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…and thought all I needed was a loud voice. Unfortunately, at the time, most everyone else thought I was dumb — loud voice, or no. So, the worst thing that could have happened to me … well, happened. At the wizened age of 20, they made me the editor of the college paper. It was like Shipyard renewal in Petersburg : Page 12 handing a bottle of Jack Daniels to an alcoholic. At my most sober (figuratively), I was never any good at self-reflection, but drunk (figuratively), I couldn’t even find the reflection in a mirror. As editor, and being the restless sort, it took me probably no more than 37 minutes to determine that the dean of students was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors — and needed to be impeached. (His crimes and/or misdemeanors were so heinous that I can’t remember a thing about them.) I ranted. I raved. I wouldn’t retreat. But, I was lucky. No one was listening. I was also lucky that something serious hadn’t happened — something that demanded and deserved the harsh words I had wasted on the dean. My This year's salmon roundup : Page 14 high-caliber ammo was gone. Just like Mark Twain in 1867 — and just like the various hot heads who have slithered on to the public stage today. A century and a half ago, Twain finagled his way into a tour of the Mediterranean and Holy Land. Very likely, it was the first public “cruise” for Americans. The ship stopped first in the Azores for provisions. For Twain, the Portugal colony didn’t stack up favorably to the United States: “The community is eminently Portuguese — that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.” Strong words. But Twain didn’t have anything bigger Bellingham – Harbor of the Month : Page 20 when he met the people of Damascus, who were truthfully slow and poor and shiftless and sleepy and lazy and a good dozen more descriptions of questionable character. So, the best he had left were individual vignettes: “Would you suppose that an American Mother could sit for an hour, with her child in her arms, and let a hundred flies roost upon its eyes all that time undisturbed? I see that every day. It makes my flesh creep.” He shot off his big ammo in the Azores and could only shoot flies in Damascus. Today, our trigger fingers seem a lot more itchy, so much so that the sun has Fishing sockeye on the Fraser : Page 31 darkened, if only because of the verbal shrapnel sent aloft from our several civil wars. Barack Obama is a “traitor.” On the cover: Josh Thomason, Angie Kubalek, Ian Kirouac, Mitt Romney is “a multinational corporation.” and Tom Munroe harvest salmon from a reefnet built off Charter operators in British Columbia are starving because of halibut regs. Lummi Island, near Bellingham. For another look, see Page 46. Charter operators in Cook Inlet are starving because of … well, you know. Martin Waidelich photo All simple statements distilled from complex issues, and like all distilled products, these will leave you befuddled (figuratively). VOLUME XXXII, NO. 10 • OCTOBER 2011 Used to be, if you were a card-carrying narcissist, and you came up with an idea all your own, you might end up heading for divorce court or editing a Pacific Fishing (ISSN 0195-6515) is published 12 times a year (monthly) by Pacific Fishing Magazine. Editorial, Circulation, and Advertising offices at 1000 Andover campus newspaper. Whichever, the contagion would be confined. Park East, Seattle, WA 98188, U.S.A. Telephone (206) 324-5644. ■ Subscriptions: These days, technology allows narcissists to spew their over-wrought language One-year rate for U.S., $18.75, two-year $30.75, three-year $39.75; Canadian subscriptions paid in U.S. funds add $10 per year. Canadian subscriptions paid in every place with broadband. They’re attacking the Azores with no idea of what Canadian funds add $10 per year. Other foreign surface is $36 per year; foreign awaits in Damascus. This lack of proportion — and outright shallowness — is airmail is $84 per year. ■ The publisher of Pacific Fishing makes no warranty, reason enough to ignore them. express or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the information contained in Pacific Fishing. ■ Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, I know. I’ve been ignored a lot in my life. Washington. Postmaster: Send address changes to Pacific Fishing, 1000 Andover Like I said, I was brilliant. But I got over it. Park East, Seattle, WA 98188. Copyright © 2011 by Pacific Fishing Magazine. Contents may not be reproduced without permission. POST OFFICE: Please send address changes to Pacific Fishing, 1000 Andover Park East, Seattle, WA 98188 A former grave digger, Don McManman now edits Pacific Fishing.

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Pebble Mine project for sale: A mining who published a paper on a virus that extend my fullest sympathies to the people WASHINGTON REEF NET company with a 50 percent interest in a could explain the decline of Fraser River of Canada, whose taxes have paid for this OWNERS ASSOC. huge copper and gold deposit in Alaska, sockeye would not be allowed to speak to dog and pony show.” – National Fisherman where hundreds of millions of dollars have the media, even though her department magazine WESTERN FISHBOAT been spent on exploration, is trying to find had no objection, an inquiry has heard. OWNERS ASSOC. Silly season – Otter awareness: a buyer for the contentious project near Cook Inlet – Tough decisions: Faced The Morro Bay City Council can’t seem to the world’s best remaining wild sockeye with a sockeye return that ranked among shake the controversy over its refusal to salmon streams. To Subscribe: the top five all time and what may end acknowledge “Sea Otter Awareness Week.” www.pacificfishing.com/ Chum run strong on Yukon: The fall up as the lowest return of Kenai River Foodie craze: Nordic cuisine: In the last pf_subscribe.html chum run on the Yukon River has surpassed king salmon ever, ADFG was under even Ph: (206) 324-5644 five years, a new culinary movement has expectations with a return in excess more scrutiny than usual in the most hotly Fax: (206) 324-8939 washed through the world’s top kitchens, of average. contested fishery in Alaska. Main Office flowing not from Spain, France, or the 1000 ANDOVER PARK EAST B.C. OKs farm mortality report: B.C. sports halibut season closed: Mediterranean, but from Copenhagen, SEATTLE, WA 98188 The B.C. government has retracted an The federal Department of Fisheries and Stockholm, and points as far north PH: (206) 324-5644 application to the Cohen Commission to Oceans announced a closure for the 2011 FAX: (206) 324-8939 as Lapland. keep its audits of dead fish at salmon farms recreational halibut season on Sept. 5, Chairman/CEO Judge dismisses trawl challenge: out of the public eye. as the fishery has achieved its allowable MIKE DAIGLE A U.S. District Court judge dismissed [email protected] Sockeye radioactive? Sockeye salmon catch limit. Publisher the lawsuit brought by the Pacific Coast PETER HURME returning to Canada this year will be tested Fraser sockeye – No smoking gun: Federation of Fishermen’s Associations to [email protected] by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency There is no single disease-causing organism halt the West Coast groundfish trawl catch- for radiation contamination that might be that scientists can pinpoint to explain the EDITORIAL CONTENT: share program. Associate Publisher & Editor picked up in the North Pacific from Japan’s decline of the Fraser River sockeye in 2009. C Fear in Emmonak: The Alaska Dispatch DON M MANMAN Fukushima nuclear disaster. Crescent City Harbor in the red: [email protected] reported that the Alaska Fish and Game PH: (509) 772-2578 Squid boat sinks: The Coast Guard The Crescent City Harbor is going to have announced it was closing its Emmonak Copy Editor responded to a report of a 61-foot fishing significant cash flow difficulties this fiscal office. The reason given was not economic, BRIANNA MORGAN vessel that sank in the vicinity of Eagle Rock year due to boat basin repair projects. Anchorage Office it was … fear. near Catalina Island. Salmon, steelhead in Upper WESLEY LOY Fraser sockeye take northern route: Field Editor Kake plant challenging: A reopened fish Willamette: The top priority for saving The diversion rate of Fraser sockeye through MICHEL DROUIN plant is bringing some badly needed jobs to Upper Willamette Basin salmon and Johnstone Strait is currently estimated to be Kake, but Sealaska Corp. already is finding steelhead from extinction is getting more PRODUCTION OPERATIONS: approximately 75 percent. – Pacific Salmon running the old plant to be a challenge. fish over the dams that control floods in Production Manager Commission DAVID SALDANA Halibut turmoil roils Homer: A the region. [email protected] Oregon crab payday: Only one other time measure that could launch a mortar at the Editorial – Salmon farms not the Art Director, Design & Layout in history has the commercial crab fishery ERIN DOWNWARD charter sport fishing industry in Homer is a problem: “The commission’s focus will [email protected] brought in more money over a season. problem for the whole town to deal with, turn to salmon farming. I dare speculate Design & Layout PATRICIA WOODS since every bait shop, kayak rental, and the research will officially find no direct And finally, salmon-flavored vodka: [email protected] pottery shop is tied to it. link between this lucrative business model To say that some commercial brands have gone the way of the extreme — with SALES & MARKETING: Top bureaucrats silenced scientist: and the decline of wild fish. … We’ve had Advertising Sales Manager The top bureaucratic arm of the federal our share of misuse of government funds flavors like scorpion and smoked salmon — DIANE SANDVIK would be a bit of an understatement. Ph: (206) 962-9315 government decided a fisheries scientist on this side of the border. Nevertheless, I Fax: (206) 324-8939 [email protected]

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12 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM started working on how safety and efficiency. More we could accomplish this dock frontage will be thing,” Luhr said. added as well. Luhr’s reputation added Some things couldn’t be to the plan’s appeal, said bought or improvised — Ohmer, the fish plant like skill in hauling boats manager. “When people safely. For that, they’d heard there was an oppor- bring in Paulsen, who had tunity for the community, hauled boats on the ways and that Mike Luhr was until 2002. able to step forward, they “Placing the vessel in made it happen,” Ohmer the cradle and distribution said. of the weight — I was able In all, there are 25 inves- to share my experience tors — “27, counting my with the new owners and wife, Barb, and myself. All crew as they got the yard but three of them are own- back together again,” er-operators in the fishing p The Intangible is Paulsen said. industry,” Luhr said. hauled out in After two months, the The sale was official on Petersburg this past new crew has gained skill July 1, although the new summer. owners were working and confidence. “They weeks before with refur- don’t call me for every bishment, remodeling, Trash was a major haul. They’re doing fine restocking, rebuilding, and hurdle as new owners without me. I’m not doing trash removal. Layouts have made the boatyard much more than cheerlead- functional again. u been changed to improve ing now.” Z

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Ben Thomas celebrates with a 30 pound king caught in a setnet in the Kvichak section of Bristol Bay. Corey Arnold took the photo last summer. His book of fishing images – Fish-Work: The Bering Sea – is now back in print. Take a look: www.fish-work.com.

