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THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR FISHERMEN Crapped up INSIDE:

Don McManman Once, in my checkered career, I held a position of sobriety and trust. (I know it’s hard to believe, especially the sobriety part.) I worked for a commercial nuclear plant. Specifically, I had unrestricted access to everywhere you’d want go in the plant — and plenty of places you’d not want to go. I learned a lot, some of which was about language. BBonanzaonanza prices:prices: As with any aloof profession — such as commercial fishing — nuclear PPageage 4 guys had their own jargon. One term I learned and liked was “crapped up.” If you somehow were contaminated by radioactive material, you’ll have been “crapped up.” And, in my mind, that’s the perfect term to describe the salmon farm industry. It craps up everything it touches. I guess it’d be OK if salmon farmers crapped up their own piece of paradise and left the hell alone everything else. But that’s not the way the industry works. It lands in beautiful places — Chile’s archipelago or British Columbia’s inland waters — and craps them up. LLearnearn howhow toto ddrown:rown: We’ve been trying to PagePage 6 tell that story this year, and we have the per- fect person to tell it: Kristin Hoelting. Kristin’s family comes from Petersburg. She’s the granddaughter of a halibut fisherman there, FFishish farmersfarmers shipship disease:disease: Oscar Sandvik. She’s also the daughter of our ad PPageage 9 manager, Diane Sandvik. Kristin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. She became interested in salmon Kristin Hoelting is in front of the fairlead. farming when living in Chile for a year. She then received a Fulbright Scholarship for 2007-08 to study wild salmon restoration in Norway. IIt'st's AAlaska'slaska's fault:fault: Meanwhile, she fished for salmon for five seasons, out of Petersburg and in PPageage 1122 Bristol Bay. Now she’s a graduate student at the University of Washington, and her work for Pacific Fishing reflects her academic rigor. On the cover: In March, Kristen wrote about Norway’s salmon farms now spewing sea lice The F/V Sea Fury, skippered by Gregg Lovrovich out of Gig Harbor, into wild waters, much as B.C. fish farms have done for years. In May, she wrote Wash., prepares for another set in Anita Bay, Southeast Alaska. about sea lice building resistance to the drugs used to control them. Josh Zirschky photo This month, Kristin writes about a horrible wasting disease spread, in part, by international trade in salmon eggs for farms. See Page 9. VOLUME XXXI, NO. 9 • SEPTEMBER 2010 She’ll have a fourth article in a few months — this one discussing another fish Pacific Fishing (ISSN 0195-6515) is published 12 times a year (monthly) by Pacific farm disease that could crap up the wild environment. Fishing Magazine. Editorial, Circulation, and Advertising offices at 1000 Andover These articles are long and not very sexy. They take up a lot of space. We Park East, Seattle, WA 98188, U.S.A. Telephone (206) 324-5644. ■ Subscriptions: One-year rate for U.S., $18.75, two-year $30.75, three-year $39.75; Canadian don’t sell many more magazines because of them. We certainly don’t sell more subscriptions paid in U.S. funds add $10 per year. Canadian subscriptions paid in ads. But we publish them because no one else will. Canadian funds add $10 per year. Other foreign surface is $36 per year; foreign airmail is $84 per year. ■ The publisher of Pacific Fishing makes no warranty, express Because that’s our job. And that’s why I’m pleased that Kristin has chosen to or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the information work with us. contained in Pacific Fishing. ■ Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, Washington. Postmaster: Send address changes to Pacific Fishing, 1000 Andover Park East, But back to my career in nuclear power: They fired me. It wasn’t my Seattle, WA 98188. Copyright © 2010 by Pacific Fishing Magazine. Contents may not performance. It probably won’t come as a surprise to you, but it was my be reproduced without permission. POST OFFICE: Please send address changes to attitude that got all crapped up.  Pacific Fishing, 1000 Andover Park East, Seattle, WA 98188

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 3 STATS PACK Salmon prices Don’t act so surprised! PREFERRED PUBLICATION OF: fish. In our coverage three years ago, we focused on CORDOVA DISTRICT Bristol Bay Sockeye Prices China. Its cheap labor made it possible for frozen, FISHERMEN UNITED and Numbers of Buyers boneless salmon fillets to reach global consumers at a With the exception of 2010, these are the cheaper price. UNITED FISHERMEN final settlement numbers Result: Lower supply. More demand. Together they OF ALASKA mean higher prices, whether sockeye are caught in NUMBER OF Bristol Bay or anywhere else. WASHINGTON DUNGENESS FINAL PRICE BUYERS The average base at Kodiak was $1.49 a pound, up from $1.11 last year. In Prince William Sound, gillnett- CRAB FISHERMEN’S ASSOC. 1989 2.25 19 1.09 16 ers were getting $2.25, up from $1.72. In Southeast, WESTERN FISHBOAT 0.75 16 sockeye was selling for $2, up about 75 cents from last 1.12 18 year, according to our columnist Laine Welch. OWNERS ASSOC. 0.67 12 In British Columbia, grounds prices started at $2.20 0.97 16 in the first opening in early July, but rapidly escalated 1995 0.77 22 to $2.75 as buyers scrambled for fish, according to col- To Subscribe: 0.81 19 umnist Michel Drouin. Prices were down to $1.75 per www.pacifi cfi shing.com/ 0.9 18 pf_subscribe.html pound by July 20. Ph: (206) 324-5644 1.22 15 So, the processors have more money into the Fax: (206) 324-8939 0.84 12 product before they take it to the street. Will they be 2000 0.67 12 able to get a higher price? Main Offi ce 0.42 11 1000 ANDOVER PARK EAST “Obviously, that’s the question,” said Tom 0.49 8 SEATTLE, WA 98188 Sunderland, director of marketing for Ocean Beauty. 0.51 7 PH: (206) 324-5644 “In this business, you gotta be optimistic.” FAX: (206) 324-8939 0.51 6 Sunderland, and the rest of the industry, have a 2005 0.62 8 Chairman/CEO good sales pitch, though. MIKE DAIGLE 0.55 7 [email protected] 0.64 5 “A lot of the demand is attributable to the gen- Publisher eral good press ASMI and others get for wild fish,” PETER HURME 0.69 7 [email protected] 0.7 6 Sunderland said. 2010 0.95* “Continuous marketing over a long period of time EDITORIAL CONTENT: is paying its rewards. *Base price, which will perhaps grow to $1.15 for the final payment. Associate Publisher & Editor “Wild salmon, particularly Alaska salmon, is being DON MCMANMAN demanded by consumers.” [email protected] PH: (509) 772-2578 It’s not that we didn’t warn you. Competition: In the graph, we include the number Sockeye prices on Bristol Bay were signifi- of buyers on the bay. Unfortunately, this data is kind Anchorage Offi ce WESLEY LOY cantly higher this year than last year — or than of mushy. The number of serious buyers varies accord-

Field Editor the last 12 years. A base of 95 cents — up 36 per- ing to who you ask. MICHEL DROUIN cent from last year — will translate to a final price Welch did some digging: “Tim Sands/ADFG/

Copy Editor/Proofreader of up to $1.15, depending on handling of the Dillingham just told me 12 majors are buying, BRIANNA MORGAN fish and final processor settlements. including Togiak Seafoods [Copper River Seafoods] We promised it would happen on our cover of and one called Coffee Point at Egegik. PRODUCTION OPERATIONS: May 2007. “He said it can be confusing, as there are so many Production Manager DAVID SALDANA We arrived at the forecast not by speaking with different buyers specific to regions, e.g., the total [email protected] biologists, fish manag- number listed for Graphic Design & Layout ers, fishermen asso- 2010 is 39 processors, ERIN DOWNWARD ciation presidents, For a look at the British Columbia sockeye but some are mom- [email protected] politicians, or the local fi shery, see Page 15. and-pop operations, Project Manager CHRISTIE DAIGLE fortune-teller. or fishermen direct- Ph: (206) 324-5644 ext 222 Rather, we relied marketing their own [email protected] upon basic economics: the Law of Supply and catches, who must be categorized as processors.” SALES AND MARKETING: Demand. It is reasonable to assume the number of buyers on Advertising Sales Manager Supply: Admittedly, we didn’t foresee the huge the bay took a deep dip after 2000. Now, the number DIANE SANDVIK shortage of farmed fish caused by pestilential prac- is starting to build. Ph: (206) 962-9315 Fax: (206) 324-8939 tices of aquaculture plutocrats. But even without a Picky, picky, picky: Of course, all of these grounds dianes@pacifi cfi shing.com disease epidemic in the farming net pens, the supply price numbers don’t factor in inflation. Let’s assume

CIRCULATION & DISTRIBUTION: of fish worldwide was not keeping up with demand. the final price for 2010 Bristol Bay sockeye will be

Circulation Manager Demand: Not only is the global population grow- $1.15. On the face of it, 2010 offered the best price CHRISTIE DAIGLE ing, but in many countries (China, India) people are in the past 12 years. Or, in 21 years, this year was [email protected] getting richer — or, at least rich enough to eat more surpassed only once. ) ) ) )

4 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM YOUR BUSINESS Sea lions by Wesley Loy

Sea lion BiOp: Independent Alternative theories for the sea lion woes include environmental change, killer whale predation, and the effect of toxins. Some review comes too late also question whether the western stock of Federal plans to close some waters along In releasing the BiOp, federal officials Stellers truly qualifies as endangered with the Aleutian chain beginning in January to noted that “a definitive cause for the decline some 60,000 animals in Alaska and Russia. protect endangered Steller sea lions could of sea lions has not been identified, and it To a degree, the BiOp came as a relief to cost industry millions of dollars annually in is likely that other factors are important in some major segments of Alaska’s groundfish lost Pacific cod and Atka mackerel catches. understanding the lack of recovery.” industry, such as the Bering Sea and Gulf of But wait a minute. The industry has a Industry players are pushing the govern- Alaska pollock . Already saddled chance for a reprieve. ment to weigh all the available science and with myriad sea lion restrictions over the The National Marine Fisheries Service not shut down fisheries based simply on the past decade, these fisheries were spared has pledged to submit its new “biological idea that vessels are robbing sea lions of food. further pain.  opinion” on Stellers for an independent scientific review via the Miami-based Center for Independent Experts. The review won’t come until next year, IMS BRINE FREEZING after the closures take effect. Still, it’s an important development, says Larry Cotter, a Juneau fisheries executive who has long tracked sea lion issues for industry. IT’S FAST. “It opens up the idea that things could be very different,” he says. IT’S COLD. NMFS released the biological opinion, or BiOp, on Aug. 2 along with a slate of planned IT WORKS. closures to prevent commercial fisheries from jeopardizing sea lions and adversely “The 25-ton electric brine modifying their critical habitat. freezing system I got from The restrictions are confined to the remote IMS three years ago works central and western Aleutians, including an so well that I recommend outright shutdown of cod and Atka mackerel it to anyone who asks. fisheries in management area 543, a very dis- It’s an excellent system with simple start up and shut down—it does it all itself. tant zone that encompasses Attu Island near the maritime boundary line with Russia. Seven hundred fish were put down within four hours and the system did not Aside from the closure of area 543, where exceed 12 degrees and within eighteen hours it was back down to 3 degrees. NMFS says the sea lion population decline is It freezes just about as fast as you want to put the fish down in the hold!” of greatest concern, areas 542 and 541 to the —Mark Towle, owner, F/V Contender east would see partial closures. Work More Than One ! IMS Combination Chilling & Freezing Systems Do Just That …

… “When the Victory is not tendering in Kodiak, we want the flexibility to also freeze aboard for the high-end market, so our IMS 40-ton dual-temp condenser system is designed to allow us to chill now and add freezing equipment later.” —Gary Nielsen & Steve Spain, 45-Ton Chilling & Freezing System co-owners, F/V Victory

Butut let’s figurefigure inflation:inflation: That $$1.25 earned by fishermen in 1989 would be $2.20 today. The other way around, if fishermen Come See Us! received the 2010 value in 1989 dollars, Making Refrigeration Simple they’d receive 65 cents a pound. 800.562.1945 Commercial Fishermen’s Festival Granted, it’s a shocking letdown, but look Sept. 18–19 Astoria, Oregon at it this way: Even 65 cents in 1989 currency surpassed every year from 2001 to 2007.  www.CommercialFishermensFestival.com

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 5 YOUR BUSINESS Staying alive by Mario Vittone What it's like to die!

The faces of Cold Water Boot Camp: Of all the people who die in cold water, 20 percent die in the first two minutes. Don’t worry about hypothermia You'll drown first ... if you're not wearing flotation

Mario Vittone is a marine safety specialist You can’t breathe: The first phase of they have heart problems, the cold shock with the U.S. Coast Guard. cold water immersion is called the cold may trigger a heart attack. Surviving this I’m going to come right out and tell you shock response: It is a stage of increased stage is about getting your breathing under something that almost no one in the mari- heart rate and blood pressure, uncontrolled control, realizing that the stage will pass, and time industry understands: gasping, and sometimes uncontrolled staying calm. It is impossible to die from hypotherm- movement. Lasting anywhere from 30 You can’t swim: One of the primary ia in cold water unless you are wearing seconds to a couple of minutes, depend- reasons given by recreational boaters when flotation because, without flotation, you ing on a number of factors, the cold shock asked why they don’t wear a life jacket is won’t live long enough to become that they can swim. Listen up, Tar- hypothermic. Victims of immersion hypothermia are two zan: I swam for a living for the better Despite research, experience, and part of my adult life and, when the all the data, I still hear “experts” things: lucky to be alive and fragile. water is cold, none of us can swim offer completely false information for very long. about cold water and what happens response can be deadly all by itself. The second stage of cold water to people who get in it. In fact, of all the people who die in cold immersion is called cold incapacitation. When the water is cold (say, under water, 20 percent die in the first two min- Long before your core temperature drops 50 degrees F) there are significant physi- utes. They panic, they take on water in a single degree, veins in your extremi- ological reactions that occur: that first uncontrolled gasp, they drown. If ties (those are the things you swim with) will constrict. You will lose your ability to control your hands. The muscles in your arms and legs will just flat out quit working FLEET REFRIGERATION well enough to keep you above water. Design - Installation - Service - Repair Without some form of flotation, the best Serving the Southeast Alaska Fleet swimmer among us will drown within 30 since 1988 minutes. There’s no way around it. Without ever experiencing a drop in core tempera- We work with all manufacturers to supply a ture, more than 50 percent of the people system that’s right for your requirements. who die in cold water die from drowning Now installing systems using ozone-safe caused by incapacitation. EPA-approved refrigerants. You last longer than you think: If you have ever heard this phrase — Wally McDonald, Owner “That water is so cold, you will die (907) 772-4625 • ƀ [email protected] from hypothermia within 10 minutes”

