Here's a National Marine Fisheries Service white paper that was posted briefly on the agency's website Monday and then removed.
Deckboss spoke with Jim Balsiger, head of NMFS for Alaska, who explained the document was a rough draft that was posted inadvertently.
Anyway, he said the gist of the paper is true: NMFS will subject its new Steller sea lion biological opinion to an "independent scientific review" via the Miami-based Center for Independent Experts.
This is good news for the commercial fishing industry, which faces big losses due to planned closures along the Aleutian chain. The BiOp calls for these fishing closures to protect food supplies for the endangered sea lions.
According to the white paper, NMFS might develop a new BiOp depending on the outcome of the independent review.
The fishing industry, of course, sees lots of other potential culprits in the decline of Steller sea lions, such as voracious killer whales and environmental shifts.
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good work Deck Boss in getting this important information!
thank you
I hate it when these guys are titled scientists and they can't figure out that all the missing Stellar Sealion have migrated to Southeast Alaska.
Common guys. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that the sealion are being starved out in the Aleutians and have moved to other food opportunities which they have found in Southeast.
I am a Southeasterner and I hate the fact that we have inherited your starving animals from the Aleutian Islands.
So called scientists will only admit that the southeast stellar sealion population is stable. STABLE????
Is it more important that they get credit for a "STABLE" population rather than admit these animals came in looking for food?
What a fucking joke this whole scenerio has been.
Scientists. Ha! I'd rather they be call idiots.
You're a Moron!....What's this? More damage control from a fucking dragger?....The reason there are no more stellars out there is because science has been skewed by fat-cats that pay off politicians, and politicians limiting funding and proper research/programs for the last 35 years....Skewing Science!...and taking the Wait and see approach!..Mean while YOU! Fucking Draggers! have been catching very diverse mixed year class fish!...325 gram fish being hauled back with 16-1800 gram fish...it don't cut it DRAGGER...How far out , are you traveling Now?...."Yeah, let's grab those fish, with the Mako grade Row, and never mind the 180,000 lbs. of pre-recruits/juveniles we catch with them...We can do the surimi thing with that!...and If that don't work there's always the fish meal plant..and when that's full, we can just dump it near shore, at night, on the way back out!"...Mean while...You Dumbfucks are killing off a major resource of the oceans...This goes for Cod fish Too!....Which, btw is a main food source for stellar sealions....You can lobby your special interest all you want...and get your season open, but there will come a day when your well is going to be dry...Look what you have done, and left behind you, in your wake...You're not just ruining your own resources, but everyone elses too....by disrupting the food chain, and towing on the bottom....it's time to do something for the oceans, instead of not replenishing it....get a conscience man!...Wise up!....Getting your bitch a Brazilian, so the leather in her beemer doesn't rub her ass the wrong way days are over...take that money and donate it to rebuilding the reefs around the world...the very one's you've been tearing up the last 40 years...Just because the Japs and the Russians and Koreans did it, before the MSA went into effect, in the 80's...doesn't justify what your doing! What a fucking Peckerhead!...I may not have a 100k salary every year, but I do have a clear and concise conscience, knowing that I'm not fucking up the oceans for greed!...There's No honor in what your doing, and you get no respect either! A hundred plus years ago, it was the Buffalo...now it's the King and Dog Salmon....When does the desecration of the earth's resources stop?...Just think, you've helped make a shitty world to live in!...Aren't you so proud of yourselves!...Go ahead, pump yourselves up now!....fucking blowhards!...
SCREW THE TRAWLERS THEY ARE CAUSING THE DAMAGE!!!!
please quit using swear words, you're hurting my eyes.
what is this beemer you speak of and where can i get one?
and we haven't killed any buffalo that I know of...
What a self righteous butt weasel. His day gig is probably with Admiral Paul on Whale Wars. Point your finger at me and I'll feed it to the Steller Sea lions you adore so much. Blame is an easy card to play, little boy.
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