NOAA/NMFS Developments

U.S. Urges Japanese Action to Conserve Pacific Salmon Resource The Commerce Department's a-

tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad­ministration has expressed deep con­cern that Japan has not taken any effective action regarding the opera­tions of its high seas gi ll net fishery in 197-+ on what is expected to be one of the lowest run of Bristol Bay (Alaska) sockeye salmon in hist o ry . Cooperative action by the Japanesc is considered im perati ve.

lembers of the U.S. Section of th e I nternat ional orth Pacific Fisheries Commis ion and o thers met in Seattle. Wash .. in February to review th e s itu a­tion in li ght of U .S. concern for th e resource . Those attending includcd

. S. Chairman Elmer E . Rasmuso n. Anch o rage. Alaska: Professor D o na ld L. McKe rnan of the University of Washingto n . Seattle: R o bert W . Schon ­ing . Director of OAA's N a ti o na l

l a rin e Fisheries Service. Washin g­ton . D .C.: Haro ld Z . Hansen . rep re­senting Alaska' Governor Willi am Egan : a nd s taff m e mbe rs of th e Alaska Department of Fish and Game a nd NMFS who provided technica l d a ta.

Mr . Schoning sa id he was keenly di sa ppo inted a t J a pan 's continued failure to respo nd in a m ea nin g ful way to the critical conservation need which he sa id were clea rl y e nunci a ted at a meeting of the full Comm ission in Tokyo last November . INPFC com­prises representati ves of Ca nada. J a­pan . and the United States: a nd o ne of its primary mi ss ions is to ensure the maximum s ustained productivity of the fisher y resources of the o rth Pacific.

T he Bristol Bay sockeye ru n in 1974 is forecast to be about 5 million fish. but the minimum number needed for brood tock to ensure mainten a nce of the resource is about 9.5 mil lion fish. a lmost twice the number expect­ed to be in the run. The United States is now planning a virtual shut­down in the U.S. harvest of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay in 197-+.

The State of Alaska has announced

plans to imposc severe res tricti o ns o n all fi shin g fo r sockeye under it s j uri s­diction. including prohibiting a ny di­rect ed commercial fishe ry in Bristol Bay thi s year with th e po s ibl e excep­tion o f a small fishe ry in T ogia k . a n

a rea a t th e n o rth e rn ed ge of Bris to l Bay . Limited numbe rs of sockeye may be ta ken in cide nt a l to fisheries for other sa lm o n spec ies in th e Bay. but no large runs of a ny spec ies are ex­pected in 197 -+.

In additi o n . in a n unprecedented m ove. th e Alaska Department of Fish and Game has prohibited sport fishing for soc keye a nd s harp ly curtailed th e sockeye subsiste nce ca tc h in the Bay by na tives in 197-+ .

Schoning sa id : "There is ample biological evidence to indicate the urge nt need for strong conserva ti on measures in th e salmon fisheries."

The J apa nese high seas catch of Bristol Bay sockeye sa lm on for the past 18 yea rs has averaged about 2.-+ million fish a yea r. This repre~ents about 22 percent of the to ta l annual harvest of Bri sto l Bay sockeye during th at period. The U nit ed States feels thi s harvest

must be esse nti al l) eliminated In 197-+. Schoning ~a id : " In 197-+ it i~ not a

matter of catch in g a harvestablc sur­plu~ . but onc of possibl) saving from extincti on a critical l) lov. run of thc socl,eye sa lm on resourcc that has been a nd . wi th proper conscrvation mca­sures. can aga in be potentlall) thc larges t in the world ."

Director Schoning said that Ja­pan 's failure so far to take meaningful act ion to save such a valuable resource points out the importancc of thc U.S. fisheries position in th e Lav. of the Sea negotiations . In that forum the U.S. position is that in order to ensure effective management. anadromous species such as sal mon and stcel hcad should be under the jUrisdiction of thc host State (the Statc I n v. ho~c \~ aters spawn i ng takes place) as far offshore as they rangc. Due to the biological characteristic~ of thc~e stocks. the United States fee ls that rational man ­agement can best be accomplished if the stocks are hanested in coastal waters. v. here separate runs can be recognized. instead of in waters far out on the high seas.

NOAA Selects Boston Man as General Counsel The appoin tm en t of William C.

Brewe r . Jr .. a partner in the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow. as Gen­eral Cou nse l of th e Nationa l Oceanic a nd Atmospheric Administrati on. was a nn o unced today b) Dr. Robert M. Whit e. NOAA Administrator.

