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A WEEKLY QUOTA OF FISHERY SHORTS CAUGHT AND
LANDED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES
AND THE PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S
ASSOCIATIONS
VOL. 05, NO. 13 29 MARCH 2002
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"Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears
that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict." .... Kofi Annan
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IN THIS ISSUE.......
UN Report Warns Of Global Water Storage, Calls For
Conservation And Desalinization. 5:13/01
Klamath Project Irrigation Water Begins To Flow
Amid Ceremonies And Protests. 5:13/02
Heavy Use Of Antibiotics In U.S. Aquaculture Industry. 5:13/08
Bodega Bay's 29th Annual Fishermen's Festival Set
For 6-7 April. 5:13/10
Three New Marine Sanctuaries Established In
Puget Sound. 5:13/13.
AND MORE......
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5:13/01: UN REPORT WARNS OF GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGE,
CALLS FOR CONSERVATION AND DESALINIZATION: On 22
March, the United Nations (UN) issued a report on World Water Day
warning that more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water
shortages by the year 2025 if the world continues consuming water at
the current rate, and another 2.5 billion people will live in areas where it
will be difficult to find sufficient fresh water to meet their needs. In
total, two in three people will face water shortages by 2025, said the
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in a 22 March report on the UN
findings. Already, 1.1 billion people in the world have no access to safe
drinking water, according to the UN. The implications are serious both
in terms of water needed for basic human needs as well as that necessary
to support fisheries (fresh water and estuarine) and farming.
The UN report blames the impending crisis on mismanagement of
existing water resources, population growth and changing weather
patterns. The UN Economic Commission for Europe is calling for
greater effort to be made in the developed world to conserve and protect
water resources. The UN body says wasted water is costing Europe
alone around $10 billion a year. "Even where supplies are sufficient or
plentiful, they are increasingly at risk from pollution and rising
demand," said UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and there are fears
that future competition for water could spark armed conflicts. The BBC
reported that water ministers from 22 African countries are calling for a
regional and global alliance, backed by international funding, to tackle
water and sanitation problems. Among the solutions, they say, are the
development of desalination facilities that can turn salt water into
drinking water.
"Water shortages in the American west have already had devastating
impacts on freshwater, anadromous and estuarine-dependent fisheries,
and the situation here and globally is just going to get worse unless
fishermen, farmers and the public begin demanding real and long-term
solutions from our leaders," said PCFFA President Pietro Parravano,
who is a member both of California's Bay-Delta Advisory Committee (to
CALFED) and the Pew Oceans Commission. "Our rivers are being
dammed and dried up, and estuaries are being denied the freshwater
inflow critical to ecosystem health and productivity. New dams and
reservoirs don't create new water, they just reallocate available supplies.
Current water management, or mismanagement really, is nothing more
than stealing from one user to give to another. This has got to change."
PCFFA, which has been actively engaged in water issues relating to
west coast rivers and the needs of the San Francisco Bay estuary, has
been calling for an aggressive program of water conservation (e.g.,
efficiency, reuse) for the short-term and desalinization for the long-term
in order to protect fish resources and, ultimately, farms. The
commercial fishing group has proposed desalinization as a means of
supplying urban centers along the coast, where most population growth
is occurring, in order to leave more water for the environment, fish
needs, and reasonable agricultural uses (where there can be some
flexibility in demand). An impediment to desalinization has been the
cost. The cost of water from desalinization, however, is often less than
the real cost of delivering water from on-stream and off-stream
reservoirs and is expected to go down as the technology of turning salt
water into fresh water improves. Another impediment has been energy
use, but energy used in pumping water and sending it long distances and
over mountains, is often more than that required for desalinization.
Here, too, energy use for desalinization will be reduced with
technological advances and supplementation with renewables such as
solar, wind, or tidal/wave energy.
PCFFA is recommending that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which
has been building and operating dams and diversions in the west for
nearly a century (the Reclamation Act was enacted on 17 June 1902),
reorient its engineering prowess to the construction of desalinization
plants throughout the coastal areas of the U.S. and as part of an aid
package to developing nations. To see the BBC piece on the UN report,
go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
newsid_1887000/1887451.stm.
5:13/02. KLAMATH PROJECT IRRIGATION WATERS START TO
FLOW TO PROTESTS BY LOWER RIVER: By rushing through a pair
of "Interim Biological Opinions" (BiOps), by way of short letters of
concurrence that will cover only April and May of this year, the Bureau
of Reclamation (BOR) was able to open the headgates of the Klamath
Irrigation Project at the A-canal on 29 March, in a ceremony attended by
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, Secretary of Agriculture Ann
Veneman and other political figures in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Issuing
the two-month Interim BiOps, an extremely unusual procedure,
however, sets a dangerous precedent. The approved lake levels and
in-river flow levels, if carried through the rest of the year, would likely
prove devastating to fish and wildlife, even though this water year is far
closer to a normal year than during 2001's record drought. Both the U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS) expect to have more detailed BiOps by 1 June.
Even though this appears to be a normal, or only slightly below
normal, water year for the Upper Klamath Basin, NMFS issued its letter
of concurrence (dated 28 March) allowing the BOR to operate from 16
April through all of May at in-river flow levels nearly 700 cubic feet per
second (cfs) less than the minimum operating flows of 1700 cfs required
during the 2001 near-record drought. The State of California has raised
serious objections to flows being allowed to go this low during critical
coho rearing periods in the Klamath River. California Fish & Game
officials have indicated that flows this low will probably damage these
critically depressed stocks, which are listed as "threatened" under the
federal Endangered Species Act, according to an article in the 29 March
Los Angeles Times at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/
la-000022554mar29.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dstate.
The Yurok Tribe, California's largest, called the decision to reduce
lower river flows, even temporarily, "caving-in to pressure from Oregon
farming lobbyists," and "reneging on guarantees to California Indian
Tribes." "Recklessly diverting this water is going to have a devastating
effect on our fisheries," commented Tribal Chairperson Susan Masten.
