Daily Archives: September 10, 2012

Industry silenced locals on coastal planning- “onslaught of massive, unplanned development from federal Outer Continental Shelf oil leasing” By LISA WEISSLER

September 10, 2012   Uncategorized

In developing Alaska’s coastal management program, it soon became clear that coastal communities wanted an effective voice in decisions that could affect their livelihood and quality of life. They wanted a program that would accommodate the great variation in Alaska’s coastal resources and uses.  They wanted local control.     Read more

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/09/07/2617169/industry-silenced-locals-on-coastal.html#storylink=cpy
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Kodiak memorial held for lost fisherman

September 10, 2012   Uncategorized

KODIAK, Alaska – As mourners prepared to release balloons into the air above  Kodiak on Wednesday, the clouds parted and the rain stopped. Then, incredibly, a  rainbow appeared.
It was a perfect ending to the memorial service for  Jaime Gallegos, 31, who disappeared at sea after the fishing vessel Advantage  sank on Friday. Three other men were rescued from the Advantage, but one, boat  captain Leif Bolan, died after the rescue. The family of Leif Bolan announced  that a memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in St. James the  Fisherman Episcopal Church in Kodiak..
Read more:  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Kodiak memorial held for lost fisherman

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Letter: Fishery ‘disaster’ rooted in basic greed Gloucester Daily Times

September 10, 2012   Uncategorized

To the editor:   All that’s happening in the world of fisheries politics can be traced back to one thing: the epic failure on the part of managers and fishery leaders. This is not a resource disaster. This mess was created by fishery management gone awry — brought on by greed-driven Eco frauds and their strictly for-profit attorneys. None of this would have developed without the cash handouts to a handful of questionable fishermen down on Cape Cod. Then, after that first resource grab was seen to be successful, the dollars signs glazed over other greed-driven industry participants.

The whole failure of the cash share scheme was total disregard for the resource. It’s hard to believe that groups like the Environmental Defense Fund, in its blind quest for corporate donor cash and control of the ocean, gave barely more than lip service for the fish, and nothing at all for the families that fish. And the industry thugs who supported catch shares had nothing to say about the in restricted access that catch shares allow.

Look at all the lead players who championed this catch-share scam — so many having taken the money and run, knowing full well how fast this house of cards would collapse, and that’s especially the big names from the Cape. Former Council head and Cape Cod hookers’ CEO Papalardo and others all grabbe the money under the pretense of being fishermen, but did little or no fishing then — and do practically none at all now. They’re just rolling in the green leasing quota created by the latest green scam known as cash shares. What a joke!

So now the guys who took the money got exactly what they asked for — and not opposing cash shares is a coward’s way of silently supporting them. One can only wonder how much cash it will take to satisfy the need for greed from the so-called fishery “leaders,” throwing their fellow fishermen under the bus. Now, they’re part of a commercial with Scott Brown asking for more because of the faure of a plan that they embraced.

The solution is simple: Go back to days at sea . Eliminate the agency and the management process that brought use here.

That will save millions of dollars, millions of fish — and countless working families who can no longer depend on work simply because they are prohibited by federal regulations from supporting their families the way they know best.

DAVE MARCIANO

Gloucester

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Fed probe of NOAA rules due in November – By Richard Gaines GloucesterTimes.com

September 10, 2012   Uncategorized

The U.S. Commerce Department’s inspector general expects to make public in November a procedural review of how NOAA and its regional fishery management councils make rules governing the fishing industry. 

The review of procedures that go into the setting rules and regulations for fisheries was undertaken in January at the request of Congressmen John Tierney and Barney Frank, and amid concerns that non-governmental environmental organizations were given undue influence over fisheries mandates and limits.

“Our review of fishery management councils and rulemaking will be conducted in phases and result in interim reports produced at several intervals,” said Ann C. Eilers, the principal assistant inspector general for audit and evaluation, in a release dated Jan. 10. “In this phase of the review, we will evaluate the role of NOAA and the fishery management councils in the fishery rulemaking process and the transparency of the rulemaking process.”

”We are anticipating having a report ready for the public in November,” Clark Reed, spokesman for the inspector general, said Friday in a telephone interview.

The impetus for the request by Tierney and Frank, they said in a letter to Inspector General Todd Zinser dated Aug. 17, 2011, was the “high degree of mistrust” that existed in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its subsidiary agencies by the fishing industry. Read more http://www.gloucestertimes.com/topstories/x1709876008/Fed-probe-of-NOAA-rules-due-in-November

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