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INSIDE:
Don McManman
Shipyard renewal in Petersburg : Page 12
This year's salmon roundup : Page 14
Bellingham – Harbor of the Month : Page 20
Fishing sockeye on the Fraser : Page 31
On the cover: Josh Thomason, Angie Kubalek, Ian Kirouac,
and Tom Munroe harvest salmon from a reefnet built off
Lummi Island, near Bellingham. For another look, see Page 46.
Martin Waidelich photo
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Once, I was
brilliant ...
…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
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
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
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
darkened, if only because of the verbal shrapnel sent aloft from our several
civil wars.
Barack Obama is a “traitor.”
Mitt Romney is “a multinational corporation.”
Charter operators in British Columbia are starving because of halibut regs.
Charter operators in Cook Inlet are starving because of … well, you know.
All simple statements distilled from complex issues, and like all distilled
products, these will leave you befuddled (figuratively).
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
campus newspaper. Whichever, the contagion would be confined.
These days, technology allows narcissists to spew their over-wrought language
every place with broadband. They’re attacking the Azores with no idea of what
awaits in Damascus. This lack of proportion — and outright shallowness — is
reason enough to ignore them.
I know. I’ve been ignored a lot in my life.
Like I said, I was brilliant. But I got over it.
A former grave digger, Don McManman now edits Pacific Fishing.
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Pebble Mine project for sale: A mining
company with a 50 percent interest in a
huge copper and gold deposit in Alaska,
where hundreds of millions of dollars have
been spent on exploration, is trying to find
a buyer for the contentious project near
the world’s best remaining wild sockeye
salmon streams.
Chum run strong on Yukon: The fall
chum run on the Yukon River has surpassed
expectations with a return in excess
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B.C. OKs farm mortality report:
The B.C. government has retracted an
application to the Cohen Commission to
keep its audits of dead fish at salmon farms
out of the public eye.
Sockeye radioactive? Sockeye salmon
returning to Canada this year will be tested
by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
for radiation contamination that might be
picked up in the North Pacific from Japan’s
Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Squid boat sinks: The Coast Guard
responded to a report of a 61-foot fishing
vessel that sank in the vicinity of Eagle Rock
near Catalina Island.
Kake plant challenging: A reopened fish
plant is bringing some badly needed jobs to
Kake, but Sealaska Corp. already is finding
running the old plant to be a challenge.
Halibut turmoil roils Homer: A
measure that could launch a mortar at the
charter sport fishing industry in Homer is a
problem for the whole town to deal with,
since every bait shop, kayak rental, and
pottery shop is tied to it.
Top bureaucrats silenced scientist:
The top bureaucratic arm of the federal
government decided a fisheries scientist
who published a paper on a virus that
could explain the decline of Fraser River
sockeye would not be allowed to speak to
the media, even though her department
had no objection, an inquiry has heard.
Cook Inlet – Tough decisions: Faced
with a sockeye return that ranked among
the top five all time and what may end
up as the lowest return of Kenai River
king salmon ever, ADFG was under even
more scrutiny than usual in the most hotly
contested fishery in Alaska.
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Silly season – Otter awareness:
The Morro Bay City Council can’t seem to
shake the controversy over its refusal to
acknowledge “Sea Otter Awareness Week.”
Foodie craze: Nordic cuisine: In the last
five years, a new culinary movement has
washed through the world’s top kitchens,
flowing not from Spain, France, or the
B.C. sports halibut season closed: Mediterranean, but from Copenhagen,
The federal Department of Fisheries and Stockholm, and points as far north
Oceans announced a closure for the 2011 as Lapland.
recreational halibut season on Sept. 5,
Judge dismisses trawl challenge:
as the fishery has achieved its allowable
A U.S. District Court judge dismissed
catch limit.
the lawsuit brought by the Pacific Coast
Fraser sockeye – No smoking gun: Federation of Fishermen’s Associations to
There is no single disease-causing organism halt the West Coast groundfish trawl catchthat scientists can pinpoint to explain the share program.
decline of the Fraser River sockeye in 2009.
Fear in Emmonak: The Alaska Dispatch
Crescent City Harbor in the red: reported that the Alaska Fish and Game
The Crescent City Harbor is going to have
announced it was closing its Emmonak
significant cash flow difficulties this fiscal
office. The reason given was not economic,
year due to boat basin repair projects.
it was … fear.
S almon, steelhead in Upper
Fraser sockeye take northern route:
Willamette: The top priority for saving
The diversion rate of Fraser sockeye through
Upper Willamette Basin salmon and
Johnstone Strait is currently estimated to be
steelhead from extinction is getting more
approximately 75 percent. – Pacific Salmon
fish over the dams that control floods in
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the region.
Oregon crab payday: Only one other time
Editorial – Salmon farms not the
in history has the commercial crab fishery
problem: “The commission’s focus will
brought in more money over a season.
turn to salmon farming. I dare speculate
the research will officially find no direct And finally, salmon-flavored vodka:
link between this lucrative business model To say that some commercial brands have
and the decline of wild fish. … We’ve had gone the way of the extreme — with
our share of misuse of government funds flavors like scorpion and smoked salmon —
on this side of the border. Nevertheless, I would be a bit of an understatement.
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of Canada, whose taxes have paid for this
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YOUR BUSINESS
Staying connected
Competition creates
cheaper, better satellite
communications
Your business will become
more reliant on satellites in
the next five years.
Sounds outlandish,
perhaps, but think just how
much satellite communications have already affected
the way you fish — and the
way you sell your fish.
Companies are boosting new arrays of satellites into the heavens.
Added capacity translates
into more flexible options
for the user. No one is
guaranteeing prices going
forward, but competition
has resulted in significant
cost reductions in the
past year or two.
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satellite communications to forecast how
their products will change commercial
fishing in the North Pacific. (This also
allowed them to make a sales pitch, or
two.) Here are their contributions:
Inmarsat
The last several years have seen
significant advancements in satellite
communications options for commercial
fishermen in the North Pacific as well as
around the world.
As demand for connectivity has
increased among vessel owners, captains,
and crew, satellite communications equipment has decreased
in size, speeds have improved, and costs have come
down significantly.
Today, Inmarsat serves the commercial fishing market
primarily through FleetBroadband, its flagship L-band
maritime service, offering reliable voice and data communications and safety services under all weather conditions to
fishermen around the world.
And while FleetBroadband will continue to serve
the needs of mariners far and wide well into the 21st
century, Inmarsat is preparing for the introduction of its next
generation of services, called Global Xpress, designed
to accommodate the continued migration towards data
connectivity at sea. The launch of Global Xpress, in 2014,
will be among the most compelling developments in
satellite communication in the next five years.
Global Xpress services will be powered by a new
constellation of satellites to be launched and operated
within a new set of frequencies — the Ka-band. This will be
Inmarsat’s first foray into Ka, a band that allows for
significantly increased data speeds and capacity.
Global Xpress will enable commercial fishing fleets to have
access to broadband data speeds of up to 50 megabytes per
second. The service will be an ideal option for any type of
fishing vessel carrying larger crews and/or requiring higher
bandwidth for fishing operations — from factory trawlers to
longliners, crabbers, and any vessel with operational needs.
Global Xpress will offer significant value for crew calling and connectivity, onboard entertainment, management
of financials and suppliers, and general factory operations
that require constant monitoring. With high-speed access to
real-time weather information, electronic charts, and statistics detailing likely fish locations, Global Xpress also will
present a cost-savings opportunity for commercial fishing
fleets by increasing efficiency and enabling them to catch more
and spend less.
While Inmarsat anticipates Global Xpress will be the big
news story of the next five years, the company will continue
to strongly support its existing services, particularly given
L-band’s reputation for performance in bad weather and
as an ideal complement to Global Xpress. For instance,
Inmarsat’s recently launched FleetPhone service will
provide low-cost global voice-calling using a mounted unit
and the same internal components that power the very
successful IsatPhone Pro.
With FleetPhone, captains can stay in contact with ship
owners and other captains, and crews can make voice
calls with a corded handset that won’t disappear. For
authorities, new data telemetry services on FleetBroadband will
provide another avenue for collecting any type of data from
an appropriately equipped fishing vessel, including positions,
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imagery, and engine status.
Additionally, Inmarsat’s new 505 Emergency Calling is another innovation that
ensures that any mariner using either FleetBroadband or FleetPhone can have
immediate access to rescue authorities in the event of an emergency at sea, simply by
dialing “505,” which resembles SOS.
KVH
Many fishing operations, particularly those that rely on a single vessel, are
becoming more dependent on Internet connections for sharing information with shorebased offices, complying with industry regulations, and even helping crew members
stay in touch with family and friends at home.
Whether for e-mail, catch reporting, safety and emergency communications, or other
functions, an increasing number of mariners need to be online — affordably — in order
to conduct business and stay in touch anywhere and on any size vessel.
Historically, the satellite communications solutions available have been
unable to meet this need for a large number of mariners. Inmarsat
services, like FleetBroadband, are accessible around the globe via compact
antennas and are proven to be reliable, but the service is slow (maxing out at 432 Kbps) and extremely expensive.
Traditional maritime VSAT technology was originally adapted
from terrestrial services. While it offered more affordable airtime,
the service was often unreliable and required expensive, massive
antennas.
New innovations in satellite communications, like the TracPhone
V3 and mini-VSAT Broadband service from KVH Industries Inc.,
blend the compact hardware and reliable global coverage of
Inmarsat and the affordable airtime rates of VSAT to provide
all the features that fishing fleets and other mariners need to
advance their businesses without affecting the bottom line.
The TracPhone V3 offers global coverage and outstanding reliability in a compact
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package, and mini-VSAT Broadband airtime is one-tenth the cost of competing
Inmarsat FleetBroadband solutions.
Under published rates, mini-VSAT
Broadband subscribers pay just 49 cents
per minute for voice services to both
landlines and mobile numbers and 99 cents
per megabyte when using data for e-mail,
Internet access, VPN, etc.
However, an Inmarsat FleetBroadband
subscriber pays about 79 cents (or $1.99
when calling a cell phone) and $10 to $13,
respectively, for those same minutes and
megabytes. The difference adds up quickly when you consider how many websites
you might visit during a single break at
work. With that kind of airtime savings,
true broadband connections (and all the
convenience and added safety that come
along with them) become a real possibility
for fishing vessels and commercial ships.
This technology also offers benefits
for vessel managers and captains that
make conducting business onboard more
efficient than ever. For example, a reliable,
affordable mini-VSAT Broadband connection onboard allows for easy electronic
filing of regulatory paperwork.
Another example: Broadband onboard
makes it easy to find and send photos and
descriptions of hard-to-find parts or access
and share weather reports.
