Fishlines, 1986

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Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8680 .. Volume VI, No. 1 February 7, 1986

Office for Fisheries University of Alaska

AQUACULTURE POLICY UNDER DE­ VELOPMENT

Alaska Sea Grant Director Ronald Applications should include current Dearborn and UAJ School of Fisheries vitae, statement of career objective, Dean Ole Mathisen have been among and letter of recommendation from the those on an advisory committee de­ major professor or department head. veloping a state mariculture policy. Submit applications to the Fisheries Other committee members include re­ Internship Program; Alaska Sea Grant presentatives of fishermen's organi­ College Program; cl o SWOHRD; Univer­ zations, processors, Native organi­ sity of Alaska; Bunnell Bldg., Room 1; zations and government agencies. The 99775-5400. committee has reported findings to Governor Bill Sheffield and his mini­ ALASKA NORTHWEST PUBLISHING cabinet on fisheries. Both the execu­ PREMIERS TWO MARINE BOOKS tive and legislative branches anticipate further activity by this committee. Two popular marine publications were Dearborn and Mathisen have offered to distributed last month that might be continue their participation in this useful in classroom instruction. Plant discussion of the state's aquaculture Lore of An Alaskan Island ($9. 95) and plans. Alciski's Saltwater Fishes and Other Sea Life ($19.95) are now-available FISHERIES INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE from --xlaska Northwest Publishing Company and at local book stores. The Alaska Sea Grant Program and the North Pacific Fishery Management The plant lore book began in an adult Council have established a summer education class on Spruce Island near internship for students in the Universi­ Kodiak. For three years, students in ty of Alaska 1 s fisheries or resource Frances Graham's class collected infor­ economics programs. The two interns mation on 80 species of wild plants now will work at the council offices in described in the book. The herbs and Anchorage for the summer, completing other species described can be found office assignments at the council's in other parts of the Pacific Northwest direction. Travel expenses to and from as well. Careful drawings are pro­ the student's campus will be provided. vided along with descriptions of tra­ Salary is $400/wk. The interns will ditional uses of the plants in medicinal pay their . own living costs while in the preparations, household compounds, program. and recipes.

Previous interns were Steve Brooks and Saltwater Fishes and Other Sea Life is Ronald Rogness, both graduate students the culmination of 15 years of work by in resource economics. Brooks re­ Doyne Kessler and other biologists at drafted and updated the Gulf of Alaska the Kodiak National Marine Fisheries Groundfish Management Plan. Rogness Service Laboratory. The book in­ focused on updating the tanner crab cludes color photos and descriptions of management plan, and on the economic 375 trawl-caught species from salmon issues associated with Pacific halibut to sharks, shrimp, and sea stars. management. More than 500 color photos are in­ cluded as well as line drawings. An index and glossary make reference fast and easy . .. These books are available in most GIANT CHERRY TROUT PRODUCED IN Alaskan bookstores or may be ordered JAPAN directly from the publisher at 130 Second Avenue S.; Edmonds, WA; Dr. Hiroshi Onozato of the Hokkaido 98020. Add $1 per book for postage University Faculty of Fisheries has and handling. developed a way to breed giant cherry trout (Oncorhynchus masou), a high­ ROSENBERG: THE LEGEND CONTIN- prized food fish in Japan. Because UES the cherry trout matures in two years and dies after spawning, Onozato has Former Alaska Sea Grant Program been trying to grow giant trout by director Donald Rosenberg has been sterilizing the fish. The fish are re-elected chairman of the North Pacific sterilized during fertilization by chro­ Fishery Management Council's Scientific mosome handling. Fry are cultivated and Statistical Committee. Also re­ for two years, producing bigger, elected as vice-chairman was Richard heavier fish. Onozato's sterilization Marasco. The committee advises the method is reputed to be the first of its NPFMC on scientific and technical kind. matters. Dr. Terry Quinn, a UAJ biometrician, was also appointed to the LPRC RESEARCH OF INTEREST TO committee. MARINE SCIENTISTS

ANADROMOUS FISH ATLAS AND CATA­ The Lease Planning and Research LOG AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW Committee (LPRC), an oil industry support group funded by member The Alaska Department of Fish and companies, has funded more than 50 Game is seeking public comment on the research projects since 1968 involving Catalog of Waters Important for Spawn­ Alaska's seafloor and subsea environ­ ing, Rearing, or Migration of Ana­ ment. Two recent projects may have dromous Fishes and its associated atlas. results of interest to Alaska's fishing The catalog contains a record of the and scientific community. streams, rivers and lakes that are used by anadromous fishes for spawning, One new project will continue develop­ rearing and migration. The atlas uses ment of evacuation and survival plans U.S. Geological Survey topographical for people stationed on offshore oil maps to show the portions of waterways rigs operating in ice-covered areas. actually used by anadromous fishes, Work will include building a full-scale which species use the waterways and prototype and testing it in the Arctic. for what particular activity. Results may have application for Alaskan vessels operating in areas The information depicted is based on under ice threat, for field workers, Fish and Game field surveys. However, and for subsistence hunters. the department is also interested in any information on fish activities that can In another project, researchers will be provided by the public or research­ investigate the uses of infrared ers who observed anadromous fishes in imagery from the U.S. TIRO/NOAA these waters. Comments will be ac­ satellite system to track ice movement. cepted through the end of the month. A listing of LPRC-sponsored research To review the catalog or for more is available from the Alaska Oil and information con tact your local ADF &G Gas Association; 505 West Northern office or Stewart Seaberg of the ADF &G Lights, Room 219; Anchorage, AK; Habitat Division in Anchorage; 333 99503 (907) 272-1481. Raspberry Road; Anchorage, AK; 99501; 267-2335. Completed maps can be purchased from Ridgeway's Photo Reproduction Center in Anchorage. , SCALEPRINTS IDENTIFY SALMON TUNA CONFERENCE SET FOR BANG­ KOK, FEBRUARY 25-27 Seattle's Biosonics, Inc. is marketing a procedure for quickly identifying salmon The tuna industry has undergone many scales. Scientists have long known that recent changes. Countries that previ­ salmon scales are laid down in rings, ously supported themselves with exports much like those of a tree. The rings of raw materials have turned to tuna are spaced according to growth and fishing and processing with force. The their shape is influenced by water industry is suddenly more complex, conditions and food sources. Fish that fast-moving, and highly competitive. spend their early lives together in the INFOFISH and the publishers of Fishing same nursery area have similar rings. News International have organized the Until now, these have been laboriously Tuna Trade Conference as an oppor­ compared using microscopes. The scale tunity for people in the tuna industry patterns have long held the potential to get a grip on the international for identifying exactly where a fish was picture. hatched, but the process for determin­ ing its "nationality" was too slow and The emphasis will be on current status involved to be of practical management and future development opportunities. use. Sessions will discuss current state of the resource and its exploitation. Biosonics, Inc. uses a computer to read Marketing discussions will focus on the spacing and shape of the rings. A newcomers to the industry and how personal computer linked to a video they have influenced competition, camera compares the scales with hun­ market access, and prospects for mar­ dreds of patterns stored in memory. In ket opportunities. A wrap-up session approximately 30 minutes, a user can will discuss the future of tuna fish­ match a scale with scales of other fish eries. from a stream or tributary. Because the process is so fast, managers can Registration for the conference is $440. check from day to day to determine how Rooms are $90 per single and $124 for a many fish from a particular breeding double . For more information, tele­ area have been captured. For more phone INFOFISH directly at 291-4466 or information, see the Jan. /Feb . issue of telex INFISH MA 31560. Alaska Sea 11 11 Science 8 6 , p . 6 . Grant has registration material. Volume VI, No. 2 March 7, 1986

Office for Fisheries University of Alaska

MAP COORDINATES ALASKA RE- DIRECT MARKETING WORKSHOP SOURCES ISSUES FORUM T.V. PRO- DRAWS OVER 100 PEOPLE GRAM A direct marketing workshop organized The Alaska Marine Advisory Program is by MAP business specialist Craig Wiese coordinating sponsors for a series of drew 102 people to the Anchorage Alaskan resource programs to be broad­ Sheffield Hotel February 4. The dis­ cast on the state's LearnAlaska Net­ cussion was aimed at those wanting to work. Each program brings together sell their product to someone other various experts to debate current than a local processor. Participants resource use issues affecting Alaska's came from Anchorage, Cordova, Sitka, public policy . The first program will Homer, Kodiak and Valdez to attend focus on Japanese interception of salmon the meeting. Speakers from the in high seas fisheries . Sponsoring Alaska Department of Nat ural Re­ organizations are responsible for back­ sources, Gourmet Lobster, Movers ground research and for funding panel Inc., Triad Fisheries, Alaska Com­ t r avel to the Anchorage taping ses­ mercial Fisheries Development Founda­ sions. If you or your organization are tion, Fishworks, the Alaska Depart­ interested in sponsoring one of these ment of Fish and Game and the Alaska programs, or if you have ideas for Department of Environmental Conserva­ other topics, contact Grant Sims at the tion provided a basis for the discus­ Anchorage MAP office (274- 9691) or sion . Among the subjects covered Rick Steiner at the Cordova MAP Office were finding buyers, product quality (424- 3446) . assurance, packaging, shipping, permits, licenses, and determining JENSEN INTO SECOND PHASE OF financial feasibility of direct marketing WHITEFISH QUALITY PROJECT operations.

