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VOLUME XXXI, NO. 6 • JUNE 2010

IN THIS ISSUE Editor's note®

Over the years, I’ve had a tendency to disagree with my bosses.

Over the years, I’ve also had a tendency to get fired. Think there’s a connection?I could have learned a lot from a guy named

Favorinus of Arelata, a Roman philosopher who lived 1,893 years ago.It was during the reign of Hadrian. You may have heard of the wall that

Hadrian had built to corral savages in Scotland. But he also fancied himself as a philosopher, one as good as, say, Favorinus.

Hadrian, who as an emperor stood in line to become deified as a god, ordered a debate. Favorinus had no good options, so he had no objections. The sword-and-sandal crowd loved spectacle, and if there were no gladiator blood to be had, at least some pride might be spilt.

Favorinus threw the fight. He failed to use some of the most elementary arguments against his emperor. He was Muhammad Ali without the left jab.

He was humbled, but he still had his head on his shoulders. Why, Favorinus’ fans demanded,

had he thrown the fight. Sure, Hadrian was the 14th emperor, but was he also a philosophical pipsqueak?

Here’s what Favorinus said: “He who commands 30 legions is the most learned man of all.”

Nearly two millennia later, 30 regiments of heavy infantry never figured into my employment equation. I had the system down to a simple logic: Open your yap too often and you get canned.

Which brings us to today’s topic: Wisdom, and the lack thereof.

Commercial fishermen are going to need a lot of it in the next few years — not in deciding to pick a fight, but deciding which fights to pick.

Here’s a short list: Marine protected areas, wave energy buoys projects, water for Sacramento salmon, water for Fraser salmon, clean water for Taku salmon, access to Skeena salmon, individual quotas, access to the Columbia’s main stem, and more.

There’s one overarching theme here: Your opponents. We are not talking about fighting with other fishermen over gear conflicts or total allowable catch. Nothing that usual — or easy.

Rather, each one of these battles involves interests ashore. And I’ll tell you a secret: They’re a hell of a lot more organized than you are.

You can’t fight them all, because you’re guaranteed to lose them all. Wisdom is in picking your battles.

In fact, if you don’t start with wisdom, you’re guaranteed to lose whichever fight you choose. At least that’s what another old guy has to say.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus lived in Rome 84 years before Hadrian and, being Roman, also was obsessed with matters of conquest. Here’s his contribution to today’s discussion:

“Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.”Even if you have 30 legions behind you.

Don McManman, who edits this magazine, has aged to the stage when he had better acquire some wisdom.

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The Sitka zooThe Sitka zooPage 9Page 9

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West Coast salmonWest Coast salmon Page 18 Page 18

The Fraser messThe Fraser messPage 26Page 26

Drill, baby, spillDrill, baby, spillPage 29Page 29

Molly Majors of Ketchikan takes a nap between sets in 2009 in this photo shot by sister Amy Majors. Both fi sh aboard the F/V Karen Rae owned by their dad, Dan Majors.

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Editor’s note: For Stats Pack articles such as this, we often allow fish house executives to speak off the record. They’re more willing to talk that way.

If you’re a North Pacific seafood merchant, life is less threatening just now — at least compared to the near-death experience of 2009.

“We’re a little less scared than last year. But remem-ber, it’s good to be kind of scared in this business,” said a Seattle executive.

Last year had the potential to be the absolute last for some fish houses.

“It was a threatening time.”But the industry — at least in the North Pacific —

avoided death. “A lot of people didn’t make money, or didn’t make

as much money as they wanted, but they didn’t have losses. I feel amazingly lucky, the way the year went.”

Today, product is available, as are customers willing to pay for it.

But remember the Scared-Is-Good Philosophy?“It’s a great time for fresh, dangerous if it’s in the

freezer,” the executive said.Why?If you sell fresh fish, you get your money right

away. With fish in the freezer, you’re gambling that the economy will be sufficiently supportive months from now, when you finally make the sale.

And most worrisome: Will consumers have enough confidence to pay prices that are noticeably higher than in 2009?

Fishermen will receive more money for their

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catches. Columbia River Chinook opened this spring at $9.50 a pound. Those costs, plus everything in the middle, must be paid by consumers.

Still, an unexpected alignment of factors has opened new opportunities for seafood from the North Pacific.

“We have a curious situation. Disease problems, earthquakes, and volcanoes have reduced what was expected to be growth in the farmed sector.”

Disease and earthquakes in Chile have dramatically cut salmon farm output there. Flight cancellations after an Iceland mountain erupted disrupted movement of Norwegian and Scottish farmed fish.

Beyond that, there’s an increasing sense among consumers that wild fish is healthy fish — both for the environment and for the human body, the executive said.

This consumer awareness may erode resistance to wild fish, he said.

“To me, our problem has been the gatekeeper. The buyers and merchandisers have tremendous control of our fate. I would hope that they’ll see the volume and quality of our West Coast fish and do everything to promote it,” he said.

He wants to see all types of fish — farmed and wild — presented to consumers,“much like they sell wines and beer.”

“For years, farmed salmon was available at a very good price, which allowed merchandisers to pick up more margin. Now they see the opportunity to pro-mote variety.”

The executive spoke to Pacific Fishing on the eve of the big seafood show in Brussels this spring.

“I’ve heard conversations. People are excited to see people from the West Coast and Alaska. I think everyone is a little more respectful.” �

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Personal floatation devices do work — and you can work while wearing one.

A large trial of modern floatation devices in Alaska last year illustrated that commer-cial fishermen can get the job done while increasing the chances of surviving once in the water.

A survey by Jennifer Lincoln of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health involved 400 working fishermen from crab, trawl, longline, and gillnet fisher-ies in south-central and southwest Alaska.

Of those, 216 fishermen also agreed

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Favorite product: The device most popular was the Mustang Survival inflatable, a lightweight rubber vest approved by the U.S. Coast Guard last year. A hydrostatic release triggers the inflation of the vest when it is submerged.

“A lot of guys didn’t know that these innovative PFDs existed,” Lincoln said, especially since many small safety supply shops in Alaskan ports don’t carry a wide selection.

The Mustang MD3188 device retails for about $250, with much of the expense related to the hydrostatic triggering device. It was the most expensive stand-alone product tested.

The survey recorded two accidental inflations from crabbers and one on a trawl boat, but those were due to large waves that soaked the fishermen wearing them, Lincoln said.

Women too: Few women were involved in the trials, Lincoln said, because few women work in the fisheries surveyed. Five or so women were surveyed, and their responses matched those of the men.

The cost of the products tested ranged from $60 to $300, with the PFDs incorporated into rain gear generally the most expensive. The Stearns Comfort Series Foam Vest I424 retails for around $60, with the Stearn 1339 costing about $125. The Stormy Seas inflatable yoke PFD was $200. The Mustang was $250.

For PFDs that are part of rain gear, Regatta Rain Gear with foam flotation retails for about $200. The Guy Cotton X-Trapper bibs with inflatable suspenders cost about $300.

The complete rankings of the devices tested will be published soon.

Fishermen die: A recent study showed that 71 fishermen died when they fell from commercial fishing vessels off Alaska between 1990 and 2005. None was wearing a PFD.

The survey last year found that most fishermen don’t wear PFDs on deck — but that there are substantial differences among the four fisheries. Most trawl fishermen wear PFDs, Lincoln said, because the company boats they work on often require them. Crab fisher-men responded that they typically wear PFDs when climbing onto the stack of pots on deck, but they less frequently wear them while working on deck, she said.

U.S. Coast Guard safety coordinator Ken Lawrenson in Juneau said that all man-overboard incidents are supposed to be report-ed to the Coast Guard, but most that end without an injury are not. That makes it difficult to know exactly how many fishermen survive with and without PFDs when they go in the water. But in


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Lawrenson’s review of Coast Guard records, one thing stands out.

“We’re pretty sure we’ve never had a fatality from an overboard who was wear-ing a PFD on the commercial fishing side,” Lawrenson said.

That’s not to say there haven’t been

fatalities when a boat sinks or another major disaster occurs, he said.

Institutionalized fatalism: The “institutionalized fatalism” instilled in the fishing culture is beginning to fade, Lawrenson said, because PFDs are becoming more comfortable, Coast Guard general safety examinations have increased, and the pace of fisheries like king crab and opilio crab has been slowed due to rationalization.

As the fleet consolidated, the “cleanest” operators are the ones that are still in business, Lawrenson said. It has become more common for boat owners and operators to require PFD use in fisheries in tough conditions, he said, though typically calmer weather fisheries like salmon troll-

ing and seining have been more resistant. The downside to inflatable PFDs is that

they must be maintained. Lincoln said it’s important that fishermen routinely check them for holes and that the hydrostatic drum is in good working order.

The findings of the project will be sent

out to fishermen, PFD manufacturers, and marine safety organizations with the aim to increase the use of the devices in commer-cial fishing.

Joe Childers with the Western Gulf of Alaska Fishermen said that use of PFDs appears to be more the norm on larger boats and for those operating in the worst ocean conditions.

Childers fishes out of Juneau and Sitka on the troller Wunderbar that he operates alone and the gillnetter Whisky Creek that he runs with two to three deckhands. Childers — also president of United Fishermen of Alaska — said that in the salmon fisheries, fishermen are split on wearing PFDs. While he encourages his deckhands to have PFDs, he has yet to require their use on board.

Close call: As a lone operator on his troller, Childers has had his own close call. He’d rowed his dinghy to the Wunderbar and, while attempting to climb aboard, fell into the water, which he estimated was about 50 degrees. There was no one around to help, and he could not get aboard the dinghy either. But he was wearing a PFD, and he chose to swim about 150 yards to the beach. He was exhausted on arrival.

“If I hadn’t had it on,” Childers said, “I don’t know if I would have made it.” �

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Although fishermen gave the Mustang Survival MD3188 Inflatable PFD the highest overall scores for satisfaction, the device might not be the best for you.

First of all, a variety of different deckhands tested the devices in different fisheries. One device, for example, might have scored high in crab fisheries but lower in other fisheries. It might not have the highest overall score, but it could be best for crab fishermen.

The survey included crabbers, trawlers, longliners, and gillnetters.

In addition, different devices are designed to perform different functions. The Mustang, for example, came in first overall, but it’s deflated until you hit the water, when it inflates. The second highest scorer — The Regatta Fisherman — had permanent floatation built into rain gear.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is studying its survey results and soon will release its analysis, which will give an indication of which PFD was preferred in which fisheries.

Pacific Fishing will have the complete analysis once NIOSH releases its findings.

In the meantime, here is a list of the products tested: Mustang Survival MD3188 Inflatable PFD Regatta Fisherman rain gear with flotation in the bibs Sterns Manual/Automatic Inflatable 1339 PFD Stormy Seas FSL1000 Inflatable Yoke Stearns Comfort Series I424 Foam Vest Guy Cotton X-Trapped Bibs with Inflatable Suspenders �

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Will yet another characteristically combative herring sac roe derby in Alaska’s Sitka Sound finally push the fish-ery to more rational management?

One veteran purse seiner sure hopes so.“It’s like going into an alley full of

bullies,” says Scott McAllister, describing what fishing is like at Sitka.

With only 49 permitted boats, Sitka is hardly the biggest of Alaska’s commercial fisheries. But it’s surely the most hotly contested, a bruising scrum where crews can bag a fortune or go home broke after a few brief fishing periods.

And getting skunked isn’t the worst outcome.

In this year’s fishery, which opened March 24 and closed April 2, at least two vessel collisions attracted the attention of state troopers and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Another seiner, in a letter last year to the Alaska Board of Fisheries, said boats form groups to compete and pool their catches.

“These groups try to catch the most fish by tactics that may violate the RICO Act,” wrote Darrell Kapp of Bellingham. “They have some in their group ‘block’ others or ram others to intimidate them and drive them from the fish on the opening. If suc-cessful, someone in their group tries to catch the fish. Sometimes two groups go at each other and the outcome is smashed

boats and run-over nets.”Kapp referred to the Racketeer

Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.

Kapp added he knew of three collisions in 2008, with one costing his insurance pool $75,000.

McAllister and Kapp are among Sitka herring seiners who want a better way. They advocate “equal shares,” where permit holders would divide the quota ahead of time and then fish a lot nicer, with more care for producing higher quality, roe-ripe fish with less waste and a better payoff from processors.

McAllister of Juneau heads a coalition of seiners called the Sitka Herring Group. They’ve been paying a Juneau lobbyist, Bob Thorstenson Jr., at least $15,000 a year to promote equal shares.

So far, despite the annual carnage at Sitka, the Board of Fisheries hasn’t adopted the idea. The board shot down equal shares proposals in 2006 and again last year.

Thorstenson, himself a salmon seiner, vowed the Sitka Herring Group will offer the proposal once more in 2012, when the board is next scheduled to consider Sitka issues. He swears the majority of seiners support equal shares and is confident the board eventually will agree.

Says Thorstenson: “Are we waiting till

we kill somebody or what?”McAllister also believes the board even-

tually will approve equal shares.It would be an unusual, though

not unprecedented, management arrangement among Alaska commercial fisheries. Although some have questioned whether the Board of Fisheries has the legal authority to impose equal shares, state lawyer Lance Nelson says he believes it does.

But several forces are working against equal shares. One is the incredible abundance of Sitka herring these days, McAllister says.

This season’s harvest was a record 17,743 tons, taken during four openers totaling just over nine hours of fishing time, accord-ing to a preliminary tally from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

With so much herring around, the fishery doesn’t feel as if it’s broken and in need of fixing, McAllister says.

Another factor weighing against equal shares: Some highliners would rather gamble for outsized catches than settle for the average. Seiners are plowing big mon-ey into gear to find and net more herring, and making those investments moot by changing the rules will be hard for some guys to swallow, McAllister says.


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Equal shares also have met resistance in the past from processors, who fear equal shares might give fishermen more power to demand higher ex-vessel prices, Thorstenson says. But he believes the processors are beginning to come around.

Sitka herring are prized for their roe, which mainly goes to Japan for sale in gift boxes. The Department of Fish and Game reported fishermen and processors agreed to a preseason price of $550 per ton, down a bit from last year. That puts this year’s fishery value at around $10 million, with possible market bonuses still to come.

