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Port Orford News
Page 8 • August 13, 2008
By Anita Thomas
For the Port Orford News
Governor Mike Fischnaller of Rotary’s District 5110 visited
the Port Orford Rotary Club on Wednesday and Thursday,
August 6 and 7.
Governor Mike along with his wife, Marla, live in
Springfield, Oregon. They have been visiting all of the Clubs in
our District speaking to members about the bebefuts of Rotary.
He stressed the importance of membership that supports the
many service projects that promote peace and good will in
numerous countries throughout the world.
On Wednesday evening the Port Orford Rotary Board met
with Governor Mike at the American Legion Hall to review
amd share with him the projects and goals of the Port Orford
Club.
At Thursdays regular meeting Governor Mike inducted two
new members into the Port Orford Rotary Club.
Members welcome Matt Hall, our owner and publisher of
The Port Orford News. Melissa Weinblatt of our GSE team
was also inducted as a new member and warmly welcomed.
The Port Orford Club added another member to the Paul
Harris Fellows Group when Sally Johnston, wife of President
John Johnston, was inducted into that fellowship.
Upcoming event: Mark your calendars for Rotary’s ninth
annual Show and Shine to be held on Sunday, August 31.
Watch for news releases for this great event.
For more information about Rotary, go to www.portorfor-
drotaryclub.org.
Photos by Annie Marie Larson
District 5110 Governor Mike
Fishnaller is shown above dur-
ing last weekʼs Rotary meeting,
and at right inducting new
members Matt Hall and Melissa
Weinblatt.
KRIEGER, from page 7
Another of his concerns is the inac-
curacy of stock assessments and the
20 fathom limitation. He says, for
example, that “about 95% of the area
that yellow eye inhabit was never
assessed … 93% of the area isn’t
fished … I think if they went in there
and took a look there, they’d find a lot
of things … then [there’s] the rebuild-
ing time of these different fish. You
know they said 25 years on the ling
cod, and it was only five or four. They
were never down to the numbers they
thought they were … every fishery
stock that we’ve had that we thought
was down wasn’t down as bad as we
thought.” He would like to see a stock
assessment done every year.
Marine reserves ...
Krieger also discussed marine
reserves, saying that they will be very
expensive and will take several years
to implement. With the present econ-
omy and projected state budget
deficit, he doesn’t think that the fund-
ing will be there and pointed out that
“Governors Kitzhauber and
Kulongoski over 14 years have never
requested of the
legislature or put in
their governor’s
recommended
budget or in any
agency budget one
penny for marine
research.”
He went on to
say, “a lot of what
Wayne Krieger
we don’t know in
fisheries is what’s
causing us to have to manage conser-
vatively.
“We’re not maximizing or at least
utilizing up to the maximum where
we don’t impact the resource. We’re
not doing that because we don’t have
the science … nothing comes forward
about marine research (in the state
legislature).”
He also said that if he had one
thing to do over again in regard to the
Marine Reserve Bill (HB 3534) that
he sponsored and helped pass, it
would be that “to go into effect, it
had to be cleared by the county com-
missioners and authorized every five
years … that gives you local control
and gets all the special interests out
of it.”
Processor shares ...
Krieger discussed the issue of
processor shares. He hopes to be able
to get the 20 percent at the federal
level reversed. “The Coastal Caucus is
going to do a bill that will prohibit a
processor from owning more than a
certain number of boats in the state of
Oregon.” He would also like to see
signed market orders ahead of the
opening of crab season on Dec. 1,
“and [if] you’re a processor, and you
don’t sign, your boats don’t go out.”
Seasons ...
In regard to seasons, he would like
to see the rules change to where “if
you close an area because the crab’s
soft, and the guys [ODFW] extend it,
any boat that didn’t go up north to
fish, [those] guys should get the first
30 days without them [non-closure-
area fishermen] coming south.” And
he would also like to see the state per-
mit reduction of such predators as sea
lions and cormorants, which have
grown dramatically in recent years and
take a heavy toll on fish populations.
He wants to try to limit the number of
guides and charter boats, as well.
A warning ...
Krieger warned the group about the
Coast Conservation Alliance, which,
he says, “wants to take the gill nets
out of the Columbia River and you off
the oceans next … They have said
publicly that if they get them [gill net-
ters] out successfully, they want the
trawlers off the ocean next.”
Some good news ...
Krieger did bring some good news:
state salmon disaster checks may be
coming sometime between mid-August
and the end of August, with federal
salmon disaster checks hopefully com-
ing from the end of August to mid-
September. As in 2006, Krieger was on
the committee that worked on the allo-
cation and distribution of funds at the
state level. Checks will be based on
landings and landing records and will
run from a minimum of $325 to a
maximum of $8,000.
California will get the lion’s share of
the federal funds, with Oregon being
allocated $25-27 million. In order to
get a share of this, affected businesses
(bait shops, smokehouses, etc.) must
show a 20% effect of ocean fishing on
their business. Fishermen are capped at
$75,000 each, starting with a check for
$2,000 if they just have a permit and
$5,000 if they made a delivery. Krieger
feels that the latter two categories
waste $200,000 on some people who
don’t make their living fishing, but
have a permit or may have only made
one delivery of one fish.
Responsibility of the government ...
Krieger summed up the salmon dis-
aster and relief funds by saying that,
“There’s times when it’s the responsi-
bility of government to step in and
make sure that the infrastructure of
any business (does not collapse) …
but from it, we should be learning
something to not let it happen again.
We should be learning about salmon
management and the lack of science,
so we don’t have these reoccurring
things.”