6 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM — then you have been lied to. In most cases, in water of, say, 40 Exposure Survival Model: It is a program wherein they enter all the degrees (all variables to one side), it typically takes a full hour available data about the victim (age, weight, estimated body fat, to approach unconsciousness from hypothermia, the third stage clothing, etc.) and about the environment (water temp, sea state, air of cold water immersion. But remember, you must be wearing temp, wind), and the software spits out a number that represents flotation to get this far. the longest possible time you can survive under those conditions. We are all different in this regard, but I once spent an hour in I plugged my own information into it once, and it said I could 44 degree water wearing street clothes, and my core temperature survive for more than four hours in 38 degree water wearing noth- was only down by less than two ing but a T-shirt and jeans — degrees. Even so, I was not clini- with no flotation. cally hypothermic. It was uncom- I can tell you from experience fortable to be sure, and I wouldn’t that the computer model is full recommend finding your own of it. In that scenario, I’d give me limit, but it probably would have 35 minutes tops. But the error is taken another hour to lose con- comforting. If the program that sciousness, and an hour after that determines how long I might live to cool my core to the point of is going to be wrong — I want it no return. to be wrong in that direction. The body’s efforts to keep the Out of the water but not core warm — vein constriction out of trouble: I’ve lost count of and shivering — are surprisingly the number of survivors I have effective. The shivering and blood annoyed in the back of the heli- shunting to the core are so effec- Here is your author – Mario Vittone, a former Coast Guardsman and expert copter because I wouldn’t let tive that, 20 minutes after jump- on water safety – after only a few minutes in the water during Cold Water them move. I had a rule: If they ing in (twice the you’ll-be-dead- Boot Camp. came from a cold water environ- in-10-minutes time), my body temperature was 100.2. ment, they laid down and stayed down until the doctors in the E.R. Rescue professionals think you live longer: There is a good said they could stand. side to the misconceptions about hypothermia. Should you ever It didn’t matter to me how good they felt or how warm they be in the water in need of rescue, you can be certain that the Coast thought they were, because the final killer of cold water immersion Guard is going to give you the benefit of every possible doubt. Search and rescue coordinators use something called the Cold continued on page 8 “Drill your crew!” —U. S. Coast Guard Face it—you’re all busy. Commercial fishing is a lot of work and your time is valuable. So why not get the biggest return on your investment by performing realistic safety drills with your crew? The few minutes they spend each month doing hands-on emergency drills will reap huge rewards if things go horribly wrong.

Drills & Skills The 3 Keys

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 7 YOUR BUSINESS Staying alive continued from page 8

The first seconds in cold water could be your last unless you’re wearing floatation. is post-rescue collapse. of pump — and down you go. This includes, especially, all fishermen Hypothermia does things besides making Victims of immersion hypothermia are in Alaska and Northern British Colum- everything colder. Victims are physiologi- two things: lucky to be alive and fragile. bia. I couldn’t find more recent research, cally different for a while. One of the things Mobility comes later, only after you’re but the 31 Alaskan “fell overboard” that changes is called heart-rate variabil- warmed up. casualties in 2005 died from drowning, not ity. The heart’s ability to speed up and slow Did you learn anything? cold water. Not one of them was wearing down has been affected. If you did, you’ll use it to make good flotation. Many couldn’t stay above water Moving around requires your heart to decisions when it comes to being safe on long enough for their own boats to make a pump more blood. Just being upright is tax- and around cold water — good decisions turn and pick them up. ing. A number of other factors can come into like these: • If you witness a man overboard, getting play, and the heart starts to flutter — instead • When working on deck, wear flotation. the life ring directly to them is critical (Vital! Step one! Must do!). Make certain that the all-important piece of safety gear is not just on your vessel, but readily available and not tied to the cradle. • When working on deck, wear flotation. I said that already? Well, when I quit reading search reports that end with “experienced” mariners dying because they thought they understood cold water, I’ll come up with better advice. For more advice about how to handle an accidental immersion into cold water — watch Cold Water Boot Camp. It can save your life. Go to YouTube (www.youtube.com/) and then search for “Cold Water Boot Camp.” It is one of the best 10 minutes on immer- sion hypothermia ever produced.  Mario Vittone has 19 years of combined mili- tary service in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. His writing on maritime safety has appeared in Yachting, SaltWater Sportsman, On-Scene, Lifelines, and Reader’s Digest. He has lectured extensively on topics ranging from leadership to sea survival and immersion hypothermia. He is a marine safety specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard. His website is www.mariovittone.com. The views and opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily those of the Department of Homeland Security or the U.S. Coast Guard.

8 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM YOUR BUSINESS Salmon farms by Kristin Hoelting

ill your are many different strains, including virulent strains that cause k w outbreaks of ISA, and strains that are carried asymptomati- e i cally by farmed and wild fish alike, but do not produce disease s ld (avirulent strains). e Crash in Chile: It was a European strain of the ISA virus that

h f was responsible for the dramatic crash of the Chilean salmon t i farming industry in 2007 and 2008. These outbreaks affected s only , which made up 46 percent of Chilean l farmed salmon production prior to the crash.

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i As a result of these outbreaks, Chilean farmed salmon ? exports plummeted, and an estimated 20,000 of approximately 50,000 total industry employees lost their jobs in 2009.

W It is important to note that ISA first showed up in Chile in 1999, when a North American strain of the virus was isolated in a ( kisutch) farming facility in 1999. The virus did not lead to outbreaks at that time. It is impossible to determine exactly how and when these different strains of ISA came to Chile originally. In the early days of the Chilean industry, direct transport of live fish or equipment from the North Atlantic may have carried the virus that was detected in coho salmon in 1999. Horizontal transmission: This would have been an example of Egg imports to B.C. salmon farms may the primary mechanism by which the ISA virus spreads, known bring devastating disease as horizontal transmission: Fish are exposed either directly to an infected agent, such as blood or feces, or indirectly through British Columbia is one of the last remaining salmon farming the water or via vectors such as sea lice or contact with regions of the world that is free of the infectious salmon anemia infected equipment. continued on page 10 (ISA) virus. However, many scientists and wild salmon advocates fear it is only a mat- ter of time before ISAV is transmitted to the IN MARITIME PERSONAL INJURY CASES Pacific coast of North America. Atlantic salmon ( salar) are the NOT ALL only species in which natural outbreaks of ISA have so far been recorded, but there is LAW FIRMS ARE IN concern that this rapidly evolving virus, if introduced to the Pacific Northwest, could THE SAME BOAT spell disaster for wild Pacific salmon stocks as well. At Kraft Palmer Davies, PLLC, we are experts In other regions of the world, the pri- CRAB BOATS in fishing injury cases. Let us put our expertise mary casualty of ISAV has been the Atlantic to work for you. FISH PROCESSORS salmon farming industry itself. This highly TRAWLERS contagious virus has wreaked econom- Our legal team brings to the table a total DRAGGERS ic havoc on the aquaculture industry in of more than 65 years’ experience successfully GILLNETTERS salmon-producing countries. representing commercial fishermen and processors injured in all fisheries involving PERSONAL INJURY & The first recorded outbreaks occurred in WRONGFUL DEATH Norwegian salmon farms in 1984, and the Washington and Alaska vessel owners. virus has since spread and caused outbreaks in countries including the United King- EXPERIENCED LAWYERS FOR THE INJURED dom (Scotland and the Shetland Islands), the Faroe Islands, Eastern Canada (includ- Call us for a free consultation ing New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), the KRAFT Eastern U.S. (Maine), and Chile. PALMER (206) 624-8844 There are two primary genotypes of the DAVIES (800) 448-8008 ISA virus — one originating on the Atlan- tic coast of North America and one origina- 1001 FOURTH AVENUE, SUITE 4131 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98154 WWW.ADMIRALTY.COM ting in Europe. Of these genotypes, there

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 9 YOUR BUSINESS Salmon farms continued from page 9 It is less likely that the 2007 outbreaks salmon farming industry, recognize the risk imported is Iceland, where there has never resulted from horizontal transmission, of possible ISA transmission. been an outbreak of ISA in salmon farms. however. Examination of the contemporary Egg imports: In response to this risk, a In addition, she says that imports are Chilean and Norwegian strains of the ISA series of regulations are in place to control minimized, and the industry increasingly virus reveal a close genetic relationship, egg importation practices. The Canadian relies on eggs sourced from local B.C. breed- suggesting very recent transmission from Food Inspection Agency will issue import ing programs. Norway. But, in recent years, direct trans- permits only for eggs coming from certified However, Are Nylund, a Norwegian port of potentially infected fish is no longer sources. To be certified, embryos must have fisheries biologist who has studied ISA common practice. Instead, biological mate- been screened for ISA and disinfected in transmission for almost 20 years, warns that rial is transported via the importation of screening brood fish and eggs is not enough Atlantic salmon embryos (fertilized eggs). to prevent the movement of pathogens. Vertical transmission: Research increas- ‘Wild salmon advocates are Difficult to detect: First, despite the fact ingly shows evidence that ISA can be passed concerned that the virus could that no outbreaks have occurred in Iceland, from one generation to the next through evolve into a virulent strain that avirulent strains of the ISA virus could the eggs, a mechanism known as verti- would also threaten wild Pacifi c be present there. These strains are more cal transmission. Therefore, importa- difficult to detect, as they do not replicate tion of embryos is one of the most likely salmon stocks.’ quickly enough to show up in screening explanations for the arrival of this most tests. Avirulent strains are also more like- recent strain of ISA to Chilean coastal their country of origin prior to transport. ly than their virulent counterparts to be waters. Mary Ellen Walling, executive director transmitted vertically (through embryos). Importation of embryos is also the most of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association, Second, screening and disinfection likely route by which ISA could arrive on says that additional precautions against ISA practices occur only after eggs have been the Pacific coast of Canada. Despite its own transmission include a one-year quarantine fertilized, meaning that pathogens such program of embryo importation, so far period in Canada, during which embryos as the ISA virus could be present inside British Columbia appears to have been are tested monthly for the presence of ISA. an embryo as a result of the fertilization spared, and ISA has not yet been detected To further reduce the risk of ISAV process. Once inside the embryo, the in the province. However, federal and transmission, Walling says, the only ISA virus would be protected from provincial governments, as well as the country from which eggs are currently chemical disinfectants.

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 11 YOUR BUSINESS Your fault YOUR BUSINESS Salmon farms B.C. blames net pen problems on Alaskans continued from page 11 Open-pen salmon aquaculture isn’t the Atlantic pollock (Pollachius virens). In problem on B.C.’s coast. additiaddition,o experimental infec- It’s Alaska. It’s all tion hhasa achieved replication of A well-financed campaign by Alaska’s tthehe ISAISA virus in wild salmon industry is out to discredit your (OOncorhynchusncorh mykiss), Arctic char and eliminate the competition from the B.C. (SalvelSalvelinusi alpinus), and Atlantic salmon farming industry. fault! hherringerring (Clupea harengus). At least that’s the conclusion independent AltAlthoughho current strains of the ISA researcher Vivian Krause has come up with, vvirusirus aarer not as successful at infecting according to a story in Canada’s National Pacific salmonids, there is a chance Post. tthathat thethe virus will mutate to infect The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute neneww hohosts.s has received funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the David and SStantan PProboszcz, a fisheries biologist Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Pew wwithith WatershedW Watch Salmon Soci- Charitable Trust — all to attack salmon etety,y, says,say “We don’t want to assume aquaculture in B.C. Krause says in her blog — “Fish Farm fuss” — that the same United States–based ‘If the salmon farming foundations have supplied $128 million in industry chooses to take funding to groups battling open-pen salmon that risk, we may suff er aquaculture in British Columbia. Black was serving 78 months in U.S. The National Post was started by publish- federal prison for diverting funds for serious consequences to ing tycoon Conrad Black in 1998 as a con- personal benefit from sales of publish- the wild.’ servative media outlet promoting unfettered ing assets and other irregularities.  business development in Canada. – Michel Drouin there’s no risk to Pacific salmon in British Columbia. “This is one of the most diverse marine ecosystems left on the plan- et, and we don’t want to take a risk with a rapidly evolving virus that has already been shown to replicate in Pacific salmonids.” If the B.C. government is serious about protecting wild salmon runs, Proboszcz argues that risks such as the threat of ISA transmission should be eliminated. “Wild salmon populations in B.C. are under a number of different stressors,” he says. “If we can eliminate those risks we have control over, such as the spread of ISAV, this may mitigate against some of the larger stressors that are more difficult to control from a regional perspective, such as climate change.” The only way to eliminate the risk of ISA transmission would be to cease importation of Atlantic salmon embryos entirely and to rely solely on local breeding programs. Too late? But if undetected aviru- lent strains of ISAV are already present in B.C., it may already be too late.  !,!3+!4%2-).!,3 3OUTHEAST!LASKA(AINES *UNEAU 7RANGELL 9AKUTAT 7ESTERN!LASKA"RISTOL"AY"ETHEL $ILLINGHAM .AKNEK !LEUTIANS0RIBILOFS$UTCH(ARBOR 3T'EORGE 3T0AUL

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There’s money in public sales, but lots of work too TiredTired of getting ssmallmall changechange fromfrom thethe bigbig buyersbuyers whenwhen you know yourour catch catthich iisswo worthrt thh a ltlolott moremore? ? Even with limited openings, salmon gillnetters in British B.C.’s Best Small Shipyard Columbia were lucky to get $1.75 a pound for sockeye and 70 cents a pound for in 2009. TOM-MAC SHIPYARD Delivering to a major buyer, an albacore troller can expect to be paid in the neighborhood of $1 a pound for frozen tuna. But take that same fish to a public sale dock in Steveston or False Creek, or to one of the farmers markets that have sprung up in the heart of Vancouver, and you can get $15 a pound for sockeye and $12 a pound for albacore tuna products. So what’s the trick? Gigi Egan has been selling salmon, albacore, and shrimp from her family’s vessel the Iron Maiden for years. “There seems to be a new breed of direct marketers out there,” Egan said. “There are many more avenues for food producers, as well as fishers, to market direct to the public.” Back to basics: Egan cites the huge movement she says is occurring globally: Consumers want to get back to basics and want to purchase from the producer. Mariner Magazine © Western “There is a huge demand to connect that way. Not only do they have a sense of where their food is coming from, they have a good 2 Marine Ways to 100’ & 50 ton Travel Lift feeling purchasing from local producers. “As a small fisher, it is not a good gig to sell to the big companies. Complete Marine Repairs & Maintenance Facilities It won’t always keep us in the lifestyle to which we have become Custom Fabrication in Wood, Aluminum & Steel accustomed,” Egan said. “It doesn’t pay for the overhead. “If you are ambitious and have some business savvy, this is your opportunity to market direct so you are in contact with the end user and your profits should be realized.” Egan says she is frustrated seeing fishers selling product direct 17011 River Road Phone: (604) 278-1516 Richmond, BC V6V 1L8 Fax: (604) 278-1402 continued on page 14

