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THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR FISHERMEN

VOLUME XXXVII, NO. 8 • AUGUST 2016

IN THIS ISSUE Editor's note®

INSIDE

ON THE COVER: Alaska Wildlife Troopers patrol the Bristol Bay salmon fishery during the 2009 season. Klas Stolpe photo

Wesley Loy

Obama's exit

Tuna focus • Page 8

Bristol Bay report • Page 7

Alaska enforcement Q&A • Page 12

Vancouver Island gillnetting • Page 19

The eight-year presidency of Barack Obama will come to a close in January.What will he do between now and then? How will he build upon his legacy

as the 44th president of the United States?Presidents have tremendous executive powers. They have, for example,

unlimited power to extend pardons and clemencies for federal crimes.As Obama’s exit nears, certain people are exhorting him to exercise his

power, under the Antiquities Act of 1906, to declare public sites as national monuments.

Such monuments can be on land or at sea.Environmental activists are pushing for marine monuments in all three of

America’s oceans – the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic.One written, unattributed proposal circulating recently calls for designating

seamounts, ridges, and banks off California as national monuments.The new monuments would permanently close these areas to commer-

cial fishing, say opponents of the action. A who’s who of West Coast fishing organizations in July sent Obama a letter urging him not to create the California monuments. They argue the proposal lacks scientific analysis and public engagement.

Last August, in conjunction with Obama’s visit to Alaska, activists sent a petition to the While House seeking designation of three marine monuments in Alaska waters, including one in the Aleutians.

“President Obama cannot leave office with a complete environmental lega-cy without addressing Alaska’s fragile and unraveling offshore ecosystems,” petition author Richard Steiner said in a press release.

In January 2015, NOAA rejected Steiner’s nomination of an Aleutian Islands National Marine Sanctuary, which as proposed would have encompassed highly productive commercial fishing grounds in the Bering Sea.

Alaska’s Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, have introduced legislation to bar presidents from unilaterally designating national monuments under the Antiquities Act without congressional approval. The bill also would require legislative approval from each state near a proposed marine monument.

“My legislation is designed to make sure economic activity like fishing and responsible resource development is not put at risk – and family incomes damaged – by a stroke of the president’s pen,” Murkowski said.

In the Atlantic, commercial fishing interests are trying to fend off a conserva-tionist campaign for marine monuments in New England waters.

Most likely, Obama is facing a tsunami of ideas – from all quarters of American life – on how he might use his executive powers as he leaves office. Whether any of these marine monument proposals rises to the top of his priority list is anyone’s guess.

Fish cops: What would our fisheries be worth without effective policing?

My guess is, not much.In this issue, we pay special attention to fisheries enforcement with an

insightful interview with Col. Steve Bear, director of the Alaska Wildlife Troopers. Catch it on Page 12.

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Bristol Bay begins: Eastside districts open today to commercial salmon fishing – adfg.alaska.gov

Listen up: NOAA is working on an ‘ocean noise strategy’ and wants to hear from you. – cetsound.noaa.gov

A fresh look: The Alaska Seafood Market-ing Institute has glitzed up its website. – alaskaseafood.org

Uncle Sam’s salmon: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has purchased nearly $3.6 million in canned pink salmon from Peter Pan Seafoods. – cdfgnews.wordpress.com

Sailing for science: NOAA and partners this summer will test new technologies to, among other things, gather information on remote spawning areas for Alaska pollock. – afsc.noaa.gov

Bristol Bay run timing: When will the sockeye show? Icicle’s fleet manager weighs in. – kdlg.org

MSC measurables: The Marine Steward-ship Council has released a report “high-lighting the improvements being made by certified fisheries around the world.” – msc.org

Pirate policies: Rogue fishing vessels that illegally harvest seafood are still being insured, according to research at the Univer-sity of British Columbia. – vancouversun.com

Walrus trouble: Fishery managers have adjusted the boundary of Bristol Bay’s Ugashik District to provide a buffer zone for walrus congregating in the area. – kdlg.org

Base price 75 cents: Bristol Bay salmon processors usually wait until season’s end to post prices they intend to pay fishermen. But this year, one processor has unveiled its price at the outset. – kdlg.org

British Columbia’s deadly outbreak: Toxic algae is killing farmed salmon on the west coast of Vancouver Island. – cbc.ca

Romania and more: In response to Russia’s import ban, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has expanded its East-ern Europe program. – alaskaseafood.org

Senate contender backs out: Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan now says he won’t challenge Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the August primary. – adn.com

Governor says keep working: Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has called the Legislature into another special session to address the state’s huge deficit and potential remedies, including higher fish taxes. – adn.com

IATTC meeting upcoming: The United States is proposing to extend catch limits on Pacific bluefin tuna in the eastern Pacific for another two years. – westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov

Breaking in: High costs are discouraging young Alaskans from entering commercial fishing. – peninsulaclarion.com

IPHC appointment: Linda Behnken is replacing Jeff Kauffman on the International Pacific Halibut Commission. – alaskafisheries.noaa.gov

New name, new vigor: The Bristol Bay Fishermen’s Association is pushing for more members and a “fair price” for salmon catches. – kdlg.org

IPHC exit: Jeff Kauffman, who recently resigned his Alaska seat on the Interna-tional Pacific Halibut Commission, had been involved in a fishery enforcement case. – deckboss.blogspot.com

Primetime in Southeast Alaska: Trollers will target 122,000 treaty Chinook salmon starting at 12:01 a.m. July 1. – adfg.alaska.gov

Kuskokwim calamity: Coastal Villages Region Fund isn't buying salmon or operat-ing its Platinum processing plant this sea-son, effectively shutting down commercial fishing in the Kuskokwim area. – adn.com

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Editor’s note: This commentary was originally published June 30 in The Seattle Times.

While digging into a basket of fish and chips, it’s unlikely you’re thinking about international trade. However, as Washington

state seafood harvesters and processors, a huge part of our indus-try’s success hinges upon fair access to international markets. That’s why we need the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to create a level playing field for our products.

For more than 100 years, Washington state has been home to a large segment of North Pacific and West Coast commercial fish-ing and fish-processing operations. North Pacific fisheries alone account for 60 percent of all seafood caught in the United States, and in 2014 they generated $8 billion in our state and produced approximately $3 billion worth of seafood exports. These seafood businesses support 24,000 Puget Sound jobs and have a tremendous economic impact on our region. Increased international competitive-ness through trade agreements like the TPP help ensure that these high-paying jobs stay in Washington.

West Coast and Alaska fisheries are among the most sustain-ably managed in the world, producing high-quality products that are in demand around the globe. Japan alone annually imports more than $500 million worth of seafood produced by local companies, including Alaska cod, pollock, rockfish, salmon, sole, Atka mackerel, and Pacific whiting products. But in the price- sensitive global seafood market, our Washington-based sea-food companies face increasingly fierce competition from foreign competitors seeking to win sales with our historic trading partners and to undercut us in emerging markets in Asia and elsewhere. Existing tariffs – some as high as 20 percent in some TPP countries – are a big hurdle when we export, making it difficult to offer competitive prices. The TPP would eliminate tariffs on seafood exported by U.S. companies like ours.

Just as important, the TPP seeks to raise environmental and labor standards. This is critical for the success of the industry because some foreign competitors operate under weaker fishery manage-ment practices and have poor labor standards with underpaid, underprotected workers. The TPP addresses these issues with high, fully enforceable labor and environmental standards that combat illegal fishing and forced labor.

COMMENTARY

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by JIM JOHNSON and KENNY DOWN

How the Trans-Pacific Partnership would benefit Washington's seafood industry

And it’s not only about fisheries – maritime-support industries and associated businesses like local shipyards also benefit from strong export markets for our products. In the past three years, new vessel construction in our fishing sectors contributed more than $150 million in direct income to local Washington and Alaska shipbuilders. Modernizing Washington’s commercial fishing operations has the potential to bring $10 billion into our state’s economy in the years ahead. A strong export market is the foundation for making such investments.

Breaking down trade barriers is the only way our industry can reach its global potential. Whether you stand for job growth, global competitiveness, or the protection of a Northwest way of life, your support for this trade agreement is essential. We urge you to join us in calling on our members of Congress to approve the TPP.

