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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. 08, NO. 07 15 AUGUST 2003
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"Regime Change Now: Recall Davis, Impeach Bush"
......from a California Bumpersticker
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IN THIS ISSUE.......
Krill Gets Permanent Protection in California. 8:07/01.
U.N. Program Announced to Protect Kamchatka's Salmon
Populations. 8:07/03.
Congressional Members Call for Klamath Flow Study to
Be Funded and Released. 8:07/04.
Mandated Compliance with Clean Water Act May Force
Maine Fish Farms Out of Business. 8:07/08.
Support Sublegals! Make a Donation Online Today! 8:07/10.
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8:07/01. CALIFORNIA GIVES KRILL PERMANENT
PROTECTION, INCLUDING BAN ON EEZ FISHERY OFFSHORE:
California Governor Gray Davis signed AB 1296 on 11 August, making
permanent the state's ban on fishing for krill, including any fishing in
federal waters offshore the state. The bill, by Assemblymember Patty
Berg (D-Eureka), is intended to protect two species of krill, a small
crustacean that is an important forage species for many forms of marine
life, including sea birds, whales and salmon. In addition to deleting the
sunset clause in the current statute that would have allowed the law to
expire, AB 1296 gives the state for the first time explicit authority to
protect krill not just in state waters, but in the U.S. Exclusive Economic
Zone (EEZ), the waters from 3 to 200 miles offshore California, if the
federal government does not enact a plan for protecting this forage
species. The measure makes California the first state in the nation, and
perhaps the first government in the world, to enact a fishing ban on this
shrimp-like animal which is at the base of the oceanic food chain.
Berg, who represents California's north coast and the fishing
communities from Bodega Bay to Crescent City, chairs the California
Legislature's Joint Committee on Fisheries & Aquaculture. She is a
member of the Pacific Fisheries Legislative Task Force, made up of the
States of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, and the
Province of British Columbia. PCFFA requested the bill banning the
take of krill. PCFFA also drafted and supported the initial legislation by
former Assemblymember Virginia Strom-Martin (D-Duncan Mills)
prohibiting a fishery on krill. AB 1296 builds on earlier measures passed
by California's Legislature during the last decade, including the law to
ban the take of great white sharks, authored by former Assemblyman
Dan Hauser (D-Arcata); legislation by Senator Byron Sher (D-Palo
Alto) for managing the squid fishery; and the Marine Life Management
Act and Marine Life Protection Act aimed at improving conservation
and management of state regulated fisheries.
"If we're going to protect our fisheries and the people and
communities that depend on them, we have to take an ecosystem
approach to managing our oceans," said PCFFA President Pietro
Parravano. "Assemblymember Berg's bill is intended to address a
critical part of the ocean ecosystem by giving krill permanent
protection." Parravano is a Half Moon Bay commercial fisherman and
member of the Pew Oceans Commission. The Pew Commission recently
released its report, the first comprehensive review of U.S. ocean policy
in 30 years (see Sublegals, 7:23/01), calling for, among other things,
ecosystem councils for managing ocean waters. For more information
on AB 1296, contact Mary Morgan, Consultant to the Joint Committee
on Fisheries & Aquaculture at: mary.morgan@asm.ca.gov.
8:07/02. NMFS WEST COAST CONSTITUENT SESSIONS SET
FOR SEPTEMBER: Since June, the National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) has been holding "constituent sessions" in the different regional
council jurisdictions around the nation. NOAA Assistant Administrator
for Fisheries (aka NMFS Director) Bill Hogarth has been attending the
group meetings to explain his fishery agency's positions and listen to
concerns from commercial fishermen, recreational anglers,
environmental groups and the public. Two west coast sessions have been
scheduled around two other sessions (Fairhaven, Massachusetts on 16
September and Pawley's Island, South Carolina on 18 September). They
are as follows:
SEATTLE, 8-9 September, DoubleTree Guest Suites Seattle
Southcenter, 16500 Southcenter Parkway, Seattle, Washington. Tel:
(206) 575-8220. This will be held the evening of the 8th and morning of
the 9th around the Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting.
SAN FRANCISCO, 24 September, Westin St. Francis, 335 Powell
Street, San Francisco, California. Tel: (415) 397-7000. This session will
be from 1800-2100 HRS.
For more information, go to:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/constitsessions2003.html.
8:07/03. UNITED NATIONS TO LAUNCH SALMON
PROTECTION PROGRAM IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST: The United
Nations Development Programme's Global Environment Facility (GEF)
has announced a new $13 million program to protect wild salmon in
Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. This is the first U.N. project to focus on
salmon and steelhead trout. The GEF program is being developed in
partnership with the Russian State Fisheries Committee, the Kamchatka
and Koryak Regional Administrations, Moscow State University, and
the Portland, Oregon-based Wild Salmon Center. The project will
provide $3 million in GEF funds between 2003-2007 to support
salmonid fish conservation in four watersheds in western Kamchatka.
The GEF support will be matched by funds and in-kind support valued
at $10 million from the project partners.
The thousand mile long Kamchatka Peninsula hosts the greatest
diversity of salmonids left on Earth and about one fourth of all Pacific
salmon return to its rivers to spawn. It is the home to Russia's only
population of steelhead. Steelhead are listed in Russia's Red Book of
Endangered Species and are a protected fish, but are still being fished to
dangerously low levels. This project will help save the wild Russian
steelhead from extinction.
If protected and restored, Kamchatka's and Russian Far East
production could contribute significantly to the world supply of wild
salmon (see: "A PACIFIC RIM STRATEGY FOR WILD SALMON:
Are Fish Farms Necessary if We Can Meet World Salmon Demand With
Our Wild Fish?" in the May 2003 issue of The Fishermen's News, online
at: www.pcffa.org/fn-may03.htm). Kamchatka's salmon are under
constant threat from the illegal harvest of caviar and the development of
natural gas, gold and other non-renewable resources. More information
on the U.N. Kamchatka salmon program will be available online 25
September at: http://www.wildsalmoncenter.org.
