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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017
Researchers seek better ways to farm popular Pacifi c fi sh
fi sh genetics and investigat-
ing ways to make it easier and
more effi cient to commercially
grow the fi sh.
It is part of a larger effort
by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
to support marine aquaculture
as a solution to feed a growing
demand worldwide for seafood.
People are consuming more
fi sh than in previous decades,
with average worldwide per
capita consumption hitting 43
pounds a year, according to the
Food and Agriculture Organi-
zation of the United Nations.
Fish consumption is expected
to grow even more in coming
years.
NOAA says aquaculture
can relieve pressure on fi shing
populations and promote eco-
nomic growth.
Aquaculture
can relieve
some pressure
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
PORT ORCHARD, Wash.
— The dark gray fi sh prized
for its buttery fl avor live deep
in the ocean, so researchers
keep their lab cold and dark to
simulate ideal conditions for
sablefi sh larvae.
A biologist shines his dim
red headlamp and uses an
ultrasound to scan the belly of
an anesthetized sablefi sh about
the length of his forearm to tell
if it’s female and has eggs to
collect. He gently squeezes out
hundreds of tiny, translucent
eggs into a glass beaker.
After the eggs are fertil-
ized externally, they’ll grow in
large indoor tanks and some in
fl oating net pens in Washing-
ton state’s Puget Sound to be
used for research.
At this federal marine
research station near Seattle,
scientists are studying sable-
Black cod or butterfi sh
Fishermen along the U.S.
West Coast, mostly in Alaska,
catch millions of pounds of
wild sablefi sh each year but no
commercial sablefi sh net-pen
farming exists in the U.S.
Sablefi sh, also known as
black cod or butterfi sh, are
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Bill Fairgrieve, a fisheries research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, holds a sablefish in March at a research facility in Manchester, Wash.
long-lived species that is
native to the northeast Pacifi c
Ocean and highly valued in
Asia for its benefi cial nutrients
and delicate fl avor. The fi sh
are grilled, smoked, poached,
roasted or served as sushi.
Michael Rubino, who
directs the NOAA aquaculture
program, noted that practices
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fi sh caught in the United States
is exported, with a majority
going to Japan.
“Our fear is that science
isn’t going to stay in the U.S.,
and it will be exported to a
Third World country where
people work for a few bucks a
day,” Alverson said. “They’ll
raise it with low-valued labor
and use our science to under-
cut our commercial fi shery and
coastal communities.”
Alaska law prohibits fi nfi sh
farming.
Complement each other
Rubino and others say wild
harvests and aquaculture can
complement each other, par-
ticularly during months when
there are lower catch limits for
wild sablefi sh.
“You always have this yin-
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eries and aquaculture,” Rick
Goetz, who leads the marine
fi sh and shellfi sh biology
program at the Manchester
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for farming fi sh in the U.S.
meet very strict environmental
regulations.
But some critics worry
large-scale farms could harm
wild fi sh stocks and ocean
health, and some commercial
fi shermen worry about poten-
tial competition.
“This would be a big threat
for us,” said Robert Alverson,
executive director of the Fish-
ing Vessel Owners’ Associ-
ation, a Seattle-based group
that represents about 95 com-
mercial fi shermen in Alaska,
Oregon, Washington state and
California.
In 2015, fi shermen har-
vested about 35 million pounds
of sablefi sh worth $113 mil-
lion in the United States, all
along the U.S. West Coast.
Of that, nearly two-thirds,
or about 23 million pounds,
were caught in Alaska, with
smaller amounts in Oregon,
Washington state and Califor-
nia. Nearly half of the sable-
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Harassment
• At 2:13 p.m. Thursday,
Paul Richard Shoop, 46, of
Ilwaco, Washington, was
arrested by the Astoria Police
Department at 750 Commer-
cial St. for harassment and
second-degree criminal mis-
chief. Shoop allegedly broke
a window at the p ost o ffi ce
the day before. He then
allegedly hit a post offi ce
employee who followed him
LOTTERIES
away from the scene. Shoop
was seen walking near the
post offi ce the next day and
was arrested soon after.
DUII
• At 1:23 a.m. Monday,
Devon Robert George Camp-
bell, 28, of Wilsonville, was
arrested by the Clatsop County
Sheriff’s Offi ce on U.S. High-
way 101 near Ninth Avenue in
Seaside for driving under the
infl uence of intoxicants.
BIRTH
April 20, 2017
TATE, Krista and Randy,
of Hillsboro, a girl, Taylor
Nicole, born at Providence St.
Vincent in Portland. Grand-
parents are Becky and Bill
Varner of Astoria and Karen
and Bill Tate of Portland.
Great-grandparent is Char-
maine Campbell of Svensen.
DEATH
May 2, 2017
PRAUS, Linda Alison,
70, of Astoria, died in Asto-
ria. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
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KLEMP FAMILY DENTISTRY
Research Station, across Puget
Sound from Seattle. “The big
problem is allaying the fears of
people that you can have both.
You can have both of those
things working, particularly
because this fi sh is such a high-
value product.”
In recent years, NOAA Fish-
eries scientists have worked
to reduce potential barriers to
sablefi sh aquaculture. They
have developed techniques to
produce all-female stocks of
sablefi sh that grow faster and
much bigger than males in
about 24 months. Ideal market
size is roughly 5½ pounds.
They’ve also studied differ-
ent ways to reduce the costs of
feeding juvenile fi sh, increase
larvae survival rates and
decrease deformities.
One research project is
replacing more expensive
algae with clay that is used
to help sablefi sh larvae better
fi nd their prey. Another looked
at fi nding the optimal tempera-
ture to increase larval growth.
Wild fi sh are caught off the
Washington coast and used to
develop captive brood stocks,
or mature fi sh that are used for
breeding.
At the facility, the fertilized
eggs grow in silos in dark, cold
rooms before being moved
to other indoor tanks where
they’re fed a steady diet of
brined shrimp and other food.
Large circular tanks hold fi sh
in different growth stages.
The facility produces about
10,000 all-female fi ngerlings,
or juveniles about an inch
long, each year.
It has sent some fi sh to
a Texas company that uses
land-based recirculation tanks
to grow fi sh, as well as oth-
ers interested in sablefi sh
aquaculture.
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