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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. 20                                               17 MAY 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE.......

Alaska, California Salmon Top "Best Choice" List in 
New Seafood Guide. 5:20/01.

Fish Consumption Key to Human Brain Evolution. 5:20/03.

"Frankenfish" Bill to Stop Introduction of Transgenic 
Salmon Into Wild Goes on California Senate Floor. 5:20/06.

Fishermen Vindicated, NMFS Releases Klamath Flows 
BiOp Finding Jeopardy.  5:20/09.

Oregon Governor Kitzhaber Warns Columbia Salmon 
Restoration Program Failing. 5:20/12.

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     5:20/01.  ALASKA, CALIFORNIA SALMON TOP "BEST
CHOICES" LIST ON MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM'S SEAFOOD
WATCH GUIDE: On 15 May, the Monterey Bay Aquarium issued its
new West Coast seafood consumer guide identifying 58 of the most
popular seafood items found in restaurants and markets throughout the
region, giving each a "Best Choice" rating, a "Proceed With Caution"
alert or a spot on the "Avoid" list.  It also launched the first of two new
online resources to identify sustainable seafood choices and the science
behind the aquarium's seafood recommendations.  The wallet-sized
guide will be distributed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, along with the
Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California; the Seattle
Aquarium; and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre in
British Columbia, along with other organizations using Seafood Watch:
Choices for Healthy Oceans to inform consumers about sustainable
seafood choices.  It is online at: www.montereybayaquarium.org. 

     Heading the list of "Best Choices" are California (chinook or king)
and Alaskan wild salmon, Dungeness crab, albacore tuna, California
market squid, sardines and sand dabs. Interestingly, the wild-caught fish
on the good fish list are harvested utilizing a variety of gear types
ranging from troll (salmon, albacore), to trawl (sand dabs), gillnet
(salmon), longline (halibut), purse seine (squid, sardines, salmon) and
trap (crab, spot prawn).  Farmed salmon and shrimp were on the "Avoid"
list, but a number of other farm or mariculture fish made the "Best
Choices" list, including oysters, mussels, catfish, striped bass, sturgeon
and tilapia. 

     The guide's "Proceed With Caution" list is fish "from a specific
source [that] may be caught or farmed in a sustainable manner. 
Consumers are encouraged to check the source carefully.  Other
concerns include inadequate or conflicting information about population
abundance, management, bycatch and environmental impacts." This
group includes Pacific cod, American lobster, Pollock,
Oregon-Washington-BC wild salmon; California-Oregon-Washington
blackcod (sablefish), English, Dover and Petrale sole, U.S. wild-caught
shrimp, Thresher shark, U.S. west coast swordfish, and yellowfin tuna. 
Aside from farmed salmon and shrimp, the "Avoid" list includes Chilean
Sea Bass (Patagonia toothfish), Orange Roughy, Pacific snapper
(rockfish), shark (except U.S. west coast Thresher), Atlantic swordfish
and Bluefin tuna.  The "Avoid" list is of fish and shellfish stocks that are
not caught or farmed in a way that is sustainable. Lutefisk, which is on
most peoples avoid list (particularly around Christmas dinners in
Lutheran churches), is not mentioned in the guide.

     In addition to releasing the new Seafood Guide, the Monterey Bay
Aquarium launched a new website on the 15th of May, the "Seafood
Information Center" at: www.seafoodinfocenter.org. The center is "an
independent database that acts as a clearinghouse for background
scientific information about wild-caught and farmed seafood." Next
week, beginning 20 May, the aquarium will re-launch the online Seafood
Watch section of its website for consumers seeking seafood information. 
The new guide was issued as the aquarium prepares to host its three-day
"Cooking for Solutions - Celebrity Chefs Celebrate Sustainable Cuisine"
conference on 17-19 May (see Sublegals, 5:18/13). In addition to the
guide issued by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a similar one was issued
earlier this year by the California Academy of Sciences (see Sublegals,
5:13/09).  It can be viewed at: www.calacademy.org/calwild. 

     "This new guide is great.  It is well-researched and, best, recognizes
and rewards those fishermen who fish responsibly," remarked the
Institute for Fisheries Resources' Natasha Benjamin.  "Now what's
needed are better seafood labeling laws so consumers can effectively use
these guides."  For more information about seafood labeling, go to:
www.pcffa.org/fn-dec01.htm. 
     
