[env-trinity] CBB: COMMERCE SECRETARY DECLARES FISHERIES FAILURES FOR NINE WEST COAST SALMON, CRAB FISHERIES

[Sari Sommarstrom]

Columbia Basin Bulletin

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Commerce Secretary Declares Fisheries Failures For Nine West Coast Salmon,
Crab Fisheries 
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2017 (PST) 


U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Wednesday determined there are
commercial fishery failures for nine salmon and crab fisheries in Alaska,
California and Washington.  

 

In recent years, each of these fisheries experienced sudden and unexpected
large decreases in fish stock biomass due to unusual ocean and climate
conditions. This decision enables fishing communities to seek disaster
relief assistance from Congress.

 

In Alaska:

--Gulf of Alaska pink salmon fisheries (2016)

 

In California:

--California Dungeness and rock crab fishery (2015-2016)

--Yurok Tribe Klamath River chinook salmon fishery (2016)

 

In Washington:

--Fraser River Makah Tribe and Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe sockeye salmon
fisheries (2014)

--Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay non-treaty coho salmon fishery (2015)

--Nisqually Indian Tribe, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Port Gamble S'Klallam
Tribe, and Squaxin Island Tribe South Puget Sound salmon fisheries (2015)

--Quinault Indian Nation Grays Harbor and Queets River coho salmon fishery
(2015)

--Quileute Tribe Dungeness crab fishery (2015-2016)

--Ocean salmon troll fishery (2016)

 

"The Commerce Department and NOAA stand with America's fishing communities.
We are proud of the contributions they make to the nation's economy, and we
recognize the sacrifices they are forced to take in times of environmental
hardship," said Samuel D. Rauch III, deputy assistant administrator for
regulatory programs, NOAA Fisheries. "We are committed to helping these
communities recover and achieve success in the future."

 

Under the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, the Commerce Secretary can determine a
commercial fishery failure due to a fishery resource disaster, which then
provides a basis for Congress to appropriate disaster relief funding to
provide economic assistance to affected fishing communities, including
salmon and crab fishermen, affected by the disaster.

 

If Congress appropriates funds to address these fishery failures, NOAA says
it will work closely with members of Congress and affected states and tribes
to develop a spending plan to support activities that would restore the
fishery, prevent a similar failure, and assist affected communities.

 

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