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to the public for considerably less than its value because they don’t have good marketing skills. “They don’t realize the quality of their own product or the value of the relationship with the consumer,” she said. “I’d like to see fishermen get access to some opportunity to get some business and marketing skills.” Here are a few problems fishermen face: • They don’t consider all their costs to get their product to the consumer. • They don’t charge what it is worth. Egan says it is essential to cover your costs and make money. “You gotta get paid for what you do,” she said. “It is very expensive to be fishers and small food producers.” “I think if they are sharp and paying atten- tion to prices and details and, depending on how many fisheries, you can make a very substantial comfortable living,” Egan said. “You are no longer the poor fisherman.” If you do it right, it can pay off, she said, explaining that she has gone beyond selling in markets. Now she takes orders. DonnaDonna BeBergerrger ssellsells ffrozenrozen sasalmonlmon ccaughtaught by hherer hhusband,usband ToTony,ny anandd sosonn SashSashaa at tthehe VVancouverancouver Substantial living: “I have set up a Farmer’s market. network of a delivery system and a customer list. It was a whole lot of effort, but you make their appropriate licenses, their provincial was packed. a pretty substantial living. You can buy your- vendor license, and federal fishing license.” Down at the False Creek public sales dock self a new truck and not worry about it.” LaQuaglia says that vendors must meet in downtown Vancouver, albacore troller In order to sell to the public, there are local health authority requirements for keep- Gray McPhedran sells seven prepared tuna various requirements in British Columbia. ing fish at a market. products and round fish. The fish must be processed at a federally “Right now it is frozen fish only, and In addition to whole round frozen alba- inspected plant or cannery. Home-prepared vendors must have coolers or an actual core, McPhedran sells regular canned products are not acceptable. A vendor’s freezer,” she said. “Other than that, they have no-additives, canned no salt, canned hot license from the provincial Ministry of to follow some basic guidelines of behavior smoked, skinless boneless loins, cold smoked Agriculture and Fish is required. and participation in the market.” vacuum packed, maple syrup candied tuna To sell to the Vancouver Farmers Market, Providing information about how and vacuum packed, and jerky vacuum packed. vendors first of all must be the producer or a where the fish is caught is helpful as well, At False Creek, fishermen are permitted to family member of the producer, according to LaQuaglia added. sell portions and prepared products. In Ste- Roberta LaQuaglia, operations manager for The label: The health department asks veston, the rules are different and fishermen the market. where the food is processed and asks to are not permitted to sell portions of fish. “It is a producer-only scenario,” LaQuaglia see the label, which must tell consumers to McPhedran says he has to sell to the said. “It has to be the ones catching the fish keep the product refrigerated or frozen. The public to make any money, despite the expense or a close family member like their spouse label also must have a producer’s number, a of paying for processing and canning. or father, for example. They need to submit tracing number, and the date the product “We get the same price for albacore tuna from the buyers as we got 30 years ago. A buck a pound. Not much more,” he said. “I pretty much had to. I could sell some (604)-885-3499 to companies, but at a buck a pound it is tough sledding.” (866)885-3499 The loins are $12 a pound. “It sounds like a lot of money, but the "DIRECT MARKETING 101" SUPPLYING THE REFRIGERATION loining is $7.50 a pound when you provide TO MAKE IT ALL POSSIBLE! the fish. But for every pound of fish you get .45 pounds of fish. There are costs for Deck mounted fast freezers and RSW's for vacuum packing, labeling, on and on.” processing at sea or air cooled truck chillers McPhedran sells individual 6.3-ounce cans for $5 and a case of 24 cans for $100. Canned for transporting live or fresh product to smoked tuna is $150 a case. market! Canning is done by St. Jean’s Cannery & Smokehouse in Nanaimo. 

14 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM YOUR BUSINESS Sockeye by Michel Drouin Good news for British Columbia:

Barkley Sound: An excellent return of to $2.75 as buyers scrambled for fish. The Skeena run size originally was fore- sockeye to Alberni Inlet in Barkley Sound “It was the first time in a long time since cast to be in a range between 300,000 and on the West Coast of Vancouver Island we’d seen a bidding war like that,” said 1.4 million. fired up the hopes of Fraser River sockeye gillnetter John Stevens. Prices were down to By mid-July it appeared that the run fishermen in mid-July. $1.75 per pound by July 20. size was about 1 million fish, said David On July 23, DFO bumped up the run size The large volume of sockeye into Alberni Einarson, DFO’s North Coast Area chief. forecast of Alberni Inlet sockeye to 1,100,000 Inlet led the DFO to caution the public that The numbers were preliminary and from pre-season expectations of 600,000. many roadside stands offering sockeye for anything was possible, Einarson cautioned. To July 14, July upriver escapement was sale were selling illegal fish. Illegally sold “It changes so much right now,” he said 287,000 adults (111,200 Great Central, 175,400 fish are those not caught by a commercially July 15. “It is fluctuating. The Skeena and Sproat Lake). licensed fisherman or under a commercial Nass are really in a state of flux.” The catch estimate was about 312,000 sales agreement with First Nations. The Nass River near the Alaska bor- adults, with 73,500 taken by the Somass North Coast: On B.C.’s North Coast, der had a weaker-than-anticipated return, First Nation, 16,000 by the Barkley First what was expected to be a disappointing Einarson said, with about 400,000 sock- Nation, 78,494 by commercial gillnetters, season with no fishing openings at all on eye returning to Canada, well below the 100,144 by commercial seiners, 42,700 by Skeena River stocks turned out a little bet- 648,000 forecast. sport fishermen, and 1,050 in the test fishery ter when gillnetters had a chance on July There were gillnet and seine openings in for biological samples. 12, landing 17,000 Skeena River sockeye. the area, but catches were modest. Grounds prices started at $2.20 in the first Fishermen earned $2.20 per pound for the Troll fisheries, on the other hand, looked opening in early July, but rapidly escalated Skeena sockeye. very positive. continued on page 16

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RRiver fisheries in panel area waters. On DFO’s advice, Fraser sockeye salmon forecasts for 2010 reremain highly uncertain. The run size forecasts are based on the rerrecent low productivity of Fraser sockeye from the brood years of 11997 to 2003. The panel said that there is a 25 percent probability that the aactual number of returning sockeye will be at or below 7,028,000 fiffish. There is a 75 percent probability that the actual number of rerreturning sockeye will be at or below 18,315,000 fish. For planning fisheries, the panel had used a 50 percent pprobability pre-season forecast of 41,000 Early Stuart, 783,000 Early SSummer, 2,612,000 Summer, and 8,003,000 Late run sockeye. Late-run sockeye have been entering the river early every year ssince 1996, affecting their survival and productivity. As a result, fiffishing opportunities have been limited on these stocks and on SSummer-run sockeye salmon because the Late fish are mingled in. “The potential continuation of a high in-river mortality rate eexperienced by several Late-run stocks is still a serious conserva- Sockeye salmon tition concern, and there is special concern for the very depressed The North Coast Chinook fishery opened June 15 for the indi- Cultus sockeye run, for which recovery efforts have been imple- vidual transferable quota fishery, with a total allowable catch of mented by Canada to ensure this stock’s long-term viability,” the 107,100 panel said. About half of that was caught by July 15, with a coho opening The panel went on to say that commercial fisheries in panel areas for trollers occurring July 22. this year will be directed at Summer-run and Late-run sockeye. Fraser River: On July 16, the Fraser River Panel of the Pacific Any fishing openings would occur from late July to mid-August to Salmon Commission announced that the run size estimate of the reduce effects on the weaker Early Stuart and Early Summer runs. Early Stuart sockeye, the first of the Fraser’s runs, was 90,000 fish, At its July 20 meeting, the panel said run size assessments for double the 41,000 forecast. Early Summer and Summer sockeye would not be available until The panel announced management plans July 9 for 2010 Fraser late July and early August. 

16 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM YOUR BUSINESS Halibut and sablefi sh million and 55 mil- Lower halibut quota lion pounds and rarely exceeds 60 million represents return to pounds. The most historic levels recent 30- Editor’s note: This is from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s year average “Seafood Market Bulletin.” is 48 million Sablefish and halibut make up less than 2 percent of Alaska’s pounds. total commercial harvest tonnage but typically account for 18 to 20 Since 1950, there have been percent of total statewide ex-vessel value. only seven years when the Alaska halibut harvest and/or catch limit The IFQ longline fisheries for halibut and sablefish opened March was over 60 million pounds. Four of those years were in this decade: 6, and through mid-May the pace of landings is slightly above the 2001 through 2004. Considering the historical perspective, it can be five-year average for both halibut and sablefish. fairly said that the recent halibut quota cuts represent a return from Alaska IFQ and CDQ halibut and sablefish quotas are in a trend unusually high quotas of the early 2000s to levels more typical of the of modest but steady decline in recent years. The halibut quota normal, historical range of the fishery. Halibut landings: peaked in 2003 at nearly 62 million pounds and has since declined Through May 14, landings of Alaska IFQ 32 percent, to 42 million pounds in 2010. The sablefish quota halibut totaled 11 million pounds, or 27 percent of the total peaked at 39 million pounds in 2004 and has since declined 34 allowable catch for the season, slightly above the five-year average percent, to 26 million pounds. for mid-May — 25 percent. In discussing recent halibut quota cuts, it is important to consid- Most Alaska halibut landings (70 percent) occur in the five- er historical perspective. Alaska’s halibut fishery dates to the early month period between May and September. There is no distinct 1900s and has been managed by the International Pacific Halibut spike within that period, although June is normally the strongest Commission since 1923. The U.S./Canada treaty that established the landings month. commission was the first in the world to deal with conservation of a While mid–May 2010 landings are up just slightly from the deep-sea fishery resource. five-year average, they are up substantially from spring 2009, Historic highs: We examined 60 years of catch records from presumably in response to improved ex-vessel prices. Halibut prices 1950 to present and found that, with the exception of a 14-year softened significantly in 2009, and spring landings that year were period from 1971 to 1984 when catches were low (average 22 slow as harvesters apparently waited for the market to improve. million pounds), Alaska’s halibut harvest typically ranges between 40 continued on page 18 How are your Buoys Hangin·? Your Full Service Yamaha Outboard Dealership for Over 26 Years

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f yoyou’reu’re wonderiwonderingng about Darren Reef’s sstyletyle of skiskipperingppering tthehe shrimping, a little tuna”: Pacific Sun 4, the Ashlyne, the Patience, the IPacific Future, just take a look at his onboard laundry. Chanalar, and the Sea Valley. He’s got a washer and dryer in the forepeak, “so there is no Reef was the hired skipper in all those vessels. But he owned the excuse to get off the boat during crab or hake seasons,” Reef said. F/V Lilli Marlene for a short time. “When I was fishing out of Westport, the local laundry there “It wasn’t what I was used to,” Reef said. “It was a 60-foot would give the guys an excuse to get off the boat. It was across the wooden boat, not a steel boat. It wasn’t for me.” street from the Fishermen’s Inn, and they’d have a few drinks.” continued on page 20 Not now. If you sign on to the Pacific Future, you work. It’s such discipline that’s made Reef a highliner off the Northwest Coast as well as fleet captain for vessels owned by Pacific Seafood. Reef grew up in Astoria — mostly. “My dad was the town barber, and he knew everyone in town, like most barbers do.” But he always wanted to get out of town. He moved his family to Houston, Texas, to Klamath Falls, Ore., to Pendleton, Ore., to Portland. “But we always came back to Astoria. He always kept his barbershop here.” Being an Astoria kid, you pretty much had two routes ahead if FULL SERVICE SHIPYARD SINCE 1979 you didn’t go to college or the military: Logging or fishing. ➧ New Construction “I grew up on the waterfront. I watched the boats, and I always ➧ Boat Repair knew what I was going to do when I grew up.” ➧ Sponson Out of high school, Reef got his first job on the deck of the Sunrise, an old, wooden tuna boat out of Warrenton. ➧ Lengthen He stepped up to the F/V Leibling with skipper Steve Davis and ➧ Boat Extensions crew Kevin Miller. Reef was hired with the idea that the boat would ➧ Re-Fits fish off the California coast. Never made it. “We ended up fishing out of Coos Bay. I missed my wife, so I Come to the builders of the “TIME BANDIT” quit and thumbed a ride back to Astoria.” featured on the Deadliest Catch He worked deck on the F/V David, the F/V Prospector, and the where you will receive quality workmanship & friendly service. F/V Lady Diana. The Diana’s owner, Howard Hanke, gave Reef the chance to One stop solution for all your vessel needs. occasionally step into the wheelhouse. Reef moved to the F/V Captain John, where he was the alternate Giddings Boat Works Inc. skipper. 63106 Troller Rd., P.O. Box 5011, Charleston, OR 97420 Finally, at 23 years old, Reef was named full-time skipper of the Call Daryl Rodgers at (541) 888-4712 or (541) 260-0069 F/V Sea Blazer. He and Janey already had two kids, and they had Fax (541) 888-6011 bought a house. Email: [email protected] Then came a succession of boats, “dragging, crabbing,

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Eight years ago, while driving the Sea Valley after shrimp, Reef couldn’t restrain himself. “I was exceeding the boat limits every trip. It just drove the plant manager crazy. Finally, he asked if I wanted to run the Pacific Hooker. “I said no, but they started to pile on the benefits.” The Hooker is owned by Frank Dulcich and Pacific Seafoods. It was the first time Reef had worked for a relatively large corporation, and he liked it. “We have good benefits. The paycheck is there every two weeks, no bullshit. You pick it up at the cannery. You don’t have to hunt them down to get your money,” Reef said. “I’ve always been a hard worker. All I want is my pay on time.” Reef skippered the Pacific Hooker for a year and a half, moving to the Pacific Future six years ago. “Some of the guys have a bad attitude about Frank’s [Dulcich] boats because they’re Frank’s boats.” But Reef hasn’t had trouble attracting or keeping crew. “You catch a lot of fish, and you get the good guys.” Plus, a benefit package for deckhands “is unheard of.” “A couple of crew got hurt, and the insurance took care of them. Where else do you see that happen?” Reef also takes advantage of the company’s health insurance. He has high blood pressure. Beyond that, Reef feels the weight of years. “I’m getting older. Sleep deprivation and fatigue. I can’t bounce Pacific Future skipper Darren Reef, foreground, and a visiting skipper, Harry back like I could when I was younger. Now, it’s like I’m walking  Lewis, who ran the F/V Incentive and appeared on Deadliest Catch. around in a hangover.” Ron Williams photo