McAllister, talking by cell phone from aboard his 58-foot boat the Owyhee, says the current management system at Sitka encourages crews “jacked up on testosterone” to stampede for the equivalent of hundred-dollar bills in the water. He pines for a better way.

“At 57 years old, the testosterone doesn’t flow in my veins like it once did,” he says.

For now, to win at Sitka you gotta fight, McAllister says. May-be even trade a little hull paint. During this year’s fishery, he confesses, “I put the moves on a few guys that are sorry.” �

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The final judgment about a spectacular seiner collision this spring probably won’t be rendered until insurance companies face off in court — or reach an agreement before the judge makes an appearance.

The collision between the F/V Shady Lady and the F/V Confidence occurred during the first opening of the Sitka sound sac roe herring fishery. Video of the incident went viral on the Internet. Photos of the aftermath were exchanged around the world even before the final herring from the opening had been processed.

The initial collision left a hole the size of a basketball in the Shady Lady’s fo’c’sle crew quarters, right above the bunk where one of the owner’s daughters slept. The hole was well above the water line.

Exactly what happened depends on whom you talk to. But Dean Anderson, owner of the Shady Lady, believes the collision caused sufficient damage to put the vessel in peril just 90 minutes later.

The shock shuddered through the vessel. Screws popped out. The Confidence’s anchor left scratches on the wheelhouse win-dow of the Shady Lady. But the Shady Lady continued to close a sizeable set.

Later, as the tender Sea Warrior continued pumping, a bolt broke on the Shady Lady’s starboard vanging block, where the cable dead-ends. The weight of the set pulled the Shady Lady onto its beam.

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F/V Shady Lady is in distress following the first opener of the 2010 Sitka Sound herring fishery.

To save his boat, Anderson cut away the seine — a process that, with cables jammed aboard the Shady Lady, took 30 minutes. The rail was underwater. The Shady Lady’s lines were tangled with those of the tender. Shackles had to be cut.

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In this partially out-of-focus photo, F/V Confidence wears a smudge of Shady Lady’s paint on its bow. Sierra Anderson photo

starboard rail, Gary Suydam pulled up in the Jill-Anne-I to collect those not needed aboard the Shady Lady.

The skipper of the Confidence, Leroy Johns, downplayed the incident.

“There was a collision. … I don’t know this guy [Anderson] from Adam, so I can’t tell you a thing about them,” Johns said.

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Anderson is a well-known Chignik seiner, who just bought the Shady Lady from another longtime Chignik fisherman, Dan Veerhusen. Anderson had never fished Sitka herring before this season but has vast experience in herring fisheries in other areas of the state.

Anderson had his family on board in Sitka. His wife, Susan, had a vivid account of the collision:

“We were setting out our seine. We had maybe two-thirds out, setting to the left, when this guy came full speed at us and just rammed us. We were knocked to the deck. Everyone was in shock. I saw the guy’s [Johns’] face in the wheelhouse — completely no emotion.

“He never stopped to see if he had hurt anyone. He went straight on out. He rammed us and took off. It was nothing less than a hit-and-run,” she said.

And why?Susan Anderson believes it was intimidation. “This wasn’t just jostling. This was a ramming. I

think he was a blocker for his combine,” she said.Here’s Dean Anderson: “This was the first time

I’ve been actually rammed, literally rammed, by someone not setting seine. It was purposeful. It could be perceived as someone trying to intimidate a new player.

“The best fishermen in the state of Alaska partici-pate in the [Sitka] fishery. They’re great boat drivers. Every Sitka herring skipper knows exactly what’s going on, as vessels move around him, especially after the flare goes off. He knew what he was doing. No question about it.” Dean Anderson said.

As for authorities, here’s the official report from Alaska State Troopers:

On 3/24/10 at approximately 1712 hours, a collision occurred during the Sitka sac roe herring fishery. The seiner F/V Confidence, operated by Leroy Johns, age 46, of Sitka collided with the seiner F/V Shady Lady, operated by Dean Anderson, age 51, of Chignik.

Both vessels were damaged. However, substantial damage was caused to the Shady Lady. No injuries were reported and alcohol does not appear to be a factor. The USCG Marine Safety Office was contacted and is investigating this incident. Investigation continues.

The Coast Guard investigation is finished, at least on the local level, said Warrant Officer Scott Durrer in Sitka.

That Johns refused to accept the ticket was a first for Durrer. “I don’t think I’ve ever had someone refuse before,” Durrer said.

So, Durrer issued a civil penalty against Johns for $1,000. The maximum possible penalty is $27,500.

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As for the state, don’t expect more than the report, said Megan A. Peters, a spokeswoman for the Troopers.

“If anything, Troopers may issue a report to the D.A.’s office for review. There isn’t much law enforcement can do if what happened didn’t specifically violate a state statute,” she said.

Johns, the skipper of the Confidence, declined to describe the collision, but said, “I’ve never run into anyone deliberately. … I just got news in the mail of a claim against my insurance company. I’m a little distraught about the whole situation.”

A month after the collision, the Shady Lady was in the Delta Marine yard, and the estimate to repair the vessel from the collision and later events was $158,000.

It could have been much worse. When the Shady Lady was on its beam, water was well over the hatch coaming. As it was, there were only five to 10 gallons of water in the fish hold. “It was definitely prone to take on more water,” Dean Anderson said.

“It showed Danny Veerhusen’s [the previous owner’s] attention to detail related to water-tightness. In a situation like this, details

Dean Anderson stands atop the side of his wheelhouse as the Shady Lady rests on the tender Sea Warrior. Tom Elliot photo

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are everything,” he said.As for the Confidence, “I haven’t had a surveyor out to take

a look at the scratches on the hull to see if there was anything structural,” said Johns.

Ironically, even after the collision and up to the near-capsizing, the Shady Lady had a great herring season: The Sea Warrior had pumped out 150 tons of Anderson’s herring before he had to focus on damage control and cut away the seine. A substantial amount was abandoned with the net. �


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Trawlers wait near the mouth of the Columbia. What will they fish for – and where – next year?

The 2011 Pacific groundfish rationalization has shuffled the cards for West Coast trawlers.

Which hand will play the best in fish markets come Jan. 1?That’s the $264 million question, said Pete Leipzig, director of

the coastwide trawl group Fishermen’s Marketing Association.Opinions vary on how groundfish marketing may change when

the quota system kicks in. And no one knows for sure.But a few things are certain:• There will be more rockfish and flatfish available for harvest

than the fresh, domestic market can currently handle. Groundfish have been losing shelf space to farmed tilapia for years, resulting in lower ex-vessel prices for some groundfish species (by as much as 10 cents a pound) and catchable groundfish being left in the water.

• Sablefish will be the top-shelf target among the 86 groundfish species. Already, trawl permits up for sale are being priced largely on their shares of black cod, which can yield anywhere from $1 to $6 a pound.

• Fixed gear fishermen are eying trawl permits to aggregate more personal black cod quota, which they can target more efficiently.

• Fish buyers and boat owners with deep pockets are doubling and tripling up on permits per boat, making sure they have enough bycatch shares to go around.

As the reality of the catch share allocation sets in, more and more fishermen are looking at their species list and wondering whether it’s worth the risk to stay in the game.

Selling out: For Astoria dragger Kenny Johnson Jr., the answer was no. He sold his ownership of F/V Gods Will in April.

“The amount of fish I get to catch is half of what I’m catching now,” Johnson said. “There’s no way I can make it on half of what I’m making now. So I could make a move now or lose the boat down the road because I can’t make the payments on it.”

It wasn’t just that he had less desirable fish to catch. He was also missing shares of key bycatch species. His permit would get only about 2,300 pounds of halibut and 200 pounds of canary rockfish.

“If I made one bad tow, I have a possibility of getting shut down for the whole year,” he said.

The good news for him is he gets to keep running the boat for a percentage.

“I still got my job,” he said. “It was like getting a raise with benefits.”

For Johnson, it was safer to get out of debt and let someone else take the risk. A lot of fishermen in his position are looking at the same kinds of numbers and trying to build a new business plan: Should they pool their permits into a co-op with other boats, or would it be worth taking out a loan to buy a second permit? Perhaps their bycatch species would be better used in the hake fishery? As they exhaust the possibilities, more and more fishermen are losing confidence in the virtues of the looming IFQ.

“A handful of guys still think this is a good thing,” Johnson said. “Maybe down the road it will turn out that they’re right.”

Expanding markets: Those with a rosier outlook on rationaliza-tion are examining opportunities for expanding groundfish sales into live and frozen markets overseas.

Dover and English sole, in particular, are under-harvested, said

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Brad Pettinger, administrator of the Oregon Trawl Commission. So are chili pepper and yellowtail rockfish.

“Farmed fish has really taken a big hit,” he said. “We used to sell 4,000 to 5,000 tons of English sole. Now we sell 500 tons and our quota is 10,000 tons. It’s a lot of fish, and we’re leaving it there because the market that we had has been taken over by other products like tilapia.”

But Pettinger believes changing from the current management plan, with its two-month catch limits and unsellable bycatch, will be key to opening up the potential for more entrepreneurial marketing.

“I think people will be more engaged in trying to make their fish worth more,” he said. “You have an asset that’s been given to you. You’re going to go someplace to find a market for that. Usually the processors have had the keys to finding that market. This is going to take it out of their hands. You’ll have guys, instead of being pulled along, they’re going to be pushing. You’ve got 100-plus boats with quota saying, ‘Where can I go with this?’”

Processed in China: Leipzig said he hopes fishermen will start exploring alternatives such as moving fish into the Midwest, Texas, China, or Korea.

“People would like to eat fish,” he said. “Worldwide, there’s a shortage of white fish. There should be opportunities out there.”

The 2006 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that fish caught through catch share programs be processed by U.S. vessels or on American soil, which limits trawl fishermen from directly tapping new markets overseas once the IFQ system is in place. But Leipzig said an amendment to the law could open the door to shipping whole frozen lingcod to China, having it processed there, and then sold back into U.S. markets to save on labor.

“If people were interested in whole, round fish, it would be easy to deliver and pack,” he said. “It doesn’t have to go there by airfreight. It can travel slower because it doesn’t go bad.”

The fishery could also expand into live fish markets, he said.

“There’s a fairly stable market for rockfish and flatfish there as well,” he said. “It’s not going to become huge. It will get saturated quickly, but instead of 30 cents a pound you can get $10 for a flatfish.”

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The Seeker off the Oregon Coast: Many groundfish quota holders will abandon that fishery and apply bycatch quota to the hake fishery.

already begun tapping the whole-frozen sole market, where international compe-tition keeps prices low — but not a whole lot lower than the recent lows for Dover going into domestic fresh fillet markets. Whole round Dover sole can sell for 28 cents a pound, compared with a price of about 30 cents a pound for fish destined for the fresh fillet market. Yet that fresh price can dip down to 20 or 10 cents a pound for volume over the trip limit.

“It’s really similar to what guys are getting paid for regular stuff going on the fresh market,” Pettinger said.

Rod Moore, director of the West Coast Seafood Processors Association, said the cost of observers and plant moni-tors will actually tilt the scales toward frozen product.

“The exact opposite is going to hap-pen here from halibut and sablefish in Alaska,” he said, explaining how more flexible fishing schedules under the Alaskan quota system allowed fresh halibut to be marketed at a premium.

Shorter seasons: Under the ground-fish IFQ, the cost of mandatory moni-tors will force the fishery to condense fishing trips into a few months a year and freeze whatever can’t be sold into

the fresh market.Sablefish and short-spine thornyheads have

always had a frozen market, he said. But the sablefish catch limit will likely be reduced next year because stock assessments are down.

Still, those who can afford to are buying stock in sablefish. Others are selling out while they still can.

For the first two years of IFQs, there

will be a moratorium on transferring groundfish permits.

“The people who are in line to receive quota are looking at the projected amount of quota they would receive, and for the most part they’re incredibly disappointed,” said Paul Piercey, a broker with Dock Street Brokers in Seattle. “They don’t see how it will allow them to keep dragging.”

Piercey said there isn’t a glut of permits on the market, but they are “dribbling out.”

“I think some of them are seeing their best option is to sell before too many come on the market,” he said. “The ones that have sold at prices higher than they would’ve expected. … We’ve been finding a home for them just about as quickly as they’ve been coming on our website.”

Prices are all over the map. It used to be draggers were lucky to sell their permits for $90,000. In April, one permit sold for $600,000.

Longliners buying: Factors affecting the price of the permits include the shares of protected bycatch species and shares of desirable fish species: “Sablefish,” Piercey said. “Overwhelmingly, that would be the most desirable out there.”

And as far as who’s buying, the calls are “from hook and line guys — because they’re the ones who can be the most discriminate about what they’re catching,” Piercey said.

Pettinger said he, too, is worried about the allocation of bycatch species. Take yel-loweye rockfish, of which there are only around 17 metric tons available for all fish-eries coastwide and just 1,300 pounds for the trawl fleet. That means on average each of the 160 permits in the fleet has only 8 pounds to work with.


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“My fear is a fisherman could be doing everything to avoid them, and one fish could put a guy out of business,” he said. “People are expecting too much from the fleet,” Piercey said.

Some fishermen are worried the market for English, Dover, and Petrale sole won’t change, that tilapia and other white fish will continue to edge fresh groundfish fillets off of grocery shelves, and the price will be low enough that it won’t be worth going fishing.

Leipzig shares those concerns. “Potentially there’s a lot more fish of

the species we currently land,” he said. “If there’s too much fish, we could have some real problems — not just in the mar-keting sense. There are companies that own their own boats, and if the quota was large enough, their personal share of it could begin to displace other fishermen’s opportunity.”

Some boats might end up taking shorter trips and marketing the catch themselves. Others might plan their year out so they take just a few big trips.

“It will bring change,” said Leipzig. “I just don’t know what that change will be. We’re in a situation where any change has to be viewed as good.” �

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It has taken five years, but the loan program designed to help deck-hands buy shares of Bering Sea crab finally began its move through the regulatory pipeline last week.

“It was filed in the federal register as a proposed rule for 30 days. They will then review the comments, file a final rule, and the program will be imple-mented sometime after that,” said Linda Kozak, a Kodiak-based fishery consultant who works with crab quota share holders.

