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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. 18                                              3 MAY 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE.......

Klamath Salmon Stranded and Dying With No Relief 
>From Federal Courts. 5:18/01.

U.S.-Canada Coalition Calls For Extending British 
Columbia Salmon Farm Moratorium. 5:18/04.

"Frankenfish" Bill Clears Key California Senate 
Committee. 5:18/06.

British Columbia Prepares to Lift Offshore Oil Moratorium 
Despite Fishermen's Opposition.  5:18/11.

"Cooking for Solutions" - Syttende Mai in Monterey. 5:18/13.
AND MORE......
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     5:18/01. SALMON STRANDED AND DYING IN POOLS AS
KLAMATH FLOWS REDUCED BY RECLAMATION; FEDERAL
JUDGE RULES NOT ENOUGH "SCIENCE" TO ORDER MORE
WATER FOR FISH:  In a ruling issued 3 May, in Oakland, California,
U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong denied a motion
for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR) by fishermen requesting additional water releases
into the Klamath River to prevent further losses of the threatened coho,
and other runs of salmon.  The TRO was sought by PCFFA, IFR and a
number of other organizations, as an emergency measure through May
to assure flows were adequate for the survival of downstream migrating
juvenile salmon (see Sublegals 5:17/02). The survival of lower Klamath
River salmon are threatened through the spring with the diversion of
roughly 50 percent of the river's water that would normally flow below
Iron Gate Dam, as the BOR held back large volumes of water this week
it claimed were for future irrigation deliveries to the federal Klamath
Irrigation Project. The Los Angeles Times reported on 30 April that the
U.S. Justice Department, representing BOR, was moving "vigorously" to
block the TRO, arguing there is "insufficient proof" the fish would
benefit from more water. The fish meanwhile were dying, stranded in
ponds that are drying up along the riverbed.

     The Court's ruling was mixed.  Judge Armstrong agreed with
plaintiffs on all their legal points, but ruled against them on their request
for emergency relief at this time, instead deferring to the agencies to
work details out in the as yet uncompleted National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS) formal Biological Opinion (BiOp) on the BOR's
proposed 10-year water plan.  The end result of Court inaction is that
Klamath River water flows in the lower river could drop at any time to
just over 1,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).  The 40-year median for this
time of year is 2,000 cfs, and the "minimum required to prevent
extinction" that NMFS approved at this same time in 2001 was 1,700 cfs
even during last year's drought, the worst in 72 years. Thus, even though
there is significantly more rainfall in the system this year, the lower
river will get even less water this year than last. "The Bureau is
institutionalizing a permanent drought in the lower river," according to
PCFFA. In recent years, flows from the federal irrigation project,
operated by BOR, have been so little, and of such poor quality, that
there are now major lower river fish kills in an average of 5 out of 7
years. This week the lower river saw fish strandings and the die-off of
young salmon as flows dropped precipitously. For more information on
the situation in the lower Klamath, see the 2 May Los Angeles Times at:
http://latimes.com/news/local/la-000031234may02.story.  At the
rock-bottom flow levels proposed by the Bureau through the summer,
these die-offs are likely to continue, according to California Department
of Fish & Game (CDFG) biologists.

     Klamath River salmon runs have been devastated by poor water
flows in the past.  The resulting low numbers of fish have triggered near
total closures of coastal salmon fishing ports as far south as Fort Bragg,
California and as far north as Coos Bay, Oregon. Less water left in the
lower river would mean more closures and more economic dislocation
in coastal fishing-dependent communities, which have suffered severe
economic losses as salmon have disappeared.  For more information on
the impact, see the 3 May Los Angeles Times article by Deborah
Schooch,  "Hard Times on the Lower Klamath" at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-050302klamath.story. The
economic benefits of restored Klamath Basin salmon runs could mean
tens or even hundreds of millions of additional dollars to the Northern
California and Southern Oregon economy, according to plaintiffs who
are represented in this action by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. 
PCFFA points out that the 2002 liberalized ocean salmon season, with a
California opening up to Point Arena for the first time in years, was due
in large part to improved in-river conditions in the Klamath (due to
greater rainfall) during the past few years (see Sublegals, 5:17/01).

     The current PCFFA lawsuit on Klamath flows is only the first test of
BOR's 10-year water plan, and the litigation only challenged flows for
the month of May 2002.   NMFS' BiOp is expected to find "jeopardy" to
fish from the water plan, thereby requiring significantly higher flows to
remain in the river to prevent salmon extinction.  The BiOp, however, is
almost a month overdue and there are rumors it is being blocked for
political reasons by Bush Administration officials because it will require
far more water to the lower river than the Bureau is proposing or willing
to give up. But BOR's water plan cannot be finalized until both the U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and NMFS have finished their
respective BiOps, which must be completed by the expiration dates of
the current "interim measures" on 1 June.  For more information on
Armstrong's ruling, contact: Glen Spain, PCFFA Northwest, at:
fish1ifr@aol.com.

