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PREFERRED PUBLICATION OF: It’s FREE!* It’s the best commercial fishing news digest BRISTOL BAY Fish available in the North Pacific. Here’s some of FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATION Wrap what you missed by not reading FishWrap. CORDOVA DISTRICT FISHERMEN UNITED Man overboard: A search was underway for Alaska salmon tally: The statewide salmon OREGON DUNGENESS a crewman who went overboard from a Bristol harvest now tops 77 million fish, with sockeye CRAB COMMISSION Bay commercial fishing vessel, the U.S. Coast accounting for more than 45 million of the UNITED FISHERMEN Guard reported. – content.govdelivery.com total. – adfg.alaska.gov OF ALASKA Sad outcome: The U.S. Coast Guard has Banner Bristol Bay season: The salmon WASHINGTON DUNGENESS suspended the search for an overboard Bristol catch has now surpassed 41 million fish. CRAB FISHERMEN’S ASSOC. Bay crewman. – content.govdelivery.com – adfg.alaska.gov WASHINGTON REEF NET Bristol Bay update: With the season Alaska salmon update: While sockeye OWNERS ASSOC. approaching its peak, the catch now exceeds production is strong, other species are lagging. WESTERN FISHBOAT 11 million sockeye salmon. – adfg.alaska.gov – scribd.com OWNERS ASSOC. Bristol Bay update: The salmon catch now Opinion: Commercial fishermen need relief tops 21 million fish. – adfg.alaska.gov from Chinese tariffs. – seattletimes.com Fast fishery: Commercial salmon trollers in Marine highway shutdown: Alaska's ferry To subscribe: Southeast Alaska are done with their first king service remains suspended as a key union www.pacificfishing.com opening of the summer. – kfsk.org enters the second day of a strike. – adn.com Ph: (206) 324-5644 [email protected] Alaska political battle: A divided state Coho closure: Commercial trollers in Southeast

Main Office Legislature has failed, for now, to override Alaska can expect a regionwide fishing closure 14240 INTERURBAN AVE S. SUITE 190 Gov. Mike Dunleavy's budget vetoes. – ktoo.org for coho salmon in August. – kfsk.org TUKWILA, WA 98168 The Whittier calamity: A man remains missing, Anderson and Linville: Gov. Jay Inslee PH: (206) 324-5644 part of the city dock is unsafe, and substantial has appointed two new members to the volumes of fish are in limbo in the aftermath of Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Chairman/CEO/Publisher MIKE DAIGLE a boat explosion and fire. – adn.com – wdfw.wa.gov [email protected] Alaska salmon in hot water? Record-high Bristol Bay payoff: With Alaska's flagship Associate Publisher temperatures in Cook Inlet streams could be sockeye fishery all but done, what are CHRISTIE DAIGLE [email protected] fatal for salmon. – kbbi.org processors paying for fish? – kdlg.org Bristol Bay update: The catch now exceeds Processor levy: A new fish tax reportedly EDITORIAL CONTENT: 35 million fish, far above the state's preseason has been proposed in the Bristol Bay Borough. Editor harvest forecast of 26.1 million sockeye. – kdlg.org WESLEY LOY – adfg.alaska.gov [email protected] Marathon tow: The U.S. Coast Guard Ph: (907) 351-1881 Bristol Bay payoff: Icicle Seafoods reportedly rescues a 50-foot commercial fishing vessel West Coast Field Editor is the first processor to post base prices this disabled 116 miles west of Newport, Ore. DANIEL MINTZ season, including $1.35 per pound for sockeye. – content.govdelivery.com – kdlg.org PRODUCTION OPERATIONS: Bellingham processor downsizing:

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A state where salmon reproduction is self-sustaining to such a level that it grows the economy, protects taxpayers, and revitalizes the environment. We visited that state recently. It’s our neighbor to the north, Alaska. Marking Alaska hatchery salmon by inserting a tiny coded wire into the In the early 1970s, salmon runs in Alaska were very low, jeopar- snout. The code is specific to hatchery and release site. Ben Adams photo dizing the state’s commercial and recreational fishing industries. Leaders did an in-depth look at what worked and what did not The DIPAC hatchery covers all operating costs by selling 30 work in Canada, Oregon, and Washington. One of the strategies percent of each year’s returning fish. That means the remainder – they adopted was to create salmon enhancement projects. The most a whopping 950,000 fish – are available annually for commercial, successful of those launched numerous nonprofit fish hatcheries, sport, and tribal uses. They also are available to killer whales, built through a public-private partnership with $100 million in no- eagles, bears, and all salmon-consuming denizens of Alaska. Those interest public loans. are extra salmon available on top of the natural populations, and We toured one of those hatcheries – the DIPAC hatchery in this isn’t the only such hatchery. Juneau, which produces 137 million fish every year. What we saw Those numbers got our attention, as did the fact that Alaska tax- painted a picture of possibilities that could exist for Washington. payers haven’t paid for this hatchery since the startup loans were The survival rate of salmon to adulthood in Alaska – of both paid off several years ago. There are 29 hatcheries in Alaska. One is native and hatchery fish – is 1 to 10 percent depending on the year. tribal. One is federal. Only two are state-run. Twenty-five of the 29 Assuming a conservative 1 percent survival means 1.37 million are these incredibly successful nonprofit operations. DIPAC salmon return to their homes. Another impressive achievement of the Alaska model: They strive to augment wild stocks – not compete with them. Scientific assessments are made to find freshwater streams pouring into salt- water that do not have native salmon populations. Remote plants are made at these locations. This ensures that these hatchery fish do not compete with native salmon streams. The DIPAC hatchery has excellent relations with its Native American neighbors and functions as an outstanding learning cen- BE A SOUND ter for visiting school kids and surrounding communities. It also serves as a center of tourism in town and generates tax dollars for the public good from visiting tourists from around the world. A recent Seattle Times op-ed (“Restoring salmon runs, not poli- tics, will save Southern Resident killer whales,” July 16) criticized hatchery fish as an unsatisfactory food source for orcas and recom- THINKER mended changes be made in other areas. We think that the state, tribes, and all who fish can work on this project to take the pressure REPORT LOST NETS off the wild stocks that might be favored by orcas. While we don’t anticipate that Alaska’s hatchery model can be replicated quickly in Washington, we saw that it can be done. This Puget Sound helps defi ne us and supports our is why we recommend a pilot project to be developed by our state livelihoods. So report lost nets as soon as possible. Legislature. Nearly 50 years of sustainable excellence in Alaska There are no penalties, removals are free and this shows us how to make nonprofit hatcheries work for Washington. Government is capable of doing big things when properly moti- simple act can do more than save fi sh. vated and effectively led, and Washington’s private sector certainly has a solid track record when it comes to innovation and produc- To report lost gear call tion. If the core problem is a lack of fish – well, Alaska did some- 360-733-1725 (NW Straits Foundation) thing about that, and so can we, not only for the benefit of the orcas or 855-542-3935 (WDFW), or visit derelictgear.org. but all others who rely on a robust salmon fishery. Let’s start by learning from our friends to the north.  Ann Rivers is a Washington state senator from La Center. Shelly Short is a Washington state senator from Addy. Luanne Van Werven is a Washington state representative from Lynden.