The crab loans are backed with $8 million in federal funding, and will operate in the same way as the program for halibut and sablefish. Crabbers will be eligible for 80 percent of the purchase price of crab catch shares. The low interest loans can be repaid for up to 25 years.

Leo Erwin, chief of financial services at NOAA Fisheries, said the crab loan program should be up and running by the end of the federal fiscal year, which is Sept. 30.

That’s not soon enough, say the crabbers. “We are asking them to please move

the process along faster so crab crew members can go out and find quota shares to purchase this summer, and utilize the loan program when the crab season starts in October,” Kozak said.

When the loan program comes on line it is not likely to fuel a run on buy-ing, predicted Jeff Osborn of Dock Street Brokers.

“Crew shares are available now in bits and pieces, and there has not been a lot of interest. The loans might increase it, but there are bigger issues in play,” Osborn said, referring to uncertainties about how the five-year-old crab catch share pro-gram might be tweaked in December.

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‘We are asking them to please move the process along faster so crab crew members can go out and fi nd quota shares to purchase this summer.’


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Oregon trollers out of Garibaldi will have their first shot since 2007 south of Cape Falcon.

The 2010 salmon trolling seasons are sending ripples of optimism through Washington and Oregon. But they flat-line at the California border.

Hope for California boats may lie in the 2011 season — a distant hope that higher jack counts, Sacramento River flows, and plush ocean krill promise better fishing to come.

It will be awhile before anyone knows if the 2010 Sacramento forecast of 245,000 returning adult Chinook holds true. It will be even longer before anyone can affix a run size to the expected returns for 2011.

El Nino bad news: But scientists note the returning 2011 fish entered the ocean in the spring of 2009, just as water temperatures were rising and an El Nino cycle was kicking in. Warmer ocean temperatures generally mean less food for juvenile fish and lower survival rates during their critical first year at sea.

Meanwhile, water shortages remain a challenge for out-migrating smolts in the Sacramento and Klamath river basins.

And while Sacramento River jack counts in 2009 showed signs of improvement, the actual numbers of jacks are so low that they may be leading fishery managers to artificially inflate the expected run sizes.

Last year, managers predicted 122,000 adult Chinook would be returning to the Sacramento River, and only got 39,500 back.

California trollers were reluctant to go fishing at all this year, seeing as the catch will be small and the runs are already fragile.

“When the numbers get this low, the models tend to over-predict,” said Zeke Grader, executive director of the 1,500-member Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.

“If we’re far off, it could do some real damage to the resource. Moreover, it’s probably about enough fish for five to 10 boats having an average-to-good season.”

Grader said California boats might end up going out not to make money but to prevent being boxed out of future fisheries and disas-ter relief money. His group is asking the National Marine Fisheries

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California salmon fishermen, bruised from two years of no fish-ing and facing a heavily curtailed season, are maintaining their fight to reform how water is managed in the Sacramento River Delta even as the politics surrounding it intensifies.

After being dealt a token commercial salmon season by the Pacific Fishery Management Council in April, fishermen were watching a massive water bond on the November ballot they believe might undermine the future of the industry by institutionalizing policies that are bad for salmon in the vital Sacramento River.

The $11.1 billion bond is backed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and irrigators who rely on the delta’s huge pumps, which can kill salmon and even reverse flows in some parts of the watershed. New dams, water projects, and devel-opment of a canal to pump water around the delta to cities and farms to the south are part of the package.

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Service to make sure trollers won’t lose status in the fishery as a result of not going fishing this year.

Federal aid: West Coast communities have received $170 million in federal disaster relief to cope with the last two years of fishery closures. Grader said his group will be pressing for disaster relief funds again this year.

South of Point Arena, California has two four-day openers in July. Between Point Arena and Horse Mountain, there are two

four-day July openers and two quota fisheries of 18,000 Chinook in July and 9,375 Chinook

in August.

Jeff Feldner, a Newport troller and Oregon Salmon Commis-sion board member, said it’s been great to see all the activity on the docks of Oregon this year, but he’s still bracing for another nail-biter next year.

A report published in April by the Northwest Fisheries Science Center detailed less favorable ocean conditions for 2011 returning fish in Oregon and Washington compared with 2010 runs.

“I don’t think any of us are expecting we’re going to have any easier time with season-setting next year,” said Feldner. “Fishermen are thinking it’s going to be a close call again.”

Oregon trollers are still coasting on the news that they can actually take a gander at the fishery this year. Many have been

sighted buying new gear and fixing up their boats after two years of dormancy.

“I don’t know if people are expecting a lot of fish,” said Feldner. “Just the opportunity is really generating a lot of optimism.”

High demand: Demand for fresh salmon is also looking optimal.

“I’m hearing a lot of interest from small, local buyers to get them directly,” Feldner said. “A lot of the fish will be worth $100 each to the fisherman. That’s a pretty good incentive.”

South of Cape Falcon, there was a May fishery and there will be a July and an August 1,500-Chinook quota fishery from the California border to Humbug Mountain. From Cape Falcon to Humbug Mountain the season is open from May 1 through July 6, with four four-day openers later in July and an August fishery.

Competition down: Darus Peake, chairman of the Oregon Salmon Commission, said markets should be ready to pay gener-ously for fresh, wild-caught salmon, even though a lot of restau-rants switched to farmed salmon during the season closures of 2008 and 2009.

This year the Icelandic volcano that erupted in April disrupted the arrival of Norwegian farmed fish. An earthquake and disease problems in Chile have stunted the farmed-fish industry there.

“I don’t see any competition,” Peake said. “No major amount of fish.”

The outlook is even brighter for trollers up north.Jim Olson, vice president of the Washington Trollers Association,

said he’s expecting a lot more Washington boats will go fishing this year with the 56,000 Chinook and 12,800 coho commercial alloca-tion north of Cape Falcon. The trend has been 80 to 100 boats, but there are 140 permits in the state’s fleet.

And with twice as many Chinook up for grabs this year, com-pared with 2009, more people are looking to get in on the action.

“There are guys running around looking for permits to lease,” Olson said.

He’s hoping there won’t be a lot of coho around to interfere with Chinook fishing.

“Why would you go for a $6 fish when you could go for a $60 fish?” said Olson.

May and June are dedicated Chinook fisheries north of Cape Falcon, with a 42,000 quota, and from July through September, trollers can catch 14,000 Chinook and 11,800 coho too. Trip limits are 150 Chinook and 50 coho.

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“Economically, it doesn’t pan out,” said Grader. “There just isn’t enough fish. We’ll get a little fishing for Fort Bragg, and not much else. Local restaurants are going to be scrambling for that.”

Lots of krill: But he said there are reasons to expect better things to come in 2011. “Even if it’s El Nino, the ocean is full of krill, and jack counts are looking better,” he said. “I think we could craft a worthwhile season for next year.”

the Klamath River’s four main dams, called for as part of an agreement signed by California, Oregon, fishermen, tribes, and farmers in February. That river also affects how much fishing is allowed in California and Oregon.

Many of the groups that support dam removal have said they will not support the bond.

In the meantime, a federal judge has imposed delta pumping limits to protect threatened runs of salmon. Fishermen also are calling for a meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who in February angered fellow Democrats by proposing to circumvent those rules to allow increased pumping.

Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations Executive Director Zeke Grader said the last time the salmon industry held a formal meeting with Feinstein was about 20 years ago in Eureka.

“She’s constantly hearing from agriculture,” Grader said, “but she really doesn’t hear from us.” – John Driscoll

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F/V Jamie MarieBOAT OF THE MONTH

The Jamie Marie during her annual haul-out at Delta Marine in Seattle.

There’s an old cliché — “with challenge comes opportunity” — generally heard in motivational seminars for middle-manage-ment business suits.

But Ben Downs of the Jamie Marie has embraced the slogan as the West Coast groundfish fleet faces rationalization and some draco-nian bycatch restrictions.

“There’s a way we can catch the targeted fish and miss the rest. We just have to figure out how,” Downs said.

Right now, Downs has been looking at trawl and escapement designs pioneered by the Alaska pollock fleet to help reduce bycatch of salmon. He’s also working closely with net manufacturers, using some of the newest fibers on the market to craft nets best suited to the Northwest fisheries.

But dragging new designs and new cord through the water tells you less than half the story. You have to know how the net acts and how fish react. So, Downs has installed an acoustic monitoring system on the trawl — equipment generally not used in the Northwest fishery until now — and he’s eager to mount underwater video cameras to monitor the fish.

Unlike many successful skippers, Downs wasn’t born into a fishing family. One day, when he and his dad were on a sport fishing vacation to Morro Bay, a commercial salmon boat was in a nearby slip.

“The guy invited me aboard and asked if I wanted some rockfish. He gave me a cup of coffee off an old diesel stove. I went back and told my dad I was going to become a commercial fisherman.”

His dad knew a commercial fisherman out of Coos Bay — Roy Gunnari. “His crewman got thrown into jail, so I got a job. I learned most of the basics from Roy.”

That was in 1976. Over the years, Downs owned several boats, but disagreements — with business partners and a divorce-bound wife — left him running boats for other owners.

Before the Jamie Marie, his latest gig was running F/V Conquest for Frank Dulcich of Pacific Seafood.

But when the skipper of the Jamie Marie — Randy Walker — died in 2007, Downs moved into the wheelhouse. Ron Miller owns the vessel. He preferred to let Downs do the talking for this article.

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As with a growing number of operations, the Jamie Marie has alternating crews. The steel stays busy most of the year, while fishermen get time off.

“You can’t afford to let $2 million of invest-ment stay tied up to the dock,” Downs said.

Miller runs the Jamie Marie for Dungeness crab, while Downs chases shrimp, hake, and groundfish during the rest of the calendar.

Make that, Downs used to chase ground-fish. Once rationalization grabs the fishery in 2011, there’s no way the Jamie Marie can fish groundfish and stay legal.

Downs has figured his bycatch allocations that will go into effect next year. If he had been restrained by the same allocations this year, he would have exceeded the halibut quota on his first trip, exceeded his slope rockfish quota with his second set, and exceeded his Petrale quota on the third.

“I’d be over my IFQs in the first three tows of the year,” Downs said. “You go over just one,

and you’re done for the year.”So, is there a solution? You don’t target bottomfish.In 2011, the Jamie Marie will apply all of its bycatch quota to hake.“With whiting, we see these [bycatch] species in small numbers.

We’ll take our groundfish IFQ and apply it to the whiting fishery. Whiting is our big moneymaker,” Downs said.

But Downs and other skippers aren’t resigned to giving up on groundfish forever.

“We’ll figure this out. It’ll just take some time,” Downs said.And therein rests one allure that the Jamie Marie holds for Downs:

“What matters most is having the freedom to try some things, to improve.”

“The owner gives me a lot of leeway with new technology. He gives me room to take that boat and make money with it. We’ve really been successful.”

And it’s not just the skipper: “My crew comes up with ideas all the time. We try everything, and sometimes some of it works.”

When it comes to IFQs, Downs expects the Alaska experience to be repeated off the West Coast.

“In the long term, this is going to be a nice business, like up in Alaska. We’ll figure this out, but not everyone’s going to make it.” �

Getting startedSKIPPER BEN DOWNS sees a good future for young men and

women who become commercial fishermen.“We will have an industry. There are lots of fish out there, more

than when I started in ’78.” For success, Downs has three rules:

• Pay your taxes. “A lot of fishermen lose their boats because they don’t pay their taxes.”

• “Be prepared to work as hard as you can. There’s no easy way into this business.”

• “Keep an open mind. Once you think you know it all, you’re ready to lose.”

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Ben Downs at home.Who needs flume boxes? Knee-deep in Wynoochee River, skipper Ben Downs tests a new net design.

Normally, when we spotlight a Boat of the Month, we devote a relatively small space to the products and services the skipper uses.

This year, however, Ben Downs had a lot to say about the Jamie Marie — and what he and owner Ron Miller use to keep the boat working. It’s good information, so we decided to print it all.

Here are some of the products and services Ben Downs uses to keep the F/V Jamie Marie fishing.

Vessel type: Trawler, crabber, tenderBuilder: Mid-Coast Marine Oregon Inc., Coos Bay

Marine architect: Mid-Coast Marine OregonLengthening: Nichols Marine Ways, 1992Sponsoned: Fred Wahl Marine Construction, 2002Annual haul-out: Delta Marine, Seattle — Ron Miller, the

owner of the Jamie Marie, and his family have a long history with Delta Marine.

“It is always a pleasure doing business there,” Downs said. Permit broker: Dock Street BrokersMain: Cummins KTA38 MO 856 HP Diesel, Bevis air clutch front

PTO with three-pump drive for hydraulic pumps Exhaust: Vertical dry, lagged. Passes through P&S mast supports

with inline mufflers.Hydraulic hoses: Harbor Marine & Supply, WestportService for main: Westport Diesel Service“Owners Mark and Julie Woolsey take care of our entire diesel engine

needs. Mark will come to the boat day or night to keep our engines going. In the Pacific whiting fishery, one day missed means $30,000 lost. In the last three years, Mark has overhauled all three engines in the Jaime Marie,” Downs said.

Reduction gear: Twin Disc MG 530, 4.94 to 1“Mill Log Marine in Kent, Wash., takes care of all our trans-

mission needs. In May 2008, right before Pacific whiting sea-son started, Mill Log came to Westport and did free trans-mission inspections for the fleet. Their mechanics found a problem with our clutch plates and replaced them before the season started. The 2008 season was our best ever,” Downs said.

Auxiliaries: Cummins NT-855, 300 hp, 125 kW 120/208 VAC / 3 phase AC generator; Front Drive Bevis air clutch PTO with Twin Disc pump drive for three hydraulic pumps

Generator: John Deere 6068 TFM 50, 220 hp, New Age 115 kW — 120/208 VDC 3 phase AC generator

Lubricants: Mobil DEL-VAC 15/40 multi-grade, supplied by Masco Petroleum, Westport

Hydraulics: On the main, three 60-gallon Denison pumps.On the 855 Cummins, the three hydraulic pumps are 40-gallon

Vickers.On the John Deere, the hydraulic pump is a 30-gallon Vickers.Hydraulics service: Harbor Hydraulics, Aberdeen, and Warren

Junes LLC, Astoria

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R-Plus deck walk-in freezer with a Larkin blast blower and Copeland motor-driven compressor

Refrigeration service: Harbor Refrigeration serviceman, Pete Feneidi, who fished on the Jamie Marie when it was new.