For more information on the impact of water withdrawals on the
Klamath Basin salmon fisheries see: "Why the Klamath Basin Matters,"
http://www.pcffa.org/fn-aug01.htm. For the very latest real time U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS) flow date from the gauges just below Iron
Gate Dam, go to:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv?dd_cd=01%2C02%2C03%2C04%
2C05%2C15%2C16%2C17&format=gif&period=7&site_no=11516530. 

     5:18/02.  KLAMATH RESTORATION FUNDS SAVED IN LAST
MINUTE FARM BILL SHUFFLE:  In a dramatic turnaround, on 29
April U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Gordon Smith (R-OR)
managed a last minute save of some of the water conservation and
ecosystem restoration funds earmarked for the Klamath Basin in the
Farm Bill Conference Committee.  The final Conference Report and bill
language contains $50 million in funding for Klamath Basin ecosystem
restoration efforts, though not the $175 million originally approved in
the Senate version of the Farm Bill and without any of the language in
the Senate version intended to implement restoration efforts (see
Sublegals 5:17/04; 5:11/02; 4:24/06; 4:23/15). House conferees first
eliminated the funding provisions in the Senate version of the bill, then
restored an earmarked $50 million after an appeal by the four Senators
from Oregon and California, with support of Senate leadership, in final
Farm Bill negotiations.  See the 30 April Oregonian at:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/htm
l_standard.xsl?/base/front_page/10201678004073181.xml.  The Farm
Bill is expected to pass both chambers and President George W. Bush
has pledged to sign the final product. Current information on the final
Farm Bill (H.R. 2646) is available also at:
http://agriculture.house.gov/farmbill.htm.

     5:18/03. 19 CRITICAL SALMONID HABITAT DESIGNATIONS
THROWN OUT BY DC JUDGE:  In another decision made on 3 May,
affecting Pacific salmon, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotell  approved a settlement agreement and consent order
between the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and a coalition
of landowner, real estate development and agribusiness groups led by
the National Association of Homebuilders in a case that challenged 19
salmonid critical habitat designations under the federal Endangered
Species Act (ESA) (see Sublegals, 5:15/02; 5:11/01).  Instead of
defending the lawsuit, NMFS simply folded, agreeing to invalidate the
habitat designations.  As a result, it must now start again redesignating
critical habitat for ESA-listed salmon and steelhead runs, a process
expected to take two years.  During that period, actions that destroy or
degrade critical habitat (e.g., development of riparian areas) necessary
for recovery of these depleted runs can proceed without legal check. 

     NMFS based its settlement on a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals case
that invalidated one critical habitat designation for failure to complete
an economic analysis of the impacts on landowners.  PCFFA argued that
that case was incorrect on the law, and that in any event the critical
habitat designations then in place should be preserved until rulemaking
to modify them is completed, in order to prevent further damage to these
runs that would ultimately make recovery that much more difficult.
PCFFA, however, was refused intervener status by the Washington, DC
Judge on 12 April, on the theory that NMFS was already adequately
protecting the resource.  For a copy of the Consent Decree contact Todd
True, Esq., Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, at: ttrue@earthjustice.org.

     5:18/04. U.S.-CANADA COALITION CALLS FOR HALT IN
EXPANSION OF SALMON FARMS ALONG PACIFIC COAST: As the
Provincial Government of British Columbia prepared to lift its
moratorium on the establishment of new finfish netpen aquaculture
operations (see Sublegals, 5:17/06), a broad coalition of over 200
organizations from BC, Alaska and the lower 48 sent a letter to
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and U.S. President George W.
Bush requesting the current ban on salmon farm expansion remain in
place.  The 29 April letter, signed by commercial fishing (including
PCFFA), sportfishing and conservation groups, tribes, consumer and
food safety organizations, local governments and scientists, calls on the
Canadian government to maintain its current moratorium on ocean net
cages, improve existing practices, and initiate a meaningful public
process to evaluate the impact of industrial finfish farming on wild fish
stocks, fish habitat, and fishing dependent communities prior to
allowing further expansion at new or existing sites. The signatories, led
by Alaska Trollers Association and the BC-based David Suzuki and T.
Buck Suzuki Foundations, pointed to two independent reviews
conducted of the BC salmon farms calling for substantial reform or a
phase-out of the operations.  Despite the fact that the States of Alaska,
California and Oregon do not permit salmon farms, groups from those
states signed the Chretien-Bush out of concern regarding the spread of
disease from the fish farms to wild stocks and an anticipated expansion
of escaped Atlantic salmon invading wild salmon streams along the
Pacific Coast.