6 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM NEWS NET Coast Guard in Alaska urges prevention of false EPIRB alerts Editor’s note: The U.S. Coast Guard posted the following on Aug. 6. The U.S. Coast Guard is encouraging boaters in Alaska to educate themselves about emergency position-indicating radio beacons, and to under- stand the negative consequences for failing to do so. An EPIRB is a device that transmits a distress signal that reaches the Coast Guard and other emergency responders. The Coast Guard is urging anyone with an EPIRB to properly register their device, and to ensure that the device is deactivated with the batteries removed if it is thrown away. When the Coast Guard receives an EPIRB alert and cannot trace it to the owner due to missing or outdated registration information, they launch aircraft and boat crews to search the area for signs of distress. It costs approximately $15,000 per hour to fly a C-130 Hercules aircraft, $10,000 per hour to fly an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, and $5,000 per hour to operate a Coast Guard small boat. Since Oct. 1, 2018, there have been 16 confirmed false alerts for distress beacons in Alaska, costing the taxpayer approximately $353,108. Of those 16 cases, three of the distress beacons were located in garbage dumps. The cost for search- Don’t let your discarded EPIRB go off in a garbage dump! USCG photo ing for those beacons was approximately $35,000. Other reasons for false distress alerts included improper testing of beacons by turning them on, equipment failure such as mounting PORT TOWNSEND SHIPWRIGHTS brackets, and dying batteries while the beacon was put in storage. Servicing the NW fishing fleet for over three decades. Boaters should follow the instructions on the testing process and not turn the beacon on. When storing an EPIRB or other emergency Inside Repair Facility Up to 140 Feet signaling device or when disposing of such a device, boaters should remove the battery. When the beacon is decommissioned, also ensure that NOAA has the information updated in their registry database. If an unregistered beacon activates, the Federal Communi- cations Commission can prosecute the owner based on evidence provided by the Coast Guard, and will issue warning letters or notices of apparent liability for fines up to $10,000. Owners of commercial fishing vessels, uninspected passenger vessels that carry six or more people, and uninspected commercial vessels are legally required to carry an EPIRB. However, the Coast Guard recommends that every mariner who transits offshore or on long voyages carry an EPIRB. The FCC requires all EPIRB owners to register their beacons with NOAA and keep the registration information current. “EPIRBS here in Alaska that are not disposed of properly or are not registered are especially costly to the taxpayer,” said Paul Webb, search and rescue specialist for the 17th Coast Guard District in Juneau. “The Coast Guard in Alaska has the largest area of responsibility in the country. False EPIRB alerts result in lost time, lost money, and potentially loss of life. An EPIRB activated wood ~ aluminum ~ steel ~ systems in a landfill could take our responders away from someone who is actually lost at sea or otherwise facing a deadly situation.” 360-385-6138 www.ptshipwrights.com To register your beacon, go to beaconregistration.noaa.gov/ /PortTownsendShipwrightsCoop RGDB/index.  WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 7 NEWS NET Inaugural Bristol Bay Salmon Week planned for D.C. The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association is catch of 43.3 million sockeye this season. sponsoring a new event – the inaugural Bristol Bay Salmon Week – “Bristol Bay Salmon Week is an opportunity to showcase these in the Washington, D.C., area. special fish that feed the world,” said Andy Wink, BBRSDA During the Sept. 16-20 event, 28 restaurants in Washington and executive director. Wegmans stores in Maryland and Virginia will feature wild sock- The event is also a way to bring recognition, in the nation’s capital, eye salmon from Bristol Bay, an Aug. 22 press release said. to threats the Bristol Bay fishery faces, specifically the proposed The promotion is timely, as Bristol Bay produced a near-record Pebble copper and gold mine, the press release said. Participating restaurants such as The District Fishwife, Grill- fish, and The Salt Line will take their “own unique approach for featuring sockeye salmon on their menus,” the release said. The Mitsitam Cafe at the National Museum of the American On the horizon Indian will prepare salmon using traditional recipes from Alaska Natives who call the Bristol Bay region home. Pacific Fishing magazine’s monthly digest of upcoming Other Bristol Bay Salmon Week sponsors are Antarctica Advisors management meetings and other notable events. LLC, The Conservation Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise • Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Sept. 11-18, Boise. Development, and United Work & Travel. More information at bristolbaysalmonweek.com. • Fishermen’s Fall Festival, Sept. 21, Seattle. More information at  fishermensfallfestival.org. – Wesley Loy • Bellingham SeaFeast, Sept. 21-22, Bellingham. More information at bellinghamseafeast.org. • North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Sept. 30 to Oct. 9, Homer. • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute All Hands on Deck meeting, Oct. 8-10, Anchorage. • Alaska Board of Fisheries work session, Oct. 23-24, Anchorage. • Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers annual meeting, Oct. 29, Seattle. • Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Nov. 13-20, Costa Mesa, Calif. • Pacific Marine Expo, Nov. 21-23, Seattle. A major trade show for commercial fishermen and mariners. More information at pacificmarineexpo.com. • North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Dec. 2-10, Anchorage. • Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting, Dec. 10-13, Seward. The board will consider Lower Cook Inlet finfish proposals. • Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting, Jan. 11-14, Kodiak. The board will consider Kodiak finfish proposals. • 2020 Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit, Jan. 21-23, Juneau. More information at tinyurl.com/yaubhxh6. • North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Jan. 27 to Feb. 3, Seattle. • International Pacific Halibut Commission annual meeting, Feb. 3-7, Anchorage. A boarding team from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mellon heads • Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting, Feb. 7-20, Anchorage. The toward a fishing vessel somewhere in the North Pacific on Aug. board will consider Upper Cook Inlet finfish proposals. 13. The 378-foot high-endurance cutter, homeported in Seattle, • Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting, March 7-11, Anchorage. had since June conducted 40 boardings and issued 61 violations, The board will consider statewide king and Tanner crab proposals the Coast Guard said. The Mellon’s patrol was “in support of U.S. and supplemental issues. goals for the conservation and management of high-seas fisheries resources.” USCG photo

8 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM A desperate effort was underway in British Columbia to save salmon whose migration up the Fraser River was blocked by a massive rock slide. A daily average of 100 people was working at the site on operations including fish capture and relocation, and “boulder manipulation” to try to create a natural fish passage on the river’s edge. The rock slide was discovered in late June at a remote and narrow part of the river north of Lillooet. A large slab of rock calved off, creating a 16-foot high-speed waterfall. The worry was that Chinook and sockeye salmon couldn’t get past the barrier to spawn. Crews were capturing fish through beach seine and fish wheel operations, relocating them upstream via helicopter in oxygenated buckets. As of Aug. 22, a total of 22,711 sockeye and 6,119 Chinook had been transported by helicopter. Crews were working to build a road for trucking salmon. Unified Incident Management Team photos

