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Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery Collected 91 Million Continual Monitoring This Year for the First Time SMOLTS The Newsletter of the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Issue 86 FALL/WINTER 2020 Welcome to Port Graham Hatchery: A modern hatchery in a village with a long history By Rob Sangster, Hatchery Manager ook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) Cis currently producing salmon at three hatcheries located on the Kenai Peninsula. Situated off the road system, Port Graham Hatchery is the most remote when considering distance from urban areas, lying near the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula. The hatchery is in the traditional Native village of Port Graham, also known as Paluwik, and is about three and a half miles via a foot trail from its closest neighbor, the village of Nanwalek. Both villages have a long history of subsistence and commercial fishing— CIAA’s mission of providing and protecting the area’s salmon resource fits well with the village’s priorities and lifestyle. Port Graham is located approximately 28 air miles from Homer, which allows for small planes, water taxis and landing crafts to service the community. Port Graham’s gravel-runway airport is early in the process of being upgraded to become a shared airport with Nanwalek and will connect the villages by road. According to Port Graham Hatchery is the blue roofed building in this photo. The back half of the building is the shuttered processing facility. Photo courtesy of Paul Roth. the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Port Graham consists of about 180 people in 79 households and is governed by Port Graham Tribal Council, led by Chief Pat Norman. The Port Graham Hatchery is unique because it is actually in an Alaska Native village, unlike any other private non-profit salmon hatchery in Alaska. The hatchery was constructed and operated in 1992 by the Port Graham Hatchery Corporation (PGHC), a non-profit corporation. The purpose of building the hatchery was to provide a more reliable supply of salmon for the local cannery operation. The hatchery also supplemented the natural run of sockeye salmon into the English Bay lakes system, near Nanwalek, providing important salmon runs for Nanwalek’s subsistence and commercial catches. In 1997 the hatchery burned down and two years later it was rebuilt along with the village’s cannery in one modern common building. Historically, commercial fishing and the cannery were a major part of the local economy. Although a seasonal settlement had been at the Port Graham site prior to the 1880s, it was the first fish processing plant and dock built and operated by Fidalgo Island Company from 1910 to 1912 that helped establish the permanent community of Port Graham. This brought in more people from neighboring settlements. See page 4, PORT GRAHAM Inside Delight Lake Board member Page 7 profile: David Martin Education Page 2 Page 7 BOD update Page 2 Executive Director’s message Page 3 Permit #957 Permit Field projects Anchorage, AK Anchorage, Page 5 PAID US Postage US Hatchery report PRSRT STD PRSRT Page 6 Issue 86 FALL/WINTER 2020 Board member profile: David Martin armers and fishermen share many traits—a Fsense of adventure; a strong work ethic; incredible resiliency in the face of adverse conditions presented by the environment and/or the political landscape; and a driven commitment to sustaining harvests be it from the land or sea. They also share the satisfaction of knowing that their respective livelihoods feed the world. These qualities are essential to successfully operate agriculture and fishing businesses. David (Dave) Martin has the unique perspective that bring both lifestyles—farmer and fisherman—to the CIAA Board of Directors. Dave is from the small Midwest community of Adel, Iowa, where he grew up on a family grain and livestock farm. More than 97% of Board member David Martin on the left, with his father Roger Martin in the middle, and fellow farmer, Richard Iowa’s farms are owned by families and Dave Tickner, stand in front of a combine used to harvest field corn. is a fourth-generation farmer. His family farm had cows, pigs, and grain. Dave was introduced Ninilchik, Dave traveled down a beach road, the State of Alaska enacted the Limited Entry to the family business early in life—he started which he later found out belonged to another Law. Due to the rising number of fishermen driving a farm tractor as a six-year-old. Dave’s fisherman (and founding CIAA member), Doug entering into Alaska commercial fisheries in the 90-year-old father, Roger Martin, is still active in Blossom. “I remember seeing the filleted carcass 1960s, this law was enacted to conserve Alaska’s helping out on the farm, which is solely focused of a fish there. As an Iowa farm boy, I did not salmon and other fish resources by limiting the on soybeans and field corn now. This type of corn know what-the-heck kind of fish this was—flat, number of fishermen into the fishery. In 1975, is commonly grown to feed animals and to make with both eyes on one side and it was around Elmer qualified for limited entry permits in ethanol. 