     In their letter, the groups cited an environmental study, the Salmon
Aquaculture Review (SAR), conducted by the Province of British
Columbia, reported in September 1997, that made 49 recommendations
concerning the salmon aquaculture industry before any expansion
should be allowed.  The BC government, however, intends to lift the ban
on new farms with only a handful of the recommendations outlined in
the SAR implemented.  The groups also said that since publication of
the SAR, serious events have occurred which must also be considered
before the moratorium is lifted.  These include the scientific
documentation of successful reproduction of Atlantic salmon in a
number of BC streams, infestations of sea lice and epidemic-level
outbreaks of disease in areas of the coast where salmon farms are sited. 
Such outbreaks have also occurred in other countries where net-cage
salmon farms are found, particularly Ireland, Scotland and Norway.
"Government response to constituents calling for a public process to
examine these and other impacts has been completely inadequate," said
the letter.  "Canada's independent Auditor General and its Senate
fisheries committee have highlighted the compelling need for a
complete environmental assessment before the industry is allowed to
expand, but they, too, have been met with deaf ears.  Perhaps most
importantly, there have been no discussions among neighbouring
jurisdictions despite the availability of cooperative forums such as the
Pacific Salmon Commission and the International Joint Commission"
(see Sublegals, 5:10/11; 5:06/05; 5:03/06; 4:14/09; 4:07/05).

     Also, in December 2001, there was the release of the Leggatt Report,
an investigation conducted by former B.C. Supreme Court Justice Stuart
Leggatt on the fish farm operations, calling for, among other things, the
removal of all salmon net cages in B.C. waters by January 2005 (see
Sublegals, 4:23/02; 4:14/09)
(http://www.leggattinquiryinquiry.com/Report/InquiryReport.asp).  That
report bolsters the call by the coalition to halt salmon farm expansion at
this time.  For more information on the letter, contact either Dale
Kelley, Alaska Trollers Association at: (907) 586-9400 (e-mail:
ata@gci.net); David Lane, T. Buck Suzuki Foundation at: (604)
519-3635; or Lynn Hunter, The David Suzuki Foundation at: (250)
479-0937 (e-mail:hunterlynn@shaw.ca); or go to:
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/.

     On 2 May, just days after the Chretien-Bush letter was sent calling
for the continuance of B.C.'s seven-year salmon farm moratorium,
Quentin Dodd of FIS North America reported a new outbreak of the
deadly Hematopoetic Nectosis disease in the Province's salmon
aquaculture netpens.   "Traced to a farm located off the northern end of
Vancouver Island, the outbreak of the disease which is endemic in viral
form in wild sockeye salmon stocks on the B.C. coast has triggered a
new outburst of demands that the government reconsider its stance to
allow closely-regulated expansion of the industry once it finally has its
entire package of new regulations in place. One group of new rules to do
with waste has yet to be completed and has led to the government
delaying its previously announced 30 April removal of the moratorium,"
reported FIS.

     5:18/05. ATLANTIC STATES COMMISSION ASKS FOR
COMMENTS ON DRAFT AQUACULTURE DOCUMENT:  The
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) is requesting
comments on its "Draft Guidance Relative to Development of
Responsible Aquaculture Activities in Atlantic Coast States."  The
document is intended to provide guidance to state fisheries management
agencies to address aquaculture development "in an environmentally
sound manner." The guidelines are voluntary.  References and examples
are provided for many of the issues. Comments are due Friday, 10 May.
The Guidelines will be on the ASFMC agenda at their spring meeting in
Washington DC 20-23 May. To obtain a copy of the draft and to
comment, contact Lisa L. Kline at: lkline@asmfc.org.