14 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM The North America salmon catch was, as usual, inconsistent — great off Fort Bragg, not so off Coos Bay; wonderful off Petersburg but not Ketchikan. Our report: Alaska The 2011 salmon season opened with hopes for an epic haul — an impressive 54 million fish, it was a weird season, as the fish- 203.5 million fish, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and ing was hot in the north and cold as ice in the south. By Aug. 26, Game forecast. purse seiners chasing not only pinks but chums and other spe- As usual, the state did produce a prodigious catch. But, at press cies had achieved a $100 million harvest thanks to good returns, time, it appeared the harvest would fall well short of projection. On above-average pink weights, and strong prices of around 41 cents Aug. 26, with fleets standing down for the season, the all-species a pound for pinks. A total of 268 boats made landings, a few more catch stood at about 161 million fish. than average. So what happened? Copper River: Gillnetters in the Copper River District notched Pink salmon returns were erratic. an excellent comeback year with about 2 million sockeye and 18,400 Pinks are the smallest and most abundant of the five species Chinook. That compares to 635,968 sockeye and 9,654 Chinook of commercially harvested salmon in Alaska, and it takes big in 2010. runs to push the state’s overall salmon harvest beyond the 200 Prince William Sound: The industry in 2010 bagged a record 71.2 million mark. million pink salmon. Unfortunately, the pinks didn’t cooperate as The department forecast a pink catch of 134.5 million fish, but well this year, with weaker than expected returns to Prince William the total stood at just over 105 million near season’s end. Pink Sound Aquaculture Corp. hatcheries. Catches of wild-stock pinks, returns to Prince William Sound as well as Kodiak were weaker however, were much stronger than forecast. than expected. Upper Cook Inlet: The harvest of 5.1 million sockeye ranks as the As for sockeye, Alaska’s main money salmon, the statewide tally fifth-largest ever. stood at just under 40 million fish, on a forecast of about 45 million. Bristol Bay: The bright side for both pinks and sockeye: strong ex-vessel The catch of 22.2 million sockeye was a disappoint- prices. ment. But the prevailing base price of $1 a pound, a nickel better Here’s a look at some key fishing regions around the state: than in 2010, was nice, especially considering the tsunami-related market uncertainty in Japan. – Wesley Loy Southeast Alaska: While the total catch of pink salmon was continued on page 16

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ OCTOBER 2011 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 15 YOUR BUSINESS Salmon continued from page 15 British Columbia video count at an escapement counting weir jumped from 10 fish to 7,412. As in the United States, both north and south, British Columbia The Skeena River had a substantial gillnet fishery targeting fishermen had spotty success. enhanced Babine and Fulton stocks. Peak fishing effort was on July : Northern B.C. Even though an expected run of 1.7 million 18, with 252 gillnetters working. sockeye into the Skeena River turned into 2.4 million fish with some Gillnetters had to go to a short net/short set regime Aug. 1 over decent gillnet catches, the rest of B.C.’s North Coast fisheries turned concerns about co-migrating wild Babine sockeye. out to be disappointing in 2011. Pink returns overall were poor in Areas 3, 4, and 6, making for a The depressing news started in the northern troll fishery off disappointing season for seiners. Haida Gwaii — the Queen Charlotte Islands — that opened May 9. Central Coast: A modest 19,000 chums were taken in the Bella Within two weeks, DNA sampling indicated that the catch percent- Coola area, as well as 7,000 Chinooks earlier in the season. age of weak stock West Coast Vancouver Island Chinook exceeded A surprise opening in long-closed Smith Inlet in the middle of July allowable limits. The fleet was shut down before it could reach lasted over a week and took 43,000 sockeye. its allocation. Southern B.C.: In Barkley Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver The commercial charter fleet was not restricted, even though the Island, gillnetters caught 219,800 sockeye, and seiners took 192,890 close-to-shore charter boats have a greater impact on West Coast sockeye. The run size there came in much stronger than expected. Island Chinook than the offshore commercial trollers. The recreation- Fraser River sockeye openings started with a three-hour gill- al fleet has a federally mandated allocation priority. net opening in the river Aug. 11. A second opening, for six hours, Trollers had a good kick at coho when the bulk of Area 1 occurred Aug. 16. There was a two-hour fishery Aug. 23, and a six- opened, though. hour opening Aug. 30. The Area 3 net fishery in the approaches to the Nass River near Gillnetters in Johnstone Strait started fishing on Aug. 7 and 8 and the Alaska border also was disappointing. Some years there is a again on Aug. 11 and 12. substantial seine fishery for pinks and a good gillnet sockeye fishery Seiners got a crack at sockeye, too, on Aug. 17 and 18 in upper in the area. Johnstone Strait. This year the Area 3 seiners got a start on sockeye but were quick- Gulf trollers had fishing openings, and seiners even got a crack at ly closed down for three weeks for conservation concern about a sockeye in the lower Gulf of Georgia in ITQ fisheries Aug. 27-30. weak co-migrating stock in the Kwinageese River. When the fishery Sockeye prices hovered in the $2 per pound range for most of reopened, the sockeye had passed thorough. Pinks failed to appear the season. in any substantial numbers, as well. While the overall 2011 Fraser River sockeye run is expected to see The good news out of the Nass is that a blockage in the a total of about 4 million sockeye, there were 17.5 million pink salm- Kwinageese River was located and, after remedial work there, the on expected. – Michel Drouin

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16 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM West Coast Peake reported prices in the lower $5 full allocation. Prices were solid and the fish For the West Coast, your success depended range, with possibly a bit more on Oregon’s were of high quality. on where you were and when you fished. South Coast. By the end of the fourth week of August, Oregon’s state waters were slated to open almost 10,000 fall Chinook had been caught. California: With a total of just eight days again in September and October, and many About 766,000 Columbia River fall Chi- of fishing in 2010, California trollers were fishermen were crossing their fingers for a nook were expected to return this year, pleased with more fishing opportunities late bloomer, he said. which could be the fifth largest run since this year. : 1948. Last year, 657,100 returned. The season started out slowly in May, Columbia River In midsummer, Oregon Of the forecast, roughly 400,000 were thanks to challenging weather, said and Washington gillnetters spent evenings expected to be upriver brights — which California Salmon Council CEO David catching summer Chinook in the Columbia could be the second largest run since 1964. Goldenberg. Even though hard num- River. The run had been predicted to be over About 250,000 tule Chinook were expected bers from the entire season weren’t avail- 91,000 strong, the best in several decades, but to come home to the Lower Columbia River, able by press time, he could draw a few was downgraded to 80,000 in mid-July. By along with more than 360,000 coho. conclusions. the end of July, gillnetters had caught more “Just a few fishermen made it out [in May than 5,000 fish, getting very close to their – Deeda Schroeder Z and June], and for those that did get out, the catch was few and far between,” Goldenberg said. After several closures and shutdowns in Alaska’s fishing season is way too short for June, things got much better in July. you to be burdened with mechanical failure Later in the summer, there was excellent due to lesser petroleum products. Downtime fishing near Fort Bragg and Shelter Cove, is money. That’s why fishermen around the and Eureka met its quota early in August state call on Petro Marine Services for clean and shut down. the burning diesel, high-quality lubes, industrial “We had two to three weeks of good fish- strength filters, expert advice, and superior ing in July and August, and it was especially service. Dependability you can count on. strong in Fort Bragg,” he said. The ex-vessel price was between $4 and $5 Next time you’re per pound, translating into expensive fillets bottom heading out, call for the consumer, he said. on the company Fortunately, that didn’t seem to slow cus- that’s as geared up about your line of work tomers from cooking salmon at home, appre- as you are. ciating that it was wild and locally caught. You’ve made a huge investment. “We still were able to sell everything we line got,” he said. Let Petro Marine Services help Goldenberg is hoping there are signs protect it. that next year’s fishing might continue the upward trend. An ongoing genetic stock 1-800-478-7586 identification study indicated many under- www.petromarineservices.com sized fish this year. “Everyone’s really hopeful that will trans- late into a good return next year,” he said. Oregon: Many Oregon trollers switched to albacore, looking ahead to fall Oregon’s trollers had high hopes for a big summer but, as of late August, those hopes had yet to pan out. “The predictions indicated it would be something that just didn’t materialize,” said Nancy Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Oregon Salmon Commission. There was a flurry in the spring, but then it fizzled, in part because of ocean conditions and temperature fluctuations, she explained. When things slowed in the late spring, many fishermen switched to albacore, even though they proved to be hard to catch as well, said Oregon Salmon Commis- sion Chairman Darus Peake, who fishes from Garibaldi. PETRO MARINE SERVICES FINE FUELS SUPER SERVICE QUALITY LUBRICANTS

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ OCTOBER 2011 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 17 YOUR BUSINESS The stock by Alexandra Gutierrez

Odd summer: Lots of quota but not nearly enough

pollock A pollock trawler – American Eagle – returns to Dutch Harbor. Bob King photo

This late summer has been an odd harvest pollock. harvested. Unless things turn around one in Unalaska. After a smooth season and reasonable rapidly, it’s going to be difficult to fish First of all, the sun’s been out. start to this year’s B season, fishing has the full quota by November. Secondly, draggers are actually get- slowed. Catcher boats have been back at That has some fishermen nervous. ting to enjoy the balmy Pacific weather. the docks for much of August, waiting When we last heard from Scott Bingen They’ve been hiking, and barbecuing, for things to improve. By the end of that of the Starlite during A season, he was and playing horseshoes at the bar, and month, only 60 percent of the 740,000 cautious but optimistic that National — well — doing nearly everything but metric ton B season allocation had been Marine Fisheries Service scientists seemed to be right about the fishery’s recovery. He doesn’t feel that way anymore. “Why did they have to raise the quota so high? I would like to see more conser- vative numbers,” said Bingen. Bingen’s not the only fisherman who is bothered by what he’s seeing. “It looks pretty bleak,” said Grayson Klampe, who is the mate on the Arctic Wind. “I’m worried about our future.” Their concerns are already making it to members of Congress. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) made a brief stop in town recently, and she got to talk to about a dozen fishermen about the state of the pollock fishery. “I think we’ve got some pretty smart fishermen who want to make sure that we’re managing for the long term, that we’re not just managing for this year or next. I clearly heard a level of frustration with the decisions that have been made. You’ve got vessels that are sitting at the docks — there’s nothing there — and yet they’ve increased the quota amount by 50 percent,” Murkowski said. “Their questioning some of the decisions right now is clearly appropriate. They’re looking for the long term. We all should be.” Last year, NMFS put the projected allowable biological catch for pollock