Jim Johnson is the president of Glacier Fish Co. Kenny Down is president and CEO of Blue North, a sustainable natural resource company.

The program rebates the cost of an E-Stop retrofit kit from Kolstrand for qualified Seattle-based purse seine vessels, the press release said.

Vessels must submit an application to the Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial board, which hopes to provide at least half a dozen rebates through 2016.

“Currently the plan is to draw vessel names from the rebate applications at the Fishermen’s Fall Festival on Sept. 24 and at Pacific Marine Expo on Nov. 19,” the organization said.

For more information, call the Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial at (206) 782-6577 or go to seattlefishermensmemorial.org.

Winch emergency stop rebates offeredSeattle Fishermen’s Memorial and Integrity Machining in

Ballard announced a safety rebate program to assist some qualifying fishing vessels in installing a capstan winch emergen-cy stop (E-Stop).

“In 2002, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health identified the hydraulic capstan winch on purse seine ves-sels as the most dangerous piece of deck gear used by fishermen,” said a press release on the rebate program. “Winch entanglements involving capstan winches often result in career-ending injuries including multiple fractures to extremities, amputations of fin-gers and limbs, spinal injuries, head trauma, and death from crushing or blood loss.”

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The president has appointed Linda Behnken, of Sitka, to a U.S. seat on the International Pacific Halibut Commission.

She replaces Jeff Kauffman, of Wasilla, who resigned.

Behnken is a commercial fisherman and executive director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association. She is a for-mer member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

Kauffman had been on the IPHC since December 2015.

After his resignation, news emerged that Kauffman had been involved with two others in a fishery enforcement action.

In June 2012, the three men retained about 24,600 pounds of halibut in Area 4A when they held only about 14,085 pounds of Area 4A individual fishing quota, said a federal notice of violation.

The case involved the fishing vessel Saint Peter, which belongs to the Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association, an Alaska community development quota company. Kauffman is an executive with the company.

Officials initially assessed a $61,781 civil penalty in the case, which ultimately settled for $49,000.

“During his short tenure as commis-sioner, Mr. Kauffman has well served the U.S. interests on the IPHC, and we thank him for his service,” Jim Balsiger, Alaska regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said in a June 22 press release announcing Behnken as Kauffman’s replacement.

– Wesley Loy

Behnken appointed to IPHC after Kauffman resigns

Bristol Bay fishermen score huge sockeye catchGillnetters in Alaska’s Bristol Bay tallied a huge catch of sockeye

salmon this season, and prices were up substantially.At press time, with the fishery in its final days, the sockeye catch

stood at nearly 35 million fish, well above the state’s preseason harvest forecast of 29.5 million sockeye.

Major processors posted a base ex-vessel price of 75 cents a pound, a big improvement over last year’s poorly received 50 cents.

Of Bristol Bay’s five fishing zones, the Naknek-Kvichak District was the most productive with a catch of more than 12 million sockeye.

The Egegik and Nushagak districts each had nearly 8 million sockeye, and the Ugashik District had a terrific showing with more

than 6 million sockeye.This season marked an incredible milestone as Bristol Bay

surpassed 2 billion salmon landed (93 percent of them sockeyes) for its 133-year fishing history, since the inception of the bay’s canned salmon industry in 1884.

The 1 billionth salmon was caught in 1978, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said.

“The success of the Bristol Bay salmon fishery can be attributed to the region’s tremendously productive natural habitat, the science-based management of the resource, and the shared commitment to stewardship by the state, fishermen, and seafood processors,” the department said. – Wesley Loy

TUNA FOCUS

A crewman aboard the F/V New Dawn brings in an albacore tuna. Photos courtesy of the Oregon Albacore Commission

Though markets for West Coast albacore have changed over the years and catch efforts are declining, the fishery fills income gaps for trollers and is sustainably managed without

significant restrictions.The albacore fishery has also shifted north in recent years as

fishermen follow tuna to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The trend is partly attributable to ocean conditions, but by 2001, the California-based cannery industry had completely shut down and relocated overseas, driving a decline.

A report from the Pacific Fishery Management Council charts an overall down trend from 2012, when about 800 vessels fished for albacore off the U.S. West Coast. In 2015, the number of vessels dropped to 572, with ex-vessel value shrinking accordingly.

Albacore trolling vessels landed 11,255 metric tons of albacore in

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Albacore adaptationA smaller, older West Coast fleet follows the fish north as markets,

ocean conditions change2015, with an ex-vessel value of $28.3 million. That’s a sharp drop from the $55 million total value seen in 2012 and a $4 million reduc-tion from 2014.

Albacore fishing generally runs from spring to fall, and the fishery is evenly divided between domestic, European, and Asian markets.

In addition to a U.S.-Canada treaty, management of the albacore is carried out on a worldwide scale under the supervision of two inter-national agencies. There are no quotas, specific seasons, or limited entry provisions, but restrictions could emerge if stock assessments show declines.

That’s not happening now – the albacore population is stable, and the fishery is certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in both the United States and Canada.

“Vicious spiral”: Wayne Heikkila is executive director of the


Western Fishboat Owners Association, which represents West Coast albacore vessel owners. He said the number of U.S. albacore vessels “has certainly been shrinking” since the mid-1970s, as major canning companies were bought out and relocated overseas.

International agreements carry requirements such as electronic vessel location monitoring and safety standards, but Heikkila said countries like China flood the market while ignoring compliance.

“Our efforts are shrinking, but we still abide by international agree-ments – meanwhile, China has expanded dramatically and is putting cheap, subsidized fish on the market,” he said. “It’s kind of a vicious spiral.”

Heikkila acknowledged positive developments like the MSC certification but noted that the average age of U.S. albacore fishermen is about 60 years old, and their numbers have decreased.

He added that if those trends don’t change, “in another 20 years or so, we’ll be importing all our albacore like we do all our other fish.”

State by state: Ex-vessel price for albacore tops out at around $2 a pound. The fishery is an additional source of income for fishermen who are already set up for trolling.

Blast freezing commands the most value and sells into the sashimi and sushi mar-kets, but Heikkila said about half of the U.S. vessels use spray brine freezing for canned product.

Landing totals vary state by state. Accord-ing to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report, 8.7 million pounds of albacore were landed at Oregon ports in 2014, with a total ex-vessel value of about $11 million.

Nancy Fitzpatrick, the executive director of the Oregon Albacore Commission, said this year’s season got off to an early and strong launch, with June landings significantly exceeding those seen last year for the month.

She said the fishery is an important piece of the overall economy.

“Many of our fishermen have to do multiple fisheries and a lot of times, trollers will fish for both salmon and albacore,” Fitzpatrick said.

In Washington, 18 million pounds were landed in 2014, with the ex-vessel value total-ing $21.1 million. State ports like the one in Ilwaco attract many outside fishermen due to their well-developed infrastructure.

California and beyond: The NOAA report doesn’t include California albacore landings, but the state’s Department of Fish and Wild-life reports that 800,000 pounds of albacore were landed in 2014, with a total ex-vessel value of $1.6 million.

Though tuna fishing has declined in the Northern California fishing hub of Eureka, fishermen there use albacore as a bridge fishery when salmon seasons are bumped to September. One of the markets for the catch is direct sales to individual customers, right off the dock.

Keith Downs, a crewman on the Oregon- based F/V Sea Rose, shows off a freshly caught albacore.

Continued on Page 10


TUNA FOCUS

Oregon-based albacore and salmon troller Henry deRonden-Pos has fished for tuna since 1978 on his 55-foot wooden boat, the F/V New Dawn.


“The key to making money on direct sales to the public is to be the first guy in,” said Eureka-based fisherman Aaron Newman, president of the Humboldt Fishermen’s Marketing Association. “Last year, I fished tuna for 10 days and ended up selling out in 10 days.”

Newman began fishing in late July and sold his catch in August. He said that due to weather factors, he usually catches tuna north of Cape Blanco, Ore-gon, and needs to catch at least 1,000 pounds per trip to make it worthwhile.