Chuck Jensen, associate professor with ICE WORM FESTIVAL SURVIVAL SUIT the Fishery Industrial Technology RACE ATTRACTS 300 Center, has begun work on the second phase of a whitefish quality assurance The Cordova Ice Worm Festival includ­ project for Alaska. During phase I, he ed an Alaska Marine Advisory Program completed a whitefish handling manual sponsored survival suit race held and conducted various workshops and February 8. Race marshall Governor demonstrations in shorebased processing Bill Sheffield presided while seven plants handling thes e fish. In phase teams of four competed in the event. II, he will be surveying the most About 300 people looked on as teams current methods for handling these fish fielded by the State Troopers, Cordova aboard vessels and bringing the newest High School's swim team, the Alaska technology back to Alaska. This month Department of Fish and Game, fisher­ he will visit nearly a dozen East Coast men, and local businesses flailed processors to get first-hand information through 37° water for the top prize. on handling and boxing fresh/frozen The event was covered later in the ocean whitefish. Jensen's work is Anchorage Daily News. being funded by the National Marine Fisheries Service Saltonstall-Kennedy program. •' ACOUSTIC HARASSMENT STILL POSSI­ tact: Brenda Melteff; Alaska Sea Grant BLE WITH MORE EXPERIMENTATION College Program; University of Alaska; 590 University Avenue, Suite 102; It was back to the drawing board for Fairbanks, AK; 99709-1046; (907) Oregon State University researchers 474- 7088. recently when a method of scaring sea lions and seals away from fishing nets NFI NATIONAL CONFERENCE SET FOR failed. OSU and a private engineer, CHICAGO Dr. Charles Greenlaw, had been work­ ing on a hydroacoustic device to be The National Fisheries Institute will attached to fishing nets . It emitted a hold its 41st annual meeting in Chicago sound designed to hurt mammals' ears. April 1-5 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Other hydroacoustic devices have A full week of membership and commit­ emitted sounds such as those made by tee meetings, workshops, seminars, predators, designed to scare the ani­ speakers, special events, spouse activ­ mals. At a recent meeting on the OSU ities and a golf and tennis tournament device, researchers announced that are planned. although it worked for awhile, sea lion and seals soon became used to it and Speakers include Lou Holz, coach of continued to raid fishing nets. MAP the University of Minnesota football Cordova agent Rick Steiner attended team. Holz also coached the New York that meeting and would like to try some Jets and the University of Arkansas improvements to the device. Engineers and is described as 11 one of the na­ believe that lowering the frequency, tion's best motivational speakers." increasing the volume and making the Dr . William Lands, noted expert on sound directional would improve results. fish and its affects on human health, Steiner is pursuing sponsors to finance will also be a featured speaker. He a pilot project. will summarize recent meetings among medical researchers that compared INTERNATIONAL ROCKFISH SYMPO­ findings on Omega-3, the fatty acids SIUM SET FOR OCTOBER 20-22, 1986 in fish that can change the levels of fat and cholesterol in human blood. Any information you have about Pacific Ocean Perch or the other rockfish Nine workshops will be offered, con­ fisheries will be useful in developing ducted by industry leaders and con­ management policies for the complex. sultants. These will cover overall This meeting is designed to bring marketing perspective for fish prod­ together resource scientists and manag­ ucts, increasing efficiency and prof­ ers to talk about current management itability, the effects of currency and stock descriptions and to compile values and other global economic the information presented into a pro­ trends on the industry, the world view ceedings document for their use. of resources and supplies, bankrupt­ Papers are still being accepted in the cy, trends in rest auranteuring, in­ major topic areas: history of the spection, and sulfites. fisheries, life history and reproduction, aging--growth and mortality, stock All registrations fees must be paid in assessment, management of the stocks, advance. Fees are $475 for NFI mem­ marketing and economics, the role of bers and $800 for non-members. Fees rockfish in continental shelf ecosystems. include all sessions, seminars, social Abstracts must be submitted as soon as functions and outings. For more possible for consideration in developing information contact NFI; P.O. Box a program. For more information con- 19801; Washington, DC; 20036. JOINT MEETING OF THE PACIFIC AND ARCTIC DIVISIONS OF AAAS PLANNED

The Arctic and Pacific divisions of the AAAS will hold a joint meeting June 8-13 Vancouver, B.C. Attendees will also enjoy activities in conjunction with the city Vancouver's lOOth anniversary and the world's fair, Expo '86.

Technical symposia have been planned around invited papers, but contributed papers a still being accepted. For more information contact the chairpeople listed. Topic are include: Botanical Science Intermountain Grasslands of the Pacific Northwest Jim Pojar, Research section, Ministry of Forestry Earth Sciences Geological Hazards Along the Plate Boundary John Davies, Alaska Geological Survey Education Students' Conceptual Difficulties and Scientific Instruction Lillian McDermott, University of Washington Innovative Teaching in the Sciences Roger Christianson, Southern Oregon State College The Ethics and Practice of Care in Private and Public Places Eldred E. Rutherford, Western Oregon State College Health and Social Science Cultural Pluralism and Health Care on the Pacific Rim Carl A . Maida, UCLA Medical School Northern Native Languages Louise Nicklen, Yellowknife, NWT Energy Conservation Technology: Advances in the Arctic Richard Bushey, Yellowknife, NWT Environmental Sciences and Association of Primary Production with Recruitment in a Resource Management Subarctic Ecosystem Thomas Shirley, University of Alaska, Juneau International Cooperation in Salmon Management and Research Through the Canadian-U.S. Pacific Salmon Treaty James C. Olsen, NMFS, Juneau, Alaska Managing Canada's Water Resources: Policy Issues and Options Jack Corbett, Southwest Texas State University Integrating Remote Sensing Information into Resource Management Hans Schreier, University of British Columbia Research Advances in the Ecology of Arctic Fishes David VI. Norton, IAB, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Long Term Management of High Level Radioactive Waste Disposal David A Tarnas, University of Washington Science, Technology and Technology, National Security and Arms Control: Some National Security Leading Issues Richard Scribner, AAAS, Washington, D . C. The Consequences of Disarmament Barbara Wright, University of Montana Problems of the Nuclear Age Meyer Chesslin, University of Montana For more information on registration fees and conference activities contact AAAS-Arctic Division; P. 0. Box 80271; Fairbanks, AK 99708. UA SEA GRANT DIRECTOR COVERS has any prior NOAA chief. • . in the WASHINGTON D.C. process he is learning that there are a lot of bright people in the universities A national Sea Grant director's meeting that his agency can draw upon. 11 was held in Washington D.C. at the Dearborn feels this is a better indi­ end of February. UA Sea Grant cator that Sea Grant has NOAA sup­ Director Ronald Dearborn was at the port than in past years. With regard meeting and met with the Alaska to future funding, there is no sure Congressional delegation staff and answer. Between budget and deficit Senator Ted Stevens while there. He reductions, no one seems sure what also met briefly with National Fisheries will happen. Institute staffers on a national insur­ ance and safety workshop and discuss­ Dearborn also stopped by the National ed various aspects of Sea Grant fund­ Fisheries Institute (NFI) to discuss an ing with other directors. idea for a national marine insurance and safety workshop. NFI's National The directors discussed the effects of Council of Fishing Vessel Safety and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill on Sea Insurance might be a co-sponsor in the Grant funding, reauthorization of Sea effort. Dearborn talked with Kathy Grant after 1987, and NOAA grant Van Olst, former aide to Senator Bob processing. With regard to Sea Grant Packwood and new coordinator for the funding, Dearborn says, 11 The new council. She and her staff are work­ administrator of NOAA, Anthony ing to become a national clearinghouse Callio, has been communicating much for safety and insurance information as more with the Sea Grant program than well as advisors to industry members on insurance and safety issues. Volume VI, No. 3 April 11, 1986

Office for Fisheries University of Alaska

SEAFOOD RETAIL CONFERENCE HELD IN ANCHORAGE AND JUNEAU

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute source management, public participa­ sponsored a series of seafood retailers tion and access, and international workshops along the west coast begin­ issues. Other subjects will be con­ ning in October 1985. The final leg of sidered as well as proposals for panels that tour was completed in Alaska this or complete sessions on particular month in Anchorage and Fairbanks. topics.