KNOWINGKNOWING WHEREWHERE TTHEHE FFISHISH AAREN’TREN’T Sometimes, knowing where not to fish is the first step toward success. At least that was Darren Reef’s experience once he installed a new sounder/finder aboard the Pacific Future. Main Of¿ ce: Astoria, OR West Coast trawlers have long lagged in technology behind the Tel: 503-325-4341 Fax: 503-325-6421 Alaska battlewagons. But a few are taking steps to catch up — and, in the process, increase efficiency on the water. Reef installed a Simrad ES 70, a split-beam transducer fish finder/ sounder, just before hake opened in the spring. CRAB GEAR The equipment instantly proved its worth. There was plenty of hake awaiting the fleet. Trouble was, all Toll Free: 1-800-228-7051 sizes were mixed together, and the packers refused to buy the small ones. “The ES 70 has a fish-sizing feature. It told me where not to fish,” Trolling • Tuna • Longline • Trawling Reef said. Gillnet • Crab “We took off this season for hake. I started to look around. We made a few sets, and the fish were all small.” Just like that new RAFT SHOP – Sales & Servicing: screen in the wheelhouse said. Zodiac • Switlik • DBC • Elliott • Crewsaver “So, we went up north, and the fish were big.” Again, as predicted on the screen. www.englundmarine.com “If I always knew where not to fish, I’d be a rich man.” He’s also got an Olex chart building system onboard that gives a BRANCH STORES 3-D view of the bottom, plus an indication of its hardness. Westport, WA Ilwaco, WA Newport, OR Next on Reef’s shopping list is a trawl door monitoring system. Charleston, OR Crescent City, CA Eureka, CA “That’ll pay for itself too.”

20 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM Getting the job done Vessel: Pacific Future Owner: Pacific Fishing LLC Captain: Darren Reef Vessel type: West Coast bottom fish, mid-water Pacific whiting trawl, crab, shrimp. Builder: J&S Marine, Brazoria, Texas Marine architect: J&S Marine Major hull alterations: Fred Wahl of Reedsport, sponsons, three feet each side Annual haul-out shipyard: Giddings Boat Works, Charleston Power, main: QSK 1710 Cummings, 750 hp Pacific Future crew Mike Giles (dark shirt) and Stewart Arnold (white shirt) joined Robert Irwin (red shirt) of Jessie’s Ilwaco Fish Co. to unload hake. Exhaust insulation: Marine wrap by Advanced Thermal Ron Williams photo Products Hydraulic hoses/retailer: Englund Marine Service for main: Newport Diesel Rationalization to boost processors Starter/alternator: Rod’s Electric, Warrenton If the new rationalization program for West Coast ground- Reduction gear ratio: 6:1 fish is implemented, buyers will become increasingly important, Auxiliaries and sizes: Four-cylinder and six-cylinder according to Darren Reef. John Deere “Guys are going to sell their rockfish permits and figure they’ll Generator sizes: 60 kw and 110 kw keep shrimping. But it won’t work that way. “Right now, guys down south are on a 17- or 18-day rotation [on Lubricants: Chevron shrimp]. What’s going to happen when even more boats show up Lubricant retailer: Pacific Seafoods fuel dock to do a little shrimping? Will they find a buyer who already has too Hydraulics: Three 60-gallon pumps driven by an 855 many shrimp boats delivering? Cummins, plus three 60-gallon pumps off main as a backup “Anyone can buy a boat, but you can’t do anything without Hydraulics service: Warren Junes a buyer. Refrigeration: 60-ton Carrier “You’ve got to offer the fish plant something other than Refrigeration service: Northern Refrigeration, Newport shrimp.”  Prop: Kort nozzle 63-inch wheel Prop tuning: Independent Marine Propeller, Portland Retailer for miscellaneous fittings: Englund Marine TRAWLMASTER Crab gear: Trilogy Crab Pots, Bellingham Winches: Six Gearmatics TRAWL MONITORING SOLUTIONS Other deck machinery: Forward reel, aft gantry reel Trawl doors: Thyboron doors Trawl winches: Gordon Scriber built off Yaquina Boatworks design Chart system: Olex, Coastal Explorer, Nobeltec Wind Plot II Sat phone: Globalstar Sounder(s) and servicing: Simrad ES 70, Furuno dual band Sonar and servicing: Furuno CH-37 Radio(s) and servicing: Three VHF radios, one single * Frustrated looking over the sideband stern and wondering: Autopilot: ComNav 2 autopilots: a 1001 and a 2001 - Are my doors spread optimally? Galley equipment: Stove, microwave, refrigerator, washer, dryer in the forepeak, “so there’ll be no excuses to get off - Are my trawl wire marks right? the boat during crab or hake season.” J&S Appliances, - Could I save fuel speeding up Warrenton or slowing down? “30% increase with Notus” Fire sensor system: Fireboy Ben Downs, FV Jamie Marie (WA) Fire suppression system: Fireboy * Notus answers these Windows: Lexan questions and Hatches: Freeman Marine Equipment much more!! NOTUS Electronics Ltd. Insurance/broker: Wells Fargo, John McKnight, Newport * Finance for Tel: +1 709 753 0652 [email protected] Airline used most frequently: Alaska $620 per Trade magazine most read: Pacific Fishing month Safety equipment retailers: Englund Marine Others: “Thanks to one of the best net builders I know for www.notus.nf.ca quality work goes to Kevin Dunn of K&K Nets Astoria. His nets always fish best.” Ken Johnson, Notus Rep. for West Coast, Oregon, [email protected], Tel: +1 503 468 2545 Jensen Communications, Inc., Oregon, [email protected], Tel: +1 503 861 2415

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 21 YOUR BUSINESS Good P.R. ASTORIA COMMERCIAL FISHING FEST expects bigger turnout The folks in Astoria expect up to 20,000 a variety of vendor and people in September for a festival that’s food booths. both a work-boat trade show and an The festival has moved opportunity for the public to learn more from the downtown pier to about commercial fishing. Tongue Point, which is just A single event incorporating both mis- east of town. The area is more sions may seem odd, but Astoria has protected from the weather, in made it work in the past. Last year, more case it’s bad, and offers more than 6,000 people took in the show, room for exhibitors, demon- Plenty of beef showed during a tug-o-war that pitted fishermen against and Commercial Fishermen’s Festival strations, and moorage. loggers at the 2009 Commercial Fishermen’s Festival in Astoria. Various fishing vessels, including the F/V Maverick, Astoria Commercial fformerly of the Deadliest Catch, will be FREE FOOD! moored,m so crews can describe their work The doughnuts are on us at the Astoria Commercial Fishermen’s Festival tot the public. Fishermen’s Festival. But a score of industry vendors will be on That’s right. If you subscribe to Pacific Fishing magazine, Saturday and Sunday, Sunday handh to explain their products to working we’ll feed you doughnuts for free. Sept. 18-19 fishermen. Editor Don McManman and Ad Manager Diane Sandvik A short list includes boots, weather gear, will be circulating at the festival, and we’ll have coupons Saturday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. ice-making, power, propellers, floatation for the free doughnuts. Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. devices, buoys, hydraulics, lubricants and Or, just find The Mini Doughnut Shop. (Let your nose Admission: fuel, safety products, and general marine follow the aroma.) Step up and say the magic words: “I equipment. subscribe to Pacific Fishing.” $5 adults, $3 children “We have up to 100 vendors in total,” said That’s it. You’ll get three free doughnuts. Tongue Point, Port of Astoria Cyndi Mudge, marketing director for the show, “but the emphasis — maybe 50 to 60 exhibitors — is from the industry.” organizers have focused more on promotion “It’s this working view for this year’s edition. of commercial fishing that Ron Williams is a former fisherman (from non-fishermen find intrigu- the California border to the Bering Sea) and ing,” said Williams. K_\dfY`c\jXk\cc`k\ZfdgXep director of the festival. “We want them to get “When I went to my board about our to know us, and they’ll goals, they were pretty clear: ‘We want be more likely to buy to increase the demand for seafood,’” our product.”  Williams said. That means attracting consumers to the festival. To do so, organizers have tied in to the Deadliest Catch and will bring several of its celebrity skippers to town. There will be demonstra- tions of fish filleting, crab pot knitting, oyster shuck- ing, and more. J&H Boat- works will have a vessel undergoing lengthening and sponsoning. Also, fishermen will compete in several contests to show off their abilities. There will be cooking demonstrations by sev- eral chefs, but will feature Mike Giles, whom you just met on Page 21 aboard Graham Kerr, the “Gal- the Pacific Future, races through a course to loping Gourmet.” As with become the 2009 Astoria festival’s highliner for any festival, there will be fishermen under 40. Christopher Spence photo

22 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM MY TURN Columbia summer Chinook by Rob Sudar Sports anglers looking for gimmick to oust Columbia gillnet fleet The rebuilt summer Chinook run is producing fish for all user groups these days, but that hasn’t stopped the most outrageous of the sport angler groups from demanding more. Even though sports anglers failed to catch their quota this year, the Northwest Coastal Conservation Associa- tion has begun a campaign that would put restrictions on the commercial fleet that the local gillnet fishermen feel aren’t warranted. The summer Chinook season in the Columbia runs from June 16 through July 31. These days the majority ForFor mamanyny NNorthwesternersorthwesterners ((atat lleasteast tthosehose nnotot ssufficientlyufficiently afaffluentfluent ttoo owownn ththeireir owownn boboats),ats) a of the fish are headed for the Wenatchee, Okanogan, gillnet-caught salmon is the only way to sample an iconic fish from the Columbia River. and Methow rivers, among others. Historically, the famous “June hogs” were stays of the commercial fishery on the years or so to annual returns in part of this run, one of the original main- river. Many of the fish were mainstem the 50,000- to 90,000-fish range. spawners, which is why they would get The rebuilding of these runs has so big. created a popular sport fishery in However, all of the “June hog” stock those rivers, along with a substan- and many of the other components of tial tribal fishery. It has also allowed the summer Chinook run were eradi- the return of a small commercial cated with the construction of Grand fishery in the lower Columbia and Coulee Dam (1941) and Chief Joseph a concurrent sport fishery. Summer Dam (1955), which blocked almost Chinook also are a major compo- 800 miles of upstream habitat. nent of the troll Chinook fishery in At the time, it was gener- Southeast Alaska. ally believed that the fish would One of the most important simply redistribute themselves features of this run is that it is com- downstream of the big dams and prised of both wild and hatchery continue to maintain the runs. fish of the same stock. The wild Even Northwest historian Murray fish make up 40 percent of the run Morgan, in his Grand Coulee and are making pretty full use of treatise The Dam, espoused this the available spawning grounds. viewpoint. Unfortunately, time However, the lower river fisher- has shown that the optimism ies get only a small portion of the was unwarranted, and the fish harvestable fish — most are allo- have never approached the levels cated to the sport fisheries nearer observed before the concrete the spawning grounds and to tribal behemoths were built. fisheries above Bonneville. The The runs dwindled to the point lower river sport and commercial that commercial fishing for them fisheries split the lower river alloca- was suspended in 1964. For the next tion 50/50, so the available quota 35 years, returns were consistently has typically allowed for only a 10- in the 10,000- to 25,000-fish range. to 14-day sport fishery and two or In the 1990s, the Washington three 10-hour commercial fishing Department of Fish and Wildlife periods.For several years, sports began working with landown- groups, such as the Northwest ers along the remaining avail- Sportsfishing Industry Association, able spawning habitat to improve have been pushing for a mark- stream conditions, and the agency selective fishery (adipose fin- also encouraged the hydroelectric clipped hatchery fish only) so that operators to manage water flows the fishery would last the whole with fish in mind. six weeks. As a result, the Chinook runs The commercial fishermen always have been rebuilt over the last 10 have been opposed. Here’s why: If a continued on page 24

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 23 MY TURN Columbia summer Chinook continued from page 23 selective fishery were granted, the sport anglers would forget the the 20s and 30s. They have fat bellies and a high oil content. real reason they supported it — to have a longer season — and Many tasters feel the summer fish are comparable to spring instead attack the non-selective commercial fishery. Columbia Chinook. They arrive at a great time of the summer Gillnetters on the Columbia feel that the fishery doesn’t need to and usually find a willing market, especially since they are a local be selective because both wild and hatchery components are strong. product — only about 120 miles from Seattle and a few dozen Also, 40 percent of the catch would need to be released (compared miles from Portland. And finally, they provide a season for to about 15 percent in the spring fishery). Warmer water during the Columbia River commercial fishermen at a time when there summer would raise the mortality rate on released fish. haven’t been any viable fisheries in recent years. Sure enough, as soon as managers granted the selective sport There are some clouds on the horizon for the fishery. The Colville fishery this year, extending the season for the full six weeks, out Indian tribe broke ground on Chief Joseph hatchery this spring, came an op-ed in the Vancouver Columbian from the Northwest which will provide a lot more hatchery fish in the run. This may Coastal Conservation Association touting the conservation aspects create a bigger push for a mark-selective commercial fishery. of the sport fishery and slamming the non-selective net fishery. See It’s hard to say how that will play out, especially as the fish and Page 29. wildlife commissions in both Oregon and Washington look for new In reality, with the 88,000 Chinook prediction and the 5,400 fish methods to harvest hatchery fish while avoiding wild fish. quota for each lower river fishery, it’s highly likely that the sport The complication with summer Chinook, of course, is that the fishery wouldn’t have caught its quota anyway, especially with wild run also is healthy and making good use of the available high river flows, which have kept the water dirty and made fishing spawning habitat. Regardless, the rebuilding of this magnifi- more difficult for boat fishermen, who typically take the majority cent run to harvestable levels has been a real plus for salmon of the sport catch. management on the Columbia. Hopefully there will be an equal The flows weren’t a problem for the commercial fleet. In two level of interest in working to keep the commercial fishery a vital component of the management process, so that Northwest 10-hour openings in late June, gillnetters caught about 4,700 fish  and were shut down pending further run updates. The sport residents can continue to enjoy this excellent, local salmon. fishery had caught about 2,100 fish as of July 7 and had released Rob Sudar has been involved with the commercial salmon fishery in another 1,050 unclipped fish. Washington for almost 40 years. He began purse seining in the San Juans Portland Oregonian columnist Bill Monroe said that most anglers in 1971 to pay for college and has been involved ever since. These days, were “unimpressed” with the results this year. he primarily markets salmon and sturgeon from the Columbia, working Politics aside, there are a lot of positives that have come from the with a small group of gillnetters. He is also a member of the Washington rebuilding of this component of the Chinook runs in the Columbia. Department of Fish and Wildlife Commercial Advisory Panel for both the The fish are beautiful, averaging about 17 pounds, with many into Columbia River and Puget Sound. He lives in Longview. KodiakKodiak MarineMarine SupplySupply AllAll youryour marinemarine suppliessupplies inin oneone stop.stop. NowNow stockingstocking anan expandedexpanded lineline ofof AntifoulingAntifouling andand TopsideTopside coatings.coatings.