On the other end of the scale, British Columbia’s albacore fishery has been expanding and growing in value, with 9.5 million pounds landed at its ports, with an ex-vessel value of $55.5 million.

Blast and brine: There’s one B.C. cannery operating now, and it completely fulfills the region’s demand. While U.S. vessels use blast freezing and spray brine freezing to chill catches, the B.C. fleet exclusively uses blast freezing to produce a high-value frozen loin product.

Lorne Clayton, director of the Canadian Highly Migratory Species Founda-tion, said albacore oil content increases as the fish travel north up the coast and feed on sardines, and blast freezing ensures a higher-value catch.

“It’s frozen right on the boat now and stays frozen until it reaches the consumer,” he said.

Oregon-based albacore and salmon troller Henry deRonden-Pos has fished for tuna since 1978 on his 55-foot wooden boat, the F/V New Dawn. Working out of Newport, deRonden-Pos said he follows the fish north, into Washing-ton, and is considering fishing off the B.C. coast as a warm water trend contin-ues to send tuna farther north.

deRonden-Pos uses spray brine freezing, a method suited for the canned market in Spain and other overseas countries. Though overall participation in the albacore fishery is declining, deRonden-Pos has seen the catch stabilize, following a down trend in the 1980s.

“Albacore didn’t show up here until 1996, but we’ve had steady tuna fish-ing since then,” he said. “Lately, they’re coming in just like clockwork and this year, they came in early off Coos Bay, and they’re working their way up the line now.”

Albacore fishing started strong this season off Oregon.

A sometimes tenuous albacore fishing agreement between the United States

and Canada is up for renewal this year amid debate about whether the pact favors one side over the other.

Under the treaty, each nation’s albacore fleet can access either country’s waters and use each other’s ports and other services. The arrangement has been strained at times and was suspended in 2012, partly due to U.S. concerns over the number of Canadian vessels fishing in U.S. waters.

The treaty’s fishing regime was revived for a three-year term, which ends this year. As negotiations ramp up, U.S. fishing asso-ciations and political leaders are seeking remedies to long-standing grievances.

The Western Fishboat Owners Asso-ciation represents albacore vessel owners in the United States but also has a small membership of B.C. vessel owners. In a letter to the U.S. State Department, Wayne Heikkila, the association’s executive direc-tor, wrote that the association’s “default position” is support for suspending the treaty pending resolution of concerns about “port access issues” and lack of information on the accounting of catches in U.S. waters.

The association will poll its members in September to develop a definitive stance.

In an interview, Heikkila said the Canadian albacore fleet was very small in the years after the treaty was established in 1981, while the U.S. had many boats fishing off the B.C. coast. But with the decline of the B.C. salmon fishery in the mid- to late 1990s, the dynamic progressively reversed.

Eligible boats: Forty-five Canadian ves-sels are now allowed to fish in U.S. waters.

Although there’s no limit on the num-ber of U.S. vessels allowed to fish off British Columbia, Heikkila said that only a small percentage of the U.S. albacore fleet of about 600 vessels benefits from access to Canadian waters and ports.

“If the treaty went away, the Canadians would suffer a lot worse than the U.S. would, that’s for sure,” he said.

But Heikkila also said that the U.S. opposition that ran hot a few years ago has cooled somewhat, as “some boats like the access to Canadian markets and the ability to sell fish in Vancouver and get better prices.”

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of the Canadian Highly Migratory Species Foundation, which promotes the alba-core fishery, said the treaty is mutually beneficial.

“The advantage to the U.S. is that fisher-men can follow tuna up into Canada and then back again,” he said.

Warmer ocean temperatures seen in the last two years have attracted tuna north-ward and kept the fish in B.C. territory longer, Clayton said. Last year, albacore was even caught in Alaska.

B.C. outreach: Asked if the treaty is expected to be renewed, Ian Bryce, the chairman of the foundation and vice president of the B.C. Tuna Fishermen’s Association, responded, “Recently, there was the expectation that Britain wouldn’t leave the EU.”

The association is doing outreach to U.S. fishermen in an effort to clarify the benefits of the treaty. Bryce believes that the 2012 suspension wasn’t a positive development.

“In my humble opinion, that was not a

good year for either country’s fleets,” he said. “It always kind of baffles me how some members of the American tuna fleet are so keen on giving up 40 percent of the tuna territory on the West Coast of North America.”

The renewal of the treaty may hinge on responses to specific demands. In a June 24 letter to the U.S. State Department, congressional members in California and Alaska called for delivery on previ-ous agreements, including those that set limits on Canadian catch levels in the United States.

But the future may include a continuation of the warm water trend, and Henry deRon-den-Pos, an Oregon-based troller, said he supports renewal of the treaty.

“The consensus has been ‘get rid of the treaty’ but now, with the warm water, a lot of guys are rethinking it,” he said. “With the warming trend, it’s very important to keep all our options open.”

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feed our nation while earning an honest living,” the department said of Bear.

Bear recently agreed to field a few questions from Pacific Fishing. He discusses how ongoing state budget cuts have impacted the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, how the agency prioritizes its work, and how fishermen feel about enforcement.

Q: How have state budget cuts affected the division and commercial fisheries enforcement around the state, if at all?

A: The state’s budget cuts have affected all aspects of our job. Commercial fisheries enforcement has suffered with reductions to overall numbers of days at sea with our large vessels, as well as

YOUR BUSINESS by WESLEY LOYEnforcement

Q&A Despite serious budget cuts, the Division of Alaska Wildlife Troopers keeps the heat on commercial fishing cheats

“In the commercial fishing industry, we

sometimes view our job as ‘referees,’”

says Col. Steve Bear, director of the Alaska

Wildlife Troopers.

Enforcement is fundamental to the Alaska fishing industry.While commercial fishermen generally profess a strong con-

servation ethic and sense of fair play, everyone knows that’s not enough. The need for fish cops is real.

The Division of Alaska Wildlife Troopers is a small unit cover-ing the state’s vast, rich, and rugged fishing grounds. Season after season, the troopers are a reassuring presence for honest fishermen and a constant worry for cheats.

Col. Steve Bear has been director of the Alaska Wildlife Troop-ers since June 1, 2014. He has been with the Alaska Department of Public Safety for 26 years, beginning his career in 1990 as a state trooper recruit. Bear is a U.S. Army veteran and a graduate of the FBI National Academy. He has participated in fisheries patrols from Kiska to Ketchikan.

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The Alaska Wildlife Troopers are highly active in Bristol Bay, scene of the state’s most valuable commercial salmon fishery. Klas Stolpe photo

reductions in our patrol capabilities. The division sold our King Air 200 this year due to lack of operating budget. Part of this air-craft’s mission was offshore commercial fisheries patrol. We are still able to patrol these fisheries with existing assets; however, we may not be as efficient as we once were. We are a small division of 91 commissioned law enforcement personnel stationed strategically across the state. As the primary fish and wildlife enforcement agen-cy in the state, we have many responsibilities. Commercial fishing enforcement is a priority to our division, and we will continue to do our best with the resources we have available.

Q: Do you currently have the staff, patrol vessels, aircraft, and other equipment you need to adequately police Alaska’s commercial fisheries? How many wildlife troopers does the state have in total, and are all positions filled?

A: The Division of Alaska Wildlife Troopers is currently budget-ed in fiscal year 2017 for 91 full-time commissioned wildlife troop-ers. This number is down dramatically from a high in the late ’80s of 117. We have few vacancies at any given time. These troopers cover every aspect of resource law enforcement in the state, includ-ing but not limited to hunting, fishing, trapping, big game guiding, sport fish guiding, commercial fishing, personal use fishing, subsis-tence fishing, and habitat violations. We are highly dedicated to our job, and most of us come to this profession because it is a calling, a selfless sense of public service.

We cannot possibly adequately cover all these responsibilities with the current number of personnel we have. It will take an effort by everyone, not just law enforcement, to protect our resources for future generations. Some of our best cases are made by good people coming forward, speaking up, and being willing to get involved. Commercial fishing is a major driving factor of the state’s economy. In the commercial fishing industry, we sometimes view our job as “referees.” We help maintain a fair and equitable playing field for all involved, so that fishermen who follow the rules have a chance at making an honest living. We’ve monitored enough fisheries covertly to know what happens when we’re not enforc-ing the state’s commercial fisheries. Cheating increases dramati-cally, resulting in less opportunity and fewer resources for industry to utilize.