     5:20/02. WATCH OUT TOBACCO INSTITUTE, HERE COMES
THE CENTER FOR CONSUMER FREEDOM: Feeling guilty that the
fish you're eating is soon going to be extinct, the beef you plopped in
your mouth came from an air and water polluting feed lot, the tortilla
chip you're munching is made from genetically modified corn, the
shrimp and guacamole you're about to sample came at the expense of the
environment and workers in some third world country, the finger-licking
fried chicken's secret ingredients are really antibiotics and hormones, and
just about everything in your junk food diet is going to reduce your life
span, not to mention that what time you have left will be riddled with
chronic maladies ranging from obesity, to heart disease, to diabetes, to
most forms of cancer?  Not to worry.  The nation is now blessed with the
best feel-good group to come along since the Tobacco Institute began
reassuring us that cigarettes were good for you. It's called the "Center for
Consumer Freedom" and it's made up of some 30,000 chain restaurants
and bars, getting its start with a $500,000 grant from Phillip Morris, the
tobacco and convenience food giant.  

     The Center is now running ads in a number of markets attempting to
mock serious scientific concerns that have been raised about the
sustainability or healthfulness of a number of types of foods.  
Undeterred, and with a bit of irony, the junk food purveyors have taken
to labeling the research and studies critical of their products as "junk
science."  This is not to say, however, that they favor accurate product
labeling. They don't.  Letting consumers know what their food is (other
than the brand name, logo and jingo), where it is from or what's actually
in it is not what the Center for Consumer Freedom is all about. Labeling
and product information, they say, would lead to "consumer confusion." 
So what does the center think about campaigns such as Seafood Choices,
that advocates informed consumer selection? Not much. The "freedom"
the Center is organized to protect appears to be all about their members'
fat profits, not consumer protection. And fat it will be for consumers,
following recent reports by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC)
regarding the record and growing numbers of obese Americans,
particularly children. So don't expect any help from this
"freedom-loving" group in promoting the health benefits of a particular
fish or promoting any sustainable fishery, efforts which they vehemently
ridicule.  Forget the guilt, the Center for Consumer Freedom is now
there to protect your right to be irresponsible and to make unhealthy
choices. Responding to the Center's message, PCFFA's Zeke Grader
remarked simply,  "The best way to handle guilt, is not by being
oblivious to the world and your body, but by doing right and eating
right."  The Center is also connected to a growing network of other
industry-funded front groups, often with appealing names, that actively
oppose environmental protections and seek to control or head off efforts
to regulate the negative environmental impacts of their industries.

     For more information about the Center for Consumer Freedom, go to:
www.consumerfreedom.com. To see two recent San Francisco Chronicle
articles on the Center for Consumer Freedom and obesity, go to: 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/
2002/05/11/MN119037.DTL, and also:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/
2002/05/12/MN237512.DTL.   

     5:20/03. FISH CONSUMPTION CALLED KEY TO HUMAN
BRAIN EVOLUTION: The 3 May issue of Science (pp.835-837),
reporting on a 10-14 April meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropology in Buffalo, New York, says that early man relied
on fish and shellfish consumption for "the kind of diet that must have
supported human's dramatic brain expansion."  The article, "Human's
Head Start: New Views of Brain Evolution" went on to say, "That's
because humans, intelligent though we may be, are literally fatheads:
About 60% of the brain's structural material is lipids, almost all of it in
the form of two long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, docosahexaenoic
acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (AA), respectively known as omega-3
and omega-6 fatty acids.  So when a fetus's brain is developing, a lack of
DHA or AA is 'catastrophic'......These acids are vital to brain growth and
function after birth, too. Infant humans and other mammals that lack
these fatty acids show reduced cognitive ability and vision problems....In
adults, new data suggest that depletion of these acids may be linked to
attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, senile dementia, schizophrenia, and
other problems..........." For more information, go to:
www.sciencemag.org.
 
     5:20/04. BELTWAY GETS CHOICE OF FISH: COMMERCE
SERVES UP LOTS OF FRIED FARMED SEAFOOD; FISHERMEN
AND CONSERVATIONISTS OFFER HEALTHFUL, SUSTAINABLE
FAIRE:  On consecutive evening in early June in Washington, DC,
governmental leaders and staff, bureaucrats and groupies will be given
their choice of seafood - in the way it's produced and the way it's
prepared.  On Wednesday evening, 5 June, down at the U.S. Commerce
Building Cafeteria, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and
the National Fisheries Institute (the lobbying group for fish importers,
exporters, chain restaurants and other members of the fishing industry's
shoreside sector) will be hosting the "27th Annual NOAA Fish Fry"
featuring lots of deep fried farmed fish and other fish products, such as
surimi. For information and tickets to this event, call (202) 482-4594. 