The program was developed by Univer­ Abstracts must be received by May .15, sity of Washington Sea Grant marine 1986, limited to two pages, double­ advisory staff: John Peters, seafood spaced. For more information contact: marketing specialist; Steve Harbell, Orville Magoon, Chairman; Coastal field agent; and Jim Humphreys, field Zone 87; P. 0. Box 26062; San Fran­ agent. Dr. Sam Gillespie, professor of cisco, CA; 94126. marketing at Texas A&M University, rounded out the program. SEA OTTERS MAY ENHANCE LOCAL FISH PRODUCTION IN THE ALEU­ The workshops included lectures and TIANS slide presentations on how to buy quality fish, how to maintain quality at Three west coast biologists are inves­ the retail level, and how to make sea­ tigating the possibility that sea otters food sell in a supermarket or specialty may actually improve conditions for store setting. A hands-on evaluation of local fish production in the Aleutians. various seafood products was also part of the training sessions. Approximately Charles Simenstad and David 0. Dug­ 15 people attended in Anchorage and 30 gins of the University of Washington in Fairbanks. and James Estes of USFWS in Santa Cruz, California will be taking meas­ COASTAL ZONE 87 CONFERENCE urements in the Aleutians this summer. CALLS FOR PAPERS According to their theory, sea otters "Coastal Zone 87: Spotlight on So­ prey on the sea urchins that can graze lutions", the fifth symposium on coastal down lush kelp beds in the area. and ocean management, is set for Because the urchin aren't destroying Seattle May 26-29, 1987 at the Westin the kelp, the beds can become a Hotel. The conference is multidisciplin­ harbor for a variety of fishes, includ­ ary and is aimed at professionals, ing the rock greenling. citizens, and decisionmakers. The symposium is sponsored by the Ameri­ To test the theory, the trio will mea­ can Shore and Beach Preservation sure rates of growth and egg produc­ Association, the Coastal Zone Founda­ tion of small invertebrates that are tion, the U.S. Department of Commerce, consumed by fish, and of fish them­ and the American Society of Engineers. selves, from areas with high otter and kelp densities. They will compare Papers are invited on five broad topics: these rates with those in areas of low coastal and marine policy, environment otter and kelp densities. and information, development and re- BARRY FISHER AWARDS $10,000 TO operators who happened on shuttle "SEA GRANT SCIENTIST junk on how to retrieve it and where to turn it over to NASA. Florida Sea Ellen Pikitch, an Oregon Sea Grant Grant also contacted NASA with regard scientist, has received a $10,000 grant to environmental pollution resulting from Barry Fisher, well-known west from the explosion. NASA officials coast fisherman and former OSU faculty said that there wasn't enough member. Fisher told Pikitch, "Your hazardous material onboard the efforts are badly needed. You are spacecraft to represent a public health focusing upon a compilation of urgently hazard. needed data ... that will afford all of us--fishermen, processors and agency LOW BUDGET EXPERIMENTS PRODUCE managers--a much better base from GOOD RESULTS which to make sound management de­ cisions." Tom Shevenell, a doctoral student in earth sciences at the University of Pikitch's Sea Grant work has been on New Hampshire is making experimental stock assessments and population dy­ apparatus from the trash of everyday namics of commercially important fish. life. Shevenell and sedimentologist More recently she has concentrated on Franz Anderson browse through equip­ how the fishing industry uses a re­ ment catalogs but are often faced with source so that better industry manage­ high prices or a long wait for an ment can be achieved. She sees a order. In response, they have con­ chance to avoid making some mistakes ducted artificial raindrop experiments with a few valuable, promising species in pizza pans to see how far rain can in Oregon that have not yet been kick up sediments. They have trap­ overexploited, particularly Dover sole. ped fine sediments in mini-ice cube She and others on her research team trays at the end of a laboratory flume are compiling information on these that replicates downstream currents. species' life history, age and dis­ They have cut the bottom from a plastic tribution at different times of the year, Dunkin' Donuts bucket and used it to and on migration processes. create an onsite rain chamber on the mud flats of Great Bay. FLORIDA SEA GRANT HELPS WITH CHALLENGER EXPLOSION INVES- Once, Shevenell put some pans of flour TIGATION out in the rain and watched the flour pill up when the rain hit it. He knew After the Space Shuttle Challenger that when the pans were put in an explosion, the Florida Sea Grant Pro­ oven the resulting pellets would be gram helped coordinate commercial and proportional to the size of the original recreational fishing vessels picking up drop. The more expensive way to get debris. The program also provided similar results would have involved a information to boaters and commercial camera or laser counter. Volume VI, No. 4 May 9, 1986

Office for Fisheries University of Alaska

DEARBORN TO LEAD INDUSTRY ABE MOVES TO KODIAK TRAWL/KING CRAB BYCATCH WORK GROUP Dr. Junzo Abe, aquaculture specialist and vice principal to the Minamikayabe Sea Grant Director Ron Dearborn will Community College in Hokkaido, has chair an industry work group in Kodiak finished the first part of a demon­ to discuss the king crab/trawl bycatch stration project on macrocystis culture conflict. The group will advise the in the Sitka area. While in Sitka he North Pacific Fishery Management has conducted public workshops on Council on two issues: whether NMFS aquaculture, met with Sheldon Jackson should extend the emergency trawl students and staff, and advised local closures around Kodiak and what mea­ fishermen on marketing under-used sures can be used to both protect the species to Japanese buyers . Among crab stocks and provide for a bottom the species he finds most promising for trawl fishery in the area. aquaculture in Alaska are oysters, scallops, sea urchins, and the giant Currently, four areas arou nd Kodiak kelp macrocystis. are closed to trawlers until June 15 . These closures were to protect soft­ Abe will spend some time in Kodiak shell crabs and can be extended for 90 before moving on to Seward to conduct days . The developing trawl fishery work on the developing sea urchin needs access to areas, which are within fishery and workshops on aquaculture. running distance to Kodiak shoreside Aside from providing Alaskans with processors. expert advice on mariculture and mar­ keting, Abe will also produce a manual The meeting will be held May 20 - 21 in on macrocystis culture before leaving Kodiak at the Kodiak Community Col­ Alaska. lege . A scientific work group will make presentations first, followed by the SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION AND industry work group sessions and EXCHANGE opportunities for industry and public input. The public is welcome to attend After 18 months of planning, Alaska Sea all sessions. Grant, assisted by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and Uni­ SEA GRANT 1987 PROPOSAL CYCLE versity of Washington, hosted a STARTS meeting on scientific cooperation and exchange. Participation was invited May 16 is the deadline for summary from Canada, Japan, People's Republic proposal submission to Alaska Sea of China and the Soviet Union. Each Grant. If you have not yet received nation sent representatives to discuss proposal guidelines, please contact t he development of an organization for Alaska Sea Grant office at 474-7086, ask scientific exchange and cooperative for Lorraine . projects on the oceanography and fisheries resources of the northern North Pacific. University of Alaska participants were R. K. Dearborn, Sea Grant director, and Vera Alexander, IMS director. The group unanimously agreed to go NMML WORKSHOP LAYS GROUNDWORK ahead with planning. Each nation's FOR PACIFIC HUMPBACK CATALOG representatives are taking the summary document back to their government for Top researchers on Pacific humpback consideration. whales met in Seattle April 30-May 2 to discuss the National Marine Mammal The next meeting to further the plan­ Lab's plans for a Pacific humpback ning of such an organization is expect­ catalog. Although several of the orga­ ed to be in October 1987 in Vancouver, nizations have plans to develop their British Columbia in connection with the own catalogs, there are no provisions INPFC/IRIS combined meeting which will for a central depository of whale fluke be held at the same time and place. If identifications and basic siting statis­ you wish any further information on tics. these developments, con tact the Sea Grant office, (907) 474-7086. Under lab plans, each researcher would contribute photos of humpback MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP HELD AT flukes and siting information. The ROSARIO flukes would be cataloged and stored on videotape, Siting information would Over thirty participants from the United be stored on a database along with a States, Canada, New Zealand, Aus­ computerized version of the fluke tralia, Iceland, Norway, and Japan description. New photographs would attended a workshop sponsored by then be compared statistically to exist­ Alaska Sea Grant, entitled "North ing, identified flukes for possible Pacific Longline Fishery Management matches. Options, 11 at Rosario Resort in Wash­ ington this April. The workshop was When enough photos are collected on moderated by Bruce Rettig of Oregon videotape, the entire library can be State University, who defined its pur­ copied onto videodisc. Each contri­ pose as conducting a dialogue on the butor would then have access to a worldwide problem of "too many fisher­ complete catalog for the cost of the men taking too few fish. 11 More spe­ disc, assuming funding is provided for cifically, the object was to enable this catalog system. people dealing with fisheries manage­ ment problems in the Pacific Northwest, Although the amount and type of addi­ particularly Alaska, to learn from the tional data to be contributed has not experiences of their counterparts in been decided, nor have details on other countries. The workshop proved access to the information or how it will very successful in enabling top fish­ be used, most researchers agreed to eries economists and managers to meet make photo submissions. The meeting and exchange information on both a was funded by the National Marine formal and informal basis. The indi­ Fisheries Service and coordinated by vidual transferable quota systems that Alaska Sea Grant which also is helping have been established in New Zealand, to fund a printed humpback catalog in Australia and Iceland sparked the production at the University of Hawaii. liveliest questions and debates of the session. / u~ ~---­ 5unL (G)~~

FISHLINES

COMMEMORATIVE NAUTICAL CHARTS AVAILABLE

NOAA Is doing its part to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. Special editions of the three principle nautical charts of the New York harbor area are now on sale. The charts are standard NOAA nautical charts used for marine navigation, enhanced with full-color etchings showing the statue in various stages of construction~ contemporary photographs of New York harbor, and a congra4 ulatory letter from President Reagan. A The chart with the most detail is NOAA nautical chart #12334, a 1:10,000 scale anchorage chart of the waters between Staten Island and Brooklyn, titled "New York Harbor, Upper Bay and Narrows". Chart #12327, "New York Harbor", shows the entire harbor area at a 1:40,000 scale. Chart #12326, "Approaches to New York--Fire Island Light to Sea Girt", is a coastal chart of navigational approaches past Ambrose light at a scale of 1:80,000. .I.? . fl n.u...v.A.. b All three charts sell for the regular price of $5~0A~ The Anchorage NOAA office does not stock these maps . To order, write NOAA Chart Sales; 6501 LaFayette Ave.; Riverdale, MD; 20737. Specify the chart you want when ordering and include a check or money order.