We utilize a wide variety of assets to patrol the state’s commer-cial fisheries. These include multiple vessels and aircraft. Each of these assets serves a specific purpose for the location where it is stationed. Commercial fishing is only a part of the overall mission. We are generally doing OK with the budget as far as equipment. We struggle, however, to find enough funding to keep these assets all operational. Things such as shipyards and equipment replace-ment are often planned well in advance and prioritized against many other projects.

Q: How much of the division’s time and resources are devoted to commercial fisheries enforcement versus other areas such as sport fishing, hunting, and trapping?

A: The division spreads its resources as equally as possible throughout the state. Some of the locations where wildlife troopers are posted do not have commercial fishing at all. The effort in these areas is primarily game, sport fishing, and trapping patrols. Other areas of the state concentrate on commercial fishing, and wildlife troopers work in and around that industry on a regular basis. In

areas that have a commercial fishing responsibility, our troopers spend an adequate amount of time working the fisheries. Troop-ers in Southeast, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor may work commercial fisheries cases year-round, while troopers in other locations may work these cases more seasonally.

Statewide, our 10-year average shows that about 12 percent of our total time is spent patrolling and enforcing commercial



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A U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols the Sitka herring fishery. Inset: The state P/V Woldstad, soon to be decommissioned.

fisheries. Compared to other responsibilities, this is appropriate. For instance, our 10-year average for game is about 21 percent, sport fish about 12 percent, and trapping about 3 percent. Keep in mind that a portion of our troopers are not recording any time patrolling commercial fishing. Twelve percent statewide reflects that we are dedicated to spending time making sure the fisheries are fair and equitable for all involved.

Q: What are the division’s top commercial fisheries enforce-ment priorities at the moment?

A: The Alaska Wildlife Troopers work closely with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s commercial fisheries division and use information provided by their staff to help formulate priorities for enforcement. Some priorities are set simply based upon the number of people participating in a commercial fishery (Bristol Bay), while others are set based upon stocks of concern (king salmon). Other additional factors that weigh into the decision on priorities include political factors, equipment and personnel availability, user group conflicts, and public input. In general, the division’s top commercial fishing priorities are currently prioritized based upon all these factors, but the highest priorities include stocks of concern, illegal fishing in closed areas, and large fisheries that involve user conflicts.

Q: The state’s 2016 preseason outlook for Bristol Bay said that Alaska Wildlife Troopers had investigated numerous complaints of assault and vessel-ramming on the fishing grounds in recent seasons. The outlook said a fisherman can be charged with a felony if he threatens someone with a dangerous instrument such as a boat, pike pole, knife, or deck

brush. What’s driving the rough behavior at Bristol Bay, and has the state secured any convictions?

A: There are different levels of assault in Alaska law. A person could be charged with felony assault for using a dangerous instrument and assaulting the victim with that instrument. This could include things such as a boat, a pike pole, a knife, or a gun. These types of assaults are rare, but when they do happen we aggressively seek prosecution for these offenses. It is difficult to quantify what drives this behavior in commercial fishermen. Competitive fishing practices certainly play into why these things occur. The drive to make money certainly pushes some commer-cial operators to display less than desirable behaviors. Finally, anytime you have commercial fisheries that concentrate multiple fishermen in a confined area you will have conflicts. The state has pursued convictions in the past, and we have been successful.

Q: Does the division rotate its enforcement efforts around the state from year to year? For example, might you focus on Kodiak salmon fisheries one season, then Prince William Sound the next?

A: The Alaska Wildlife Troopers have limited resources around the state to apply to resource law enforcement. We routinely send wildlife troopers TDY (temporary duty) to areas of the state that need additional help. This occurs year-round for most of the things we enforce. We may decide that due to multiple public complaints, we will send a team into the area to enforce the fishery to help bring issues back into compliance. Some of the fisheries require constant attention, while others seem to run fine without much enforcement needed. Fisheries have changed dramatically over


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Q: I understand the state is decommis-sioning the 121-foot, Kodiak-based patrol vessel Woldstad, one of the largest in the Alaska Wildlife Troopers fleet. What’s behind this move? Will the decommission-ing hurt enforcement?

A: The Alaska Wildlife Troopers are in the process of getting rid of the P/V Woldstad. This vessel was built about 34 years ago as a platform for commercial fisheries enforcement, and it served the state well. It also provided many other law enforcement uses like search and rescue and responses to remote coastal locations. The loss of this vessel in our fleet will no doubt affect our patrol ability. How-ever, we are unable to pay for the operation and maintenance of this vessel with the current budgetary constraints. We had to prioritize our equipment and determine what we could operate efficiently. We will be able to convert some of the money used to run the Woldstad to increase the days at sea for our existing vessels.

Q: I regularly check Daily Dispatches, the Alaska State Troopers online news summary. My impression is that few-er fisheries enforcement cases have been made in recent years in top commercial fishing zones such as Bristol Bay,

Prince William Sound, and Southeast Alaska. Are we issuing fewer citations for illegal fishing? Or is it just a matter of fewer fisheries cases getting a mention in Daily Dispatches?

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LOOKING BACK by ANJULI GRANTHAM

Fire damages Parks Cannery, a special place for manyGood things usually don’t come with 4 a.m. phone calls,

especially on the eve of an opener in an Alaska fishing town. Although barely awake, I was prepared for the worst as I answered the buzzing phone.

“I just received a mayday call from the Parks Cannery,” said a friend who skippers a tender on the west side of Kodiak

Island. “The cannery is on fire. I’m bringing paramedics out there now.”

Three were injured, and one person died as a result of the June 2 fire that consumed a building used to house guests at this cannery, which now operates as a lodge.

A bucket brigade saved the rest of the complex of warehous-es, old bunkhouses, and other buildings from burning up as well. It was a heartbreaking way to start the salmon season. It is also an appropriate moment to look back at the history of this old cannery and recount what it means to some of those connected to it.

Fish traps: Herb Dominici had his hand in several cannery operations over the decades. He built the cannery in 1934. The Great Northern Packing Co. purchased the plant from Domi-nici; Alaska aviation and seafood industry extraordinaire Nick Bez was a part of the partnership.

After a couple of years, the cannery had a new owner again, and henceforth it was referred to as Parks Cannery.

The cannery mostly utilized salmon captured in fish traps and supplemented its supply with setnet-caught salmon. The fish traps were driven off Cape Uyak and Cape Ugat, also on Kodiak’s west side.

Fish traps were the sworn enemy of many Alaska fishermen. These devices built of pilings and fencing essentially eliminated the need for fishermen. They efficiently captured more fish than seines. For example, the two traps that supplied Parks Cannery were recorded to catch twice the number of fish as the 65 fishermen working at Karluk.

In 1959, fish traps were eliminated at the behest of the residents of the brand-new state of Alaska.

Cannery home: Hustle and then qui-et – that’s the annual rhythm of remote canneries only used for fish processing in the summer.

History often focuses on the moments of intense activity and extolls the big leaders. Yet, it was during those

quiet months that the cannery served another function – that of home – and it is the individuals whose names aren’t on the articles of incorporation that most often have a deep connection to a place.

For example, Virginia Abston was born in the village of Karluk only because there wasn’t a midwife to help deliver her at Parks Cannery. Her parents lived at the can-nery year-round. Her father was a Swedish immigrant and carpenter who kept the buildings standing in the winter. Her mother was an Alutiiq-Swede who did the laundry for the cannery crew in the summer.

As Abston said, “The old Johnson 9-horse didn’t go very fast.” The village of Larsen Bay was just far enough away so that Virginia and her siblings had to live there in order to attend school instead of staying with their parents at the cannery. They returned to Parks each summer so that Abston could setnet with her mother while her brothers, Tom and Jimmy Johnson, fished in the Parks’ seine fleet.

“Dad bought a boat (the Parks No. 7), and Jimmy started running it. And that is where and how I met Gary,” Abston said, referring to her future husband. “He came up fishing.”