Key for fishing operations is the ability
to easily access fisheries management
systems for real-time catch reporting.
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audience of mariners.
Value-added options
like pico cell technology
for cellular use onboard,
dedicated systems for crew
like KVH’s Crew Calling Gateway, and built-in
functionality for electronic
map updates, route
planning, and a myriad
of other helpful services
will continue to come to
market during this time.
Stratos
An Iridium satellite is launched.
KVH’s Crew Calling Gateway expands
on the system’s capabilities, adding a
sophisticated and convenient way to offer
crew access to phone and Internet services
via pre-paid cards.
Looking forward, satellite communication trends will continue to evolve as mariners demand greater bandwidth, worldwide
coverage, and smaller antennas. Over the
next five years, we expect to see growing
innovation in the maritime satellite communication field, particularly with VSAT
services, which will bring additional value,
convenience, and savings to a growing
Many of the region’s
most successful fishermen
have discovered how Inmarsat’s low-cost
FleetBroadband 150 service improves productivity via reliable, high-performance
broadband connectivity.
They understand how FleetBroadband
can help them run their vessels like a
business and stay better connected with
their families via high-speed Internet, e-mail,
texting, and voice communications.
Fishermen realize that quick, online
access to critical weather data, port information, and suppliers helps ensure accurate
decision-making.
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to install and ideally suited for vessels
requiring Internet access and e-mail. It combines a high-quality telephone connection,
texting, and simultaneous Internet and data
service up to 150 Kbps.
For those evaluating FleetBroadband, the
challenge is to identify a satellite communications provider that offers valuable new
service packages and creative pricing plans,
specifically for smaller fishing vessels.
Responding to industry demand, Stratos
recently became the only FleetBroadband
provider to offer Dispatch service over
FleetBroadband. Stratos Dispatch provides
a secure voice, chat, and e-mail connection
between vessels, from ship to shore, and
from shore to ship, without concern for
coverage area — all for a fixed monthly fee
that includes voice and data service. This
PC-based Dispatch solution can be used
with any Internet connection, including from
the user’s vessel, home, office, or cannery.
Fishermen examining FleetBroadband
also will find that new, light-usage FleetBroadband pricing plans from Stratos are
a good fit for commercial vessels that have
fewer data communications requirements.
These new plans are ideal for vessel owners
who seek ultimate performance and reliability for e-logs, Internet connectivity, and satellite voice calls. The new plans are available
for short durations of as little as one month,
making them well-suited for seasonal users.
To meet the evolving requirements of
commercial fishing vessels, top service
providers are continually investing in
new applications that help users derive
maximum benefit from their satellite
communication systems.
One recent example is AmosConnect
8, the latest generation of the AmosConnect solution from Stratos. AmosConnect 8
has evolved into a flexible, hassle-free communications platform for a wide range of
services, including e-mail, forms, instant
messaging, and electronic notification of
arrival and departures.
One well-known fisherman utilizing the
full range of Stratos services is Seattle’s
own Capt. Sig Hansen, a star of the
Deadliest Catch TV series. Last year, Capt. Sig
successfully integrated FleetBroadband with
AmosConnect Crew from Stratos to manage all e-mail, fax, and SMS (short message
system) communications onboard the vessel
Northwestern. The new system lets Sig and
his crew manage the family business, upload
pictures, make Skype calls, and upload
video to the vessel’s website.
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The commercial fishing industry has
routinely faced challenges when it comes
to safety communications at sea and
acquiring accurate reporting data for fisheries. To address these
challenges, Iridium and its partners have developed a suite of costeffective and reliable maritime voice and data solutions.
Iridium is the only maritime satellite communication system
providing coverage across the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and
other key Pacific fisheries. Iridium products and applications for
commercial fishing vessels offer a unique value proposition with
truly global coverage, reliable satellite voice and data connections,
and low-cost equipment and usage charges.
Maintaining consistent communication with the rest of the world
while at sea is critical. The Iridium OpenPort high-speed satellite
communications system, with three independent phones lines
for crew calling and data speeds of up to 128 Kbps, has helped
commercial fishing crews achieve significant savings in communication costs and greater efficiencies in vessel management
operations, monitoring, and control. A number of fishing fleets
around the world rely on the Iridium OpenPort system for crew
private e-mails and controlled web browsing, keeping the crew
connected with their families ashore. In addition, prepaid Iridium
GoChat calling cards allow crew members to keep in touch with
affordable calling from anywhere on the planet.
In the event of an emergency, the need for reliable communications becomes even more important. Recently, DeLorme, an
Iridium partner, debuted its inReach global, two-way satellite personal
communicator. The inReach has the capabilities to send preloaded text messages, activate remote tracking, and transmit SOS
messages in the event of emergencies. The inReach can also be paired
with an Android smartphone to allow two-way text messaging to
e-mail addresses and cell phones, and posting messages to Facebook
and Twitter.
In the coming months, a number of Iridium partners plan to
launch their own Iridium-based personal communicator devices.
Another important component within the commercial
fishing industry involves the accurate collection and reporting of
fishing data.
Iridium partner Faria WatchDog’s Vessel Monitoring System
(VMS) is type approved by NOAA for all U.S. fishery regions, the
Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency for its 16 member countries,
the National Fishery Authority Papua New Guinea, the Western
Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, and the Norwegian
Directorate of Fisheries.
The Faria WatchDog 750 VMS is a rugged, compact, lowpower draw, weather resistant, mobile transmitting unit designed
to provide near real-time position reporting. It also provides costeffective text messaging, e-mails and activity code declaration,
and catch and notification forms reporting. It uses the short burst
data services on the Iridium satellite network as the primary mode
to send position reports. It uses the general packet radio service
(GPRS) data services on the AT&T GSM network as the primary
channel and defaults to the Iridium satellite network if GPRS is
not available.
Confronted with similar challenges, several coastal nations have
already adopted strict regulations regarding commercial fishing
reporting requirements. Currently in the U.S., electronic logbook
(e-logbook) reporting is required for trawl catcher/processors in
specific fishing regions.
Even as processes evolve and technology plays a larger role
in commercial fishing operations in the Pacific region, Iridium
products enable a cost-efficient way to provide real-time reporting
data for fishing VMS and e-logbook applications with the world’s
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YOUR BUSINESS
Shipyards
Petersburg group works together
to resurrect marine ways
Fred Paulsen, left, and Mike Luhr celebrate the reopening of the marine railway in Petersburg.
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by Jessie Frazier
F
or a while, it looked as if Petersburg would be without a shipyard.
Then, the town solved the problem in a very Petersburg-like way: By
working together.
The community of about 2,800 people
is a quintessential fishing town. There
are between 800 and 900 fishing boats
affiliated with the community. Some 9
percent of all Alaska catch shares call
Petersburg home.
So, when it became clear the
Petersburg Shipwrights yard and marine
railway was dying, it became a threat to
the town’s main industry. If you can’t
provide haul-outs, boats will find other
ports. The service industries will follow
the boats. A town will die.
“Then there’s the emergency factor,”
said Dave Ohmer, a local seafood plant
manager. “Say a boat gets a hole knocked
in it, or your keel cooler starts to leak. You
got to get the hull out of the water fast.”
In short, a fishing port — to be serious
— must have a marine railway or a big
Travelift.
“When Piston & Rudder stepped up,
it was a real blessing to the community,”
Ohmer said.
Piston & Rudder, a machine shop and
diesel service, goes back 110 years in
Petersburg, but our story begins in 1980.
At that time, then-owner Dave Ellis sold
the business to Mike Luhr.
Ellis then built a marine railway, but
“it was more of an investment,” said Fred
Paulsen. Ellis didn’t run the railway. He
turned it over to Paulsen, who ran it and
then bought it in 1984,
Everything was fine until 2002, when
Paulsen sold out. The railway and
shipyard were not successful under the
new owner.
So, when the doors closed last October,
many folks in Petersburg figured it would
be forever.
In the past, when the Norwegian town
discovered a civic need, they worked
together to meet it. Most notably, in 1965, a
group of fishermen and other businessmen
bought out the ailing local PAF cannery to
start what has become Icicle Seafoods.
But in 2010, “A bunch of guys started
telling me to buy the shipyard,” said Mike
Luhr, Piston & Rudder owner.
“One particular fellow kept bothering
me, a good customer, a lifelong friend
of mine. So we formed a committee and
started working on how
we could accomplish this
thing,” Luhr said.
Luhr’s reputation added
to the plan’s appeal, said
Ohmer, the fish plant
manager. “When people
heard there was an opportunity for the community,
and that Mike Luhr was
able to step forward, they
made it happen,” Ohmer
said.
In all, there are 25 investors — “27, counting my
wife, Barb, and myself. All
but three of them are owner-operators in the fishing
industry,” Luhr said.
The sale was official on
July 1, although the new
o w n e r s w e re w o r k i n g
weeks before with refurb i s h m e n t , re m o d e l i n g ,
restocking, rebuilding, and
trash removal. Layouts have
been changed to improve
safety and efficiency. More
dock frontage will be
added as well.
Some things couldn’t be
bought or improvised —
like skill in hauling boats
safely. For that, they’d
bring in Paulsen, who had
hauled boats on the ways
until 2002.
“Placing the vessel in
the cradle and distribution
of the weight — I was able
to share my experience
with the new owners and
crew as they got the yard
back together again,”
Paulsen said.
After two months, the
new crew has gained skill
and confidence. “They
don’t call me for every
haul. They’re doing fine
without me. I’m not doing
much more than cheerleading now.” Z
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YOUR BUSINESS
Salmon
Good
salmon
year
for some,
not so for
others
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.
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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 —
203.5 million fish, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and
Game forecast.
As usual, the state did produce a prodigious catch. But, at press
time, it appeared the harvest would fall well short of projection. On
Aug. 26, with fleets standing down for the season, the all-species
catch stood at about 161 million fish.
So what happened?
Pink salmon returns were erratic.
Pinks are the smallest and most abundant of the five species
of commercially harvested salmon in Alaska, and it takes big
runs to push the state’s overall salmon harvest beyond the 200
million mark.
The department forecast a pink catch of 134.5 million fish, but
the total stood at just over 105 million near season’s end. Pink
returns to Prince William Sound as well as Kodiak were weaker
than expected.
As for sockeye, Alaska’s main money salmon, the statewide tally
stood at just under 40 million fish, on a forecast of about 45 million.
The bright side for both pinks and sockeye: strong ex-vessel
prices.
Here’s a look at some key fishing regions around the state:
Southeast Alaska: While the total catch of pink salmon was
an impressive 54 million fish, it was a weird season, as the fishing was hot in the north and cold as ice in the south. By Aug. 26,
purse seiners chasing not only pinks but chums and other species had achieved a $100 million harvest thanks to good returns,
above-average pink weights, and strong prices of around 41 cents
a pound for pinks. A total of 268 boats made landings, a few more
than average.
