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Alaska Boats & Permits, Inc Are Alaska-style hatcheries right for Washington state? www.pacificfishing.com THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR FISHERMEN n SEPTEMBER 2019 Shipyard roundup US $2.95/CAN. $3.95 • Fraser River salmon rescue 09 63126 • California aquaculture planning You Make The Alaska Seafood Industry Strong. Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute provides sustainability certification, research and quality handling education to ensure Alaska continues to deliver the highest-quality seafood in the world. This is just one example of how Alaska Seafood alaskaseafood.org Marketing Institute puts all hands on deck to tell the story of wild, sustainable Alaska seafood so Stay updated via our fleet-focused page! you and your family can focus on fishing today @ASMINewsAndUpdates and for generations to come. IN THIS ISSUE ® THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR FISHERMEN EPIRB etiquette • Page 7 Around the Yards • Page 10 Fraser River salmon rescue • Page 9 California aquaculture planning • Page 20 Tracking Dungeness crab • Page 14 VOLUME XL, NO. 9 • SEPTEMBER 2019 Pacific Fishing (ISSN 0195-6515) is published 12 times a year (monthly) by Pacific Fishing Magazine. Editorial, Circulation, ON THE COVER: The newly upgraded trawler and Advertising offices at 14240 Interurban Ave S, Ste. 190, Tukwila, WA 98168, 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 subscriptions paid in U.S. Pegasus, ready for her return to the water. funds add $10 per year. Canadian subscriptions paid in Canadian funds add $10 per year. 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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: Art Director, Design & Layout Pulling in the pinks: The Prince William Sound Bornstein Seafoods is shutting down a part PATRICIA WOODS pink salmon harvest is now estimated at of its operations, resulting in the layoff of about [email protected] 7.4 million fish. – adfg.alaska.gov 40 workers. – bellinghamherald.com SALES & MARKETING: Pushing pollock: Genuine Alaska Pollock Alaska salmon update: The statewide JOHN NORDAHL Producers is planning the organization's first- catch has now surpassed 105 million fish. Ph: (206) 775-6286 ever annual meeting. – scribd.com – adfg.alaska.gov [email protected] Ad Support CANDICE EGAN *You can subscribe to Fish Wrap by sending an email to [email protected]. Write your first Ph: (206) 324-5644 name, your last name, and the words “Fish Wrap.” Do it now, before you go another month without Fish Wrap! 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Up to $2000 per vessel installation credit in non-agile ports COMMENTARY by ANN RIVERS, SHELLY SHORT, and LUANNE VAN WERVEN Alaska’s nonprofit hatcheries give us hope for Washington’s salmon runs Editor’s note: This commentary first appeared Aug. 14 in The Seattle Times. It is reprinted here with permission from the authors. magine living in a state where the sea is overflowing with Isalmon, ensuring there are more than enough fish and wildlife to survive and thrive in the Northwest. 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.
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