8:07/04. CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS CALL FOR RELEASE
OF KLAMATH FLOWS REPORT, SEEK TO PREVENT FUTURE
FISH KILLS: On 13 August, ten members of the U.S. House of
Representatives sent a joint letter to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton
and Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans asking for the full funding
and final release of a key Klamath River flow study. Known as the
"Hardy Phase II Flow Study," the document is now more than 21 months
late, and the Bush Administration has been accused of suppressing its
release (see Sublegals, 8:06/01; 8:05/06; 6:18/01; 6:18/02; 6:18/03).
The peer-reviewed, multi-agency study has been several years in the
making, at a cost of more than $1 million, and has been nearly ready for
final release since November 2001. The Interior Department, however,
has been holding up its final rewrite and release by repeatedly failing to
fund its completion.
The study is intended to definitively answer questions about how
much water salmon need, and thus how much water the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR) needs to release from its Klamath Irrigation Project
to the lower river to protect and recover Endangered Species Act (ESA)
listed coho salmon runs. In the past, salmon below Iron Gate Dam only
got those flows BOR was willing to provide after all upper basin
irrigation needs were met, even in very dry years, thus leaving
inadequate flows for fish survival.
Economically valuable salmon runs in the lower Klamath have
suffered more than 90 percent declines, in large part as a result of a long
history of lower river dewatering to feed the voracious water demands of
BOR's Klamath Irrigation Project, located in the river's headwaters. The
Project often uses more than half of all summer flows from headwaters.
In September 2002, irrigation-biased federal water policies led to
perhaps the worst fish kill in U.S. history, in which more than 33,000
adult spawners died on their way to the spawning grounds (see:
www.klamathbasin.info/fishkill1.htm) (see Sublegals, 7:02/01; 6:17/06;
6:16/01; 6:15/01; 6:14/01; 6:13/01). The American Fisheries Society
(AFS) (http://www.klamathbasin.info/
AFSKlamathLetterforSecretaryNorton.pdf), the Pacific Fishery
Management Council
(http://www.pcffa.org/PFMCKlamathletter12-02.pdf), the Klamath
Fishery Management Council, the State of California
(http://www.klamathbasin.info/InItsOwnWords.pdf) and many other
organizations have all demanded completion of the Hardy Phase II Flow
Study as an essential element to good river water management.
"The Hardy Phase II report is considered by scientists closest to the
Klamath River to be the best science available regarding flows
necessary for salmon populations on the River. The federal funds to
finalize this report were supposed to be released in November 2001,
almost two years ago. We urge you to release all funds necessary to
complete and finalize this report as soon as possible...," said the
Congressional letter. "Clearly we need to complete these most basic
studies intended to determine how much water should be provided to the
lower river to prevent similar fish kill disasters and to help rebuild their
once abundant populations. Basing future water policy on the best
available science will certainly help reduce the looming conflicts and
crises that now periodically grip the Klamath Basin." The letter was
signed by Representatives Mike Thompson, Henry Waxman, Robert
Matsui, Grace Napolitano, Lois Capps, Sam Farr, Barbara Lee, Tom
Lantos, Mike Honda, Raul M. Grijalva, Ellen Tauscher, and George
Miller. Copies of the letter are available from the Office of
Representative Mike Thompson at: (202) 225-3311.
8:07/05. MORE FLOW DEMANDED FOR BUTTE CREEK
LISTED SALMON IN FERC RELICENSING HEARINGS;
AMERICAN, SHASTA RUNS THREATENED WITH WARM
WATER AND DEWATERED STREAMBEDS: On the heels of a fish
kill that has taken at least 1,000 adult spawning spring-run chinook
salmon on Butte Creek (see Sublegals, 8:06/05), local residents, fishing
and conservation groups called for additional flow releases from the
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) company's DeSalba Powerhouse on the
creek which is a tributary of the Sacramento River. Butte Creek has the
largest remnant population of spring-run chinook salmon in California's
Central Valley river system; spring-run are listed as "threatened" under
the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The call for more flows was made at an 11 August Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) hearing on the relicensing of the
PG&E hydroelectric facility, which is up for renewal in 2009. Currently
only 40 cubic feet per second (cfs) flow is provided, a figure established
in the 1990's when spring-run populations were plummeting and about
to be listed. Critics say the flow is inadequate for the number of fish in
the river, estimated at between 12,000-15,000 this year. Friends of Butte
Creek's Alan Harthorn told the Chico Enterprise-Record "'...the fish
kills this year are not naturally occurring. The water in the 'low flow'
part of the creek is too hot and promotes the gill disease columnaris.
That's the same disease that killed thousands of fish last year on the
Klamath River after water was diverted to farmers.... In the Klamath, the
[California] Department of Fish & Game put out a 60-page report that
laid direct blame on various parties for what happened,' Harthorn said.
'But yet on Butte Creek they did nothing.'" For more information, see the
14 August Chico Enterprise-Record article at:
http://www2.chicoer.com/articles/2003/08/14/news/news1.txt
On another tributary of the Sacramento, which is the largest producer
of fall-run chinook, the mainstay of the ocean commercial and
recreational fisheries, it has been reported by a member of the American
River Operating Group that white water rafting operations upstream of
Folsom Dam have depleted the cold water needed for support of the fall
runs of salmon and steelhead. Meanwhile, in the Klamath Basin it was
reported 14 August the Shasta River has been dewatered at the North
Old Stage Road crossing where the diversion ditch belonging to the
Edson Foulke Yreka Ditch Co. is located. All the water from the Shasta
River is now flowing down this diversion ditch (also known as the China
Ditch) for the agricultural use of five water users farther up the Shasta
Valley. "A few fish have been isolated in what pools remain in the river
and those that haven't already succumbed to predators face rising water
temperatures," according to the report. "You can call and voice your
concerns to the Department of Fish & Game Cal-Tip Hot Line: (888)
334-2258. Please be sure to ask them what they plan to do about the lack
of water due to the water user taking all the water out of the river and
the loss of fish habitat," said the plea.