30-inches long, which was big for me,” Dave told salmon seining and drifting in Cook Inlet. Dave of his first encounter with a halibut. bought him out taking over the permits, a jitney, Right out of high school, in June of 1971, Dave skiff, seine, and the cotton nets that were used for decided to make a 4,000-mile trek from Iowa Dave eventually found the Findleys at Doug’s drift fishing at the time and continued his fishing to Alaska on a motorcycle. “It was the cheapest place. At the time Doug was building a new adventures with Doug and Elmer for many years. way I could get there, and I wanted to go for house. “I had worked the past two summers the adventure of it,” Dave recalled. He started helping to build houses in Iowa, so I just picked In 1976, at a recommendation from Doug this adventure with a buddy, who dropped out up a hammer and started helping.” After about Blossom to Joe Friebrock, owner of Snug Harbor in Oregon so Dave made the rest of the trip by a week of watching Dave help at the Findley’s Cannery, Dave came to lease the f/v Snug 17, a himself. setnet site and pound nails on his house, Doug 33-foot wood boat with a straight six Ford diesel could see that Dave could actually work, so he that traveled at about six knots max with no tide. When Dave got to Alaska, he set out to look gave Dave a job fishing and helping to build his The canneries, such as Snug Harbor, used to up Wayne Findley and his family, a local Iowa house. Doug became Dave’s mentor and anchor have their own fleet of boats that they leased to farming family that had moved up to Alaska in Alaska to get into fishing. fishermen such as Dave. in the 1960s. They lived north of Ninilchik and were setnet fishermen. Upon arriving in In the winters, Dave went to school at Oregon The next year Joe entrusted Dave with the use State University. He was originally going for a of the f/v Jaws, a 30-foot fiberglass Tollycraft degree in Fish and Wildlife Management but with a gas 440 Chrysler and one of the fastest recognized that he did not want to be stuck boats in Cook Inlet at the time, about 18 knots. behind a desk, so after two years he switched to “He let me use it because he figured I would not agriculture, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1975. blow the engine up.” Dave continued to lease that During the summers, he continued to travel to boat through 1982 and never did blow up the Alaska and fish for salmon and halibut working engine! He wanted a boat that would offer more for Doug Blossom, Dan Huey, and Elmer Wood. versatility for halibut longlining, salmon drifting and seining, and herring seining, so he bought Elmer was a homesteader who came to Ninilchik the f/v Kaguyak, the boat he still operates today. after World War II and was one of the early Cook Kaguyak is an Alaska Native Alutiiq placename Inlet salmon drift and seine fishermen. In 1973, David Martin See page 4, MARTIN Board of Directors update Welcome to our new board member! Earlier this year, the City of Seward selected a new representative to the CIAA Board of Directors, Katrina Counihan, who holds a PhD in microbiology. For the past nine years she has worked at the Alaska SeaLife Center, and is currently an Assistant Research Scientist there. Katrina has worked with Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery and Pacific Seafood to develop projects aimed at improving aquaculture techniques. We welcome Katrina to the Board. We also appreciate the contributions made to CIAA by the previous City of Seward representative, Jess Sweatt. Next board meeting The next board meeting will be held January 16, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Katrina Counihan PAGE 2 SMOLTS FALL/WINTER 2020 Issue 86 Executive Director’s message t is an understatement to say that 2020 was Trail Lakes crew achieved 70% of goal with 871 Iand continues to be an interesting year. In thousand eggs collected. the summer issue of Smolts I discussed the operational challenges when I felt the surge of Port Graham Hatchery worked with limited complexity would begin to subside. Reality has staffing this year and took 35 million pink eggs, a way of taking over wishful thinking.
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