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The Salmon Purse Seine - Competition and Information Among British Columbia Salmon Purse Seiners 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.) 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) "Found hidden in special compartments, under tons of yellowfin tuna, were some 10.5 tons of pure cocaine with a street value of $500 million." 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 "Fiji will press for a complete ban of the use of purse seine fishing boats in the Western and Central Pacific, or at least a minimum number and tighter controls on them." 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/ "Scola is convinced that bluefin tuna imprint on an area, and return year after year. When purse seiners catch a whole school, that memory dies with that group -- and bad tuna years in Cape Cod Bay always followed big catches by the seiner fleet in the years before, he said." 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. . . . Almost 29 million fisherfolk, 84% of the world total, work in Asia (6), with perhaps three or four times that number of dependents, so the high seroprevalence rates observed in fishing communities are likely to be regionally significant." 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. . . ."