     The following evening, on 6 June, over at the Rayburn House Office
Building, some of Washington, DC's best restaurants will be grilling and
serving up sustainably-harvested seafood, donated by fishermen's groups
from around the nation, including California king salmon and squid,
Alaskan halibut, cod and sockeye salmon, Cape Cod hook-and-line
caught cod, Maine lobster, Chesapeake oysters and crabs and other fine
fish. This event, for Congressional leaders and staff, is sponsored by the
Marine Fish Conservation Network.  For more information, call (202)
543-5509.

     5:20/05. RESOLUTION URGING SUPPORT OF LOCAL WILD
SALMON CONSUMPTION: In what is anticipated as one of a number
of similar resolutions that will be passed along the U.S. west coast, the
San Mateo County Harbor District (California) unanimously approved at
its 1 May meeting a measure (Resolution 09-02) calling on merchants
and consumers to support the local wild salmon fishery. As part of the
effort to bolster the local fishery and consumer awareness about the
benefits of wild salmon, the harbor district will be sponsoring a special
event on 26 June with the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).  June is
California Salmon Month.  For more information on the resolution or the
26 June event, contact the San Mateo County Harbor District at:
harbordistrict@smharbor.com. 

     5:20/06. "FRANKENFISH" LEGISLATION HEADED FOR
CALIFORNIA SENATE FLOOR: SB 1525 (Sher), a bill to ban the
introduction of any genetically modified or transgenic fish or shellfish
into California state waters, is headed for a vote on the floor of the
California State Senate (see Sublegals, 5:18/06; 5:15/09; 5:09/01).  In
the meantime, Aqua Bounty Farms, which has developed a genetically
modified, fast-growing Atlantic salmon for use in fish farm operations,
told WorldCatch News Network, in a 14 May report, that it anticipates
U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its fish for human
consumption by the end of the year and expects to begin selling into the
international market soon thereafter, with likely U.S. sales beginning by
the end of 2003 (see Sublegals, 5:01/05; 4:16/13; 4:02/06; 3:19/03;
3:15/19; 3:12/09; 3:07/15; 3:05/15; 2:16/11). Aqua Bounty's fish use a
"gene constituent" from species such as ocean pout and winter flounder
that affect the pituitary gland and liver, causing faster growth.  The
growth rate of Aqua Bounty's fish is 600 percent faster than normal
salmon growth, allowing the fish to be of market size in 16-18 months,
rather than the normal 3 years. For more information, see the 14 May
WorldCatch report at: www.worldcatch.com. 
         
    In other news related to Aqua Bounty, the biotech corporation claims
it supports the labeling of genetically-modified food products.  This puts
it at odds with the California Fisheries & Seafood Institute (whose
executive director is Aqua Bounty's account lobbyist in California),
Monsanto, BioCom, and the California Farm Bureau, among others, that
oppose labeling and legislation such as California Assemblywoman
Virginia Strom-Martin's AB 2962 requiring labeling of all genetically
modified fish and seafood sold in California (see Sublegals, 5:18/06). 

    5:20/07.  BIOTECH FIRMS SEEK TO DISPARAGE, SILENCE
SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM OF PRODUCTION OF GENETICALLY
MODIFIED FOODS: While the U.S. National Academy of Science
(NAS) has called for stricter control of genetically modified crops (see
Sublegals, 5:09/03), the biotech industry, hungry for profits and anxious
to satisfy their venture capitalist backers, has taken to personal attacks of
their critics in a variety of ways designed to quell scientific concerns
about transgenic foods. Last fall, University of California/Berkeley
researchers Ignacio Chapela and David Quist reported that traces of
transgenic DNA in native corn had been found in the remote region of
Sierra Norte de Oaxaca in Mexico. Their findings were reported in the
journal Nature. This discovery was very bad news for the biotech
industry. The research of Chapela and Quist was then attacked by
pro-biotech scientists. Then in early April, Nature printed an "editorial
note" indicating that they felt the study was not well enough researched
and should not have been published. This reversal was a first in the
133-year history of the journal Nature. Just a few weeks later, however,
the Executive Secretary of Mexico's National Commission on
Biodiversity, Jorge Soberon, announced that Mexican government tests
showed  levels of contamination of genetically engineered corn polluting
native varieties far worse than initially reported.

