“Julie Bonney (Alaska Groundfish Data Bank) is the Kodiak Fisheries Advisory Board representative for the 5 large closed-class processors currently suing the SOC/NOAA/NMFS on the Rockfish Amdt. 88 in hopes of restoring the Rockfish Pilot Program. She also manages the Big-5 cooperatives that were linked to those processors under the Rockfish Pilot Program. This is not an appropriate time to appoint what could be a key player in the lawsuit’s discovery to NOAA’s MAFAC. What was going through the mind of the Secretary of Commerce?”
So it becomes blatantly clear that NOAA intends to give the Gulf of Alaska to the highest impact, most wasteful fishing group, the trawlers. As we have watched the NPFMC process in the past and seen clearly that Julie Bonnie and her merry band of draggers have repeated turned aside attempts to make the Gulf of Alaska a sustainable place for fishermen of all stripes by assuring that bycatch is credibly controlled, and resources are fairly distributed. That NOAA would select such a completely biased person to serve on this group is a slap in the face to those who would prevent a complete give away of the Gulf of Alaska groundfish resources to the dirtiest gear group, comprised of something less than 40 vessels. Outrageous. But not a big surprise, as we have warned before. NOAA is in bed with the draggers and the process industry to the detriment of us all.
Keep yer flippers thawed,
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This is the worst thing that could have happened, as the rest of the fishermen in the GOA (besides a drag-fag) are marginalized by a this rogue appointment. All I can think of is that Glenn Merrill of the NMFS in Juneau helped get Julie Bonney installed on the MAFAC advisory group and she is biased and represents only trawlers and processors and with these biased she should not be sitting on this committee. The SOC should ask her to step down, as this was an appointment that was made by NMFS that does not have the best interest of all fishermen in the GOA. This is war now, and we prefer to use the laws and right as an American versus special appointments that grant special privileges.
The death blow is coming quickly. This common street walker has done more to line the pockets of her pimps then anyone involved with lobbying efforts at the NPFMC level. She now takes her book of Kama Sutra moves to the national level. What the hell are you thinking mister secretary?
Using your own bias you give a laughable assessment of this appointment (as does the previous commenter). It's an appointment to a committee at the Federal level. Its about setting National policy. Its not about establishing winners and losers in Alaska. Its not about fixed-pie issues, such as allocation or bycatch that takes from user and gives to another in Alaska. You have to put aside your within Alaska bias and think at the right level here. You want a person representing the Alaska region at the national level who is knowledgeable and effective. This committee is not going to get down to establishing winners and losers at the Alaska or Kodiak level. Almost anyone appointed from any region is going to be biased in terms of that region, which is what you want. Which is what we all want. They key is if that person is going to be effective. Mrs. Bonney fits that description to a T, as you allude to here and have alluded to in the past. You might not like the trawlers within Alaska, but you should like, or at least be ok with, this appointment in terms of representing Alaska outside Alaska.
The national policy right now is catch shares. Obviously she represents the processors and 40 boats. How can anything she does be in the best interest of every Alaskan stakeholder if she works for a select group of individuals?
This is not good for Kodiak or AK as a whole. Julie represents a few AK boat owners but mostly foreign and out of state corps and trawler owners.
She represents continued bycatch abuse and NO improvements. Cheap labor and getting as much product out of here as cheaply as possible.
I can't figure out why the state and the borough don't realize that the interests she represents are opposed to theirs 90% of the time.
How about taking this to the topmost level where Julie B. represents 5 closed-class processors who by and large practice Abusive Transfer Pricing that creates hundreds of millions of dollars of annual lost revenues on the USA side, and this being a Secretary of Commerce appointment. What lack of information is it that the SOC was not informed properly about before placing a Foreign Agent of Influence, a Racketeer Influencer, and this Quisling in a position of such national stature?
Sedition used to be punished as a crime in this country, but since the USA is so busy selling itself to foreign nations, operating in deficits and violating WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and UN Human amd Civil Rights by granting processor quotas etc. and linking to the coops of fleets that Bonney also represents, well ... what does this say about the failure of the Executive branch? Economic Treason scorching entire industries is more important today than singular acts, and we must stop this outright and deliberate economic terrorism and jail those participating. We say give Julie a home in Quantanamo Bay.
Whats the news on the bycatch lately? Are they out there smashing on some halibut? Still making observer trips?
Sounds like they've been out doing the usual. Smashing on halibut and doing the observer games. Won't hear a word about it anywhere. If a tree falls in the woods and noone hears it does it make a sound?
scrapping the blogging effort?
Srapping:
What the hell do you know about it?
Earning a livng. What the hell do you do?
Wiggie
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