After they married, the Abstons spent several winters working as watchmen themselves.

“I don’t remember being bored. There was always people com-ing from Larsen Bay to visit, and they would go seal hunting because they got three dollars a nose,” Abston said, recalling when there was a bounty on seals.

Parks Cannery, summer of 2013. Anjuli Grantham photos



by WESLEY LOYALASKA NOTEBOOK

Southeast trollers take summer Chinook in short orderFast fishery: Southeast Alaska fishermen needed only five days

to nearly reach their harvest target in the first Chinook salmon opening of the general summer commercial troll season.

The fishery opened just after midnight July 1.The fleet had a quota for the first opening of 122,000 Chinook

under provisions of the Pacific Salmon Treaty, plus an Alaska hatchery contribution not subject to treaty limits, for a total harvest target of 125,800 fish.

The department closed the fishery at midnight July 5, and later said 107,000 treaty Chinook were taken.

Trollers should get a second opener in mid-August.

Kusko closure: Coastal Villages Region Fund elected not to open its processing plant at the village of Platinum, leaving commercial salmon fishermen in the Kuskokwim River area without a buyer this season.

Based in Anchorage, Coastal is a non-profit company holding catch shares for Bering Sea pollock and other fish under the federal community development quota (CDQ) program.

Coastal built the Platinum plant, also known as the Goodnews Bay plant, for a reported cost of $35 million. The plant opened in 2009.

In an internal memo provided to Pacific Fishing, Coastal said one aim of the plant was to provide economic opportunity to “a relatively small num-ber” of salmon and halibut fishermen.

“This experiment, while costly, sup-ported jobs in an impoverished area that had not had consistent access to local processing,” the memo said. “Coastal planned to operate the facility at a loss for five years while the fishery matured.”

The losses, however, evidently became too much for Coastal this year, resulting in the decision not to operate the plant.

“The Kuskokwim is not a tenable commercial fishery at this time,” the memo said.

Local fishery operations were still requiring yearly subsidies from Coastal’s Bering Sea earnings and had accumulated $134 million in losses since 1999, the memo said.

The company also said “policymakers have been unable to com-mit to a schedule of consistent and reliable commercial salmon openers” upon which the processor could plan operations.

And Coastal noted pressure on the local resource with “tensions” between upriver and downriver communities and commercial and subsistence users.

The Platinum plant might not be closed for good. Coastal said the regional fishery program was not being canceled but rather “put on hold for this summer.”

Atka tragedy: Another CDQ company was experiencing

difficulty of a different sort.On June 14, a van carrying workers from the Atka Pride

Seafoods plant on remote Atka Island went out of control on a dirt road and rolled multiple times, killing three people and

injuring several others.Authorities charged the driver, Sonny

Iloilo, 28, with manslaughter, DUI, and other charges. A breath alcohol test showed a reading of 0.185, charging documents filed in Unalaska District Court said.

Atka Pride Seafoods is a subsidiary of the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association, a Juneau-based CDQ company.

The employees in the van had been traveling from the process-ing plant to the bunkhouse for dinner, APICDA said.

Tax hike: Residents of the central Bering Sea island of St.

Paul voted June 14 to bump their sales tax to 3.5 percent, up from 3 percent.

The tax applies broadly to sales transactions on St. Paul, from store and fuel purchases to commercial crab deliveries to processors.

The crab industry represents a key source of revenue for St. Paul.“This increase brings St. Paul’s sales tax to levels comparable

to Akutan and King Cove,” said a press release from the city of St. Paul.

“I understand that some folks may get upset by this news, but the reality is that it is a very modest tax increase,” said St. Paul Mayor Simeon Swetzof Jr.

Swetzof noted the impact of reduced snow crab and halibut quotas in recent years.

The city has had to lay off personnel, cut its budget, and dip into savings while continuing to maintain the harbor and other infra-structure, he said.

“It shouldn’t have to be just the local residents who pay for the cost of building and maintaining infrastructure and providing services that benefit the crab harvesting and processing sectors,” Swetzof said.

Wesley Loy is editor of Pacific Fishing magazine and producer of Deckboss, a blog on Alaska commercial fisheries.

The relatively new processing plant near the village of Platinum was shuttered this season, leaving commercial salmon fishermen in the Kuskokwim River region without a buyer. CVRF photo


FISH FACTOR by LAINE WELCH

Legislation would hold off looming vessel safety regsCatching a break: A bill moving through Congress would

provide relief from the 2020 deadline to comply with new commer-cial fishing vessel safety requirements.

The new rules would apply to older vessels over 50 feet long and operating beyond 3 miles from shore.

The Senate Commerce Committee on June 29 approved the bill (S. 3088) relaxing the deadline for complying with the Alternate Safety Compliance Program.

Alaska’s Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Washington Demo-cratic Sen. Maria Cantwell are the bill’s sponsors.

Nearly three dozen members of Congress sent a June 15 letter to U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Fred Midgette complaining about the Coast Guard’s development of the Alternate Safety Compliance Program.

The letter said, among other things, that fishermen hadn’t been sufficiently involved in the process.

“We heard about this loudly from so many stakeholders, especially when I visited Kodiak,” Sullivan said in a phone inter-view. “The bill we passed essen-tially slides back the compliance deadline to three years after all the rules are promulgated, when-ever that might be.”

Nice nets! A simple onboard

net-washing system is one of the latest quality-boosting tools to come out of Cordova.

“There’s nothing that catches fish better than a brand-new net. If you can maintain a clean net, you’re fully optimizing your abil-ity to catch,” said Bill Webber, of Webber Marine and Manufactur-ing in Cordova.

For over 40 years, Webber has specialized in gear for primar-ily salmon gillnetters. The net washer is one of the newest tools to come out of his shop.

“It has vertical water chambers that weld onto the outboard sides of the rollers,” he explained. The rollers still function as intended. Water sprays through the net as it goes through.

Webber, a longtime Copper River fisherman, said he was fine-tuning the net washer out on the water and hoped to make it available this winter.

Other Webber inventions include hydraulic rotating turrets for net reels, automated seawater chlorination systems, and an electronic intravenous pressure process that bleeds a fish in about 30 seconds.

“I like building a better mouse trap, if you will,” he said.

All of his inventions are designed to optimize salmon quality and were born out of necessity when Webber revamped his business model 20 years ago. He was one of the first to vertically integrate his operation by becoming both a catcher and a proces-sor aboard his gillnetter, directing each salmon into the hands of high-end chefs and buyers.

Today, Webber sells more than 95 percent of his salmon catch privately under his Gulkana Seafoods brand.

“Being the first owner in the supply chain, I control every aspect of my product’s existence,” Webber said. “I have developed specialized tools and very strin-gent handling standards and pro-cessing techniques that allow my harvest to be as Mother Nature intended. So many Americans have lost the connection to their food sources, and I am their personal Alaska fisherman.”

Webber makes presentations around the nation advising fish-ermen on how they can reclaim more value for their catches. His hope, he said, is to offer tools that “from the get-go will have them providing the finest fish to source-conscious buyers.”

Scallop time: Alaska’s weath-

ervane scallop fishery got under-way on July 1 with a fleet of just three to four boats dropping dredges from Yakutat to the Bering Sea.

Weathervanes are the largest scallops in the world with a shell diameter averaging 10 inches. It can take up to five years for scallops to reach market size, and they can live up to 20 years.

Scallop boats tow dredges along mostly sandy bottoms in

strictly defined regions, and the fishery is closely monitored by onboard observers.

The scallopers catch, package, and freeze the shucked meats aboard the boats. The meat is the adductor muscle that opens and closes the scallop’s shell. The popular delicacy can pay fishermen up to $10 per pound.

Alaska’s quota this year is just over 286,000 pounds of shucked meats, the lowest in nearly a decade.

By comparison, East Coast scallop catches can top 50 million pounds of shucked meats.

Laine Welch writes the Fish Factor column and produces “Alaska Fish Radio” out of Kodiak.