“Pete and I have spent many late nights keeping the refrigeration working properly,” Downs said.

Retailer for miscellaneous fittings:• Harbor Marine & Supply• Englund Marine & Supply“Englund Marine is the backbone of the marine

supply business from Westport to Eureka. The needs of the fleet on the central West Coast are unique, and Englund Marine has been outstand-ing in meeting those needs,” Downs said.

Bait: Ocean Gold Seafoods, WestportWeb:• England Marine Supply• Net Systems, Bainbridge Island• Swan Net USA, SeattleWeb hanging:• Net Systems, Bering Sea combination

trawl• Swan Net, mid-water trawl“We got our new Swan trawl in the propeller

in the fall of 2007. Swan showed up at 7 p.m. that night, while we were unloading whiting, and put our net on their truck. After a long night of working in the net in Seattle, they rolled the net back on the boat as the sun came up at 7 a.m. You have got to love that,” Downs said.

• Net Systems, western shrimp trawl, 265’ 11” head rope/footrope

“I showed up in the Net Systems office on

Bainbridge Island in January 2008 with an idea for a totally new design for a shrimp net. I was talking to Steve Patterson, the salesman for Alaska, when Koji Tamura, one of Net Systems design engineers, looked up from his work station and saw my model.

“Steve introduced us and Koji asked if he could take a look at my model. About that time Mario Perez, the shrimp net salesman for Mexico and other countries, introduced himself and showed me a model of a net made of their new webbing, Dyneema.

“Within a few minutes, all four of us retired to their conference room and started working on a shrimp net for a 1,000-hp boat that would both work on the bottom and as a mid-water net. This net is the one I use today,” Downs said.

Crab gear: Trilogy crab pots, BellinghamPower block: Warren Junes, Astoria“I have known Warren Junes for six years and trust his opinion on

crab blocks, conveyer equipment, and almost all hydraulic equipment,” Downs said.

Winches: Two hydraulic trawl winches with piston motors and stainless auto spoolers

Other deck machinery: Two Gearmatic hydraulic hook-line winches on forward mast with fairlead blocks. Gearmatic hydrau-lic hook-line winch on aft port gantry. Hydraulic warping drum on aft starboard gantry, Marco 17” hydraulic line hauler block on davit with hydraulic arm. Forward hydraulic net reel and stanchions. Hydraulic pot launcher fitted on main deck starboard side at bulwarks. Hydraulic net reel on aft gantry. Marco 24” hydraulic line hauler block. One hydraulic Marco anchor wench on bow.

A 40,000-pound tow of Dover sole off the Washington Coast.



On the deck of the Jamie Marie after a 40 minute tow that produced 12,000 pounds of shrimp.

Trawl doors:• Thyboron Type 2, 104” for bottom trawling• Net System Series 2000 mid-water trawl doors, 5.5 meter• Net System alloy mid-water door, 9 meter for the shrimp net“Net Systems trawl door designer Bob Mennucii has been working

with me to identify what characteristics a trawl door would need to spread my shrimp net at a very slow speed — under 2 knots.

“We have decided to try an older style of mid-water door with less camber and no vents, as Bob thinks this would have a better water flow at low speed. Also, I will need a door twice the size as normal for a 1,000-hp vessel because of the slow speed.

“Bob has a set of 9 meter alloy mid-water doors that I will adapt a four-chain pull on the front, like a wood door, for stability,” Downs said.

Trawl sensors: Notus Electronics Trawl Master“I met Notus Marketing Manager Francis Parrot at the Jensen

Communications electronics show in April of 2009, and I have not looked at trawling the same since Francis opened my eyes to the worldwide coop-eration within the industry to develop more economic and eco-friendly ways to trawl and gain a better understanding of what is happening on the ocean floor.

“I was not aware that there were places on the Internet a fisherman could go to look for answers to some of the more elusive questions in trawling. The trawl sensors Notus provided me with, and the instruc-tions Francis gave me on how to apply them, have proved indispensable in increasing our catch per unit effort by 30 percent.

“In the Pacific whiting fishery, fishing to maintain door spread seems to be the dominant factor. Bottom trawling wire length appears to be the most important variable for door stability. With my new shrimp net, after one trip of constant adjustments, the best spread I could get on my shrimp net was 83 feet. The shrimp gear should have a door spread of 210 feet. I brought the net back to the dock and started looking for better ways to spread the net.

“I have decided — after talking to Bob McLwaine at Cantrawl Nets and looking at some of the experiments he has done with pulling on the center of the head rope to increase spread — that I would try this, along with Net Systems slow 9-meter door.

“Francis is going to help me reconfigure my Notus sensors to show a true representation of what the three bridles are doing. I don’t think this could be done without the Notus sensors,” Downs said.

Chart system: • Coastal Explorer 2009• Nobeltec Navigation 9.2• Olex 7.18• P-sea Windplot ll for Windows 7.19VMS: Faria WatchDogElectronics: “Most of the electronics, and all of the new electronics, were pur-

chased from and serviced by Jensen Communications of Warrenton. Jensen has been handling all of my electronic needs for the last six years,” Downs said.

Sounders:• Furuno FCV -261 color video sounder• Furuno FCV-1100L color LCD sounder• Furuno CH-12 sonarRadio(s) and servicing:• Two Icom ICM-504VHF transceivers• One Icom IC-2100H transceiver• One Icom ICM802 SSB transceiver• Standard Horizon loud hailer VLH 3000• Simrad PI32 catch monitor• Fruno CN10B head rope sounder• Icom automatic antenna tuner AT-140• Bridge Watch monitorRadar: Furuno NavNet RadarGPS: Three Furono GPS WAAS Navigator unitsAutopilot: Simrad AP50Weather service: WeatherWorks Galley equipment:• GE 4 burner AC range with oven and sea rails• Maytag side/side refrigerator/freezer• GE microwave oven• 19” Broksonic TV/VCR player recorder• Whirlpool stacked clothes washer and dryer in main headGalley provision retailers: Ted’s Red Apple grocery, Westport;

Costco warehouseFire suppression system: One 120-pound CO2 fixed system

in engine room with remote control and automatic; two each 15-pound CO2 systems, 10-pound and five-pound chemical portables located in proper locations.

Hatches: Freeman HatchesBuyer: Ocean Gold Seafoods, Washington Crab Producers,

Pacific Coast SeafoodsSurvival suits: Stearns Life rafts: Switlik six-person EPIRB: Alden Satfind 406 MHz EPIRBSafety equipment retailers: Englund Marine SupplyKnives: Victorinox“We buy Victorinox knives by the box and use them for everything

from screwdrivers to paint scrapers. They also make a great cutting tool,” Downs said. �

F/V Jamie Marie continued from page 23BOAT OF THE MONTH

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The first wholesale value of Alaska salmon

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The resourceYOUR BUSINESS

The Fraser River – once one of the West’s great sockeye resources – now is an industrial river, from big timber and mining upstream to industry near its mouth.

Before the Cohen Commission started its inquiry into the mysterious collapse of the Fraser River sockeye run, it had to whittle down the number of applicants for “standing.”

Everybody with a stake in the Fraser River sockeye fishery wanted a say, and everyone had a lawyer representing them to do the saying. Groups with “standing” may make oral submissions to the commission and propose and cross-examine witnesses.

The commission announced April 15 that it had narrowed down the number of groups with standing to 20. A total of 52 participants are represented either individually or in a coalition.

Potential federal funding was possible for legal counsel for participants.

Among the 20 with standing are the governments of Canada and British Colum-bia, the Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC), and the Aquaculture Coalition, including Alexandra Morton. Seven different aborigi-nal coalitions or groups, three separate com-mercial fishing organizations, two sport fishing groups, Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association, and the Seafood Producers Association of B.C. also won standing.

The U.S. share: U.S. fishermen, who are entitled to 16.5 percent of the Fraser River sockeye harvest, have no standing, other

by Michel Drouin

First job for Fraser sockeye inquiry:

Deciding who can speak

than indirect representation by the Pacific Salmon Commission.

Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harperannounced the inquiry on Nov. 6, 2009, naming British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen to lead it. The com-mission is to investigate the collapse and produce an interim report by Aug. 1 of this year and a final report by May 1, 2011.

The full scope of the inquiry is two fold:• To review and assess any previous

examinations, investigations, or reports — and the government’s response.

• To investigate and make independent findings of the causes for the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon, the current state of Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks, and long-term projections for those stocks, and to develop recommendations for improving the future sustainability of the sockeye salmon fishery in the Fraser River, including, as required, any changes to the policies, practices, and procedures of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

The 2009 Fraser River sockeye run was eagerly anticipated. Commercial fishermen had not had a chance to target Fraser River sockeye for years and the anticipated 10 to 13 million run was supposed to provide opportunities for all sectors of southern licensed salmon vessels.

By mid-summer 2009, however, it was apparent that the run was in trouble, and by September, the expected fish failed to appear. The Pacific Salmon Commission estimated on Sept. 11 that the entire run size was 1.37 million fish.

Former Fraser River gillnetter John Cummins, member of parliament for Delta Richmond–East and a former parliamen-tary critic for the Conservative Party, said that after dangerously low returns occurred in the mid-’90s, there were a number of investigations of the Fraser River fishery.

But those investigations lacked the ability to subpoena witnesses and take

U.S. fishermen stuck at 16.4 percent of Fraser harvestNo matter what happens in 2010, the U.S. share of Fraser River sockeye is 16.5 percent of the

total allowable catch.According to the Pacific Salmon Treaty signed in 1985, the United States catch in areas

managed by the Fraser River panel of the Pacific Salmon Commission is to not exceed 16.5 percent.

If there had been a 1 million allowable catch of the 10 million sockeye expected in 2009, United States fisheries would have had a harvest allowance of 165,000 fish.

If the allowable catch had been 2 million, the U.S. fisheries would have been able to target 330,000.

A more practical example of what was expected in 2009 is the 2005 fishery. The Fraser River sockeye run size was 8,720,000 sockeye, with 2,321,600 caught.

Canadian commercial fishermen got 128,600, and Canadian Aboriginal fisheries got 934,600, for a total of 1,063,200.

U.S. treaty Indian fisheries got 136,500, and U.S. non-Indian fisheries got 58,700, for a total U.S. catch of 195,200 sockeye. – Michel Drouin


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testimony under oath, leaving critical questions unanswered, including the impact of DFO’s management of the fishery. Because of perceived weaknesses in those investigations, there were calls for a judicial inquiry, Cummins said.

The current Conservative government promised a judicial inquiry during the 2006 campaign, but “Efforts to keep this

commitment were fought at every turn by DFO and its allies,” Cummins said.

Collapse spurs probe: It was only the 2009 collapse that finally prompted the government to act.

Seiner Brent Melan reflected the opinion of many other B.C. fishermen when he said he is having a hard time believing any good will come out of the judicial commission hearings.

“I believe no one is actually really speaking for the fish,” he said. “I find it very sad that we have all been watching the demise of one of our greatest salmon rivers, and DFO has abdicated their responsibility to protect it at all costs.

“I guess risk-averse management means [you] just put the commercial fishery out of business, and that has almost been achieved. It’s one of the great injustices of our time. I really wish the salmon could be around for many more centuries, as it already has been, but it seems like an impossibility. All commercial fishermen want to see it survive because, without it, it means we are done too.

“I am also concerned that to be part of the inquiry, I am told we need representation through a lawyer to make a presentation,” Melan added.

“I’d like to have Alexandra Morton and Phil Eidsvik represent me, because I believe in their honesty and integrity, which seems to be in short supply when dealing with the bureaucrats,” he added.

Phil Eidsvik of the B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition said the inquiry has been a long time coming since the coalition first demanded a full judicial inquiry into the management of the Fraser


Uncertainty reigns in 2010 Fraser forecast

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has been reviewing its forecast-ing methods, and because there contin-ues to be a high degree of uncertainty in Fraser River forecasting, DFO is basing its forecasting on a range of returns.

“In 2009 we saw a very poor return and declines in productivity,” said Jeff Grout, DFO’s regional resource salmon manager. “Conservation is going to continue to be a priority.

“The in-season assessment of Fraser River sockeye return, based on our test fishing and Mission sonic sampling program, will be the key for determining the abundance of Fraser river sockeye.”

The forecast models took in a range of scenarios, and DFO is calculating there is a 1 in 4 chance that the run size will be 7 million fish, Grout said.

“Productivity of the stock is the key,” Grout said. “If we have low productivity as in 2009, and if it continues in 2010, it could be much lower than that.” – Michel Drouin


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River fishery in 1992.Lawyers to the trough: Unfortunately,

the process of gaining “standing” invites lawyers to the trough, Eidsvik said.

The first challenge for Cohen was to get the number of lawyers down to a reasonable number, Eidsvik said.

“There were 45 lawyers there,” Eidsvik said.

With more than 50 groups seeking standing, the commission encouraged groups with common interests to form coalitions. In the end the number was

settled at the 20 accepted. “While the commission received 50

applications for standing — a number we

believe is higher than any other federal commission of inquiry — Commissioner Cohen determined that several applicants

with similar concerns should share in single grants of standing, bringing us down to 20,” said Brian Wallace, senior commission

counsel.“Those who did not receive

standing can still be involved in the commission’s process by attending public hearings and making written submissions, which will be posted on our website.”

Wallace told Pacific Fishing that even 20 was still a large number.

“It is going to be complex. We’ll hope for cooperation,” he said. “I have been impressed by the applicants who have on their own joined with others. I expect there will be cooperation, and it will be necessary to make it work.”

First hearings: The commission’s formal work was to start with short hearings for a few days in June, and the commission planned to put out a discussion paper that will identify the issues that require further participation

“This is a preliminary hearing,” Wal-lace explained. “There are so many pos-sible issues, so we will narrow them down and give the participants opportunity to comment. There will be evidentiary hear-ings in the fall.”