8:07/06. CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION ADOPTS
CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO DESALINATION: In a state covering
155,959 square miles where water from almost every river is dammed
and diverted for human use, the pressure is on to find new sources of
drinking water. California, already the most populous state in the union,
will add another 24 million people (a 69 percent increase) by the year
2040, according to state forecasts. More and more Californians are
looking west to the vast Pacific Ocean as a potential source for the
state's water needs. About a dozen desalination plants are already
operating along the coast, with 20 more under consideration, according
to a 7 August report by the Associated Press. PCFFA has suggested
desalination, in addition to conservation and reuse, for both reducing
existing draws from the state's important salmon rivers (most with
inadequate flows for fish), as well as for meeting future demands (see
Sublegals, 7:16/12; 7:02/04; 6:26/02; 6:19/09; 3:22/14).
Desalination is not a perfect cure for California's water ailments,
however. Critics point to the potential environmental impacts, energy
requirements and even international trade liabilities as reasons to pursue
other sources of fresh water. On 14 August the California Coastal
Commission, the government entity with authority over development
along the coast, published a report cautioning over-reliance on
desalination. In response to opinions that the ocean is too vast to be
harmed by desalination plants Sara Christie, Commission spokeswoman,
offered a different view. "That's what we said about our forests," she
said. "That's what we said about our fisheries... and look what
happened." The Commission has shown some willingness to allow
desalination plants along the coast. On 7 August the Commission voted
unanimously to approve the construction of a desalination plant in Long
Beach. That plant was designed to feature new techniques that would
lessen its energy needs and environmental impacts.
Copies of the California Coastal Commission's draft report "Seawater
Desalination and the California Coastal Act" is on the Commission's
website, http://www.coastal.ca.gov/web. Comments are due by 6
October. For more, see http://www.planetsave.com/
ViewStory.asp?ID=4196 and the Associated Press article at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/
20030807-1957-ca-longbeachdesalination.html.
8:07/07. WWF ISSUES WHITE PAPER ON FISH FARMS IN
ADVANCE OF TRONDHEIM CONFERENCE: Last month in
Geneva, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued its white paper
highlighting the dangers of industrial aquaculture in advance of a major
aquaculture industry trade show. The show, "AquaNor," was held this
past week in Trondheim, Norway. The WWF paper summarizes well
known problems with the unsustainability of current aquaculture
operations, as well as the problems with escapes, disease transmission
and marine pollution that these operations create, many of them
devastating to wild-stock fisheries, such as British Columbia's pink
salmon runs. The white paper also makes a number of recommendations
for minimizing the impact of present and future aquaculture operations
on the marine environment. For more information, see the 12 August
Reuters article at:
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21818/story.htm,
and the WWF release on the paper:
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/
policy_and_events/epo/news.cfm?uNewsID=8265, and
http://www.panda.org/downloads/marine/wwfaquaculturepolicyfinaljuly
2003.doc.
8:07/08. MAINE FISH FARMS SAY COMPLIANCE WITH
CLEAN WATER ACT MAY FORCE THEM OUT OF BUSINESS;
CAN FISH FARMS MAKE IT IF THEY CAN'T EXTERNALIZE
POLLUTION COSTS?: A 12 August Bangor Daily News article
reported that Stolt Sea Farm and Atlantic Salmon of Maine are
determining if they will be able to survive financially now that they have
to comply with the Clean Water Act and other anti-pollution laws (see
Sublegals 8:06/07). On 6 August, the First U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled that the court-ordered restrictions on the farms to comply
with the Clean Water Act will stand. Atlantic Salmon and Stolt employ
dozens of Mainers and make up about half of the state's annual $65
million in salmon production with their combined harvest of 4 million
pounds. To meet the court's requirements, all of the companies' farm
sites that are currently occupied - about half of the total sites - will have
to remain empty once the current generations of fish are harvested over
the next year. And they will only be able to restock with salmon from
North America, which may prove difficult to find, as Atlantic Salmon
are listed as "endangered" under the federal Endangered Species Act. A
spokesman for Atlantic Salmon of Maine reported that further appeals
by the company were unlikely. Stolt has not yet made a public statement
about its plans. Since the initial court order, Maine's Board of
Environmental Protection has drafted salmon farming regulations as part
of its general finfish aquaculture permitting process. To see the archived
12 August Bangor Daily News article go to:
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bangor/383317841.html?did=383317841&
FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&desc=Salmon+farm+operators+question+abilit
y+to+survive++Layoffs+predicted+after+loss+of+appeal+on+restriction
s.
In related Maine news, controversy is stirring over the lack of a
commercial fishing representative on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on
Marine Aquaculture in Maine's Stakeholder Advisory Panel. The Task
Force on Marine Aquaculture in Maine was put in place to review the
role of municipalities in aquaculture leasing and the impact of
aquaculture on Maine's wild fisheries, coastal resorts, tourism and
coastal communities, and is supposed to issue a report to the Legislature
in January 2004. The report will suggest changes to Maine's aquaculture
laws for consideration by the Legislature.
A commercial fishing representative presence was mandated by the
legislation (LD 1519) that created the panel. Maine Speaker of the
House Pat Colwell is responsible for picking someone, and meetings of
the panel have gone on without the commercial fishing industry being
represented. It is not clear whether the task force can lawfully meet
without a complete advisory panel roster. This comes after a divisive
pro-aquaculture essay by former Department of Marine Resources
Commissioner Spencer Appollonio was posted on the Task Force
website. Public outcry caused the posting to be taken down soon after it
was posted and it is now on a list of draft documents available for public
comment. To see the Appollonio document go to
http://www.penbay.org/apolloniodoc703.html. To see responses to the
Appollonio essay go to: http://www.penbay.org/aqapolloresponse.html.