• BABY ~ATCH

The new voice on the phone at the Fairbanks Sea Grant office . O. is Shirley VanDermeyden . Shirley is taking over ~ 'we receptionist duties from Lorraine Beet~, executive \~ ~ secretary, who has retired until August to have her third baby . ~hile the Sea Grant Baby Pool is betting on mid-June, the mother is betting on "any minute". Birth announcement next month. SURIMI COMPUTER PROGRAM ANALYZES PROCESSING OPERATIONS

631 Systems , Inc., of Santa Monica California has developed a computer program for use by surimi plant managers, academics, and technicians. Suriml Processing Analyzer can be used for plants producing fillets, roe, mince, meal, oil and/or surimi . It can be used to equip or upgrade a plant , to pr~ect net income or return on investment, to J examine!ndividual or combined operations, and to analyze !'profitability.

The program requires a 256K IBM-compatible microcomputer with MSDOS or PC-DOS. It is menu-driven, and requires only minimum computer experience to use.

Operations are described in one section. Then other segments of the program are used to describe production, costs, and income. It also includes a pro forma income statement that adjusts readily to any change In data, allowing quick observation of cause and effect.

For more information, contact Pacific Rim Operations; POB 5000#414; Danville, CA; 94526; (415)831-2634. IIFET TO MEET IN CANADA

The third biennial conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade will be held in Rimouski, Canada at the University of Quebec August 10-15 , 1986. The meeting will focus on fisheries trade, development and policies. The registration fee is $100, and includes two dinners, lunches, an abstract book and conference proceedings.

Speakers have been drawn from private business, government and academia in more than 40 countries. There will also be a salmon workshop on cooperative research opprotunities. The conference is bein~held in conjunction with a meeting on X small scale fisher~ and economic development, sponsored by the University of uebec Marine Resources Study Group.

IIFET is also sponsoring a workshop just prior to the conference at Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City August 7-8. Panelists from several different countries will discuss the new GATT round and its implications for seafood trade.

For further information or to pre-resister, contact Sharon Kelly; IIFET; Oregon State University; Corvallis , OR: 97331 (503)754-2942 . SALE ON NEU JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS FISHERIES BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT BOOKS

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Distribution, Biology and Management of Exotic Fishes: The first major work on exotic fish introductions throughout the world. Environmental concepts, historical aspects, data from published and unpublished sources brought togther in an attempt to promote use of beneficial exotic fishes and to present guidelines £or protecting indigenous aquatic organisms. Editors: Ualter R. Courtenay, Jr., professor of zoology, Florida Atlantic University; Jay R. Stauffer, Jr., associate professor or aquatic ecology and ichthyology, University of Maryland. 448 pp. Sale Price $34.00.

Fish Energetics : Explores recent developments in the study of fish energy budgets and examines the practical applications of these developments for aquaculture. By Peter Tytler, lecturer in biological sciences, University of Stirling, Scotland; Peter Calow, head, Department of Zoology, University of Sheffield, England. Sale Price $27.63.

The Behavior of Teleost Fishes: Brings together up-to-date accounts of the major aspects of fish behavior, examined in the light of current theory. Each chapter presents the fundamental principles of its topic, reviews recent developments, and discusses contemporary controversies and research frontiers. Edited by Tony J. Pitcher, senior lecturer, School of Animal Biology, University College of North Uales, Bangor, ME. 544 pp. Sale Price $48.88. ,

To order, contact Teri Frady, Alaska Sea Grant Communications, for discount forms. Volume VI, No . 6 July 11, 1986

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OUTSTANDING UAJ FISHERIES STUDENTS more information contact: ASMI, NAMED 526 E. Main St.; Juneau, AK; 99801. Three outstanding graduating stu­ dents were named at UAJ commence­ ment ceremonies from the School of CONFERENCE SET ON PLASTIC POLLU­ Fisheries and Science (SFS). TION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN Kevin Browlee, a fisheries major, was named outstanding SFS under­ graduate. Outstanding SFS gradu­ Oregon State University Extension/ ate students were James James and Sea Grant Program is organizing a Kathleen Jensen. one-day symposium on plastics pol­ lution in the Pacific Ocean July 28, 1986, at the Hatfield Marine DAVID HAS BABY GIRL Science Center in Newport.

Marine bird and mammal populations Alaska Sea Grant executive secre­ appear to be dropping in the Pa­ tary Lorraine David had her third cific Northwest, Gulf of Alaska daughter in mid-June at Fairbanks and Bering Sea. Many feel that Memorial Hospital. Baby Sharon is there is a connection between this the first for Lorraine and husband and the prevalence of non­ Richard, whom she married last biodegradable trash in the open summer. David is vacationi ng with ocean and coastal bays. Most often her family in Hughes, Alaska and encountered are polystyrene pack­ will return to work in August. ing pellets and trays, nylon and polypropylene fishing nets, and plastic packing straps, sheeting and wrappers. ASMI HAS FISH COLOR GRADING KIT The National Marine Fisheries Ser­ vice awarded a contract to Natural The Alaska Seafood Marketi ng In­ Resource Consultants of Seattle to stitute has a new brochure to help review literature on the subject sellers and buyers use color to and develop an educational program evaluate Pacific salmon quality. aimed at major audiences. Their The guide has color photos of coho results will be presented at this and chum salmon in various stages meeting. Other speakers include of maturity. Even though color John Byrne, president of Oregon can't be used as a definitive in­ State university; James Coe, Pro­ dicator of quality, the brochure gram manager of NMFS Entanglement will help buyers, processors, and Research; R. Barry Fisher, presi­ fishermen talk the same language. dent of New Wave Fisheries, Inc.; Now each can refer to a specific and Capt. Joe Easley, Oregon Otter number from the brochure and know Trawl Commission. exactly what color they are talk­ ing about. The first three copies Other sponsors include the High­ of the brochure are free, addi­ liners Association, the National tional copies are $3 each. For Marine Fisheries Service, Natural Resources Consultants, the and aquatic scientists in North Newport Fishermen's Wives, and the America, fisheries and aquatic Port of Newport. For more infor­ sciences graduate students and un­ mation contact: Ginny Goblirsch, dergraduates in these fields Extension Marine Agent; 29 S.E. scheduled to receive degrees in Second St.; Newport, OR: 97365. 1986 are among those included in the listings.

MIT CONFERENCE PLANNED ON UNDERSEA For more information on ordering, TELEOPERATORS AND AUTONOMOUS VEHI­ contact: American Fisheries Soci­ CLES ety; 5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 110; Bethesda, MD; 20814-2199.

The MIT Sea Grant Program and the Department of Ocean Engineering WORKSHOP ON THE AQUATIC ECOLOGICAL are sponsoring a two-day confer­ EFFECTS OF POWER GENERATION SET ence October 22 and 23 on undersea FOR SARASOTA, FLORIDA teleoperators and autonomous ve­ hicles. The meeting will be held on the MIT campus. The Mote Marine Laboratory of Sarasota, Florida is organ1z1ng a Seventeen papers will be pre­ workshop on power generation and sented. Speakers include experts aquatic environments from December on teleoperators, artificial in­ 3-5, 1986 at the lab . telligence, mobile robots and the developing manipulator technology. Papers are still being considered Invited participants represent in a number of areas: thermal ef­ MIT, the University of New Hamp­ fects, intake effects, impact mit­ shire, Carnegie-Mellon University, igation and environmental enhance­ the Harbor Branch Foundation, ment, and toxicity and bioaccumu­ Shell Oil Company, and Interna­ lation testing. The deadline for tional Sub Engineering. abstracts is July 18.