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24 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM LETTER FROM UNALASKA by Alexandra Gutierrez Competition from East Coast pollock? Don't make us laugh Editor’s note: We welcome a new columnist to Pacific Fishing: Alexandra Gutierrez, who was recently named news director for Unalaska Community Broadcasting. She replaces Anne Hillman, who has been promoted to radio director for KUCB. Although she’s spent most of her life moving up and down the Eastern Seaboard, Gutierrez comes to us directly from Washington, D.C. While there, she served an editorial stint at The American Prospect. She’s also contributed to The Economist, The World, and Living on Earth. They’re laughing: Unalaska processors don’t seem concerned that whale distributions and oceanographic conditions. NOAA recently announced a six-fold increase in the allowable catch The research vessel Thomas G. Thompson, owned by the Navy of Atlantic pollock. but operated by the University of Washington, passed through For a year, a dragged-out, busted-knuckles fight had gone on too, as part of the Bering Sea Project — a collaboration between the between NOAA and New England’s fishermen over the catch limit National Science Foundation and the North Pacific Research Board of Atlantic pollock, which is similar to, but a different species than, — to investigate the effects of climate change on the region. Alaska walleyed pollock. In May, the NOAA ship Oscar Dyson embarked on its annual The fight began in August 2009. The feds initially cut the catch pollock survey — another aspect of the Bering Sea Project, and limit on Atlantic pollock to just a third of what was landed in 2008 probably the one most critical to Unalaska’s current economy. The after surveys showed a serious decline in the pollock population. acoustic and bottom trawl surveys are being conducted over three The Northeast Seafood Coalition cried foul, and the trips, and official data won’t be released until September. Gloucester Times editorialized ad nauseam. Massachusetts Reps. But the scientists aboard already have a decent sense of what the Barney Frank and John Tierney called for the resignation of NOAA population’s looking like. Last year, researchers found a lot of first- chief Jane Lubchenco. year and third-year pollock, and — just as they’d hoped — they’re so After the case was made that even NOAA’s own trawl survey far finding a decent number of second-year and fourth-year. showed that the catch limit was too low, the quota was boosted from As Pacific Fishing reported last month, the survey was extended 3,813 metric tons to 16,000 metric tons. this year because of $l.2 million in new research funding that allowed If New England fishermen are pleased by the news, Alaskan sampling all the way north to the Bering Strait. fishermen, well, mostly don’t care. One manager at Alyeska Seafoods At the end of June, a pair of investigators working on the pollock professed he didn’t know much about the boosted limit and doubted survey presented some of their early conclusions to both the it would affect the Alaska fishing industry much. community and to Unisea. Mike Sigler forecasted a reduced abun- Seeking more expert testimony, we conducted a karaoke-night dance of pollock by 2050, and Patrick Ressler said that pollock hate straw poll at the Harbor View sports bar. Our question: Would the frigid water and move depending on the ocean temperature. catch increase of Atlantic pollock affect Unalaska and its walleyed The takeaway: In the future, the pollock will be fewer and pollock fleet? farther away. The most common response began with a well-known four-letter word, coupled with a declaration of puzzlement: “---- if I know.” A member of the North American’s crew stressed that the New England quota change didn’t matter much and that there were more important rules needing change. A bar patron who worked for WE WORK Argo-Sea laughed at the idea that Alaska could be affected by this at all and called the East Coast quota “miniscule.” New England’s now-boosted catch limit is just 16,000 metric tons. WHERE YOU WORK. The catcher vessel fleet out of here already has harvested 85,000 metric tons of the 210,000-ton B Season allocation. EnhanceEnhance youryour abilityability to communicate throughthrough the Also, Alaska fishermen have the market cornered on surimi, so no momostst costcost effective,effective wellwell supportedsupported satellitesatellite one here is losing sleep — or money — over the Easterners. service in North America. Whether at land or at     sea the AlaskaNet Satellite service will Research fleet: It’s summer here in Unalaska, which means that keep you connected. bonfires are blazing, sweatshirts are still popular, and the seasonal beer is a lighter shade of cheap. It also means that there are plenty of Contact us today. research vessels coming into town. Instead of shooting astronauts to the moon, NASA sent a few T: 206.321.6896 dozen scientists to Dutch Harbor to launch its first oceanograph- ic mission, ICESCAPE. That stands for Impacts of Climate on 1.800.GLENTEL Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment, which should give you an idea of why NASA went for the acronym. www.satellitealaska.com The team of biologists, chemists, and biochemists set out for five weeks on the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy to look at how Arctic ice is thinning — and what that means for Arctic marine life. They’re trying to figure out why the ice cover has declined 30 percent in the past decade and studying how shifts in kelp production might be bad news for everything from cod to seals to polar bears. The Oshoro Maru also made its annual trip out here from Japan. The researchers’ time seemed to be split between barbecuing at the POWERED BY Unisea dock and lecturing on subjects like the relationship between

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 25 ALASKA NOTEBOOK by Wesley Loy Bristol Bay fl eet has most profi table season since 1995 Bristol Bay boom: At press time, gillnetters at Bristol Bay hands at Coastal’s processing plant at the appeared to be hauling in their most valuable harvest in 15 years, village of Platinum. Coastal mailed each despite coming up short of the preseason catch forecast. fisherman a $3,000 check, and gave plant Through July 18, the total catch was 27.2 million sockeye with workers a $500 bonus. the fishery rapidly winding down for the season. State biologists So how can a business do this? Well, had predicted a catch of 30.5 million fish. Coastal Villages Seafoods isn’t a normal business. It’s a subsid- The real excitement was at the docks, where many processors iary of Coastal Villages Region Fund, which holds a share of the sent fishermen home with a base price of about 95 cents a pound. lucrative Bering Sea pollock fishery under the federal Community That’s a big jump from the 70 cents the major packers paid in 2009. Development Quota program. CVRF’s mission is to help villagers With the higher price, the fishery was on track for a total ex-vessel economically, and its mantra is “pollock provides.” payday approaching $160 million, the best result since the $188     million seen in 1995. Togiak tally: Alaska’s largest sac roe herring fishery by volume The Bristol Bay run generally was a few days late this season, wrapped up at Togiak in late May, and the catch was consider- perhaps because of colder water temperatures in the region. A ably larger than in 2009, says a season summary issued June 30 good many gillnetters were still fishing hard two weeks after by the Department of Fish and Game. The fleet took 25,432 tons of the fishery’s traditional herring,h almost the full Fourth of July peak. “Who quotaq and well above knows how long this run thet 17,107 tons taken the is gonna go,” fisherman priorp year. Dan Barr of Seattle said by The grounds price for cell phone from his boat, bothb seine and gillnet fish the Slam Dunk. stayeds the same as last It wasn’t an entirely season:s $150 per ton. That pleasant season for every- putp the ex-vessel value body, however. Fishermen ofo this year’s fishery at in the Egegik District, $3.8$ million, compared more often than not a pro- tot $2.6 million in 2009. lific fishing hole, were dis- TogiakT herring are valued appointed with a catch of forf their roe, with Japan about 5 million sockeye on servings as the primary a forecast of 9.2 million. market.m Roe demand used Barney Johnson, a stal- tot be much stronger, with wart Egegik fisherman thet fishery value peaking from Arlington, Wash., nearn $17 million in 1995. said Egegik was such a     frustration he took his boat, the Erin L, to the Observer subsidy neighboring Naknek- Postcard: The crew of the F/V United starts a set in the Nushagak District of Bristol Bay rrequested: As we report- Kvichak District. Prob- in 2009. Erik Velsko photo eed in the July issue of ably a wise move, as the PPacific Fishing, federal Naknek-Kvichak was the ffishery regulators want to star producer among the bay’s five fishing districts, with a catch restructure and expand Alaska’s groundfish observer program. exceeding 10.5 million sockeye. One effect would be to require hundreds of additional boats — The drawn-out fishery may have had one benefit for fisher- including trawlers under 60 feet long as well as halibut longliners men: There were very few, or no, limits put on boats because the — to carry observers on selected fishing trips. The industry will processors couldn’t keep up with the catch. bear most of the expense.     But the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is looking A herring happy ending: Fishermen in the Kuskokwim region to Uncle Sam to pick up a bigger share of the tab, noting federal caught no herring in this season. But they still got paid. subsidies for observer coverage are greater in other parts of How’s that? the country than in Alaska. In a June 30 letter to the Obama Here’s what happened: In March, the only buyer expected administration, Council Chairman Eric Olson asked for up to to show up for the fishery, Coastal Villages Seafoods, signaled $17.7 million to cover one-time “start-up costs” for the restruc- it would process herring and thus revive a fishery that’s been tured observer program, plus an annual appropriation of 50 dormant since 2005. State fishery managers set a regional quota of percent of the cost of placing observers in any fishery operating with 5,371 tons. catch shares. But after substantial herring harvests to the south further softened the herring market, Coastal backed out rather than take A longtime reporter of commercial fishing in the North Pacific, “extreme losses.” So no commercial herring fishery occurred. Wesley Loy writes for Pacific Fishing and in his blog: Deckboss. (www. But Kusko fishermen weren’t out of luck, and neither were the deckboss.blogspot.com)

26 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM ALASKA WATCH by Laine Welch Computerized tenders, fi shing villages, deck wash, scallops Wired salmon tenders: Tendering vessels from Southeast to The study has not been completed, according Western Alaska are field-testing an electronic report system for all to Sen. Murkowski. salmon deliveries this summer. The process is called “tLandings.” “It’s estimated that if the moratoria were “Most deliveries of salmon occur onboard tenders, and that is not put in place, the EPA would be subject to where most fish tickets are completed. It’s an ideal situation to do issuing up to 140,000 permits by July 31. The electronic reporting,” said Gail Smith, electronic landings program EPA is not poised to do this, and it is not coordinator for ADF&G. Between 600 and 700 tender vessels operate necessary,” Murkowski said. “Let’s clear the decks and allow fishing in Alaska each year. people to be out working, and not worry if they are violating some tLandings is the latest in a series of interagency reporting pro- reporting requirement.” grams. A process called “eLandings” has been used in Alaska since     2002 and is required in halibut, sablefish, Bering Sea crab, and all Scallops scooped: In July, a handful of boats dredged to scoop groundfish fisheries. up Alaska weathervane scallops in waters stretching from Yakutat to “tLandings for salmon is a voluntary program, and we never the Bering Sea. Most of the catch comes from around Kodiak Island. envision it will be mandatory,” Smith emphasized. In a “proof of concept” project this summer, 22 tenders are Weathervanes are one of the largest scallops in the world, with field-testing a new application that computes the number of fish a shell diameter averaging 10 inches. Three to four boats target delivered, the weights, and the running totals of different species, scallops by making repeated tows along mostly sandy bottoms of and then prints out a fish ticket and tally sheet. The tenders are strictly defined fishing regions. operating at Bristol Bay, Kodiak, Sitka, and the Kuskokwim region. “All boats must carry observers,” said Jim Stone, owner of two All that is required is a laptop computer, an inexpensive laser scallop boats, which will remain at sea until Thanksgiving. “It’s a printer, a magnetic strip reader for identification, and a thumb drive heavy cost of $350 to $400 a day. But we accept that in order to go (also called a jump drive or a zip drive), which is provided for free into the areas and make sure our bycatch and impact are minimal. by ADF&G. The yearly statewide harvest has remained steady at about 500,000 Tenders pick up a thumb drive from their processor, which pounds of shucked meats, meaning the large adductor muscle that provides a list of all boats making deliveries. They plug it into their pulls the two shell halves together. laptop and enter the landing data. At the end of the trip, tenders Prices to fishermen vary widely by scallop size and market. The simply return the thumb drive to the processor, where the data is statewide average price last year was $8 a pound, for a dockside uploaded to its own system and to Fish and Game. value of $3.4 million. “It is simple to use and so much more accurate,” said Randy Swain, who handles computer operations for Alaska Pacific Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch reports on Alaska fisheries Seafoods in Kodiak. APS plans to expand tLandings to three tenders from Kodiak. this summer. Questions? Contact Smith in Juneau at [email protected].     Profiling your town: Social scientists with the Seattle-based Alas- ka Fisheries Science Center are updating profiles of Alaska’s fishing communities, and they want input from the people who live there. There are 136 Alaska communities officially designated as fish- ing towns. Older profiles done in 2005 need to be updated to include 2010 census data and other new information, said AFSC’s Amber Hines. The center is hosting “community profile” meetings in six Alaska fishing towns during August and September. The goal is to invite local leaders and the public to help revise the profiles so they are more representative of the different communities, said Himes, a project coordinator. “We want to know how many people there are, what they fish for, what kind of fishing permits there are, the kind of governance structures, such as tribal governments or city government, stuff like that,” she told KDLG radio. Questions? Visit www.afsc.nooa.gov or call (206) 526-4221.     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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 27 B.C. UPDATE by Michel Drouin Fraser certifi cation, hake begin, more on Cohen probe Certification squabble: Salmon was all over the news in B.C. has to be accounted for. If a fisherman doesn’t An independent adjudicator ruled July 12 to uphold have the quota of fish to match his catch, he Marine Stewardship Council certification of Fraser River sockeye has to quit unless he can rent or lease quota as sustainable. from someone else. The certification had been in limbo since three environmental “There is only so much [rockfish quota] to organizations registered objections to the potential certification go around, and the people you lease from, they in February. have to be careful to keep some for themselves too,” Radil said. The Watershed Watch Salmon Society, David Suzuki Foundation, While rockfish bycatch is a pain for hake fishermen, and and Skeena Wild Conservation Trust opposed the certification bid, they have to seek out rockfish-free areas to catch their hake, the arguing that the Fraser River sockeye were in trouble, considering rockfish stocks are looking very good for rockfish trawlers, the collapse in 2009. Radil said. On the other hand, the Canadian Pacific Sustainable Fisher- “There is an awful lot of greenies [yellowtail rockfish] and brown- ies Society argued that DFO’s closing of fishing on all Fraser ies [widow rockfish] around,” he said. River sockeye last year when stocks proved weak was proof of     sustainable management. Sockeye inquiry drama: As I mentioned in my column in Fraser River sockeye now join the Nass, Skeena, and Barkley August, the federal government–appointed judicial commission Sound units of certification as eligible into last year’s Fraser River sock- to display the MSC logo. eye disaster was hitting snags as     critics attacked the selection of Hake season starts: B.C.’s hake DFO-connected scientists for the [Pacific whiting] fishery was well advisory panel. under way by mid-July, with more Well, it appears some of that criti- boats participating and catches pick- cism seems to have hit a nerve with ing up as well. one scientist, who resigned July Just like on the U.S. side of the bor- 7 from the Cohen Commission of der, though, at the start of the season, Inquiry. the Canadian fleet had experienced Brian Riddell, a DFO scientist for widely spread-out fish, with lots of 30 years and now working for the rockfish in the mix. Pacific Salmon Foundation, said As of July 19, the offshore catch of in a statement that he was quitting Fraser RiRiver er sockesockeye e nonow are qqualified alified to bear the MSC logo along hake reached 10,108 metric tons out because he had agreed to sit on the with other B.C. sockeye from the Nass and Skeena rivers and Bark- of an offshore quota of 54,000 tons. advisory panel with the understand- ley Sound. This load of 2006 Fraser River sockeye was transported No landings were reported for the in RSW aboard the salmon tender vessel Hesquiat from Johnstone ing that panelists could also appear Gulf of Georgia quota of 9,298 tons. Strait to the Canadian Fishing Co.’s cannery in Prince Rupert. as witnesses. The offshore joint venture fishery is “However, that understanding has designated a quota of 7,353 tons. That fishery also had not started. now changed,” his statement said. “The commission policy is now Barry Ackerman, DFO groundfish trawl coordinator for the that panel members cannot also be called as witnesses.” Pacific Region, said that the fishery was slow to start, but it doesn’t With Riddell off the panel, he may now appear as a witness. usually get into full swing until late July or early August. Member of Parliament John Cummins, one of the main critics of “Catches have been improving, and we are seeing more effort,” the presence of Riddell and other DFO-connected scientists on the he said. “They are fishing due west of Ucluelet.” panel, said Riddell’s resignation was a good start. Ackerman acknowledged that there was some bycatch of “It was obvious from the moment of his appointment as a rockfish, but pointed out that Canada’s quota system regulates the scientific advisor to the inquiry that something was amiss,” catch numbers. Cummins said in a statement. “Riddell’s work at DFO will be “There is concern with bycatch there, but all the vessels are under review by the inquiry. He could not provide advice to fishing with ITQs [transferable quota] under the integrated Cohen at the same time as Cohen was investigating his work. groundfish management program,” he said. “Bycatch levels are Furthermore, he is now lobbying for more money from DFO higher than what we could normally anticipate, but it is early in for the Pacific Salmon Foundation, which he currently heads.” the season, and I would expect that the bycatch will drop as the Cummins said that most of the other science panelists have been season progresses.” intimately involved in the work of DFO and have been providing Hake trawler George Radil, owner of the Canadian # 1, said in advice to it for many years. July he had just returned from his second trip of the season. “We should next see the resignations of Carl Walters, Paul “We got a load out of it in two days,” he said. “There is some LeBlond, and Thomas Quinn,” Cummins said. “It is time for the fish there, but not a whole lot — and there’s a big fleet with Cohen Inquiry to start again with a clean slate, with staff and everybody getting into operating now.” advisors who have not been involved in advising DFO, which is the Radil said there was not as much bycatch on his most party under investigation.” recent trip. The hearings have been delayed from the planned Sept. 7 start to Hake fishermen avoid catching the other species anyway, he Oct. 25 while the commission waits for more documents from the points out federal government. “You put yourself out of business if you get too much,” he said. Under Canada’s West Coast groundfish quota system, every fish Michel Drouin covers commercial fishing in the North Pacific from Vancouver.