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From left, Justin Johnson, co-captain; Mike Storey, former captain; and Chris Loper, co-captain, with the F/V Pegasus. Photos courtesy of the Port of Toledo Flying high The trawler Pegasus gets a major makeover at the Port of Toledo This summer saw the completion of the biggest project Oregon’s Originally built in 1975 as a Gulf shrimper, the boat’s old spon- Port of Toledo has done in its eight years of shipyard management – sons were cut off to prep for the new widening. With that work, the sponsoning and renovation of the 96-foot F/V Pegasus. the vessel’s hold capacity increased from 300,000 pounds to The trawl vessel went into the yard – which the port revived 500,000 pounds. after Wahl Marine Construction closed it – at 28 feet wide, and was A new gantry was built and the vessel’s refrigeration system was expanded to 42 feet. moved out of the engine room, which was expanded. Shelter decks A variety of upgrades and architectural changes accompanied on both sides of the boat were lengthened, and extensive electrical the sponsoning in what port manager Bud Shoemake described as work was done. “a community effort.” The $3 million-plus project took 10 months to finish, but its plan- A team of 20 local and regional vendors, including project leader ning took longer. Yaquina Boat Equipment, provided the welding, refrigeration, “We were working on this project for two and a half years before fabrication, and electrical work that has redefined the vessel. we ever pulled into the yard,” Johnson said. “This boat, in its life, “That was the exciting thing – it really was a big, collaborative had been lengthened, widened, the main decks had been raised, effort,” said Justin Johnson, the vessel’s co-captain. and a different bow and wheelhouse had been added, so there was

10 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM As of mid-August, the albacore season was picking up and work was tapering down at Charleston, Oregon-based Giddings Boatworks. But Wayne Garcia, the yard’s general manager, said the first part of summer saw a steady flow of projects. The F/V Shenanigan, a 49-by-22-foot local vessel, had a new front bulb installed. The 71-foot F/V Coho, another local boat, had its genset replaced. “We had to cut a hole in the side of the vessel, pull it all out, repipe it, put the new one in, and patch her back up,” Garcia said. At around the same time, the genset blew out on the 75-foot F/V Western Seas, and “I had to wrangle that sucker out of the hatch and install a new one,” he said. The vessel’s steering system was repaired, and a new hatch was installed on its starboard main deck. The San Diego, California-based F/V Coyote, a former shrimp- ing boat now used for tuna, had bottom hull and bow inserts installed and was repainted. At the end of July, hull work and propeller tuning, barnacle removal, and painting was done on the 60-foot F/V Ocean Faith, a local slime eel vessel. “A slime eel is just what you’d think it is – it kind of looks like a big, long slug, and from what I understand the market’s in Korea,” Garcia said, adding that slime eel hides are used to make every- thing from wallets to boots, and its meat is considered a delicacy. Other projects at Giddings included a rebuilding of the 70-foot Sponsoning widened the F/V Pegasus by 14 feet. F/V Zorabelle’s outrigger. New sliding windows were installed on the Brookings, Oregon- a lot of work in figuring out what to save and what to incorporate.” based F/V Prolific’s pilothouse. And the 56-foot F/V Castaway Dealing with the old hull proved to be a challenge. from Petersburg, Alaska, was towed in after its main failed, and “What we found inside was a deviation from what we thought Giddings assisted with a replacement. was there, so there was a lot of reworking of where we thought we were going,” Johnson said. The project marks what Johnson said is “the final stage in what I would consider to be a very modern vessel now.” North Sea Inc. is the owner of the vessel. The boat’s captains and crew – a team of six – “worked tirelessly” to assist the work,

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• Researchers used a collection of fish scales that had been in storage for more than 100 years. • Wild Skeena sockeye populations have declined by 56 to 99 percent over the last century. • Populations of larger-bodied fish have declined the most in abundance, likely because of size-selective commercial fisheries.

New analysis of century-old fish scales reveals startling decline in Skeena River salmon populations esearchers drawing on 100-year-old sources of salmon data last century. Rhave found that recent returns of wild adult sockeye salmon to “Salmon are fundamental components of ecosystems, and such the Skeena River – Canada’s second-largest salmon watershed – are loss of abundance has reduced nutrient subsidies for wildlife, much lower than during historical times. undermined indigenous peoples’ food security, and eroded the Research carried out by Simon Fraser University and Fisheries biocomplexity of sockeye throughout the watershed,” says SFU and Oceans Canada and published Aug. 20 in Conservation Letters professor John Reynolds, a study co-author. reveals that wild sockeye populations have declined by as much as Price and Reynolds say the research, which expands our understand- 56 to 99 percent over the last century. ing of the salmon’s production potential, will help inform status evalu- The research team used modern genetic tools to analyze a collec- ations and also discussions for rebuilding depleted populations.  tion of fish scales that had been in storage for more than 100 years, – Simon Fraser University revealing population patterns of decline that are far greater than previously recognized. Fisheries scientists began collecting scales from sockeye salmon caught in commercial fisheries in 1912, and the collection continued until 1948. put your best The analyses reveal century-long declines that are much greater than those based on modern-era abundance data, which only fleet forward extend back to 1960. Previous analysis sug- gested that only seven of 13 populations declined over the last five decades. The researchers’ new approach shifted baseline data to as far back as 1913. Michael Price, an SFU Ph.D. candidate and lead study author, says applying modern genet- Foss Maritime’s full-service shipyard is ic techniques to ancient fish tissue is an emerg- equipped to take on any project from cost- ing and powerful tool for understanding histor- effective repairs and maintenance to major ical contexts for conservation, such as verifying conversions and new construction. With population extinctions or loss in diversity. multiple dry docks, cranes up to 90-tons, “Historical perspectives for exploited spe- experienced teams of ABS- and DNV-certified cies are critical to understanding the extent engineers and highly skilled craftspeople, we of decline in depressed populations,” says keep your fleet moving forward. Price. “Naturally, the better we understand the past, the more informed our decisions towards recovery will be.” always safe. always ready. The study found that commercial fisheries’ historical preference for capturing www.foss.com larger-bodied populations by gillnet was 800.426.2885 the most probable driver of differences in rates of decline among populations over the