For more information on the con­ Early registration lasts until Au­ ference or to register contact: gust 22 and runs $45. The late Elizabeth Harding; MIT Sea Grant registration fee is $55. The fees Program, Building E38-368; 77 Mas­ include coffee breaks, one lunch, sachusetts Ave.; Cambridge, MA; and printed proceedings. For more 02139; ( 617) 253-7041. information contact: Dr. Selvaku­ maran Mahadevan, Director; Mote Marine Laboratory; 1600 City Is­ AFS IS COMPILING DIRECTORY land Park; Sarasota, FL; 33577.

The second edition of the American Fisheries Society directory is be­ ing compiled, providing up-to-date names, addresses, phone numbers and listing areas of expertise for aquatic professionals. The volume is indexed alphabetically, by job title, geographic region, and area of specialty.

Copies are $12.50 for those listed in the directory and $25 for oth­ ers. Active and retired fisheries Volume V, No. 7 August 8, 1986 Office for Fisheries University of Alaska

SEA GRANT DIRECTORS SEE BRIGHTER bumpersticker. In return, Dear­ FUTURE born invited Conrad to visit Alaska as a Sea Grant site team Sea Grant directors from around member, or under more enjoyable the nation met in Charleston S.C. circumstances. last month for a two-day planning session. In recent years, direc­ SEA GRANT PROPOSALS DUE tors have jointly addressed how to accommodate budget reductions. Respondents to this year's Sea This year, they discussed what to Grant RFP who have been asked to do with a $10 million increase in develop proposals should deliver the national Sea Grant budget for them to the office by August 22. FY88. Only a modest increase is For more information, contact expected for FY87. Brenda Melteff, 474-7086.

The directors agreed that the ad­ OSHORO MARU MAKES TRADITIONAL STOP ditional funding would be used to IN SEWARD explore coastal ocean resource is­ sues, particularly fisheries The Japanese research vessel Os­ oceanography and the closely re­ horo Maru made its traditional lated issue of estuarine/ ocean stop in Seward last month. IMS flux and its impact on coastal ar­ Director Vera Alexander, Geophysi­ eas. In reaching this consensus, cal Institute Director Syun Aka­ the directors agreed that the sci­ sofu, Sea Grant Director Ron Dear­ ences of oceanography and fish­ born, and Marine Advisory Special­ eries biology had matured to the ist Craig Wiese presented lectures point that greater interaction be­ to the vessel's faculty and stu­ tween the two would benefit both. dents. It was Dearborn's first meeting with the Japanese group. The Sea Grant National Advisory "Although I held my own at the Panel also met in Charleston. The picnic, I felt outclassed by Dr. Reagan administration had not been Akasofu' s lecture delivered in filling vacancies on the panel be­ Japanese," said Dearborn, "I look cause it had slated Sea Grant for forward to participating in this termination. It has reversed its productive international exchange policy on filling vacancies how­ of ideas and friendship in years ever, and recently appointed a to come." full complement of advisors. This seems to indicate a change in the SEA GRANT MONITORS TO VISIT administration's policy toward Sea Grant. Preliminary plans are underway for Dr. William Graham and Dr. Eugene The advisory panel's new chairman Fritz of the National Sea Grant is Earl Conrad of Rockland, Maine. College Program to visit Alaska in He presented Ron Dearborn, new October. Graham is the Alaska director of the Alaska Sea Grant monitor. Fritz is the fisheries Program, with a gift of canned program specialist for the na­ lobster, sardines, and a Maine tional office . They have asked for a more in-depth introduction CES Editor Jim Smith's duties for to fisheries issues than they can the year. The Family drove from get in a site visit. "This is a Anchorage to Fairbanks in late great opportunity for us to give July: the same weekend as the the national office a better con­ landslide along the Parks Highway. text in which to view our program The normally 6 to 7 hour trip took for several years to come," says the Sims two days, as a series of Alaska Sea Grant Director Ron typical disasters befell them. Dearborn. "The site visit, with Oh, nothing that a crane and some its focus on separate projects, passing highway machinery couldn't provides little opportunity for get them out of. Sims is working setting context." on the next videotape in the ma­ rine safety and survival training NBC NEWS MAGAZINE "1986" FEATURES series. The family will make PENNINGTON their home on campus at least un­ til the spring. Fame allegedly found Lana Turner at a drug store soda fountain. It BOWHEADS TAGGED BY SATELLITES glommed onto Hank Pennington this summer on the Kodiak waterfront. Faster than a speeding helicopter, As safety and insurance problems more powerful than a 200 lb hal­ in the nations fishing industry ibut in a death spasm, bowhead forged into the national news this whales have resisted all efforts spring, so did television news at tagging. While following their teams into Kodiak. migration using satellites has been a technical possibility for Both NBC's "1986" and ABC's some time, technicians haven't "20/20" sought out local color for been able to outsmart the whales reports on the big bad Bering Sea and the arctic environment long and the risks of fishing its envi­ enough to tag the bowheads. Dr . rons. A producer could hardly ask Bruce Mate of the Hatfield Marine for more color than larger-than­ Science Center at Oregon State life Pennington, a red-haired, University is experimenting with wild bearded, flannel plaid­ two new ways to approach the shirted, experienced marine advi­ beasts. sory agent with safety training credentials. Heck, he not only Mate's team will first try to ap­ doesn't need costuming, he can proach bowheads in a five-blade talk as well. helicopter. These machines gener­ ate lower frequency noise and are Thus did national audiences get a thought to be less disturbing to whiff of real Kodiak persons when bowheads than craft used in ear­ Pennington appeared on the "1986" lier attempts. Second, a small segment the week of July 21. Pen­ radio-controlled helicopter will nington is rumored to be looking be maneuvered within reach of the at a three-segment deal with "60 animals. Minutes"; something with more hu­ man interest than Mike Wallace but While no actual tagging will take not as much as Andy Rooney. place, the results of this work may bring scientists within reach SIMS MAKES FAIRBANKS IN ONE PIECE of these reclusive animals. Grant Sims, MAP media specialist, has arrived in Fairbanks to assume FISHERIES EXPERTS REPORT TO NOAA PATENT POLICY ON FMCA The General Accounting Office has A panel of fisheries experts re­ released a report on university viewing the FCMA for NOAA Adminis­ research under Public Law 96-517, trator Anthony Calio has presented the Patent and Trademark Amend­ its report. They conclude that ments of 1980. GAO reports on the there should be a clear separation patent activities of 19 universi­ of conservation and allocation de­ ties from January 1982 to December cisions, and that the conservation 1984. The document is GAO/ RCED- decisions should be made before 86-93, and is available from GAO; the users are decided. Other rec­ PCB 6015; Gaithersburg, MD; 20877. ommendations include changes in the way regional council members AVTEC ANNOUNCES 1986-87 FISH­ are selected and in council terri­ ERIES/MARITIME TRAINING COURSES tories, remarks on limited entry, licensing fees, use of the 200 The Alaska Vocational and Techni­ mile EEZ, and the role of the fed­ cal Center in Seward has announced eral government in fisheries man­ its marine-emphasis training agement. The 63-page report is courses for the next academic available for public comment from year. Subject areas include the National Marine Fisheries Ser­ safety and survival, u.s. Coast vice. Guard licensing and document preparation, and technical assis­ NEW LEADER AT SCRIPPS tance. Room and board is $12.25 per day, on a space available ba­ Edward Frieman, a prominent physi­ sis. For more information contact cist, has been named to l ead the AVTEC; Admissions Office; POB 889; Scripps Institution of Oceanogra­ Seward, AK 99664; 224-3322. phy. Frieman is also executive vice president of Science Applica­ 09/22-10/01 Radar Observer tions, Inc. of La Jolla, CA. 10/08-17 Frieman takes over from William 11/ 10-19 Nierenberg, who has been in the 12/10-19 director's chair for 21 years. 01/26-2/ 4 03/09-18 $5,000 ROSENSTIEL AWARD TARGETS 04/ 20-29 MARINE PHYSICS 09/29-10/17 Motorboat, Inland and Ocean Operator The 1986 Rosenstiel Award in 12/ 01-19 Oceanographic Science will bring 05-04-22 the winner a medal and a cash 09/ 29-10/ 03 Chart Navigation prize of $5,000 this year. Marine (MBO) physics is the subject area being 10/ 27-11/ 04 recognized by the selection panel. 12/01-05 They are also encouraging nomina­ 05/04-22 tions of younger scientists with 10/08-15 Int'l. Inland Rules of potential as leaders in the field. the Road Deadline for nominations is Novem­ 11/10-18 ber 1, 1986. To make nominations 12/ 10-17 contact Dean Alan Berman at the 05/ 13-20 Rosenstiel School of Marine and 10/13-17 Marine Hydraulics Atmospheric Science; University of 02/16-20 Miami; Miami, FL. 10/-20-24 Loran/Radar Navigation 01/ 12-16 0 3/30-04/03 05/ 11-15 10/ 20-24 Marine Engines 03/ 16-20 10/ 20-11/21 Master/ Mate 10/ 27-31 Small Boat Fish Finding 04/ 06-10 10/27-31 Marine Electrical 02/23-27 11/03-07 Gas Engine Tune-up 03/09-13 12/01-05 Trawl Technology 02/23-27 01/ 07-16 Radar Ship Handling 01/ 19-23 Vessel Stability 02/05-07 Marine Safety and Survival 03/ 19-21 04/ 23-25 02/ 16-20 Fish Finding 05/ 18-22 02/23-03/ 13 Celestial Navigation 04/06-17 Able Seaman 04/20-05/ 01 Lifeboatman Volume v, No. 8 ;Eshlines September 12, 1986 Office for Fisheries University of Alaska

NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FISHING VESSEL will be helping processors with en­ INSURANCE AND SAFETY SET FOR WASH­ ergy conservation measures. He INGTON D.C., FEB. 4-6 says that he and his colleagues hope to work on new products as Wherever people are talking about well. vessel insurance, they're probably talking about vessel safety. The Although this is his first time in two are increasingly fused into one Alaska, Nash says he always wanted as the liability insurance crisis to see the state and is happy to be develops. In February, the Na­ working in his field. Welcome tional Council of Fishing Vessel aboard, Jeff. Safety and Insurance (NCFVSI) and the national Sea Grant network will INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FISH­ sponsor a workshop on the two top­ ERIES ACOUSTICS ics in Washington D. C. In 1973 and 1982, the International Included among those making presen­ Council for Exploration of the Sea tations will be insurance experts, (ICES) and the United Nation's Food fishing vessel owners and skippers, and Agricultural Organization (FAO) charter operators, safety experts, sponsored international meetings on Congressional staffers, and experts fisheries acoustics. The National on various regional fisheries. At Marine Fisheries Service Northwest the conclusion of the workshop, and Alaska Fisheries Center (NWAFC) some points of national consensus will join ICES and FAO in present­ developed during the sessions will ing the third such meeting July 22- be made available. A proceeding 26, 1987 in Seattle. including the text of all presenta­ tions and summaries of discussions The central theme of the symposium will also be published shortly af­ is to describe the current and fu­ ter the meeting. ture role of fisheries acoustics in stock assessment, fisheries manage­ For further information contact: ment, and other scientific endeav­ Brenda Melteff; University of ors. Since the 1982 meeting, there Alaska; Sea Grant College Program; has been rapid growth in the use of 590 University Ave., Rm 102; Fair­ acoustic techniques to locate and banks, AK: 99709-1046. assess fish stocks. Other re­ searchers have used the techniques NASH IS NEW FOOD ENGINEER AT FITC for sampling fish stocks and other biological populations. The sympo­ sium proceeding will reflect the Jeff Nash has arrived in Kodiak to most current applications of this begin work at the FITC as a food technique. engineer. Originally from the northeast United states, Nash re­ Deadline for abstracts is October cently received his doctorate from 1. Authors whose papers are ac­ Texas A&M University. cepted will be notified by December 1. Completed papers will be due In Kodiak, Nash will be applying April 15. Abstracts should be sub­ food engineering principles to fish mitted to: Martin o. Nelson; Divi­ processing. Among the priorities sion of Resource Assessment and I

Conservation Engineering; NWAFC; MAP staffers or other faculty mem­ 7600 Sand Point Way, Bldg. 4; Seat­ bers who would like to put materi­ tle, WA; 98115-0070. als in the booth should call Ter i Frady at Alaska Sea Grant. It is a MERCY LANDS MEDIA POSITION particularly good time to do sur­ veys since it's one of the few Deborah Mercy has been named half­ places to find a cross section of time instructional media specialist the fishing community in one place. at the Anchorage MAP office. Debo­ If you have other ideas for the rah will be taking over some of the booth, please let Frady know: call work formerly done by Grant Sims. 474-6702 or send a mail message to Mercy is no stranger to MAP, having SZGRANT. worked for the office on various contracts over the past year pro­ AQUACULTURE INFORMATION CENTER OF­ ducing videotape and slide presen­ FERS BIBLIOGRAPHIES tations . Most recently, she was aboard Bob Jacobson's boat taping The Aquaculture Information Center the Kodiak halibut opening . Best at the Department of Agriculture's of luck to Deborah. National Agricultural Library (NAL) publishes bibliographies in a se­ OLSEN MOVES TO ANCHORAGE ries called "Quick Bibliography." There are eight bibliographies for Remember Sea Grant secretary/ aquaculture: aquaculture, catfish graphic artist. Tricia Olsen? Who farming, crayfish farming, freshwa­ quit her secretarial position to ter shrimp and prawns, shellfish get a degree? Who returned to Sea culture, shrimp mariculture, Grant while a student to become tilapia culture, and trout farming. their first half-time graphic artist? Who quit the program after These bibliographies are available graduation to become features edi­ at no charge. To request copies tor at the Fairbanks Daily News­ write: Aquaculture Information Cen­ Miner? Olsen has now fled Fair­ ter; National Agricultural Library; banks for the bright lights of An­ Rm. 111; 10301 Baltimore Blvd.; chorage and new husband Perry. Beltsville, MD; 20705. While Interior may have seen the last of Olsen, the news world has Holdings of the Aquaculture Infor­ not. Look for her in the local mation Center are cataloged in rags or, who knows, begging for AGRICOLA, NAL ' s online database change outside the Anchorage MAP that can be accessed through DIA­ office. LOG. For more information on AGRI­ COLA, contact NAL's education coor­ PACIFIC MARINE EXPO FISHERIES BOOTH dinator at (301) 344-3937. PLANNED Alaska sea Grant will be sharing a booth with other Alaska fisheries groups at Pacific Marine Expo, the "off-year" trade show to be held at Seattle Center November 20-22 . Pa­ cific Marine Expo will be held while Fish Expo is being held in Boston. Volume VI, No. 9 October 10, 1986

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CALIFORNIA SEA GRANT FINDS PAIN KILLER IN CORAL

California Sea Grant College Pro­ Hotel in Anaheim. More than 350 gram (CSGCP) researchers have an­ exhibitors and 5,500 attendees are nounced discovery of pain killing expected this year. compounds that are as powerful as morphine with no apparent narcotic Sea Fare includes a seminar program or addictive properties. that features experts in prof­ itability of food-service opera­ Called pseudoterosins, these com­ tions, wholesaling, importing and pounds were derived from the retailing. For more information on Caribbean soft coral known as sea Sea Fare ' 87 contact: Sea Fare Ex­ whips. Pseudoterosins seem to act positions, Inc.; 3510 1st Ave. by controlling prostaglandins, a N.W.; Seattle, WA; 98107; (206)547- hormone-like substance that is as­ 6030. sociated with pain, inflammation and fever. Scientists believe that pseudoterosins may eventually have NEW BOOK ON HYPOTHERMIA PUBLISHED wide application in treatment of chronic pain such as that suffered Human Performance in the Cold, is by arthritics. the conference proceeding for a meeting held in Alaska in 1982. The discovery was made as part of The conference focused on cold-in­ an ongoing CSGCP project called the duced changes in the human body, Marine Chemistry and Pharmacology care of hypothermia victims, recov­ Program in which a team of scien­ ery for hypothermics, evaluating tists investigates the potential protective clothing and insulation for marine organisms to provide new materials and research needs in drugs. Extracts of various marine this field. The book is co-edited life specimens from the Pacific and by Minnesota Sea Grant researcher Caribbean are tested for their Dr. Robert Pozos and it can be or­ ability to inhibit cell division dered from the publisher: Undersea and bacterial growth, and for their Medical Society, Inc.; 9650 anti-inflammatory and analgesic Rockville Pike; Bethesda, MD; 20814 properties. Pseudoterosins are one ($35). of 28 extracts selected for inten­ sive study after testing more than 800 marine extract samples. NEW YORK SEA GRANT SEEKS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND MAS LEADER

SEA FARE TO OPEN FEB. 18-20 IN LONG This three-part position is located BEACH in Ithaca, New York at Cornell Uni­ versity. The successful candidate The international seafood exposi­ will serve as associate director of tion Sea Fare '87 will be held in New York Sea Grant, as extension California Feb. 18-20 at the Long leader under Cornell Cooperative Beach Convention Center. Last Extension Service, and as a spe­ year's show attracted over 5,000 cialist in extension education. seafood buyers to the Disneyland Applicants should have a Ph.D. in aquatic sciences, natural resource ming and management; and demon­ management, extension education or strated ability to manage extension a related field; five years profes­ education activities. Those inter­ sional experience in a field re­ ested should provide a letter of lated to Great Lakes or marine re­ interest and resume to: Dr. Lucinda source management; three years di­ Noble; Search committee chair; Di­ rect experience in extension or rector, Cornell Cooperative Exten­ other nonformal education program- sion; Roberts Hall; Ithaca, NY; 14853; (607)255-2116. Volume VI, No. 10 November 7, 1986