     "This is the world's worst case of contamination by genetically
modified material because it happened in the place of origin of a major
crop," said Soberon.  "It is confirmed. There is no doubt about it." So it
appears that the original report of contamination by Chapela and Quist
was accurate. With that background, the article written by columnist
George Monbiot in the 14 May issue of The Guardian reveals the
apparent tactics pro-biotech supporters resorted to in order to discredit
the work of Chapela and Quist and other critics. It has been known for
some time that scientists from the chemical and drug industries have
formed organizations to discredit their critics. These organizations have
names that sound like they are pursuing accurate science, but they are
really propaganda agents for the industries funding them. If what George
Monbiot states in The Guardian article is accurate, these pro-biotech
industry groups are apparently now making up fake people in order to
instigate opposition in Internet discussion lists. To see the Guardian
article, "Corporations Are Inventing People To Rubbish Their
Opponents On The Internet," go to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,715158,00.html.
The May edition of National Geographic also contains an extensive
article on genetic engineering of crops and fish. For more information,
go to: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0205/feature2.  

     5:20/8. NMFS PUBLISHES S-K SOLICITATION; PROMOTION
FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING OF AQUACULTURE SALMON?:
On 14 May, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published in
the Federal Register (Vol. 67, No.93, pp.34427-34434) its solicitation
for Saltonstall-Kennedy Act (S-K) grants. This year NMFS is making
$10.3 million of the S-K funds available for grants, with Atlantic salmon
aquaculture getting $5.3 million of the total.  The six priorities listed for
grant funding in this cycle are: 1) Atlantic salmon aquaculture
development, including development of "brood stock strains that grow
more quickly, better resist disease;" 2) fishing capacity reduction for
federally-managed fisheries; 3) conservation engineering (i.e.,
developing more selective fishing gear); 4) optimum utilization of
harvested resources; 5) marine aquaculture, including the reduction or
elimination of "legal and social barriers to aquaculture development";
and 6) fisheries socioeconomics.  The language describing the type of
projects the agency is looking to fund for Atlantic salmon could be read
to include genetic engineering. The S-K Act, named for its two sponsors,
U.S. Senators Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA) and John Kennedy (D-MA),
was passed in 1954 creating a tariff on fish products imported into the
U.S. and earmarking those funds for U.S. fishing industry research and
development.  To see the Federal Register notice, search by date and
keyword at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html. 

     5:20/09. NMFS SAYS KLAMATH PROPOSED FLOWS
JEOPARDIZE SALMON, FISHERMEN VINDICATED:  On 16 May,
the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) finally released its draft
Biological Opinion (BiOp) on the impact of the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation's (BOR) Klamath Irrigation Project proposed 10-year water
plan on downriver coho salmon. The BiOp vindicates PCFFA and other
plaintiffs' efforts in a recent lawsuit against BOR (see Sublegals,
5:18/01; 5:17/02), the BiOp stating clearly that the Bureau's water plan
was unacceptable and would, if implemented, result in the ultimate
extinction of downriver coho salmon.  This "jeopardy" opinion was not
unexpected, since BOR proposed lower river flow levels of less water
during even above average future water years from May through July
than those required by NMFS as the minimum just to prevent extinction
during last year's record-breaking drought (see Sublegals 5:09/06;
5:05/12).  In its proposed water plan and Biological Assessment (BA)
issued 25 February, BOR set up a legal confrontation by denying any
legal responsibility to provide water for fish and wildlife under the
federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), a position repudiated by the
courts.

     The BiOp was seriously delayed, apparently due to agency infighting. 
In a tersely worded 10 May letter to Commerce Secretary Donald Evans,
California Congressmen George Miller (D-Martinez) and Mike
Thompson (D-Saint Helena) called on Commerce's NMFS to promptly
release the 2002-2012 BiOp for the operations of the Klamath Irrigation
Project.  More than a month overdue, the BiOp released on the 16th is
still only in draft, and must be completed before 1 June or BOR will be
operating illegally (see Sublegals 5:17/03; 5:13/02; 5:9/02). The
statement issued by the two Congressmen can be found on the web at:
http://www.house.gov/mthompson.

     The NMFS BiOp includes measures for the Bureau to require more
water from non-Project lands in both Oregon and California (over which
the federal agencies have little control), and a gradual phase-in of higher
water flows in the lower river as more water is purchased through a
"water bank" mechanism recently established by BOR.  The BiOp also
calls for long-term monitoring and testing to determine what flow levels
coho salmon actually need for recovery. The end result, however, is that
coho salmon may get little additional water this year. "These measures
are fine as far as they go," commented PCFFA's Glen Spain.  "The
bottom line though is that they have to result in more water in the river
so that fishing dependent communities and coastal economies can
survive and recover."  See the 17 May Oregonian at:
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/
story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1021637070273652.xml. 

