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Alaska Fisheries Science Center Quarterly Report : October, November, December, 1990
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1990
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Alternative Title:A Day in the Life of a Squid Driftnet Observer
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Description:In 1987, Congress passed the Driftnet Impact Monitoring, Assessment, and Control Act to initiate negotiations with nations that conduct high-seas driftnet fishing to develop a cooperative agreement for monitoring and assessing the numbers of Marine resources of the United States killed and retrieved, discarded, or lost in driftnet fisheries. In 1990, the United States conducted the first year of a full observer program on squid driftnet vessels from Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan. A total of 58 U.S. observers were deployed to foreign driftnet vessels in 1990. These observers spent a cumulative total of more than 4500 days at sea and monitored over 2100 fishing operations. Data collected the observers will be used to determine the bycatch of Marine Mammals, salmon, other marine fishes, seabirds, and sea turtles killed incidentally in the driftnet fisheries and to assess the impacts of the catches on these Marine resources in preparation for a United Nations-recommended ban on large-scale open-sea drift netfishing in mid-1992. Data collected in 1990 by the observers are strictly confidential and according to international agreements cannot be made public until June 1991.
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