18 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM at 1.6. million metric tons. It will be increase the number of pollock at present) are telling them to go out interesting to see if that number gets available, right? anyway, and guys have gone out for revised at all this winter, and what the But a low allocation does affect crews. 20 days with their tanks only half full North Pacific Fishery Management Here’s how. of fish — meaning that they just take a Council does with it. In the short-term, the quota affects hit of tens of thousands of dollars from Meanwhile, the other groundfish price. So, instead of getting 15 cents their previously gained revenue. The sectors continue to be sluggish as well. a pound dockside, they’re getting last thing any of these guys want to do Those going after yellowfin sole, rock- 12 cents. is go backwards. fish sole, mackerel, and Pacific Ocean More importantly, because the quota And most importantly, there are the perch also saw their catches shrink is so high, crews are expected to keep long-term fears that we’re hitting young this August. on grinding trips, even if they’re not fish that would be more viable down High allocation: Why it hurts catching anything. That means burn- the road. Because the quota is so high, The position of Bering Sea fisher- ing up a ton of fuel and actually risking and because there is pressure to fish on men concerning high allocation num- income. A lot of boats have taken trips from the vessel owners and the process- bers for pollock is more nuanced than it that have caused them to lose a serious ing plants, boats are going after really might seem. amount of money because their owners small fish, which are essentially being For example, a lower allocation won’t (almost all of whom are not in Alaska turned into fishmeal. Z

Latest study: Sea lice from farms kill wild salmon A new study on the impacts of lice on wild salmon published The recent study, which was supported by Watershed by an independent team of academic researchers in the Watch and the SOS Marine Conservation Foundation, directly Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirmed what supports the urgent need to move fish farms away from the many previous and unbiased studies have also shown, name- migratory paths of vulnerable wild juvenile salmon, to improve ly, that lice on farmed salmon can multiply and spread to wild monitoring of salmon farms for impacts of sea lice on wild salmon and decrease their survival. salmon, and to transition the open net-cage salmon industry to closed What’s unique about this new sea lice study is that it containment. – Watershed Watch Salmon Society Z exposes serious flaws in a Dec. 13, 2010, study published in the same journal by lead author Dr. Gary Marty, a fish pathologist who works for the province of British Columbia. That study concluded that lice were not harming wild salmon, and that alarms over open net-cage salmon farm impacts and calls for better management were unjustified. The results reported by the academic researchers used the same data analyzed by Gary Marty and colleagues, previously unavail- able to non-industry scientists. The re-analysis, however, employed proper spatial and temporal methods to confirm a “direct link between survival and louse abundance on farms” for both coho and pink salmon. “The study by Gary Marty and co-authors received wide media attention for supposedly ‘exonerating’ lice from farmed salmon in declines of wild fish,” said Dr. Craig Orr, executive director of Watershed Watch Salmon Society. “Many questioned the conclusions and the media spin resulting from the December study,” continued Orr. “Now we have solid evidence that debunks the suspect conclusions and spin.” Marty and his colleagues not only incorrectly concluded that “Sea lice from fish farms have no significant effect on wild salmon population productivity” — a conclusion at obvious odds with the weight of previous evidence — but also claimed, in a statement echoed by several industry spokespersons, that “The finding means environmentalists’ demands that fish farms be moved away from the migratory routes of wild salmon are not justified.” According to the lead author of the new paper, Dr. Martin Krkošek of the University of Otago of New Zealand, “The management and policy recommendations advanced in the Gary Marty et al. study and in media statements cannot be supported.”

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ OCTOBER 2011 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 19 YOUR BUSINESS Harbor of the month by Jessie Frazier

Bellingham lowers moorage rates to capture more ﬁshing Fisherman Jason Nyblod and family of Marysville prepare in Squalicum boats Harbor for an opening on Fraser River stocks this year. Dan Levine photos

The Port of Bellingham is trying to turn back the clock to when it To begin, the port whacked its moorage rates earlier this year. was home to hundreds of commercial fishing boats. Now, commercial moorage rates are roughly a dollar less a foot Not that the glory days will reappear, but there’s still business than rates for pleasure boats. For commercial vessels 79 feet or to be had in the commercial fishing fleet, according to Squalicum under, the price is $5.90 a foot, plus leasehold tax. For commercial Harbormaster Mike Endsley. boats 80 feet or over, the price is $6.92 a foot, plus leasehold tax. “We went through a process with the commercial fishermen The rates are for all active commercial fishing boats, here, and found we boost our local marine economy by being more even tenders. inviting,” Endsley said. The change came after the port named a new executive director: Charlie Sheldon. He had once been a commercial fisherman on the East Coast, and commercial fishermen in Bellingham felt they could trust him. “Mr. Sheldon understands that commercial fishing is an important industry in Whatcom County, and if recent actions were any indication, this will not be the last time that Mr. Sheldon steers a course to attract fishermen back to Whatcom County,” wrote Doug Karlberg in a letter to the editor of Pacific Fishing. Karlberg represented members of the Bellingham is more than 75 miles closer to Alaska and the Bering Sea than points in Southern Puget Sound. Commercial Fishermen’s Association of Whatcom County. Make the Port of Bellingham your Homeport, with its strong marine The group did some research into the economic benefits of work boats as services support network – shipyards, repair, provisioning, processing compared to pleasure boats. businesses and thelargest cold storagefacility in Western Washington. “A large fishing boat creates 40 times more jobs and taxes than a large yacht. Yachts seldom move, and at 1 mile per For more info: gallon it is easy to see why. With gas head- Dan Stahl ed for $5 a gallon, many of these yachts 360.676.2500 may be living on borrowed time,” said a letter to The Bellingham Herald from the association. Even after dropping its moorage rates this year, Port of Bellingham’s harbors still are slightly more expensive for

20 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM including seiners, longliners, crabbers, tenders, and gillnetters. There are about 30 additional small gillnetters and crabbers. The number varies with the season, according to Endsley, the harbormaster. Overall, Squalicum Harbor has 1,417 recreational and commercial slips. The commercial slips are located on two separate gates. At Gate 7, there are 44 gillnet (36 foot) slips. At Gate 5, there are 76 seiner (56 to 60 foot) slips and 10 big boat (96 foot) slips. There also are 1,400 feet of side-tie moorage, suitable for smaller vessels (bow pickers and crabbers), associated with Gates 5 and 7. In addition, there are two fixed pile piers, locally known as the “sawtooth pier” and the “gillnet loading zone,” for temporary moorage and loading nets and equipment. The port welcomes direct marketing from commercial boats. “We encourage it,” Endsley said. “We allow it through our policies.” As for commercial accommodation, Bellingham offers: Fishermen work aboard the St. Zita in the Port of Bellingham’s • Available moorage for all sizes of fishing vessels, just minutes Squalicum Harbor. from Interstate 5 • Comprehensive marine services vessels under 80 feet than those in Seattle. However, fish- • A large shipyard and several boatyards ermen in Bellingham need to pay only for months actu- • A cold storage facility and landside fish-processing operations ally used in moorage, not when the boat may be fishing • Showers, restrooms, and laundry in Alaska. • Wi-Fi The Port of Bellingham owns Blaine Harbor, near the Canadian • Airport with direct flights bypassing SeaTac border, and the Squalicum Harbor complex in Bellingham. • Cabs, city bus, Greyhound, Amtrak, and Alaska state ferry The port used to have a notable fleet of Alaska seiners that service Z often returned home in time to fish Fraser sockeye runs each August. But, in negotiations 25 years ago, most of the Fraser fish were guaranteed to Canadian fishermen. In addition, harbors in Alaska became more attractive to work boats. Finally, the abundance and market for Alaska fish decreased and, even after a permit buyback, many seiners didn’t fish. Now there are 42 larger commercial boats in Squalicum Harbor,

A classic Alaska purse seiner returns to Squalicum Harbor from Bellingham Bay.

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ OCTOBER 2011 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 21 YOUR BUSINESS My turn by David Helliwell Catch shares move money to the already-rich West Coast groundfish are recovering well, as a result of traditional management tools, from damage inflicted earlier by irresponsible fishing methods. Individual tradable quotas, or “catch shares,” are simply an allocation grab by greedy investors and the same culprits who depleted the fishery over a decade ago. ITQs have nothing to do with sustain-- ability and everything to do with “me, my, mine!” As Voices in the West (Pacific Fishing, July 2011) point out, the U.S. ground fishery went on the rocks in the 1990s. This was done in the days of pillage and plunder by big draggers, who literally went onn the rocks with roller gear to finish wiping out the ground fishery after they had mopped up the fishh in the traditional grounds. The catch-share solutionn gives the fishery to these same big draggers and cuts everyone else out. In my own experience, while hook-and-lining forr yellowtail rockfish at Cape Mendocino, on Blunts Reef, I watched a big dragger with roller gearr come up on the reef. Phil Cline said, “Watch this.” The dragger came to a stop as his gear hung onn the rocks. Then there was a long straining puff of blackk smoke and the boat lurched ahead, grading offf the habitat. Gary Smith on the Migrant found a pinnacle on Rogue River Reef that yielded a good trip of hook-and-line rockfish to him and a partnerr boat. A dragger saw them fishing there. When they came back, the pinnacle no longer existed. David Helliwell and his dog Bo Peep in a photo by Sharon Falk-Carlsen. Small boats lose: Due to groundfish quota being given to big draggers, small boats up and down the coast have multimillion-dollar horsepower of corporate environmental lost access to the public resource and can no longer serve their groups like the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), fisheries man- communities. Through money, political influence, and the agement brought forth the catch-share solution. Somehow, however, the shares all ended up with the big operations that caused the problem in the first place. FLEET REFRIGERATION The opportunity to fish is controlled Design - Installation - Service - Repair by a boat’s history of bycatch of species of concern. Consequently, the worst Serving the Southeast Alaska Fleet offenders got the most opportunity to since 1988 fish because they had the biggest bycatch. We work with all manufacturers to supply a Fishermen who had fished clean and system that’s right for your requirements. had small bycatch have to stop fish- Now installing systems using ozone-safe ing the moment it looks like they might EPA-approved refrigerants. have a bycatch that matches their history. This effectively cuts the responsible Wally McDonald, Owner draggers, of whom there are many, out of (907) 772-4625 • [email protected] the business. The hook-and-line fishermen, who have

