Whispering Campaign Against Your Fish
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2014 Pacific Fishing Calendar Inside Alaska Independent Fishermen’s Marketing Assn. www.pacificfishing.com THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR FISHERMEN n DECEMBER 2013 Whispering campaign against your fish US $2.95/CAN. $3.95 • Cal fishing co-op working 12 • Questions for Cora Campbell 63126 The No. 1 maritime VSAT network brings a new dimension to broadband at sea. Movies & IPTV TV News SATCOM... & Sports Clips and beyond! KVH’s new IP-MobileCast is a unique content delivery Newspapers service providing affordable news, sports, entertainment, Introducing TM electronic charts, and weather IP-MobileCast on top of your mini-VSAT Broadband connection. Radio Training & e-Learning Crew Social Media Weather Files Full ECDIS & Forecasts Chart Database ALL-NEW Delivery & PRODUCT LINE! Updates KVH’s end-to-end solution empowers you to deliver the bandwidth your operations demand, keep your crew happy, and manage your budget... all at the same time. 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In October, we had an article about a faceless rumor campaign that says radiation from the Fukushima fiasco is poisoning the fish you try to sell. It’s a lie, of course. Questions for Alaska fish commish : Page 12 We showed fairly conclusively that activists are doctoring information from NOAA. They’ve taken a NOAA chart designed to show tsunami activity and say it shows the killing tendrils of radiation from Fukushima to you. That they had to resort to such ham-handed subterfuge speaks volumes about the weakness of their argument. These are people who so hate nuclear power that they’ll sacrifice truth — and you. They got to CBS News a few weeks ago. Just one excerpt: Some radiation has arrived in northern Alaska and along the Turmoil for SF herring fishermen : Page 15 west coast. That’s raised concern over contamination of fish and wildlife. More may be heading toward coastal communities like Haines and Skagway. Hogwash! And here’s one comment from a CBS fan about the damage your fish can cause children: You realize if cancers are already developing, there’s a huge exposure. There were also stories from an M.D. out of Japan talking about how children are having uncontrollable nosebleeds and hair loss. This is radiation sickness. Alas, Pacific Fishing isn’t read by the CBS mullahs. Nor is it apparently read by anonymous fans eager to publically illustrate their ignorance while commenting on the CBS site. Walmart wars : Page 17 At about the same time CBS was talking Fukushima and West Coast fish, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. announcers were solemnly quoting a retired professor in Alaska proclaiming his doubts about your catch: John Kelley, a professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says he’s not sure contamination will reach dangerous levels for humans but says without better data, who will know? Health departments and independent labs in the U.S. and Canada have said your fish is safe to eat. But people often don’t believe experts when a rumor is so juicy: Bleeding MSC insults seiners : Page 18 children, scientists cowering amid their uncertainties, an alien force that can’t be seen, heard, or felt. You can bet that right now, more than a few of your neighbors have heard the rumor and believed it. When it comes to the next grocery store visit, they’ll ON THE COVER: Joshua Roper took this fairly chilly pause: Beef or fish? photo as F/V Saga fished for opilio in the ice. Fighting a whispering campaign isn’t easy, especially if one of the whisperers is CBS News. You can only fight a corrosive lie the same way it got spread: person by person. VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 12 • DECEMBER 2013 We normally don’t give away our work. But we’ve set up our October Pacific Fishing (ISSN 0195-6515) is published 12 times a year (monthly) by Pacific Fukushima coverage as a free reprint on the Web: go to www.pacificfishing. Fishing Magazine. Editorial, Circulation, and Advertising offices at 1028 Industry com/PF_Nuke-Story.pdf. Drive, Seattle, WA 98188, U.S.A. Telephone (206) 324-5644. n Subscriptions: One-year rate for U.S., $18.75, two-year $30.75, three-year $39.75; Canadian Here’s just one quote we had from an Oregon State University professor: subscriptions paid in U.S. funds add $10 per year. Canadian subscriptions paid in Worrying about these traces is like worrying you’ll get sunburned by the stars at night. Canadian funds add $10 per year. Other foreign surface is $36 per year; foreign Distance and dilution are massive. airmail is $84 per year. n The publisher of Pacific Fishing makes no warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the Simple message. Spread it. information contained in Pacific Fishing. n Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, Washington. Postmaster: Send address changes to Pacific Fishing, 1028 Industry Pacific Fishing editor Don McManman at one time was a qualified nuclear worker at Drive, Seattle, WA 98188. Copyright © 2013 by Pacific Fishing Magazine. Contents the Columbia Generating Station and got to know quite a bit about the possible threats may not be reproduced without permission. POST OFFICE: Please send address changes to Pacific Fishing, 1028 Industry Drive, Seattle, WA 98188 by radiation. WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ DECEMBER 2013 £ PACIFICFISHING 3 YOUR BUSINESS Keeping up PREFERRED PUBLICATION OF: It’s FREE! It’s DAILY!* It’s the best commercial fishing news digest ALASKA INDEPENDENT Fish available in the North Pacific. Here’s some of FISHERMEN’S MARKETING ASSOC. Wrap what you missed by not reading FishWrap. 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