To view the home page for the Task Force go to:
http://www.state.me.us/dmr/aquaculture/aqtaskforce/aqtfhomepage.htm.
8:07/09. WASHINGTON'S COLUMBIA CHANNEL DEEPENING
PERMITS RECONSIDERED ON APPEAL: In response to an appeal
by the "Columbia River Alliance for Nurturing the Environment
(CRANE)," the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board
issued a temporary 14-day stay on 14 August on state permits approving
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's (COE) project to dredge out and
deepen 106 miles of the lower Columbia River. The appeal claims the
Washington Department of Ecology ignored its own science indicating
the project could not meet state water quality or coastal zone protection
guidelines when it issued the required permits in June of this year (see
Sublegals, 7:26/02).
Crab fishermen, led by the Columbia River Crab Fishermen's
Association (CRCFA), joined by PCFFA, have strongly opposed the
massive channel dredging program because of plans to dispose of dredge
spoils on top of prime Columbia River Dungeness crab nursery grounds,
jeopardizing a $50 million crab fishery. Additionally, mounding of
dredge spoils in the estuary causes wave amplification, which can cost
fishermen's lives (see Sublegals, 6:23/08; 4:15/01; 4:13/05; 4:09/15;
4:04/12; 2:08/05; 2:06/10; 1:07/01).
Columbia River salmon fishermen, including PCFFA Associate
Member Salmon for All, as well as conservation organizations, oppose
the channel deepening project because it would ruin more lower river
salmon spawning and rearing habitat, already 90 percent destroyed (see
Sublegals, 6:06/14; 5:21/01; 5:07/12; 5:02/17), making salmon recovery
more difficult. For more, see the 9 August Oregonian:
http://www.oregonlive.com/metro/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1
060430307320070.xml. For the Board's 14 August ruling (PCHB
#03-095), go to: http://www.eho.wa.gov/boarddecisions.asp.
8:07/10. SUBLEGALS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT: Sublegals staff is
working hard to bring you the latest fisheries news every week, but
times are tough and we need your support to continue this service.
Please help by donating online at
http://www.ifrfish.org/forms/form.html or sending a check to IFR at Box
29196, San Francisco, CA 94129. Thanks from all the staff here at IFR
and PCFFA.
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PAYING ATTENTION? Why is the crucial Klamath River "Hardy
Phase II Flow Study," 21 months late in being released?
A) The Bush administration has refused to allocate more funds for the
study to be completed.
B) Author Jeff Hardy of the World Wrestling Federation's "Hardy Boys"
was too busy putting together a new signature version of the cross-face
chicken wing maneuver.
C) Gale Norton dropped the only copy of the report on her way to her
meeting with top Monsanto executives and has spent the last 21 months
putting the pages back in order.
D) Department of Interior had decided to put all their efforts into
appealing the Wanger ruling on the Trinity Record of Decision with the
hopes that all the "extra" water from the Trinity would solve their
Klamath problems.
E-Mail your answer to "Editor" at: sublegals@ifrfish.org. One winner is
drawn each week from a list of those submitting the correct answer.
And the Winner is............DAVID HOWE, who correctly answered, "C)
British Columbia fishermen have asked the government to place a
moratorium on a sablefish farm until environmental and
economic assessments can be carried out," to the question of, "Sablefish,
not salmon, farming was in the news this past week. What is
happening?" He will receive an "Order of the Fringehead" certificate
and a Sublegals tee-shirt.
CORRECTION: In Sublegals 8:05/07 we incorrectly referred to Rep.
Mike Thompson's (D-CA) "Pacific Salmon Recovery Act" as H.R. 1475.
Actually the true bill number is H.R. 1945. Thanks to Sublegals reader
Gene Buck for pointing that out.
NEWS, COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS: Submit your news items,
comments or any corrections to Sara Randall, Editor at:
sublegals@ifrfish.org, or call the IFR/PCFFA office with the news and a
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IN THIS ISSUE.......<BR>
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Krill Gets Permanent Protection in California. 8:07/01.<BR>
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U.N. Program Announced to Protect Kamchatka's Salmon <BR>
Populations. 8:07/03.<BR>
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Congressional Members Call for Klamath Flow Study to <BR>
Be Funded and Released. 8:07/04.<BR>
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Mandated Compliance with Clean Water Act May Force <BR>
Maine Fish Farms Out of Business. 8:07/08. <BR>
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Support Sublegals! Make a Donation Online Today! 8:07/10.<BR>
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8:07/01. CALIFORNIA GIVES KRILL PERMANENT<BR>
PROTECTION, INCLUDING BAN ON EEZ FISHERY OFFSHORE:<BR>
California Governor Gray Davis signed AB 1296 on 11 August, making<BR>
permanent the state's ban on fishing for krill, including any fishing in<BR>
federal waters offshore the state. The bill, by Assemblymember Patty<B=
R>
Berg (D-Eureka), is intended to protect two species of krill, a small<BR>
crustacean that is an important forage species for many forms of marine<BR>
life, including sea birds, whales and salmon. In addition to deleting the<BR=
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sunset clause in the current statute that would have allowed the law to<BR>
expire, AB 1296 gives the state for the first time explicit authority to<BR>
protect krill not just in state waters, but in the U.S. Exclusive Economic<B=
R>
Zone (EEZ), the waters from 3 to 200 miles offshore California, if the<BR>
federal government does not enact a plan for protecting this forage<BR>
species. The measure makes California the first state in the nation, and<BR>
perhaps the first government in the world, to enact a fishing ban on this<BR=
