Fishlines, 1986 Item Type Journal Publisher University of Alaska, Office for Fisheries Download date 04/10/2021 16:17:03 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8680 .. Volume VI, No. 1 February 7, 1986 Office for Fisheries University of Alaska AQUACULTURE POLICY UNDER DE­ VELOPMENT Alaska Sea Grant Director Ronald Applications should include current Dearborn and UAJ School of Fisheries vitae, statement of career objective, Dean Ole Mathisen have been among and letter of recommendation from the those on an advisory committee de­ major professor or department head. veloping a state mariculture policy. Submit applications to the Fisheries Other committee members include re­ Internship Program; Alaska Sea Grant presentatives of fishermen's organi­ College Program; cl o SWOHRD; Univer­ zations, processors, Native organi­ sity of Alaska; Bunnell Bldg., Room 1; zations and government agencies. The 99775-5400. committee has reported findings to Governor Bill Sheffield and his mini­ ALASKA NORTHWEST PUBLISHING cabinet on fisheries. Both the execu­ PREMIERS TWO MARINE BOOKS tive and legislative branches anticipate further activity by this committee. Two popular marine publications were Dearborn and Mathisen have offered to distributed last month that might be continue their participation in this useful in classroom instruction. Plant discussion of the state's aquaculture Lore of An Alaskan Island ($9. 95) and plans. Alciski's Saltwater Fishes and Other Sea Life ($19.95) are now-available FISHERIES INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE from --xlaska Northwest Publishing Company and at local book stores. The Alaska Sea Grant Program and the North Pacific Fishery Management The plant lore book began in an adult Council have established a summer education class on Spruce Island near internship for students in the Universi­ Kodiak. For three years, students in ty of Alaska 1 s fisheries or resource Frances Graham's class collected infor­ economics programs. The two interns mation on 80 species of wild plants now will work at the council offices in described in the book. The herbs and Anchorage for the summer, completing other species described can be found office assignments at the council's in other parts of the Pacific Northwest direction. Travel expenses to and from as well. Careful drawings are pro­ the student's campus will be provided. vided along with descriptions of tra­ Salary is $400/wk. The interns will ditional uses of the plants in medicinal pay their . own living costs while in the preparations, household compounds, program. and recipes. Previous interns were Steve Brooks and Saltwater Fishes and Other Sea Life is Ronald Rogness, both graduate students the culmination of 15 years of work by in resource economics. Brooks re­ Doyne Kessler and other biologists at drafted and updated the Gulf of Alaska the Kodiak National Marine Fisheries Groundfish Management Plan. Rogness Service Laboratory. The book in­ focused on updating the tanner crab cludes color photos and descriptions of management plan, and on the economic 375 trawl-caught species from salmon issues associated with Pacific halibut to sharks, shrimp, and sea stars. management. More than 500 color photos are in­ cluded as well as line drawings. An index and glossary make reference fast and easy . .. These books are available in most GIANT CHERRY TROUT PRODUCED IN Alaskan bookstores or may be ordered JAPAN directly from the publisher at 130 Second Avenue S.; Edmonds, WA; Dr. Hiroshi Onozato of the Hokkaido 98020. Add $1 per book for postage University Faculty of Fisheries has and handling. developed a way to breed giant cherry trout (Oncorhynchus masou), a high­ ROSENBERG: THE LEGEND CONTIN- prized food fish in Japan. Because UES the cherry trout matures in two years and dies after spawning, Onozato has Former Alaska Sea Grant Program been trying to grow giant trout by director Donald Rosenberg has been sterilizing the fish. The fish are re-elected chairman of the North Pacific sterilized during fertilization by chro­ Fishery Management Council's Scientific mosome handling. Fry are cultivated and Statistical Committee. Also re­ for two years, producing bigger, elected as vice-chairman was Richard heavier fish. Onozato's sterilization Marasco. The committee advises the method is reputed to be the first of its NPFMC on scientific and technical kind. matters. Dr. Terry Quinn, a UAJ biometrician, was also appointed to the LPRC RESEARCH OF INTEREST TO committee. MARINE SCIENTISTS ANADROMOUS FISH ATLAS AND CATA­ The Lease Planning and Research LOG AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW Committee (LPRC), an oil industry support group funded by member The Alaska Department of Fish and companies, has funded more than 50 Game is seeking public comment on the research projects since 1968 involving Catalog of Waters Important for Spawn­ Alaska's seafloor and subsea environ­ ing, Rearing, or Migration of Ana­ ment. Two recent projects may have dromous Fishes and its associated atlas. results of interest to Alaska's fishing The