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 15 SCIENCE Scientists look to unravel fisheries-induced evolution ver recent decades, many commercially harvested fish have After only four generations, these different harvest regimes Ogrown slower and matured earlier, which can translate into had led to evolution of an almost two-fold difference in adult size lower yields and a reduced resilience to overexploitation. between the groups. Therkildsen and her team sequenced the Scientists have long suspected that rapid evolutionary change in full genome of almost 900 of these fish to examine the DNA-level fish is caused by intense harvest pressure. Now, for the first time, changes responsible for these striking shifts. scientists have unraveled genomic changes that prompt fisheries- The team identified hundreds of different genes across the induced evolution – changes that previously had been invisible to genome that changed consistently between populations selected researchers, according to a study published in Science, Aug. 2. for fast and slow growth. They also observed large linked-blocks of “Most people think of evolution as a very slow process that genes that changed in concert, dramatically shifting the frequencies unfolds over millennial time scales, but evolution can, in fact, happen of hundreds of genes all at the same time. very quickly,” said lead author Nina Overgaard Therkildsen, Cornell Surprisingly, however, these large shifts only happened in some assistant professor of conservation genomics in the Department of of the populations, according to the new paper. This means that Natural Resources. there were multiple genomic solutions for the fish in this experi- In heavily exploited fish stocks, fishing almost always targets the ment to get either larger or smaller. largest individuals. “Slower-growing fish will be smaller and escape “Some of these changes are easier to reverse than others, so to the nets better, thereby having a higher chance of passing their genes predict the impacts of fisheries-induced evolution, it is not enough on to the next generations. This way, fishing can cause rapid evolu- to track growth rates alone, we need to monitor changes at the tionary change in growth rates and other traits,” said Therkildsen. genomic level” said Therkildsen. “We see many indications of this effect in wild fish stocks, but no one When the experiment was originally conducted nearly two has known what the underlying genetic changes were.” decades ago by co-authors David Conover, professor of biology at Therkildsen and her colleagues took advantage of an influential the University of Oregon, and Stephan Munch of the National Marine experiment published back in 2002. Six populations of Atlantic Fisheries Service, the tools to study the genomic basis of the rapid silversides, a fish that grows no bigger than 6 inches in length, had fisheries-induced evolution they observed were not available. For- been subjected to intense harvesting in the lab. In two populations, tunately, Conover and Munch had the foresight to store the samples the largest individuals were removed; in another two populations, in a freezer, making it possible to now return – armed with modern the smallest individuals were removed; and in the final two DNA sequencing tools – and reveal the underlying genomic shifts. populations, the fishing was random with respect to size. Continued on Page 18

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Using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, this time series shows the maximum ice extent in the Bering Sea during April for the years 2013 through 2018. The year 2018 set the record for the least amount of sea ice dating back to 1850. NASA Earth Observatory, Joshua Stevens graphic

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 17 SCIENCE models have predicted these warm, ice-eating winter winds would What does this mean for the ecosystem and Alaska? become common in the 2030s. The Bering Sea is one of the largest and most valuable fisheries “We did not expect to see these low-ice conditions for at least 10 in the world, contributing about half of the nation’s fish landings. to 15 years,” she said. The current distribution of fish stocks is dependent on a cold pool Scientists are now wondering if another cold cycle will recur, of water at the bottom of the shallow sea. Species like Arctic cod or if the Bering Sea has passed a tipping point. thrive in colder water, while the shift of just a couple of degrees Complicating matters is the ongoing melt of the Chukchi Sea, to allows Pacific species like pollock to replace Arctic cod. the north of the Bering Strait separating Alaska from Russia. Ice in “This has tremendous implications for the ecosystem,” Stabeno said. the Bering Sea forms when cold winds over the Chukchi Sea come The conditions associated with warmer winters would disrupt blasting down from the north. not only the marine ecosystem but the conditions that generations “To get the frigid winds out of the north that freeze the Bering of Alaskans have come to depend on. Sea ice dampens waves, mak- Sea, you have to freeze the Chukchi,” Stabeno said. “But now the ing fishing safer. Subsistence hunters need ice to pursue seals and Chukchi is not freezing until December. That means there’s less whales. Open water allows waves to hammer the coast, eroding time for the Bering to freeze up.” beaches and threatening towns. Still, Stabeno isn’t ready to go out on a limb and predict that Stabeno, whose work is partially funded by the Joint Institute Bering Sea ice is history. She’s seen too much variability over her for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, NOAA’s cooperative 30 years of research. institute at the University of Washington, has mixed emotions at “There’s always year-to-year variability,” agreed Rick Thoman, watching the impact of climate change unfold before her eyes. Alaska climate specialist with the International Arctic Research “As a scientist, it’s fascinating to see our predictions coming Center. “But these kinds of winters are going to become more and true,” Stabeno said. “As a human being, it’s not so good.”  more common.” – NOAA