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shrimp-like animal which is at the base of the oceanic food chain.<BR>
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Berg, who represents California's north coast and t=
he fishing<BR>
communities from Bodega Bay to Crescent City, chairs the California<BR>
Legislature's Joint Committee on Fisheries & Aquaculture. She is a<BR>
member of the Pacific Fisheries Legislative Task Force, made up of the<BR>
States of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, and the<BR>
Province of British Columbia. PCFFA requested the bill banning the<BR>
take of krill. PCFFA also drafted and supported the initial legislatio=
n by<BR>
former Assemblymember Virginia Strom-Martin (D-Duncan Mills)<BR>
prohibiting a fishery on krill. AB 1296 builds on earlier measures passed<BR=
>
by California's Legislature during the last decade, including the law to<BR>
ban the take of great white sharks, authored by former Assemblyman<BR>
Dan Hauser (D-Arcata); legislation by Senator Byron Sher (D-Palo<BR>
Alto) for managing the squid fishery; and the Marine Life Management<BR>
Act and Marine Life Protection Act aimed at improving conservation<BR>
and management of state regulated fisheries. <BR>
<BR>
"If we're going to protect our fisheries and the pe=
ople and<BR>
communities that depend on them, we have to take an ecosystem<BR>
approach to managing our oceans," said PCFFA President Pietro<BR>
Parravano. "Assemblymember Berg's bill is intended to address a<BR>
critical part of the ocean ecosystem by giving krill permanent<BR>
protection." Parravano is a Half Moon Bay commercial fisherman and<BR>
member of the Pew Oceans Commission. The Pew Commission recently<BR>
released its report, the first comprehensive review of U.S. ocean policy<BR>
in 30 years (see Sublegals, 7:23/01), calling for, among other things,<BR>
ecosystem councils for managing ocean waters. For more information<BR>
on AB 1296, contact Mary Morgan, Consultant to the Joint Committee<BR>
on Fisheries & Aquaculture at: mary.morgan@asm.ca.gov. <BR>
<BR>
8:07/02. NMFS WEST COAST CONSTITUENT SESSIONS SET<B=
R>
FOR SEPTEMBER: Since June, the National Marine Fisheries Service<BR>
(NMFS) has been holding "constituent sessions" in the different regional<BR>
council jurisdictions around the nation. NOAA Assistant Administrator<=
BR>
for Fisheries (aka NMFS Director) Bill Hogarth has been attending the<BR>
group meetings to explain his fishery agency's positions and listen to<BR>
concerns from commercial fishermen, recreational anglers,<BR>
environmental groups and the public. Two west coast sessions have been<BR>
scheduled around two other sessions (Fairhaven, Massachusetts on 16<BR>
September and Pawley's Island, South Carolina on 18 September). They<BR>
are as follows:<BR>
<BR>
SEATTLE, 8-9 September, DoubleTree Guest Suites Seattle<BR>
Southcenter, 16500 Southcenter Parkway, Seattle, Washington. Tel:<BR>
(206) 575-8220. This will be held the evening of the 8th and morning of<BR>
the 9th around the Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting.<BR>
<BR>
SAN FRANCISCO, 24 September, Westin St. Francis, 335 Powell<BR>
Street, San Francisco, California. Tel: (415) 397-7000. This session will<BR=
>
be from 1800-2100 HRS. <BR>
For more information, go to:<BR>
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/constitsessions2003.html.<BR>
<BR>
8:07/03. UNITED NATIONS TO LAUNCH SALMON<BR>
PROTECTION PROGRAM IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST: The United<BR>
Nations Development Programme's Global Environment Facility (GEF)<BR>
has announced a new $13 million program to protect wild salmon in<BR>
Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. This is the first U.N. project to focus on<BR>
salmon and steelhead trout. The GEF program is being developed in<BR>
partnership with the Russian State Fisheries Committee, the Kamchatka<BR>
and Koryak Regional Administrations, Moscow State University, and<BR>
the Portland, Oregon-based Wild Salmon Center. The project will<BR>
provide $3 million in GEF funds between 2003-2007 to support<BR>
salmonid fish conservation in four watersheds in western Kamchatka.<BR>
The GEF support will be matched by funds and in-kind support valued<BR>
at $10 million from the project partners. <BR>
<BR>
The thousand mile long Kamchatka Peninsula hosts th=
e greatest<BR>
diversity of salmonids left on Earth and about one fourth of all Pacific<BR>
salmon return to its rivers to spawn. It is the home to Russia's only<BR>
population of steelhead. Steelhead are listed in Russia's Red Book of<BR>
Endangered Species and are a protected fish, but are still being fished to<B=
R>
dangerously low levels. This project will help save the wild Russian<BR>
steelhead from extinction. <BR>
<BR>
If protected and restored, Kamchatka's and Russian=20=
Far East<BR>
production could contribute significantly to the world supply of wild<BR>
salmon (see: "A PACIFIC RIM STRATEGY FOR WILD SALMON:<BR>
Are Fish Farms Necessary if We Can Meet World Salmon Demand With<BR>
Our Wild Fish?" in the May 2003 issue of The Fishermen's News, online<BR>
at: www.pcffa.org/fn-may03.htm). Kamchatka's salmon are under<BR>
constant threat from the illegal harvest of caviar and the development of<BR=
>
natural gas, gold and other non-renewable resources. More information<BR>
on the U.N. Kamchatka salmon program will be available online 25<BR>
September at: http://www.wildsalmoncenter.org. <BR>
<BR>
8:07/04. CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS CALL FOR RELEA=
SE<BR>
OF KLAMATH FLOWS REPORT, SEEK TO PREVENT FUTURE<BR>
FISH KILLS: On 13 August, ten members of the U.S. House of<BR>
Representatives sent a joint letter to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton<BR>
and Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans asking for the full funding<BR>
and final release of a key Klamath River flow study. Known as the<BR>
"Hardy Phase II Flow Study," the document is now more than 21 months<BR>
late, and the Bush Administration has been accused of suppressing its<BR>