Wallace defended the commission’s choice of David Levy as a fisheries research consultant.

Member of Parliament Cummins had claimed that Levy’s 2006 report for the Sierra Club on B.C. salmon declines clearly showed a bias for terminal inland fisheries.

“It is a serious error for Justice Cohen to select as his science advisor someone who has already concocted a solution to the problem before the inquiry has heard any evidence,” Cummins wrote.

“We looked hard to find the best qualified person we could find to manage our sci-ence program,” Wallace told Pacific Fishing. “Dr. Levy is very well qualified with a lot of experience and expertise. You have to get it somehow. Everybody we looked at had a point of view.”

Wallace said that Levy was managing the science work of the commission, but that there will be other scientists retained as well, and all the scientific work will face the scrutiny of commission participants.

“It is not the final conclusion, and the participants will have an opportunity to challenge all the scientific evidence that goes before the commission,” Wallace said. �

The resource continued from page 27YOUR BUSINESS

‘I believe no one is actually really speaking for the fi sh. I fi nd it very sad that we have all been watching the demise of one of our greatest salmon rivers and DFO has abdicated their responsibility to protect it at all costs.’


Bristol Bay oilYOUR BUSINESS by Dan Strickland

Dan Strickland is the Bristol Bay fisheries liaison for the Alaska Marine Conservation Council.

On March 31, President Obama announced that Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea were so valuable, and their fisheries

Dan Strickland is the Bristol Bay fisheries liaison for the Alaska Marine

It’s time for permanent protection for Bristol Bay

A hellish inferno consumed the oil drilling rig before it finally sank in the Gulf of Mexico this spring.

so critical for the nation, that they were pulled off the leasing schedule for offshore oil and gas development.

Most folks heard this proclamation and logically thought that the debate had been put to rest. The reality, however, is far differ-ent, and the importance of understanding this cannot be overstated.

The region has come to be known by the ineloquent sobriquet “NAB,” short for North Aleutian Basin. A look at the history of the area shows that it was leased by a consortium of oil companies in 1986, a lease that was then litigated until the Exxon Valdez augured in to Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound three years later. Protections were rapidly put in place as a result of the devastation wrought by that oil spill — protections both congressional and presidential.

Both forms proved to be less than lasting safeguards. Congressional protection was easily withdrawn because it was based on appropriations bills, which required annual approval.

Essentially Congress voted every year to allocate no funds for leasing the North Aleutian Basin. With rising gas prices and strident voices advocating for more offshore drilling, this protection evaporated in 2003, when Congress lifted its ban on oil and gas development in Bristol Bay.

Over their respective terms, Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton all signed a withdrawal, reinforcing, and augmenting protection for the NAB. This is precisely the same form President

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Bristol Bay oil continued from page 29YOUR BUSINESSObama signed earlier this year. In 2007, George W. Bush rescinded nearly 20 years of protection and, with the stroke of a pen, opened up the North Aleutian Basin to leasing. The gauntlet had been thrown down, and the battle was on again.

Native groups and fishermen who had risen to the challenge before readily took up the sword. Nothing about the value of the fisheries or the worth of traditional subsistence resources had changed. Salmon, cod, crab, pollock, halibut, and groundfish — the species that had been the economic engine of Southwest Alaska and nurtured subsistence harvests for thousands of years — were as valuable, if not more so, now.

The oil companies touted new technology, which they claimed made it possible to operate offshore in an environmentally responsible manner. But pesky accidents around the world kept revealing that these promises were unsubstantiated. A blowout occurred off Australia, which spilled oil for 74 days before being plugged. Indonesian fishermen cried out that their fish stocks were devastated, only to be met with detached disbelief and litigation.

In April of this year, the Deepwater Horizon rig off Louisiana, a state-of-the-art operation that had set the world record for deepwater drilling (more than 35,000 feet) just the year before, exploded and burned spectacularly for a day before it sank into the depths.

Gas prices to rise: It is reasonable to assume that gas prices will rise in the future as fossil fuels become increasingly scarce. As oil companies push into new territories, reaching ever further for the last reserves, it’s inevitable that they will raise the cry to open the North Aleutian Basin to drilling.

The argument will be that technology can meet the challenges, that oil recovery under conditions of darkness, ice, and storms is feasible, and that fisheries can co-exist with oil development.

We’ve fought this war twice now, at considerable expense of time and sweat by a multitude of people. The essence of the debate will not change: Sustainable fisheries that provide almost half of our nation’s seafood harvest, that contribute close to $2.5 billion a

year to the economy and generate thousands of jobs, should trump a desperate attempt to satisfy a self-destructive addiction to oil, with its inherent, significant risks. The repetitive and predictable accidents on offshore platforms underscore that this is a dirty business. If oil is drilled, oil is spilled, and crab and fish and marine mammals don’t do at all well in an oiled environment.

We have the political momentum. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar called Bristol Bay a “national treasure,” and President Obama himself urged us to not fight “the same old battles over and over again.”

Let’s listen this time. If the next president bends to oil industry pressure, all it will take is a signature to begin the struggle all over again.

It’s a truism in life that rarely is anything permanent. All we can do is make it as long-lasting as possible.

A presidential withdrawal comes and goes on the whim of one individual. Legislative action may be the path to follow with respect to the North Aleutian Basin. Previously, the congressional moratorium was general and did not specify Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea.

A standalone bill which directly targets protection for the North Aleutian Basin, if passed now, would require far more effort (and votes) to undo.

Please put your voice and your vote behind protection for Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea, which will protect them for per-petuity. A good place to start is the Alaska Marine Conservation Council: www.akmarine.org.

Let’s leave our children this legacy, rather than the shadow of a future battle they may have to enjoin. �

Dan Strickland is a longtime Alaskan fisherman and writer who now works for the Alaska Marine Conservation Council. He resides in Palmer with his wife and family.

This satellite photo shows an oil slick swirling in the Gulf of Mexico just off Louisiana and the delta of the Mississippi. Once the doomed oil drilling rig slipped beneath the water, the spectacle became a tragedy. Tar balls eight inches across washed onto alabaster beaches. Newspapers reported short-ages of regional shellfish and fish. Oil giant BP said it was paying out $10 million a day in efforts to limit the spill and plug the well. Many observers said $10 million wasn’t enough. Meanwhile, the three companies involved in operating the doomed oil rig visited Congress and each blamed the others for the disaster. In mid-May, Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen said, “It has the potential to be catastrophic.”


by Anne HillmanLETTER FROM UNALASKABig fi ne for Westward, salmon exluders, and opies

Westward fine: Westward Seafoods in Unalaska was fined $570,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency in April for violating the U.S. Clean Air Act and the Emergency Responders and Community Right to Know Act.

The violations included operating generators without air control equipment, which releases smog-causing, lung-irritating nitrogen oxide into the atmosphere. The company also burned fuel with too much sulfur in it and did not report 80,000 pounds of ammonia to local emergency responders.

All of the violations occurred between 2002 and 2006, but prosecuting the case took many years in part because Westward failed to supply required information to the state and then the feds, even after more than a half-dozen requests.

In addition to paying more than half a million dollars, the company has to implement new training, reporting, and management plans to make sure such violations don’t happen again. A Westward spokesperson said they have been coop-erating with the EPA since 2007, have cleaned up the pollution, and are running a responsible operation in Unalaska.

� � � �Small boat harbor:

After months and months of sometimes excruciating deliberation, Unalaska’s city council has finally made decisions about the new Carl E. Moses small boat harbor. The new harbor will have three floats, two of which will be equipped with individual slips for various sizes of boats. Each slip will have power and water hook-ups.

The third float will be left without slips so larger boats can tie up next to it two-boats deep. That float also will have a drive-down working dock, though as of this writing, its specifications are being reconsidered one more time.

The new harbor also will have showers and restrooms, unlike the other harbors in town.

In the end, the city will spend more than $43 million on the proj-ect. That doesn’t include the federal money used to build the break-waters, which will total more than $12 million when the funding is finally secured.

The inner harbor project should be completed in November 2011, even if the breakwaters are not complete.

� � � �Opie season: The Bering Sea snow crab season went rather

smoothly this year, and almost all of the 43.2 million pound total allowable catch was harvested by early April.

Unlike last year, the ice didn’t come down early to block off the fishing grounds or close the harbor into St. Paul. The storms held off until late in the season too.

Postcard: Opilio fishing in the Bering Sea in 2006 as photographed by Joshua Roper. This year, the opilio fishery went smoothly, with almost all of the 43.2 allowable catch harvested by April 1.

The major complicating factor was Bairdi Tanner crabs. Fishermen had to spend a lot more time on deck sorting their crab because Western District Bairdi was closed. That meant they couldn’t take any as incidental catch. They also had to watch out for hybrids, which count as either Bairdi or opies, depending on their eye color and the shape of their upper lips.

� � � �Salmon excluders: Gear developers from the North Pacific

Fisheries Research Foundation and fishermen seem to have finally fine-tuned a Chinook salmon excluder that’s effective. The flapper design was first developed in 2007. The flexible, weighted panel

changes the water flow in the upper part of the net. Salmon swim differently than pollock and can take advantage of this slower moving water to swim out of the escape hatch.

The excluder can be inserted into nets that fishermen already own with only slight adapta-tions. John Gauvin and others tested the design in a flume tank in order to fine-tune it and get the net to form the right shape.

For it to be as effec-tive as possible for each individual boat, it needs to be weighted properly. Gauvin says a technician will be available at the beginning of “B” season to help out any boats that

want to use the device. The motivation is high: The Chinook salmon bycatch hard cap

goes into place in 2011. � � � �

Bottom trawl nets: It turns out that bottom trawl nets, which scrape along the bottom of the ocean, do in fact kill crabs that live on the bottom of the ocean, but there is a way to lessen the impact.

Craig Rose of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center says that the nets themselves kill between 10 and 30 percent of the crabs they contact, depending on the species and which part of the net hits them.

The sweepers only kill 5 percent of snow and Tanner crabs and 9 percent of red king crabs, and it’s possible to reduce those numbers even further.

By attaching discs to the sweeper cables that keep the cables three to four inches off the ocean floor, almost all of the Tanner and snow crabs escape harm from that portion of the gear and only 3 percent of red king crabs die from the sweepers.

Rose says the number of crabs that die each year is unclear because it’s unknown how many crabs come into contact with the nets.

Pacific Fishing columnist Anne Hillman is news director of KUCB, Unalaska.


Seals: While the federally appointed judicial inquiry into the state of the Fraser River fishery kicks off, another problem for the salmon raises its sleek head.

A sport fishing lodge owner on the Pitt River, a tributary to the Fraser River near Vancouver, has been complaining of seals 16 kilometers up river from where it empties into Pitt Lake.

The seals staked out a canyon and were feasting on winter-run steelhead and Chinook salmon, he complained.

Veteran gillnetter Al Brown, who fished from the Fraser River up to Rivers Inlet from 1945 to 1996, said the government-sponsored cull kept seal numbers down and salmon numbers up in the 1940s and 1950s.

“We didn’t have seals because we had a fishing fleet,” Brown said. “The government knew seals were a problem, and they supported a cull. We used to get five dollars a nose.

“Now, we’ve got seals in the Fraser River all the way up to Hope. There’s no oolichan any more, and the spawned-out steelhead can’t survive either, because they swim only three feet below the surface, and they don t have a chance.”

Seals have been protected since 1970 and the population has exploded.

Some observers have suggested a contemporary seal cull in the Gulf of Georgia. where the seal population has exploded from 4,000 to 40,000 since the 1960s.

DFO, however, appears to be limiting the amount of information it chooses to release about seals in British Columbia.

In several April news stories, DFO biologist Peter Olesiuk at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo said that he had calculated 36 seals had killed 10,000 chum salmon in the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island several years ago. The seals also reportedly ate 3.1 million fry emerging out of the river in the spring.

A DFO seal cull removed 52 harbor seals from the Puntledge River in 1997 and 1998.

When contacted by Pacific Fishing, Olesiuk said, “I’m not commenting on that anymore, I can put you in touch with our communications department.”

� � � �Oil ports: As I wrote in the January issue, there’s alarm in B.C.

about a potential home-made Exxon Valdez oil spill if Enbridge Inc. gets permission to build a pipeline to the coast to a proposed new oil port in Kitimat.

Now, a report entitled “What’s at Stake — The Cost of Oil on

British Columbia’s Priceless Coast,” released March 22 by Raincoast Conservation Founda-tion, says some wildlife could be destroyed by tankers and oil spills on the B.C. coast.

The report is based on a five-year study by Paul Paquet, adjunct professor of biology and associate professor of environmental design at the University of Calgary, and scientists from Duke University, the University of California Santa Cruz, and the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland.

If the Enbridge pipeline is built from the Alberta tar sands to Kitimat, an oil spill would have catastrophic effects on whales, salmon, and herring — and even grizzly bears and coastal wolves — that rely on salmon, the report claims.

� � � �Alex doesn’t quit: Alexandra Morton just won’t stop her relent-

less drive to bring the impact of salmon farming on wild stocks to the public and the provincial and federal governments.

After years of work demonstrating that salmon farms, and par-ticularly the sea lice they infect wild salmon with, are bad for the

wild fish, Morton launched The Get Out Migration walk April 23.In The Get Out Migration, Morton and supporters planned to

walk nearly the length of Vancouver Island in an effort to make government place wild salmon before farm salmon. Morton had planned to arrive in Victoria on May 8 for a pro–wild salmon rally.

Also in salmon farm news, First Nations in the Broughton Archi-pelago, where Morton lives and works, launched a class action lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court April 12.

Eight First Nations, led by Chief Bob Chamberlin of the Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-Kwa-Mish First Nation and chairman of the Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk Tribal Council, attended a certification hearing against the British Columbia government with the aim of addressing negative impacts of salmon farming

The certification hearing was to determine if the class action suit could proceed. If approved, First Nations that utilize the wild fish-ery in the area would have the opportunity to make a claim under the class action.

Pacific Fishing columnist Michel Drouin follows commercial fishing in the North Pacific from Vancouver.

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Seals taking a big bite out of Fraser River salmon runs

British Columbia seals have invaded rivers to eat winter-run steelhead and Chinook salmon.