"This is an unbelievably capricious action from the Bush
Administration." Scores of lower river Tribal members were on hand in
Klamath Falls to protest the opening of the head gates. PCFFA,
meanwhile, has also strongly objected. "Once again, NMFS is choosing
the path of least resistance instead of standing up for the fish and fishing
communities," said PCFFA Executive Director Zeke Grader. "This
interim BiOp is not precautionary, nor based on the best available
science. It is blatantly reckless and based simply on political
expediency." For additional information contact Yurok Tribe
Chairperson Susan Masten at the Tribal Office at (707) 444-0433; or
Glen Spain at the PCFFA Northwest office at (541) 689-2000.
5:13/03. PACIFICORP THREATENS LAWSUIT TO AVOID
INSTALLATION OF FISH SCREENS IN KLAMATH BASIN: The
Klamath Falls Herald & News reported on 20 March that PacifiCorp,
which operates hydro-electric dams in the Klamath Basin, has issued a
60-day notice to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) of the
power company's intent to sue the government rather than spend $10
million for fish screens at its Link River water diversion. The screens
are needed to protect the Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed suckers
in Klamath Lake. A USFWS Biological Opinion (BiOp) is expected to
call for the fish screens as a condition of the upcoming Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing of the hydropower project.
PacifiCorp is also the operator of Iron Gate Dam, located on the
Klamath in California just below the Oregon border, that has been
responsible for blocking passage to salmon migration upriver and
exacerbating water quality problems in the Klamat. The reservoir
behind the Iron Gate Dam acts as a heat sump, warming up already
nutrient and pesticide rich water from agricultural run-off upstream. A
"dead zone" actually occurs during much of the summer below Iron Gate
Dan, killing hatchery and natural salmon alike. To see the full Klamath
Falls Herald & News article, go to: http://news.mywebpal.com/
partners/670/public/news273073.html.
5:13/04. YUROK AND HOOPA TRIBES ASK COURT FOR MORE
TRINITY FLOW; INTERIOR REFUSES TO HONOR TRUST
RESPONSIBILITY: On 14 March, the Yurok and Hoopa Tribes
requested a lifting on a cap on the amount of water allowed to flow
down the Trinity, the largest tributary of the Klamath River. The
Yuroks have tribal fishing rights from the confluence of the Trinity
downstream to the mouth of the Klamath; the Hoopas have fishing
rights on the Trinity. Most of the Trinity's water is diverted into the
Central Valley Project (CVP), coming in just below Shasta Dam on the
Sacramento and from there flows illegally (Trinity Unit water was
intended only for Sacramento Valley CVP customers), to the San
Joaquin Valley to CVP contractors such as Westlands Water District.
The request for the additional water in-river was made to U.S. District
Court Judge Oliver Wanger in Fresno. Last year Wanger, at the request
of Westlands and others, capped the amount of flow released into the
river to 27 percent - a level far below that approved in the Trinity River
Record of Decision (ROD). The ROD, itself, only restored the river to
approximately 48 percent of its historic flow. Trinity River salmon and
steelhead populations, as well as fish in the mainstem Klamath, have
been decimated as a result of Trinity diversions.
Wanger's ruling of last year, capping the flow into the Trinity, clearly
is in conflict with another federal district court ruling in Portland, by
Judge Owen Panner, that found the Klamath Tribe (one of the four
recognized Tribes in the Klamath Basin) had water rights that "stretch
back to time immemorial" (see Sublegals, 5:11/02). Despite that,
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, whose Department has trust
responsibility to the Tribes, turned down the Hoopa request that Interior
go back to court to get more water sent down the river while it waits for
yet another long study to be completed (see Sublegals, 5:11/04),
according to a 7 March Eureka Times-Standard article by John Driscoll.
Deputy Chief of Staff at the Interior Department Sue Ellen Wooldridge
wrote to the Tribes that the federal government would only support the
Tribe's effort to get an altered ruling, and offered no help from the
agency.
Hoopa Tribal Fisheries Director Mike Orcutt said the Bush
Administration seems to be leaning toward providing full water
deliveries to the Central Valley, where half of the Trinity's water is
diverted. At least 326 billion gallons/year has been diverted to the
Sacramento River for nearly three decades, seriously depleting the
river's salmon stocks. "Interior is making overtures and commitments to
other interests while the fishery is going to be capped at a drought
level," Orcutt said. To see the 7 March Times-Standard article, go to
their archive under "Trinity River" at: http://www.times-standard.com.
5:13/05. PFMC APRIL MEETING IN PORTLAND: The Pacific
Fishery Management Council (PFMC) and its advisory bodies will meet
7-12 April at the Double Tree Hotel-Columbia River, 1401 N. Hayden
Drive in Portland, Oregon. Among other items, the PFMC will be
adopting a planned season and regulations for the 2002 ocean salmon
fishery to recommend to the Secretary of Commerce. For an agenda or
more information on the meeting, call (503) 326-6352 or go to:
www.pcouncil.org.
5:13/06. NEW COLUMBIA TANGLE NETS GIVE FISHERMEN
BACK A SEASON: The use of new highly selective "tangle net" gear by
members of the former lower Columbia River gillnet fleet are giving
fishermen in Astoria a season back, according to a 26 March Oregonian
article. Tangle nets allow fishermen to capture fish alive, then to
distinguish between fin clipped hatchery fish, which they are allowed to
keep, and wild fish which they cannot retain. Tangle nets, unlike gill
nets, capture the fish alive and otherwise unharmed, and then unclipped
wild fish can be readily returned to the river with a very high survival
rate. Both Oregon and Washington mark all hatchery fish, allowing
fishermen to distinguish them from unmarked wild fish. Most salmon
and steelhead runs in the Columbia River have been listed as threatened
or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) due to habitat
loss and dams. See: http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/
xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/front_page/101714736211762138.
xml.