28 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM MID-COAST REPORT by Cassandra Marie Profi ta Albacore big this year, attack on gillnets, salmon market Big albacore: In the first few weeks of July, tuna trollers were suppliers to go tuna fishing instead of continu- hooking hefty albacore, averaging 17 to 18 pounds each, 80 to 100 ing to catch salmon in Oregon and California. miles from the Oregon shore. “It’s bogus,” Coos Bay salmon troller Paul At $2,900 a ton for blast-bled, the price was nice too. Heikkila said of the aquarium rating. “But there Albacore typically average 12 to 14 pounds, said Wayne Heikkila, was some pressure on them to do something director of the Western Fishboat Owners Association. about it.” Toward the end of July, the fishing turned south, and the weather Heikkila said new reports from the genetic sampling program in got ugly. Even the price simmered down to $2,700 a ton for blast- the ocean salmon fishery show about half the fish caught by trollers bled, and fresh albacore was selling between 85 cents and $1 a pound off the West Coast comes from the Columbia River. in Oregon. High winds churned the ocean and chilled the water to a As noted earlier (see above), Columbia River fish is still rated as a few degrees colder than normal, cooling off the catch rate. good eco-friendly alternative. But Heikkila said the tuna loin market has been improving every     year in the U.S. and Canada. This summer, the European tuna fishery Screaming for hake: The shoreside whiting fleet tied up for a few was catching its fair share, putting a damper on overseas demand for weeks in July to wait for better fishing. Northwest albacore, he said. By the time they made it back on the water July 20, fish plants And Heikkila said buyers were too concerned with economic were hard up for hake. conditions to put a lot of stock in the fishery’s new (as of last year) The price rose to 10 cents a pound (up from 9 cents earlier) for Marine Stewardship Council sustainability certification. bigger fish as boats on the Oregon coast ventured out to the one spot “It’s going to take some time,” Heikkila said. “We’ll see what where they could find good-size hake without rockfish interference. happens when the economy turns around.” “It’s not going to last very long,” said Warrenton trawler Gary     Wintersteen. “The entire Westport and Columbia River hake fleet Pressure group denounces gillnets: The politically charged is out here off the Garibaldi reef. They’re beautiful fish, but it’s not a sport fishing seized on an opportunity to zing Columbia River gill- heavy patch.” netters and Alaska salmon fishermen in July, after the Monterey Bay One of the few encouraging signs for the hake fleet this year was Aquarium released its new advice on which salmon is eco-friendly. lots of small fish, promising better seasons to come. The aquarium shocked salmon trollers with a new “avoid” warning on California and Oregon troll-caught salmon, but it listed Pacific Fishing columnist Cassandra Marie Profita covers commercial Columbia River salmon as a “good alternative.” fishing for The Daily Astorian. CCA’s regional director, Bryan Irwin, responded to the listing with an opinion piece in The Oregonian newspaper, saying the Columbia River gillnet salmon fishery is not an ecologically sound option. (See Page 23). “Currently, the commercial fishing gear used in the Columbia River is non-selective,” he wrote. “It does not distinguish between a hatchery-raised salmon and a wild salmon. … Oregon is one of the few places in the country to still allow gillnets, a method clearly at odds with the state’s longstanding commitment to sustainable practices.” The aquarium Fish Watch list advocated for wild-caught Alaska salmon as the “best choice” for environmentally conscious consumers. But Irwin noted that many fish caught in Alaska come from the Columbia River and migrate north before returning to spawn. “That’s not a ‘Best Choice’ scenario,” he wrote. Irwin’s posturing confirms what commercial fishermen in To get to know Alaska,we had to break the ice. 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The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit Six children lost their fathers in this tragedy and the “We don’t yet know the details of why this organization committed to the education, Foundation will provide scholarship funds to each accident happened; but we do know four welfare and morale of all Coast Guard members one to assist with higher education expenses. guardians went out on a mission and did not and their families, is conducting a fundraising all come back,” continued Ms. Brengle. “Every drive for its emergency Family Disaster Relief “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the crew, their time they step onto a helicopter, a fl ight deck, a Fund in response to the Coast Guard MH-60T families and the entire Coast Guard,” said Anne cutter or a small boat, there’s a risk. But they do Jayhawk helicopter crash off the coast of La Brengle, president of the Coast Guard Foundation. it everyday to support and serve the individuals Push, Washington on July 7th, that claimed the “At this time of great tragedy, we are reminded of this nation. We hope others will join us in lives of three servicemen. The crewmembers that the Coast Guard is a big family and when supporting these heroes’ families through this of CG-6017 were based at Air Station disaster strikes, we all come together to support diffi cult time.” Sitka, Alaska. one another. By extension, the Coast Guard Foundation and its donors are a part of that family. The Coast Guard Foundation is working with The Coast Guard Foundation is seeking fi nancial Your support is needed now to help the families of Coast Guard headquarters and its Seventeenth support for the Family Disaster Relief Fund. these fallen heroes.” District to identify the needs of the families and This fund provides immediate assistance to the how it can best provide assistance in response families of the fallen crewmembers as they deal The Coast Guard has identifi ed the lost personnel to this tragedy. with this tragedy, and will provide comfort for as Lt. Sean D. Krueger of Seymour, Connecticut, other Coast Guard families who fi nd themselves pilot, age 33; AMT1 Adam C. Hoke of Great Falls, Those wishing to support the Family Disaster in similar devastating circumstances. The Coast Montana, fl ight mechanic, age 40; and AMT2 Relief Fund and the Fallen Heroes Scholarship Guard Foundation also seeks support for the Brett M. Banks of Rock Springs, Wyoming, fl ight Fund may visit the Coast Guard Foundation’s Fallen Heroes Scholarship Fund, which provides mechanic, age 33. The only survivor of the crash, website at www.coastguardfoundation.org, call college scholarships for the children of Coast Lt. Lance D. Leone of Ventura, California, co-pilot, the Foundation at 860-535-0786 or fax a note Guard members who perish in the line of duty. age 29, is recovering from injuries. to 860-535-0944.

CleaningC up Puget Sound Commercial and recreational fi shing is a way of life in Puget Sound and hhelps defi ne the culture of the Pacifi c Northwest. Unfortunately, decades of tthriving commercial and recreational fi sheries in Puget Sound have left tons of old fi shing gear behind. This lost gear — gillnets, purse seines, shrimp and crab pots — can contontinue to entangle and kill a variety The OFCC has released the results of their latest undersea cable of marine animals and cover up reefs and other marine habitats. inspection. The Alaska United Fiber System — West Cable was inspected in June at seven sites ranging from 8 fms to over 600 fms. The Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative has taken The sites for inspection were selected based on criteria that included on the removal of this lost gear. Working in cooperation with areas heavily fi shed, areas close to shore where sediment transport commercial fi shermen and using trained divers and removal may occur, areas with steep slopes and areas that were identifi ed vessels, the Initiative has removed more than 3,000 partial gillnets during the installation as having possible hazards such as low (average size is 7,000 square feet) and 2,000 crab pots since 2002. burial, exposed or suspended cable. The inspection was carried out One year ago, the Initiative received $4.6 million in federal stimulus by the TE SubCom cableship CS Global Sentinel which is based in funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Portland, OR. to remove nearly all of the remaining gillnets from Puget Sound. The project employs about 30 people including divers, boat pilots While the inspection indicated that the cable is well buried for the and biologists and will be completed by December of this year. most part, two suspensions were discovered during the inspection. By cleaning up the lost nets, thousands of fi sh, birds and marine One exposure is about 5’ high over a natural seabed depression that mammals avoid being entangled and hundreds of acres of marine is about 41’ across. The cable is well buried on both sides of this habitat are restored. sinkhole located in about 430 fms. No trawlers are known to have hung up on this exposure; this is likely due to its close proximity to The Initiative takes a no-fault approach to derelict gear removal. a large seabed obstruction, possibly a barge, which was discovered It focuses on removing old gear and preventing new losses in a using sidescan sonar during the original cable route survey. T he other non-regulatory manner and appreciates its partnership with the exposure is located in 546 fms less than 125 yards from the Astoria commercial fi shing industry. The no-fault approach encourages Canyon Essential Fish Habitat (no trawl) conservation area. Trawlers fi shermen to report lost nets so they can be removed quickly. or longliners needing the coordinates of the exposures and the To learn more about the Initiative and its derelict fi shing program barge can call the OFCC offi ce at 503 325-2285 or GCI (Alaska United) and to report lost gear, please visit www.derelictgear.org at 888 442-8662. “What's New” is a service of Pacific Fishing's Advertising Department. Contact Diane Sandvik at (206) 962-9315 for more information.