22 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM low bycatch — and who spread the wealth over communities — are A number of PSPA members are subsidiaries of giant Japanese cut out completely. So what are EDF’s motives? Since they show no processing corporations. Japanese corporations already own substantive concern for displaced fishermen or communities, but significant portions of American public resources through spend money to lure investors to the new “El Dorado” of a pri- catch-share ownership. Washington-based UniSea, Alyeska vately owned public resource, it’s not hard to fill in the blank. Seafoods, and Westward Seafoods collectively own 20 percent Leased shares: Canada has had catch shares in place for more of the processing quota in the Bristol Bay red king crab fishery than 15 years. Catch-share owners now reside on the beach and and another 12.9 percent of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery. All collect roughly 70 percent of the gross return that used to go to are owned by Japanese corporations. (This is also from Irrational the boat. The boat and crew must survive on a 70 percent pay Approach: How Individual Fishing Quotas Protect Private Interests, Not cut, reducing crew size and safety. Leasing quota shares can cost Public Resources, September 2006, by Food & Water Watch.) up to 84 percent of fishing costs, and most quota is leased, not Power: Money and power acquire the necessary votes. The fished by the quota owners. (This is according to E. Pinkerton, D. public-turned-private asset consolidates upward. Wall Street Edwards in “The Elephant in the Room,” Maine Policy Journal 2009, begins wagging the dog. Fishermen and fishing communities www.elsevier.com/locate/marpol.) are destroyed from lack of opportunity and product. With a few Here is where EDF Vice President David Festa’s pitch to Wall catch-share boats dominating product availability, many ports will Street comes in, where he described fishermen as “unskilled,” receive no product. These “future focused management programs” “unprofessional,” and “itinerant labor” with “high drug use” in a presage ports without boats, fishermen, and infrastructure. pitch to ethical investors on an “Innovative Funding for Sustainable However, our pals on Wall Street, who ushered us into the Fisheries and Oceans” panel at the 2009 Milken Institute Global current economic debacle, will make 400 percent profits. What Conference in Los Angeles. could be wrong with that? What really puts the lie to saving the It was at that conference that he also predicted profits of 400 fishery through catch shares is the fact that the groundfish fishery percent and up for investors who buy into fishermen’s catch is nearly completely recovered already. shares. The prediction of upward consolidation of the fleet is not a In NOAA’s latest report, all but four Pacific groundfish stocks prediction; it is already a fact in Canada. are above the sustainable level. The four stocks still below the level In the “crab rationalization” catch-share program in the at which they can be fished are well on their way to full recovery. Bering Sea, the consolidation that occurred in just one year’s All this without catch shares, MPAs, or any other tinkering time is unprecedented. Some 1,150 people lost their jobs, and the that deprives the public of its resource and the opportunity to remaining jobs pay 50 to 70 percent less than they did before ratio- participate in it. Z nalization. Coastal communities that depend on boats and people David Helliwell owns the 38-foot crabber-troller Corregidor out of fishing are suffering immense economic losses. (This is according to Eureka. He’s fished for the last 40 years. Irrational Approach: How Individual Fishing Quotas Protect Private Interests, Not Pub- lic Resources, September 2006, by Food & Water Watch, www.foodandwaterwatch.org.) Sustainability for some: Catch shares One-Stop Shopping definitely build economic sustainability for the fishermen who are gifted the public resource, and it has the support of for Commercial Fishing those beneficiaries. No big surprise here. The trouble with a tool like catch shares Gear and Supplies. is, it will always gravitate towards money and power. In a nutshell, here is how it We’ve Doubled our Floor Space, is done. A member is to be appointed to Streamlined our Warehouse, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC). The governor is to submit three Revamped our Clothing Section. candidates. EDF, who had influence with then-Gov. Call or Stop by Today! Arnold Schwarzenegger, put forward David Crabb. The governor refused to put forward any other candidates, including the incumbent, Kathy Fosmark, who happened to be well received on the council. Presto! EDF has a vote on the council. Management councils are stacked with interested parties. The North Pacific Council has many individuals on it who have specific vested interests in the crab catch-share program. The chair of the council in 2006, Stephanie Madsen, is vice president of Pacific Seafood Processors Association. 908 N.W. Ballard Way, Seattle, WA 98107

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Clement Clarke Moore never made it to Sitka. That’s OK. Writer Will Swagel did, and he has taken Moore’s most famous poem and given it a Sitka slant. Rather, a commercial fishing slant. You know Moore — if you know of him at all — as the guy who, in 1823, wrote A Visit from St. Nicholas, perhaps better known as The Night Before Christmas. As for Swagel, you probably don’t know him at all. But Swagel’s pen has changed The Night Before Christmas into The Bight Before Christmas. Moore was a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia University. Swagel is not a professor of Oriental and Greek literature, and it shows. He was dressed all in rubber, in greens and in reds, All covered with slime and remains of fish heads. Actually, Swagel is the owner and editor of Sitka Soup, a twice-monthly advertising newspaper. He and his wife, Suzanne Portello, and kids moved to Sitka in 1982 after she took a nursing job in town. He bought Sitka Soup in 1999 and suddenly faced the challenge of filling empty white space. One Swagel solution: crossword puz- zles with Sitka place names as clues. The Bight Before Christmas emerged in 2002 as a way to fill out a December column. It stuck to the The Night Before Christmas’ scenario, but in a decidedly different scene. People liked it. The next year, the poem returned by popular demand that built into the next. Pretty soon, people were

24 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM asking for a book. appropriate scene for reindeer, Swagel insisted on another One problem: Swagel had words. He didn’t have pictures. touch of accuracy. In the poem, Santa’s skiff is powered, not by So, as editor of an advertising newspaper, he advertised for an reindeer, but by creatures from the far side of the surf: illustrator, seeking a “cartoon/artist with a wry (or pumper- Now, Coho! nickel) sense of humor.” Now, Humpy! Enter Colin Herforth. He’s an artist and a former deck- Now, Lingcod hand, bringing a perfect mixture of a graphic eye and practical Now, Orca! experience to the project. The two men met weekly, as Herforth On Herring! worked through the book, preparing 18 watercolors. On Dolphin! Although the words had been written for years, the art- On Gumboot! making inspired many questions that had not yet been answered. On Tuna! For example, what’s the registration on the skiff? Turns out To the top of the swell, to the top of the squall, it’s AK 1225 Regalos — the 25th of Now dash away, dash away, dash December and a Spanish word away, all! for gifts. The book was first published in Illustrations gave Herforth and 2009 and has been for sale for two Swagel an opportunity to add Christmas seasons. subtle elements to the characters. You can find bookstores that Take St. Nick. stock it (even in Gloucester, Mass.), Here’s a guy known for his or you can order it online at www. rotundity. Wouldn’t you expect a thebightbeforechristmas.com. natural conjunction to occur as his The price is $15.95. But it may posterior contours edged north- be a good investment. A copy of ward and the beltline migrated Clement Clark Moore’s A Visit south? from St. Nicholas sold in 2006 for “I had to argue about that one. $280,000. Z People said Santa shouldn’t have a butt crack,” Swagel said. Here’s Will Swagel, left, and Colin Herforth. Ho- And although Alaska is an To the right is Clement Clarke Moore. Ho-Ho!

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ OCTOBER 2011 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 25 YOUR BUSINESS Remembrances We ran across a remembrance of George W. Aguilar Sr., a Kiksht Chinookan who is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in North-Central Oregon. He spent much of his life fishing the Columbia River salmon runs, as had his ancestors for literally thousands of years. Aguilar gives a detailed examination of Columbia salmon and steelhead and how they were caught. In doing so, he dispatches myth, like that of Celilo Falls. It was a notable fishery, but only in a fairly limited fall season. The river there was too violent in spring and summer for the falls to be useful, and the legendary spring and summer runs, like the “June hogs,” were taken in other rapids. To get the salmon chronology correct, here is a brief rundown of the Columbia’s runs as seen by Indians in the Fishing the Columbia in the Celilo Falls area. river’s midsection. he spring Chinook salmon run appeared at the Cascade TRapids around the last week of March. The fish in this first run Remembering when weighed from 8 to 20 pounds. About the first week of April began the spring snow melt-off. The spring Chinook were harvested until the Columbia was king about the last week of May; and when that run was over, there was approximately a three- or four-week delay before the bluebacks of salmon runs (sockeye) began their ascent. The spring snow melt-off began receding about the last of May. When something great fades away, myth usually takes the place of During this slack time, the cherries were ready to be harvested, fact. Take the storied runs of Columbia River salmon. and that was when most of the Wasco fishermen and their families It’s been a century since the runs started to fade. It’s been nearly migrated to the orchards. There were one or two weeks of waiting three-quarters of a century since the Grand Coulee dam cut the riv- after the cherry harvest to prepare for the blueback run. er in half, and salmon never again touched the upper 600 miles of My Uncle Alvin stated that the June hog Chinook came about a its run. week or two later. Fishermen had only about three weeks to harvest Plenty of time for fact to fade and myth to build. the blueback. The June hog had about a two-week harvest window. The bright steelhead appeared when the water had nearly stabilized, which was around early July. In mid-August, the Celilo people were now moving in. Chiefs Island was still flooded over, and people were preparing to set up their scaffolds. There were some fishing stations active about two weeks before the stabiliza- tion of the river’s high water flow, which was in the last week of August or the first week of September. Each salmon species had a specific time of day when fish could be caught. For instance, the blueback came barreling in between 4 and 8 o’clock in the morning. Then they would suddenly stop. When they were running, it was not unusual to catch two or three fish at a crack. Those who wanted to fish during the day- light hours would harvest only shad and immature sturgeon, both of which were unmarketable. The early spring Chinook were not caught after darkness set in. Steel- head could be caught in day or night hours. Uncle Alvin stated that the June hogs came up between 5 and 8 o’clock in the evening and were not caught during the night hours. When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation was published by the Oregon Historical Society Press in association with the University of Washington Press. Z

26 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM ALASKA NOTEBOOK by Wesley Loy Dungeness down, Fuglvog tale, summer king crab, rockﬁsh