Brewer

Mr. Brewer brings to the Com­merce Depart­ment 's environ­mental agency a broad background incorporate and international law. and in ed uca ti on. H e v.as gradua ted from Phillips Acad-

emy in 1939. William~ Coll ege in 19-+3 . a nd from H arvard Lav. School in 19-+9 . H e served in the Arm)' 10th

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Mountain Division in 19-+2 and 19-+3: as a cry ptanaly~t in the Signal Security Corps from 19-+3 to 19-+5: and \~as

discharged as a second lieutcnant In 19-+6.

Upon graduation from Han ard Law School. Mr. Brewer became Gen­eral Counsel of the Mutual Boiler and Machiner) Insurance Compan). In 1953 he became a partner In the law 11rm of Peabod). Kou fman and Brewer. which was succeeded by the flrm of H ill and Barlov. in 1965.

Si nce 1968. Mr. Brev.er has scncd as adjunct professor at Boston Col­lege Lav. School. teaching coastal zone managcment and international business lav. . He has served as a dlrcc­tor of several companies. and ha written numerous article~ for legal journals.

He served as chairman of the Man­chester, Mass., Per onnel Board from 1960 to 1963 . and as a selectman in 1963 a nd 1964 . He has been a director and executive committee member of the Beverl y. Mass., H ospital since 1965 .

Mr . Brewer was commodore <:If the Manchester Yacht Club from 1956 to 1967, and rea r commodore of the Cruising C lub of America from 1965

to 1967. H e has been chairman o f th e national membership committ ee of th e

C rui si ng C lub of America since 1969. H e is a n aircraft pil o t.

Mr. Brewer ma rri ed th e formcr An n Wickes in 1948. They have three

ch ildren : Ga le. 22, at Colum bia School of Genera l Studies: Anita , 20, at

Williams Coll ege: a nd Willi am C. III, 17, at Concord Academy.

Commerce Department Awards First Coastal Zone Grants to Oregon, Maine, Rhode Island

Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent av.arded $63 -+ ,5 47 in Federa l grants to Rhode Isla nd . Maine, and Oregon to assis t the states' develop­ment of coastal zone management pro­gram~ on March 14. 1974. The gra nts werc the first to be made by the Na­tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad­mini tration under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, to encour­age effective management. beneficia l usc, protection and develop ment along America's sea coasts and Great Lakes' shores.

The grants include $ 154.415 to Rhode Island, $230.000 to Maine, and $250,132 to Oregon. The individ­ual states are contributin g a matc hing share of the coastal zone management funds v.hlch , b) lav., must amount to one-third of the total program cost.

Large portions of the grant to Rhodc Island's Depa rtment of Admin­Istrl:t ti on v. III support the activities of the state's Coastal Resource M anage­ment CouncIl and the University of Rhode Island Coasta l Resources Cen­ter. Thc state's first year of work under the coastal zo ne g rant will include a resources In\entory , a commcrcial fish­erlcs suney, a sand a nd gravel eJl. trac ­tlon stud). lease fees qructure study. en\lronmental impact guidelines . a SOCloecononllC baselIne data compi la ­tion . shorelIne usc gu idelines, a salt marsh qualIty analy\ls. an energy re­qUlremenh study. a unique natural areas plan. a marine recrcatio n study. .1 nU lega l ,tuules .

In \Ialne. the grant IS a\\arded to

th e Office of State Pl an nin g and will support th e work of th e Departments of Marine Resourccs, Inl and Fish­eries and Game and Conservation in addition to the U ni versi ty of Maine. th e Histo ric Preservation Commission. five Regional Planning Commissions, and the Port land Coun cil of Govern­ments . The first year work program is based upon thrce major program e le­men ts each comprisi ng severa l tasks . The first element. a land a nd water capability ana lysis , includes aeria l ph otogra phy a nd int erpre ta ti o n , a map­ping program in volving resource in­terpretation and atlas maps, natural resource data compilation. socio­economic data ana lys is and planning. plan nin g reports preparation for th e .. Down Eas t" regi on , and a cri ti ca l areas program for southern coastal Maine . The second e le ment in volves studi es of fis her ies and aq uacul ture and characteris ti c biological asse m­blages . and ponds a nd wetlands. It a lso include socioeco no mic data ana lysis. lakc rcsource ana lysis. est u­arine classifica ti on by ph ysica l cha r­acte ristIcs. hydrology. surfici a l a nd bedrock geology data compi lation . a nd a historic a nd a rcheo log ical in ­ventory. The las t work e le ment is a local and rcgional c iti ze ns pa rticipa­tion program which includes a re­sources inventory , alt e rn ativc futures preparati on. a nd a public o pini o n po ll ­ing program .