Evolution continued from Page 16 Research like this can assess human impacts, and improve that exists across the natural range of this species from Florida into humanity’s understanding of “the speed, consequences, and revers- Canada, said Therkildsen: “That genetic bank fueled rapid adapta- ibility of complex adaptations as we continue to sculpt the evolu- tion in the face of strong fishing pressure. Similar responses may tionary trajectories of the species around us,” Therkildsen said. occur in response to climate-induced shifts in other species with large The good news for the Atlantic silversides is that the fisheries genetic variability.”  selection was able to tap into the large reservoir of genetic variation – Cornell University

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18 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM ALASKA NOTEBOOK by WESLEY LOY Chignik makes modest comeback, and a lost fisherman is remembered Chignik update: Salmon fishermen at Chignik, along the Alaska     Peninsula, have had another tough season, though certainly better Pollock assessment: The Association of than the disaster of 2018. Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers says it has As of Aug. 18, the sockeye catch stood at 494,000 fish – not great, selected sustainability consultancy Quantis but a vast improvement over last year’s virtually nonexistent to complete a “life cycle assessment” of the sockeye harvest. Alaska pollock industry. Sockeye escapement was looking decent. The assessment will “help measure our progress in terms of car- “Participation in the commercial fishery is lower than average. bon footprint and other key sustainability indicators,” says Craig Approximately 45 permit holders have participated in the fishery Morris, GAPP’s chief executive officer. “We believe the results will to date,” the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported on help our customers get a better picture of the environmental profile Aug. 16. “Due to the weak early sockeye salmon run, several permit of wild Alaska pollock and confirm its lower impacts relative to holders have opted to participate in other salmon fisheries this year.” other proteins.” The Chignik fishery has 90 purse seine permits.     : Dan Sullivan, Alaska’s junior U.S. senator, has     Campaign 2020 Bristol Bay tragedy: Last month, this magazine reported a crew- a challenger, and he’s a commercial fisherman. man had been lost overboard from the fishing vessel Pail Rider. Al Gross, who lives in Anchorage, is a registered nonpartisan Now we have additional details, including the crewman’s name: who says he “started commercial fishing at 14, working in fisheries James “Jamie” Van Elliott, 36, of Stonewall, Louisiana. across the state to put himself through college and medical school.” “Jamie Elliott, a salmon fisherman, went to his heavenly home He’s an orthopedic surgeon who continues to fish out of Peters- due to a tragic accident while fishing in Alaska on July 1,” said an burg. His mother, Shari, was the first executive director of United obituary published in the Shreveport Times. “Anyone that knew Fishermen of Alaska. him knew how much he loved to fish, and he referred to the Bering State records indicate Gross holds a Southeast Alaska salmon Sea as his ‘happy place.’” driftnet permit and a hand troll permit. He owns a 40-foot boat, An extensive search involving the U.S. Coast Guard and other the Ocean Pearl. fishing boats ensued after the man overboard report. But searchers On Aug. 2, Gross said he’d raised nearly $500,000 in his cam- couldn’t find him. The Coast Guard said the man wasn’t wearing paign to unseat Sullivan, a Republican in office since January 2015. a life jacket. Wesley Loy is editor of Pacific Fishing magazine and producer of Deck- Elliott’s body was finally located on July 6, the Alaska State boss, a blog on Alaska commercial fisheries. Troopers tell us. “His body was found in Nushagak Bay near Clarks Point in the general location where he fell overboard,” an agency spokesman Financing Alaska’s Fishing Industry said. “The body was found and recovered by another fishing boat in the area.” Flexible terms State records list the Pail Rider’s owner as Cajun Endeavors LLC, Shore based facilities which is owned by Jonathan Danese and David Danese. Elliott’s obituary mentions “his beloved friend and captain, Gear and Equipment Jonathan Danese.” Permits, IFQ’s, LLP’s     Personnel file: The Alaska Seafood Mar-  Vessels keting Institute, a state agency, has named two people to key positions. Megan Rider is ASMI’s new domestic mar- keting director, and Ashley Heimbigner is the new communications director. Both were already with ASMI and are moving up. Heimbigner moves into the communi- Megan Rider cations director position replacing Jeremy Woodrow, who was named ASMI’s executive director in June of this year. Prior to joining ASMI in January 2018, Heimbigner worked as tourism and sales manager at Visit Anchorage, and also held the communications manager position at Alaskan Brewing Co. in Juneau. Ashley Heimbigner “As communications director, Heimbigner will oversee the brand and messaging priorities of the whole orga- Alaska Commercial Fishing and Agriculture Bank nization, act as a spokesperson to press and trade media, and man- age ASMI’s domestic consumer public relations, in-state and fleet 907.276.2007 www.cfabalaska.com communications,” ASMI said. 800.544.2228