5:13/07. MAINE REFORM OF SALMON FARM OPERATIONS
PUT ON HOLD FOR THIS YEAR: Legislative efforts aimed at gaining
control over the State of Maine's farmed salmon net pen operations
came to a halt on 26 March, when the Legislature's Marine Resources
Committee failed to come to consensus on changes needed to state law
governing the siting and operation of these aquaculture facilities (see
Sublegals, 5:05/10). There has been growing unhappiness in Maine
about the lack of local community involvement in decisions where the
operations are sited, as well as the fact that disease and escapes from the
farm net pens threaten the Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed
remnant native Atlantic salmon populations in the state's rivers. Late last
month, the Marine Resource Committee members issued a majority
report and a minority report on proposed changes to Maine's aquaculture
siting law, said a 29 March WorldCatch News Network article. The
majority report was approved by eight members of the Committee, but
neither report ever left the Committee, the Committee's co-chair told the
Bangor Daily News. The stumbling point was a provision in the majority
report that permitted coastal towns to adopt aquaculture siting
ordinances that would apply to the first 2,500 feet of the town's
waterfront. Municipal siting ordinances are vehemently opposed by the
aquaculture industry, the Department of Marine Resources (MDMR)
and Governor Angus King. The aquaculture industry and MDMR, a
strong fish farm proponent, refused to accept any limitations on
aquaculture operations.
"The Maine Department of Marine Resources, which has both
flubbed groundfish restoration and so badly mishandled its role at the
New England regional lobster management table that after July 1st
Maine lobstermen will lose up to 50 percent of their summer market,
seems unruffled by its ineptness. The agency is now led by persons with
zero background in commercial fishing, and seems to be acting more
and more as though it wants to outright abandon Maine's inshore wild
fisheries, with its anarchistic and cantankerous fishermen, for the more
comfy embrace of the multinationals," said Penobscot Bay Watch's Ron
Huber. "Moreover, the global aquaculture industry has far much more
lucrative revolving door possibilities than the lobster and groundfish
industries. Watch for the Maine State Aquaculture Coordinator, who
played a key role in the quashing of the reform bill, to vanish into the
corporate ranks, following the trail blazed by his predecessor in DMR's
aquaculture division." For more information, go to:
http://www.penbay.org.
5:13/08. HEAVY USE OF ANTIBIOTICS BY U.S.
AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY: The aquaculture industry in the U.S.
uses between 204,000 and 433,000 pounds of antibiotics annually to
treat diseases, control parasites and promote growth in the nation's
farmed fish. Since there is no central authority for monitoring and
reporting antibiotic use in aquaculture, Dr. Charles Benbrook and the
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy have compiled the evidence
from several different agencies for a new report. About half of these
antibiotics are used in catfish production, but nonetheless, catfish
farmers suffer up to 60% losses from enteric septicemia. The amount of
antibiotic usage in fish farms is small compared to factory beef, poultry
and pork production. However, it represents a significant concern
because aquaculture facilities offer great opportunity for these drugs to
move into the wider environment where they could catalyze the
development of resistant bacteria. Since the drugs used in aquaculture
are potent ones that are also used to treat human diseases, this antibiotic
usage could pose a threat to public health.
This report is from Rural Updates. To read the full report, go to:
http://www.iatp.org/.
5:13/09. CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ISSUES ITS
OWN SEAFOOD GUIDE: The California Academy of Sciences, whose
facilities include San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium, has recently
issued its "Guilt-Free Guide to the Catch of the Day," joining those
guides already released by groups such as Audubon Society,
Environmental Defense/Chefs Collaborative, and the Monterey Bay
Aquarium. The California Academy's is a small wallet-sized card that
can be used as a handy reference in restaurants or markets. This guide is
very similar to that issued by the Monterey Aquarium. Monterey has
recently received a grant to help develop better objective standards for
use in developing these guides, as well as to try to reconcile some
glaring differences between the various guides. Like the Monterey
Aquarium, fish such albacore, Dungeness crab, Pacific halibut, salmon
(wild Alaska and California), and squid are on the "Good Fish" list,
while Atlantic swordfish, Chilean seabass and Orange roughy are on the
"Bad Fish" list. For more information, go to:
www.calacademy.org/calwild.
5:13/10. BODEGA BAY FISHERMEN'S FESTIVAL SET FOR
NEXT WEEKEND: The 29th Annual Bodega Bay Fishermen's Festival
will be held this year on the weekend of 6-7 April in this fishing village
along California's Sonoma coast. Festivities, held at Bayside Park,
include demonstrations of fishing gear, a crafts fair, lots of food and the
traditional blessing of the fishing fleet ceremony on Sunday. For more
information, call (707) 875-3704.
5:13/11. NMFS HIRES SOCIAL SCIENTISTS IN MOVE TO
DEVELOP SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM: The National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) has recently hired three new social scientists
in what the U.S. fishery agency is calling the "initial steps of
implementing a long-term plan for a robust Social Science Program to
better evaluate the socio-economic and cultural impacts of regulatory
actions on our coastal fishing communities." According to NMFS, the
hires are part of "a longer term plan approved by the NOAA [National
Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration] Fisheries' Science Board which
envisions an integrated staff of economists and other social scientists to
outline social science data needs; establish and implement surveys for
data collection, and; conduct analyses to monitor and predict the
impacts of management decisions on people from a socio-cultural, as
well as an economic, standpoint." The recent hires are: Dr. Susan
Abbott-Jamieson, an anthropologist formerly with the University of
Kentucky who has accepted a position in the Office of Science &
Technology at NMFS headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland; Dr.
Stewart Allen, a social scientist from the Universities of Idaho and
Montana who joins NMFS Southwest Science Center field office in
Hawaii; and Dr. Jennifer Sepez, an environmental anthropologist from
the University of Washington, who has joined the Alaska Science
Center. For more information on Fisheries Economics visit:
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/econ/index.html
5:13/12. WOMEN'S FISHERIES COALITION MEETING IN FORT
BRAGG: The Women's Coalition for Pacific Fisheries (WCPF) will hold
a regional meeting on Saturday, 27 April, at the Harbor Light, in Fort
Bragg, California. Representatives of the Pacific Fishery Management
Council and the Coast Guard's Fishing Industry Vessel Safety
Committee will be on hand to make presentations and answer questions.
For information on the WCPF, go to: http://wcpf.orst.edu; for more
information on the Fort Bragg meeting, e-mail: Estes@mcn.org.