Dungies down: The summer Dungeness crab fishery wrapped ing” by falsely reporting that more than up Aug. 15 in Southeast Alaska with an estimated harvest of 30,000 pounds came from the Central just over 2 million pounds. The crab paid an average $2.19 per Gulf area. pound, about 50 cents better than in 2010, for a fishery value of ZZZZ $4.3 million. News from Nome: It was a big year for big Sounds like a decent season, right? crab from Norton Sound. The summer red king crab fishery set a Well, considerable worry hangs over this fishery, long an impor- record for ex-vessel value, with the 401,000-pound harvest pay- tant component of Southeast’s seafood industry. ing just over $2 million, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game The harvest has two segments, with the smaller fall fishery open- reported. Crabbers received $5.04 to $5.35 per pound. Although the ing Oct. 1. All told, the Department of Fish and Game projects a full record harvest for Norton Sound is almost 3 million pounds, that season harvest of 2.7 million pounds, which would mark the fifth was back in 1979 when the price was only 75 cents. This season, 24 consecutive season of declining catches. The catch was double that permit holders made deliveries over a short 33-day season. five seasons ago. ZZZZ One concern is the impact predatory sea otters might be having Rockfish catch shares: Federal officials are working to on Dungeness in areas such as the waters near Kake, once highly implement a permanent catch-share program for the Kodiak- productive for crabbers. based Central Gulf of Alaska rockfish trawl fishery. The National “It’s a huge concern around here,” said Joe Stratman, a Fish and Marine Fisheries Service in August rolled out proposed regulations Game biologist in Petersburg. He’s for what’s known as Amendment seen large rafts of sea otters while 88 to the Gulf groundfish fishery conducting aerial surveys in the management plan. Kake area. The program would replace the But Stratman isn’t ready to pilot catch-share program that conclude that the otters are entirely started in 2007 and is due to expire Postcard: Deckhand to blame for reducing Dungeness at the end of this year. Travis Bangs lounges harvests region-wide, or that a on a deckload of pinks The new program is similar to harvest under 3 million pounds aboard the F/V Pacific the pilot, awarding catch shares is necessarily alarming. Catches Nomad in Southeast to eligible trawlers who can then sagged below that level a number this past summer. form fishing cooperatives. One of times in the 1980s and ’90s. Ron Johnson is big difference, however, is that the skipper. One important factor is reduced the five processors holding exclu- harvest effort, with 142 permit sive rights to the fish under the holders making landings this pilot program would lose those summer versus 163 in 2010. Some privileges under the proposed Dungeness fishermen have replacement plan. switched to salmon, which are pay- Amendment 88, if the coming handsomely these days. merce secretary approves it, will ZZZZ allocate shares of northern rockfish, pelagic shelf rockfish, and Fuglvog’s fall: The fortunes of a respected figure in Alaska’s fish- Pacific ocean perch, plus bycatch allowances for species such as ing industry turned dramatically on Aug. 11 when Arne Fuglvog, cod. Fifty-eight vessels would be eligible for the rockfish program. an aide to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), pleaded guilty to a federal Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy is a longtime fisheries reporter in fisheries violation. The case cost Fuglvog his job and left him facing Anchorage and host of a news blog called Deckboss. 10 months in prison and $150,000 in fines under a plea agreement. Sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 18. Fuglvog, 47, had served for five years as a Murkowski aide on Top commercial fishing fisheries policy and other matters. Prior to that job, Fuglvog fished commercially out of Petersburg. He was a member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council from 2003 to 2006. Court documents said Fuglvog, the former owner and operator of the fishing vessel Kamilar, held permits to fish for sablefish and halibut, and on “several occasions” between 2001 and 2006, he mis- reported where he caught fish. EACH DAY: FREE! Fuglvog pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Lacey Act stemming from sablefish catches in 2005. His individual Z Pacific Fishing’s Fish Wrap fishing quota permit allowed him to catch about 30,000 pounds of sablefish in the Western Yakutat area, but Fuglvog actu- Z www.pacificfishing.com/fishwrap.html ally caught 63,000 pounds there. He “covered up his illegal fish-

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Editor’s note: Amy Majors was busy fishing in early September, so she family use. Anyway, back to the monster set. We sent a memory from 2006. were all smiles at the sight before us, but it was July 2006: A deckload of dogs was right beneath us when Dad at that moment I knew we were going to have hollered down, “Round haul, round haul!” We barely heard him BIG problems. through the other screaming captains and roaring engines, but we I never thought the day would come where were able to let ’er go at the exact second the clock struck 5 a.m. I would say that we had too much fish at one time. If we didn’t have There was a deckload of dogs right there, so we had to act fast if we issues with the spiller, it was the power block not being able to lift wanted any chance at wrapping them up! up the heavy splits. Spill after spill, we kept rolling them aboard, but Bumper boats: Way before the pin was pulled, we cast our lines they just kept on coming. We made guesses when we were hauling off at Thomas Basin and began the seven-hour journey south to gear, mine was 40,000 pounds, but I was grossly off. It took us five a small place called Nakat Inlet, near the Canadian border. When hours from the time we set to the time we got the last ring aboard, we came around the corner, it became blatantly obvious that we and every minute of that was a struggle. While other boats made were in a very popular spot set after set, we were still since damn near the whole working on the same one. fleet was there. One thing Finally, when chums were was for certain, we would flush with the rail from bow have a fine display of bum- to stern, we let the end go. per boats when Nakat offi- Shortage at the Cana- cially opened the following dian tender: The deck was morning. completely awash, and we A restless intuition: were so low in the water Three a.m. came and went, that it was beginning to along with most of the frighten me. There was sim- butterflies in my stomach. ply no way we could keep Folgers coffee was excep- all the fish we had, so we tionally disgusting that tied up to the Prospector, morning, and it worsened and Jamie’s crew helped my pre-opening jitters, themselves to about 10,000 so I paced back and forth pounds. After they pitched, along the false deck until we were still two feet deep it opened. in dogs, as we raced to We jogged around a Karen Rae makes another set – this one, sadly, not on a deckload of dogs. the tender. little, but it didn’t take When we arrived, there that long for Dad to find something to set on. It was one of the were at least three other boats waiting to offload, including largest schools in Nakat! The fleet circled around us with their Jamie on the Prospector. He felt it necessary to beat us there fancy sonars, praying to find the fish that we were sitting on. Since even after we gave them all that fish! At least we had a few we didn’t have a sonar, or any other expensive crap like the hot hours to fix our seine. That whopper set messed up the bunt shots around us, we relied solely on Dad’s restless intuition. In end, so we back-hauled it and fixed some lacings and broken the end, 40+ years of being at the helm proved to be even more hangings on the leads and corks. efficacious than any machine out there. When it came time to offload, the Canadian tender shorted us Inside! Nakat officially opened when Dad’s egg timer went off around 15,000 pounds! That was bad for us, but really bad for them. and black smoke poured out of every boat there. We circled around They were fired the next day. to get in position, and with a nod of the captain’s head, we pulled Nakat is closed, forever: It’s been almost four years since they the pin and let it fly. closed Nakat to all but the gillnetters. Since then, Jamie and I still Dad yelled down, “Round haul, round haul!” argue about the amount of fish we let them have (it was at least Then, our skiff man, Roland, whipped the net around as fast as 10,000 pounds, because our deck does hold that much). the little Uffda could take it. Just as the tow line became taut, it was Late at night, when I lie wide awake in my bunk, I dream about time to grab the throw line from him to fetch up the slack. All of that infamous “boat load” set that some of us will never be lucky a sudden, bubbles erupted down the cork line, and then the fish enough to have in an entire lifetime of fishing. Maybe someday, I’ll began to pop like popcorn down the full length of the seine. make a set like that on a boat of my very own, but I will definitely “Inside,” we exclaimed, as we always do when fish jump in our need a sonar, and I have to get rich first, because I will never be able net. We knew we had the mother lode, we just had to keep them in to afford one at this rate! there until we got the rings up! “We got ’em, Amebose”: We hauled gear as fast as we could until we got to the jam ring. I was pursing up at the time, when Amy Majors is a Ketchikan fisherman who has kept a journal of years of Dad turned around to say, “We got ’em, Amebose.” That’s the fishing. She works aboard two seiners — the Karen Rae, skippered by her nickname Aunt Nancy gave me from birth, which only close friends or father, Dan Majors, and the Prospector. Brought to you by Filtration Solutions Worldwide ∆ 28 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM This is not the time to be worried about changing your engine oil!

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New in St. Paul: It only took about 30 years, but St. Paul’s small to be used. boat harbor is finally operational. The $20 million project was built ZZZZ to accommodate the growing local halibut fleet, and it’s seen as a No surprise in king crab: Aside from key piece of infrastructure in keeping the town’s fishing economy being the first king crab fishery to open up, running. there’s not too much new that distinguishes I was up in the Pribilofs at the ribbon-cutting ceremony this the golden season. August, and nearly every fisherman I spoke to had a horror story No Surprise #1: The quota for golden king crab is set at just over from the bad old days. Before the Army Corps of Engineers con- 6 million pounds every year by regulation, and that’s not going structed this harbor, boats were tying up three in a row on a 200- to change until the Alaska Department of Fish and Game makes foot floating dock. And crews were trying to move gear across this progress on its population model. tangle. No Surprise #2: For another, it’s the same handful of boats going No easy feat when dealing with 80-knot winds. after brown king crab year after year. “When the wind was blowing, we used have to stay there all The only thing that really changes is the money the fishery nabs. night sometimes — watching our boats, and putting new buoys The base price hadn’t been negotiated at the season opening, but in, and making sure the lines were good,” said Jeff Kauffman, who talk at local plants puts it at $3.40 a pound. At least one plant in works for the Central Bering town is paying a little more Sea Fishermen’s Association to attract deliveries, and the and who own the 32-foot Bay final price could be set as Rose. high as $4 at the end of the “There was a lot of risk season. that the whole dock could Edward Poulsen, direc- float away with all of our tor of Alaska Bering Sea boats on it.” Crabbers, said that the high While most Alaskan fisher- prices of recent years can be men know St. Paul as a deliv- credited to crackdowns on ery spot during the opilio illegal fishing. crab season, the 400-person “More than anything, it’s village depends mostly on because the U.S. government halibut for its income. About and the Russian government a quarter of the residents, both are clamping down on most of whom are Alaska illegal fishing going on in Natives, are in some way the Russian Far East,” said employed by the halibut Poulsen. fishery. Last year, it brought Windswept St. Paul now has a fully operational small boat harbor. “A lot of that Russian them $4 million in revenue. Far East king crab actually With the new harbor, the hope is that the 25-boat fleet can grow, directly competes with our golden crab. Since there’s just a lot with older fishermen buying bigger boats and younger fishermen less of that smaller Russian king crab coming into our market, it’s buying new ones of their own. causing our golden prices to go up.” ZZZZ He also adds that because the yen is strong right now, the New in Unalaska: Meanwhile, down here in Unalaska, cham- bidding for crab is more competitive than usual. pagne flowed at our own Carl E. Moses Small Boat Harbor for a Overall, good signs for a decent market this coming Bristol Bay dedication this August — never mind that boats won’t be able to red king crab season. dock there until mid-November, three months after the event. ZZZZ : According to city engineer Tyler Zimmerman, the $56 mil- Stupid crime The crime in Unalaska continues to mostly be lion project is now at 60 percent completion. The piles and floats of the drunk, stupid variety — or maybe that should be “stupid have all been installed, and the city is now working on setting up drunk.” That’s especially true in the summertime, where late utilities. Once it’s done, there will be nearly 70 moorage spaces Alaska nights mean the police blotter expands from five pages each available for boats as large as 130 feet, plus plenty of amenities week to 10. to boot. So, a shout-out to the most fun-loving criminals of the month: The dedication was timed to the Northern Waters Task Force The dudes who got hammered while playing in a tundra golf tour- meeting in Unalaska, which made it possible for a couple of Coast nament, and then decided to cool off by jumping off the one big bridge in town. Police and EMS responded after hearing that an Guard admirals and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) to attend. “old gentleman” or two had become one with the cold waters of While it was a classy affair, there was one notable absence. Captains Bay. Because of the rushed scheduling, Carl Moses, the harbor’s living namesake, wasn’t able to make it. Hopefully, there will be another Pacific Fishing columnist Alexandra Gutierrez is the news director of celebration, including Carl Moses, when the harbor is truly ready KUCB, Unalaska.