release (see Sublegals, 8:06/01; 8:05/06; 6:18/01; 6:18/02; 6:18/03). <BR>
The peer-reviewed, multi-agency study has been several years in the<BR>
making, at a cost of more than $1 million, and has been nearly ready for<BR>
final release since November 2001. The Interior Department, however,<B=
R>
has been holding up its final rewrite and release by repeatedly failing to<B=
R>
fund its completion. <BR>
<BR>
The study is intended to definitively answer questi=
ons about how<BR>
much water salmon need, and thus how much water the U.S. Bureau of<BR>
Reclamation (BOR) needs to release from its Klamath Irrigation Project<BR>
to the lower river to protect and recover Endangered Species Act (ESA)<BR>
listed coho salmon runs. In the past, salmon below Iron Gate Dam only<=
BR>
got those flows BOR was willing to provide after all upper basin<BR>
irrigation needs were met, even in very dry years, thus leaving<BR>
inadequate flows for fish survival.<BR>
<BR>
Economically valuable salmon runs in the lower Klam=
ath have<BR>
suffered more than 90 percent declines, in large part as a result of a long<=
BR>
history of lower river dewatering to feed the voracious water demands of<BR>
BOR's Klamath Irrigation Project, located in the river's headwaters. T=
he<BR>
Project often uses more than half of all summer flows from headwaters. <BR>
In September 2002, irrigation-biased federal water policies led to<BR>
perhaps the worst fish kill in U.S. history, in which more than 33,000<BR>
adult spawners died on their way to the spawning grounds (see:<BR>
www.klamathbasin.info/fishkill1.htm) (see Sublegals, 7:02/01; 6:17/06;<BR>
6:16/01; 6:15/01; 6:14/01; 6:13/01). The American Fisheries Society<BR>
(AFS) (http://www.klamathbasin.info/<BR>
AFSKlamathLetterforSecretaryNorton.pdf), the Pacific Fishery<BR>
Management Council<BR>
(http://www.pcffa.org/PFMCKlamathletter12-02.pdf), the Klamath<BR>
Fishery Management Council, the State of California<BR>
(http://www.klamathbasin.info/InItsOwnWords.pdf) and many other<BR>
organizations have all demanded completion of the Hardy Phase II Flow<BR>
Study as an essential element to good river water management. <BR>
<BR>
"The Hardy Phase II report is considered by scienti=
sts closest to the<BR>
Klamath River to be the best science available regarding flows<BR>
necessary for salmon populations on the River. The federal funds to<BR=
>
finalize this report were supposed to be released in November 2001,<BR>
almost two years ago. We urge you to release all funds necessary to<BR=
>
complete and finalize this report as soon as possible...," said the<BR>
Congressional letter. "Clearly we need to complete these most basic<BR=
>
studies intended to determine how much water should be provided to the<BR>
lower river to prevent similar fish kill disasters and to help rebuild their=
<BR>
once abundant populations. Basing future water policy on the best<BR>
available science will certainly help reduce the looming conflicts and<BR>
crises that now periodically grip the Klamath Basin." The letter was<B=
R>
signed by Representatives Mike Thompson, Henry Waxman, Robert<BR>
Matsui, Grace Napolitano, Lois Capps, Sam Farr, Barbara Lee, Tom<BR>
Lantos, Mike Honda, Raul M. Grijalva, Ellen Tauscher, and George<BR>
Miller. Copies of the letter are available from the Office of<BR>
Representative Mike Thompson at: (202) 225-3311.<BR>
<BR>
8:07/05. MORE FLOW DEMANDED FOR BUTTE CREEK<BR>
LISTED SALMON IN FERC RELICENSING HEARINGS;<BR>
AMERICAN, SHASTA RUNS THREATENED WITH WARM<BR>
WATER AND DEWATERED STREAMBEDS: On the heels of a fish<BR>
kill that has taken at least 1,000 adult spawning spring-run chinook<BR>
salmon on Butte Creek (see Sublegals, 8:06/05), local residents, fishing<BR>
and conservation groups called for additional flow releases from the<BR>
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) company's DeSalba Powerhouse on the<BR=
>
creek which is a tributary of the Sacramento River. Butte Creek has the<BR>
largest remnant population of spring-run chinook salmon in California's<BR>
Central Valley river system; spring-run are listed as "threatened" under<BR>
the Endangered Species Act (ESA). <BR>
<BR>
The call for more flows was made at an 11 August Fe=
deral Energy<BR>
Regulatory Commission (FERC) hearing on the relicensing of the<BR>
PG&E hydroelectric facility, which is up for renewal in 2009. Currently<=
BR>
only 40 cubic feet per second (cfs) flow is provided, a figure established<B=
R>
in the 1990's when spring-run populations were plummeting and about<BR>
to be listed. Critics say the flow is inadequate for the number of fish in<B=
R>
the river, estimated at between 12,000-15,000 this year. Friends of Butte<BR=
>
Creek's Alan Harthorn told the Chico Enterprise-Record "'...the fish<B=
R>
kills this year are not naturally occurring. The water in the 'low flow'<BR>
part of the creek is too hot and promotes the gill disease columnaris.<BR>
That's the same disease that killed thousands of fish last year on the<BR>
Klamath River after water was diverted to farmers.... In the Klamath, the<BR=
>
[California] Department of Fish & Game put out a 60-page report that<BR>
laid direct blame on various parties for what happened,' Harthorn said.<BR>
'But yet on Butte Creek they did nothing.'" For more information, see the<BR=
>
14 August Chico Enterprise-Record article at:<BR>
http://www2.chicoer.com/articles/2003/08/14/news/news1.txt<BR>
<BR>
On another tributary of the Sacramento, which is th=
e largest producer<BR>
of fall-run chinook, the mainstay of the ocean commercial and<BR>
recreational fisheries, it has been reported by a member of the American<BR>
River Operating Group that white water rafting operations upstream of<BR>
Folsom Dam have depleted the cold water needed for support of the fall<BR>
runs of salmon and steelhead. Meanwhile, in the Klamath Basin it was<BR>
reported 14 August the Shasta River has been dewatered at the North<BR>
Old Stage Road crossing where the diversion ditch belonging to the<BR>
Edson Foulke Yreka Ditch Co. is located. All the water from the Shasta<BR>
River is now flowing down this diversion ditch (also known as the China<BR>