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We specialize in all posi- tions including: • Deckhands & Processors • Mates & Captains • Engineers 58 ft Delta, New L.P. paint, New U.H.M.W. guards and cap rails, new tail shaft, new inter- • Cooks mediate shaft, new bearings, new John Deere FOR SALE aux., rebuilt refrigeration, A.M. Aluminum 8” • Etc. 58' Delta. F/V Cape Reliant is ready to fish your 45 ft. glass Sunnfjord longliner/troller: 6552 boom w/slider, 28” Marco powerblock with lb. 2C-C Halibut quota, Choice beachfront ifq’s in 2008. Safe and reliable. Flexible schedule/ Go to: tire and swivel, new Valvoil hydraulic valves, cabin/property in Port Alexander, Alaska. Boat terms. Call (907) 518-1652 or (907) 772-3737 or two new picking booms, new #8, two #4’s, AlaskaCrewFinder.com (only): $130,000. Contact (907) 738-8294. dispatch: 0703 or Sat. phone: (866) 621-8890. and vanging pullmaster winches, new air boot p.t.o., newer electronics. Asking $800,000; contact Tom at (310)505-8194. (206)789-5101 Dock Street Brokers (800)683-0297 ALASKA FISHING INDUSTRY JOBS Use AlaskaJobFinder.com to help you land your next position – deckhands, engineers, mates, captains, processors, cooks, management, etc. Try it FREE at: BB10-016 32’x15’ aluminum Bris- www.AlaskaJobFinder.com/trial tol Bay boat, twin GMC 6V53, flush CH10-002 42’ fiberglass trawler built CR10-005 93’x30.8’x11.8’ crab- deck, auto-levelwind. Many new by California Yacht in 1979. Twin ber/ tender/ research vessel built electronics. Big, comfortable boat. Cat 3208 210 hp mains. Northern in 1974 by Marine Power & Equip- Asking $190,000. Lights 8kw aux. Complete,modern, ment, sponsoned in 1991. Detroit electronics package. Meticulously V16-149 rated at 940 hp. (2) G.M maintained, no expense spared. HALIBUT IFQ Model 50 232 kw new 1999. GM Asking $125,000. 2C & 3A: Buyers looking! 4-71 75 kw. 30 ton deck mounted 3B-B-B: 12,500 lbs....asking $23.00 RSW system. Full tendering pack- 3B-B-B: 12,500 lbs....asking $23.00 3B-C-U: 22,000 lbs....asking $24.00 age. Possible lease of approxi- 3B-C-B: 5,000 lbs...... asking $19.00 mately 270,000# of opilio crab. 4A-B-U: 20,000 lbs....asking $16.00 Asking $850,000. 4A-B-B: 6,800 lbs...... asking $13.00 4A-C-B: 3,500 lbs...... asking $12.00 4B-B-U: 10,000 lbs....asking $12.00 4B-B-B: 7,000 lbs...... asking $10.00 4B-C-B: 7,500 lbs...... asking $9.50 F/V SARSEN - 53' ketch rigged motor sailer. 4C-D-U: 4,300 lbs...... asking $12.50 SE10-006 47’x14.3’x3’ fiberglass Price $210,000 cash or trade. Boat built 1994 4D-B-B: 2,500 lbs...... asking $10.00 seiner built by Kodiak Marine in Port Townsend, Skookum mold, Blue Water 1982. Twin John Deere mains boat. Engine 6-71 Detroit, 36-inch prop, FG SABLEFISH IFQ new in 2006 with only 4,100 hours. construction. Fish hold: 28,000 lbs., frozen 25 minus. 2,000+ gal. fuel, sails perfect condition, CG & SE: Buyers looking! Northern Lights 5KW generator. 12 ton IMS rsw system. 38,000# LL9-005 62.5’x16.4’ halibut schoo- Northern Lights gen. 121/2 kW, all electronics, BS-B-B: 30,000 lbs ...... asking $4.25 top brands, VHF, radar, weather fax, low-freq. capacity. Kolstrand deckwinch, ner. Deere 350 hp main, 12 kw gen C G - C - U : 10,000 lbs...... asking $23.00 radio, autopilot, GPS. Worked tuna three WG-C-B: 7,500 lbs ...... asking $13.00 twin picking booms, Pullmaster set. Really nice condition. Comes years, bottom painted and checked every WG-C-B: 12,000 lbs ...... asking $13.00 winches and a slider on the main with locker full of gear. Asking season. Selling due to other business, no time WG-B-U: 14,000 lbs ...... asking $14.00 boom. Asking $250,000. $210,000. to fi sh. Phone Capt. Mark Pratt, (pager) (206) 595-3146 or F.W. Pratt, (406) 671-5080. Boat in Come see us at www.dockstreetbrokers.com. Ilwaco, WA.

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 35 PACIFIC FISHING classifieds BOX score Boats/Permits/IFQs Alaska Entry Permit Prices (as of 9-1-10) State SpeciesFishery Asking Price* Offer* Value* SALMON S SE DRIFT 62 60- 56.2+ Spend your S PWS DRIFT 135 130- 117.3+ S COOK INLET DRIFT 36+ 25+ 26.5- S AREA M DRIFT 120 115 106.6+ S BRISTOL BAY DRIFT 125+ 120+ 96.2+ time looking S SE SEINE 92- 87 76.1+ S PWS SEINE 110 102+ 87.4 S COOK INLET SEINE 28 17 16.9 S KODIAK SEINE 32+ 30+ 27.5+ S CHIGNIK SEINE 100+ 73.5+ 83.1+ for fish. S AREA M SEINE 70 60 59.1- S COOK INLET SET 15+ 12 13.5+ S AREA M SET NET 60+ 50+ 50.6 S BRISTOL SET NET 32 30 28.7+ Not S LOWER YUKON 8.5 N/A 9.1 S POWER TROLL 30 30 29.5+ S HAND TROLL 10.5+ 10 9.9+ HERRING financing. H SE GILLNET 16+ 14 15.8+ H KODIAK GILLNET 5 4 4 H SITKA SEINE 600 500 290 H PWS SEINE N/A 30 10.3 H COOK INLET SEINE 25 15 9.3 We Finance H KODIAK SEINE 24 20 21.3 H SE POUND SOUTH 17 16 18.8 H SE POUND NORTH 58 55 62.5 t1FSNJUT H PWS POUND 4 3 2.9 SHELLFISH t3FBMFTUBUF S SE DUNGY 75 POT 14+ 10 13.6- S SE DUNGY 150 POT 24 N/A 26.5- t7FTTFMT S SE DUNGY 225 POT 40 37 40.8 t&RVJQNFOU S SE DUNGY 300 POT 70 60 67 S SE POT SHRIMP 15.25- 15- 15.5+ t3FQPXFST S KODIAK TANNER <60 26- 25 24.8 S PUGET SOUND DUNGY 80+ 75 N/A t0QFSBUJOHMJOFTPGDSFEJU S WASHINGTON DUNGY 1,500-2,750/FT 1,000-2,500/FT N/A S OREGON DUNGY 1,000-2,500/FT 800-2,250/FT N/A t:PVOHBOECFHJOOJOHGJTIFSNBO S CALIFORNIA DUNGY 800-1,500/FT+ 500-1,200/FT+ N/A SE ALASKA DIVE SE AK Dive URCHIN 5 N/A 3.6+ SE AK Dive CUCUMBER 11 10 10.6- SE AK Dive GEODUCK 77 75 78.6+

800.372.0112 Prices in SEPTEMBER vary in accordance with market conditions.* in thousands + denotes an increase from last month. N/A denotes No Activity. farm-credit.com/fisheries – denotes a decrease from last month. By Mike Painter and the Permit Master Gillnet: With ex-vessel advances for the Bay close to $1/lb. demand for permits was up as soon as the season was over. Off ers started to come in @ $120k and sellers were holding out. Interest in SE permits had dropped off mid-season, with permits available in the low $60s. PWS permits were still available @ $135k. Good fi shing in Cook Inlet had those permits jumping into the mid $30s in late July. Area M permits were still available with recent off ers only coming up to $100k. Seine: SE permits were holding in the lower $90s, but fi shing was slow and interest was down. PWS permits were available, with a recent sale at just over $100k. Kodiak permits were scarce with off ers coming in around $30k. Area M permits were holding @ $70k. Troll: Power Troll permits were listed @ $30k or more, but no new off ers since King season. Hand troll permits were still available at $10k plus. Buyers were looking for Washington permits. Interest in Oregon permits was pretty quiet. Crab/Shrimp: Puget Sound crab permits were available. The new benchmark for today is $80k, take it or leave it. Buyers were starting to look for the elusive 500 pot coast permits, but they are pretty hard to come by.

36 PACIFICFISHING SEPTEMBER 2010 WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM PACIFIC FISHING classifieds Boats/Permits/IFQs Halibut & Sablefish IFQ Prices Recent market activity in halibut and sablefish quota shares

Status Vessel Poundage Ask Offer Regulatory (blocked/ (per pound) (per pound) Species Area Category* (thousands) unblocked) Low High Low High H 2C D 1-10 B 21.00-25.00 20.00-24.00 H 2C C/B 1-3 B 22.00-25.00 21.00-24.50 H 2C C/B 4-10 B 24.00-26.00 24.00-25.00 H 2C C/B ANY U 26.00-28.00 24.00-25.00 H 2C A B/U N/A 25.00 H 3A D B/U 21.00-28.00 20.00-26.00 H 3A C/B 1-5 B 22.00-25.00 20.00-23.50 H 3A C/B 5-10 B 25.00-27.00 24.00-26.00 H 3A C/B >10 B 27.00-29.00 26.00-27.00 H 3A C/B >10 U 29.00-31.00 27.00-29.00 H 3A A B/U 28.00 26.00 H 3B D B 17.00-23.00 16.00-19.00 H 3B C/B 1-10 B 17.00-20.00 17.00-19.00 H 3B C/B >10 B 20.00-23.00 18.00-20.00 H 3B C/B >10 U 23.00-24.00 21.00-22.00 H 3B A B/U N/A 22.00 H 4A D B/U 10.00-14.00 9.00-10.00 H 4A C/B 1-10 B 11.00-12.00 10.00-11.00 H 4A C/B >10 B 14.00-16.00 10.00-12.00 H 4A C/B >10 U 16.00-18.00 13.00-15.00 H 4B/C/D C/B 1-10 B 9.50-13.00 7.00-8.50 H 4B/C/D C/B >10 B/U 11.00-15.00 9.00-11.00 S SE C/B 1-10 B 19.00-22.00 19.00-21.00 S SE C/B >10 U 22.00-23.50 22.00-23.50 S SE A B/U 30.00 24.00 S WY C/B 1-10 B 19.00-22.00 19.00-21.00 S WY C/B >10 U 22.00-23.00 21.00-22.00 S WY A B/U 25.00 23.00 S CG C/B 1-10 B 17.00-20.00 16.00-18.00 S CG C/B >10 B/U 20.00-23.00 18.00-20.00 S CG A B/U 20.00 20.00 S WG C/B 1-10 B 10.00-12.00 9.00-11.00 S WG C/B >10 B 12.00-14.00 10.00-12.00 ® S WG C/B/A >10 U 14.00-16.00 12.00-13.00 S AI C/B/A B/U 1.25-5.00 1.00-2.50 S BS C/B B/U 2.00-5.00 2.00-4.00 S BS A B/U 7.00-9.00 5.00

(206) 784-3703 *Vessel Categories: A = freezer boats B = over 60’ C = 35’-60’ D = < 35’ FAX (206) 784-8823 4300 11th Ave. N.W. NOTE: Halibut prices reflect net weight, sablefish round weight. Pricing for leased shares Seattle, WA 98107 is expressed as a percentage of gross proceeds. ** Too few to characterize. www.coastalmarineengine.com

By Mike Painter and the Permit Master Alaska Boats & Permits, Inc. PO BOX 505, HOMER ALASKA 99603 FULL SERVICE MARINE BROKERAGE FAX: 907-235-4965 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Off ers for quota continued to creep up even though, in some cases, there wasn’t even quota 800-992-4960 907-235-4966 available. Fished quota is continuing to come on the market, but at prices higher than unfi shed UPDATED LISTINGS ON THE WEB from this spring. Off ers for fi shed quota are up also. The only relative deals are out west. www.alaskaboat.com IFQs PERMITS VESSELS

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 37 PACIFIC FISHING classifieds FOR SALE Three Hamilon 321 jet pumps for sale. Each unit comes with two impellers (valued at 5K apiece new). Each unit has been totally gone thru and rebuilt. Spare impeller is new for each unit, impeller in the pumps are rebuilt. Each unit is in “like new” condition. Asking 20K obo for each unit. Please call (360) F/V QUIK SET – 32x13, 1987 Alucraft BBay 961-5747 or email: [email protected] sternpicker. 3208T Cat diesel with approx. 6000 hrs. HD hydraulics, narrow drum w/ FOR SALE: Mustad Auto Baiting System for BOAT FOR SALE auto levelwind. Packs 18000+ under hatches. sale. Includes Baiter, Combe, 20 magazines LOA 95’; Beam 25’; Gross Tons 160; Net Exceptional maintenance of boat-equipment by of gear, and all rails and hangers. Fits on a Tons 48. Built in Bayou Labatre, AL. Year F/V CARLYNN is available to harvest halibut in same owner for 13 years. Turn key with many 58 foot boat. $45,000 for all OBO. Call: (907) 1999; Engine CAT-3412; H.P. 671; Auxiliary areas 2c, 3a, and 3b. Black cod in areas SE, WY, recent upgrades. Owner will help commission 253-7435 or email: [email protected] CAT-3056. Price: $450,000 USD. Location: and CG. Flexible rates and scheduling good ref- for 2010 season. Call Brad at (253) 261-5340 Ensenada, B.C. Mexico. Recently hauled erences. All #1 fish and best prices at time of or (253) 852-5513 wk. for pictures/specifi cs. (February) new paint ,new zincs and clean! delivery. Please call to plan for ’09 and beyond. Located Dillingham, AK. 105K Contact Luis Castaneda at: 484 Bonito Ave., Rob at (907) 321-0486 or (907) 364-3813. Imperial Beach, CA 91932 USA. Or email: [email protected]. Seabrooke Enterprises LLC, owners of F/V Seabrooke, are interested in LEASING FOR SALE CRAB QUOTA. We offer: skipper (father/ GMC 653 engine block: rebuilt. Zero hours, son team) with over 30 years of combined $7000.00. Call: (206) 399-1699.. experience; vessel professionally operated/ managed, above average catch history, ex- ceptionally well-maintained (hauled every two years), economical to operate with all Caterpillar power, current survey on request, competitive harvest rates, desire FOR SALE F/V O-See-O. Length: 44', weight: 13', depth: to stay actively involved in fi sheries. If you FOR SALE are interested in LEASING CRAB QUOTA, 7', engine – new 6.7 Gimmy. All geared for 58' x 24' Jensen designed steel limit seiner, please contact us: offi ce (541) 938-3542, power trolling. Please call 1 (907) 874-2484 Dual refrigeration, Cat power, Packs over (509) 522-5252; cell (509) 520-0911, or email: [email protected]. (509) 200-9508; fax (541) 938-8164; 150,00#s. 95% complete. Serious inquiries email [email protected]. only. (714) 401-8239. F/V POST POINT – 32 X 13.4 1990 ALFA/NW Marine Fabrication Bristol Bay Gillnetter; 3208 F/V TRADITION – 58' x 21' Tradition will fi sh 37' Fiberglass Troller/combo Cat TD5111 Gearbox; IMS RSW Bowthruster; your halibut and blackcod IFQs, April through Economical Isuzu Diesel, electronics, power steering; load sense hydraulics; powered September. Outstanding experienced crew exceptionally tidy, streamlined and turnkey. off gearbox PTO; 200 fathom piston drive reel with great catch record. We catch ‘em fast Email for pictures. Located in Victoria BC w/autolevelwind; fl ush deck and much more. and always target the best grade. We shop – short walk from the Seattle/Port Angeles This boat is easy to maintain and fi sh located for the hightest prices, traveling the distance ferry. $69K/obo – [email protected] – at Leader Creek Naknek Alaska. FOR SALE after when needed. VERY competitive rates. Call (250) 642-3551. 2010 Salmon Season. (360) 223-3583. Blake (503) 440-1523 (please leave message).

