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A WEEKLY QUOTA OF FISHERY SHORTS CAUGHT AND
LANDED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES
AND THE PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S
ASSOCIATIONS
VOL. 4, NO. 23 7 DECEMBER 2001
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NMFS TO SPONSOR SYMPOSIUM ON EFFECTS OF
FISHING ON HABITATS: The National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) has announced it will sponsor a national "Symposium on
Effects of Fishing on Benthic Habitats" scheduled for 12-14 November
2002 in Tampa, Florida. According to NMFS, "The goal of the
symposium is to help ensure sustainable fisheries and healthy, diverse
ecosystems by advancing the scientific knowledge available to resource
managers to evaluate and appropriately manage fishing activities that
affect benthic habitat." A call for abstracts and papers will be issued this
month. For information on sessions and registration, go to:
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/bh2002/.
Those wishing to be added to the symposium mailing list and receive
additional conference information, as it becomes available, should
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
RUSSIAN FISHERMEN APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE IN
FIGHTING 'FISH MAFIA' AND RUSSIAN FISH AGENCY
CORRUPTION: The Russian-English publication Tikhookeansky
Vestnick (Northern Pacific) Magazine, the only voice of commercial
fishermen and fishing dependent communities in the Russian Far East, is
appealing worldwide for sponsors and subscribers to its publication and
to help support its ongoing efforts to rid their fisheries of rampant
government corruption and mismanagement, and to combat the
'sweetheart deals' quota system manipulated by what they call the 'Fish
Mafia' that largely still controls the Russian fisheries quota allocation
system. The magazine's repeated exposures since its beginning in
January 2000 of cozy government-factory trawler allocation deals that
have cut local Russian fishermen off from access to their own fisheries
in favor of giant foreign-owned factory trawlers have earned it a
worldwide reputation as a protector of fishing dependent communities in
Kamchatka and throughout the Russian Far East.
Fishermen in the Russian Far East are currently fighting against the
selling off of Russia's continental shelf oil and gas reserves within
vitally
important fisheries areas that, if those developments proceed, are likely
to wipe out a major seafood source for the region (see Sublegals,
4:10/10). The magazine is on line in both English and Russian at:
http://npacific.kamchatka.ru. Donations to their work can be made to the
Charitable Public Fund of Bioresources Conservation of the Northern
Pacific (fund "Northern Pacific"). Since sending funds to Russia is
particularly difficult, before doing so you should contact Sergei
Vakhryn, Editor, for instructions by way of email at:
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SOCIOECONOMICS SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR
PAPERS: The Socioeconomics Section of the American Fisheries
Society (AFS) has announced a special symposium proposed for the
132nd AFS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, 18-22 August
2002. The title of this symposium is "Fisheries and Aquatic Habitat
Management: Socioeconomic Aspects." Persons interested in presenting
a paper should send the following information by 13 December to Ray
Rhodes at: [log in to unmask]: (1) Author Name(s); (2)
Contact Information (email, mailing address, and telephone); and (3)
Presentation title. For additional information regarding the 2002 AFS
Annual Meeting, visit the Internet site for this meeting at:
http://www.fisheries.org/annual2002/.
100TH ISSUE OF SUBLEGALS; NEW WEBSITE AND
PLEDGE DRIVE: This Sublegals marks the 100th issue since PCFFA
and IFR jointly began it as a weekly Internet newsletter in January 2000.
It was designed as a replacement for PCFFA's decades old newsletter,
Friday, providing a less expensive and more timely means of getting
information out to subscribers. It has been a labor of love (sometimes
late) for the two organizations; it currently receives no advertising
revenue, grant funds, nor subscription fees. With the next issue, we are
starting a 'pledge drive' (ala public television and public radio) for the
last two weeks of December and first two weeks of January with lots of
great gifts (with our famous 'sarcastic fringehead' logo) for readers
willing to pledge small donations. The next issue also marks the
opening of Sublegals' very own website with printable current and past
issues and, eventually, an index of all issues and a calendar. The new
website is: www.sublegals.net.
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