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How many sockeye should we take?
As hordes of West Coast salmon continue surging through Mother Nature's floodgates, those with a stake in the once-in-a-lifetime run are tackling a tough question: To fish or not to fish?
– Globe and Mail
More: www.theglobeandmail.com
It’s been a big salmon year
Alaska's salmon catch has blown past pre-season predictions and there is still a lot of fishing left to go.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch, writing in the Capital City Weekly, Juneau
More: www.capweek.coml
Natives vow to end unmonitored sports take
During the Sept. 1 hearing of the Cohen Commission in Prince Rupert, members of the Coast Tsimshian made it clear that they were prepared to take action “in the near future” to shut down the unmonitored recreational fishery on the north coast.
– The Northern View
More: www.bclocalnews.com
Sign of the times: Can maker consolidates
Ball Corporation announced plans to consolidate the production equipment in its Richmond, B.C., plant into other company manufacturing facilities.
– Ball Corp. press release
More: www.prnewswire.com
Two-tug escorts make sense
Research and experience both show that the two-tug requirement for single-hulled tankers was a key and effective response to the Exxon spill.
– Al Burch, executive director of the Alaska White Fish Trawlers Association, writing in the Homer Tribune
More: homertribune.com
Protecting salmon requires sacrifice
Overfishing is often blamed, but the single largest factor in losing salmon runs has been ruining the stream and lake habitat they need to grow.
– Catie Bursch
Homer, writing in the Juneau Empire
More: www.juneauempire.com
Report: MSC not protecting resource
An international program run by the Marine Stewardship Council purports to certify only sustainably harvested fish but is "failing" to protect the environment and needs radical reform, says a highly critical report.
– Victoria Times Colonist
More: www.timescolonist.com
Fuel savings loans offered
Applications are being accepted at the Alaska Division of Investments for an expanded program of low interest loans to help commercial fish harvesters switch out old, inefficient boat engines for new, fuel-saving models.
– Tundra Drums
More: www.thetundradrums.com
New chairman of subsistence panel
Alaska Federation of Natives co-chair Tim Towarak of Unalakleet has been named chairman of the Federal Subsistence Board in Alaska.
– Anchorage Daily News
More: www.adn.com
We need your help
King and opilio crab rationalization is five years old in Alaska. We need someone to write an essay – from a crewman’s perspective – about it in Pacific Fishing.
We’re especially interested in someone with a new voice, someone we haven’t heard from before.
Send a note to editor@pacificfishing.com
Thanks.
