| Robert Alverson | Stephen Joner |
| Kiril Basargin | Donald Lane |
| Linda Behnken | Stephanie Madsen |
| Alfred "Bubba" Cook | Hunter McIntosh |
| Richard Deaver | Henry V.E. Mitchell |
| Kevin Delaney | Richard Yamada |
| James Hubbard |
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The new list of IPHC nominees is out
The National Marine Fisheries Service has announced a new slate of nominees for two U.S. seats on the International Pacific Halibut Commission. Here's the list:
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Hope they pick Jim Hubbard and Linda Behnken.
I concur! You can't go wrong either way. The knowledge these people would bring to the table is priceless.
Pick the "Red Queen" Madsen! Surely there will be NO more commercial halibut....it just interferes with the "big picture"
My vote will always go to whoever accepts the name "bubba"
If you want to wipe out Subsistence,Sport and Commercial Halibut pick Madsen the Drag Queen.
Deckboss, it seems all you do is repeat press releases. How about connecting the dots? Readers might care about how many and who on the list were on the list put forth last year. It might also be newsworthy to mention who is NOT on the list that had been, formerly. Even more interesting is to identify who has been added this time around, and what affiliation or background they have. As it is, you add no value over what NMFS put out in its press release, and just drive your readers to Google. Your blog is sliding away into irrelevancy.
From what I gather on Google:
Former appointees:
Bob Alverson, FVOA, Seattle commercial
Kiril Bazargin, Area 4 IFQ holder, commercial
Linda Behnken, ALFA, SE commercial or conservation (depending on who you ask)
Richard Deaver, Wrangell charter fisherman
Kevin Delaney, Kenai River sport fisherman consultant/biologist from Colorado
New names and affiliations figured out by Google:
Alfred "Bubba" Cook, appears to be affiliated with observers and WWF
James Hubbard, Seward halibut and black cod fisherman, F/V Kruzof
Stephen Joner, affiliated with Makah tribe
Donald Lane, Homer halibut fisherman
Stephanie Madsen, perrennial NPFMC participant, currently represents pollock catcher-processors
Hunter McIntosh, appears to be president of The Boat Company, SE ecotourism charters (also an avid aquaponic gardener!), currently suing NMFS over observer rule because its not protective enough of bycatch
Henry V.E. Mitchell, perennial NPFMC participant, affiliated with Bering Sea Fishermen's Association
Richard Yamada, Auke Bay charter boat guy
Thanks 8:21 AM.
Deckboss doesn't have time for such frivolous lists. It is known already that whoever gets appointed, regardless of their background, will have little valued impact on ANY fishery or NMFS decisions. Look at Deckboss' postings, fishermen are not in agreement with any decisions anymore. The whole of it all points towards less good, more bad. Especially if you make a living from fish.
It'd be better for the American people to put regular people on these boards. Special Interests dominates our countries resources and they always forget about the stakeholders as they play their little games on these commissions.
Just because they are involved in one way or the other doesn't make them good choices.
Yes, of course! Let's pick someone with the largest conflict of interest who will personally benefit most from their decisions and votes. Someone who also represents fishers who will benefit from the same decisions. Let's not try to get someone who has the long term interest in the resource as their first goal. Rather, someone who will have the short term goal of maximizing the harvest what ever the consequences. Let's see who on the list has those qualifications. Hum
The guys with the most invested in IFQ and big boats are more interested in the long term health of the resource than anybody! Charter guys think all they have to do is buy a boat, and a part of this resource should automatically be thiers. Buy some Q's or shut the f#$% up! Yeah, lets get someone on the IHPC that doesn't know a thing about halibut fishing, that makes alot of since.
11:40 AM. My, what an emotional person you are. So if someone has an opinion that is different from yours they should shut the f#$% up! You sound like a very reasonable person whose interest in the resource trumps greed. Or, have I got that backwards. Thank goodness for the charter fleet. What do you think would be the population and tax base of Sitka or Ketchikan, or Seward or Homer without the charter boat fleet? Oh i forgot, they don't know anything about halibut fishing. Please go wash your mouth out with soap and try being civil.
Population and tax base were stable before they showed up. We certainly had fewer problems then.
Is there one single fucking person on this list that isn't a whore to some commercial interest? Either sitright-up commercial (and, yes, that includes sport commercial) or enviro? The simple answser is no.
Still blaming the charter fleet.
Come on now, you boxed them with far lower allocations that their GHL and still you blaming them
. You fucking killed decimated the resource and are laying blame the smallest directed fisher..... You are the problem.
Couldn't just take the blue line and protect the resource.....Just had to kill a few extra....
just wait the worst is yet to come.
last two comments are really weird, must be more false residency folks cus the only sector that chronically exceeded allocation was the charter sector! Not only that, they be on the record, over and over, trying to claim they have priority over every f'n other halibut fisher out there, while for many years, overfishing their own allocation (yes, the GHL).
what do you want? everything? skipper and crew fish were not caught by clients!!! jeeezuz. charter b still the krayzeez
"The guys with the most invested in IFQ" are not worried about those fisheries not in the IFQ category like the King Salmon fishers of the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers in Western Alaska.
The CDQs are not fixing the problem the IFQs created - killing off the salmon in the sea as Bycatch before they return to the rivers to spawn is a crime against humanity.
Quit catching all the fish left with your giant fish wheel and feeding them to your dogs on a 2 foot chain, and you might have a few more.
To 10:37: Your comments have an unfortunate racist overtone. Very wrong and regrettably part of the problem and not the solution.
Just sayin what I saw on TV, whats racist about that? I happen to be from a village in southeast, and when we subsist, we eat it not are dogs!
Jim Hubbard would be my choice. He started fishing black cod on a small wood boat back when you almost couldn't give a black cod away. He has seen the evolution of the fishery and understands it completely. A big reason that I like him is that he is honest to a fault with a very high integrity level. Linda would also be a good choice, but over the years I have personally disagreed with some of her decisions, but she will fight for what she believes in and also has great intergrity.
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