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 Jan
13: Unfortunately I cannot go to the trawlgate workshop
scheduled for the 14th and 15th. I sent
comments.
Jan
3: Finally some news on the schedule of peer review and on the
terms of reference for review. See the following three pdf
files.
1: Letter from
DOJ, 2:
Peer Review Process, and 3.
Terms of Reference (otherwise
known as what they are supposed to do).
Dec
16: Trawlgate
workshop
scheduled
Dec
10: Now available - the data from the
Side by Side Tows. And, some
comments and charts
from me.
Also it seems that early records of the trawl
survey gear are hard to come by. If you have pictures or
drawings of the survey gear - in particular the roller frame, please
let me know bds@bdssr.com.
Dec
5: Most of the papers had something today.
I am having serious problems and do not seem to be able to get this
thing to work to put them up.
Dec
4: I have heard from two sources that the
Judge granted the 9 month delay. She signed the proposed order
provided by NMFS and plaintiffs and did not comment further.
Nov 25:
Round three of here an extension, there an extension, etc.
NMFS responds to round two.
Plus a declaration from Pat
Kurkul.
And more from the plaintiffs. Three this
time: Cover Letter,
Reply, and
Exhibits.
Nov 21: And another filing, this time from the Northeast Seafood
Coalition, in three parts: 1
letter, 2
memorandum, and 3 proposed
order
Nov 20: I arrived at my desk this morning to find this very
interesting snippet from
AFSC Processed Report 2001-03 Retrospective Analysis of Suspiciously
Small Catches in the National Marine Fisheries Service West Coast
Triennial Bottom Trawl Survey. I do not have the full report.
Nov 19: The Trawler Survival Fund
and
Associated Fisheries of Maine as well as the State
Director coalition
have filed responses to the NMFS and plaintiff court filing of
November 6th
Nov 14: The New England Fishery Management Council has sent its
letter to the court. Peruse at
your leisure. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read this
file.
Nov 11: On the left at the bottom under commentaries is an
editorial from the Portland Press Herald. I am amazed how
everything is continually the industry's fault.
Nov 7: The New England Fishery Management Council has voted
to ask Judge Gladys Kessler for at least a one year delay - from
August 2003 to August 2004 - of implementation of Amendment 13.
More details tomorrow.
Nov 6: NMFS and the environmentalist organizations involved
in the Framework 33 lawsuit are asking for a 9 month delay in
implementing Amendment 13, from August 2003 to May 2004. But
the states and the fishing community agree that's not good enough -
see the November 6 links at left.
Nov 4: Here it is after 8 at night and I am trying to get
out of the office to go home and pack for the Council meeting.
I check my email for the last time and find the two gems below.
I mention this because this website is dependent on all of the
people who send me tidbits.. Both of these are really good and
different voices to boot.
Menakhem Ben-Yami has forwarded his December
column for World Fishing so that we can
utilize it now! If you enjoy or learn from the article, please buy
the paper in appreciation.
Walley Pereyra gives us
some good historical insight. Nils Stolpe Garden State
Seafood Association/FishNet USA forwarded it.
Nov 1: NOAA does have a sense of
humor,
or perhaps they are practicing for their new assignment.
Direct quote from Fishnews - published by NOAA:
"They also conducted analyses to determine how much
assessment advice would change if survey catches for the years in
question were larger. These tests resulted in virtually no change in
management advice for groundfish."
Now I realize it is late on Friday
afternoon, but that says to me they don't care how many fish are in
the ocean... or am I reading it wrong?
Trawlers Survival Fund and Associated Fisheries of Maine
attempting to put some degree of sanity into the current situation
comment to Lautenbacher and Hogarth on
the
GARM and other issues
Oct 31: Click here for history of
trawlgate prior to Nov.
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