30 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM B.C. UPDATE by Michel Drouin A short opening and a really tight ﬁt in an urban ﬁshery

“It’s come to this now,” my friend Paul Kandt said, emptying straighten it out a bit, noticed something a small container of fuel into his fuel tank on his gillnetter, the wrong, ran to the cabin, and then jumped Wendy Dawn. back in the stern saying, “I’ve got a steering “We take two and a half gallons of diesel to go fishing.” problem.” We were headed out for a six-hour opening for Fraser River Disabled: The steering was completely sockeye this year. It was the second opening of the season, with disabled. only a three-hour opening the week before. Paul called for assistance from Mas Shima, the Ocean Fisher- With the Fraser sockeye summer run predicted to come in at ies manager who patrols the river during openings in the little only a total of 2 million fish, unless the run was upgraded, this was aluminum runabout, the Oceanette, and we wheeled in the drum going to be our last chance at sockeye in the river for the year. and picked the fish as fast as we could, with 94 sockeye, a nice I’ve known Paul for 32 years. We first met when I was working Chinook, and four pinks in the set. Mas towed us back to the on the Millerd Fisheries floating fish-processing barge in Sointula Brunette Creek dock. in 1979, when he came in with his cousin, the late Glenn Arkko, It was now a matter of time. Were we going to get the problem to get ice. We’ve been involved in various fishermen’s union repaired and get back fishing before it closed at 16:00? The steering campaigns together ever since. fluid reservoir was empty. Where was the leak? We were joined by Mae Paul found a blown Burrows, former executive hydraulic line in the laza- director of the T. Buck Suzu- rette and, after some tinker- ki Environmental Founda- ing, found a six-foot hose tion, a group Paul and I that would do to replace have both been involved in the original one-foot-long over the years as well. one, fitted it in place, and Brilliant morning: We topped up the oil. It took left Paul’s tie-up spot at some time to work the the Brunette Creek dock at air out of the system and 07:42 on a brilliant sunny get the wheel to move the morning and jogged up to steering rams again. his favorite spot three and a We lost a lot of time and half miles upriver at Doug- didn’t head back out until las Island, just above the about 13:20. Port Mann bridge across Squeezed: As we the Fraser River. approached a likely setting Paul’s 36.5-foot Wendy spot, the other gillnetters Dawn was built by his and their nets were lined father, Herbert Kandt, on up closely to each other a fiberglass Palmer hull in Michel Drouin and a salmon on the Fraser. drifting down the river. We 1973. He’s had it since 1979. spotted one boat picking It ticks smoothly along, powered by a Mitsubishi 6D16T diesel up its net, and Paul wanted to set there, but there was a boat just engine. ahead of us steaming for the spot too, his wake boiling up behind After finding water in his fuel tanks last year from sitting so long his stern. without a fishery, he’d had to have his old fuel cleaned and was With all the other boats lined up ahead of us along the shore, I trying to freshen it up a bit with the addition of a few gallons at a time. couldn’t see where Paul would be able to get the net in. There were boats lined up all along the shore, making it pretty Then, inexplicably, the boat ahead didn’t make the set, so Paul tight to find a spot. But, in the river, gillnetters fish pretty close to swung in to the mainland shore, threw the balloon over the side, each other, so before 10 a.m. Paul had found a spot to set, and he and set the net again towards Douglas Island. spooled it off the drum right at 10:00. Just over an hour later, we picked up 36 sockeye, two pinks, and I’m always amazed at the way gillnetters fish the sometimes a Chinook. We squeezed in another set for 11 sockeye and three fast-flowing Fraser River. They set so close to each other that, pinks, and in the last 20 minutes got a short set in for 7 sockeye if you were in Johnstone Strait or in the Inlets, you would be and 2 pinks. considered “corking” the other guy. Despite the breakdown, it was a great day with friends, and we There wasn’t a lot of action in the net as far as we could see, but ended up with 148 sockeye and change. the river wasn’t running too fast as the tide hadn’t started ebbing As Paul says, “A bad day fishing is still better than a good day too hard yet, so we were able to soak the net for an hour as we at work.” drifted downstream. Michel Drouin first sailed on a commercial fishing vessel in 1959. He’s As we approached the bridge, Paul went to pull on the net to been writing about the industry since 1990.

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ OCTOBER 2011 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 31 MID-COAST REPORT by Deeda Schroeder Albacore spotty, judge disses dam plan, another gillnet battle

Albacore gets the spotlight: Journalists from Oregon and comments could appeal the title by earlyy Washington descended on Astoria in mid-August to learn about September. the Pacific albacore tuna industry, courtesy of the Oregon Albacore Hobe Kytr of Salmon for All, an Astoria-- Commission and the Western Fishboat Owners Association. based fishermen’s organization, submitted They toured the Skipanon Brand processing plant and comments and said the group was consultingg micro-cannery in Warrenton, then crossed the bridge over to with its two lawyers and an appeal would be on ththe agenda.d Ilwaco and climbed aboard Rick Goche’s boat Peso II to enjoy “That is certainly an option, and we’ll look at it quite closely,” he cooking demonstrations and wine and beer pairings of high-end said. “It costs a lot of money. That’s the issue.” Astoria restaurants. A gillnet ban bill was proposed by several legislators during Chef Gordon Clement of Clemente’s Restaurant said that more this year’s legislative session, but the bill stalled and was never customers are coming revived. in already familiar withh The Coastal Conservation Association proposed the initiative. albacore, and demand is Its chief petitioners on the rise. are state Sens. Fred Girod, R-Stayton, Wayne Heikkila, exec-- and Rod Monroe, utive director of WFOA, D-Portland, and agreed that demand iss David Schamp, strong this year, and itt chairman of the appears that word is Oregon Coastal Con- getting out about the servation Associa- culinary and environ-- tion chapter’s board mental attributes of thee of directors. fish. ZZZZ The season had a sloww Judge supports start, and hadn’t picked catch shares: In up a lot by mid-August, early August, Judge with “spotty” fishing inn Charles Breyer of all areas, Heikkila said. the U.S. District “Lucky vessels occa-- Court of the North- sionally catch 200 to 3000 Top: Gillnet fleet again under attack. ern District of California dis- and more fish per day, Left: Judge James Redden. missed a lawsuit that aimed to but most of the catchh stop the West Coast groundfish remains from 30 to 120 trawl rationalization program, now in its first year. fish per day,” he said. The plaintiffs — the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Larger fish were found along the 125 degrees west line from Coos Associations and other organizations — asserted that the program Bay to Newport. didn’t follow federal standards to minimize bycatch and prevent Prices were very strong when boats off-loaded, Heikkila said. overfishing. So far this year, 685.5 metric tons of albacore had been landed in The judge, however, disagreed, citing more individual account- Oregon by mid-August, with 609 metric tons in Washington and ability and freedom for fishermen. 13.5 metric tons in California. Together, Astoria and Ilwaco ports ZZZZ : on the Columbia River had landed 461 metric tons, with the port of Judge slams Columbia Basin dams In early August, Westport at the top with 332.6 metric tons on its own. U.S. District Court Judge James Redden shot down the federal ZZZZ government’s plan to operate dams in the Columbia River basin, Gillnet ban initiative: Supporters of Oregon’s Columbia River saying it didn’t do enough to protect salmon. gillnet fleet were fighting a new — but familiar — fight in late Redden’s ruling said that the 10-year biological opinion August and were seriously considering appealing the certified title submitted by NMFS wasn’t specific enough about how habitat for for a November 2012 ballot measure. protected salmon and steelhead would be restored after 2013. The measure would let voters choose to ban commercial non- “I continue to have serious concerns about the specific, numerical survival benefits NOAA Fisheries attributes to habitat tribal gillnet fishing on the Columbia River by Oregon fishers — mitigation,” Redden’s opinion said. and allow seine nets instead, changing Oregon law. He sent the plan back to NOAA Fisheries, giving them until the On Aug. 24, the Oregon secretary of state certified a ballot end of 2013 to pen a new one that will address the concerns. In the measure title that read, “Specified commercial non-tribal fishing meantime, the 14 dams on the river may continue to operate. methods/procedures changed; recreational salmon fishers ensured What might the future hold? Redden also addressed those pos- minimum share of catch.” sibilities in his opinion: Earlier in the summer, the state attorney general had issued a “NOAA Fisheries shall produce a new biological opinion that … draft title for the initiative that read, “Bans Columbia River com- considers whether more aggressive action, such as dam removal mercial salmon fishing with gillnets by non-tribal persons, allows and/or additional flow augmentation and reservoir modifications, seine nets instead.” are necessary to avoid jeopardy,” Redden stated. After the preliminary title was issued by the attorney general, more than 150 pages of testimony were accepted and used while Pacific Fishing columnist Deeda Schroeder was the fisheries reporter for crafting the certified title, and anyone who submitted those The Daily Astorian.