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2019 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 19 WEST COAST by DANIEL MINTZ California pursues offshore aquaculture Ocean fish farming: While Washington state phases out its represents fishermen. marine aquaculture permitting, California is attempting to intro- On Aug. 8, the association filed to inter- duce it but an environmental document covering its impacts is vene in a lawsuit that challenges the fishery’s already hitting delay. revised limits. The California Fish and Game Commission was set to review a In its filing, the association states that draft programmatic environmental impact report (PEIR) on “future if the lawsuit succeeds, there could be “a drastic reduction from offshore aquaculture” at its August meeting, but the item was current harvest levels” and “such a reduction in harvest opportu- bumped to the October meeting. nity will seriously and irreparably harm CWPA members and the That will give the California Department of Fish and Wildlife wetfish industry.” more time to work on a PEIR that seeks to “provide a framework In 2016, the Oceana advocacy group sued the National Marine Fish- for managing marine finfish aquaculture in an environmentally eries Service and described an annual 25,000-metric-ton anchovy catch sustainable manner.” limit as illegal and possibly as high as the entire species population. The advance of offshore aquaculture is disappointing to those As directed by a judge after a 2018 ruling in favor of Oceana, who are wary of it. And the West Coast’s track record on managing NFMS issued a new catch limit of 23,573 metric tons and changed marine net pen facilities nosedived in August 2017, when a Cooke the overfishing limit from 100,000 metric tons to 94,290 metric tons. Aquaculture net pen at Washington’s Cypress Island collapsed. Days before the new limits took effect in late June, Oceana filed About 250,000 farmed Atlantic salmon escaped, triggering alarm its lawsuit, which argues that NFMS has set fishing limits that that led to legislation phasing out Washington’s offshore aquacul- again are disproportionate to anchovy population size. ture leases by 2022. In a CWPA press release, the effects of a legal win by Oceana California’s Senate Bill 201, enacted in 2006, sets forth conditions were described as being intense. and an environmental review structure for leasing ocean waters to “This would affect not just California wetfish fishermen, who aquaculture companies. rely on anchovy when other species, like squid or mackerel, are There are provisions in the bill for lease termination, facility unavailable, but also the processors, distributors, and seaside busi- closure, and removal of fish stock to prevent marine impacts. The nesses who rely on a consistent catch,” the release states. PEIR includes requirements for “escape prevention and response” Lowered limits would put the jobs of at least 400 of the associa- plans, and its alternatives set varying sizes of lease areas and tion’s members at risk, according to the release. numbers of leases.     The recommended alternative sets 200 acres as the maximum Albacore ramp-up: After a slow July, West Coast albacore fish- area for offshore finfish facilities and limits new lease approvals to ing picked up. two per year. “In the last couple of weeks, it’s gotten considerably better,” In July, the California Aquaculture Association announced that a said Wayne Heikkila, executive director of the Western Fishboat study by University of Miami researchers finds that offshore aqua- Owners Association, speaking in mid-August. culture has “minimal impacts to the surrounding waters” and “any The price for canned market brine frozen albacore was between impacts from offshore fish farming are minimal compared to all $3,200 to $3,400 per short ton. Heikkila said the price for blast-frozen, other forms of animal protein production for human consumption.” sashimi-grade tuna was depressed due to the volume of China imports. According to California Sea Grant, the Southern California Bight The action was focused off the Oregon coast, where many fisher- region has ideal conditions for offshore aquaculture and could sup- men switched to tuna as the salmon catch tapered. port a $1 billion a year industry.     But after Washington’s Cooke fiasco, representatives of California’s Entanglement reduction: This is shaping up as a year that sees commercial fishing industry are eyeing the PEIR process with concern. progress in reducing whale entanglements in Dungeness crab gear.     “There were fewer entanglements on the West Coast generally Humboldt aquaculture proposal: Several months ago, the this year, and in particular the Dungeness crab fishery had fewer,” Eureka area seemed poised to become the capital of West Coast said Noah Oppenheim, executive director of the Pacific Coast Fed- aquaculture as a Norwegian company announced its plan to con- eration of Fishermen’s Associations. struct a land-based $400 million fish farm at a Humboldt Bay site. The number of confirmed West Coast entanglements has In late July, the excitement deflated. At a Humboldt County dropped, and there were “precisely zero” during the 2018-19 Cali- Board of Supervisors meeting, representatives of Nordic Aqua- fornia crab season, Oppenheim said. farms said water infrastructure and the former pulp mill site’s con- California’s season was shortened by three months in accordance tamination issues could be “show-stoppers.” with a lawsuit settlement over entanglements. That measure was Supervisors were told by county staff that the cost of upgrading designed to prevent entanglements during peak whale migration the site’s water delivery infrastructure ranges from $16 million to months, but Oppenheim noted that in this year’s season, new $34 million. trailer buoy line regulations also went into effect. Nordic President Erik Heim said the company’s board of He said the state’s fishermen invested heavily in new gear, includ- directors would meet to decide whether to proceed with the ing lines with “better vertical profiles,” and are following the guide- project’s permitting. lines recently set by an entanglement reduction working group.     “It’s a success story and it’s one that hasn’t been told nearly Anchovy intervention: A legal battle over northern anchovy enough,” Oppenheim said. total catch and overfishing limits has drawn in an additional player – Daniel Mintz reports from Eureka, Calif. the California Wetfish Producers Association (CWPA), which

