ECONOMIES of the NORTH COAST

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PNG being turned into an income trust?

 DFO looks at herring status quo management & science

Fish Farm forum WWF & T Buck present alternatives main page and here is link to transcripts/ summaries

More Fish farms -- Omega salmon at Anger Island --- lots problems?

Interfor and Small Business amendments -- out maneuver LRMP higher plans?

Cruise ship dock destruction old sites

Herring Fleet arrives PR -- overview of fishery (part1)

Alexandra Morton responds to Fish farmer PR ad -- local knowledge

Kitkatla area Fish Farms seeking 19+ sites along with new era coastal planning 

Rockfish require drastic action??

Look at beginning commercial salmon season & Skeena R

Late July 2001 --Sockeye salmon at peak;; springs slowing; pinks begin

Meanwhile the Skeena River discharge has peaked and runoff slowing 

 Fish Factories debate goes on: wild salmon becoming irrelevant?

Did a decade of NDP make any difference in the forestry Sector? (about 6%)

Recent slowdown in Prince Rupert-- look at closed down businesses and possible reasons

Who owns the tree farms and how much do they cut--  see map

Look at Hecate Straits rich fishery-- Groundfish for now including Pacific cod; Pacific Ocean Perch; and sablefish. The flatfish will be done next.

PR Overwaitea store saved: uses the Internet to explore this story-- while the Union has its press releases online, the huge conglomerate Jim Pattison group is more secretive (one of benefits of being a private company).

Legacies---Article uses book review to detail how PR Grain came to be built, and then looks how this perhaps unworkable compromise has subsequently shaped the PR Harbour and land use

Small Business logging proposals-- Tuck Inlet (LandSat images); 
The Skeena Estuary (Smith & Kennedy); Banks Island area, Mid Banks Island

Post Season Summary of Salmon Fishery -- from  PR DFO

NEW AUGUST

Image on left form BC Archives--- shows drying sockeye salmon on Babine in 1920s

Skeena River Sockeye---dramatic changes in allocation away from "industrial fishery"? Another irony. The Babine Barricades agreement 1906 and the present "conservation crisis" on Skeena

Theories of fishery management: msy (maximum sustained yield) gives way to mixed stock fisheries -- a quick look using the Skeena Sockeye as example.

Does the Port's plan to attract these behemoths make economic sense?

Skeena Sockeye -- about 2 million caught to date-- now the pinks starting; article combines Skeena water flows and commercial catch data

New Processor uses barge instead of land base  

OLDER material

Skeena River coho salmon: is it again 'business as usual"?

Soon the fishing plan will be ready. What are the chances of "in-season" management using Alaskan data? Read ADF&G emails on subject.

Interfor is back looking for more wood---(already) Moving up the Ecstall into another watershed plus trying again at Ayton Creek

West Fraser wants to sell the North Coast AAC without the sawmill--- a chronology that shows licence and mill belong together. 

Selective fishing News-- articles featuring the Fred Hawkshaw net 

NorthCoast also looks at Coastal Forestry: structure or cyclic problems?

Interfor's latest logging proposals --- Cobbering Princess Royal and Surf Inlet---- a critique of proposal by LG 

Still, there is a positive note: during recessions the industries often restructure, so one can begin to see what the economy will look like over the next decade.
Thus Interfor, West Fraser, CanFor were largely the products of the last recession. With that in mind watch Mac Blo, TimberWest, even the old Fletcher Challenge pulp mills to see which direction emerges.

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