Governors talk about salmon in treaty issues with Canada
■ CONSERVATION: Tribes
and Northwest slates
discuss a (air way
to allocate the fish
SITKA, Alaska (API —
Kabul Iding diminished Mlnoo
•lock* it ih* rasa urea
ImI «hf»d by Wuhingian. Ora
goo, Alaska and Pacific North
wast Indian tribaa, lb* governors
of tha throw stale* Mid today
Con Mika Uwwy of Wash
ington. |ohn Kitshabar of Dra
gon and Tony Knowles of
Alaska gathered in lit* coastal
Bahing town of Sitka to discus*
salmon mum and try to agree
on a common approach in con
••rvina and allocating lha fish
"Salmon probably link ih***
thraa itata* logoi bar mora than
any rasourca wa have.'*
Kitttbabm Mid Habitat dastruc
lion, ocaan conditions and owar
fishing at* (aopardising many
Pacific Northwest salmon
stocks, ha said
The daylong mooting it an
attempt to formulate a common
front among the thrae Mate* that
am the US pan let to tb* 19*5
Pacific Salmon Treaty with
Canada, a pact intended to fairly
divide the fi»h that roam Imm k
and (<>nh through U.S. and
Canadian water*
Lowry Mid it w*» critical for
the throe ttalat to agree on
taimun ittuet to wa can ba
turning in a* I S partner*
taut year. Wathington and
Oregon tidad with Canada to
crittei*# talmon harvetit in
Ataaka. taymg overflthing there
wa* |*«tpa«iirjng »t<xk» through
the Par tfU Notthtml
Alanka blamed dwindling
talmon ruru in British Colum
bia. Wathington and Oregon on
poor mnnervation method* and
hydroelectric dam* that have
ground down fith tlockt Kith
armen in Alatka took in a rot ted
220 million talmon la*t year,
which Ala»ka official* Ota at
evident# that their ft thing prat
tice* •»*> wund
Th» htgge*t treaty diaoutaa ar*
•boul Ih« number of Huh I hat
•pawn in o»* country but are
caught by lha other (kiutd* urn
U S fishermen < atch S 3 million
more Mtmon that anginal# in
Canadian water* than (hay are
entitled in
"Mewl neural resource* occur
live* (hay conveniently
n political Boundaries “
in placet where they )u»t hap
Cto be in humoim'i political
ndariet." Knowla* Mid
"But talmon travel thousand* of
milaa and over the court* of
their
ignore
Canada and Alaska also ant at
odd* over r hi nook talroon. the
Eire catch for Southeast Ala*
‘a commercial trolling fleet
becauM ihote fuh fetch higher
price* than the other lour
tMilimm tpocimi
Predation by mackerel that ate
many young salmon in 19U2 U3
ha* greatly diminished the Hum
bar of cbinooh spawning in
Britiah (xilumhu waterway*
BrttUh ColunibU be* recom
mended that SonihaM Alaika'i
fishing fleet catch no mor* than
60.000 chinouk thii year. about
one fourth the quota of 230.000
fish Alaska targeted In !<MS
Canadian tithing regulator*
iaat year cut their own fleet's
(hinook limit* in half and
unsuccessfully urged Alaska to
do tha mum.
The chinooh dispute Unihd
A lacks in U S Dittricl Omit last
year, A federal judge in Seattle
•hut down the Southeast Alas
ka chinook fishery after Indian
tribe* in Washington and Ore
gon. along with Canada, sued
Alaska over the state's fishing
predicts
"The tribes have teemed that
courts and judge* are not the
way to solve tha problem said
Ron Allen, a Washington tribal
official involved in salmon
treaty negotiations. "When
resolving our differences, we
need to work through the man
agement of the resources That 's
the intelligent way to go."
Allvn Mid the tribe* hop* to
•void taking the chtnook issue
to court this year
"When you go to court. it's a
wm low situation and all you
do is < .mata a schism among the
partner*." Allan uid
Mike Mi Nmav twAmman fc*
the British Columbia fisheries
ministry, Mid the province's chi
nook limits will he even smaller
this par In an effort to conserve
endangered salmon runs The
province*actual limits have not
yet hewn sat
"What wa r* saying ia. let's go
easy on them this year.''
Mt Nanay mid It 's not a qum
lion of asking Alaska to let those
fish go through so sea can catch
them It s a question ol investing
in the future to down the road
those stocks will ba available for
everybody to catch."
Negotiations to settle the
treaty disputes have proven
futile A neutral mediator also
foiled to resolve the quarrel.
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