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...commercial salmon catch in the sound this season was only 61% of the average for the past two years. Says Raymond Cesarini, president of Sea Hawk Seafoods in Valdez: "It's been a hideous year for us." Cesarini, who filed a lawsuit against Exxon, says he had expected to process 14 million lbs. of fish but got only 3 million. On a positive note, the three large commercial fish hatcheries in the spill's path were protected, and millions of salmon returned in late summer to spawn in glacial streams along the sound...
...addition to enraging environmentalists, the drift netters have drawn protests from commercial fishermen around the world. Americans and Soviets complain that the nets kill large numbers of sea trout and salmon, a charge the Japanese deny. Australia and New Zealand, concerned that Japanese and other Asian fishermen were catching too many albacore tuna in the South Pacific, recently outlawed drift nets within 200 miles of their shores. The two countries have offered the services of their navies to smaller Pacific nations that support...
...particular concern to the U.S. and Canada is the damage inflicted by the nets on North Pacific stocks of sea trout and salmon. U.S. fishing-industry representatives claim that some Asian fishermen have been pulling large numbers of salmon out of nets intended for squid. As a result, they say, fewer young fish return to North American spawning streams...
...Fisheries Service officials declared it to be insufficiently stringent and called for revisions. Last week Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher told the State Department that the pact was unacceptable and would have to be renegotiated. Japan, however, is unwilling to reopen the negotiations. Japanese fishing officials point out that U.S. salmon fishermen use the same kind of drift nets that Asians do. The American versions, however, are many times smaller...
...workmen, more than 700 miles of coastline remain polluted eight weeks after the spill. Two annual migrations - of economic importance to Alaska have also been damaged. The flocking of tourists to the sound has slowed. And though inspectors who examined fish caught at the start of the salmon season last week pronounced them clean, not everyone was convinced. Alaskan red salmon was selling for $2.50 a lb., down from $3.50 last year. These days, many Americans would rather be safe than sorry...