     NMFS is taking comments on the draft BiOp recommendations until
1600 HRS on 24 May.  Comments should be addressed to David Sabo,
Klamath Project Area Manager, at the Klamath Bureau of Reclamation
Office at 6600 Washburn Way, Klamath Falls, Oregon.  The Draft BiOp
and information on how to make comments can be found on the web at:
http://www.mp.usbr.gov/kbao.

     5:20/10.  PACIFIC SALMON RESTORATION FUNDING BILL
DEBATED IN SENATE: On 14 May, the U.S. Senate Commerce,
Science & Transportation Committee's Subcommittee on Oceans,
Atmosphere & Fisheries held a hearing in Washington, DC on S. 1825, a
bill to implement the Pacific Salmon Recovery Fund.  The measure,
authored by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), would authorize annual
federal payments of $350 million/year for five years to be divided among
the west coast states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Alaska, to be spent specifically to help fund state salmon restoration
projects.  The bill would divide funding equally among the states, with
additional funds to the Tribes; establishe requirements for a scientifically
sound restoration plan, and; provide accountability and reporting
mechanisms to make sure the funds are well spent.  

     Witnesses broadly supported the bill's intent, though witnesses from
Oregon, Washington and Idaho have requested minor changes to provide
more flexibility to accommodate individual state differences and to
avoid review duplication.  Though the bill has broad bi-partisan support
in the Northwest and California, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) did raise
concerns about the potential for unintended impacts of some of the
specific wording of the bill on Alaska's Pacific Salmon Treaty funding,
fearing that the bill might ultimately result is less money (rather than
more, as intended) for Treaty implementation.  Senator Stevens'
concerns were also voiced by Alaska fisherman Bob Thorstenson,
testifying as President of the United Fishermen of Alaska (UFA). 
        
     In addition to the Alaska concerns, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) is
reportedly pressing for a larger share of the funding to go to Washington
State. PCFFA's Glen Spain testified also, speaking in favor of the bill as
well as supporting adoption of a recovery standard of "harvestable
surplus," in addition to changes necessary to accommodate Alaska's
concerns and to provide more flexibility state by state.  Similar
legislation by Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA), also backed by
PCFFA, passed in the U.S. House of Representative on 13 June 2001 by
a vote of 418-6, and is now also pending in the Senate.  Senator Boxer's
office will be meeting with Senator Steven's staff to accommodate
Alaska's concerns in future revisions. For an Internet copy of Glen
Spain's testimony for PCFFA, go to the Committee archive site at:
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/0514022spain.pdf.  For the list of
all witnesses and their written testimony, see:
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/hearings0202.htm.   For coverage
of the hearing by the press, refer to the 15 May Oregonian article located
on the web at:
http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/
html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1021475025101080.xml.

     5:20/11. HIGHT SECURES PROP 40 MONEY FOR CALIFORNIA
SALMON RESTORATION; SAMPLING PROGRAM THREATENED
BY HIRING FREEZE: California, faced with a $20-30 billion budget
deficit due to payments to energy traders and a flat economy, is cutting a
number of state programs.  Proposition 40 parks and wildlife funds are
thus filling in to fund programs normally supported by the state's
General Fund.  Quick action by California Fish & Game (CDFG)
Director Robert Hight in budget negotiations this past week, however,
secured $7 million for each of the next three years for salmon
restoration.  These monies are critical to back-fill for the loss of SB 271
restoration monies earlier this year and assure there are state funds to
match federal salmon restoration dollars.  Another problem facing the
salmon fishery is the state hiring freeze which could affect the securing
of temporary CDFG aides for salmon sampling.  The state has the
federal money for the program, but unless the aides can be hired, the
sampling program and the fishery may be threatened.  For a copy of the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) letter to CDFG on this issue
call NMFS Southwest Region at: (562) 980-4039.

    5:20/12. OREGON GOVERNOR SAYS COLUMBIA SALMON
PLAN FAILING: In a 30 April speech in Spokane, Washington to the
American Fisheries Society (AFS), Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber
warned that the Columbia River Salmon Plan approved in November
2000 is in grave danger of failing, through a combination of lack of
funding and shear failure of implementation, thereby putting the entire
Columbia River water and power system at risk of crisis, gridlock and
confrontation (see Sublegals 5:09/04; 4:22/12; 3:18/01; 2:25/01;
2:21/05; 2:04/04).  Kitzhaber also noted that the alternative the plan was
intended to avoid, the breaching of the four Lower Snake River dams,
carries with it similar, if not smaller, costs than the non-breaching
alternative of the current plan, but that failure to implement either
alternative quickly is a sure road to a widespread crises that can only
escalate the costs of salmon recovery. For the full speech see:
http://www.governor.state.or.us/governor/speeches/s020430.htm.

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