Here's the official summary from yesterday's emergency Board of Fisheries meeting on the Cook Inlet setnetters.
"Board members were sympathetic to the setnetters affected by the closure, but were also concerned about the Chinook salmon escapement," the summary says.
First off, the Board was right to deny the petitions (all of them). BUT, they weren't really sympathetic. C'mon...this is the Judge, Brown and surfer dude we're talking about. They don't give a shit about cook inlet's commercial fishermen. If they really wanted to consider something, why did they wait 8 days after the receipt of the original petition? And, did the original petition author withdraw support for their request because something in the other (6?) petitions was better suited, in their opinion?
ReplyDeleteThe Board did the right thing.
ReplyDeleteThe board appeared to give very quick consideration to the six petitions that had been filed only the day before the meeting. The petition that started the ball rolling was withdrawn by its author and the board could have just as easily waited up to thirty days as is provided in the regulations to determine whether to hear any of them. This was about as fast as I have ever seen the board move. Who knows why the first was withdrawn. But as you said the board was right to deny all of them. Its job is to make sure that the fish come first, not to make sure the fisherman comes first. Do you disagree with that concept?
ReplyDeleteThe fish should always come first. Humans can and will adapt until the salmon stocks rebound.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be amazed by how many poor people are living on white bread and noodles in Bush Alaska.
CDQs should be forced to sell their seafood products at a loss for food stamps. They are losing money anyway as amateurs in the fishing industry. The people have a right to get something out of the billions of Public Dollars that the handful of CDQ managers are gambling with.
will you anti-CDQ whiners just shut the fuck up? Geez, here's a thread about cook inlet and you're so desperate for attention, you gotta post it here.
ReplyDeleteI heard from a source from ADF&G that there is going to be an emergency meeting this week to consider keeping the set nets out of the water after August 1 because the Chinooks are projected to get only 2/3 of the minimum escapement goal which is the lowest level ever recorded on the river. Minimum goals are necessary for sustainability. The chairman of the Board is reportedly trying to come up with some way to open the set nets in some limited way in order to provide some opportunity and at the same time accumulate some data. My source said to not expect the commercial people on the board to try to save the Chinooks, rather they will want to allow the set netters full access.Heck, there are two set netters on the board. I expect that the new member, Huntington from the interior has enough background to know what can happen to chinooks if the Dept is not careful. the Yukon may never see kings for harvest because of how the commercial efforts have decimated them. We can only hope that the board puts conservation first.
ReplyDeleteCDQs are part of the problem. They bought into some fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska recently. They are part of the problem.
ReplyDeleteThe board can put "conservation first." until they are blue in the face. They need to challenge the pollock fishery king salmon bycatch
allotment before the king salmon can rebound to historical numbers in order to support a commercial harvest on the Yukon, the Kuskokwim, and now the Kenai.
The CDQs are part of the problem because they have invested heavily in the pollock fishery without the blessings of the poor people of Western Alaska whos culture and traditon of living off the salmon is being destroyed right before our eyes.
[rolleyes]
ReplyDeleteIf your executive team are the three highest paid executives in Alaska, be it for-profit or non-profit, by a factor of 50%, why wouldn't you want to bury the issue of Coastal Villages,the majority owner in the Bering Sea pollock industry?
ReplyDeleteHey, we are here to hand out your money and buy your silence - through the Coastal Villages Permanent Fund Final Solution. We lose money on Salmon - how many generations is it going to take to get that through your thick skulls...
Last fall Team Pollock had an excess of chinook bycatch saved up in the "savings" bank so they dispatched the harvest to the northwest Bering Sea to target the juvenile pollock, since their quota had not been filled with adult pollock. Only drawback was the 2 to 3 year old chinook salmon, about 12,000, feeding on them also.
Hey, great management for Coastal Villages - let's target juvenile pollock at the end the season to pad the bottom line and make sure we use up our chinook savings in the process...
You know you have entered the twilight zone when you start padding you bottom line on juveniles...
Good thing they are fish, not humans.
Let Morgan Crow come to the upper Yukon or down to the Kenai - he will be eating crow pretty fast.
ReplyDeleteBut he will hide in Anchorage in his million dollar mansion.
Maybe he can buy our Yukon nets and the Kenai set netters new gear - and then make all of us take the Pollock Provides Pledge.
Maybe AFN this year we can get some good smoked Pollock.
Everyone will be asking - Got Pollock?
Got something in your eyes blogger 7/30 @ 1:30 PM or is it your middle school, junior high drama queen reaction to serious adult conversations about serious topics?
ReplyDeleteHere is a new game for you -
'Pollock, Pollock, who's got the Pollock?'! I could imagine your eyes rolling all the way up and accidently getting stuck there then you'd be easy to identify in public.
You should know not to mock people who are losing their livelihood just so a handful of men can make money on pollock while destroying thousands of peoples culture and tradition. It's bad karma.
[rolleyes]
ReplyDeleteFor those interested in following COOK INLET issues, it sounds like the Board of Fisheries has scheduled another emergency teleconference for Wednesday morning. Sounds like KRSA is asking to prevent the setnet fishery from possibly re-opening.
[rolleyes]
ReplyDelete...and I'm not mocking "people". I'm mocking you, douchebag.
With the Kenai Chinook situation, all we need are fish traps or fish wheels and all kings go up unharmed. Oh I forgot, we became a state because of fish traps.
ReplyDeleteKRSA is asking for a closure of the east side set net fishery in August because there is no harvestable surplus of king salmon to the Kenai River. Between 10 to 16 percent of the king return occurs in August.
ReplyDeleteThrough July 25, sonar shows about 9,000 kings to the Kenai with 75 percent of the run complete, which is about half necessary for escapement.
Statewide, when minimum escapements for kings are not going to be met, fisheries close.
Thanks for thi nice blog and post on fishing an on Carp fishing . I have been doing Carp fishing from my childhood. I do enjoy it still now. Thanks again for this post.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that the Kenai escapement managers are doing a professional job. Not as many illiterate and ignorant people to fool down that way. And, they don't have a CDQ program to get in the way of their important jobs.
ReplyDeleteI'm one of the "people" you are mocking. And, no thank you, you can keep your name to yourself.
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