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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.