Crissy Field (where the Sanctuary offices are located) at
San Francisco's Presidio that will feature some of the sustainably
harvested fish from the sanctuary's waters (the Gulf of the Farallones
extends from Point Reyes in the north to Ano Nuevo in the south and
westward from the Golden Gate to the Farallon Islands). Five of the San
Francisco Bay Area's best restaurants will be preparing dishes of
troll-caught king salmon, sardines, squid, California halibut, and
albacore (it's too early for fresh, local Dungeness crab). For more
information on the event, contact the Farallones Marine Sanctuary
Association website at: www.farallones.org.
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