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Take Alaska's halibut fishery, which began a catch-share program in 1995. At the time, the halibut season had become a 48-hour scramble to catch the most fish allowed by law, according to Linda Behnken, director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association and a commercial fisherman in Sitka since 1982. "No matter what the weather was, everyone with a line and hook was going out," says Behnken. "And this is Alaska. The weather gets bad here. Boats went down. Lives were lost." Things got even worse when the fishermen all returned with their catches at the same...
...short days to nine months. Fishermen are also less likely to risk bad weather, pushing fatalities down 15%. And because the market is no longer flooded with halibut one week out of the entire year, the price of fish has increased fourfold. "IFQs have made fishing safer," Behnken says. "And it's better for the resource...
What made approval of joining the new council certain was a speech from the floor by John W. Behnken, respected former president of the Synod, who argued that "our forefathers were certainly interested in the unity of Lutheranism in America." Shortly after, current President Oliver Harms called for a vote. A chorus of scattered noes from diehard conservatives came from the back of Cobo Hall. "The resolution is not unanimous," said Harms, "but it is overwhelmingly adopted...
...bodies can do together better than they can do separately.'' Last week, at its annual convention in Cleveland, the Missouri Synod adopted a resolution that proposed an international synodical conference "designed to embrace all Lutheran bodies." To succeed its president of the last 27 years, Dr. John Behnken, 78, the synod elected Dr. Oliver Harms, 60, of St. Louis, the church's first vice president for the last three years. Says Lutheran Harms: "We shall continue conversations with as many Lutheran church bodies as we can, firm in our testimony and praying that God will bring church...
...convention backed Dr. Behnken in voting to make a 1932 statement of the Missouri Synod's doctrinal position binding on all pastors and teachers with the force of the Bible and the confessions themselves. Known as the "Brief Statement,'' it is an 8,000-word document that holds, among other things, that the Bible contains "no errors or contradictions," historical, scientific or otherwise...