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NEW ALASKA SEA GRANT MONITOR VIS­ ception of Seafood Quality; and ITS STATE WITH GRAHAM AND FRITZ Seafood Quality Standards. For more information on attending Dr. Fritz Schuler, a resource the meeting contact: Brenda Melt­ economist, is Alaska Sea Grant's eff; Alaska Sea Grant College new program monitor in the Na­ Program; 590 University Ave., tional Office of Sea Grant. Fritz Suite 102; Fairbanks, AK 99709- joined former Alaska monitor Dr. 1046; (907)474-7086. William Graham and Dr. Gene Fritz on a recent trip to Alaska's PLANS GEL FOR FISHING VESSEL fishing communities. In the com­ SAFETY AND INSURANCE WORKSHOP pany of Sea Grant Director Ron Dearborn, the group visited The agenda is almost complete for Juneau, Cordova, and Anchorage. the National Workshop on Fishing Foul weather prevented the team Vessel Insurance and Safety from visiting the large private scheduled for Feb. 4-6, 1987 in non-profit hatchery on Ester Is­ Washington D.C. This conference land in Prince William Sound, and will present an intensive three­ from landing in Kodiak to talk day look at how vessel safety and with fishermen and processors. insurability are related from the perspective of those working the SEAFOOD QUALITY MEETING DRAWS IN­ boats, those offering insurance, TERNATIONAL CROWD and those who may be regulating one or both of these industries. The International Symposium on Seafood Quality De t ermination Attendees will discuss the diffi­ scheduled for Anchorage November culty in obtaining coverage, ex­ 10-14, features over 50 speakers periences with alternative forms from 11 countries and 16 U.S . of insurance, and safety training states. In addition to U.S. sci­ programs and their role in ob­ entists, invited experts hail taining insurance. Conferees from Scotland, Denmark, Canada, will include insurance profes­ Norway, Japan, the Netherlands, sionals, fishing business people, Australia, Korea, India, and and congressional staff members. Italy . To date, approximately 125 people have registered to at­ The meeting is sponsored by the tend the meeting at the Anchorage Sea Grant College Program Network Hilton. and the National Council of Fish­ ing Vessel Safety and Insurance. The meeting is divided into 10 For more information on attending sessions: Instrumental Measure­ this conference, contact confer­ ments of Seafood Quali ty; Sensory ence coordinator Brenda Melteff: Evaluation of Seafood Quality; Al aska Sea Grant; 590 University Chemical and Biochemical Indices Ave., Suite 102; Fairbanks, AK of Seafood; Sensory Evaluation 99709-1046; (907) 474-7086. Workshop; Microbiological Evalua­ tion of Seafood Quality; Public SEA GRANT TO SHARE BOOTH AT PA­ Health Hazards Associated with CIFI C MAR I NE EXPO Seafood; Shelf-life Estimati on for Seafood; Nutritional Aspects Alaska Sea Grant will share a of Seaf ood Quality; Consumer Per- boot h wi th f ive other r egio nal fisheries groups at Pacific Ma­ that advises the NOAA administra­ rine Expo in Seattle November 20- tion on policy within Sea Grant: 22. The North Pacific Fishery Richard B. Allen is a char­ Management Council, the National ter fishing boat owner-operator Marine Fisheries Service Alaska from Wakefield, RI. Region, the Alaska Office of Com­ Dr. Fay Biles is a faculty mercial Fisheries Development, member and administrator at Kent the Alaska Department of Fish and State University who specializes Game, and the Alaska Seafood Mar­ in health and safety education. keting Institute will also send Maumus Francois Claverie, representatives to the booth. Jr. is an attorney, director of the New Orleans Big Game Fishing Billed as the "off-year Expo", Club, and a member of NOAA's Ma­ Pacific Marine Expo is an exper1- rine Recreational Fishing Steer­ ment by National Fisherman Expo­ ing Committee. sitions, Inc. The group is will­ William F. Cochrane is pres­ ing to put on a trade show in ident of ALCOA South Carolina, Seattle in the years Fish Expo Inc. in Beaufort, S.C., Inc. travels to the east coast if Earl Conrad, the elected there are enough people inter­ chairman of the panel, is chief ested in at tending. Exhibitors executive officer of Port Clyde have responded in force and orga­ Seafoods, in Rockland, ME, and nizers hope attendance will be director of the National Fish high. The event is structured Meal and Oil Association. Conrad much like Fish Expo, with a vari­ was in Fairbanks in 1985 as a ety of exhibitors from marine member of the Sea Grant proposal trades and service organizations review site team. and a seminar series. Peter M. Dunbar is an attor­ ney, a member of the Florida Seminars this year include a dis­ State House, and primary sponsor cussion of the state of the of state legislation that created seafood market, by-catch and gear the Florida Marine Fisheries Com­ selection, and the third industry mission. safety conference. Stanley R. Murphy is a pro­ fessor of mechanical engineering SEA GRANT BOOTH PLANNED FOR NSTA and oceanography at the Univer­ sity of Washington. They didn't get the Olympics, but Dr. Michael J. Pelczar is a they did get the western regional microbiologist and former vice National Science Teacher's Asso­ president for Graduate Studies ciation convention. Sea Grant and Research at the University of will coordinate a Pacific Sea Maryland. Grant College Program booth at Benjamin F. Rathbun is the conference in Anchorage De­ owner-operator of charter fishing cember 2-4 at the Sullivan Arena. boats in Noank, CT and an advisor Booths will also be sponsored by to the New England Fisheries Man­ the Institute of Marine Science agement Council. and Alaska Sea Week/River Week. Dr. Saul B. Saila is a fish­ The conference includes workshops eries biologist and biometrician, and seminars. Marine Advisory and chief scientist at the Uni­ Agent Dolly Garza will be among versity of Rhode Island Division those speaking. of Marine Resources. Roger Thomas of Burlingame, ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS APPOINTED TO CA is owner- operator of a three­ SEA GRANT REVIEW PANEL vessel commercial passenger/ fishing fleet, director of the Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Coastal Fisheries Foundation, and Baldrige has appointed eleven new president of the Golden State members to the Sea Grant Review Fishermen's Association. Panel, an independent committee ...I Volume VI, No. 11 December 5, 1986

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WOMEN'S FISHERIES NETWORK GETS Application deadline is January ALASKA CHAPTER 15, 1987. Application informa­ tion is available from : Dean of The Women's Fisheries Network Graduate Studies; Education Of­ (WFN), based in Seattle, has fice, Clark Laboratory; Woods sanctioned an Alaska Chapter. Hole Oceanographic Institution; The Alaska group will have its Woods Hole, MA: 02543; (617)548- first meeting this month. The 1400. group encourages women in various parts of the fishing industry to COAST GUARD SAFETY STANDARDS DE­ meet, share information, and VELOPED sponsor educational events on topics of interest. A u.s. Coast Guard task force has produced fishing vessel safety Annual dues have been set at $35. standards intended for commercial For an extra $10, members can be­ fishermen. The group, working come "founding mothers" of the under the Office of Marine Alaska chapter. For more Safety, Security and Environmen­ information on the group, tal Protection, has developed a contact: Julie Settle; Alaska voluntary program that includes Joint Venture Fisheries; 310 K standards, safety awareness and Street, Room 310; Anchorage, AK; educational material. Full de­ 99501. tails are available from Lcdr. William J. Morani, Jr. (G-MTH­ RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED AT F /V), Room 1400; USCG Headquar­ WHOI ters; 2100 2nd St. N.W.; Washing­ ton , DC ; 2 0 59 3 ; ( 2 0 2 ) 2 6 7 -1 0 53 . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu­ tion is offering research fellow­ PACIFIC MARINE EXPO A SUCCESS ships to individuals in social sciences, law, humanities, and Alaska Sea Grant coordinated the natural sciences who wish to ap­ Alaska Fisheries booth at Pacific ply their training to legal, Marine Expo, a trade show held in political, social or economic Seattle November 20-22 . This was problems that involve the oceans. billed as the "off-year" Fish Previous research fellows have Expo, held in Seattle while Fish come from the fields of eco­ Expo traveled to Boston. Two nomics, law, political science, similar attempts at inter-year international relations, anthro­ shows have failed, however, Pa­ pology, sociology, engineering, cific Marine Expo drew both ex- marine science, and geography. hibitors and visitors. Other participating agencies were: Applicants must have completed a ADF&G, ASMI, NPFMC, OCFD and NMFS doctoral level degree or have ac­ Alaska region. quired equivalent experience while pursuing a career. Recent National Fisherman Expositions, doctorates receive a stipend of Inc. estimated at the close of $24,000 for one year. Depending the show that more than 6,000 on the work, a fellow may be of­ persons had attended the show. A fered a longer professional af­ good percentage of the visitors filiation with the institution. to the Alaska Fisheries booth were Alaskans, so early fears SEA GRANT DI RECTOR WINS ELECTION that only Seattle fishermen would attend proved groundless. People At the November meeting of the were particularly interested in Sea Grant Association, Alaska Sea Sea Grant's recent report on Grant d i rector, Ron Dearborn be­ wholesaler's attitudes toward came president-elect of SGA. As wild Pacific and pen-raised president-elect and then presi ­ salmon and on guides for handling dent next year, Ron will be heav­ rockfish and halibut. ily involved with the Sea Grant budget process in Congress. Seminars were a part of the activities, as they are during INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD MEETING Fish Expo. Particularly well-at­ SUCCESSFUL tended were those on safety and vessel insurance. The International Symposium on Seafood Quality Determi nation MAP OFFICE ON THE MOVE AGAIN held November 10-14 in Anchorage provided 52 technical presenta­ The Marine Advisory Program head­ tions for an audience of 135 peo­ quarters office in Anchorage is ple from 15 nations and 19 in the process of moving to 2221 states. Proceedings will be pub­ Northern Lights Boulevard. The lished by Elsevier in their se­ phone number remains 274-9691. ries "Developments in Food Sci­ ence". Volume VI, No. 12 January 16, 1987