Admi ni ste red by th e Land Conse r­\ atio n a nd Deve lopment Commiss io n. a major portion o f Orcgon's gra nt

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wi ll support opera ti o ns of the sta te's Coas ta l Conse rvation a nd Develop­me nt Commi ssio n . The yea r 's work program includes the development of a lt e rnative impl e ment a tion programs for th e coastal zo ne ma nage ment plan , a n eva I ua ti o n o f land a nd water use development pressures on coastal natural resources and a s tud y of plan­nin g and regulati o n in the coastal region. Also planned is a se ries o f re­source in ve nt ories covering coastal fish a nd wildlife, estu a ries. lakes a nd streams, floodplains, coasta l shorelands. geo log ica l hazards, a nd upl ands, in­c luding a n analysis of visual assets of th e coas ta l zo ne a nd a study of water-related oppo rtuniti es. Final ele­ments include collection of basic en­viro nmenta l data, th e development of recommendations for a n informati o n storage a nd re tri eva l system . a nd a publ ic i nfo rm a ti on progra m .

Stevenson Heads NMFS Southeastern Region

Willi am H. Stevenson. 4 6. has been named Directo r fo r th e Southeast Regio n of the a ti o nal M arine Fisher­ies Service. a unit of th e Commerce Departme nt's N a ti o nal Oceanic and Atmosphcric Administration. Head ­qua rt ered in St. Pe te rsburg. Fla .. the Southeast Regio n is re po nsible fo r certain Federal fisheries act ivities in 17 Gulf and South Atlantic States plus Puert o Rico a nd the U.S. Virgin Is la nds.

Mr . Stevenson se rved as manager of the MFS South eas t Fishcries Ce nt cr's Fisheries Enginceri ng Lab­orato ry located at Mississippi Test Facilit y. Bay St.

Louis. Miss .. since September 1970. Among hi s most

Stevenson recent cxpe ri cnces

was directing thc fisherics functions of Skylab a ncl Earth Resources Sa tel­litc Techn ology programs . Prior to head in g th e Fisheries ngincering

Laboratory he was Chief o f Explo ra­tory Fishing and Gear Resea rch in Was hington , D .C. Mr . Steven o n succeeds Jack W . Gehringer , wh o was recent ly named Deputy Directo r of NM FS in W ashi ngton , D .C.

A native of Philadelp hia, Pa ., th e new Regi o nal Direct o r is a gradu ate of th e Uni versit y of Del awa re with a bachelo r of a rt s degree in zoology. He has been a Fede ral empl oyee since 1962, a nd e rved in Recife, Brazil. from 1966 to 1968 a an ad visor fo r fish eri e develo pment to the G overn­ment of Brazil. Earlier he was ma nage r of the Uni versity o f Dela wa re Ma rine Bio logical La borato ry. Fro m 1953 to 1962 Mr . Steve nson worked in the fi shing industry o n gear deve lo p­ment a nd resource assess me nt a lo ng the Atl anti c coast.

He is a member of a number of professio nal ocieti es including th e Marine Techn ology Society. th e America n Fishe ri es Soci ety. th e Mi ssissippi Acade my, a nd the Ameri­ca n Associ ati o n fo r th e Ad va nceme nt of Science. He has received several awards for superio r perform a nce in governme nt , a nd has publi shed about a dozen pa pers dealing prim aril y wit h remote sensing and fishing gea r devel­o pm ent.

NMFS Names New Enforcement Chief

The Commerce Department's N a­tio nal Oceanic a nd Atmospheri c Admi ni st ration has announced the

Pallozzl

a pp o intm e n t of Morri s M . Pall ozzi as C hief of th e Na­ti o nal Marine F isher­ies Service En fo rce­ment and Surveil ­lance acti vit y.

