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At 10:31 30/01/01 +0700, you wrote:
>NMFS releases huge Alaska groundfish environmental analysis
>http://www.fis.com/fis/hotnews/
>Monday, January 29, 2001
>By Wesley Loy -- FIS News
>
>
>An encyclopedic analysis of groundfish management in the Bering Sea,
>Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska has been released by the federal
>government, opening a 90-day window for public comment.
>The huge Draft Programmatic Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
>(SEIS) is more than 3,000 pages long.
>
>The document is required under a federal law, the National Environmental
>Policy Act.That act requires a broad analysis of the impact of any major
>federal action, such as a fishery management plan, on the environment.
>
>Environmental groups including Greenpeace claimed in a lawsuit that the
>National Marine Fisheries Service had long neglected its duty to produce a
>proper SEIS. That argument found considerable agreement from a federal judge.
>
>The prevailing wisdom in the fishing industry, however, is that the new
>document might need to be rewritten almost immediately. The reason is
>because the groundfish fisheries are changing significantly this year due
>to another federal document, a "biological opinion" of the possibly
>harmful effects of pollock, cod and Atka mackerel harvests on the
>endangered Steller sea lion.
>
>The SEIS is not expected to have much practical meaning for fishing fleets
>as the BiOp. Still, the fisheries were imperiled by NMFS´ failure to write
>an SEIS, and to do it properly.
>
>"With this large-scale examination of our groundfish fishery management
>plans and their potential effects on the ecosystem, we have an excellent
>baseline for considering changes to management policy and potential
>management actions for groundfish fisheries off Alaska," said Jim
>Balsiger, Alaska region administrator for NMFS.
>
>The analysis examines current and hypothetical fishery management regimes
>and studies issues like the impact of fishing on marine mammals and
>seabirds; the effects of fishing gear on the seabed; excess fishing and
>processing capacity; the effects of fish harvests on the North Pacific
>marine ecosystem; bycatch and waste; data gathering and enforcement;
>economic stability for fishing communities; and the cumulative effects of
>the groundfish fisheries.
>
>NMFS is responsible for fisheries research and management in the federal
>waters of the United States.
>
>Public hearings will be held around Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. To
>see the SEIS and learn how to comment on it by 26 April, visit
>www.fakr.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/seis/intro.htm.
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