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SEA GRANT LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD early December. Displays included videotapes and PROJECTS FOR 1988-1989 GRANT YEARS educational material from most western Sea Grant programs, as well as materials from vari­ Alaska Sea Grant has mailed Requests for Pro­ ous sections of the College of Natural Science in­ posals (RFPs) for projects to begin in the next cluding the Geophysical Institute, Institute of Ma­ two-year proposal cycle. Pre-proposals are due in rine Science, and the UAF Department of Mining the Sea Grant office Feb. 13. If you have not and Geological Engineering. received an RFP by the end of January and would like to, contact the Sea Grant office. Dr. Syun Akasofu was the keynote speaker at the last general session. Robert Ballard, the Titanic NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FISIITNG VES­ researcher from Woods Hole, was also a featured SEL INSURANCE AND SAFETY ATTRACTS speaker. Organizers estimate that more than TOP SPECIALISTS 5,000 people attended the conference. Staffing the various UA booths were Claron Hoskins, Don Insurance, safety and fishing industry profession­ Triplehorn, John Kelley, Ted Cooney, Neil Brown, a ls, Congressional staff, and academics wi ll Teri Frady, and Dolly Garza. Also prominent gather in Washington D.C. February 4-6 to at­ among the speakers were CHRD Alaska Sea tend a workshop on fishing vessel insurance and Week/River Week coordinator Sidney Stevens, safety. The three days of discussion will touch on and former CHRD staffer and current statewide national and international problems in maritime math and science curriculum coordinator Peggy insurance, possible legislative and regulatory Cowan. changes affecting insurance, a lternative ap­ proaches to insurance, and fishing vessel safety Briefly sighted in the crowd was former guberna­ training and assurance. Each topic area will be torial science advisor and IMS faculty member considered by a panel of experts, then opened for Richard Neve. Neve has finished his public com­ public discussion. mitments and plans to stay in Juneau and work as a consultant. AJthough panelists have been dmwn from a ll parts of the nation, some familiar faces will greet MATillSEN PUBLISHED IN NEW BOOK DE­ Alaskans at the meeting: AI Burch, manager of TAILING SOUTH PACIFIC PELAGIC FISH the Alaska Dragger's Association; University of MANAGEMENT Alaska Marine Advisory faculty members Craig Wiese and Hank Pennington; Oregon State Uni­ Ole Mathisen, dean of the U ni versity of AJaska, versity's Bob Jacobson; John Sabell a, safety spe­ Juneau, School of Fisheries and Science, is co-edi­ cialist with the North Pacific Fishing Vessel tor and a contributor to a new book on managing Owner's Association; and Sea Grant director Ron pelagic fishes in the South Pacific upwelling sys­ Dearborn. tem. Mathisen has been a consultant on a multi­ year cooperative project among Chile, Peru and The conference was convened by the National Sea Ecuador to develop the management study. Grant Network and the National Council of Mathisen contributed two papers and edited the Fishing Vessel Safety and Insurance. Sponsors volume along with I. Tsukayama. The book is en­ include the AJaska and University of Southern titled, "Bases Biologicas y Marco Conceptual para California Sea Grant programs. For more infor­ el Manejop de los Recursos Pelagicos en el Paci­ mation on the conference contact Brenda R. Melt­ fico S uror ien tal." eff at Alaska Sea Grant, 474-6701. SEA GRANT FUNDS SIX NEW PROJECTS CNS AND SEA GRANT STAFF MEET SCI­ BEGINNINGJANUARY 1 ENCE TEACHERS AJaska Sea Grant has been awarded its 1987 The University of Alaska was well-represented at grant, totaling $1,232,000. While most of Sea the National Science Teacher's Association's Grant's current projects are continuing, there are western regional convention held in Anchorage in six new projects that began January 1. William S moker (UAJ School of Fisheries a nd depa rtment has conducted much applied research Science) wi ll examine broodstock improve ment for on underwater robotics. The center will work on pink salmon. projects that increase scientists' a bility to survey a nd sample t he deep sea. Field wo rk will probably T.J . Quinn (UAJ School of Fisher ies a nd Science) center around the Mid-Ocean ridge, a 46,000 will study otoli t.h microstructure in Pacific hal­ mile-long underwater range that is largely ibut. unexplored.

Abby Gorha m (Al aska Sea Grant.) will develop a OYSTER TlllEVES WRECK CHESAPEAKE dy namic simula lion model of t.he U.S . Pacific COMEBACK halibut fishery. University of Ma ryland scie ntists are wr inging G. Kna pp (UAA Institute of Social and Economic their ha nds over the a pparent theft of 3 million Research) will attempt to discover how fisheries baby oysters from a boat basin on the Choptank m anageme nt policies affect safe ty in Alaska's Ri ver. The infa nts were a carefully selected group fi shing industry. of disease-resistan t oysters that were to be placed around the bay to help fight a sickness that has S.O. Ebbesson (UAF Instit.ute of Ma rine Science) decimated oyster harvests in the Chesapeake. will study how t. hyroid-induced sm olt.ification a f­ The shellfish-lifters made off with 400 to 500 fect the neura l struct.ure of coho salmon. plastic mesh bags of the ba by oysters, none of which would be m arket size for a nother two or H.J . Nieba ue r is trying to cha racterize and possi­ three years. bly predict inter a nnua l va ria bility in t.h e Bering Sea. NEW ORLEANS TO HOST SOUTH ATLANTIC FISHERIES CONFERENCE WESTERN GROUNDFISH CONFERENCE SET FOR OREGON, MARCH 1987 The Conference on Gulf and Sou th Atla ntic Fis h· eries Law and Policy will be held in New Or leans The Sixth Annual Western Groundfish Co nfer­ Ma rch 18-20, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. The ence will be held March 25-27 at the Salishan co nference will concentrate on resource allocation, Lodge in Gleneden Beach, Oreg. The organizers co nflict in state a nd fede ral regulation, state reg­ are still accepting papers, bu t urge those inter­ ulatory powers, proposed cha nges to the F CMA, ested to con tact them immediately. The confer­ the presen t marine ins urance crisis, a nd t he Law ence provides a forum where researchers from of the Sea a nd its effect on fishe ries ma nageme nt. various institutions and agencies can discuss their For more informa tion on the meeting con tact: work on any aspect of groundfish. The co nference Fisheries La w Conference; Sea Grant co mmuni­ is open to a ll who wish to attend. cations; LSU Center fo r Wetla nd Resources; Ba­ ton Rouge, L A; 70803-7507. For more information on submitting pa pers con­ tact Bob Demory or Bill Barss; Oregon Depart­ "FINMAN" SIMULATION MODEL AVAIL­ me nt of Fish a nd Wildlife; Marine Science Drive, ABLE FROM FLORIDA SEA GRANT Bldg. No. 3; Newport, OR: 97365; (50 3)867- 4 7 41. To make reservations to stay at. the lodge FINMAN is a computer program that simulates contact: Sali sha n Lodge; (50 3)864-2371. The decision-making responses at three levels of fi sh­ package cost for three nights also includes three ery management: ma nageme nt rules, agency breakfasts, two lunches, two dinners, five breaks budget allocation, a nd research budget a llocations. and use of lodge·owned AV equipment. The price Although the program was developed for the is $215.65 for a sing le a nd $ 162.10 for a double. grouper fishery, it presents an interactive and dynamic environme nt where decisions can be TJTANIC-BUSTER TO HEAD NEW CENTER made an interpreted using other fi sheries. Two publications describing the system a re available: The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu tion has FINMAN: General User's Guide (TP-47/$3.00) named Robert. Ba ll a rd, the ma n who discovered a nd FINMAN: Model Description and Operations a nd filmed the Titanic last year, to head its ne w Manual (TP-4 7-A/$8.00). To order , contact: Center for Marine Exploration. Ba ll a rd is a lready Florida Sea Gra nt Extension Program; G0 22 Me· on sta ff at WHOl , where the ocean engineering Carty Ha ll; University of Florida; Gainesville, FL;32611.