     5:18/06.  "FRANKENFISH" BILL CLEARS KEY CALIFORNIA
SENATE COMMITTEE, ASSEMBLY BILLS ASSIGNED TO
AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE:  The California State Senate Natural
Resources & Wildlife Committee approved SB 1525 by State Senator
Byron Sher (D-Palo Alto) on 23 May (see Sublegals, 5:15/09; 5:09/01).
The bill, banning the introduction of genetically modified, or
"transgenic" fish into state waters, next moves to the Senate
Appropriations Committee.  SB 1525 is supported by a broad coalition
of commercial fishermen (including PCFFA), conservation, consumer
and food safety groups. It is opposed by Aqua-Bounty Farms, Monsanto
Corporation and the California Fisheries & Seafood Institute, among
others.  The two companion measures that were introduced in the
Assembly, however, have been assigned to the Assembly Agriculture
Committee, which is heavily influenced by large food processors and the
state Farm Bureau, and this sure death for any consumer safety or food
labeling measures.  AB 2962 by Assemblywoman Virginia
Strom-Martin (D-Duncan Mills) would require the labeling of any
genetically modified fish sold in California, while AJR 38 by
Assemblyman Joe Nation (D-Greenbrae) calls on the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration (FDA) to withhold approval of Aqua Bounty's request to
market genetically modified Atlantic salmon to private aquaculture
operations. For more information on the measures and the Frankenfish
debate, see the 29 April article by Jane Kay in the San Francisco
Chronicle at:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/29/MN155761.DTL.

     5:18/07. OREGON OCEAN POLICY ADVISORY COUNCIL TO
HOLD MORE HEARINGS ON MARINE PROTECTED AREAS:  A
working group of Oregon's Ocean Policy Advisory Council (OPAC) has
developed a draft report and recommendations on the issue of marine
protected areas (MPAs) offshore Oregon, and will be holding a series of
open house hearings on those draft recommendations throughout coastal
Oregon between 14 May and 6 June, to gather comments and make any
adjustments necessary before those recommendations go to the full
Council for action.  The OPAC was appointed by Oregon Governor John
Kitzhaber to assess the need for marine protected areas offshore Oregon,
to involve the fishing community in their development and to make
recommendations to his office and to the Legislature on these issues.
OPAC has already held one set of public hearing on the issue (see
Sublegals 5:03/14; 4:24/08) and is actively seeking input from the
fishing community. The draft recommends that a limited number of
marine reserves or protected areas be established as a pilot program, and
carefully monitored to determine their effectiveness prior to
establishment of larger reserves.  For a copy of the draft
recommendations and the schedule of OPAC hearings go to:
http://www.oregonocean.org/index.shtml. 

     5:18/08. "COLOR-CODING" IN CALIFORNIA MPA DEBATE: 
California, it seems, has developed a color coding scheme recently in
the debates over establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) at the
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and implementation of the
State's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA).  Sport fishing groups
opposing MPAs have taken to wearing red t-shirts, some bearing "No
MPAs" and "Freedom to Fish" statements.  On the other side,
environmental groups advocating MPAs have begun wearing blue
t-shirts to the meetings, spouting that oh-so-original slogan "Size
Matters."  Observing the silliness on both sides of the debate, Chris
Miller, a Santa Barbara lobsterman who has been engaged in the MPA
siting negotiations, was asked by a fellow fisherman what color they
should put on.  Miller suggested commercial fishermen just wear Aloha
shirts.  Those shirts, after all, reflect individuality - "one size doesn't 
fit
all"  - and the fact that it's not a black or white (or red or blue) issue, 
but
a complex one with subtleties and nuances.

     In the meantime, the California Department of Fish & Game (CDFG)
has said it expects to announce the appointments to its seven regional
MPA working groups by the end of May.  Three working group
meetings are being discussed for the third week in July, tentatively
scheduled for Long Beach, Half Moon Bay and Eureka. CDFG expects
to ask for a one-year extension from the Legislature in implementing the
MLPA, which is to establish a system of MPAs along the State's coast. 
The Department also announced the appointment of Fred Wendell as the
new manager for the MLPA program; he can be reached at:
f.wendell@dfg.gov.ca.  For information and updates on implementation
of the MLPA, go to: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mlpa/guidelines.html. 

    5:18/09. NEW PCFFA MPA POLICY STATEMENT AND NOAA
MPA DATA GAPS REPORT:  The scientific foundations of the marine
protected area (MPA) concept are still unclear, and many data gaps still
exist which make it difficult to evaluate proposed MPA impacts.  The
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal
Services Center has recently released its report "Marine Protected Areas
Needs Assessment Final Report," which examines these gaps between
current and desired knowledge, skills and tools needed for effective
MPA management, and identifies potential strategies for filling those
data gaps.  The NOAA report is available from:
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cms/cls/mpa_training.html. PCFFA has
recently revised its own recommendations and policy statement on
marine protected areas, which can be found at:
http://www.pcffa.org/mpa3.htm.  For a discussion of the issue and its
potential impact on fisheries also see the February 1999 article in
Fishermen's News, "Marine Protected Areas: Friend or Foe?" at:
http://www.pcffa.org/fn-feb99.htm.  