Ditch) for the agricultural use of five water users farther up the Shasta<BR=
>
Valley. "A few fish have been isolated in what pools remain in the river<BR>
and those that haven't already succumbed to predators face rising water<BR>
temperatures," according to the report. "You can call and voice your<BR>
concerns to the Department of Fish & Game Cal-Tip Hot Line: (888)<BR>
334-2258. Please be sure to ask them what they plan to do about the lack<BR>
of water due to the water user taking all the water out of the river and<BR>
the loss of fish habitat," said the plea.<BR>
<BR>
8:07/06. CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION ADOPTS<BR>
CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO DESALINATION: In a state covering<BR>
155,959 square miles where water from almost every river is dammed<BR>
and diverted for human use, the pressure is on to find new sources of<BR>
drinking water. California, already the most populous state in the uni=
on,<BR>
will add another 24 million people (a 69 percent increase) by the year<BR>
2040, according to state forecasts. More and more Californians are<BR>
looking west to the vast Pacific Ocean as a potential source for the<BR>
state's water needs. About a dozen desalination plants are already<BR>
operating along the coast, with 20 more under consideration, according<BR>
to a 7 August report by the Associated Press. PCFFA has suggested<BR>
desalination, in addition to conservation and reuse, for both reducing<BR>
existing draws from the state's important salmon rivers (most with<BR>
inadequate flows for fish), as well as for meeting future demands (see<BR>
Sublegals, 7:16/12; 7:02/04; 6:26/02; 6:19/09; 3:22/14).<BR>
<BR>
Desalination is not a perfect cure for California's=
water ailments,<BR>
however. Critics point to the potential environmental impacts, energy<=
BR>
requirements and even international trade liabilities as reasons to pursue<B=
R>
other sources of fresh water. On 14 August the California Coastal<BR>
Commission, the government entity with authority over development<BR>
along the coast, published a report cautioning over-reliance on<BR>
desalination. In response to opinions that the ocean is too vast to be=
<BR>
harmed by desalination plants Sara Christie, Commission spokeswoman,<BR>
offered a different view. "That's what we said about our forests," she=
<BR>
said. "That's what we said about our fisheries... and look what<BR>
happened." The Commission has shown some willingness to allow<BR>
desalination plants along the coast. On 7 August the Commission voted<=
BR>
unanimously to approve the construction of a desalination plant in Long<BR>
Beach. That plant was designed to feature new techniques that would<BR=
>
lessen its energy needs and environmental impacts. <BR>
<BR>
Copies of the California Coastal Commission's draft=
report "Seawater<BR>
Desalination and the California Coastal Act" is on the Commission's<BR>
website, http://www.coastal.ca.gov/web. Comments are due by 6<BR>
October. For more, see http://www.planetsave.com/<BR>
ViewStory.asp?ID=3D4196 and the Associated Press article at:<BR>
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/<BR>
20030807-1957-ca-longbeachdesalination.html. &n=
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8:07/07. WWF ISSUES WHITE PAPER ON FISH=
FARMS IN<BR>
ADVANCE OF TRONDHEIM CONFERENCE: Last month in<BR>
Geneva, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued its white paper<BR>
highlighting the dangers of industrial aquaculture in advance of a major<BR>
aquaculture industry trade show. The show, "AquaNor," was held this<BR>
past week in Trondheim, Norway. The WWF paper summarizes well<BR>
known problems with the unsustainability of current aquaculture<BR>
operations, as well as the problems with escapes, disease transmission<BR>
and marine pollution that these operations create, many of them<BR>
devastating to wild-stock fisheries, such as British Columbia's pink<BR>
salmon runs. The white paper also makes a number of recommendations<BR=
>
for minimizing the impact of present and future aquaculture operations<BR>
on the marine environment. For more information, see the 12 August<BR>
Reuters article at:<BR>
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21818/story.htm,<BR>
and the WWF release on the paper:<BR>
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/<BR>
policy_and_events/epo/news.cfm?uNewsID=3D8265, and<BR>
http://www.panda.org/downloads/marine/wwfaquaculturepolicyfinaljuly<BR>
2003.doc.<BR>
<BR>
8:07/08. MAINE FISH FARMS SAY COMPLIANCE WITH<BR>
CLEAN WATER ACT MAY FORCE THEM OUT OF BUSINESS;<BR>
CAN FISH FARMS MAKE IT IF THEY CAN'T EXTERNALIZE<BR>
POLLUTION COSTS?: A 12 August Bangor Daily News article<BR>
reported that Stolt Sea Farm and Atlantic Salmon of Maine are<BR>
determining if they will be able to survive financially now that they have<B=
R>
to comply with the Clean Water Act and other anti-pollution laws (see<BR>
Sublegals 8:06/07). On 6 August, the First U.S. Circuit Court of<BR>
Appeals ruled that the court-ordered restrictions on the farms to comply<BR>
with the Clean Water Act will stand. Atlantic Salmon and Stolt employ<BR>
dozens of Mainers and make up about half of the state's annual $65<BR>
million in salmon production with their combined harvest of 4 million<BR>
pounds. To meet the court's requirements, all of the companies' farm<BR>
sites that are currently occupied - about half of the total sites - will hav=
e<BR>
to remain empty once the current generations of fish are harvested over<BR>
the next year. And they will only be able to restock with salmon from<BR>
North America, which may prove difficult to find, as Atlantic Salmon<BR>
are listed as "endangered" under the federal Endangered Species Act. A=
<BR>
spokesman for Atlantic Salmon of Maine reported that further appeals<BR>
by the company were unlikely. Stolt has not yet made a public statement<BR>
about its plans. Since the initial court order, Maine's Board of<BR>
Environmental Protection has drafted salmon farming regulations as part<BR>