5:13/13. THREE NEW MARINE SANCTUARIES ESTABLISHED
IN PUGET SOUND: On Monday, 25 March, the Washington Fish &
Wildlife Commission approved creation of a new marine conservation
area at Keystone off Whidbey Island and new marine preserves at Zee's
Reef off Fox Island near Gig Harbor and at Admiralty Head off Whidbey
Island. According to a 27 March announcement, the Zee's Reef Marine
Preserve marks the first underwater rocky habitat south of the Tacoma
Narrows to be designated for protection by the Washington Department
of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW). The area will remain open for recreational
salmon fly fishing only, but otherwise will be closed to fishing to protect
rockfish and other marine fish species. The marine preserve designation
for Admiralty Head allows harvest of sea urchin and sea cucumber while
protecting other species. In other action, the Commission approved a
change in the designation for an underwater area off Sund Rock on
Hood Canal from a marine protected area to a marine conservation area.
The change will prohibit all fishing activity in the conservation area.
Following the recommendation of WDFW staff, the Commission
did not act on two other proposals to create marine sanctuaries at
Scatchet Head off Whidbey Island and Rosario Beach in the San Juan
Islands. In the case of Scatchet Head, a boundary could not be
determined that would be enforceable to boaters without radar or global
positioning system (GPS) devices onboard. The Rosario Beach proposal
was withdrawn pending further discussion between WDFW and local
government, State Parks and commercial divers. For more information,
call (360) 902-2826.
5:13/14. COMMENTS DUE ON CALIFORNIA'S NEARSHORE
FISHERY LIMITED ENTRY OPTIONS: The California Department of
Fish & Game's Nearshore Restricted Access Team held a series of
public meetings along the coast from 15-27 March, soliciting
recommendations on the options that have been developed for a
restricted access (limited entry) program for the commercial nearshore
fishery. Currently there is a moratorium on the issuance of new permits
into that fishery. Comments must be received by 5 April; they should be
sent to: Nearshore Restricted Access Team, CDFG, 1933 Cliff Drive,
Suite 9, Santa Barbara, CA 94109. For more information, go to:
www.dfg.ca.gov.
5:13/15. FAST FOOD/SLOW FOOD: WorldCatch News Network
reported 27 March that fast food restaurant chain Red Lobster has
named Edna Morris, 50, a University of South Carolina psychology
major, as its new President. Before being named President, Morris was
Executive Vice President of operations at Red Lobster, and prior to that
served as Executive Vice President of Advantica Restaurant Group, Inc.,
parent of the Denny's, Carrows, Coco's, and El Pollo Loco restaurant
chains. As President of Quincy's Family Steakhouse, said Worldcatch,
"she reversed sales declines and led a revitalization of the chain.
Advantica recently sold Quincy's as part of its reorganization......Prior to
her move into Quincy's, Morris spent nearly 20 years in top-level human
resource posts, including more than five years at Hardee's Food Systems,
Inc."
While fast fooders are abuzz about Morris, some of San Francisco's
finest restaurants (no fast food here) were hosting Patrick Martins,
President of Slow Food U.S.A. The movement, started in Italy by Carlo
Petrini, where it is known as conviva, denounces fast living, champions
artisanal products and supports sustainable local food production. It has
been some of San Francisco's high end restaurants, along with a few in
New York, Chicago and Seattle, that have taken up the boycott of
Chilean sea bass (Patagonian toothfish) and are featuring sustainably
harvested products like wild salmon, Pacific halibut, albacore,
Dungeness crab and the like. For more on the Red Lobster story, go to:
www.worldcatch.com. To learn more about the Slow Food movement,
go to: www.slowfood.com.
5:13/16. CALIFORNIA FISH & GAME COMMISSION TO MEET
IN LONG BEACH: The California Fish & Game Commission will meet
4-5 April in Long Beach. It will be taking up the White sea bass plan,
socio-economic studies for proposed reserves at Channel Islands
National Marine Sanctuary and the recreational ocean and Klamath
River salmon regulations. For more information on the meeting, go to:
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fg_comm/.
NEWS, COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS: Submit your news items,
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ifrfish@pacbell.net or call the IFR/PCFFA office with the news and a
source at either: (415) 561-FISH (Southwest Office) or (541) 689-2000
(Northwest Office).
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<BR> A WEEKLY QUOTA OF FISHERY SHORTS CAUGHT AND
<BR>LANDED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES
<BR>AND THE PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S
<BR> ASSOCIATIONS
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<BR> VOL. 05, NO. 13 29 MARCH 2002
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<BR>"Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears
<BR>that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict." .... Kofi Annan
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<BR>IN THIS ISSUE.......
<BR>
<BR>UN Report Warns Of Global Water Storage, Calls For
<BR>Conservation And Desalinization. 5:13/01
<BR>
<BR>Klamath Project Irrigation Water Begins To Flow
<BR>Amid Ceremonies And Protests. 5:13/02
<BR>
<BR>Heavy Use Of Antibiotics In U.S. Aquaculture Industry. 5:13/08
<BR>
<BR>Bodega Bay's 29th Annual Fishermen's Festival Set
<BR>For 6-7 April. 5:13/10
<BR>
<BR>Three New Marine Sanctuaries Established In
<BR>Puget Sound. 5:13/13.
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<BR>5:13/01: UN REPORT WARNS OF GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGE,
<BR>CALLS FOR CONSERVATION AND DESALINIZATION: On 22
<BR>March, the United Nations (UN) issued a report on World Water Day
<BR>warning that more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water
<BR>shortages by the year 2025 if the world continues consuming water at
<BR>the current rate, and another 2.5 billion people will live in areas where it
<BR>will be difficult to find sufficient fresh water to meet their needs. In
<BR>total, two in three people will face water shortages by 2025, said the
<BR>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in a 22 March report on the UN
<BR>findings. Already, 1.1 billion people in the world have no access to safe
<BR>drinking water, according to the UN. The implications are serious both
<BR>in terms of water needed for basic human needs as well as that necessary
<BR>to support fisheries (fresh water and estuarine) and farming.