The Hawaii Longline Association announces an opening for the following position:

F/V FISH TRAP – Bristol Bay Jet Boat. 2006 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Banner Boatworks, twin 6108 Luggers, 330 Interested applicants should submit their professional résumés to: hp, 13" Doen Jets, 7.5 ton RSW-IMS. Proven design, sleeps 6, open deck, set off the bow or HAWAII LONGLINE ASSOCIATION stearn. $310,000. Drift permit available with 45-519 Mokulele Drive, Kaneohe, HI 96744 sale – at market. Dan (907) 399-1884; (907) or by email to: [email protected] 235-6612. FOR SALE The Hawaii Longline Association is interested in hiring a full-time, highly 875 Meshes X 300 F WC salmon seine from BC. qualified and experienced individual to be the Executive Director of the Shirt line and SS rings, well maintained. $4,000. Hawaii Longline Association (HLA). The HLA is a 501c (6) non-profit (604) 619-6090 or email [email protected]. organization dedicated to supporting the commercial fisheries and FOR SALE fishermen of Hawaii. HLA members have pioneered and adopted many Salmon seine, herring seine, power skiff with of the mitigation measures that have been demonstrated to dramatically nozzle, 3/8 Everson halibut tub gear, buoyline, bladders, anchors, flagpoles, gurdy. 65' boat reduce the interaction of the fisheries with sea turtles, sea birds and ma- with freezer, rigged for tuna, halibut, salmon, rine mammals. In addition, HLA members work closely with NOAA Fisher- herring, tuna gurdys and gear all discounted ies, the Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council, the Inter 75%. (604) 241-0594. http://us.mc655.mail. American Tropical Tuna Commission and the Western and Central Pacific yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=captmike@shaw. ca"/t"_blank" or email: [email protected]. LET'S FISH YOUR IFQ Fisheries Commission in order to operate in a sustainable and professional Halibut and Black Cod. F/V Sierra Mar manner. Qualified applicants will possess strong background in state, feder- FOR SALE 58' Delta, works all seasons and all areas al, and international fisheries management and processes. This position will Marco 26" block with power gripper and open and walkons, leases,crewing owners and require strong administration and communications skills and will include: shieve, w/o hydraulic swivel. Ten years old: all parteners are welcome to call. This $7,500 or best offer. Call: (206) 915-8345, boat, operation and crew are safe, clean s!DVOCACYOFINDUSTRYPOSITIONS email: 1wildfi [email protected]. and reliable. Marco Auto baiter, good s-EDIARELATIONS grub, longtime crew and all area experi- ence and best %’s with crew share, no s'RANTWRITING FISH WITH THE VIKING! #2’s and bycatch for Q owner make this s,IAISONWITHlSHERYMANAGEMENTORGANIZATIONS Maximize your IFQ return on boat a good call. Annual upgrades and s2ESPONDINGTOADMINISTRATIONANDCONGRESSIONALINQUIRIES the F/V Viking Spirit maintainance done every off season. • Mustad Autobaiter • Great sea boat Please call for more information, sched- This position will offer a competitive compensation package w/shelter deck • Outstanding crew ualing, references and possibilities fro Résumés will be held in confidence. 2010 and beyond. Kevin Seabeck (206) • Can meet or beat any rates 399-9267 or [email protected]. Closing date for submission of résumés is October 1, 2010 Call Pete (425) 205-0996

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EXXON PLAINTIFFS (lien agents) Has distribution of your Exxon funds taken over 6 months to receive? Join a special- ALASKA FISHERMEN SERVICES ized class action to petition Exxon Qualifi ed Settlement Fund to promptly process your payments. If interested, you may fax your * IFQs * Groundfish request to (425) 671-0053, Curt Peterson, co-plaintiff. Requests will be collectively forwarded to E.Q.S.F. If plaintiffs would like * Limited Entry Permits monthly updated progress reports, provide F/V LISA GAYLE is available to fi sh your an email address. IFQ. Flexible rates, comfortable boat. Call * Fishing Vessel Sales to schedule a convenient time to fi sh. (503) 791-2887 cell. (541) 568-4051. Great rates for large quotas! * Marine Business Brokerage FOR SALE: Three brand new SE nets. 300 fthm 6", 200 fthm 5-1/4" and 200 fthm 7-1/4". A * Fleet/Vessel Management very good deal at $10K for the package. (907) 539-6178. (888) 742-4800 www.AlaskaFishermen.com

BOAT FOR SALE: NEW! CALL THE CLAM MAN 47.5' Seiner/Longliner/Crabber Kodiak, Alaska. For all your clam needs. Cockles, steamers $272,000. Negotiable. Gear and permits for FOR SALE OR TRADE butters and horse necks. Human consump- Kodiak salmon seine, herring gillnet, tanner tion or bait. Also commercial diving supplies. crab. Hamm design hull. 8000 hours John Deere FOR SALE IFQ-QS Call Doug’s Diving, (503) 322-2200 or (800) engine. 800 Wesmar sonar/TracPhone. 18 ton 39' BHM 1987 New QSM11 350-450 H.P. 18,000 lbs. Halibut 355-DIVE, www.dougsdiving.com. RSW system/ packs 40,0000 lbs salmon. (808) (200hrs.) New 10Kw gen. (50 hrs.) Split 658-0390, (808) 658-5057 fiorentino.mary@ Wheelhouse, Hyd., Puller, 2 Radars, GPS Plotter, Class C shares FOR SALE gmail.com Fishfi nder, Autopilot, VHF, AM-FM-CD. Ca. Lobster Togiak Herring Seine and Skiff. $5500 OBO. Seine permit, Socal. Nearshore permit, Gillnet permit, Sell or trade for: hung by Jack & Joe of Bellingham. 50% web hung in. Good shape. Skiff 16' fi berglass Olsen. Harvest your A, B, or C IFQ’s Salmon Permit. Boat with permits $295K boat Black cod, western gulf only $225K. Lobster permit-$95K. Nearshore Needs outboard motor. Phone (360) 951-6058. on the F/V Expatriate permit-$50K. Gillnet permit-$10K. After sale of and/or 4B Halibut FOR SALE A fully equipped and well maintained 58’ Delta. boat only. (805) 290-5370 Experienced captain and crew with a reputation for No Brokers please. S.S. 4 Blade Prop. Skewed Kaplan style, 5" Bore quality; best markets for your catch. Buyer references FOR SALE: California Commercial Lobster R.H., 63" Dia. x 58" Pitch. $9,000. Call: (360) available. Operator's Permit, transferable, from San Fax: (907) 235-5412 671-1354. Call 907-772-4856 weekdays Diego. CA. We are a private party, not broker. Cell: (907) 299-4026 LONGLINE CLIPS OR mobile 602-320-9050 $51,000 asking price. Email: Itomlins@ Wanted to buy: Wagner 5" or similar longline clips. san.rr.com or (619) 742-1992. (509) 679-0384

Pacific Fishing in December: BROADBAND UPDATE

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM SEPTEMBER 2010 PACIFICFISHING 39 PACIFIC FISHING classifieds ADVERTISERS INDEX California light boats and purse seiners for Alaska Boats and Permits ...... 37 squid and sardines with permits available now. Call Don (949) 279-9369. Alaska Division of Investments ...... 27 FOR SALE, LEASE, OR ME W/GEAR, (New!) 100, Alaska Fishermen Services ...... 39 90#, 38" airport pots, Rigged ready to splash, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute ...... 2 Many extras, 25 years on the ocean, 17 years Alaska United/GCI ...... 42 crab, Coast guard licensed, Looking for quality boat, Or sell everything. Call for complete details. AlaskaCrewFinder.com ...... 35 (541) 226-7000 AlaskaJobFinder.com ...... 35 Alaskan Quota & Permits ...... 37 American Seafoods/Coast Guard ...... 7 Baier Marine ...... 18 Ballard Electric ...... 33 Black Pearl IFQ Fisheries ...... 37 Coastal Marine Engine, Inc...... 37 Copper River Boat & Permits, LLC ...... 40 FOR SALE Cummins ...... 44 Large Shipwright Complex close to down- town Petersburg, Alaska. Retail store, Dana F. Besecker Co ...... 32 wood working and metal shops, railway, Delta Western ...... 12 docks, rental income and tideland leases Diesel America West ...... 33 for expansion. Located in the busy fi shing community of Petersburg. Call George Dock Street Brokers ...... 35 Doyle, Broker — Petersburg Properties Englund Marine ...... 20 LLC at (907) 772-6000 or visit us at Fisheries Supply ...... 10 www.petersburgproperties.com. Fleet Refrigeration ...... 6 FOR SALE FORS ...... 33 Two California purse seiners available. Ready Foss Shipyard ...... 11, 32 to fish. Complete boats with market squid Gibbons & Associates, P.S...... 31 permits and sardine permits. Priced to sell quick at $429,000. Call Don (949) 279-9369. Giddings Boat Works...... 19 Hans Johnson ...... 39 FOR SALE Three California light boats available with or Hawaii Longline Assn ...... 38 without permits. One boat and permit at only Hockema & Whalen Associates ...... 31 $79,000. One 12 ton brail or light boat permit Inmarsat North America ...... 23 at only $52,000. All priced to sell. Call Don (949) 279-9369. Integrated Marine Systems ...... 5 Inventive Marine Products ...... 15 F/V ELIZABETH S (47 ft. Delta) available to harvest c class 2c, 3a halibut and SE blackcod. Jackson, Morgan & Hunt ...... 32 Competitive rates for hired skipper, medical Kraft Palmer Davies, PLLC ...... 9 transfers, or walk-ons. Small blocks welcome. KVH Industries ...... 43 Contact Daniel Smith at (907) 209-2215. Ladner Traps ...... 33 NEW Law Offi ce of Paul L. Anderson, PLLC ...... 31 Kaplan style prop, 59.5" diameter by 60" pitch. 4" standard taper with 70% DAR: RH. LFS, Inc...... 18 For sale at $8,000. Contact: Steve Drage, MER Equipment ...... 33 (503) 338-6190. Mikkelborg Law Offi ces ...... 31 Fishing MASTERS AND ENGINEERS WANTED Mondo Polymer Technology ...... 17 for fishing opportunity in South Pacific. USCG Norm Pillen ...... 35 3000T/Unlimited Masters and Chief Engineer Northport Fisheries...... 33 License Required. Send resume to ports@ faststream.us Notus Electronics ...... 21 SMALL BOAT TRAWL WINCHES NPFVOA ...... 39 Approx. 550 H.P., 500 fath. 5/8 wire. Starting NW Farm Credit Services ...... 36 at $19,500. Available Nov. 2010. Call: (360) Ocean Traps ...... 32 671-1354. Osborne Propellers Ltd...... 32 FOR SALE CAT D375 located in Petersburg.30,000 hours PacWest Refrigeration ...... 14 in federal government service, very well PF’s “What’s New” ...... 30 maintained. RepoweRing vessel – Make offer. Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op ...... 8 (907) 772-4625. Rigby Marine ...... 33 WANTED 2C unblocked halibut quota. Will pay $24/lb. Rocky’s Marine ...... 17 Call Roger: (907) 789-9504 or (907) 723-4642 Ryco Equipment...... 16 (cell). Email: [email protected]. Satellite Technical Services ...... 25 FOR SALE: 60 tubs dogfish/cod gear, 70 tubs Seabrooke Enterprises LLC ...... 38 halibut gear, 20 anchors, 14 flagpoles,chute, Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co...... 24 12 buoys, gurdy, herring seine,10" herring pump, powerskiff-6 cyl ford with nozzle, Silver Horde Fishing Supplies ...... 33 salmon seines 5.75, 8.75. ph (604) 241-0594 Spurs Line & Net Cutter Systems ...... 41 The Permit Master ...... 34 F/V JAGULAR: 1978 Work Boats Northwest Aluminum Bristol Bay Gillnetter, 6V53 Detroit Tom-Mac ...... 13 rebuilt in 1997. Borg Warner Velvet drive rebu- Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Corp. HQ...... 29 lit in 2006. Packs 16,000 under the hatches,16 Vancouver Shipyards ...... 33 mile furuno radar, 2 GPS’s, 2 meter Icom radio, Viking Net Supply ...... 32 Horizon VHF, new marine grade Jensen stereo, Sitex fathometer. New muffler in 2009, new Viking Spirit ...... 38 Jabsco 1".25 wash down pump 2009, slush Warren L. Junes Ltd...... 32 bags. Too many upgrades to list. Same owner WESMAR- Western Marine Electronics ...... 41 for 15 years. Good solid maintained work boat, $75,000 or best offer. Call (206) 817-2101. Wrangell Boatshop ...... 32

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Floating sharecroppers: As with many B.C. fisheries, in the albacore fishery there are economic problems in addition to the low price of fish, and they relate to the costs associated with rent- ing the right to fish from other fishermen. Since only a limited number of Canadian tuna fishermen won the right to fish in U.S. waters, some are leasing out their rights to fish. “So these guys are staying home and getting $15,000, and it’s guys like me that want to fish that pay to go fishing,” tuna troller Gray McPhedran said. “Four of my buddies aren’t even going this year because of that.” McPhedran is extremely critical of the system that caused this situation. “Why didn’t they say, ‘Here’s your license, and if you don’t want to fish it, it goes back into the license pool and will get issued to someone who does want to fish it?’”     Postcard: A nice halibut is hauled aboard the F/V Orion near Alaska’s Port New owner for Marine Industries: Vigor Marine LLC, a San Juan last summer. Bob Widmann photo wholly owned subsidiary of Vigor Industrial, will purchase the assets of Marine Industries Northwest Inc. in Tacoma. The company will operate the facility as Vigor Marine Taco- According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp., South ma and will continue providing vessel repair, conversion, and Australian biotechnologist Andrew Ward is breaking down construction services at that location. the waste to create methane, irrigation water, and nutrients Vigor Marine LLC, a Vigor Industrial company, is a to feed water fleas, which can become fish meal. Ward says provider of marine repair services on the West Coast. The there is big potential for other animal waste too. He says it is company has locations in Oregon, California, and the Puget based on methods already used in many Asian countries. Sound region. “A lot of the fish meal currently is coming from wild-caught fish     stocks, so with an ever-increasing demand in seafood and less Feeding farmed fish pig s**t: Pig waste is being turned into wild fish out there, aquaculture has to fill this role,” he said. food for the aquaculture industry. continued on page 42

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