If you are a fisher and depend on the oceans to make a living, shouldn't you support the EPA efforts to maintain water quality. Think about a three acre waste pile, many feet deep, in your back yard. Trident knew the specifics of their permit and violated them. The fine fits the crime. As a serial violator, Trident is lucky it wasn't substantially bigger.
I'm sure the EPA spent three time the amount of the fine investigating and prosecuting the crime. For what? a pile of fish waste smaller than a football field in the middle of nowhere. That "historic waste pile" had negligible impact on the area.
As a fisher I'm more concerned with having to be constantly hassled, fee'd, and taxed by government agencies. AK troopers, Coast Guard, aquaculture fee, city fish landing tax, NMFS, IPHC, AK fish and Game, enhancement fees, observer program, observer fees, federal tax, sales tax, state tax... the list goes on and on.
5:52, I doubt the residents of Sand Point appreciate being described as "the middle of no where". It is a fishing town, a nice community, and the largest town between Kodiak and Dutch Harbor.
Did you know that fish waste piles can "burp" methane gas? Now how would you like that in your back yard? That is one of the reasons the EPA sets limits on the size of the waste pile. These limits are known to the cannery and if violated need to be cleaned up. You don't want to inhale too much methane.
10:12 I have no problem paying for good management. The problem is we aren't getting good management. Salmon is over capitalized, the crab fisheries are dying, halibut is on the way out, they over fished cod in the gulf, the trawl fisheries are unsustainable. Every other post on this blog seems to be about some dysfunction in the fishing agencies. I am not selfish, I believe we need a more efficient and functional management scheme. I hope my kids can make a living fishing if they choose. In its current form the Alaska fisheries will turn into what they have on the East Coast or Europe.
"the historic waste pile exceeds the allowable one-acre limit" the EPA is a historic waste pile!!!
ReplyDelete1 acre of waste!?!?.........big deal, nothing compared to the potential of Pebble Mine
ReplyDeleteIf you are a fisher and depend on the oceans to make a living, shouldn't you support the EPA efforts to maintain water quality. Think about a three acre waste pile, many feet deep, in your back yard. Trident knew the specifics of their permit and violated them. The fine fits the crime. As a serial violator, Trident is lucky it wasn't substantially bigger.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the EPA spent three time the amount of the fine investigating and prosecuting the crime. For what? a pile of fish waste smaller than a football field in the middle of nowhere. That "historic waste pile" had negligible impact on the area.
ReplyDeleteAs a fisher I'm more concerned with having to be constantly hassled, fee'd, and taxed by government agencies. AK troopers, Coast Guard, aquaculture fee, city fish landing tax, NMFS, IPHC, AK fish and Game, enhancement fees, observer program, observer fees, federal tax, sales tax, state tax... the list goes on and on.
^^ selfish crybaby. good management costs money.
ReplyDelete5:52, I doubt the residents of Sand Point appreciate being described as "the middle of no where". It is a fishing town, a nice community, and the largest town between Kodiak and Dutch Harbor.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that fish waste piles can "burp" methane gas? Now how would you like that in your back yard? That is one of the reasons the EPA sets limits on the size of the waste pile. These limits are known to the cannery and if violated need to be cleaned up. You don't want to inhale too much methane.
10:12 I have no problem paying for good management. The problem is we aren't getting good management. Salmon is over capitalized, the crab fisheries are dying, halibut is on the way out, they over fished cod in the gulf, the trawl fisheries are unsustainable. Every other post on this blog seems to be about some dysfunction in the fishing agencies. I am not selfish, I believe we need a more efficient and functional management scheme. I hope my kids can make a living fishing if they choose. In its current form the Alaska fisheries will turn into what they have on the East Coast or Europe.
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