<BR>
<BR>The UN report blames the impending crisis on mismanagement of
<BR>existing water resources, population growth and changing weather
<BR>patterns. The UN Economic Commission for Europe is calling for
<BR>greater effort to be made in the developed world to conserve and protect
<BR>water resources. The UN body says wasted water is costing Europe
<BR>alone around $10 billion a year. "Even where supplies are sufficient or
<BR>plentiful, they are increasingly at risk from pollution and rising
<BR>demand," said UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and there are fears
<BR>that future competition for water could spark armed conflicts. The BBC
<BR>reported that water ministers from 22 African countries are calling for a
<BR>regional and global alliance, backed by international funding, to tackle
<BR>water and sanitation problems. Among the solutions, they say, are the
<BR>development of desalination facilities that can turn salt water into
<BR>drinking water.
<BR>
<BR>"Water shortages in the American west have already had devastating
<BR>impacts on freshwater, anadromous and estuarine-dependent fisheries,
<BR>and the situation here and globally is just going to get worse unless
<BR>fishermen, farmers and the public begin demanding real and long-term
<BR>solutions from our leaders," said PCFFA President Pietro Parravano,
<BR>who is a member both of California's Bay-Delta Advisory Committee (to
<BR>CALFED) and the Pew Oceans Commission. "Our rivers are being
<BR>dammed and dried up, and estuaries are being denied the freshwater
<BR>inflow critical to ecosystem health and productivity. New dams and
<BR>reservoirs don't create new water, they just reallocate available supplies.
<BR>Current water management, or mismanagement really, is nothing more
<BR>than stealing from one user to give to another. This has got to change."
<BR>
<BR>PCFFA, which has been actively engaged in water issues relating to
<BR>west coast rivers and the needs of the San Francisco Bay estuary, has
<BR>been calling for an aggressive program of water conservation (e.g.,
<BR>efficiency, reuse) for the short-term and desalinization for the long-term
<BR>in order to protect fish resources and, ultimately, farms. The
<BR>commercial fishing group has proposed desalinization as a means of
<BR>supplying urban centers along the coast, where most population growth
<BR>is occurring, in order to leave more water for the environment, fish
<BR>needs, and reasonable agricultural uses (where there can be some
<BR>flexibility in demand). An impediment to desalinization has been the
<BR>cost. The cost of water from desalinization, however, is often less than
<BR>the real cost of delivering water from on-stream and off-stream
<BR>reservoirs and is expected to go down as the technology of turning salt
<BR>water into fresh water improves. Another impediment has been energy
<BR>use, but energy used in pumping water and sending it long distances and
<BR>over mountains, is often more than that required for desalinization.
<BR>Here, too, energy use for desalinization will be reduced with
<BR>technological advances and supplementation with renewables such as
<BR>solar, wind, or tidal/wave energy.
<BR>
<BR>PCFFA is recommending that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which
<BR>has been building and operating dams and diversions in the west for
<BR>nearly a century (the Reclamation Act was enacted on 17 June 1902),
<BR>reorient its engineering prowess to the construction of desalinization
<BR>plants throughout the coastal areas of the U.S. and as part of an aid
<BR>package to developing nations. To see the BBC piece on the UN report,
<BR>go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
<BR>newsid_1887000/1887451.stm.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/02. KLAMATH PROJECT IRRIGATION WATERS START TO
<BR>FLOW TO PROTESTS BY LOWER RIVER: By rushing through a pair
<BR>of "Interim Biological Opinions" (BiOps), by way of short letters of
<BR>concurrence that will cover only April and May of this year, the Bureau
<BR>of Reclamation (BOR) was able to open the headgates of the Klamath
<BR>Irrigation Project at the A-canal on 29 March, in a ceremony attended by
<BR>Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, Secretary of Agriculture Ann
<BR>Veneman and other political figures in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Issuing
<BR>the two-month Interim BiOps, an extremely unusual procedure,
<BR>however, sets a dangerous precedent. The approved lake levels and
<BR>in-river flow levels, if carried through the rest of the year, would likely
<BR>prove devastating to fish and wildlife, even though this water year is far
<BR>closer to a normal year than during 2001's record drought. Both the U.S.
<BR>Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries
<BR>Service (NMFS) expect to have more detailed BiOps by 1 June.
<BR>
<BR>Even though this appears to be a normal, or only slightly below
<BR>normal, water year for the Upper Klamath Basin, NMFS issued its letter
<BR>of concurrence (dated 28 March) allowing the BOR to operate from 16
<BR>April through all of May at in-river flow levels nearly 700 cubic feet per
<BR>second (cfs) less than the minimum operating flows of 1700 cfs required
<BR>during the 2001 near-record drought. The State of California has raised
<BR>serious objections to flows being allowed to go this low during critical
<BR>coho rearing periods in the Klamath River. California Fish & Game
<BR>officials have indicated that flows this low will probably damage these
<BR>critically depressed stocks, which are listed as "threatened" under the
<BR>federal Endangered Species Act, according to an article in the 29 March
<BR>Los Angeles Times at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/
<BR>la-000022554mar29.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dstate.
<BR>
<BR>The Yurok Tribe, California's largest, called the decision to reduce
<BR>lower river flows, even temporarily, "caving-in to pressure from Oregon
<BR>farming lobbyists," and "reneging on guarantees to California Indian
<BR>Tribes." "Recklessly diverting this water is going to have a devastating
<BR>effect on our fisheries," commented Tribal Chairperson Susan Masten.
<BR>"This is an unbelievably capricious action from the Bush
<BR>Administration." Scores of lower river Tribal members were on hand in
<BR>Klamath Falls to protest the opening of the head gates. PCFFA,
<BR>meanwhile, has also strongly objected. "Once again, NMFS is choosing
<BR>the path of least resistance instead of standing up for the fish and fishing
<BR>communities," said PCFFA Executive Director Zeke Grader. "This
<BR>interim BiOp is not precautionary, nor based on the best available
<BR>science. It is blatantly reckless and based simply on political
<BR>expediency." For additional information contact Yurok Tribe
<BR>Chairperson Susan Masten at the Tribal Office at (707) 444-0433; or
<BR>Glen Spain at the PCFFA Northwest office at (541) 689-2000.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/03. PACIFICORP THREATENS LAWSUIT TO AVOID
<BR>INSTALLATION OF FISH SCREENS IN KLAMATH BASIN: The
<BR>Klamath Falls Herald & News reported on 20 March that PacifiCorp,
<BR>which operates hydro-electric dams in the Klamath Basin, has issued a
<BR>60-day notice to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) of the
<BR>power company's intent to sue the government rather than spend $10
<BR>million for fish screens at its Link River water diversion. The screens
<BR>are needed to protect the Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed suckers
<BR>in Klamath Lake. A USFWS Biological Opinion (BiOp) is expected to
<BR>call for the fish screens as a condition of the upcoming Federal Energy
<BR>Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing of the hydropower project.
