Week ending October 8, 2011 makes last week's halibut PSC look like a warmup. Interestingly, the percentage rate of halibut prohibited species catch (PSC) has diminished, while the actual PSC of halibut has soared to over three times last week's PSC. Abstrusive statistics are part and parcel of NMFS's 'public process' and 'openness.' But the occultive practices fail to conceal that pelagic trawling is used on the bottom to catch pollock and the Chinook which feed with them. Trawl slaughter of Chinook takes a sharp upswing, at 2445 fish wasted.
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Source:http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/2011/pscinfo.htm |
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9 comments:
What are you going to blog about after they shut it down this week?
How this race to get all of the PSC halibut caught is a strategem to convince the NPFMC that the draggers need all their PSC to prosecute their fisheries. So this is a ploy. Time will tell whether the Council will fall for it. Don't worry. There is plenty to do, plenty to say.
Sounds like a conspiracy. These numbers, though there were few observed boats, are reflective of what typically takes place year round. Catch volume this week for Cod and Arrowtooth was not greatly increased,there was just very high bycatch rates. Whether it's the result of reverse observer gaming or failure at gaming is irrelevant to the fact that all year the gaming has taken place and resulted in many millions of pounds being wasted unrecorded.
Will processors be getting a tax break for bycatch donations under HR 3142?
"Time will tell whether the Council will fall for it".
lol.....the council are the ones who probably devised the plan.
hen house-fox scenario.
Why hasn't there been any mention of the shore based processors who subsidize dirty fishing by buying fish from boats with high halibut by-catch rates? Why aren't demonstrations taking place down on cannery row?
627 tons landed by the shore based catcher vessels in area 630 and only 9 observed tows from 1 boat to base the by-catch data on. Sounds real accurate.
The volume of Arrowtooth and Cod landed for the week were similar, in the thousands of tons. The observer coverage for the fisheries were starkly contrasted though. 1 shore based boat for Arrowtooth and quite a few for Cod. Why such a huge difference? Because the Cod season is limited in days boats MUST make use of their observed days to catch fish. Not so with the arrowtooth fishery which will only close when the Bycatch cap is met. Just wait til the next data set and you will see them game their arrowtooth coverage.
Just read Julie's latest Data Bank bullshit....Is it true that RPP halibut will roll into bottom fish directed fishery??? Is RPP halibut in addition to 2200mt trawl alreadt destroys?
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