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- I'm a journalist covering Alaska's commercial fishing industry. My real name is Wesley Loy. Reach me at wloy61@gmail.com.
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Here's a press release from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=pressreleases.pr&release=2021_03_10
Hi Wesley.
This is your old buddy Matt. Thanks for keeping Alaska's fishing fleets so well informed.
The Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) says they are suing to protect Puget Sound king salmon. Few, if any, of these salmon come as far north as Southeast Alaska. WFC further says that by protecting these salmon they're protecting threatened Puget Sound Killer Whales (SRKW). These SRKW are rarely (if ever) seen in Southeast Alaska (SEAK). The real problem for SRKW is their diet. Puget Sound SRKW eat the local PCB polluted king salmon. It is recommended that humans eat no more than one pound of these fish a month. The WFC claims the whales eat up to 300 pounds a day. This polluted diet helps make these Orcas the most PCB poisoned marine mammals on earth. It is know that PCBs interfere with reproduction and that mammals store PCBs in fat. Killer Whale milk is 40% fat. Puget Sound's nursing Killer Whales are poisoning their own young.
The Seattle/Vancouver area is the fastest growing metropolis in North America. Besides the pollution, urbanization, harassment from commercial whale watching, noise, and habitat loss are all reasons for declines of these Killer Whales. A hook and line fishery a thousand miles away is not. WFC knows this.
Because the WFC's suit is not based on science it must be about something else. That something else appears to be raising money from the folks WFC is so diligently miss-informing.
Matt Donohoe
President ATA
Matt - Do you have any evidence supporting your claim that the lawsuit is nothing more than a money grab? That's a significant claim.
Deckboss; " It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again." John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez ( Written aboard F/V Western Flyer )
First: Contemplate the words of George P. Marsh (1863) as written in Man and Nature. "The object of this present volume is...to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which, on a large scale,interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the organic or inorganic world..."
Second: Take time to thoroughly read a recently (March 3, 2021 ) published report funded by NOAA and NMFS. "Endangered predators and endangered prey: Seasonal diet of Southern Resident killer whales " by M Bradley Hanson Et-al.
From introduction; " Understanding the seasonal diet of wildlife is important for both the conservation of predators and for understanding effects on their prey. Evaluating predator-prey dynamics is particularly important when one, or both, is an endangered or at risk species...Management efforts to support adequate prey abundance for an at-risk predator becomes even more complex when their preferred prey are also commercially exploited..."
In other words, a more in-depth look at Chinook Salmon and Killer whales.
Third: Get your 2021 copy from ( ADFG ) of " Hatchery contributions to the winter troll fishery" Just wondering? , " Does it make any sense to be intercepting Chinook salmon which are bound for rivers outside Alaska ? I understand, it's not all that simple to find an equitable solution for all parties involved so don't get your knickers twisted into a Gnarly Knot...! Just wondering...? Doug Hatfield
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