<BR>PacifiCorp is also the operator of Iron Gate Dam, located on the
<BR>Klamath in California just below the Oregon border, that has been
<BR>responsible for blocking passage to salmon migration upriver and
<BR>exacerbating water quality problems in the Klamat. The reservoir
<BR>behind the Iron Gate Dam acts as a heat sump, warming up already
<BR>nutrient and pesticide rich water from agricultural run-off upstream. A
<BR>"dead zone" actually occurs during much of the summer below Iron Gate
<BR>Dan, killing hatchery and natural salmon alike. To see the full Klamath
<BR>Falls Herald & News article, go to: http://news.mywebpal.com/
<BR>partners/670/public/news273073.html.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/04. YUROK AND HOOPA TRIBES ASK COURT FOR MORE
<BR>TRINITY FLOW; INTERIOR REFUSES TO HONOR TRUST
<BR>RESPONSIBILITY: On 14 March, the Yurok and Hoopa Tribes
<BR>requested a lifting on a cap on the amount of water allowed to flow
<BR>down the Trinity, the largest tributary of the Klamath River. The
<BR>Yuroks have tribal fishing rights from the confluence of the Trinity
<BR>downstream to the mouth of the Klamath; the Hoopas have fishing
<BR>rights on the Trinity. Most of the Trinity's water is diverted into the
<BR>Central Valley Project (CVP), coming in just below Shasta Dam on the
<BR>Sacramento and from there flows illegally (Trinity Unit water was
<BR>intended only for Sacramento Valley CVP customers), to the San
<BR>Joaquin Valley to CVP contractors such as Westlands Water District.
<BR>The request for the additional water in-river was made to U.S. District
<BR>Court Judge Oliver Wanger in Fresno. Last year Wanger, at the request
<BR>of Westlands and others, capped the amount of flow released into the
<BR>river to 27 percent - a level far below that approved in the Trinity River
<BR>Record of Decision (ROD). The ROD, itself, only restored the river to
<BR>approximately 48 percent of its historic flow. Trinity River salmon and
<BR>steelhead populations, as well as fish in the mainstem Klamath, have
<BR>been decimated as a result of Trinity diversions.
<BR>
<BR>Wanger's ruling of last year, capping the flow into the Trinity, clearly
<BR>is in conflict with another federal district court ruling in Portland, by
<BR>Judge Owen Panner, that found the Klamath Tribe (one of the four
<BR>recognized Tribes in the Klamath Basin) had water rights that "stretch
<BR>back to time immemorial" (see Sublegals, 5:11/02). Despite that,
<BR>Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, whose Department has trust
<BR>responsibility to the Tribes, turned down the Hoopa request that Interior
<BR>go back to court to get more water sent down the river while it waits for
<BR>yet another long study to be completed (see Sublegals, 5:11/04),
<BR>according to a 7 March Eureka Times-Standard article by John Driscoll.
<BR>Deputy Chief of Staff at the Interior Department Sue Ellen Wooldridge
<BR>wrote to the Tribes that the federal government would only support the
<BR>Tribe's effort to get an altered ruling, and offered no help from the
<BR>agency.
<BR>
<BR>Hoopa Tribal Fisheries Director Mike Orcutt said the Bush
<BR>Administration seems to be leaning toward providing full water
<BR>deliveries to the Central Valley, where half of the Trinity's water is
<BR>diverted. At least 326 billion gallons/year has been diverted to the
<BR>Sacramento River for nearly three decades, seriously depleting the
<BR>river's salmon stocks. "Interior is making overtures and commitments to
<BR>other interests while the fishery is going to be capped at a drought
<BR>level," Orcutt said. To see the 7 March Times-Standard article, go to
<BR>their archive under "Trinity River" at: http://www.times-standard.com.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/05. PFMC APRIL MEETING IN PORTLAND: The Pacific
<BR>Fishery Management Council (PFMC) and its advisory bodies will meet
<BR>7-12 April at the Double Tree Hotel-Columbia River, 1401 N. Hayden
<BR>Drive in Portland, Oregon. Among other items, the PFMC will be
<BR>adopting a planned season and regulations for the 2002 ocean salmon
<BR>fishery to recommend to the Secretary of Commerce. For an agenda or
<BR>more information on the meeting, call (503) 326-6352 or go to:
<BR>www.pcouncil.org.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/06. NEW COLUMBIA TANGLE NETS GIVE FISHERMEN
<BR>BACK A SEASON: The use of new highly selective "tangle net" gear by
<BR>members of the former lower Columbia River gillnet fleet are giving
<BR>fishermen in Astoria a season back, according to a 26 March Oregonian
<BR>article. Tangle nets allow fishermen to capture fish alive, then to
<BR>distinguish between fin clipped hatchery fish, which they are allowed to
<BR>keep, and wild fish which they cannot retain. Tangle nets, unlike gill
<BR>nets, capture the fish alive and otherwise unharmed, and then unclipped
<BR>wild fish can be readily returned to the river with a very high survival
<BR>rate. Both Oregon and Washington mark all hatchery fish, allowing
<BR>fishermen to distinguish them from unmarked wild fish. Most salmon
<BR>and steelhead runs in the Columbia River have been listed as threatened
<BR>or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) due to habitat
<BR>loss and dams. See: http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/
<BR>xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/front_page/101714736211762138.