Copper River: Gillnetters in the Copper River District notched
an excellent comeback year with about 2 million sockeye and 18,400
Chinook. That compares to 635,968 sockeye and 9,654 Chinook
in 2010.
Prince William Sound: The industry in 2010 bagged a record 71.2
million pink salmon. Unfortunately, the pinks didn’t cooperate as
well this year, with weaker than expected returns to Prince William
Sound Aquaculture Corp. hatcheries. Catches of wild-stock pinks,
however, were much stronger than forecast.
Upper Cook Inlet: The harvest of 5.1 million sockeye ranks as the
fifth-largest ever.
Bristol Bay: The catch of 22.2 million sockeye was a disappointment. But the prevailing base price of $1 a pound, a nickel better
than in 2010, was nice, especially considering the tsunami-related
market uncertainty in Japan. – Wesley Loy
continued on page 16
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Salmon continued from page 15
British Columbia
As in the United States, both north and south, British Columbia
fishermen had spotty success.
Northern B.C.: Even though an expected run of 1.7 million
sockeye into the Skeena River turned into 2.4 million fish with some
decent gillnet catches, the rest of B.C.’s North Coast fisheries turned
out to be disappointing in 2011.
The depressing news started in the northern troll fishery off
Haida Gwaii — the Queen Charlotte Islands — that opened May 9.
Within two weeks, DNA sampling indicated that the catch percentage of weak stock West Coast Vancouver Island Chinook exceeded
allowable limits. The fleet was shut down before it could reach
its allocation.
The commercial charter fleet was not restricted, even though the
close-to-shore charter boats have a greater impact on West Coast
Island Chinook than the offshore commercial trollers. The recreational fleet has a federally mandated allocation priority.
Trollers had a good kick at coho when the bulk of Area 1
opened, though.
The Area 3 net fishery in the approaches to the Nass River near
the Alaska border also was disappointing. Some years there is a
substantial seine fishery for pinks and a good gillnet sockeye fishery
in the area.
This year the Area 3 seiners got a start on sockeye but were quickly closed down for three weeks for conservation concern about a
weak co-migrating stock in the Kwinageese River. When the fishery
reopened, the sockeye had passed thorough. Pinks failed to appear
in any substantial numbers, as well.
The good news out of the Nass is that a blockage in the
Kwinageese River was located and, after remedial work there, the
video count at an escapement counting weir jumped from 10 fish
to 7,412.
The Skeena River had a substantial gillnet fishery targeting
enhanced Babine and Fulton stocks. Peak fishing effort was on July
18, with 252 gillnetters working.
Gillnetters had to go to a short net/short set regime Aug. 1 over
concerns about co-migrating wild Babine sockeye.
Pink returns overall were poor in Areas 3, 4, and 6, making for a
disappointing season for seiners.
Central Coast: A modest 19,000 chums were taken in the Bella
Coola area, as well as 7,000 Chinooks earlier in the season.
A surprise opening in long-closed Smith Inlet in the middle of July
lasted over a week and took 43,000 sockeye.
Southern B.C.: In Barkley Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver
Island, gillnetters caught 219,800 sockeye, and seiners took 192,890
sockeye. The run size there came in much stronger than expected.
Fraser River sockeye openings started with a three-hour gillnet opening in the river Aug. 11. A second opening, for six hours,
occurred Aug. 16. There was a two-hour fishery Aug. 23, and a sixhour opening Aug. 30.
Gillnetters in Johnstone Strait started fishing on Aug. 7 and 8 and
again on Aug. 11 and 12.
Seiners got a crack at sockeye, too, on Aug. 17 and 18 in upper
Johnstone Strait.
Gulf trollers had fishing openings, and seiners even got a crack at
sockeye in the lower Gulf of Georgia in ITQ fisheries Aug. 27-30.
Sockeye prices hovered in the $2 per pound range for most of
the season.
While the overall 2011 Fraser River sockeye run is expected to see
a total of about 4 million sockeye, there were 17.5 million pink salmon expected. – Michel Drouin
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For the West Coast, your success depended
on where you were and when you fished.
California: With a total of just eight days
of fishing in 2010, California trollers were
pleased with more fishing opportunities
this year.
The season started out slowly in May,
thanks to challenging weather, said
California Salmon Council CEO David
Goldenberg. Even though hard numbers from the entire season weren’t available by press time, he could draw a few
conclusions.
“Just a few fishermen made it out [in May
and June], and for those that did get out,
the catch was few and far between,”
Goldenberg said.
After several closures and shutdowns in
June, things got much better in July.
Later in the summer, there was excellent
fishing near Fort Bragg and Shelter Cove,
and Eureka met its quota early in August
and shut down.
“We had two to three weeks of good fishing in July and August, and it was especially
strong in Fort Bragg,” he said.
The ex-vessel price was between $4 and $5
per pound, translating into expensive fillets
for the consumer, he said.
Fortunately, that didn’t seem to slow customers from cooking salmon at home, appreciating that it was wild and locally caught.
“We still were able to sell everything we
got,” he said.
Goldenberg is hoping there are signs
that next year’s fishing might continue the
upward trend. An ongoing genetic stock
identification study indicated many undersized fish this year.
“Everyone’s really hopeful that will translate 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 Commission Chairman Darus Peake, who fishes
from Garibaldi.
Peake reported prices in the lower $5
range, with possibly a bit more on Oregon’s
South Coast.
Oregon’s state waters were slated to open
again in September and October, and many
fishermen were crossing their fingers for a
late bloomer, he said.
Columbia River: In midsummer, Oregon
and Washington gillnetters spent evenings
catching summer Chinook in the Columbia
River. The run had been predicted to be over
91,000 strong, the best in several decades, but
was downgraded to 80,000 in mid-July. By
the end of July, gillnetters had caught more
than 5,000 fish, getting very close to their
full allocation. Prices were solid and the fish
were of high quality.
By the end of the fourth week of August,
almost 10,000 fall Chinook had been caught.
About 766,000 Columbia River fall Chinook were expected to return this year,
which could be the fifth largest run since
1948. Last year, 657,100 returned.
Of the forecast, roughly 400,000 were
expected to be upriver brights — which
could be the second largest run since 1964.
About 250,000 tule Chinook were expected
to come home to the Lower Columbia River,
along with more than 360,000 coho.
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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
one in Unalaska.
First of all, the sun’s been out.
Secondly, draggers are actually getting to enjoy the balmy Pacific weather.
They’ve been hiking, and barbecuing,
and playing horseshoes at the bar, and
— well — doing nearly everything but
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harvest pollock.
After a smooth season and reasonable
start to this year’s B season, fishing has
slowed. Catcher boats have been back at
the docks for much of August, waiting
for things to improve. By the end of that
month, only 60 percent of the 740,000
metric ton B season allocation had been
harvested. Unless things turn around
rapidly, it’s going to be difficult to fish
the full quota by November.
That has some fishermen nervous.
When we last heard from Scott Bingen
of the Starlite during A season, he was
cautious but optimistic that National
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 conservative 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
at 1.6. million metric tons. It will be
interesting to see if that number gets
revised at all this winter, and what the
North Pacific Fishery Management
Council does with it.
Meanwhile, the other groundfish
sectors continue to be sluggish as well.
Those going after yellowfin sole, rockfish sole, mackerel, and Pacific Ocean
perch also saw their catches shrink
this August.
High allocation: Why it hurts
The position of Bering Sea fishermen concerning high allocation numbers for pollock is more nuanced than it
might seem.
For example, a lower allocation won’t
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increase the number of pollock
available, right?
But a low allocation does affect crews.
Here’s how.
In the short-term, the quota affects
price. So, instead of getting 15 cents
a pound dockside, they’re getting
12 cents.
More importantly, because the quota
is so high, crews are expected to keep
on grinding trips, even if they’re not
catching anything. That means burning up a ton of fuel and actually risking
income. A lot of boats have taken trips
that have caused them to lose a serious
amount of money because their owners
(almost all of whom are not in Alaska
at present) are telling them to go out
anyway, and guys have gone out for
20 days with their tanks only half full
of fish — meaning that they just take a
hit of tens of thousands of dollars from
their previously gained revenue. The
last thing any of these guys want to do
is go backwards.
And most importantly, there are the
long-term fears that we’re hitting young
fish that would be more viable down
the road. Because the quota is so high,
and because there is pressure to fish on
from the vessel owners and the processing plants, boats are going after really
small fish, which are essentially being
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Sea lice from farms kill wild salmon
A new study on the impacts of lice on wild salmon published
by an independent team of academic researchers in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirmed what
many previous and unbiased studies have also shown, namely, that lice on farmed salmon can multiply and spread to wild
salmon and decrease their survival.
What’s unique about this new sea lice study is that it
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 unavailable 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.”
The recent study, which was supported by Watershed
Watch and the SOS Marine Conservation Foundation, directly
supports the urgent need to move fish farms away from the
migratory paths of vulnerable wild juvenile salmon, to improve
monitoring of salmon farms for impacts of sea lice on wild
salmon, and to transition the open net-cage salmon industry to closed
containment. – Watershed Watch Salmon Society Z
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YOUR BUSINESS
Harbor of the month
Bellingham
lowers
moorage
rates to
capture
more fishing
boats
by Jessie Frazier
Fisherman Jason Nyblod and family of Marysville prepare in Squalicum
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
was home to hundreds of commercial fishing boats.
Not that the glory days will reappear, but there’s still business
to be had in the commercial fishing fleet, according to Squalicum
Harbormaster Mike Endsley.
“We went through a process with the commercial fishermen
here, and found we boost our local marine economy by being more
inviting,” Endsley said.
To begin, the port whacked its moorage rates earlier this year.
Now, commercial moorage rates are roughly a dollar less a foot
than rates for pleasure boats. For commercial vessels 79 feet or
under, the price is $5.90 a foot, plus leasehold tax. For commercial
boats 80 feet or over, the price is $6.92 a foot, plus leasehold tax.
The rates are for all active commercial fishing boats,
even tenders.
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
Commercial Fishermen’s Association of
Bellingham is more than 75 miles closer to Alaska and the Bering Sea than points in Southern Puget Sound.
Whatcom County.
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Fishermen work aboard the St. Zita in the Port of Bellingham’s
Squalicum Harbor.
vessels under 80 feet than those in Seattle. However, fishermen in Bellingham need to pay only for months actually used in moorage, not when the boat may be fishing
in Alaska.
The Port of Bellingham owns Blaine Harbor, near the Canadian
border, and the Squalicum Harbor complex in Bellingham.