Alexandra Morton begins her “The Get Out Migration” walk of the length of Vancouver Island in another effort to illustrate the risks of floating net pen salmon farming.


MID-COAST REPORT by Cassandra Marie Profi ta

Fairly good news with springers, pink shrimp, albacoreSweet spring on the Columbia: A lavish supply of Columbia

River spring salmon was up for grabs in March and April — both in the river channel and in the off-channel terminal fishing areas.

“It looks like the whole lower river is full of fish,” Astoria gillnetter Jim Wells said in mid-April. “The last two days in Altoona (Wash.) have been the hottest anybody’s ever seen.”

In one four-hour opener in April, gillnet boats landed 6,000 fish on the mainstem.

“That’s excellent fishing,” Wells said. Salmon prices were equally satisfying for commercial gillnetters,

who started out earning up to $9.50 a pound for Chinook and settled for $6.25 to $7 a pound a month into the spring season.

There was only one problem, but it’s a biggie: impacts to protected wild upriver stocks.

Both commercial and sport fisheries went over their limits on incidental catch of threatened and endangered salmon.

So, the fishery was closed to wait for more fish to come in. Fortunately, fishery managers had set a 40 percent buffer on the estimated run size, giving them a thick cushion on impacts. In late April, all eyes were watching the fish counts at Bonneville Dam to see if enough fish would come in to allow for more openers.

There was a good chance fishing would continue if the upriver run looked to be on track to hit 300,000 by the May 10 midpoint. The run was forecast to be 477,000.

The gillnet fleet had already doubled its 2009 catch in off-channel terminal fisheries by the time the sea-son was called to a stop.

Meanwhile, a ballot mea-sure proposed to ban com-mercial gillnets in Oregon was still without a pulse, all but assuring that the gillnett-ers had survived another round against sport fishing lobbyists in the Coastal Con-servation Association.

� � � �Pink shrimp starts hot

in southern Oregon: Fuel prices were up by a lot more than pink shrimp prices as Oregon’s trawl fishery opened in April. Shrimp prices were up nearly 10 cents from last year, reaching around 40 cents a pound compared with last year’s 31 cents. But fuel had spiked by 80 cents a gallon since the 2009 fishery.

Astoria shrimper Brian Peterson said he thought the shrimp price should be more like 50 cents a pound, given the markets. In 2008, pink shrimp boats were getting an average of 55 cents a pound.

“It’s artificially low,” Peterson said. “With fuel prices up again, it’s really hard to make a profit. We should be in much better shape than we are.”

Brad Pettinger, administrator of the Oregon Trawl Commission, said the catch was “red-hot” off southern Oregon, bringing in 50,000 pounds a day in April. Fish plants should be ready to buy bigger hauls, he said.

“The freezers were pretty bare when we started,” he said. “It’s time to start buying.”

� � � �Can we ditch that tariff yet? Pink shrimp processors are

The mouth of the Columbia was particularly rich in salmon this spring.

pressing federal officials to fight the European Union’s 18-20 percent tariff on their product. The tariff was designed to protect the Norwe-gian shrimp fishery, which lands the same kind of cold-water pink shrimp as Oregon boats, pandalus jordani.

But West Coast processing giant Pacific Seafoods says that Norwegian fishery doesn’t meet market demand. The company’s shrimp sales manager, Charlie Kirschbaum, says it’s time for the tariff to end. He told members of the U.S. International Trade Commission in March that eliminating the protective tax would boost U.S. exports and create jobs in Oregon.

The Oregon pink shrimp industry pays the hefty fee to send almost half of its finished product — 20,000 tons last year — to Europe, according to Pettinger of the Oregon Trawl Commission. The extra cost knocks down shrimp prices to boats by 6 or 7 cents a pound.

The competing Canadian fishery doesn’t have to pay the tariff, in part because it lands a slightly different product, pandalus borealis. But Kirschbaum seems to think that with a little effort from Congress and the federal government, the U.S. can be exempt too.

“Our shrimp is very similar to Canadians, and they’ve got no tariff,” Pettinger said. “We’re such a small player, we’re not going to

overwhelm those folks.”� � � �

Certified and ready to fish: With freezers nearly empty and with high hopes because of prevailing El Nino conditions, the North-west albacore fleet was hop-ing for a higher grounds price in May.

Ironically, though, the fishery’s new certification by the Marine Stewardship Council may not give it a sales advantage over other albacore fisheries.

The sustainability and traceability certification covers the Canadian Highly

Migratory Species Foundation troll/jig fishery and the U.S.-based Western Fishboat Owners Association troll/jig and pole/line fisheries.

Together, the U.S. and Canadian fleets have a combined catch of 15,000 to 20,000 metric tons, with the U.S. troll and pole fishery bringing in 11,580 tons in 2009.

Going into a May opener with promising El Nino ocean conditions and not a lot of fish in the freezers, WFOA Director Wayne Heik-kila said the outlook for albacore this year is good — even though the MSC label hasn’t started paying off yet with new marketing opportunities.

In fact, he said, with so many other tuna fisheries already certified — in the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand — certification is getting to be par for the course.

“If we didn’t have it, we’d really be in the back end of the car here,” he said. “We’re glad it’s done, and we’re glad we have it. I know a lot of the processors are excited about it.”Pacific Fishing columnist Cassandra Marie Profita covers commercial fish-ing for The Daily Astorian.


FISH FACTORGood prices, Sitka helps fi shermen, fi nding crew online

by Laine Welch

Postcard: Ray Edens sends this reminder of winter fishing – the F/V Aleutian Lady, shown in Dutch Harbor in 2009.

Nice prices: Fishermen were enjoying nice prices earlier this spring.

The big swings for halibut steadied from the inflated first of the season highs that topped $6 a pound to settle most recently into the $4 to $4.50 range at major ports. Most of the fish was landed at Seward and Homer, followed by Kodiak and Juneau.

Sablefish (black cod) was seeing strong landings with prices ranging between $5 and $6 per pound, depending on fish size. Seward, Kodiak, and Homer were the top ports for sablefish landings.

Cod prices were creeping upward, going from 28 cents to 32 cents a pound in Kodiak. The overall supply of codfish from Alaska is up 4.6 percent from last year, topping 500 million pounds. For Gulf of Alaska fishermen, the cod quota is up 42.5 percent from 2009.

Winter trollers in Southeast Alaska were seeing strong catches for king salmon, with prices dropping to around $7.37 a pound, according to market watcher Ken Tal-ley. Trollers will likely catch their limit of 45,000 winter kings.

� � � �Sitka helps out: Sitka is doing some-

thing that a lot of fishing communities spend a lot of time talking about — investing directly in future generations of both fishermen and fish.

Through a newly formed Alaska Sus-tainable Fisheries Trust, Sitkans are able to invest in independent, community-based fishermen who are committed to conservation and reward them through the marketplace. Funding comes from the Oak Foundation, an inter-national philanthropic organization. “It has three components,” explained Linda Behnken, director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association. “We want to help finance local fishermen to be the next generation of halibut and sablefish quota share holders, and pro-vide a favorable exit opportunity for people who have quota shares now. We want the next generations to participate in taking care of the resource to make sure it is sustainably protected. And then we want to market that fish to places where people support that conservation ethic, and believe in the communities and the people who catch the fish.”

The Trust funds the longliner association’s Fishermen’s Conservation Network, which aims to create cleaner, lower impact fisheries by combining science with fishermen’s knowledge of marine habitats.

Right now, for example, fishermen are working together to generate three-dimensional bathymetric maps that identify “bycatch hotspots” for rockfish. That is being combined with survey data and other habitat information from fishery managers.

“Then it is given back to the fishermen in a way that protects the confidentiality of their sets, but shows areas that are consistently high in rockfish bycatch,” Behnken explained.

The fishermen also are working with scientists to record acoustic data from whales that rob halibut and sablefish from their hooks.

Quantifying these removals strengthens fishery assessments and ensures that harvest limits accurately reflect fish abundance.

The market arm of the fishermen’s network is called Alaskans Own Seafood, which claims to combine “the best in business with the best in conservation.”

“We are in the early stages of working out the details for customers to pre-order locally caught fish. We want to work though our local processors so it strengthens the community as a whole, as well as local fishermen,” Behnken said.

“In Southeast Alaska we are constantly working on improving the quality of our fish, protecting the fisheries, and maintaining healthy fishing communities,” said Sitka fisherman Jeff Farvour.

Behnken added that it is all part of a bigger movement by fishermen to show they are good caretakers of the resources they

and their communities depend on for their livelihoods.

“Our halibut and sablefish fleet is very proud of the job they’ve done as stewards of the resource,” she said. “We believe they are best able to address any problems or challenges that come up, so managers don’t have to close big areas to deal with bycatch or other issues.”

Learn more at www.alaskansown.com.� � � �

Hiring hall for the fleet: A ready workforce is standing by for jobs on Alaska fishing boats and processing plants. Since 1998 the Alaska Fishing Jobs Center (AFJC) has been connecting skippers and seafood companies with crews eager to go to work.

“What we ordinarily do if we need crew is call a few buddies to see if they know of anyone, or occasionally hire a green guy, but generally speaking you’re operating from a really small pool of people,” said AFJC originator/operator Scott Coughlin, a 24-year veteran of Alaska fisheries from Southeast to Nome.

“I got to thinking, why shouldn’t every adventurous, motivated job seeker who dreams of coming to Alaska have the opportunity to directly connect with Alaska permit holders and have a shot at this.”

Anyone with an Alaska fishing permit can register for free at the on-line job center.

“If you hold a permit to fish in Alaska, that number is already in the system. All you need to do is enter the last five numbers of your permit card and the check digit, and you’re in,” Coughlin said. “You immediately have access to hundreds of crew job applicants.”

Go to www.fishingjobs.com.

Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch has covered news of Alaska’s sea-food industry for print and broadcast since 1988. Her weekly Fish Factor column appears in 20 Alaska newspapers; her daily Fish Radio program airs on 30 Alaska stations. Laine also has worked in seafood wholesale and retail businesses in New England and Alaska. She lives in Kodiak.


by Wesley LoyALASKA NOTEBOOKSound familiar? Don’t spend your ‘Carlson’ money just yet

Postcard: Annina Giezendanner sends this photo taken in Cross Sound of the Fairweathers.

Carlson case grinds on: The Alaska Legislature in April appropriated nearly $75 million to repay nonresident commercial fishermen for overcharges on permit fees.

Thousands of fishermen could receive a piece of the money. But don’t start looking for a check just yet.

The potential refunds stem from the Carlson class-action lawsuit — litigation so lengthy and contorted it evokes the Dickens novel Bleak House.

Outside fishermen sued the state in 1984, upset that Alaska charged them triple what residents paid for fishing privileges.

The epic case has made four trips to the Alaska Supreme Court. The suit has succeeded in equalizing the annual “base fee” all fishermen pay to obtain or renew a permit — though nonresidents continue to pay a “surcharge” of $140.

Anyway, government lawyers have battled with considerable success through the years to whittle down the state’s liability under Carlson. Out of a class that once numbered 95,000 members, only 4,705 now stand to receive any money. These are limited entry permit holders; crew license holders no longer qualify for refunds.

Under the latest ruling from state S u p e r i o r C o u r t Judge Peter Michal-ski, the state owes about $12.4 million in refunds plus $62.4 million in interest.

While the Legis-lature has appropri-ated these sums, that doesn’t mean the state is yet pre-pared to pay out the money.

No, this 26-year court fight is not over.

On March 24, the state attorney general appealed the Carlson case again to the Alaska Supreme Court, asking the justices to either toss the $62.4 million in interest or apply a lower interest rate.

What does it all mean?“We’re not about to cut checks,” said Bill McAllister, spokesman

for the attorney general.� � � �

Big changes out West: Coastal Villages Region Fund is revamping its processing operations for the upcoming salmon season. Instead of running two processing plants at Quinhagak and Platinum, the company will consolidate its fish processing in the newer Platinum plant. Quinhagak, meantime, will serve as a buying and icing station.

“The fishermen won’t notice any difference,” said Trevor McCabe, operations director for Coastal. Fishermen will be able to deliver their predominantly chum salmon catches dockside

at Quinhagak, or to tenders there. The fish then will be hauled south to the Platinum plant, which has a daily freezing capacity of 150,000 pounds.

By consolidating into one plant, Coastal expects to employ 10 to 20 percent fewer processing hands this year compared to last, when nearly 300 were on the payroll. But the company feels the changes are prudent to maintain regional salmon and halibut operations supporting 1,500 fishermen, proces-sors, and others, McCabe said.

Coastal is one of six Alaska companies holding catch rights to Bering Sea groundfish and crab under the federal Community Development Quota program. Coastal represents 20 villages in the Kuskokwim River region and uses its substantial pollock revenue to pay for such projects as the $35 million fish plant at Platinum. The plant opened in July 2009.

� � � � No drilling, mixed feelings: Not everyone in Southwest Alaska

was pleased when the Obama administration nixed plans for oil and gas leasing in Bristol Bay, at least through mid-2017.

The Bristol Bay withdrawal brought relief for many in Alaska’s fishing industry who feared drilling could jeop-ardize the bay’s rich salmon, groundfish, and crab stocks.

“Bristol Bay is a national trea-sure that we must protect for future generations,” Inte-rior Secretary Ken Salazar said.

Others, however, were displeased

that the government pulled the plug on a planned 2011 lease sale in what’s known as the North Aleutian Basin.

The local government neighboring the proposed lease area, the Aleutians East Borough, felt its commercial fishing community could live with a potentially lucrative natural gas development, as energy giant Shell had envisioned.

“It’s unfortunate that Secretary Salazar chose to visit Dillingham last year. Dillingham is 200 miles away from the lease sale area,” said borough Mayor Stanley Mack, a commercial fisherman from Sand Point.

While many in Dillingham oppose leasing, Mack said residents closest to the sale zone are “almost all in favor of responsible gas and oil development.”

Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy has covered commercial fishing in the North Pacific for more than a decade.

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FOR SALE45 ft. glass Sunnfjord longliner/troller: 6552 lb. 2C-C Halibut quota, Choice beachfront cabin/property in Port Alexander, Alaska. Boat (only): $130,000. Contact (907) 738-8294.

