Lite Reading: PacCoast Salmon FPEIS comments

[Pete]

Pacific Coast ­Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Pacific Salmon Fisheries

NOAA Fisheries has released its Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) for Pacific Salmon Fisheries Management off the Coasts of Southeast Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and in the Columbia River Basin. Salmon fishery management is complex, but, in general, NOAA Fisheries seeks to implement fisheries that are consistent with a variety of statutory and legal obligations related to resource conservation, socioeconomic benefits associated with resource use, and treaty Trust obligations. Fishery plans are developed annually within the context of framework plans to meet the year-specific circumstances on the status of stocks affected by the fisheries. This FPEIS evaluates different ways to balance these objectives and different strategies that can be used that may provide better solutions for meeting the obligations and objectives of the respective framework plans. The alternatives considered in this FPEIS are programmatic and designed to provide an overview of management methods and strategies that can be implemented as part of annual planning processes.

The FPEIS is available on-line for public review at: http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/1sustfsh/sal...mon/index.html
Comments must be submitted in writing by Feb. 17, 2004 to: D. Robert Lohn, NOAA Fisheries Northwest Regional Office, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115; fax: 206-526-6426. One copy of your comments should also be sent to: NOAA Office of Strategic Planning (PPI/SP), SSMC3 Rm. 15603, 1315 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910. For more information contact Peter.Dygert@noaa.gov

[SHLEPROCK]

They seem to like alternative 2, all finclipped fishery but what percentage of fall chinook are curently clipped?
Expanding terminal fisheries? Does this mean that there could be terminal fisheries in mouths of most of the major tribs.
Call me simple minded but why don't they just back thier trucks up to the hatchery and load the fish in their trucks after the hatchery has taken thier quota and leave the nets at home. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]