The port used to have a notable fleet of Alaska seiners that
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,
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:
• Available moorage for all sizes of fishing vessels, just minutes
from Interstate 5
• Comprehensive marine services
• A large shipyard and several boatyards
• A cold storage facility and landside fish-processing operations
• Showers, restrooms, and laundry
• Wi-Fi
• Airport with direct flights bypassing SeaTac
• Cabs, city bus, Greyhound, Amtrak, and Alaska state ferry
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A classic Alaska purse seiner returns to Squalicum Harbor from
Bellingham Bay.
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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 on
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ground fishery after they had mopped up the fish
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in the traditional grounds. The catch-share solution
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gives the fishery to these same big draggers and cuts
everyone else out.
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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 on
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the rocks.
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k
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
David Helliwell and his dog Bo Peep in a photo by Sharon Falk-Carlsen.
came back, the pinnacle no longer existed.
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 mancommunities. 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.
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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
Seafoods, and Westward Seafoods collectively own 20 percent
vately owned public resource, it’s not hard to fill in the blank.
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.)
Power: Money and power acquire the necessary votes. The
up to 84 percent of fishing costs, and most quota is leased, not
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
are destroyed from lack of opportunity and product. With a few
www.elsevier.com/locate/marpol.)
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.
However, our pals on Wall Street, who ushered us into the
pitch to ethical investors on an “Innovative Funding for Sustainable
Fisheries and Oceans” panel at the 2009 Milken Institute Global current economic debacle, will make 400 percent profits. What
could be wrong with that? What really puts the lie to saving the
Conference in Los Angeles.
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.
In NOAA’s latest report, all but four Pacific groundfish stocks
shares. The prediction of upward consolidation of the fleet is not a
are above the sustainable level. The four stocks still below the level
prediction; it is already a fact in Canada.
In the “crab rationalization” catch-share program in the at which they can be fished are well on their way to full recovery.
All this without catch shares, MPAs, or any other tinkering
Bering Sea, the consolidation that occurred in just one year’s
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 Public Resources, September 2006, by Food &
Water Watch, www.foodandwaterwatch.org.)
Sustainability for some: Catch shares
definitely build economic sustainability for the fishermen who are gifted the
public resource, and it has the support of
those beneficiaries. No big surprise here.
The trouble with a tool like catch shares
is, it will always gravitate towards money
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EDF, who had influence with then-Gov.
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
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Poetry
On Herring!
On Dolphin!
On Gumboot!
On Tuna!
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 puzzles 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
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appropriate scene for reindeer, Swagel insisted on another
asking for a book.
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:
Now, Coho!
illustrator, seeking a “cartoon/artist with a wry (or pumperNow, Humpy!
nickel) sense of humor.”
Now, Lingcod
Enter Colin Herforth. He’s an artist and a former deckNow, Orca!
hand, bringing a perfect mixture of a graphic eye and practical
On Herring!
experience to the project. The two men met weekly, as Herforth
On Dolphin!
worked through the book, preparing 18 watercolors.
On Gumboot!
Although the words had been written for years, the artOn Tuna!
making inspired many questions that had not yet been answered.
To the top of the swell, to the top of the squall,
For example, what’s the registration on the skiff? Turns out
Now dash away, dash away, dash
it’s AK 1225 Regalos — the 25th of
away, all!
December and a Spanish word
The book was first published in
for gifts.
2009 and has been for sale for two
Illustrations gave Herforth and
Christmas seasons.
Swagel an opportunity to add
You can find bookstores that
subtle elements to the characters.
stock it (even in Gloucester, Mass.),
Take St. Nick.
or you can order it online at www.
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rotundity. Wouldn’t you expect a
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The price is $15.95. But it may
posterior contours edged northbe a good investment. A copy of
ward and the beltline migrated
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a butt crack,” Swagel said.
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And although Alaska is an To the right is Clement Clarke Moore.
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Remembrances
Fishing the Columbia in the Celilo Falls area.
Remembering when
the Columbia was king
of salmon runs
When something great fades away, myth usually takes the place of
fact. Take the storied runs of Columbia River salmon.
It’s been a century since the runs started to fade. It’s been nearly
three-quarters of a century since the Grand Coulee dam cut the river in half, and salmon never again touched the upper 600 miles of
its run.
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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
river’s midsection.
he spring Chinook salmon run appeared at the Cascade
Rapids around the last week of March. The fish in this first run
weighed from 8 to 20 pounds. About the first week of April began
the spring snow melt-off. The spring Chinook were harvested until
about the last week of May; and when that run was over, there was
approximately a three- or four-week delay before the bluebacks
(sockeye) began their ascent.
The spring snow melt-off began receding about the last of May.
During this slack time, the cherries were ready to be harvested,
and that was when most of the Wasco fishermen and their families
migrated to the orchards. There were one or two weeks of waiting
after the cherry harvest to prepare for the blueback run.
My Uncle Alvin stated that the June hog Chinook came about a
week or two later. Fishermen had only about three weeks to harvest
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 stabilization 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 daylight hours would harvest only shad and
immature sturgeon, both of which were
unmarketable. The early spring Chinook
were not caught after darkness set in. Steelhead 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
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ALASKA NOTEBOOK
Dungeness down, Fuglvog tale, summer king crab, rockfish
Dungies down: The summer Dungeness crab fishery wrapped
up Aug. 15 in Southeast Alaska with an estimated harvest of
just over 2 million pounds. The crab paid an average $2.19 per
pound, about 50 cents better than in 2010, for a fishery value of
$4.3 million.
Sounds like a decent season, right?
Well, considerable worry hangs over this fishery, long an important component of Southeast’s seafood industry.
The harvest has two segments, with the smaller fall fishery opening Oct. 1. All told, the Department of Fish and Game projects a full
season harvest of 2.7 million pounds, which would mark the fifth
consecutive season of declining catches. The catch was double that
five seasons ago.
One concern is the impact predatory sea otters might be having
on Dungeness in areas such as the waters near Kake, once highly
productive for crabbers.
“It’s a huge concern around here,” said Joe Stratman, a Fish and
Game biologist in Petersburg. He’s
seen large rafts of sea otters while
conducting aerial surveys in the
Kake area.
But Stratman isn’t ready to
conclude that the otters are entirely
to blame for reducing Dungeness
harvests region-wide, or that a
harvest under 3 million pounds
is necessarily alarming. Catches
sagged below that level a number
of times in the 1980s and ’90s.
One important factor is reduced
harvest effort, with 142 permit
holders making landings this
summer versus 163 in 2010. Some
Dungeness fishermen have
switched to salmon, which are paying handsomely these days.
ZZZZ
Fuglvog’s fall: The fortunes of a respected figure in Alaska’s fishing industry turned dramatically on Aug. 11 when Arne Fuglvog,
an aide to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), pleaded guilty to a federal
fisheries violation. The case cost Fuglvog his job and left him facing
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
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 misreported where he caught fish.
Fuglvog pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Lacey
Act stemming from sablefish catches in 2005. His individual
fishing quota permit allowed him to catch about 30,000 pounds
of sablefish in the Western Yakutat area, but Fuglvog actually caught 63,000 pounds there. He “covered up his illegal fish-
by Wesley Loy
ing” by falsely reporting that more than
30,000 pounds came from the Central
Gulf area.
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News from Nome: It was a big year for big
crab from Norton Sound. The summer red king crab fishery set a
record for ex-vessel value, with the 401,000-pound harvest paying just over $2 million, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game
reported. Crabbers received $5.04 to $5.35 per pound. Although the
record harvest for Norton Sound is almost 3 million pounds, that
was back in 1979 when the price was only 75 cents. This season, 24
permit holders made deliveries over a short 33-day season.
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Rockfish catch shares: Federal officials are working to
implement a permanent catch-share program for the Kodiakbased Central Gulf of Alaska rockfish trawl fishery. The National
Marine Fisheries Service in August rolled out proposed regulations
for what’s known as Amendment
88 to the Gulf groundfish fishery
management plan.
The program would replace the
pilot catch-share program that
started in 2007 and is due to expire
Postcard: Deckhand
at the end of this year.
Travis Bangs lounges
The new program is similar to
on a deckload of pinks
the pilot, awarding catch shares
aboard the F/V Pacific
to eligible trawlers who can then
Nomad in Southeast
this past summer.
form fishing cooperatives. One
Ron Johnson is
big difference, however, is that
the skipper.
the five processors holding exclusive rights to the fish under the
pilot program would lose those
privileges under the proposed
replacement plan.
Amendment 88, if the commerce secretary approves it, will
allocate shares of northern rockfish, pelagic shelf rockfish, and
Pacific ocean perch, plus bycatch allowances for species such as
cod. Fifty-eight vessels would be eligible for the rockfish program.
Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy is a longtime fisheries reporter in
Anchorage and host of a news blog called Deckboss.
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TOUGH GIRL
A shoal of dogs at Nakat – and the load of a lifetime
by Amy Majors
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 bumto stern, we let the end go.
per boats when Nakat offiShortage at the Canacially 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 simbutterflies in my stomach.
ply no way we could keep
Folgers coffee was excepall 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.
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St. Paul progress, Unalaska progress, golden crab, dumb crime
New in St. Paul: It only took about 30 years, but St. Paul’s small to be used.
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boat harbor is finally operational. The $20 million project was built
No surprise in king crab: Aside from
to accommodate the growing local halibut fleet, and it’s seen as a
key piece of infrastructure in keeping the town’s fishing economy being the first king crab fishery to open up,
there’s not too much new that distinguishes
running.
I was up in the Pribilofs at the ribbon-cutting ceremony this the golden season.
No Surprise #1: The quota for golden king crab is set at just over
August, and nearly every fisherman I spoke to had a horror story
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.
No Surprise #2: For another, it’s the same handful of boats going
tangle.
after brown king crab year after year.
No easy feat when dealing with 80-knot winds.
The only thing that really changes is the money the fishery nabs.
“When the wind was blowing, we used have to stay there all
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
town is paying a little more
works for the Central Bering
to attract deliveries, and the
Sea Fishermen’s Association
final price could be set as
and who own the 32-foot Bay
high as $4 at the end of the
Rose.
season.
“There was a lot of risk
Edward Poulsen, directhat the whole dock could
tor of Alaska Bering Sea
float away with all of our
Crabbers, said that the high
boats on it.”
prices of recent years can be
While most Alaskan fishercredited to crackdowns on
men know St. Paul as a delivillegal fishing.
ery spot during the opilio
“More than anything, it’s
crab season, the 400-person
because the U.S. government
village depends mostly on
and the Russian government
halibut for its income. About
both are clamping down on
a quarter of the residents,
illegal fishing going on in
most of whom are Alaska
the Russian Far East,” said
Natives, are in some way
Poulsen.
employed by the halibut
Windswept St. Paul now has a fully operational small boat harbor.
