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World Fishing News
by Max Ledbetter
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb178134.htm
(PRWEB) November 15, 2004 -- In British Columbia, Canada, salmon purse seiners line up at fishing access points, forming well defined queues. These queues were measured over time, using a one-dimensional recording scale. Sixty-one overflights of Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait were attempted; 51 flights were completed.
Two models were presented for exploitation rates in relation to queuing patterns. The overflight model was fit to the line-up distributions. One underlying assumption was that the skippers possessed fairly accurate information regarding the distribution of catches (analysis of variance methods utilizing skippers' logbook data showed that line-up lengths reflected catch rates). The model fit well and the parameter estimates reflected anecdotal and statistical information about fish behavior. The exploitation rates saturated at an effort level of 100 vessels (whereas the maximum effort observed was 363 boats) and indicated that (at saturation) the fleet caught 80% to 90% of the vulnerable migrating salmon present in Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits during what were commonly 48- or 72-hour fishing openings. (Note: Salmon successfully migrating through the strait on days that were closed to seiners and salmon that were not vulnerable to the gear--e.g., below the depth of the nets--escaped the purse-seine fleet.)
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Citing declining numbers of salmon and low prices, Governor seeks federal aid by comparing Alaska's fishing industry to Midwest farming
By Mike Chambers
Associated Press - Aug. 27, 2001
JUNEAU, Alaska - Gov. Tony Knowles declared western Alaska's commercial fishing sector an economic disaster on Friday, Aug. 24, [2001] a step toward seeking federal aid for the beleaguered industry.
Islanders argue inshore fishery has no room for huge N.B. seiners
The Guardian, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 13 Nov. 2001 (and reprinted by thefishingnews.com News Wire message board, http://www.thefishingnews.com/cgi-bin/news_wire.pl)
There is no room for large New Brunswick herring seiners to fish in an inshore Island zone, P.E.I. Fishermen's Association president Donnie Strongman says.
Smugglers are using tuna boats to transport cocaine
by Dick Russell
Defenders of Wildlife - Summer 2002 edition, http://www.defenders.org/defendersmag/issues/summer02/tunadolphin.html (also see http://www.eurocbc.org/page820.html and http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_Global_Economy/tuna_drugs_ Mexico.html)
Organized Crime and Dolphin Safety
by Paul Spong of Orcalab and Ben White of Animal Welfare Institute
ECO, the daily summary and commentary sheet of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), IWC ECO'99 Vol. LI No.4 stories, http://www.greenpeacefoundation.com/news/eco4.html#crime
The dirty secret behind the massacre of dolphins by tuna fishermen in the eastern tropical Pacific is that organized crime syndicates own virtually all of the tuna fleets and canneries in Latin America-- and use these companies to smuggle cocaine and heroin throughout the world and to launder narco-profits.
JAPAN CONCERNED ABOUT INCREASED FISHING VESSEL SIZE
Fiji Government Online, 7 May 2003, http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2003_05/2003_05_07-03.shtml
Japan is very concerned about the continued construction of larger fishing vessels and accused developing fishing nations of navigating around laws to exploit the fish resources of already vulnerable developing and near bankrupt Pacific Island economies.
Ban Use Of Purse Seine Fishing Boats, Fiji Says
'This type of fishing is killing marine life'
by Robert Keith-Reid
Islands Business, August 2003, http://www.pacificislands.cc
Cape Cod tuna fishermen angered by bigger boat's pricey fish haul
The Boston Globe, 7 October 2003, http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2003/10/07/ cape_cod_tuna_fishermen_angered_by_bigger_boats_pricey_fish_haul/
Last week, the North Queen, an 84-foot purse seiner based in New Bedford, was guided to a school of tuna by a spotter plane flying overhead. It scooped up the fish within sight of local fishermen in smaller boats.
U.S. launches aerial surveillance of border
by Jane Armstrong
Globe and Mail, 21 August 2004, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/ RTGAM.20040820.wxbord0821/BNStory/National/
Bellingham, Wash. -- The Blackhawk helicopter hovered over the Pacific Ocean, its pilot pointing out the coves and bays preferred by drug dealers when they bring their wares from Canada.
Another Group at High Risk for HIV
by Edward H. Allison and Janet A. Seeley
Science, Vol 305, Issue 5687, 1104, 20 August 2004
Fishermen and other seafarers (and their casual and long-term sexual partners) . . . are thought to be among the groups with highest [AIDS] prevalence rates of any occupational group other than commercial sex workers.
AIDS in fishing communities: a serious problem, frequently overlooked
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAONewsroom, 3 March 2005, http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/100061/index.html
Rome -- It was in a fishing village on the Ugandan shores of Lake Victoria in 1982 that a new and terrible disease [AIDS] began to affect large numbers of people in Central Africa. At the time, the illness was known only as "Slim," due to the wasting affect it had on its victims' bodies. . . .