     5:18/10. AUSTRALIAN REPORT ON MARINE PROTECTED
AREAS: The Australian Government's Fisheries Research &
Development Corporation (FRDC) has released the study it
commissioned by the Applied Ecology Research Group in the School of
Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences at the University of
Canberra (No. 1999/163A) titled "A Co-Ordinated Commercial Fishing
Industry Approach To The Use Of Marine Protected Areas."  According
to the April issue of Queensland Fisherman, the report "found that the
combination of loss of access to fishing grounds, poor planning and poor
consultation, mixed and confusing messages on whether or not MPAs
achieve their objectives, and lack of government commitment to
monitoring and enforcement, gives fishers [sic] little confidence in the
value of MPAs."  For more information go to: http://www.frdc.com.au,
or for a copy of the report, e-mail: frdc@frdc.com.au.  

     5:18/11. B.C. GOVERNMENT SCIENCE PANEL SAYS COASTAL
OIL DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS WOULD BE MINIMAL, LIFTING
OF MORATORIUM ONE STEP CLOSER: British Columbia has come
one step closer to lifting its 30-year old moratorium on offshore oil and
gas development, a move that could lead to offshore drilling within the
Province's richest fishing grounds (see Sublegals, 5:10/14; 5:07/02;
4:04/05). On 1 May, a long-awaited report by a government-appointed
scientific panel concluded that there is no purely scientific justification
for maintaining the current moratorium.  Large reserves of oil and gas
are believed to lie beneath the ocean floor of the Province's Queen
Charlotte Basin and Hecate Strait. Previously an Offshore Oil and Gas
Task Force made up of six members of the Provincial Legislative
Assembly also concluded the moratorium should be lifted.  The Task
Force failed to consider damage done to U.S. fisheries where offshore
oil drilling is already taking place.

     Canadian fishermen and conservation groups oppose removing the
moratorium, saying the presumed economic benefits are greatly
overstated, while the potential damage to fisheries is too great a risk. For
more information on the report and the oil development issue, see the 2
May Environmental News Service article at:
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2002/2002L-05-02-02.html.  Fishermen in
Canada's east coast Provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador,
meanwhile, are calling for their own moratorium on offshore oil
development in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, offshore Nova
Scotia.  The Canadian Council of Professional Fish Harvesters (CCPFH)
and the Fish, Food & Allied Workers Union (FFAW) said in April that
this region deserves the same protections as Canada's Georges Bank,
since any oil exploitation in either of those areas would put Canada's
eastern fisheries at risk of oil spills.  The Canada-Newfoundland
Offshore Petroleum Board is planning on leasing lands there for oil
exploration in the very near future.  The CCPFH's 4 April statement is
online at: http://www.ccpfh-ccpp.org/eng/faccueil.html.

     5:18/12. DANIEL PAULY PROFILED IN SCIENCE MAGAZINE
ARTICLE: Noted and controversial British Columbia fishery scientist,
Dr. Daniel Pauly ("Fishing Down the Food Chain"), is featured in the 19
April issue of Science (pp.458-461).  Pauly has been highly critical of
many fishing operations, claiming they are overfishing stocks at such a
rate that all we may be left with in the ocean are jellyfish.  It was his
research that found the Chinese were inflating their catches, leading to
the mistaken belief that the world fish harvest was stable.  He has also
been an outspoken critic of many forms of aquaculture, including B.C.'s
salmon netpen operations, claiming they put additional pressure on wild
stocks for farm fish food and result in a net loss of protein. The article,
"Going to the Edge to Protect the Sea" can be found at:
www.sciencemag.org.  

     5:18/13. SYTTENDE MAI IN MONTEREY AS CELEBRITY
CHEFS CELEBRATE SUSTAINABLE CUISINE:  The Monterey Bay
Aquarium is sponsoring a 3-day conference, "Cooking for Solutions,"
that begins 17 May, extending over the weekend, that includes a "series
of events that celebrate sustainable seafood, dining and wine.....with
dishes prepared by great chefs, cooking demonstrations, book-signings
and more."  One of the events will be to honor Alice Waters, founding
chef of Chez Panisse (one of America's most famous restaurants, located
in Berkeley, California), for her longstanding commitment to
sustainable seafood and agriculture.  Other events include, "Celebrity
Chefs Celebrate Sustainable Cuisine" that will feature, among other fish,
California troll-caught king salmon, as well as locally-caught squid and
sardines (a fitting dish for Norwegian Independence Day).  There will
also be sustainable seafood cooking demonstrations (but no lutefisk) and
a "Sustainable Food Practices Information Fair." PCFFA and IFR are
among the organizations participating at this function.  For more
information or tickets, go to: www.montereybayaquarium.org and click
on "What's New."      

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source at either: (415) 561-FISH (Southwest Office) or (541) 689-2000
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