“A lot of that Russian
fishery. Last year, it brought
Far East king crab actually
them $4 million in revenue.
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
causing our golden prices to go up.”
buying new ones of their own.
He also adds that because the yen is strong right now, the
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New in Unalaska: Meanwhile, down here in Unalaska, cham- bidding for crab is more competitive than usual.
Overall, good signs for a decent market this coming Bristol Bay
pagne flowed at our own Carl E. Moses Small Boat Harbor for a
dedication this August — never mind that boats won’t be able to red king crab season.
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dock there until mid-November, three months after the event.
Stupid crime: The crime in Unalaska continues to mostly be
According to city engineer Tyler Zimmerman, the $56 million 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.
So, a shout-out to the most fun-loving criminals of the month:
to boot.
The dedication was timed to the Northern Waters Task Force The dudes who got hammered while playing in a tundra golf tourmeeting 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.
OCTOBER 2011
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B.C. UPDATE
A short opening and a really tight fit in an urban fishery
“It’s come to this now,” my friend Paul Kandt said, emptying
a small container of fuel into his fuel tank on his gillnetter, the
Wendy Dawn.
“We take two and a half gallons of diesel to go fishing.”
We were headed out for a six-hour opening for Fraser River
sockeye this year. It was the second opening of the season, with
only a three-hour opening the week before.
With the Fraser sockeye summer run predicted to come in at
only a total of 2 million fish, unless the run was upgraded, this was
going to be our last chance at sockeye in the river for the year.
I’ve known Paul for 32 years. We first met when I was working
on the Millerd Fisheries floating fish-processing barge in Sointula
in 1979, when he came in with his cousin, the late Glenn Arkko,
to get ice. We’ve been involved in various fishermen’s union
campaigns together ever since.
We were joined by Mae
Burrows, former executive
director of the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, a group Paul and I
have both been involved in
over the years as well.
Brilliant morning: We
left Paul’s tie-up spot at
the Brunette Creek dock at
07:42 on a brilliant sunny
morning and jogged up to
his favorite spot three and a
half miles upriver at Douglas Island, just above the
Port Mann bridge across
the Fraser River.
Paul’s 36.5-foot Wendy
Dawn was built by his
father, Herbert Kandt, on
a fiberglass Palmer hull in
Michel Drouin and a salmon on the Fraser.
1973. He’s had it since 1979.
It ticks smoothly along, powered by a Mitsubishi 6D16T diesel
engine.
After finding water in his fuel tanks last year from sitting so long
without a fishery, he’d had to have his old fuel cleaned and was
trying to freshen it up a bit with the addition of a few gallons at a time.
There were boats lined up all along the shore, making it pretty
tight to find a spot. But, in the river, gillnetters fish pretty close to
each other, so before 10 a.m. Paul had found a spot to set, and he
spooled it off the drum right at 10:00.
I’m always amazed at the way gillnetters fish the sometimes
fast-flowing Fraser River. They set so close to each other that,
if you were in Johnstone Strait or in the Inlets, you would be
considered “corking” the other guy.
There wasn’t a lot of action in the net as far as we could see, but
the river wasn’t running too fast as the tide hadn’t started ebbing
too hard yet, so we were able to soak the net for an hour as we
drifted downstream.
As we approached the bridge, Paul went to pull on the net to
by Michel Drouin
straighten it out a bit, noticed something
wrong, ran to the cabin, and then jumped
back in the stern saying, “I’ve got a steering
problem.”
Disabled: The steering was completely
disabled.
Paul called for assistance from Mas Shima, the Ocean Fisheries manager who patrols the river during openings in the little
aluminum runabout, the Oceanette, and we wheeled in the drum
and picked the fish as fast as we could, with 94 sockeye, a nice
Chinook, and four pinks in the set. Mas towed us back to the
Brunette Creek dock.
It was now a matter of time. Were we going to get the problem
repaired and get back fishing before it closed at 16:00? The steering
fluid reservoir was empty. Where was the leak?
Paul found a blown
hydraulic line in the lazarette and, after some tinkering, found a six-foot hose
that would do to replace
the original one-foot-long
one, fitted it in place, and
topped up the oil. It took
some time to work the
air out of the system and
get the wheel to move the
steering rams again.
We lost a lot of time and
didn’t head back out until
about 13:20.
Squeezed: As we
approached a likely setting
spot, the other gillnetters
and their nets were lined
up closely to each other
drifting down the river. We
spotted one boat picking
up its net, and Paul wanted to set there, but there was a boat just
ahead of us steaming for the spot too, his wake boiling up behind
his stern.
With all the other boats lined up ahead of us along the shore, I
couldn’t see where Paul would be able to get the net in.
Then, inexplicably, the boat ahead didn’t make the set, so Paul
swung in to the mainland shore, threw the balloon over the side,
and set the net again towards Douglas Island.
Just over an hour later, we picked up 36 sockeye, two pinks, and
a Chinook. We squeezed in another set for 11 sockeye and three
pinks, and in the last 20 minutes got a short set in for 7 sockeye
and 2 pinks.
Despite the breakdown, it was a great day with friends, and we
ended up with 148 sockeye and change.
As Paul says, “A bad day fishing is still better than a good day
at work.”
Michel Drouin first sailed on a commercial fishing vessel in 1959. He’s
been writing about the industry since 1990.
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OCTOBER 2011
by Deeda Schroeder
MID-COAST REPORT
Albacore spotty, judge disses dam plan, another gillnet battle
y
Albacore gets the spotlight: Journalists from Oregon and comments could appeal the title by early
Washington descended on Astoria in mid-August to learn about September.
Hobe Kytr of Salmon for All, an Astoria-the Pacific albacore tuna industry, courtesy of the Oregon Albacore
based fishermen’s organization, submitted
Commission and the Western Fishboat Owners Association.
g
They toured the Skipanon Brand processing plant and comments and said the group was consulting
d
the agenda.
micro-cannery in Warrenton, then crossed the bridge over to with its two lawyers and an appeal would be on th
“That is certainly an option, and we’ll look at it quite closely,” he
Ilwaco and climbed aboard Rick Goche’s boat Peso II to enjoy
cooking demonstrations and wine and beer pairings of high-end said. “It costs a lot of money. That’s the issue.”
A gillnet ban bill was proposed by several legislators during
Astoria restaurants.
Chef Gordon Clement of Clemente’s Restaurant said that more this year’s legislative session, but the bill stalled a n d w a s n e v e r
revived.
customers are coming
The Coastal Conservation Association proposed the initiative.
h
in already familiar with
Its chief petitioners
albacore, and demand is
are state Sens. Fred
on the rise.
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 Congetting out about the
servation Associaculinary and environ-tion chapter’s board
mental attributes of thee
of directors.
fish.
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w
The season had a slow
Judge supports
start, and hadn’t picked
catch shares: In
up a lot by mid-August,
early August, Judge
n
with “spotty” fishing in
Charles Breyer of
all areas, Heikkila said.
the U.S. District
“Lucky vessels occa-Court of the NorthTop: Gillnet fleet again under attack.
sionally catch 200 to 3000
ern District of California disand more fish per day,
missed a lawsuit that aimed to
Left: Judge James Redden.
h
but most of the catch
stop the West Coast groundfish
remains from 30 to 120
trawl rationalization program, now in its first year.
The plaintiffs — the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s
fish per day,” he said.
Larger fish were found along the 125 degrees west line from Coos Associations and other organizations — asserted that the program
didn’t follow federal standards to minimize bycatch and prevent
Bay to Newport.
overfishing.
Prices were very strong when boats off-loaded, Heikkila said.
The judge, however, disagreed, citing more individual accountSo far this year, 685.5 metric tons of albacore had been landed in
Oregon by mid-August, with 609 metric tons in Washington and ability and freedom for fishermen.
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13.5 metric tons in California. Together, Astoria and Ilwaco ports
Judge slams Columbia Basin dams: In early August,
on the Columbia River had landed 461 metric tons, with the port of
U.S. District Court Judge James Redden shot down the federal
Westport at the top with 332.6 metric tons on its own.
government’s plan to operate dams in the Columbia River basin,
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Gillnet ban initiative: Supporters of Oregon’s Columbia River saying it didn’t do enough to protect salmon.
Redden’s ruling said that the 10-year biological opinion
gillnet fleet were fighting a new — but familiar — fight in late
August and were seriously considering appealing the certified title submitted by NMFS wasn’t specific enough about how habitat for
protected salmon and steelhead would be restored after 2013.
for a November 2012 ballot measure.
“I continue to have serious concerns about the specific,
The measure would let voters choose to ban commercial nonnumerical 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 posminimum 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.
OCTOBER 2011
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ALASKA WATCH
Tracking halibut, global seafood demand, and salmon cubes
Tracking halibut: Fish scientists call it “halibut with money
inside.” What they are referring to is fish that are double-tagged,
both inside and out.
“Almost all of your external tags either fall off or, if you dart
them onto the fish, which works really well, they will grow
giant balls of fouling organisms, barnacles and mussels and
bryozoans, and eventually either kill the fish or screw up what the
fish is doing,” said Tim Loher, a fish biologist with the International
Pacific Halibut Commission.
“So what seems to work best is surgical implantation.”
The halibut commission oversees the health of the stocks from
California to the Bering Sea and sets yearly catch limits.
This summer, 30 halibut were double-tagged and released in
the Central Gulf and Southeast Alaska regions. The gut tags will
field-test, for the first time, if geomagnetism advances used in
iPhones can be used to track migrations of fish.
The tags have enough memory and battery life to record data
every 30 seconds for seven years.
“That will hopefully give real-time, daily positions on fish and
track them without any need for light, acoustics, or communication
with GPS satellites. All the information will just be onboard when
the fishermen catch them.”
If the geomagnetic gut tags work out as planned, Loher said, halibut could be tagged as juveniles and tracked into breeding ages.
“If it works out, we plan to tag up to 2,000 halibut all the way
from Oregon to Attu and the shelf edge that is north of the Pribilofs
at the U.S.-Russian border,” Loher said.
“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.
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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 producers, 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.
by Laine Welch
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Seafood demand: Surging demand for seafood — at home and abroad — set records last
year, as the global economy began to shake off
the recession.
The annual Summary of Imports and Exports of Fishery Products by
NOAA Fisheries showed that 3.7 million metric tons of fish and
shellfish exchanged hands last year, a gain of 7.3 percent over 2009.
The total value of the U.S. seafood trade topped $19 billion, nearly
14 percent higher than 2009.
U.S. seafood exports saw spectacular growth last year to 1.2
million tons, a gain of 10.6 percent — the strongest showing for at
least a decade.