Jack Molan took this photo of Pavlof volcano in 2013 while aboard the F/V Columbia. Located northeast of Cold Bay, Pavlof erupted this March and was acting up again in early July.


by MICHEL DROUINBRITISH COLUMBIA

Gillnetting sockeye along Vancouver Island, Part 1

John Stevens sets the gillnet off the Ganhada. Michel Drouin photos

B.C. seiners got a sockeye opening on June 20.

I joined my friend John Stevens on the gillnetter Ganhada for the sockeye fishery in Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in June.

The first opening was on Tuesday, June 7. John took the boat around from his home in Ladner at the mouth of the Fraser River, leaving on June 5, and I drove his truck over, catching the 7:45 ferry to Vancouver Island on June 6.

We met up in Port Alberni at the head of Alberni Inlet and later that day headed out on the 37-foot gillnetter, traveling the length

of the inlet and anchoring shortly before dark near his favorite setting spot, where we intended to fish at 6 a.m. the next day.

When we came out of the anchorage there was already a boat waiting to set out from the shore where John intended to set, so he ran down to the next spot along the shore and set at 6.

With only six fish in that set and after a disappointing second set, we headed down toward where our friend Harold was fishing his boat, the Prime Time III. Harold had reported a very good first set of over 200 fish. Of course, he knows his spot well and had been anchored out there since Friday to secure the first set there Tuesday morning.

Faded history: John set the net near a place called Ecoole, which he pointed out had been the site of a pilchard (sardine) reduction plant in the 1920s. Noth-ing remains there now of the plant but some old pilings and the rusted remains of a tank and some of the boiler equipment.

We tend to forget as we sail along British Columbia’s coast looking out at the rocks and bush and trees there now that there were once vibrant communities based on the fishing industry all the way from the 49th parallel to the Alaska border. There were reduction plants, canneries, net lofts, ice plants, and even little floating troll camps anchored in coves and bays all along the coast.

By mid-afternoon we had about 53 sockeye on board, so we headed back to where we’d started the day.

“Sometimes new fish gets pushed in with the afternoon westerly,” John explained. It didn’t turn out that great, but by the time the fishery closed at 8 p.m., we had 84 fish on board.

We delivered to my old high school pal Lee Anderson on the Pacific Baron in San Mateo Bay and headed for Port Alberni to tie up until the next opening, June 14.

With reports of $6 a pound being paid by cash buyers, we were confident that the company would match that price or at least come close.

After four days at home, we caught the 7:45 ferry on June 13 to make the June 14 opening. After John repaired a tear in the end of the net from a snag the week before, we motored out the inlet to San Mateo Bay and started fishing near there at 6 a.m. June 14.

Doughnuts will do: It was a day full of weather changes, from calm to blustery and sunny to wet, and the fishing wasn’t that great even compared to the modest catch we’d had the week before.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced in the ear-ly afternoon that the threshold of 132 gillnetters had been exceeded, reaching 150 boats, and they were cutting the fishing time by three hours. The fishery closed at 5 p.m., and we joined the race to the dock, securing a good tie-up spot.

On the hill out of Port Alberni in John’s venerable Ford pickup, we first noticed a smell and then saw smoke com-ing out from under the hood, so we pulled over. The oil filter was leaking diesel fuel onto the exhaust manifold.

Fortunately, we were adjacent to a Chrysler dealership, and they took pity on us and assigned us a mechanic.

He quickly found a leak in a bleeder valve on the filter mount-ing plate, replaced that, and sent us on our way. John asked him what we owed him and he declared an interest in doughnuts, so we went down to the closest Tim Hortons (a popular Canadian doughnut and coffee shop) and got him a dozen mixed pastries



MID-COAST REPORT by KATIE FRANKOWICZ

Court favors tribes in salmon barrier battleCulvert case: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on June 27

upheld a complaint filed by 21 tribes and the United States against the state of Washington, saying the state violated 160-year-old treaties by maintaining hundreds of roadway culverts and pipe-lines that have disrupted salmon passage to and from traditional spawning grounds.

Under treaties known as the Stevens Treaties, established in 1854 and 1855, Pacific Northwest tribes gave up huge parcels of land west of the Cascade Mountains and north of the Columbia River drainage area – areas that include the Puget Sound watershed, Olympic Peninsula watersheds north of the Grays Harbor water-shed, and the offshore waters adjacent to these areas. In exchange for their land, the tribes were guaranteed fishing rights. These are the rights that continue to be a part of seasonal negotiations in commercial salmon fisheries today.

Fast-forward a century and several decades to 2001, when 21 of these tribes (along with the United States) filed a “request for determination” and contended that Washington state violated and continues to violate these treaties by building and maintaining certain culverts that disrupt salmon life cycles and make them vulnerable to predators. In 2007, the district court agreed with the tribes that the state of Washington had “violated its obligation under the Treaties” and, in 2013, ordered Washington to correct the culverts.

In court documents, Washington has said that correcting the hundreds of Washington Department of Transportation barrier culverts would cost approximately $1.88 billion over the course of the 17-year-schedule outlined by the court, or $117 million per year.

“It is in the public’s interest as well as the Tribes’ to accelerate

the pace of barrier correction,” the district court held. “All fishermen, not just Tribal fishermen, will benefit from the increased production of salmon.”

Salmon ranching in Washington: Salmon ranching died out

in Oregon decades ago and remains illegal in Washington, where hatcheries are run by the state. But now the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission may consider allowing private companies to commercially rear, release, and harvest salmon.

The commission asked its staff to research the practice and pro-vide the commission with a briefing. That presentation occurred during a June 10 meeting in Olympia.

Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Miranda Wecker, who helped implement controversial new policies on Willapa Bay last year that gillnetters say seriously restrict their ability to make a living fish-ing there, told the Kitsap Sun that as hatchery funding continues to decline, fishery managers need to plan alternatives.

Ocean ranching is one alternative they are now considering. It is practiced with a great degree of success elsewhere, in Alaska for instance, and on a large scale in Japan.

In Oregon, private for-profit hatcheries practiced some forms of salmon ranching, with 12 sites at the program’s peak. The ranches raised Chinook, coho, chum, and pink salmon. These fish were har-vested when they returned to the facilities that had reared them.

None of the ranches are in operation now, however, due in part to issues ranging from economic feasibility to the impacts on natural-origin fish, according to Chad Herring, Willapa Bay policy implementation biologist with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, who gave the ocean ranching presentation to the commission.

Among the potential benefits, Herring told the commission, ranching could provide a higher degree of local community involvement and a conservation incentive, an opportunity to increase catch, a reduction in government cost, more marine-derived nutrients, and smolts that could serve as prey.

But among the potential drawbacks are impacts to wild fish, impacts to other natural resources such as shellfish, disease, degradation of habitat (specifically water quality), issues with water rights, and issues with long-term sources of funding. There remains, too, the really big question about whether ocean or salm-on ranching would be economically viable. Such operations are costly to start up and maintain.

The commission did not vote or take any actions regarding salmon ranching in Washington at the June 10 meeting.

Oregon Dungeness tally: Preliminary landings of Dungeness

crab off the Oregon coast from January through May came to a total of 13.7 million pounds, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Most of this was caught in the peak months of January and February.

The average price in May was $4.31 per pound. Across the season, the average price per pound was $3.58, with total ex-vessel value hitting $49.2 million.

Last year, the season closed early due to high levels of the naturally occurring marine toxin domoic acid, and total landings leveled out at 8.2 million pounds. The average price per pound that season was $4.12, and the total ex-vessel value was $33.9 million.

The 2013-14 season saw 14.4 million pounds landed for a total ex-vessel value of $50.2 million.Katie Frankowicz reports from Astoria, Ore.

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SOUTHERN CLIMES by DANIEL MINTZ

A first glimpse at the 2016 salmon seasonRough estimates: As of late June, some “very preliminary”

information on California’s Chinook landings was available from the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Ocean Salmon Project, courtesy of Jennifer Simon, one of its environmental scientists.

Two management areas were open through May: the San Francisco Bay area from Point Arena to Pidgeon Point and the area south of Pidgeon Point, essentially from Monterey Bay south.

Simon reported that 2,900 Chinook were landed in the San Fran-cisco region in May, with the catch weighing in at 27,300 pounds.