F/V Nancy Ellen is available to catch Halibut Quota in areas 3B, 4A and 4B. Interested parties please call Byron or Paula at (907) 359-3655 or (907) 246-8510. Or email: [email protected].

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58' Delta. F/V Cape Reliant is ready to fish your ifq’s in 2008. Safe and reliable. Flexible schedule/terms. Call (907) 518-1652 or (907) 772-3737 or dispatch: 0703 or Sat. phone: (866) 621-8890.


58 ft Delta, New L.P. paint, New U.H.M.W. guards and cap rails, new tail shaft, new inter-mediate shaft, new bearings, new John Deere aux., rebuilt refrigeration, A.M. Aluminum 8” boom w/slider, 28” Marco powerblock with tire and swivel, new Valvoil hydraulic valves, two new picking booms, new #8, two #4’s, and vanging pullmaster winches, new air boot p.t.o., newer electronics. Asking $800,000; contact Tom at (310)505-8194.

FOR SALE: 60 tubs dogfish/cod gear, 70 tubs halibut gear, 20 anchors, 14 flagpoles,chute, 12 buoys, gurdy, herring seine,10 “ herring pump, powerskiff-6 cyl ford with nozzle, salm-on seines 5.75, 8.75. ph 604-241-0594

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HALIBUT IFQ3A-C-B: 2,500 lbs .....asking $25.003B-B-B: 12,500 lbs .....asking $23.003B-C-B: 8,000 lbs .....asking $20.003B-C-B: 12,500 lbs .....asking $20.004A-B-U: 25,000 lbs .....asking $16.004A-B-B: 9,000 lbs .....asking $12.004A-C-U: 20,000 lbs .....asking $15.004B-B-B: 7,000 lbs .... asking $10.004B-B-B: 4,500 lbs .......asking $9.504C-C-U: 27,000 lbs .....asking $15.004C-C-B: 12,500 lbs .....asking $14.004D-B-B: 2,500 lbs.....asking $11.00

SABLEFISH IFQAI-B-U: 20,000 lbs.....asking $3.00Al-B-B: 7,000 lbs.....asking $2.50CG-C-B: 3,300 lbs.....asking $18.00WG-C-B: 2,700 lbs.......asking $8.50WG-C-B: 2,500 lbs.......asking $7.50

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SP2-005 32’ fiberglass gill-netter, built 1969 by Roberts, Cummins 6BT main, new hydraulics, helm pumps/hoses, fish holds, deck, and anchor winch, Asking $45,000. CR8-025 110’x29’x9 Bering

Sea crabber, built in 1972 by Martinolich. Cat 398 main rated at 850 hp. (2) Cat 150kw generators. Asking $650,000.

TE9-002 99’x21’x8.4’ tender built in 1943. Cat 379 main. GM 671 50 kw generator. 50 ton RSW system. 185,000# capac-ity. Asking $220,000.

SP9-005 36’x11.7’ Mel Martin gillnet sternpicker built in 1978. 340 hp Volvo 71 A main with only 6,500 hours. 10,000# capacity. Asking $70,000.

TR10-006 38’x13.3’x7.4’ Fiber-glass ice troller built by Ther-modyne Marine in 1972. Detroit 4-71 rated at 115 hp. Rebuilt in 2006. New Twin Disc gear installed in 2007. Onan 9kw genset installed new in 2006. Alaska Power Troll permit and Washington Troll permit avail-able but not included. Asking 175,000.

FOR SALE875 meshes x 300 F WC salmon seine from BC. Shirt line and SS rings, well maintained. $4,000. (604) 619-6090 or [email protected].

FOR SALES.S. 4 Blade Prop. Skewed Kaplan style, 5" Bore R.H., 63" Dia. x 58" Pitch. $9,000. Call: (360) 671-1354.

WANTED2C unblocked halibut quota. Wil l pay $24/lb. Call Roger: (907) 789-9504 or (907) 723-4642 (cell). Email: [email protected].



Boats/Permits/IFQs

FisherySpecies Asking Price* Offer*

Prices in JUNE 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

State Value*

Alaska Entry Permit Prices(as of 6-1-10)

Gillnet: Bay permits continued to climb with recent sales hitting $105k. New listings were slowly coming out @ $110k and getting serious interest. SE permits were pretty quiet with off ers in the low-mid $50s. PWS permits were getting scarce again, moving into the $120s. Cook Inlet permits available in the upper $20s. Area M permits were hard to fi nd below $115k.

Seine: SE permits took another jump as buyback funding was shaping up. Permits were going in the mid $80s. Activity was still slow in PWS, with permits available in the upper $80s and off ers @ $80k. Kodiak permits were still quiet with permits in the upper $20s. Recent sales of Area M permits had them right around $60k.

Troll: Interest in Power Troll permits slowed with sellers asking in the low $30s. Hand troll permits edged up slightly to over $10k. Interest in Oregon permits was up recently with mid- to large size permits going for $5-7k.

Crab/Shrimp: Puget Sound crab permits were back on the move again, with recent sales pushing upwards of $70k. Interest in Lower 48 coastal permits remains slow. A little activity in SE crab and shrimp permits shows those down slightly.

SALMON S SE DRIFT 55+ 53+ 52.8- S PWS DRIFT 120- 119+ 112.1+ S COOK INLET DRIFT 28- 25- 25.5- S AREA M DRIFT 105 105+ 95.5 S BRISTOL BAY DRIFT 110+ 105+ 86+ S SE SEINE 85+ 85+ 70.9+ S PWS SEINE 90+ 80 76.3+ S COOK INLET SEINE 17 17 16.9 S KODIAK SEINE 27 25 26.6- S CHIGNIK SEINE 75- 49 70.8 S AREA M SEINE 60- 60- 67.2- S COOK INLET SET 12- 12+ 11.1+ S AREA M SET NET 50- 45- 51.3 S BRISTOL SET NET 32+ 30+ 27.3+ S LOWER YUKON 8.5- N/A 9.1 S POWER TROLL 31.5- 30- 29.7- S HAND TROLL 10.5 10.5+ 9.5- HERRING H SE GILLNET 16 15 14.7 H KODIAK GILLNET 5 4 4- H SITKA SEINE 600+ 500 290 H PWS SEINE N/A 30 10.3 H COOK INLET SEINE 25 15 9.3 H KODIAK SEINE 32 20 21.3 H SE POUND SOUTH 17 16 18.4- H SE POUND NORTH 65 60 66.6- H PWS POUND 4 3 3.6 SHELLFISH S SE DUNGY 75 POT 14- 14- 15.3- S SE DUNGY 150 POT 26 N/A 30.3- S SE DUNGY 225 POT 40+ 37+ 42.1 S SE DUNGY 300 POT 70 60 65 S SE POT SHRIMP 15- 15 13.3 S KODIAK TANNER <60 29 25 24+ S PUGET SOUND DUNGY 70 70+ N/A S WASHINGTON DUNGY 1,500-2,750/FT 1,000-2,500/FT N/A S OREGON DUNGY 1,000-2,500/FT - 800-2,250/FT- N/A S CALIFORNIA DUNGY 400-1,500/FT+ 300-1,000/FT N/A SE ALASKA DIVE SE AK Dive URCHIN 5 N/A 3.8 SE AK Dive CUCUMBER 11+ 9 10.7- SE AK Dive GEODUCK 77- 75+ 73.6

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Halibut & Sablefish IFQ PricesRecent market activity in halibut and sablefish quota shares

SpeciesRegulatory

AreaVessel

Category*Poundage (thousands)

Status(blocked/

unblocked)

Ask(per pound)Low High

Offer(per pound)Low High

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.

*Vessel Categories: A = freezer boats B = over 60’ C = 35’-60’ D = < 35’

By Mike Painter and the Permit Master

Ex-vessel prices fi rmed up and the IFQ market got tighter than it already was. The only real deals left are from 4A and 4B and they are going away there. It’s going to be a very limited market for the foreseeable future.

For Blackcod, it’s hard to even put values on the shares anymore. There have been so few trades and so little available that it’s anybody’s guess what price the next sale will be at.

H 2C D 1-10 B 21.00-25.00 20.00-24.00

H 2C C/B 1-3 B 22.00-25.00 21.00-24.50

H 2C C/B 4-10 B 24.00-26.00 24.00-25.00

H 2C C/B ANY U 25.00-26.00 24.00-24.50

H 2C A B/U N/A 25.00

H 3A D B/U 19.00-24.00 18.00-23.00

H 3A C/B 1-5 B 20.00-24.00 19.00-22.00

H 3A C/B 5-10 B 24.00-26.00 23.00-25.00

H 3A C/B >10 B 25.00-26.00 24.00-25.00

H 3A C/B >10 U 26.00-29.00 24.00-26.00

H 3A A B/U 28.00 26.00

H 3B D B 18.00-23.00 16.00-19.00

H 3B C/B 1-10 B 17.00-20.00 17.00-18.50

H 3B C/B >10 B 20.00-23.00 17.00-19.00

H 3B C/B >10 U 20.00-23.00 18.00-19.00

H 3B A B/U N/A 22.00

H 4A D B/U 10.00-14.00 9.00-10.00

H 4A C/B 1-10 B 11.00-12.00 10.00-11.00

H 4A C/B >10 B 12.00-14.00 10.00-12.00

H 4A C/B >10 U 14.00-18.00 13.00-15.00

H 4B/C/D C/B 1-10 B 9.50-13.00 7.00-8.50

H 4B/C/D C/B >10 B/U 11.00-15.00 9.00-11.00

S SE C/B 1-10 B 19.00-22.00 18.00-20.00

S SE C/B >10 U 22.00-23.50 22.00-23.50

S SE A B/U 24.00 23.00

S WY C/B 1-10 B 19.00-22.00 19.00-21.00

S WY C/B >10 U 22.00-23.00 21.00-22.00

S WY A B/U 23.00 23.00

S CG C/B 1-10 B 17.00-19.00 16.00-18.00

S CG C/B >10 B/U 18.00-20.00 17.00-19.00

S CG A B/U 20.00 20.00

S WG C/B 1-10 B 7.50-11.00 7.50-10.50

S WG C/B >10 B 11.00-12.00 10.00-11.00

S WG C/B/A >10 U 13.00-15.00 11.00-12.00

S AI C/B/A B/U 1.25-5.00 1.00-2.50

S BS C/B B/U 2.00-5.00 2.00-4.00

S BS A B/U 7.00-9.00 5.00

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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 fi sh. Phone Capt. Mark Pratt, (pager) (206) 595-3146 or F.W. Pratt, (406) 671-5080. Boat in Ilwaco, WA.

FISH WITH THE VIKING!Maximize your IFQ return on

the F/V Viking Spirit• Mustad Autobaiter • Great sea boat w/shelter deck • Outstanding crew

• Can meet or beat any rates Call Pete (425) 205-0996

Harvest your A, B, or C IFQ’s on the F/V Expatriate

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.

Call 907-772-4856 weekdays OR mobile 602-320-9050

F/V CARLYNN is available to harvest halibut in areas 2c, 3a, and 3b. Black cod in areas SE, WY, and CG. Flexible rates and scheduling good ref-erences. All #1 fish and best prices at time of delivery. Please call to plan for ’09 and beyond. Rob at (907) 321-0486 or (907) 364-3813.

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, ex-ceptionally 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 fi sheries. If you are interested in LEASING CRAB QUOTA, please contact us: offi ce (541) 938-3542, (509) 522-5252; cell (509) 520-0911, (509) 200-9508; fax (541) 938-8164; email [email protected].

CALL THE CLAM MANFor all your clam needs. Cockles, steamers butters and horse necks. Human consump-tion or bait. Also commercial diving supplies. Call Doug’s Diving, (503) 322-2200 or (800) 355-DIVE, www.dougsdiving.com.

FOR SALEF/V O-See-O. Length: 44', weight: 13', depth: 7', engine — new 6.7 Gimmy. All geared for power trolling. Please call 1 (907) 874-2484 or email: [email protected].

FOR SALEThree Hamilon 321 jet pumps for sale. Each unit comes with two impellers (valued at 5K apiece new). Each unit has been totally gone thru and rebuilt. Spare impeller is new for each unit, impeller in the pumps are rebuilt. Each unit is in “like new” condition. Asking 20K obo for each unit. Please call (360) 961-5747 or email: [email protected]

FOR SALETogiak Herring Seine and Skiff. $5500 OBO. Seine hung by Jack & Joe of Bellingham. 50% web hung in. Good shape. Skiff 16' fi berglass Olsen. Needs outboard motor. Phone (360) 951-6058.

F/V QUIK SET - 32x13, 1987 Alucraft BBay sternpicker. 3208T Cat diesel with approx. 6000 hrs. HD hydraulics, narrow drum w/auto levelwind. Packs 18000+ under hatches. Exceptional maintenance of boat-equipment by same owner for 13 years. Turn key with many recent upgrades. Owner will help commission for 2010 season. Call Brad at 253-261-5340 or 253-852-5513 wk. for pictures/specifi cs. Located Dillingham, AK. 105K

F/V POST POINT - 32 X 13.4 1990 ALFA/NW Marine Fabrication Bristol Bay Gillnetter; 3208 Cat TD5111 Gearbox; IMS RSW Bowthruster; power steering; load sense hydraulics; powered off gearbox PTO; 200 fathom piston drive reel w/autolevelwind; fl ush deck and much more. This boat is easy to maintain and fi sh located at Leader Creek Naknek Alaska. FOR SALE after 2010 Salmon Season. 360-223-3583.

Fish double drift permit in Bristol Bay. I have permit and experience in BB and Prince William Sound. You have boat and Bristol Bay permit too. Call Kirk at (206) 533-3405.

California light boats and purse seiners for squid and sardines with permits available now. Call Don (949) 279-9369.

LETS FISH YOUR IFQHalibut and Black Cod. F/V Sierra Mar 58' Delta, works all seasons and all areas and walkons, leases,crewing owners and all parteners are welcome to call. This boat, operation and crew are safe, clean and reliable. Marco Auto baiter, good grub, longtime crew and all area experi-ence and best %’s with crew share, no #2’s and bycatch for Q owner make this boat a good call. Annual upgrades and maintainance done every off season. Please call for more information, sched-ualing, references and possibilities fro 2010 and beyond. Kevin Seabeck (206) 399-9267 or [email protected].