The value of seafood exports was the highest on record at $4.4
billion, 17.2 percent higher than 2009. The average value gained 6
percent to $1.60 a pound. Fresh and frozen fish and shellfish are the
major U.S. exports; the top three were salmon, lobster, and surimi.
The three major exporters and importers for U.S. seafood are China,
Thailand, and Canada.
Most of America’s seafood — more than 80 percent — comes
from other countries, and last year saw the largest volume of
imports ever at 2.5 million metric tons, a 5.7 percent increase
over 2009.
More striking was the increase in value of those imports: $14.8
billion, an increase of 12.8 percent from last year.
Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch writes the Fish Factor newspaper
column and produces Fish Radio out of Kodiak.
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ANY# “B” AI BCOD UNBLKD @ WANTED
ANY# "B" BS BCOD BLKD @ WANTED
ANY# “C/D” 2C HAL BLKD @ WANTED
ANY# “B/C” 3A HAL UNBLKD @ WANTED
9,500# “B” 3B HAL BLKD @ $29
20,000# “B” 3B HAL UNBLKD @ $30
ANY# "B“ 4A HAL UN/BLKD @ WANTED
ANY# "B" 4B HAL UNBLKD @ WANTED
ANY# “B/C” 4D HAL BLKD @ WANTED
NEW LISTINGS DAILY.
CALL FOR QUOTES OR CHECK OUT OUR
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P1823M – 1995 EDWING 32 X 16 ALUMINUM
TOPHOUSE STERNPICKER, 3 X 3116 CAT MAINS,
PITTS CLUTCHES DRIVING 303 KODIAK JETS GIVE
TOP SPEED OF 35, NO BS. PACKS 16K W/7.5 TON
IMS RSW. FLUSH DECK, NARROW 4 SHACKLE
REEL W/INTERNAL DRIVE. COMPLETE ELECTRONICS IN CABIN AND TOP STATION. THIS ONE IS
DIALED IN. VERY WELL MAINTAINED AND INCLUDES $1,000S IN NEW SPARES. $325K FIRM.
P1867M – 32 X 11.5 FIBERGLASS STERNPICKER,
GMC 6V53 MAIN, ARTICULATING REEL, 2 NEW
GARMIN PLOTTERS, RAYTHEON RADAR, FURUNO
SOUNDER. VERY WELL MAINTAINED. READY FOR
2012. ASKING $65K.
HERRING
SITKA SEINE ............................$510K
PWS SEINE .................................. N/A
COOK INLET SEINE ...................... N/A
KODIAK SEINE ............................. N/A
SE GILLNET ...............................$13K
KODIAK GILLNET ......................... N/A
NORTON SOUND ..........................$2K
HOONAH POUND .......................$54K
CRAIG POUND ...........................$13K
PWS POUND ................................ N/A
SALMON
S.E. DRIFT .................................$85K
PWS DRIFT ..............................$170K
COOK INLET DRIFT ....................$60K
COOK INLET SET ................. WANTED
AREA M DRIFT...........$150K W/GEAR
BBAY DRIFT ..........................$147.5K
BBAY SET ............................ WANTED
SE SEINE ............................. WANTED
PWS SEINE ..............................$147K
KODIAK SEINE ..................... WANTED
CHIGNIK SEINE ............................ N/A
AREA M SEINE............................. N/A
KOTZEBUE GILLNET............. WANTED
POWER TROLL ...........................$36K
HAND TROLL ....................... WANTED
PUGET SOUND DRIFT ................$22K
PUGET SOUND SEINE .......... WANTED
SHELLFISH
SE DUNGY 300 POT ..................... N/A
SE DUNGY 225 POT ................$37.5K
SE DUNGY 150 POT ...................$30K
SE DUNGY 75 POT .....................$15K
SE POT SHRIMP ........................$13K
SE TANNER................................$65K
SE RED ........................................ N/A
SE RED/TANNER .......................... N/A
SE BRN.......................... $80K OFFER
KODIAK TANNER <60' ...............$35K
PUGET PRAWN POT .................$165K
DIVE
SE GEODUCK .............................$90K
SE CUCUMBER .............. $15K OFFER
MISC.
CAL LOBSTER...................... WANTED
CAL SPOT PRAWN ...................$235K
CAL SQUID .......................... WANTED
CAL SQUID LITE BOAT ......... WANTED
CAL SWORDFISH GILLNET .........$20K
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LUGGER, 5111 TWIN DISC GEAR, 4 CU IN AND 6
CU IN HYDRAULIC PUMPS, IMS RSW, NARROW
FIXED REEL W/AUTO LEVELWIND, BOWTHRUSTER.
COMPLETE ELECTRONICS. GREAT TURN KEY
PLATFORM. AVAILABLE AT END OF 2011 SEASON.
HURRY AND LOCK IT IN NOW. $275K.
P1868M – 35' BRANKO
STERNPICKER, VOLVO MAIN, RSW COMPLETELY GONE THRU LAST YEAR, PACKS 10K IN
INSULATED HOLD, ARTICULATING REEL, GARMIN
GPS MAP SOUNDER, FURUNO RADAR, 2 VHF, 2
METER, CB. NEW HELM PUMPS, NEW STEERING
LINES. HEAD W/SHOWER. WELL MAINTAINED.
ASKING $90K. GEAR AND AREA M DRIFT PERMIT
AVAILABLE.
P1856M – 68' SHORE BUILT DRUM SEINER, ADMEASURE DONE, VOLVO MAIN, BOWTHRUSTER,
AUX HYDRAULICS, GEN SET. PACKS 80 TON IN 4
HOLDS. RADAR, SONAR, PLOTTER, AUTO PILOT.
PERFECT SQUID BOAT. JUST ADD THE NET AND
SKIFF. GREAT BOAT FOR $649K.
P1869M – EDWING TRIPLE JET TOPHOUSE
STERNPICKER, 3 454 MAINS W/273 HAMILTON
JETS. NARROW SLIDING REEL W/LEVELWIND.
GREAT FAST SHALLOW PLATFORM, VERY WELL
MAINTAINED. ASKING $230K.
P1859M – 32' FIBERGLASS STERNPICKER, GMC
453 MAIN W/800 HOURS SINCE INSTALLED,
BORG WARNER 72C GEAR, HYDRAULIC ANCHOR
WINCH, ALUMINUM REEL W/LEVELWIND, PACKS
5-6K IN 3 SLUSH TANKS. 6" NET AND BRAILER
BAGS INCLUDED. READY TO GO FISHING. ASKING
$40K. SE DRIFT PERMIT AVAILABLE AT MARKET.
P1873M – 38' MEL MARTIN, 400 HP 6CT 8.5
CUMMINS, TWIN DISC 507, NEW KOLSTRAND
REEL AND POWER ROLLER, ALL HYD HOSES &
FITTINGS IN STERN NEW. PILOT HOUSE/TRUNK
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Available to fish your QTA. Call Karl at (907)
696-2552 or cell (907) 632-1071.
buyers looking in all areas.
CH10-012 48’x19’ Uniflite charter
boat, completely rebuilt. 3 staterooms + capt’s quarters. Twin 380
ho Volvos, 12 kw gent set. Real
gem. 3A charter permit available to
buyer. Asking $249,000.
LL10-006
67’x19.7’x9.9’ combination aluminum coastal crabber
longliner, built in 1978 by Freeman
Marine. Twin Cummins KTA 855
M mains. Isuzu 20 kw and 40 kw
generators. Walk in bait freezer, full
aluminum shelter deck, Dungeness
crab pot block, davit and line coiler.
Asking $540,000 for boat only. WA
and OR 500 pot permits and gear
are available but not included in the
price.
Seabrooke Enterprises LLC, owners of
F/V Seabrooke, are interested in LEASING
CRAB QUOTA. We offer: skipper (father/
son team) with over 30 years of combined
experience; vessel professionally operated/
managed, above average catch history, exceptionally well-maintained (hauled every
two years), economical to operate with
all Caterpillar power, current survey on
request, competitive harvest rates, desire
to stay actively involved in fisheries. If you
are interested in LEASING CRAB QUOTA,
please contact us: office (541) 938-3542,
(509) 522-5252; cell (509) 520-0911,
(509) 200-9508; fax (541) 938-8164;
email [email protected].
BB11-017
32’x14.5’ aluminum
triple jet Bay boat built by Edwing in
1994. (3) Marine Powers 454 mains
with Hamilton 273 jets. Cruise at 22
knots. Just three seasons on new
engines. Vessel is super clean,
completely turn key, ready to fish.
Asking $230,000.
CR10-021 48’x18’x8’ combination
vessel rigged for crab, salmon and
tuna built by Fred Wahl Marine in
2008. John Deere 6081 main rated
at 330 hp. ZF gear. John Deere 65
kw and Northern Lights 20 kw generators. Crab davit, block, bait chopper and coiler. Outfitted for tuna and
salmon. Asking $575,000.
SP11-001 39’x14.3’x5’ fiberglass
sternpicker/shrimp pot boat. East
Coast lobster-style hull, built in 1987
by Fly Point Marine. Recent John
Deere 6081 rated at 330 hp. Isuzu
8 kw aux. Vessel is set up with IMS
blast freeze system for shrimp and
RSW for salmon. Includes SE gillnet
and shrimp permits. Well equipped
boat with all the gear ready to go
fishing. Asking $265,000 for the
works.
FISH IFQ
Will fish your 2C, C or D Halibut IFQ for 30%. I pay
for everything. 20 years experience, hardworking,
easy going. Lots of references. 25% for medical
transfers. (541) 260-2441 or (907) 957-6295.
Harvest your A, B, or C IFQ’s
on the F/V Expatriate
Selling your boat?
A fully equipped and well maintained 58’ Delta.
Experienced captain and crew with a reputation for
quality; best markets for your catch. Buyer references
available.
Low 5% Commission
Non-exclusive listing. You retain
the right to sell your own vessel.