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Tracking halibut: Fish scientists call it “halibut with money ZZZZ inside.” What they are referring to is fish that are double-tagged, Seafood demand: Surging demand for sea- both inside and out. food — at home and abroad — set records last “Almost all of your external tags either fall off or, if you dart year, as the global economy began to shake off them onto the fish, which works really well, they will grow the recession. giant balls of fouling organisms, barnacles and mussels and The annual Summary of Imports and Exports of Fishery Products by bryozoans, and eventually either kill the fish or screw up what the NOAA Fisheries showed that 3.7 million metric tons of fish and fish is doing,” said Tim Loher, a fish biologist with the International shellfish exchanged hands last year, a gain of 7.3 percent over 2009. Pacific Halibut Commission. The total value of the U.S. seafood trade topped $19 billion, nearly “So what seems to work best is surgical implantation.” 14 percent higher than 2009. The halibut commission oversees the health of the stocks from U.S. seafood exports saw spectacular growth last year to 1.2 California to the Bering Sea and sets yearly catch limits. million tons, a gain of 10.6 percent — the strongest showing for at This summer, 30 halibut were double-tagged and released in least a decade. the Central Gulf and Southeast Alaska regions. The gut tags will The value of seafood exports was the highest on record at $4.4 field-test, for the first time, if geomagnetism advances used in billion, 17.2 percent higher than 2009. The average value gained 6 iPhones can be used to track migrations of fish. percent to $1.60 a pound. Fresh and frozen fish and shellfish are the The tags have enough memory and battery life to record data major U.S. exports; the top three were salmon, lobster, and surimi. every 30 seconds for seven years. The three major exporters and importers for U.S. seafood are China, “That will hopefully give real-time, daily positions on fish and Thailand, and Canada. track them without any need for light, acoustics, or communication Most of America’s seafood — more than 80 percent — comes with GPS satellites. All the information will just be onboard when from other countries, and last year saw the largest volume of the fishermen catch them.” imports ever at 2.5 million metric tons, a 5.7 percent increase If the geomagnetic gut tags work out as planned, Loher said, hal- over 2009. ibut could be tagged as juveniles and tracked into breeding ages. More striking was the increase in value of those imports: $14.8 “If it works out, we plan to tag up to 2,000 halibut all the way billion, an increase of 12.8 percent from last year. from Oregon to Attu and the shelf edge that is north of the Pribilofs Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch writes the Fish Factor newspaper at the U.S.-Russian border,” Loher said. column and produces Fish Radio out of Kodiak. “We’ve got a lot of migration issues right now, and we are trying to set our quotas and determine exactly how to assess the stock. We know the fish are moving, but we are having trouble getting real refined estimate of movement … so hopefully this will help nail that down.” Returned tags are worth $500. For more information and a photo, go to www.iphc.int/news-releases.html. Then scroll down. ZZZZ Freeze-dry salmon: Kodiak fish scientists have discovered a way to freeze-dry salmon in a matter of hours instead of several days. By simply tweaking the time and temperature, 97 percent of the moisture was removed far more quickly than traditional methods. The end product — brightly colored, freeze-dried sockeye, pink, and chum salmon cubes. “Part of the approach is for use perhaps in something like Cup O’ Noodles, similar to chunks of chicken, substitute those with salmon cubes,” said Chuck Crapo, a seafood specialist at the University of Alaska’s Fishery Industrial Technology Center in Kodiak. He said the dried salmon idea was spawned by freeze-dried fruit snacks for kids. The salmon chunks also can be used as salad toppings. They were a big hit as a snack at taste tests in Fairbanks. “We had some salty, garlicky flavors that were really good. Actually, they were kind of addictive. You kept eating them.” Crapo said the ultimate goal is to attract interest by food produc- ers, and he has had inquiries from major freeze-dry operators. Fish Tech also has a small grant from NASA to pursue freeze-dried salmon for astronauts in space. Salmon skins are being taste-tested by dogs on earth. The trend toward boneless/skinless fish leaves all the skins on the cutting room floor. At Fish Tech, Crapo said, they are turning them into dog treats.

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ OCTOBER 2011 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 39 PACIFIC FISHING classifieds BOX score Boats/Permits/IFQs Alaska Entry Permit Prices (as of 10-1-11) State Species Fishery Asking Price* Offer* Value* SALMON S SE DRIFT 85- 85 88.3+ S PWS DRIFT 170 165 169.1+ ! S COOK INLET DRIFT 60 58+ 50.3+ S AREA M DRIFT 140- 125 138.5 S BRISTOL BAY DRIFT 147.5- 125 155.8+ S SE SEINE 150 135 137.6+ S PWS SEINE 150 150+ 138.1+ S COOK INLET SEINE 60+ 40 33 S KODIAK SEINE 45- 40- 45.4+ S CHIGNIK SEINE 200 110 95.1 S AREA M SEINE 58 55 55.5 S COOK INLET SET 20 15 14.5+ S AREA M SET NET 60 50 51.3 S BRISTOL SET NET 40+ 35 36+ S LOWER YUKON 9.5 N/A 9.6 S POWER TROLL 36 36 34.6+ S HAND TROLL 11.5+ 11.5+ 10.5+ HERRING H SE GILLNET 9 N/A 16+ H KODIAK GILLNET 5 4 3.8 H SITKA SEINE 500 N/A 540 H PWS SEINE 40 35 23 H COOK INLET SEINE 25 15 9.3 t1FSNJUT H KODIAK SEINE 21 17- 21.3 H SE POUND SOUTH 13- 12 17- t3FBMFTUBUF H SE POUND NORTH 54 50 45.5 H PWS POUND NA 4 3.1 t7FTTFMT SHELLFISH S SE DUNGY 75 POT 12 9.5 11.9- t&RVJQNFOU S SE DUNGY 150 POT 30 17.5 27 S SE DUNGY 225 POT 37.5 35 38.8+ t3FQPXFST S SE DUNGY 300 POT 50 45 67.5 S SE POT SHRIMP 13 13+ 14- t0QFSBUJOHMJOFTPGDSFEJU S KODIAK TANNER <60 35 33.5 30- S PUGET SOUND DUNGY 60- 45 N/A t:PVOHBOECFHJOOJOHGJTIFSNBO S WASHINGTON DUNGY 1,250-3,500/FT 1,000-3,100/FT N/A S OREGON DUNGY 1,500-3,500/FT 1,250-3,000/FT N/A S CALIFORNIA DUNGY 800-1,500/FT 500-1,000/FT N/A SE ALASKA DIVE SE AK Dive URCHIN 4 N/A 3.6 SE AK Dive CUCUMBER N/A 15+ 11.4+ SE AK Dive GEODUCK 90 80 86.7 Prices in OCTOBER vary in accordance with market conditions.* in thousands + denotes an increase from last month. N/A denotes No Activity. – denotes a decrease from last month.

By Mike Painter and the Permit Master

Gillnet: Bay permits were down slightly from last month, with asking prices as low as $147.5k. Offers were still only $125k or so. Recent activity in SE cards was in the $85-90k range with a handful of buyers looking. PWS permits holding around $170k. Cook Inlet cards leveled off @ $60k. Asking prices for Area M permits are slipped to $140k. No post season offers so far. Seine: No new listings of SE permits in the past month. Offers for PWS permits were still at around $150k and permits are moving. Asking prices for Kodiak cards slipped to the mid $40s. Area M permits were still available in the upper $50s. Troll: SE Power Troll permits were just starting to come back on the market, so far in the mid to upper $30s. Hand Troll permits are still pretty scarce and going for around $11k+. Crab/Shrimp/Dive: Puget Sound dungy cards have been leasing steady @ $7.5k. Getting a lot of interest in California dungy permits, but only if they have enough history to qualify for a decent number of pots. Demand for SE Cuke permits is way up with offers as high as $15k.

40 £ PACIFICFISHING £ OCTOBER 2011 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM PACIFIC FISHING classifieds Boats/Permits/IFQs Halibut & Sablefish IFQ Prices Recent market activity in halibut and sablefish quota shares

Status Ask Offer Regulatory Vessel Poundage (blocked/ (per pound) (per pound) Species Area Category* (thousands) unblocked) Low High Low High H 2C D 1-10 B 30.00-35.00 30.00-34.00 H 2C C/B 1-3 B 30.00-32.00 30.00-32.00 H 2C C/B 4-10 B 33.00-35.00 32.00-34.00 H 2C C/B ANY U 35.00-37.00 34.00-35.00 H 2C A B/U 38.00 36.00 H 3A D B/U 30.00-35.00 29.00-34.00 H 3A C/B 1-5 B 31.00-35.00 30.00-33.00 H 3A C/B 5-10 B 35.00-36.00 33.00-35.00 H 3A C/B >10 U 36.00-38.00 35.00-36.00 H 3A A B/U 38.00 36.00 H 3B D B 19.00-23.00 16.00-18.00 H 3B C/B 1-10 B 24.00-29.00 23.00-27.00 H 3B C/B >10 U 29.00-30.00 27.00-29.00 H 3B A B/U N/A 30.00 H 4A D B/U 12.00-18.00 11.00-16.00 H 4A C/B 1-10 B 14.00-17.00 12.00-16.00 H 4A C/B >10 B 16.00-18.00 16.00-17.00 ® H 4A C/B >10 U 18.00-20.00 17.00-18.00 H 4B/C/D C/B 1-10 B 12.00-14.00 10.00-12.00 H 4B/C/D C/B >10 B/U 13.00-15.00 12.00-14.00 S SE C/B 1-10 B 22.00-28.00 22.00-28.00 S SE C/B >10 U 30.00-32.00 28.00-30.00 S SE A B/U 32.00 28.00 (206) 784-3703 S WY C/B 1-10 B 23.00-28.00 22.00-25.00 FAX (206) 784-8823 4300 11th Ave. N.W. S WY C/B >10 U 30.00-32.00 28.00-30.00 Seattle, WA 98107 S WY A B/U 32.00 30.00 www.coastalmarineengine.com S CG C/B 1-10 B 22.00-26.00 22.00-25.00 S CG C/B >10 B/U 26.00-28.00 25.00-27.00 S CG A B/U 28.00 27.00 S WG C/B 1-10 B 12.00-15.00 11.00-13.00 S WG C/B >10 B 14.00-15.00 13.00-14.00 S WG C/B/A >10 U 15.00-16.00 14.00-15.00 S AI C/B/A B/U 3.50-5.00 3.00-4.50 S BS C/B B/U 3.00-6.00 2.00-5.00 S BS A B/U 7.00-9.00 6.00

*Vessel Categories: A = freezer boats B = over 60’ C = 35’-60’ D = < 35’ NOTE: Halibut prices reflect net weight, sablefish round weight. Pricing for leased shares is expressed as a percentage of gross proceeds. ** Too few to characterize.

