The other day I was poking around in a bookstore and I spotted John Williams' novel Butcher's Crossing (1960), a grisly novel depicting an 1870's buffalo hunt. A young academic from the east coast travels west, inspired by Emerson, looking for a connection to nature,
A letter to ADF&G staff describing the low quality and inconsistent historical data serving as the foundation for the Simulation Study to Determine Unfished Biomass of herring in Sitka
This scrap is dedicated to the volunteer members and meeting-goers of Sitka's Local Advisory Committee to the Board of Fisheries. They've been meeting every week for a few weeks now (mostly about salmon so far) and will be meeting every week for a few weeks more
Back in March, I posted a scrap explaining the emergence of a State of Alaska policy vehicle called the Herring Revitalization Committee (HRC). It seemed that the point of the committee, before it even began, was designed to promote the "restructuring of the Alaska herring resource." I was
In Scrap 26, I explained that Unfinished Biomass doesn't actually factor directly into the math driving this fishery, but is conceptually linked to the threshold level (below which fishing won't happen). What I didn't make clear is the jurisdictional reason for this flimsiness: while
A new ADF&G report imagines that these are unparalleled times for herring abundance in Sitka. Can they really claim that?
... about herring spawning season as I witnessed it this year in Sitka...
Tales from the Channel Light...
The Herring Revitalization Committee and "The Restructuring of the Alaska Herring Resource"
OR Swim Bladders of The Sky
OR A Short History of Herring Counting in Sitka pt 2
OR: A Short History of Counting Herring in Sitka pt 1