FOR SALE58' x 24' Jensen designed steel limit seiner, Dual refrigeration, Cat power, Packs over 150,00#s. 95% complete. Serious inquiries only. (714) 401-8239.

FOR SALETwo California purse seiners available. Ready to fish. Complete boats with market squid permits and sardine permits. Priced to sell quick at $429,000. Call Don (949) 279-9369.

FOR SALEThree California light boats available with or without permits. One boat and permit at only $79,000. One 12 ton brail or light boat permit at only $52,000. All priced to sell. Call Don (949) 279-9369.

FOR SALE: Mustad Auto Baiting System for sale. Includes Baiter, Combe, 20 magazines of gear, and all rails and hangers. Fits on a 58 foot boat. $45,000 for all OBO. Call: (907) 253-7435 or email: [email protected]

For Sale

39' BHM 1987 New QSM11 350-450 H.P. (200hrs.) New 10Kw gen. (50 hrs.) Split Wheelhouse, Hyd., Puller, 2 Radars, GPS Plotter, Fishfi nder, Autopilot, VHF, AM-FM-CD. Ca. Lobster permit, Socal. Nearshore permit, Gillnet permit, Salmon Permit. Boat with permits $295K Boat only $225K. Lobster permit-$95K. Nearshore permit-$50K. Gillnet permit-$10K. After sale of boat only. (805) 290-5370

FOR SALESalmon seine, herring seine, power skiff with nozzle, 3/8 Everson halibut tub gear, buoyline, bladders, anchors, flagpoles, gurdy. 65' boat with freezer, rigged for tuna, halibut, salmon, herring, tuna gurdys and gear all discounted 75%. (604) 241-0594. http://us.mc655.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]"/t"_blank" or email: [email protected].

FOR SALE875 meshes X 300 F WC salmon seine from BC. Shirt line and SS rings, well maintained. $4,000. (604) 619-6090 or email [email protected].

F/V FISH TRAP - Bristol Bay Jet Boat. 2006 Banner Boatworks, twin 6108 Luggers, 330 hp, 13" Doen Jets, 7.5 ton RSW-IMS. Proven design, sleeps 6, open deck, set off the bow or stearn. $310,000. Drift permit available with sale - at market. Dan (907) 399-1884; (907) 235-6612.

F/V PROFIT - Bristol Bay Jet Boat: New. New construction, Banner Boatworks. Ready to fish 2010 season. Shallow draft, refrig-erated jet boat. Quality construction. John Deere 375 hp. 15" Whitewater Jet. Open deck, spacious engine room, galley. Fishing machine.Shallow, fast, economical. $330,000. Permit available with sale — at market. Dan (907) 399-1884; (907) 235-6612.

FOR SALEGMC 653 engine block: rebuilt. Zero hours, $7000.00. Call: (206) 399-1699..



37' Fiberglass Troller/comboEconomical Isuzu Diesel, electronics, exceptionally tidy, streamlined and turnkey. Email for pictures. Located in Victoria BC – short walk from the Seattle/Port Angeles ferry. $69K/obo – [email protected] – (250) 642-3551.

F/V TRADITION – 58' x 21' Tradition will fi sh your halibut and blackcod IFQs, April through September. Outstanding experienced crew with great catch record. We catch ‘em fast and always target the best grade. We shop for the hightest prices, traveling the distance when needed. VERY competitive rates. Call Blake (503) 440-1523 (please leave message).

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EXXON PLAINTIFFS (lien agents)Has distribution of your Exxon funds taken over 6 months to receive? Join a special-ized class action to petition Exxon Qualifi ed Settlement Fund to promptly process your payments. If interested, you may fax your request to (425) 671-0053, Curt Peterson, co-plaintiff. Requests will be collectively forwarded to E.Q.S.F. If plaintiffs would like monthly updated progress reports, provide an email address.


F/V LISA GAYLE is available to fi sh your IFQ. Flexible rates, comfortable boat. Call to schedule a convenient time to fi sh. (503) 791-2887 cell. (541) 568-4051. Great rates for large quotas!

F/V ELIZABETH S (47 ft. Delta) available to harvest c class 2c, 3a halibut and SE blackcod. Competitive rates for hired skipper, medical transfers, or walk-ons. Small blocks welcome. Contact Daniel Smith at (907) 209-2215.

REDUCED!!!BB PERMIT, GEAR and BOAT, fiberglass. Built by Kachemak Bay Marine, 300 Cummins with 800 hours. $229,000. Price reduced to $224,000 for whole package, or $124,000 for boat alone. Call (503) 267-9970.

LONGLINE CLIPSWanted to buy: Wagner 5" or similar longline clips. (509) 679-0384

FOR SALE OR TRADEIFQ-QS

18,000 lbs. Halibut Class C sharesSell or trade for:

Black cod, western gulf

and/or 4B Halibut

No Brokers please.

Fax: (907) 235-5412

Cell: (907) 299-4026

FOR SALECAT D375 LOCATED IN PETERSBURG. 30,000 HOURS IN FEDERAL GOVERN-MENT SERVICE, VERY WELL MAINTAINED. REPOWERING VESSEL – MAKE OFFER. (907) 772-4625.

FOR SALEMarco 26" block with power gripper and open shieve, w/o hydraulic swivel. Ten years old: $7,500 or best offer. Call: (206) 915-8345, email: 1wildfi [email protected].

SMALL BOAT TRAWL WINCHESApprox. 550 H.P., 500 fath. 5/8 wire. Starting at $19,500. Available Nov. 2010. Call: (360) 671-1354.

NEWKaplan style prop, 59.5" diameter by 60" pitch. 4" standard taper with 70% DAR. For sale at $8,000. Contact: Steve Drage, (503) 338-6190.

FOR SALE2 mid-water nets; 1 alum halibut longline reel; 1 new Hansen 30" crab hauler; 250 shrimp traps 48"; 1 Carrier 5H40 and 40hp elec. motor; one 8" and one 10" Sekich herring pumps; 2 Rapp Hydema drag winches (big motors) with 1200 fathoms 19mm (3/4") new wire. (604) 576-0511.

BOAT FOR SALELOA 95’; Beam 25’; Gross Tons 160; Net Tons 48. Built in Bayou Labatre, AL. Year 1999; Engine CAT-3412; H.P. 671; Auxiliary CAT-3056. Price: $450,000 USD. Location: Ensenada, B.C. Mexico. Recently hauled (February) new paint ,new zincs and clean! Contact Luis Castaneda at: 484 Bonito Ave., Imperial Beach, CA 91932 USA. Or email: [email protected].

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WANT TO REACH FISHERMEN?

CONTACT DIANE SANDVIK.CONTACT DIANE SANDVIK.She knows the fish business

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MAQ Sonar is proud to announce the

release (June 28th 2010) of its new MAQ60

Omni directional sonar for the commercial

fishing industry. This 60Khz full 360 Omni

sonar was developed to be the best solution

for all types of pelagic fishing.

Don’t be fooled by its small foot print. Although it fits into any standard 8” sea chest and

can work with a standard 36” or optional 18” stroke hoist it will have a maximum detection

distance of more than 5900ft (984fm) and high definition on weak targets.

As with all MAQ’s the MAQ60 has a 5 degree vertical beam for maximizing detection

distance for shallow water fishing, also great performance for near surface and near

bottom fishing. Because it works with our universal electronics you will get the entire

high end features expected from a MAQ including: Auto Tracking, Dual Screen display,

integration with GPS, Net Monitoring and other features too plenty to mention.

With more than 30 years of experience designing/ building only Omni Sonar, we have

continued to listen to fishermen and develop the best sonar solution for the fisheries of

the world.

From our factory and R&D center in Finch, Ontario, Canada we build test and assemble

every sonar now being used from Alaska to Chile and from Russia to South Africa.

To find out more about the MAQ60 and to find a Dealer near you please visit our website

at: www.MAQSONAR.com

ON THE DOCKSWhat's New...

“What's New” is a service of Pacific Fishing's Advertising Department. Contact Diane Sandvik at (206) 962-9315 for more information.

SeaShare is working with the seafood industry

to fight hunger in America. Food banks have seen

a 30% increase in demand over the last two years,

and protein is the hardest item to obtain. SeaShare

works with fishermen, processors, and suppliers to

generate truckloads of nutritious seafood; improv-

ing the quality of food bank offerings nationwide. A

search of recent news items returned the following

examples of the work SeaShare is doing in your seafood communities:

Seattle, Washington – The Millionair Club Charity is a non-profit supported solely by

private donations, serving Seattle’s working poor and homeless. Thanks go out to SeaShare for

contributing more than $10,000 in seafood this season.

Kotzebue, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules aircraft crew

delivered 20,000 pounds of silver salmon fillets to Kotzebue Dec. 28, 2009. The fish fillets

came from Sitka and were donated by SeaShare in Washington. The Coast Guard delivered

the fish for a humanitarian effort which will feed 11 villages and more than 1,000 families

in the area.

Boston, Massachusetts – SeaShare reports that 11,525 pounds of seafood were donated

by exhibitors at the conclusion of the 2010 International Boston Seafood Show. The Greater

Boston Food Bank wishes to thank everyone involved for providing much-needed protein for

their clients.

Anchorage, Alaska – As part of its continuing effort to give back to America’s fishing

communities, SeaShare sent a full container of canned red salmon to the Food Bank of Alaska

last month. This donation represents at least 165,000 servings!

SeaShare believes everyone has something to give. Please contact SeaShare to find

out how you can join the seafood industry’s efforts to fight hunger in your community.

www.seashare.org

Stay togetherPaul McCluskey, left, observer safety instructor with NOAA, teaches a group of NMFS observer trainees in Seattle to stay together while waiting for rescue. (You’re better seen that way.) Observers go through a three-week course, one week of which is devoted to water survival training. Training is also offered in Anchorage and Kodiak. There has been an annual average of 424 observers trained and employed in Puget Sound or Alaska in recent years. U.S. Coast Guard photo Petty Officer Colin White

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Another oil port?This poster was produced to help raise awareness about the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, which would connect oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, with the B.C. coast and turn Kitimat into another Valdez. You can download the poster by contacting [email protected] for more information.


No drillingHere’s another view of the controversy over oil on the British Columbia coast. The Coastal Watch Society, a loose collection of environmentalists, created this image for your use. To get a high-resolution image, go to www.pacificfishing.com. There, on the bottom of the page, you’ll see “Resources.” Click, and find “B.C. oil poster.” Feel free to download it from there.

California memorialThe Fishermen’s Marketing Association of Bodega Bay proudly unveiled a new memorial to those lost at sea during a ceremony a few weeks ago at Spud Point Marina. The bronze statue was created by Alanna Roth of Sebastopol, Calif., who followed the Bodega fleet and determined the one thing every fisherman had in common was rais-ing and lowering his poles when he left the harbor and again when he was coming home. Her sculpture depicts the fisherman doing just that. A crowd of about 100 people were on hand to watch Dave Yarger of the F/V Bataan unveil the memorial. – Lori French

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Honest fishmongers: The National Conference on Weights and Measures has announced the results of a voluntary multi-state investigation into honesty of weights in the seafood trade — specifically in frozen product.

The agency found “significant overcharges due to incorrect pack-age weights on some frozen seafood products.”

But, of the 17 states that participated in the investigation, only Alaska was found to have zero violations.

� � � �Safety training: A Port Townsend outfit — John Sabella &

Associates — is putting together a training video focusing on the horrific 2002 fire aboard the Alaska freezer-longliner Galaxy.

The training program features skipper Dave Shoemaker describing his decisions and how his crew fought for their lives.

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Sustainable fest: Seattle’s Greenfestival — June 5 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and June 6 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. — is featuring its own blue component. Former longtime Alaska fisherwoman Anne Mosness has organized a festival to celebrate wild and sustainable fisheries,


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maritime businesses and unions, healthy oceans, and seafood. This year’s Greenfestival will be held at the Washington Trade

and Convention Center. Mosness has organized panels, films, and exhibits. She will speak about risks of marine feedlots, and Alexandra Morton will discuss the loss of wild salmon in British Columbia.

Mosness is co-producer of the educational Bluefestival, held last October in Seattle.

� � � �Restaurants looking up: Driven by a solid improvement

in restaurant operators’ outlook for sales growth, capital spending plans, and staffing levels, the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index rose to its highest level in 27 months in February.

� � � �John Enge: John Werner Enge, born Jan. 28, 1916, died May

7, 2010. “Our father, grandfather, and great-grandfather died peacefully at home in Petersburg as the sun set over Peters-burg Creek. His last words to Mom were, ‘The golden crowned sparrows are back.’

“He was full of love for life and the natural world, especially the fish business, to his last breath. We’ll all miss him.”

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Hot workCoast Guard firefighters in Kodiak conduct

training after fuel was pumped into a special-

ized pit full of water to simulate an aircraft burn,

which helps the firefighters train on how to

respond effectively to an aircraft incident. The

Kodiak-based fire department was the 2009

Coast Guard Fire Department of the Year and

consists of 32 firefighters. – U.S. Coast Guard

photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen

Need a deckhand?Adele Fanning, age 11 months, gets a head start on her career in Juneau a few weeks ago. Her dad (Luke Fanning) has fished around Southeast for the past 10 years, so when he was studying up for the 2010 season, he assembled some back issues of Pacific Fishing — and Adele took an immediate interest. Mom (Christine), Adele, and Luke (who in real life works for Wells Fargo) will be fishing their new gillnetter F/V Kelsie Dawn from Taku to Lynn Canal this summer.

New vessel built in KetchikanThe 195-foot M/V Susitna, built at Alaska Ship & Drydock Inc. in Ketchikan, was floated for the first time in the Ton-gass Narrows in April. In 2005, the Office of Naval Research

awarded Alaska Ship & Drydock a contract for the design and construction of the craft. The vessel is designed to operate with a deep draft in high seas, yet transition to shallow draft to act as a landing craft. The Matanuska/Susitna (Mat/Su) Borough will operate Susitna as a roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry and rescue boat as the Navy collects performance information.

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