<BR>xml.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/07. MAINE REFORM OF SALMON FARM OPERATIONS
<BR>PUT ON HOLD FOR THIS YEAR: Legislative efforts aimed at gaining
<BR>control over the State of Maine's farmed salmon net pen operations
<BR>came to a halt on 26 March, when the Legislature's Marine Resources
<BR>Committee failed to come to consensus on changes needed to state law
<BR>governing the siting and operation of these aquaculture facilities (see
<BR>Sublegals, 5:05/10). There has been growing unhappiness in Maine
<BR>about the lack of local community involvement in decisions where the
<BR>operations are sited, as well as the fact that disease and escapes from the
<BR>farm net pens threaten the Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed
<BR>remnant native Atlantic salmon populations in the state's rivers. Late last
<BR>month, the Marine Resource Committee members issued a majority
<BR>report and a minority report on proposed changes to Maine's aquaculture
<BR>siting law, said a 29 March WorldCatch News Network article. The
<BR>majority report was approved by eight members of the Committee, but
<BR>neither report ever left the Committee, the Committee's co-chair told the
<BR>Bangor Daily News. The stumbling point was a provision in the majority
<BR>report that permitted coastal towns to adopt aquaculture siting
<BR>ordinances that would apply to the first 2,500 feet of the town's
<BR>waterfront. Municipal siting ordinances are vehemently opposed by the
<BR>aquaculture industry, the Department of Marine Resources (MDMR)
<BR>and Governor Angus King. The aquaculture industry and MDMR, a
<BR>strong fish farm proponent, refused to accept any limitations on
<BR>aquaculture operations.
<BR>
<BR>"The Maine Department of Marine Resources, which has both
<BR>flubbed groundfish restoration and so badly mishandled its role at the
<BR>New England regional lobster management table that after July 1st
<BR>Maine lobstermen will lose up to 50 percent of their summer market,
<BR>seems unruffled by its ineptness. The agency is now led by persons with
<BR>zero background in commercial fishing, and seems to be acting more
<BR>and more as though it wants to outright abandon Maine's inshore wild
<BR>fisheries, with its anarchistic and cantankerous fishermen, for the more
<BR>comfy embrace of the multinationals," said Penobscot Bay Watch's Ron
<BR>Huber. "Moreover, the global aquaculture industry has far much more
<BR>lucrative revolving door possibilities than the lobster and groundfish
<BR>industries. Watch for the Maine State Aquaculture Coordinator, who
<BR>played a key role in the quashing of the reform bill, to vanish into the
<BR>corporate ranks, following the trail blazed by his predecessor in DMR's
<BR>aquaculture division." For more information, go to:
<BR>http://www.penbay.org.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/08. HEAVY USE OF ANTIBIOTICS BY U.S.
<BR>AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY: The aquaculture industry in the U.S.
<BR>uses between 204,000 and 433,000 pounds of antibiotics annually to
<BR>treat diseases, control parasites and promote growth in the nation's
<BR>farmed fish. Since there is no central authority for monitoring and
<BR>reporting antibiotic use in aquaculture, Dr. Charles Benbrook and the
<BR>Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy have compiled the evidence
<BR>from several different agencies for a new report. About half of these
<BR>antibiotics are used in catfish production, but nonetheless, catfish
<BR>farmers suffer up to 60% losses from enteric septicemia. The amount of
<BR>antibiotic usage in fish farms is small compared to factory beef, poultry
<BR>and pork production. However, it represents a significant concern
<BR>because aquaculture facilities offer great opportunity for these drugs to
<BR>move into the wider environment where they could catalyze the
<BR>development of resistant bacteria. Since the drugs used in aquaculture
<BR>are potent ones that are also used to treat human diseases, this antibiotic
<BR>usage could pose a threat to public health.
<BR>This report is from Rural Updates. To read the full report, go to:
<BR>http://www.iatp.org/.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/09. CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ISSUES ITS
<BR>OWN SEAFOOD GUIDE: The California Academy of Sciences, whose
<BR>facilities include San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium, has recently
<BR>issued its "Guilt-Free Guide to the Catch of the Day," joining those
<BR>guides already released by groups such as Audubon Society,
<BR>Environmental Defense/Chefs Collaborative, and the Monterey Bay
<BR>Aquarium. The California Academy's is a small wallet-sized card that
<BR>can be used as a handy reference in restaurants or markets. This guide is
<BR>very similar to that issued by the Monterey Aquarium. Monterey has
<BR>recently received a grant to help develop better objective standards for
<BR>use in developing these guides, as well as to try to reconcile some
<BR>glaring differences between the various guides. Like the Monterey
<BR>Aquarium, fish such albacore, Dungeness crab, Pacific halibut, salmon
<BR>(wild Alaska and California), and squid are on the "Good Fish" list,
<BR>while Atlantic swordfish, Chilean seabass and Orange roughy are on the
<BR>"Bad Fish" list. For more information, go to:
<BR>www.calacademy.org/calwild.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/10. BODEGA BAY FISHERMEN'S FESTIVAL SET FOR
<BR>NEXT WEEKEND: The 29th Annual Bodega Bay Fishermen's Festival
<BR>will be held this year on the weekend of 6-7 April in this fishing village
<BR>along California's Sonoma coast. Festivities, held at Bayside Park,
<BR>include demonstrations of fishing gear, a crafts fair, lots of food and the
<BR>traditional blessing of the fishing fleet ceremony on Sunday. For more
<BR>information, call (707) 875-3704.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/11. NMFS HIRES SOCIAL SCIENTISTS IN MOVE TO
<BR>DEVELOP SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM: The National Marine
<BR>Fisheries Service (NMFS) has recently hired three new social scientists
<BR>in what the U.S. fishery agency is calling the "initial steps of
<BR>implementing a long-term plan for a robust Social Science Program to
<BR>better evaluate the socio-economic and cultural impacts of regulatory
<BR>actions on our coastal fishing communities." According to NMFS, the
<BR>hires are part of "a longer term plan approved by the NOAA [National
<BR>Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration] Fisheries' Science Board which
<BR>envisions an integrated staff of economists and other social scientists to
<BR>outline social science data needs; establish and implement surveys for
<BR>data collection, and; conduct analyses to monitor and predict the
<BR>impacts of management decisions on people from a socio-cultural, as
<BR>well as an economic, standpoint." The recent hires are: Dr. Susan
<BR>Abbott-Jamieson, an anthropologist formerly with the University of
<BR>Kentucky who has accepted a position in the Office of Science &
<BR>Technology at NMFS headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland; Dr.