By Mike Painter and the Permit Master

FULL SERVICE MARINE BROKERAGE FAX: 907-235-4965 E-MAIL: [email protected] Finally… halibut quota share prices didn’t go up in the past month! That’s the first time for the year. There are even some relative bargains on fished quota (as long as you believe the quota will be unchanged). Not that the market is weakening, it just looks like it’s reached the limit for the time being. More fished quota is coming on the market daily and some of it is the best deals of the year, if you can call $30+ a deal. Sablefish values held fairly steady also. With so few new listings, it’s a little hard to figure. There is www.alaskaboat.com not nearly as much fished blackcod quota coming on the market as there is halibut. So it looks like that market will stay the tighter of the two, as it has been all season.

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ﬁsh cop Seiners call strike: Disgusted by low prices Bruce Buckson, a recognized leader in for pinks, salmon sein- natural resource conservation law enforce- ers working B.C.’s North ment, has been named director of the Coast out of Prince Rupert NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement (OLE). tied up in early August and Buckson was to join NOAA from the refused to sail until prices Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation came up. Commission, where he served for 29 years. The Canadian seiners, He has been a deputy director of its Divi- fishing sometimes mere sion of Law Enforcement since 2007. The miles away from U.S. sein- conservation commission includes one of ers in Alaska, were insulted the largest fish and wildlife law enforce- to hear that while Alas- ment agencies in the world in a state with ka pink fishermen were the nation’s second longest coastline. earning 41 cents a pound, “Bruce brings to NOAA extensive they were being offered Postcard: The Annette rests from the drag fisheries in natural resource conservation leadership 27 cents. Warrenton. Joan Amero photo experience, firsthand knowledge of marine Headed by Chris Cook, law enforcement operations, and a dem- seine skippers banded onstrated ability to work across diverse together and refused to sail unless the industrial marine categories to becom- stakeholder groups to ensure clear, effective, Canadian Fishing Co. and Ocean Fisheries ing an industry leader and full-line sup- and enforceable policies,” said Eric Schwaab, raised prices. plier of flotation and thermal protection assistant NOAA administrator for NOAA The impromptu rebellion won them 32 products in these market categories. Fisheries. cents a pound for pinks delivered to Prince ZZZZ Sustainable seafood: “In his new role, Bruce will advance our Rupert, 31 cents delivered to Port Hardy, The Marine mission to ensure compliance with the laws and 33 cents delivered to Vancouver, with Stewardship Council has launched an and regulations that conserve and protect an additional 5 cents to the boat. online service it hopes will make it easier our nation’s marine resources. For example, ZZZZ to discover seafood certified as sustain- he will expand our dockside presence and Chilean salmon: Industry reports able by the London-based organization. improve communications with fishermen peg Chile’s production at 300,000 tons of The product finder lists MSC-labeled with the hiring of 23 new enforcement offi- farmed Atlantic salmon by 2013, nearly products that are available in stores cers, and lead the search for a new special worldwide. Search results include agent in charge for the Northeast Region.” triple this year’s output — and close to Alaska’s average annual salmon haul of information about and images of sustain- Buckson began his law enforcement able seafood products and provide a link career patrolling the waters of the upper 377,000 tons. “When the total world supply goes to the brand or retailer’s website, making Florida Keys and advanced to increasing it easy for the user to click through to see levels of responsibility within the state back up, will demand be strong enough to the supplier’s whole range and find out agency. Among his career highlights, he keep all salmon markets strong? That’s the more about the company. directed marine law enforcement opera- really big question,” said Gunnar Knapp, Consumers also can sign up for e-mail tions, led a statewide resource protection fisheries economist at the University of unit, coordinated a mutual aid agreement Alaska, Anchorage. updates when new MSC-labeled seafood to enhance state and federal protection The good news is that demand for products launch in their country, or from of endangered manatees, and served as salmon continues to grow across the globe. their favored brands or retailers. the agency’s law enforcement liaison to “You can make a reasonable argument The MSC product finder is in English regional fisheries commissions and councils that growth in demand from places like but will soon be available in other and to federal agencies. China and Brazil and other developing languages to make it easy for consum- In his new role, Buckson will direct the countries like Eastern Europe has been suf- ers worldwide to find products from efforts of more than 200 law enforcement ficient, so that even if the Chileans come certified sustainable fisheries. The search employees, including special agents and back on line and produce at former levels, will launch soon in German, Swedish, enforcement officers, working out of nation- world demand will be strong enough to Dutch, and Spanish. al headquarters, six divisional offices, and keep markets up in general,” Knapp said. Go to www.msc.org and click on the 52 field offices throughout the United States ZZZZ tab labeled “Where to buy.” and U.S. territories. Mustang promotion: Mustang Survival ZZZZ Wandering pink: Buckson has been recognized through- is pleased to announce that Michael Gru- Anglers on the River out his career with numerous citations pa will be transitioning from his current Tweed in Great Britain have been asked and awards. In 2004, he received the role as director of business development, to look out for “exotic” pink salmon after Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commis- professional, to join the sales team as a number of sightings of this normally sion Annual Award in Excellence in Law director of sales for U.S. professional and Pacific species in recent weeks. Enforcement for his career contributions According to the Tweed River to fisheries conservation and his advocacy military major accounts. Grupa joined Mustang Survival in 2009 Commission, a male pink salmon for consistency in fisheries enforcement (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) was caught in approaches and information sharing across and has been instrumental in shifting state and federal agencies. Mustang’s focus from selective markets Buckson is a graduate of the FBI National in the first responder and commercial/ Continued on page 46 Academy in Quantico, Va. Z

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nets at Paxton on Aug. 2 this year. Also, Retail Consortium for the the commission’s website claimed that processing of West Coast another pink salmon was for sale at a cold water shrimp meat Kelso fishmonger, having been landed at (Pandulus Jordani). Amble in Northumberland. The consortium has Other records of pink salmon include inspected and awarded a male pink salmon that was caught and Pacific Shrimp an “A killed by an angler at Boleside in July Grade” certification, which 2007 and a report of what was prob- is the highest inspection ably another fish caught and released at level. Pacific Shrimp will Norham in August of that year. be the only cold water The male caught at Paxton was said shrimp–processing facil- to be particularly distinctive as they ity in the U.S. to be certi- develop a very prominent hump in front fied by the consortium. of the dorsal fin as well as a kype when This certification will open sexually mature. Females are less obvious- new markets for Pacific ly distinctive, but the heavily spotted tail, Seafood, especially in characteristic of Pacific salmonids, should Europe. immediately show them to be something ZZZZ very different from native fish. Pebble ruling: The The Tweed River Commission says: Alaska Supreme Court “These fish have not come all the way ruled that residents in the from the Pacific! They were introduced Lake and Peninsula Bor- to some Russian rivers around the White ough can vote on a ballot Sea in the 1960s and have since spread initiative that could derail westwards and have now colonized some the Pebble Mine. northern Norwegian rivers. The Save Our Salmon “There is also an introduced popula- measure would add lan- tion in Newfoundland from which some guage to the borough’s rivers in Nova Scotia and Quebec have permitting code to protect Reefnetting: You saw the end result on this month’s cover. This been colonized, but the most likely source its lands from “significant is how the process begins, with an artificial reef built from nets. Fishermen stationed on tall observation posts watch the reef’s of the fish that turn up in the Tweed will adverse impacts on salmon “lagoon.” Once a goodly number of salmon enter the enclosure, it’s be northern Norway.” – FishNewsEU habitat.” Pebble backers closed and the fish harvested. Martin Waidelich photo ZZZZ filed lawsuits to try and halt Goo: NOAA the measure. reports that the Earlier, the state of Alaska aligned The bulk of Alaska’s salmon is sold “orange goo” that itself with Pebble to stop the vote, say- headed/gutted and frozen. washed ashore in ing it would set a precedent and threaten For Chinook, that price averaged $3.63 the remote Eskimo other development. last year and $4.12 through April. Fresh village of Kivalina ZZZZ jumped more than $2 to $9.23. along Alaska’s Alaska salmon sales: Sales values for The wholesale average for frozen sock- northwest coast is Alaska salmon show steady gains in recent GGoooo eye fillets jumped from $4.92 in 2010 to fungal spores, not years for all of the products that go to $6.29 this year. microscopic eggs, as preliminary analysis world markets. Frozen pink salmon averaged $1.29 a indicated. The Annual Salmon Price Report (ASPR) pound last year, compared to 93 cents in Scientists at the NOAA Alaska Fisher- by the state Department of Revenue tracks ’09. Frozen pink fillets were up 11 cents by ies Science Center’s Auke Bay Laborato- wholesale prices for: April. ries announced that the substance was • Frozen headed/gutted fish (H&G) Alaska chums continued their steady biological in nature, rather than oil or pol- • Fresh H&G price gains, with frozen fish averaging lution, as originally thought by concerned • Frozen and fresh fillet $1.60 last year and $1.78 through April. residents of Kivalina. • Roe The wholesale price for fresh chum has Samples were sent to NOAA’s • Canned Analytical Response Team for a more A look at average values for all of last increased 45 cents over two years. thorough and detailed analysis and year and the first four months of 2011 The biggest gains are seen in salmon roe verification process. shows big increases. All prices are up prices. Pink roe, for example, averaged ZZZZ significantly from two years ago. $9.94 a pound through April, up more than Oregon pink shrimp: Pacific Shrimp, Cases of canned sockeye talls, for $4 from 2010. Sockeye roe increased from a Pacific Seafood Group company located example, averaged about $123 last year. $5.56 to $7.01, and chum roe wholesale in Newport, has completed a substantial Through April, the value was nearly $145 prices went from $9.17 last year to topping remodel to meet standards for the British per case. $13.50 through April.

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