T he program 's re­spo nsibi lities in clude the de ve lopment and act ivation of po li cies

and guidelines concerned with NOAA acti viti es in the highl y co mplex fie ld

of intern ati o na l a nd domesti c fis heri es regulati o ns; interacti o n with State and other Federal program to fac ilit ate esta bli shment a nd enfo rce ment of measures surrou nd i ng the ma nage­ment a nd conservati o n o f marin e re­sources; and signi fican t co ntri but ions to th e deve lopment a nd main tena nce of do mes ti c a nd internatio nal pro­grams related to marine resource con­servati o n a nd protection .

E nfo rcement activit ie embrace reg­ul ati o ns that affect the activities of both domestic and fore ign fishi ng fl eets o perati ng in U.S. waters and nati o na l law that bears on the protec­ti on of endangered and threatened species of li ving marine resources. Survei ll ance responsibilities include the coll ection of data re lated to fo reign fis hing actlvltle off U.S. hores. Imp licit in all MFS en-

fo rce ment and surveillance work is c lo e cooperation with other govern­me nt agencies.

Mr. Pallozzi comes to N M FS from po itions of progressively greater re­spo nsibi lity as an attorney with the U.S. Treasury Department. which he joined in 1963 . His first three years there were devoted to investigatory work related to bank trust depart­ments in several states. The following five years were spent in customs law pec ialization . with emphasis on the

legal interpretation of mari ti me traffic regulations . During the past three years. Mr. Pa ll ozzi served as a customs law adviser and coordi nator for special projects in the fie ld of domestic and international commerce.

The 35-year-old attorney is a native of Paterso n, New Jersey, and a grad­uate of Seto n Hall University. Mr. Pallozzi earned his J uris Doctorate degree at the University of Maryland Law School in 1963, and was a stude nt of Ad miralty Law at George Wash­ingto n U niversit y's Graduate School of Law d uring 1970 and 197 1. He is a mem ber of four ba r a sociati o ns, a past pres ide nt of the C usto ms Lawyers Association. and is asso­c ia ted with severa l civic. professio nal. a nd acade mic o rga nizatio ns.

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Spilhaus Will Serve As NOAA Consultant

Noted cientist, inventor, and author Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus ha been appoin ted specia l consultant on oceanic and atmospheric programs to Dr. Robert M. W hite. Admin­istrator of the Commerce Depart­ment's National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin istration.

In his po ition . Dr. Spilhaus will

Spllhaus

conduct st udie s, carry out special assignments. and gi ve counsel on NOAA activities in ocean-atmos­phere monitori ng. Sea Grant. oceanic research. fisheries, and coastal zone management .

Dr. Spilhaus. known as the "Father of Sea Grant" owing to his concept for the name and activity that later came to be NOAA's National Sea Grant program. has most recently been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Inter­national Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution . Formerly President of the American Associa­tion for the Advancement of Science (1970). he has also been President of the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia) from 1967-1969. and Dean of the Institute of Technology . University of Minnesota , 1949-1967. He is the inventor of the bathythermograph . a basic internationally-known ocean­ographic instrument. and the Spilhaus Space C lock. He is a prolific author of bot h popular and scientific articles.

Athelstan Spilhaus was born In

Cape Town, Union of South Africa, and received a B.Sc. from the Univer­sity of Cape Town in 1931. He ob­tained an M.S. from the M assachu­setts Institute of Technology in 1933 . a D.Sc. from the University of Cape Town in 1948, and has received ten honorary degrees from univerSities in the United States and England He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1946.

Dr. Spilhaus began his public service with the U.S. Army Air Corps, 1943-46, during which time he con­tributed to the development of meteo­rological equipment i ncl udi ng radar and radio upper wind finding Instru­mentation, work for \\hich he \va ... awarded the LegIon of lerit in 1946. He was Scientific Director of Weapons Effects of two Nevada ucl ear Tests in 195 I. and has received PresidentIal appointments from Presidents EIsen­hower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He wa a member of the ational Science Board from 1966-1972.

Whiting Gutting Machine Found

Expenmental re ults at the 1'>IFS Atlantic Fisher} Products Technology Center have shown that there I a commercial machine available to re­move completel} the guts and black belly lining from headed v\hiting, prior to further processing. The machine can clean whiting up to one pound and with minor adjustments, be made to handle larger fish. Re­coveries of between 66-81 percent have been obtained from headed whiting, dependi ng upon size.

For further information or for a demonstration of the machine, con­tact Joseph 1'>1. 1'>lendelsohn or Thomas J. Connors at the NMFS Atlantic Fishery Products Technology Center. Emerson Avenue, Gloucester. J\.IA 01930 (Telephone: 617-283-6600).