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Dock Street Brokers ALASKA PERMITS ESTIMATED VALUES AK Power Troll $27k (206) 789-5101 (800) 683-0297 www.dockstreetbrokers.com Area M Drift $190k For all the latest permit & IFQ Area M Seine $165k listings please call or visit Area M Setnet $55k our website. Bristol Bay Drift $182k Bristol Bay Setnet $58k IFQ NEWS Cook Inlet Drift $36k

*Price differences reflect the range from small blocks of D or C class Kodiak Seine $35k on the lower end to unblocked B class unless ortherwise indicated.* PWS Drift $150k PWS Seine $175k HALIBUT SE Dungeness (75-300 pots) Variable - Sellers wanted Sales of halibut quota remain steady. Activity has been concentrated in areas 3A and 3B. Buying opportunities remain Southeast Drift $88k in 4A and 4B. Availability of unblocked 2C remains low. Fishing Southeast Cucumber $45k - Sellers wanted reports continue to be positive. We expect sales to remain Southeast Salmon Seine $230k steady through the fall. The latest is as follows: WEST COAST PERMITS ESTIMATED VALUES AREA ESTIMATED VALUES California Crab Variable - Call for info 2C $48.00/# - $62.00/# Market activity remains limited and supply continues to out- - Reduced inventory of unblocked has slowed sales. pace demand. Anticipating an increase of market activity 3A $37.00/# - $44.00/# in the fall. The latest is as follows: - Sales activity remains steady. - 175 pot: $30k-$55k range. - 250 pot: $55k-$80k less than 40’. $80k-$110k for 40’+ 3B $20.00/# - $27.00/# - 300-350 pot: $120k-$210k. Low availability. - Buyers looking for unblocked quota. - 400-450 pot: $200k-$350k. Value dependent on length. 4A $15.00/# - $24.00/# - 500 pot: $400k-$500k+. Highest value in 58’ and above. - Little activity, unblocked quota available. California Deeper Nearshore $35k 4B $12.00/# - $23.00/# CA Spot Prawn $700k - Blocked and unblocked available. CA Halibut Trawl Variable 4C $10.00/# - $20.00/# - Cash buyers looking, sellers wanted. - Very little activity. California Squid $17k/ton - $20k/ton 4D $10.00/# - $20.00/# - Low availability, no recent activity. California Squid Light/Brail Variable - Call for info Oregon Pink Shrimp $60k - $75k SABLEFISH - Demand is outpacing supply, sellers wanted. Sales of sablefish quota have remained slow but steady. Buyers Oregon Crab Variable - Call for info continue to inquire about quota, particularly unfished. Sales have - 200 pot: $45k-$60k. occured at reduced asking prices. Buying opportunities exist in - 300 pot: $110k - $170k. SE and WY as unfished quota remains available. We expect an - 500 pot: $230k - $300K for <50’ & $300k - $420k >50’. increase in activity in the fall. The latest is as follows: Puget Sound Crab $165k AREA ESTIMATED VALUES Puget Sound Crab Lease $16k SE $18.00/# - $23.00/# Puget Sound Drift $15k - Limited sales, try offers on unblocked, unfished Puget Sound Seine $140k WY $20.00/# - $25.00/# Washington Crab Variable - Call for info - Little activity despite availability and reduced price Increased availability for 300 & 500 pot permits. - 300 pot: $110k - $165k depending on length CG $14.00/# - $18.00/# - High availability of unfished quota. - 500 pot: $300k - $400k depending on length WG $10.00/# - $15.00/# Washington Pink Shrimp $75k - Little activity. Low availability for unblocked. Washington Troll $21k AI $1.75/# - $7.50*/# (A class) Longline - Unendorsed $110k - sellers wanted - Reduced inventory, buyers loooking for unblocked. Longline - Sablefish Endorsed Variable BS $1.75/# - $7.50*/# (A class) - Tier 2 and 3 permits available. - Unblocked wanted. A-Trawl Variable - Call for info See all our listings at www.dockstreetbrokers.com - Lease: Permits available, 40’ - 80’, $4k - $8k per year.

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