Call 907-772-4856 weekdays
OR mobile 602-320-9050
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£
OCTOBER 2011
BOX score
Boats/Permits/IFQs
Alaska Entry Permit Prices
(as of 10-1-11)
Species
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Fishery
SALMON
S
SE DRIFT
S
PWS DRIFT
S
COOK INLET DRIFT
S
AREA M DRIFT
S
BRISTOL BAY DRIFT
S
SE SEINE
S
PWS SEINE
S
COOK INLET SEINE
S
KODIAK SEINE
S
CHIGNIK SEINE
S
AREA M SEINE
S
COOK INLET SET
S
AREA M SET NET
S
BRISTOL SET NET
S
LOWER YUKON
S
POWER TROLL
S
HAND TROLL
HERRING
H
SE GILLNET
H
KODIAK GILLNET
H
SITKA SEINE
H
PWS SEINE
H
COOK INLET SEINE
H
KODIAK SEINE
H
SE POUND SOUTH
H
SE POUND NORTH
H
PWS POUND
SHELLFISH
S
SE DUNGY 75 POT
S
SE DUNGY 150 POT
S
SE DUNGY 225 POT
S
SE DUNGY 300 POT
S
SE POT SHRIMP
S
KODIAK TANNER <60
S
PUGET SOUND DUNGY
S
WASHINGTON DUNGY
S
OREGON DUNGY
S
CALIFORNIA DUNGY
SE ALASKA DIVE
SE AK Dive URCHIN
SE AK Dive CUCUMBER
SE AK Dive GEODUCK
Asking Price*
Offer*
State
Value*
85170
60
140147.5150
150
60+
45200
58
20
60
40+
9.5
36
11.5+
85
165
58+
125
125
135
150+
40
40110
55
15
50
35
N/A
36
11.5+
88.3+
169.1+
50.3+
138.5
155.8+
137.6+
138.1+
33
45.4+
95.1
55.5
14.5+
51.3
36+
9.6
34.6+
10.5+
9
5
500
40
25
21
1354
NA
N/A
4
N/A
35
15
1712
50
4
16+
3.8
540
23
9.3
21.3
1745.5
3.1
12
30
37.5
50
13
35
601,250-3,500/FT
1,500-3,500/FT
800-1,500/FT
9.5
17.5
35
45
13+
33.5
45
1,000-3,100/FT
1,250-3,000/FT
500-1,000/FT
11.927
38.8+
67.5
1430N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
4
N/A
90
N/A
15+
80
3.6
11.4+
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.
OCTOBER 2011
£
Boats/Permits/IFQs
Halibut & Sablefish IFQ Prices
Recent market activity in halibut and sablefish quota shares
Status
Regulatory Vessel Poundage (blocked/
Area Category* (thousands) unblocked)
Species
Ask
Offer
(per pound)
Low High
(per pound)
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
S
WY
C/B
1-10
B
23.00-28.00
22.00-25.00
S
WY
C/B
>10
U
30.00-32.00
28.00-30.00
S
WY
A
B/U
32.00
30.00
S
CG
C/B
1-10
B
22.00-26.00
22.00-25.00
>10
B/U
26.00-28.00
25.00-27.00
B/U
28.00
27.00
S
CG
C/B
S
CG
A
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
®
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FAX (206) 784-8823
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Seattle, WA 98107
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*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
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
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.
FAX: 907-235-4965 E-MAIL: [email protected]
www.alaskaboat.com
£
OCTOBER 2011
Need great
CREW?
FOR SALE
50' x 15', glass over wood, shark, swordfish,
gillnetter, stern picker, 400 HP Cummings main
eng, gen. set, Isuzu/Lecset, 20 KW, 2 hyd systems, low and high pressure, auto pilot, echo
sounder, VHF, GPS, 10 meter, fresh fish iceboat
with cold plate refrigeration, plus more. All elec
galley, 3 bunks, shower and head. Boat is very
comfortable and very tough. $60,000 or best
offer. (310) 326-7026.
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FOR SALE
Lobster Boat and permit with 150 traps. Priced
to sell quick. Owner retiring. $129,000. Call
Don at (949) 279-9369.
Absolutely no cost for
employers
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FOR SALE
Aluminum drum seiner packs 73 ton of
California squid. RSW. Ready to fish.
No permits. $575,000. Call Don at (949)
279-9369
CRAB POT ZINCS
3# screw-ons OR 1# wire ins. New zinc/
stainless steel nuts. (360) 421-4879 or (360)
856-4110.
FOR SALE
Light Boat and permit for sale. Priced to
sell quick here your chance to get in the
California Million Dollar Fishery. Boat is ready to
fish. $215,000. Call Don (949) 279-9369.
FOR SALE
F/V SARSEN – 53' ketch rigged motor sailer.
Price $210,000 cash or trade. Boat built 1994
Port Townsend, Skookum mold, Blue Water
boat. Engine 6-71 Detroit, 36-inch prop, FG
construction. Fish hold: 28,000 lbs., frozen 25
minus. 2,000+ gal. fuel, sails perfect condition,
Northern Lights gen. 121/2 kW, all electronics,
top brands, VHF, radar, weather fax, low-freq.
radio, autopilot, GPS. Worked tuna three
years, bottom painted and checked every
season. Selling due to other business, no time
to fish. Phone Capt. Mark Pratt, (pager) (206)
595-3146 or F.W. Pratt, (406) 671-5080. Boat in
Ilwaco, WA.
FOR SALE
Heavy duty aluminum halibut reel. 48" x 48"
with 10 skates of sword master line plus
filler. On a super heavy duty trailer. Located in
Kenai, AK. $3,500. (253) 851-6288.
£
OCTOBER 2011
ALASKA FISHING
INDUSTRY JOBS
FOR SALE
F/V STELLOR 47' Beck with option of leasing
Chignik permit. Call for information. $325,000.
(907) 234-7604.
Try it FREE at:
www.AlaskaJobFinder.com/trial
FOR SALE
Cook Inlet set net package, East Forelands beach
lease, permit, Bruin skiff, flat bed, tractor, cabin
pad/foundation, $150,000 or trade towards CI
Drift permit/boat. www.alldrinsalmon.com.
(530) 864-4846.
READY TO FISH BRISTOL BAY
Well maintained shore boat. Six BTA Cummins,
250 HP, 6000 hours. Spare starter and alternator, two GPS, three depth sounders, one VHF
radio. Call (360) 201-7437.
FOR SALE
ZF IRM 350-1 MARINE TRANSMISSION,
2.037-1 RATIO SAE#1 with Vulcan Coupling.
Electronic shift, electronic troll valve, remote
mounted trans. equipment. Execellent condition.
250 hrs, $30,000 Cdn. C/O Next Wave Marine
Systems, (250) 752-1790.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
Partner or captain needed for 2011 Pacific
cod season. New 58' steel combination
vessel. Looking for partner with additional
IFQ and/or LLP. Contact (714) 403-2563.
Statement of Ownership
Management and Circulation
1. Title of publication: Pacific Fishing. 2.
Publication No.: 514-830. 3. Filling Date:
September 16, 2011. 4. Frequency of issue:
Monthly. 5. Number of issues published
annually: 12. 6. Annual subscription price:
$14.00. 7. Complete mailing address of
known office of publication: 1000 Andover
Park East, Seattle, WA 98188. 8. Complete
mailing address of the headquarters or business offices of the publishers: 1000 Andover
Park East, Seattle, WA 98188. 9. Full names
and complete mailing addresses of publisher and editor: Publisher, Peter Hurme,
1000 Andover Park East, Seattle, WA 98188;
Editor, Don McManman, 1000 Andover Park
East, Seattle, WA 98188. Owner: Pacific Fishing LLC, 1000 Andover Park East, Seattle,
WA 98188. 11. Known Bondholders, Mortgagee or Other Securities: None. 15. Extent
and nature of circulation: A. Total number
of copies printed (net press run): 12 month
avg: 4369; number of copies published nearest filing date: 5005. B. Paid circulation: 1.
Paid outside county: 12 month avg: 1902;
number of copies published nearest to filing
date: 2054. 2. Paid in county: 12 month avg:
170; number of copies published nearest to
filing date: 175. 3. Sales through dealers
and carriers, street vendors, counter sales
and non-USPS distribution: 12 month average: 737; number of single issue published
nearest to filing date: 766. 4. Other classes
mailed through the USPS: None; number
of copies published nearest to filling date:
None. C. Total paid circulation (sum of 15B
1,2,3 and 4): 12 month avg: 2809; number of
copies published nearest to filing date: 2995.
D. Free distribution by mail, carrier or other
means, samples, complimentary, and other
free copies: 1. Free outside county: 12 month
avg: 547; number of copies published nearest to filing date: 829. 2. Free in county: 12
month avg: 26; number of copies published
nearest to filing date: 1. 3. Free or nominal
rate copies mailed at other classes through
the USPS: 12 month average: None; number
of copies published nearest to filing date:
None. 4. Free or nominal rate distribution
outside the mail: 12 month avg: 12; number
of copies published nearest to filling date: 3.
E. Total free or nominal rate distribution (sum
of 15D 1,2,3 and 4): 12 month avg: 585; copies of single issue published nearest to filing
date: 833. F. Total distribution (sum of 15c
and 15e): 12 month avg: 3394; number of
copies published nearest of filing date: 3828.
G. Copies not distributed: average number of
copies: 12 month avg: 975; number of copies published nearest to filing date: 1177. H.
Total (sum of 15f and 15g): 12 month avg:
4369; number of copies published nearest to
filing date: 5005. I certify that the statements
made above are correct and complete.
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Alaska Boats and Permits ............................................................................41
Alaska Independent Tendermens Association ....................................37
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute........................................................... 2
AlaskaCrewFinder.com .................................................................................42
AlaskaJobFinder.com ....................................................................................42
Alaskan Quota & Permits .............................................................................41
Black Pearl IFQ Fisheries ...............................................................................41
Cascade Engine Center ................................................................................11
CFAB ....................................................................................................................33
City/Port of Kodiak .........................................................................................15
Coastal Marine Engine, Inc. .........................................................................41
Copper River Boat & Permits, LLC .............................................................43
Dana F. Besecker Co .......................................................................................36
Diesel America West ......................................................................................36
Dock Street Brokers .......................................................................................39
Extra Deckhand Automatic Coiler ............................................................37
F/V Sherri Marie...............................................................................................39
Filtration Solutions.........................................................................................29
Fleet Refrigeration .........................................................................................22
Flexahopper Plastics......................................................................................36
FORS ....................................................................................................................36
Foss Shipyard ...................................................................................................37
Fremont Maritime Services, Inc. ................................................................26
Gibbons & Associates, P.S. ...........................................................................35
Hans Johnson ..................................................................................................39
Hockema & Whalen Associates .................................................................35
Inmarsat North America ..............................................................................47
Iridium .................................................................................................................. 5
Jackson, Morgan & Hunt ..............................................................................35
Kraft Palmer Davies, PLLC .............................................................................. 8
KVH Industries ................................................................................................... 9
Law Office of Paul L. Anderson, PLLC ......................................................35
LFS, Inc................................................................................................................23
MARCO Global .................................................................................................12
MER Equipment ..............................................................................................37
Mikkelborg Law Offices................................................................................35
Net Systems ......................................................................................................16
Northport Fisheries........................................................................................37
NPFVOA..............................................................................................................42
NW Farm Credit Services .............................................................................40
Ocean Traps ......................................................................................................37
Osborne Propellers Ltd.................................................................................36
Pacific Fishermen Shipyard .........................................................................16
Petro Marine Services ...................................................................................17
Port of Bellingham .........................................................................................20
Port of Coos Bay/Charleston Shipyard....................................................18
Port of Dutch Harbor.....................................................................................10
Puglia Engineering (Fairhaven Shipyard) ..............................................48
Robert Magnus................................................................................................39
Seabrooke Enterprises LLC..........................................................................39
Seafarers Permits & Brokerage...................................................................35
Silver Horde Fishing Supplies ....................................................................36
Spurs Line & Net Cutter Systems...............................................................21
Survitec Survival Products ............................................................................ 7
The Permit Master ..........................................................................................38
Tri-Cor Plastics .................................................................................................39
USCG - 17th District/Alaska (DPI)..............................................................13
Vancouver Shipyards.....................................................................................37
Viking Net Supply ...........................................................................................37
Warren L. Junes Ltd. .......................................................................................37
What's New .......................................................................................................34
Wrangell Port & Harbors ..............................................................................19
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£
NOAA hires top
fish cop
Bruce Buckson, a recognized leader in
natural resource conservation law enforcement, has been named director of the
NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement
(OLE).