Atlantic Squid Studied As part of the New England Fisher­

ies Development Program a commer­cial fishing vessel, the Valkyrie, of New Bedford was chartered early this year by the National Marine Fisheries Service to demonstrate fish­ing and measure production rates during fishing for long-finned squid, Loligo pealei off southern ew Eng­land. U.S. interest in squid fis hin g has grown since 1968 whe n the Japanese began experi ment al fis h i ng for squid off ew York.

Since that tIme, activI ty in ,qUid harvestl ng ha~ progressed rapidl) . Early In 1974 there were over 30 foreign \essel, Ihhing south of eW

ngland for sqUId . 1'> l o ... t 01 the fIshing for long-linned squid by foreIgn ve"eh takes place near the euge of the (ontl­nental Shelf dunng the cooler month, (December-Apnl) \\hen the squlu have aggregated there to e ... cape I ntol era ble temperatures In,hore. Suneillance observations and Information from other sources indicate that the catch rate by the foreIgn fleet. most of v\hlch arc large freezer tra\\ ler., \\ Ith over 2 -00 hp ranges frl)m about 4 to 12 tons per day .

The 1 ul"),I'I(, , a I OO-foot stern tra\-\ ler \\ Ith 700 hp. \\a, chartered for four tishlng tnps during Januar) and rebruar). During 24 days of fishing, 223 t\\o-hour tOV\5 v\ere maue with hIgh-opening bottom tra\\ h. O\er 168,000 pounds of ..,qUld \\ere captured at an a\erage rate of 380 pounds per fi hing hour. The daily

sqU id plus significant amoun ts of ,ummer Ilounuer. til efhh , bu tterfis h , monkfhh, anu scup. \ Iost of the

squlu were landed at New Bed foru and ,old either to the "fresh" market or froLen for later sale In both uomes­tiC and e\port markets

The e\penence now pro\ Ides some production anu market uata whIch \\111 better enable the fishing inuu try

to e\aluate potential use of this unIque resource under I '\, AF allocations the u S authonzeu to harvest

5.6()(J tons of .,quid from orth Atlantic \\ater..,. The 1973 catch was less than )ne-thlrd of thl.., amount.

In adultlon to SqUIU, the e\\. Eng-land FiShenes De\elopment Program IS looking into development of other

resources not full} utilized by LJ. fishermen. ,>uch a off..,hore crabs (red and Jonah) and fi..,h species uiscarued from tra\\ I operation The program \\as InItiated in 1973 In an attempt to offset the reductIOn of a\ailable

catch rate \\as 3.5 tons per da) for resource as a result of overfishing.

Foreign Fishery Developments

ROK Fisheries Show "Significant Advances"

The Republic of Korea (ROKl has made significant ad\ances In the fisheries sector in recent year. The countr} harvest of fi her) products in 1972 totaled 1.343.569 metric tons, surpassi ng the record 197 I catch of 1.073,733 tons b) 25.1 per­cent. accordi ng to the J apan External Trade Organization's (JET RO) report based on data compi led by the RO K Office of Fisheries.

CATCH South K orea harvested 1.343,569

metric to ns of fishery produ cts valued at 107,574 milli on won (app roxi­mately US$268.9 milli o n , based on 400 wo n = US$ I) in 1972. This is an increase of 25. 1 percent in qua ntit y and 22.2 pe rcent in va lue ove r 197 1. T he hi gh-seas fis he ri es produced 224, 135 to ns, coasta l fi she ri es (in -

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cluding acquaculture and \\ha ling) pro\ ided I. I 18,276 tons and inland fisherie contributed 1.1':-8 tons.

Fish accou nted for 947.66 I metric tons (70.6 percent), mo lluscs 231.4 75 tons ( 17.2 percent), eaweeds 128,8 29 tons (9.6 percent), c rustaceans 23,424 tons (1.7 percent) and o th er marin e products 12, 180 to n (0.9 perce nt) of the total p rodu ct io n .

PROCESSED FISH PRODUCTS K orean produ c ti o n of processed

seafoods a m ounted to 16 1,84 6 to ns In 1972 (31.1 pe rcent a bove th e 197 1 output ). Raw ma te ri al suppli ed to processors to ta led 405 ,787 tons .

EXPORTS K orea ex ported $ 152.5 60.000 worth

of fi she ry products in 1972, a 32 .7 pe rce nt increase o ve r th e 197 I export