In the southern management area, 10,100 Chinook were landed in May, with a total weight of 96,600 pounds.

The combined ex-vessel value of the landings from the two regions is roughly estimated at $1.1 million.

The Fort Bragg management area from Horse Mountain (just north of Shelter Cove) to Point Arena saw a commercial opening in mid-June, for a two-week period preceding a July closure.

“It does look much better in Fort Bragg for June than it did in San Francisco for May,” Simon said, adding that the Fort Bragg area “seems to be on track to meet the preseason estimate.”

Fishermen reported that prices in the Fort Bragg area were strong, reaching $10 a pound.

But with statewide July closures, this year’s season is expected to fall below last year’s disappointing haul of 109,900 fish.

Dungeness data: The state’s troubled Dungeness crab sea-

son ended on June 30 in the central region and July 15 in the northern region. As of press time, landing totals were available through mid-June.

The landing numbers actually look pretty good for a season that started very late due to toxic algae blooms – commercial crabbing began in late March below the Mendocino-Sonoma county line and in mid-May for the northern region.

In the short time between the openers and mid-June, about 8.8 million pounds of crab were landed statewide, with the ex-vessel value estimated in the $25 million range.

We will soon find out how that figures into the effort to gain federal disaster assistance funding for a season that was slated to

begin in mid-November.Pete Kalvass, a senior environmental sci-

entist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said one reason his office developed a landings and value extract through mid-June was that Sen. Barbara Boxer asked for data to compare to last year’s landings.

Last year’s season yielded 16.3 million pounds, with a total ex-vessel value of about $59.5 million.

One of the yardsticks for declaring a fishery disaster is loss of 80 percent of a season’s ex-vessel revenue, using a five-year average as a basis. The average ex-vessel value for the last five years is about $70 million.

Uneasy easements: Northern California’s Eel River watershed

has declined from an era of salmon-producing glory, but a major estuary restoration project – one of the biggest state projects of its kind – seeks to open sediment-collecting pinch points and restore salmon migration.

The multimillion-dollar Salt River Ecosystem Restoration Project will also reduce flooding of agricultural lands. But as reported by the Ferndale Enterprise, the Eel River Val-ley’s local newspaper, the project’s 2016 phase won’t hap-pen due to lack of agreements with two landowners.

One of the landowners holds a particularly vital 10-acre section of the project, where sediment flowing from the Wildcat Mountains is proposed to be managed so that tidal action and tributary flows can be restored.

The project, with a cost topping $20 million once all phases are complete, had apparently gained all the prop-erty easements it needed several years ago. But properties change hands, and the new owner of the 10-acre segment is challenging the easement purchased by the National Resource Conservation District in 2010.

This summer’s work is canceled as national, state, and local agencies focus their efforts on enforcing the legal and contractual clout of contested property easements.

MPA monitoring debate: Controversy is revisiting

California’s network of marine protected areas (MPAs) as the state Fish and Game Commission considers changing the times-pan for assessing monitoring results.

In late June, the commission decided to postpone any decisions until late summer. A proposal to change the network’s monitoring assessment timeframe from five to 10 years is being challenged by recreational fishermen who say that five years is enough time to determine whether the MPAs are boosting fish populations.

If not, the sport fishermen argue, then fishing restrictions should be lifted.

In the North Coast region, MPAs haven’t impacted commercial fishermen significantly. The MPAs are placed far from ports, in remote areas that were lightly fished to begin with.

A determination that an MPA is not working wouldn’t necessar-ily result in removal of restrictions. The Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) describes monitoring as a means of ensuring that habitat protection and biodiversity goals are being met.

And with adaptive management, the knife can cut both ways. The MLPA states that MPAs can be removed – but they can also be added and changed – to fulfill the law’s goals.

Daniel Mintz reports from Eureka, Calif.

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State Value*

Alaska Entry Permit Prices(as of 8-1-16)

Gillnet: Bay permits crept up to the mid $120s just prior to fishing. Now we’ll have to wait until the season is over to see which way they go from here. There was very little interest in SE permits in the last month before fishing started. New listings of PWS permits showed asking prices as low as $150k. Cook Inlet permits were available as low as the upper $50s. No changes in Area M.

Seine: A couple of SE permits changed hands before the season. A few buyers were still looking for something less than $200k, but no takers. Buyers were try-ing to find PWS cards at the start of the season, offering as much as $155k. Not much new with Kodiak permits, with listings as low as $32k. Chignik permits were available in the $145- $150k range. Area M permits were moving at around $50k.

Troll: Very little recent activity for Alaska Power Troll permits with prices starting around the mid $30s. Same with Hand Troll permits, starting as low as $10.5k. Nothing new in the last month for lower 48 permits.

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S PWS DRIFT 150- 140- 172.1-

S COOK INLET DRIFT 58 56 51.5+

S AREA M DRIFT 100 95 114.9-

S BRISTOL BAY DRIFT 130+ 125+ 103.6+

S SE SEINE 200 180+ 226.3

S PWS SEINE 175+ 155+ 148.8-

S COOK INLET SEINE 73 50 78.8-

S KODIAK SEINE 32- 30- 39.8

S CHIGNIK SEINE 145 130 206.3-

S AREA M SEINE 50 50+ 56.1

S YAKUTAT SET 16 12 18.7

S COOK INLET SET 18 16 15.4-

S AREA M SET NET 60 55 55.9

S BRISTOL SET NET 36+ 36+ 32+

S LOWER YUKON 9 8 10.2

S POWER TROLL 36 35- 35.4+

S HAND TROLL 10.5- 10 10.8+

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H KODIAK GILLNET 5 3 5

H SITKA SEINE 325 225 238.8

H PWS SEINE 22.5 16 30.9

H COOK INLET SEINE 10 8 16.8

H KODIAK SEINE 26 20 30.3

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H 2C C/B 1-3 B 60.00-65.00 58.00-62.00

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TN15-005 53.3’x15.3’x8.9’ tuna/salmon vessel built in 1978 by Skookum. Detroit 4-71 main. Northern Lights 8.5 kw generator. 650 cubic ft. fish hold. Installed new in 2014, Air blast freeze system. Dacron sails, Junes tuna pullers, (2) Kolstrand 3 spool gurdies. OR salmon troll permit included. Asking $185,000.

BB16-008 32’x13’x30” fiberglass Wegley Bristol Bay boat, built in 2010. Flush deck, 8” bow thruster, and diesel powered IMS RSW system. Cat C-9 rated at 503 hp, 21 knot top speed. New piston drum drive, valves, and hoses in 2015. Electronics include Garmin GPS/plotter/depth sounder, VHF, and ComNav autopilot (needs installation). Excellent condition. Asking $299,000.

SE16-006 47’x14.5’ seiner, built in 1974 by Hansen. Complete rebuild in 2011 w/ new interior, new main, rebuilt aux, new mast, booms, and electronics. John Deere 6068, Isuzu 20 kw gen set. Appr 45,000# w/ IMS 15 ton RSW system. (2) VHF, Furuno radar, GPS, computer w/ Nobeltec, color sounder, and more. Aluminum rigging w/ main and picking booms, hydraulic vanging and slider, deck winch, and power block. Asking $295,000.



FOR SALEHave several California lobster permits for sale. Some with traps. Priced to sell. Call Don Brockman. (949) 279-9369.

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ON THE DOCKS

More than 1,000 people turned out for a parade to show Kodiak’s trawl industry some love. Anjuli Grantham photo

Wearing a red baseball cap that read “Make trawling great again,” Trident Seafoods CEO Joe Bundrant threw a

chocolate pie in the face of North Pacific Fishery Management Council member Duncan Fields at the end of the Groundfish Parade on June 11 in Kodiak.

In an effort to raise money for charity, and exact a bit of fun revenge on fisheries political opponents, others like Joe Plesha, Trident’s general counsel, got a face full of whipped cream and graham cracker crust.

The event was organized by the Alaska Whitefish Trawlers Association and Alaska Groundfish Data Bank.

Now, the pie-throwing alone made the parade worth attending. But it was what occurred beforehand that made it a day for the history books.