of its general finfish aquaculture permitting process. To see the archived<B=
R>
12 August Bangor Daily News article go to:<BR>
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bangor/383317841.html?did=3D383317841&<BR>
FMT=3DABS&FMTS=3DFT&desc=3DSalmon+farm+operators+question+abilit<BR>
y+to+survive++Layoffs+predicted+after+loss+of+appeal+on+restriction<BR>
s. <BR>
<BR>
In related Maine news, controversy is stirring over=
the lack of a<BR>
commercial fishing representative on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on<BR>
Marine Aquaculture in Maine's Stakeholder Advisory Panel. The Task<BR>
Force on Marine Aquaculture in Maine was put in place to review the<BR>
role of municipalities in aquaculture leasing and the impact of<BR>
aquaculture on Maine's wild fisheries, coastal resorts, tourism and<BR>
coastal communities, and is supposed to issue a report to the Legislature<BR=
>
in January 2004. The report will suggest changes to Maine's aquaculture<BR>
laws for consideration by the Legislature. <BR>
<BR>
A commercial fishing representative presence=20=
was mandated by the<BR>
legislation (LD 1519) that created the panel. Maine Speaker of the<BR>
House Pat Colwell is responsible for picking someone, and meetings of<BR>
the panel have gone on without the commercial fishing industry being<BR>
represented. It is not clear whether the task force can lawfully meet<BR>
without a complete advisory panel roster. This comes after a divisive<BR>
pro-aquaculture essay by former Department of Marine Resources<BR>
Commissioner Spencer Appollonio was posted on the Task Force<BR>
website. Public outcry caused the posting to be taken down soon after it<BR>
was posted and it is now on a list of draft documents available for public<B=
R>
comment. To see the Appollonio document go to<BR>
http://www.penbay.org/apolloniodoc703.html. To see responses to the<BR>
Appollonio essay go to: http://www.penbay.org/aqapolloresponse.html.<BR>
To view the home page for the Task Force go to:<BR>
http://www.state.me.us/dmr/aquaculture/aqtaskforce/aqtfhomepage.htm. <BR>
<BR>
8:07/09. WASHINGTON'S COLUMBIA CHANNEL DEEPEN=
ING<BR>
PERMITS RECONSIDERED ON APPEAL: In response to an appeal<BR>
by the "Columbia River Alliance for Nurturing the Environment<BR>
(CRANE)," the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board<BR>
issued a temporary 14-day stay on 14 August on state permits approving<BR>
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's (COE) project to dredge out and<BR>
deepen 106 miles of the lower Columbia River. The appeal claims the<BR=
>
Washington Department of Ecology ignored its own science indicating<BR>
the project could not meet state water quality or coastal zone protection<BR=
>
guidelines when it issued the required permits in June of this year (see<BR>
Sublegals, 7:26/02). <BR>
<BR>
Crab fishermen, led by the Columbia River Crab Fish=
ermen's<BR>
Association (CRCFA), joined by PCFFA, have strongly opposed the<BR>
massive channel dredging program because of plans to dispose of dredge<BR>
spoils on top of prime Columbia River Dungeness crab nursery grounds,<BR>
jeopardizing a $50 million crab fishery. Additionally, mounding of<BR>
dredge spoils in the estuary causes wave amplification, which can cost<BR>
fishermen's lives (see Sublegals, 6:23/08; 4:15/01; 4:13/05; 4:09/15;<BR>
4:04/12; 2:08/05; 2:06/10; 1:07/01). <BR>
<BR>
Columbia River salmon fishermen, including PCFFA As=
sociate<BR>
Member Salmon for All, as well as conservation organizations, oppose<BR>
the channel deepening project because it would ruin more lower river<BR>
salmon spawning and rearing habitat, already 90 percent destroyed (see<BR>
Sublegals, 6:06/14; 5:21/01; 5:07/12; 5:02/17), making salmon recovery<BR>
more difficult. For more, see the 9 August Oregonian:<BR>
http://www.oregonlive.com/metro/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1<BR>
060430307320070.xml. For the Board's 14 August ruling (PCHB<BR>
#03-095), go to: http://www.eho.wa.gov/boarddecisions.asp.<BR>
<BR>
8:07/10. SUBLEGALS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT: Sublegals staff is=
<BR>
working hard to bring you the latest fisheries news every week, but<BR>
times are tough and we need your support to continue this service.<BR>
Please help by donating online at<BR>
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PAYING ATTENTION? Why is the crucial Klamath River "Hardy<BR>
Phase II Flow Study," 21 months late in being released? <BR>
<BR>
A) The Bush administration has refused to allocate more funds for the<BR>
study to be completed.<BR>
B) Author Jeff Hardy of the World Wrestling Federation's "Hardy Boys"<BR>
was too busy putting together a new signature version of the cross-face<BR>
chicken wing maneuver.<BR>
C) Gale Norton dropped the only copy of the report on her way to her<BR>
meeting with top Monsanto executives and has spent the last 21 months<BR>
putting the pages back in order.<BR>
D) Department of Interior had decided to put all their efforts into<BR>
appealing the Wanger ruling on the Trinity Record of Decision with the<BR>
hopes that all the "extra" water from the Trinity would solve their<BR>
Klamath problems.<BR>
<BR>
E-Mail your answer to "Editor" at: sublegals@ifrfish.org. One winner is<BR>
drawn each week from a list of those submitting the correct answer. <BR>
<BR>
And the Winner is............DAVID HOWE, who correctly answered, "C)<BR>
British Columbia fishermen have asked the government to place a<BR>
moratorium on a sablefish farm until environmental and<BR>
economic assessments can be carried out," to the question of, "Sablefish,<BR=
>
not salmon, farming was in the news this past week. What is<BR>
happening?" He will receive an "Order of the Fringehead" certificate<BR>
and a Sublegals tee-shirt.<BR>
<BR>
CORRECTION: In Sublegals 8:05/07 we incorrectly referred to Rep.<BR>
Mike Thompson's (D-CA) "Pacific Salmon Recovery Act" as H.R. 1475.<BR>
Actually the true bill number is H.R. 1945. Thanks to Sublegals reader<BR>
Gene Buck for pointing that out. <BR>
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