<BR>Stewart Allen, a social scientist from the Universities of Idaho and
<BR>Montana who joins NMFS Southwest Science Center field office in
<BR>Hawaii; and Dr. Jennifer Sepez, an environmental anthropologist from
<BR>the University of Washington, who has joined the Alaska Science
<BR>Center. For more information on Fisheries Economics visit:
<BR>http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/econ/index.html
<BR>
<BR>5:13/12. WOMEN'S FISHERIES COALITION MEETING IN FORT
<BR>BRAGG: The Women's Coalition for Pacific Fisheries (WCPF) will hold
<BR>a regional meeting on Saturday, 27 April, at the Harbor Light, in Fort
<BR>Bragg, California. Representatives of the Pacific Fishery Management
<BR>Council and the Coast Guard's Fishing Industry Vessel Safety
<BR>Committee will be on hand to make presentations and answer questions.
<BR>For information on the WCPF, go to: http://wcpf.orst.edu; for more
<BR>information on the Fort Bragg meeting, e-mail: Estes@mcn.org.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/13. THREE NEW MARINE SANCTUARIES ESTABLISHED
<BR>IN PUGET SOUND: On Monday, 25 March, the Washington Fish &
<BR>Wildlife Commission approved creation of a new marine conservation
<BR>area at Keystone off Whidbey Island and new marine preserves at Zee's
<BR>Reef off Fox Island near Gig Harbor and at Admiralty Head off Whidbey
<BR>Island. According to a 27 March announcement, the Zee's Reef Marine
<BR>Preserve marks the first underwater rocky habitat south of the Tacoma
<BR>Narrows to be designated for protection by the Washington Department
<BR>of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW). The area will remain open for recreational
<BR>salmon fly fishing only, but otherwise will be closed to fishing to protect
<BR>rockfish and other marine fish species. The marine preserve designation
<BR>for Admiralty Head allows harvest of sea urchin and sea cucumber while
<BR>protecting other species. In other action, the Commission approved a
<BR>change in the designation for an underwater area off Sund Rock on
<BR>Hood Canal from a marine protected area to a marine conservation area.
<BR>The change will prohibit all fishing activity in the conservation area.
<BR>
<BR>Following the recommendation of WDFW staff, the Commission
<BR>did not act on two other proposals to create marine sanctuaries at
<BR>Scatchet Head off Whidbey Island and Rosario Beach in the San Juan
<BR>Islands. In the case of Scatchet Head, a boundary could not be
<BR>determined that would be enforceable to boaters without radar or global
<BR>positioning system (GPS) devices onboard. The Rosario Beach proposal
<BR>was withdrawn pending further discussion between WDFW and local
<BR>government, State Parks and commercial divers. For more information,
<BR>call (360) 902-2826.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/14. COMMENTS DUE ON CALIFORNIA'S NEARSHORE
<BR>FISHERY LIMITED ENTRY OPTIONS: The California Department of
<BR>Fish & Game's Nearshore Restricted Access Team held a series of
<BR>public meetings along the coast from 15-27 March, soliciting
<BR>recommendations on the options that have been developed for a
<BR>restricted access (limited entry) program for the commercial nearshore
<BR>fishery. Currently there is a moratorium on the issuance of new permits
<BR>into that fishery. Comments must be received by 5 April; they should be
<BR>sent to: Nearshore Restricted Access Team, CDFG, 1933 Cliff Drive,
<BR>Suite 9, Santa Barbara, CA 94109. For more information, go to:
<BR>www.dfg.ca.gov.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/15. FAST FOOD/SLOW FOOD: WorldCatch News Network
<BR>reported 27 March that fast food restaurant chain Red Lobster has
<BR>named Edna Morris, 50, a University of South Carolina psychology
<BR>major, as its new President. Before being named President, Morris was
<BR>Executive Vice President of operations at Red Lobster, and prior to that
<BR>served as Executive Vice President of Advantica Restaurant Group, Inc.,
<BR>parent of the Denny's, Carrows, Coco's, and El Pollo Loco restaurant
<BR>chains. As President of Quincy's Family Steakhouse, said Worldcatch,
<BR>"she reversed sales declines and led a revitalization of the chain.
<BR>Advantica recently sold Quincy's as part of its reorganization......Prior to
<BR>her move into Quincy's, Morris spent nearly 20 years in top-level human
<BR>resource posts, including more than five years at Hardee's Food Systems,
<BR>Inc."
<BR>
<BR>While fast fooders are abuzz about Morris, some of San Francisco's
<BR>finest restaurants (no fast food here) were hosting Patrick Martins,
<BR>President of Slow Food U.S.A. The movement, started in Italy by Carlo
<BR>Petrini, where it is known as conviva, denounces fast living, champions
<BR>artisanal products and supports sustainable local food production. It has
<BR>been some of San Francisco's high end restaurants, along with a few in
<BR>New York, Chicago and Seattle, that have taken up the boycott of
<BR>Chilean sea bass (Patagonian toothfish) and are featuring sustainably
<BR>harvested products like wild salmon, Pacific halibut, albacore,
<BR>Dungeness crab and the like. For more on the Red Lobster story, go to:
<BR>www.worldcatch.com. To learn more about the Slow Food movement,
<BR>go to: www.slowfood.com.
<BR>
<BR>5:13/16. CALIFORNIA FISH & GAME COMMISSION TO MEET
<BR>IN LONG BEACH: The California Fish & Game Commission will meet
<BR>4-5 April in Long Beach. It will be taking up the White sea bass plan,
<BR>socio-economic studies for proposed reserves at Channel Islands
<BR>National Marine Sanctuary and the recreational ocean and Klamath
<BR>River salmon regulations. For more information on the meeting, go to:
<BR>http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fg_comm/.
<BR>
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<BR>source at either: (415) 561-FISH (Southwest Office) or (541) 689-2000
<BR>(Northwest Office).
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