catalog contains a record of the and scientific community. streams, rivers and lakes that are used by anadromous fishes for spawning, One new project will continue develop­ rearing and migration. The atlas uses ment of evacuation and survival plans U.S. Geological Survey topographical for people stationed on offshore oil maps to show the portions of waterways rigs operating in ice-covered areas. actually used by anadromous fishes, Work will include building a full-scale which species use the waterways and prototype and testing it in the Arctic. for what particular activity. Results may have application for Alaskan vessels operating in areas The information depicted is based on under ice threat, for field workers, Fish and Game field surveys. However, and for subsistence hunters. the department is also interested in any information on fish activities that can In another project, researchers will be provided by the public or research­ investigate the uses of infrared ers who observed anadromous fishes in imagery from the U.S. TIRO/NOAA these waters. Comments will be ac­ satellite system to track ice movement. cepted through the end of the month. A listing of LPRC-sponsored research To review the catalog or for more is available from the Alaska Oil and information con tact your local ADF &G Gas Association; 505 West Northern office or Stewart Seaberg of the ADF &G Lights, Room 219; Anchorage, AK; Habitat Division in Anchorage; 333 99503 (907) 272-1481. Raspberry Road; Anchorage, AK; 99501; 267-2335. Completed maps can be purchased from Ridgeway's Photo Reproduction Center in Anchorage. , SCALEPRINTS IDENTIFY SALMON TUNA CONFERENCE SET FOR BANG­ KOK, FEBRUARY 25-27 Seattle's Biosonics, Inc. is marketing a procedure for quickly identifying salmon The tuna industry has undergone many scales. Scientists have long known that recent changes. Countries that previ­ salmon scales are laid down in rings, ously supported themselves with exports much like those of a tree. The rings of raw materials have turned to tuna are spaced according to growth and fishing and processing with force. The their shape is influenced by water industry is suddenly more complex, conditions and food sources. Fish that fast-moving, and highly competitive. spend their early lives together in the INFOFISH and the publishers of Fishing same nursery area have similar rings. News International have organized the Until now, these have been laboriously Tuna Trade Conference as an oppor­ compared using microscopes. The scale tunity for people in the tuna industry patterns have long held the potential to get a grip on the international for identifying exactly where a fish was picture. hatched, but the process for determin­ ing its "nationality" was too slow and The emphasis will be on current status involved to be of practical management and future development opportunities. use. Sessions will discuss current state of the resource and its exploitation. Biosonics, Inc. uses a computer to read Marketing discussions will focus on the spacing and shape of the rings. A newcomers to the industry and how personal computer linked to a video they have influenced competition, camera compares the scales with hun­ market access, and prospects for mar­ dreds of patterns stored in memory. In ket opportunities. A wrap-up session approximately 30 minutes, a user can will discuss the future of tuna fish­ match a scale with scales of other fish eries. from a stream or tributary. Because the process is so fast, managers can Registration for the conference is $440. check from day to day to determine how Rooms are $90 per single and $124 for a many fish from a particular breeding double . For more information, tele­ area have been captured. For more phone INFOFISH directly at 291-4466 or information, see the Jan. /Feb . issue of telex INFISH MA 31560. Alaska Sea 11 11 Science 8 6 , p . 6 . Grant has registration material. Volume VI, No. 2 March 7, 1986 Office for Fisheries University of Alaska MAP COORDINATES ALASKA RE- DIRECT MARKETING WORKSHOP SOURCES ISSUES FORUM T.V. PRO- DRAWS OVER 100 PEOPLE GRAM A direct marketing workshop organized The Alaska Marine Advisory Program is by MAP business specialist Craig Wiese coordinating sponsors for a series of drew 102 people to the Anchorage Alaskan resource programs to be broad­ Sheffield Hotel February 4. The dis­ cast on the state's LearnAlaska Net­ cussion was aimed at those wanting to work. Each program brings together sell their product to someone other various experts to debate current than a local processor. Participants resource use issues affecting Alaska's came from Anchorage, Cordova, Sitka, public policy . The first program will Homer, Kodiak and Valdez to attend focus on Japanese interception of salmon the meeting. Speakers from the in high seas fisheries . Sponsoring Alaska Department of Nat ural Re­ organizations are responsible for back­ sources, Gourmet Lobster, Movers ground research and for funding panel Inc., Triad Fisheries, Alaska Com­ t r avel to the Anchorage taping ses­ mercial Fisheries Development Founda­ sions.