Buckson was to join NOAA from the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission, where he served for 29 years.
He has been a deputy director of its Division of Law Enforcement since 2007. The
conservation commission includes one of
the largest fish and wildlife law enforcement agencies in the world in a state with
the nation’s second longest coastline.
“Bruce brings to NOAA extensive
natural resource conservation leadership
experience, firsthand knowledge of marine
law enforcement operations, and a demonstrated ability to work across diverse
stakeholder groups to ensure clear, effective,
and enforceable policies,” said Eric Schwaab,
assistant NOAA administrator for NOAA
Fisheries.
“In his new role, Bruce will advance our
mission to ensure compliance with the laws
and regulations that conserve and protect
our nation’s marine resources. For example,
he will expand our dockside presence and
improve communications with fishermen
with the hiring of 23 new enforcement officers, and lead the search for a new special
agent in charge for the Northeast Region.”
Buckson began his law enforcement
career patrolling the waters of the upper
Florida Keys and advanced to increasing
levels of responsibility within the state
agency. Among his career highlights, he
directed marine law enforcement operations, led a statewide resource protection
unit, coordinated a mutual aid agreement
to enhance state and federal protection
of endangered manatees, and served as
the agency’s law enforcement liaison to
regional fisheries commissions and councils
and to federal agencies.
In his new role, Buckson will direct the
efforts of more than 200 law enforcement
employees, including special agents and
enforcement officers, working out of national headquarters, six divisional offices, and
52 field offices throughout the United States
and U.S. territories.
Buckson has been recognized throughout his career with numerous citations
and awards. In 2004, he received the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Annual Award in Excellence in Law
Enforcement for his career contributions
to fisheries conservation and his advocacy
for consistency in fisheries enforcement
approaches and information sharing across
state and federal agencies.
Buckson is a graduate of the FBI National
Academy in Quantico, Va. Z
ON THE DOCKS
S
Seiners call strike:
Disgusted by low prices
for pinks, salmon seiners working B.C.’s North
Coast out of Prince Rupert
tied up in early August and
refused to sail until prices
came up.
The Canadian seiners,
fishing sometimes mere
miles away from U.S. seiners in Alaska, were insulted
to hear that while Alaska pink fishermen were
earning 41 cents a pound,
they were being offered
Postcard: The Annette rests from the drag fisheries in
27 cents.
Warrenton. Joan Amero photo
Headed by Chris Cook,
seine skippers banded
together and refused to sail unless the industrial marine categories to becomCanadian Fishing Co. and Ocean Fisheries ing an industry leader and full-line supplier of flotation and thermal protection
raised prices.
The impromptu rebellion won them 32 products in these market categories.
ZZZZ
cents a pound for pinks delivered to Prince
Sustainable
seafood: The Marine
Rupert, 31 cents delivered to Port Hardy,
Stewardship
Council
has launched an
and 33 cents delivered to Vancouver, with
online service it hopes will make it easier
an additional 5 cents to the boat.
to discover seafood certified as sustainZZZZ
Chilean salmon: Industry reports able by the London-based organization.
The product finder lists MSC-labeled
peg Chile’s production at 300,000 tons of
products
that are available in stores
farmed Atlantic salmon by 2013, nearly
worldwide.
Search results include
triple this year’s output — and close to
Alaska’s average annual salmon haul of information about and images of sustainable seafood products and provide a link
377,000 tons.
“When the total world supply goes to the brand or retailer’s website, making
back up, will demand be strong enough to it easy for the user to click through to see
keep all salmon markets strong? That’s the the supplier’s whole range and find out
really big question,” said Gunnar Knapp, more about the company.
Consumers also can sign up for e-mail
fisheries economist at the University of
updates
when new MSC-labeled seafood
Alaska, Anchorage.
The good news is that demand for products launch in their country, or from
salmon continues to grow across the globe. their favored brands or retailers.
The MSC product finder is in English
“You can make a reasonable argument
that growth in demand from places like but will soon be available in other
China and Brazil and other developing languages to make it easy for consumcountries like Eastern Europe has been suf- ers worldwide to find products from
ficient, so that even if the Chileans come certified sustainable fisheries. The search
back on line and produce at former levels, will launch soon in German, Swedish,
world demand will be strong enough to Dutch, and Spanish.
Go to www.msc.org and click on the
keep markets up in general,” Knapp said.
tab
labeled “Where to buy.”
ZZZZ
ZZZZ
Mustang promotion: Mustang Survival
Wandering pink: Anglers on the River
is pleased to announce that Michael Grupa will be transitioning from his current Tweed in Great Britain have been asked
role as director of business development, to look out for “exotic” pink salmon after
professional, to join the sales team as a number of sightings of this normally
director of sales for U.S. professional and Pacific species in recent weeks.
According to the Tweed River
military major accounts.
Commission,
a male pink salmon
Grupa joined Mustang Survival in 2009
(Oncorhynchus
gorbuscha)
was caught in
and has been instrumental in shifting
Mustang’s focus from selective markets
in the first responder and commercial/
Continued on page 46
£
OCTOBER 2011
ON THE DOCKS
Continued from page 45
nets at Paxton on Aug. 2 this year. Also,
the commission’s website claimed that
another pink salmon was for sale at a
Kelso fishmonger, having been landed at
Amble in Northumberland.
Other records of pink salmon include
a male pink salmon that was caught and
killed by an angler at Boleside in July
2007 and a report of what was probably another fish caught and released at
Norham in August of that year.
The male caught at Paxton was said
to be particularly distinctive as they
develop a very prominent hump in front
of the dorsal fin as well as a kype when
sexually mature. Females are less obviously distinctive, but the heavily spotted tail,
characteristic of Pacific salmonids, should
immediately show them to be something
very different from native fish.
The Tweed River Commission says:
“These fish have not come all the way
from the Pacific! They were introduced
to some Russian rivers around the White
Sea in the 1960s and have since spread
westwards and have now colonized some
northern Norwegian rivers.
“There is also an introduced population in Newfoundland from which some
rivers in Nova Scotia and Quebec have
been colonized, but the most likely source
of the fish that turn up in the Tweed will
be northern Norway.” – FishNewsEU
ZZZZ
G o o : NOAA
reports that the
“orange goo” that
washed ashore in
the remote Eskimo
village of Kivalina
along Alaska’s
northwest coast is
Goo
fungal spores, not
microscopic eggs, as preliminary analysis
indicated.
Scientists at the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Auke Bay Laboratories announced that the substance was
biological in nature, rather than oil or pollution, as originally thought by concerned
residents of Kivalina.
S a m p l e s w e r e s e n t t o N O A A’ s
Analytical Response Team for a more
thorough and detailed analysis and
verification process.
ZZZZ
Oregon pink shrimp: Pacific Shrimp,
a Pacific Seafood Group company located
in Newport, has completed a substantial
remodel to meet standards for the British
OCTOBER 2011
£
Retail Consortium for the
processing of West Coast
cold water shrimp meat
(Pandulus Jordani).
The consortium has
inspected and awarded
Pacific Shrimp an “A
Grade” certification, which
is the highest inspection
level. Pacific Shrimp will
be the only cold water
shrimp–processing facility in the U.S. to be certified by the consortium.
This certification will open
new markets for Pacific
Seafood, especially in
Europe.
ZZZZ
P e b b l e r u l i n g : The
Alaska Supreme Court
ruled that residents in the
Lake and Peninsula Borough can vote on a ballot
initiative that could derail
the Pebble Mine.
The Save Our Salmon
measure would add language to the borough’s
permitting code to protect Reefnetting: You saw the end result on this month’s cover. This
its lands from “significant is how the process begins, with an artificial reef built from nets.
adverse impacts on salmon Fishermen stationed on tall observation posts watch the reef’s
habitat.” Pebble backers “lagoon.” Once a goodly number of salmon enter the enclosure, it’s
closed and the fish harvested. Martin Waidelich photo
filed lawsuits to try and halt
the measure.
The bulk of Alaska’s salmon is sold
Earlier, the state of Alaska aligned
itself with Pebble to stop the vote, say- headed/gutted and frozen.
ing it would set a precedent and threaten
For Chinook, that price averaged $3.63
other development.
last year and $4.12 through April. Fresh
ZZZZ
jumped more than $2 to $9.23.
Alaska salmon sales: Sales values for
The wholesale average for frozen sockAlaska salmon show steady gains in recent eye fillets jumped from $4.92 in 2010 to
years for all of the products that go to $6.29 this year.
world markets.
Frozen pink salmon averaged $1.29 a
The Annual Salmon Price Report (ASPR) pound last year, compared to 93 cents in
by the state Department of Revenue tracks ’09. Frozen pink fillets were up 11 cents by
wholesale prices for:
April.
• Frozen headed/gutted fish (H&G)
Alaska chums continued their steady
• Fresh H&G
price gains, with frozen fish averaging
• Frozen and fresh fillet
$1.60 last year and $1.78 through April.
• Roe
The wholesale price for fresh chum has
• Canned
A look at average values for all of last increased 45 cents over two years.
The biggest gains are seen in salmon roe
year and the first four months of 2011
prices.
Pink roe, for example, averaged
shows big increases. All prices are up
$9.94
a
pound
through April, up more than
significantly from two years ago.
Cases of canned sockeye talls, for $4 from 2010. Sockeye roe increased from
example, averaged about $123 last year. $5.56 to $7.01, and chum roe wholesale
Through April, the value was nearly $145 prices went from $9.17 last year to topping
$13.50 through April.
per case.
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