Marching behind a sign that read, “Save Kodiak’s trawl fishery, we are the working waterfront,” over 1,000 processing workers, trawlers, and their supporters paraded from Fishermen’s Terminal, passing the processing plants along Shelikof Street and stopping in front of the Kodiak Island Convention Center, where the council was meeting.

Within, the council deliberated controversial alternatives to reduce bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska.

Outside, the typically invisible processing workers came out of the corrugated metal buildings in which they labor.

Within, jargon proliferated: How to address sideboards for nonexempt AFA CVs?

Outside, Tagalog and Spanish were as common as English.Within, a group of white, middle-aged men and one woman

heard testimony about observer coverage and the impact of mon-etizing groundfish quota in the Gulf.

Outside, hundreds of Asian Americans and Latinos walked with their families, holding signs like “Gov. Walker don’t take away my job.”

Trawl pride: An economic report recently commissioned by the Kodiak Island Borough illustrated that 1,952 jobs in Kodiak were derived from groundfish in 2014, more than all other locally executed fisheries combined.

During the Groundfish Parade, the town’s trawlers unabashedly

Essay

Parade shows support for trawling, and inequities in Kodiak’s seafood industry

displayed their affiliation. A makeshift float within the parade included an ATV with a handmade cardboard sign attached to it reading, “We are trawlers and proud of it.”

Parade participants wore buttons that said, “I heart trawlers.”This is an incongruous sight in Kodiak, where vocalized public

support of the trawl industry happens as often as a stretch of sunny weather in February.

The chance to rally for maintaining trawl landings in Kodiak, providing access to jobs and overtime pay, brought some of the plant workers out to the parade.

Door prizes and a free meal enticed others to take part.Those who participated in the parade were given tickets for

door prizes. Glenn Reed, of the Pacific Seafood Processors Associa-tion, called out the winning numbers. Kids’ prizes included new bikes, while adults hoped to receive a big-screen television or plane tickets.

“We are in the community. We do what we can to make a living,” said a Latino processing plant worker named Roman as he awaited the next round of door prizes.

Feeding the world: As bigwigs in the Alaska fishing industry tried to outbid one another to fling a pie in the face of Glenn Merrill, of the National Marine Fisheries Service, I hoped that none of them would beat out the minimum wage-earning processing workers for the good door prizes.

Looking ahead at the hundreds of people who stood between her and the Filipino pancit and pollock burgers, one woman said, “If there isn’t enough, I’ll just go to McDonalds.”

One of the signs in the parade read, “Trawlers feed the world.”Indeed, the Filet-O-Fish available up the road at McDonald’s

could have been landed at Kodiak and processed by one of those in line.

Two-thousand plates of food were served at the end of the parade. The organizers succeeded in demonstrating that trawlers do feed and fuel Kodiak’s working waterfront.

Yet, the quality of that meal depends mightily on where one sits at the table. Moreover, until the council takes action, bycatch in the trawl sector will continue to impact the stability and growth of other fisheries, affecting the ability of others to feed themselves. Anjuli Grantham lives in Kodiak.

by ANJULI GRANTHAM


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and headed home.Third opening: Heading to the third opening of the season, we

again caught the 7:45 ferry June 20 from Tsawwassen to Vancou-ver Island and got underway at 2:51 p.m. after John installed a new steering pump. Now we had a functioning autopilot again.

On the way out we passed some seiners who had an opening to catch 30,000 out of their allocation of 194,213 fish.

We got ice from the Pacific Baron and anchored out in San Mateo Bay for the evening. It was the longest day of the year, but with the alarm set for 4:30 a.m., we didn’t hang around to catch the last light.

Our first set at the top end of Alberni Inlet in the morning earned us 76 fish, which was pretty good for a start, but by 10:15 fishing dried up with a set of six fish, so John decided to move.

John’s friend Bob on the Konradine had an overheating problem, so John towed him in to San Mateo Bay to the float there so he could fix the problem. Then John headed the boat out to Barkley Sound, where we fished for the rest of the day. It was nothing spectacular, but kind of steady with 20 to 25 fish a set and over 30 on our very last set of the day.

Payday: With 251 fish on board we headed back to San Mateo Bay, delivered to the Pacific Baron, and made our way back to Port Alberni, anchoring in Nahmint Bay for the night on the way.

The posted price for the week was $3.75 a pound, but after Grand Hale and Aero Trading upped the price to $4.50, we were paid that too.

With 92,000 sockeye taken out of the gillnet allocation of 129,475 based on a 1 million run size, the area reopened to fishing June 28.

A former seiner, tenderman, and cod and prawn trap boat crewman, Michel Drouin still finds time to do a bit of deckhanding in between writing assignments. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.

Stop, restart, and done: The cannery lay idle for several years in the early 1960s. The owners brought Frank McConaghy, a seasoned cannery superintendent, out of retirement when they decided to reopen the facility in time for the 1965 season.

According to fisherman Weston Fields, McConaghy “was charismatic, friendly, he knew how to treat people. People who fished for him always got a turkey at Thanksgiving and a ham at Christmas. That sort of thing. Really small, but the right public relations. He treated everybody the same as everybody else. You were important to him. Even as a child I felt that I was important to him. That’s why he could start up Parks (after laying idle). Just as simple as that: personality.”

McConaghy died in 1966, but now, 50 years later, he continues to be respected by those who worked with him.

Whitney-Fidalgo purchased Parks Cannery in 1970 and closed the plant in 1983.

Although it hasn’t processed fish for over 30 years, Parks Cannery persists as a place for which many hold an abiding affection.

Anjuli Grantham is a freelance public historian based in Kodiak. She directs the Alaska Historical Society’s Alaska Historic Canneries Initiative. Read more of her work at anjuligrantham.com.

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buoy markings to complex cases that involve corporations and processors.

Q: I would imagine the Alaska Wildlife Troopers work closely with federal authorities, including NOAA Enforce-ment and the U.S. Coast Guard. Has this relationship changed at all in recent years, perhaps due to budget constraints on either the federal or state side?

A: The Alaska Wildlife Troopers work together with our feder-al partners to enforce fisheries regulations in state/federal waters out to 200 miles. We have an annual joint enforcement agreement with NOAA Fisheries that is utilized to help patrol and enforce the federally managed fisheries such as halibut. This agreement sets benchmarks for our agency with vessel boardings and dock inspections of catch as well as other expectations. In exchange, the state receives funding which helps pay for patrol vessels and man hours. We also work closely with the Coast Guard on boating safety, Homeland Security issues, and search and rescue operations. As funding continues to diminish across the board for state and federal agencies, we are constantly looking for ways to collaborate with our partner agencies so that we are using our funding in the most efficient manner possible.

Q: Surveillance presumably is an important part of commercial fisheries enforcement. Can you talk about the division’s use of tactics such as undercover fishing vessels, and whether you have employed new technology such as drones?

A: Drone use nationwide is a hot topic. There are many possi-ble applications and uses for drone aircraft. Drones are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration, and I would imagine in the coming years we will see drone use within law enforcement on a regular basis. At this time we do not utilize drones for any law enforcement application in our agency.

We work hard to identify more efficient ways to conduct our law enforcement mission. We utilize many different tactics in pursuit of commercial fishing crime, including some undercover operations. These are typically expensive and reserved for serious cases. This type of operations is sometimes the only way to catch a serious violator. Commercial fishing crime steals from all of us collectively. Following the rules ensures the resources are avail-able for generations to come.

Q: In your view, how supportive are Alaska commercial fishermen generally of your enforcement efforts?

A: In general, commercial fishermen are supportive of enforcement efforts. They realize that enforcement is the glue that holds some of these fisheries together. Without it, people begin to cheat and the system falls apart. There are always some fishermen that don’t like enforcement. No one ever likes getting a ticket.

Commercial fishing enforcement serves an extremely important role in ensuring future viability of the state’s fisheries. We think most fishermen understand this. We have an immense job with limited resources to effectively enforce the state’s fisheries. We rely heavily on the public’s support and the industry’s willingness to report commercial fishing crime to us. We will continue to do our best to work with the commercial fishing industry to find better ways to effectively patrol the fisheries and hold those accountable who fail to follow the regulations.

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