that is not true. ask him about the fleet american seafoods has in the south east alaska doing the salmon. you can call n.m.f.s and ask them about the by catch policy. When i was on the F/T elizeth ann and the F/T US Enterprise we were told to
dump all by catch including salmon, halibut, black cod and ling cod. although our by catch was small in comaprison to the regulated catch it still was tons of fish wasted.
We even offered to pack the fish for north west harvest and was allowed to but when we got to seattle the people from north west harvest did not want it, we ended up throwing away over 20 tons of packed salmon and halibut. we could not keep it, if we tried we would have lost our licese to fish, or a large penalty. so it all went into the dumpster at piere 91.
Ask the salmon fisherman at ballard terminal and they will tell you who is being wasteful
with all the fish in alaska, they will say trawlers, especially american seafoods.
I dont have a copy at hand but will get one soon and scan it in, but the policy in the employees manual is that we do not take any video taping on the boats due to sensitive issues is what it says. it really is saying wow we dont want any one else to see what were doing. I do have a video taken in 1992 with all the fish we were dumping, and i would be glad to show it to slade gorton.
Ask all the natives from dutch harbor to dillingham down to lower south east alaska and ask them about the deal they got from our state reps including S Gorton.
I challenge him any day, to argue with me about waste among factory trawlers.
I know who is wasting and who isnt. any fisherman on a Factory trawler can tell you. as long as they can keep there annomity.
we are afaraid to lose our jobs.
But do what the office says or else pack your bags.
and its hard when you have a house payments and other bills.
N.M.F.S.(national marine fisheries service) does to a good job overlooking whats going on but not on all boats and in all cases. they have there problems too. they send up greenhorns that get sea sick and never come out of there rooms to check our bags for by catch, i know our boat had one of these just this last "A" season.
Im not here to say im right and hes wrong but i am telling the facts, im on these ships.
Mr Gorton isnt. Ask him about the russians too. how dome they fish with out quotas and the ones that do dont keep there contract.
I would like to see gorton on deck on my ship and see the waste and then tell me that n.m.f.s. is doing a good job.