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Just be very careful. We just finished up a trial here in Memphis over a parking dispute. NEITHER one came out ahead in this one. One dead and buried, the other convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to up to 25 years. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jul/16/coleman-guilty-Cordova-parking-- lot-shooting/ It does not happen very often, but when it does the outcome is not good for anyone. Bill

so I doubt that overfishing was an issue. Yes and no. One of my bosses was married to an Eskimo and lived in Unalakleet. He fished for Herring roe until the market went away. Could it be that no one is buying the herring roe and the Cordova fishermen are looking for someone to pay? The 2007 herring biomass preseason projection was 38,415 tons. The department was unable to fly a peak biomass aerial survey this year. A pre-peak survey flown on June 8, by NSEDC biologists estimated 28,000 tons. The allowable quota of herring harvest was over 7,000 tons, but there were no sac roe herring buyers this year. Seven fishers participated in a herring bait fishery and sold 65,489 pounds. There was a wild kelp opening, but no fishers participated. http://csfish.adfg.state.ak.us/newsrelease/view.php?year=2007&dist=NSH&species=2- - - 30&num=1 It looks like the oldest information on PWS Herring was 1997 and it was a good year. Kind of hard to pin something on the oil spill almost 20 years after the fact, when they have had a lot of good years in between. ADFG says it is a virus killing the herring. It looks like the Cordova fishermen should head up to Norton Sound if they want to fish for herring. The Roe was the only thing worth collecting so no buyers no fishing.

All I can say is Frivolous Lawsuits. Suing because storms erode is plain stupid. Hopefully the courts will throw it out. Coastal communities everywhere put up with erosion. Some have coped like Holland, some haven't like New Orleans. Was it Global Warming that caused hurricanes that wiped out close to a million people from the mid 1700s to the late 1800s? The worst storm in US history is still the 1900 hurricane that destroyed Galveston. I don't think that can be blamed on Exxon or any other man made GW. As far as Cordova herring. I think they were overfishing it. That has happened in other places in Alaska. It is a very lucrative and greed surpasses conservation of the resource. All these fringe group lawsuits have done, is hold up the release of funds already awarded by the courts.

"The eroding village of Kivalina in the Northwest Arctic is suing Exxon Mobil and 23 other energy companies for damage related to global warming." Anchorage Daily News (may be a registration link). OT to Gagrice - Story about Cordova and the "crippling blow" in the same day's paper

Fishing rights in Alaska is like water rights in Idaho - there's not enough time to even hit the high spots. The best analogy I can come up with is liquor licenses - tightly controlled and regulated in most places and often they are hard to come by (or expensive to purchase). Looks like salmon permits are relatively cheap these days, around 50k. If you have to ask how much the gear and seiners cost, you can't afford to play. A lot of the oil cleanup crews were carpetbaggers who came up just to work the spill, just like the good ol' pipeline boom days. Lots of people, including at least one Anchorage non-fisher friend of mine, bought boats to lease to Exxon. Everyone was scrambling to get in on the action and Exxon was spreading money around like chicken scratch. Except me - we left for a road trip about that time. Ran into a camper in NM whose husband was working the spill. She was carrying around a baby food jar of fresh crude he had mailed her. Talk about aromatic. We got the most friendly waves and honks with our Alaska plates that trip when we hit New Jersey, home of Capt. Hazelwood. I bet I've bought less than 20 gallons of Exxon in the last 20 years. One woman I've lost track of in Cordova lost her fishery (herring roe on kelp) to the spill. Last I heard the bank took her permit, but it's too long ago to depend on my memory. That's a shore fishery so she probably just worked it with an inexpensive skiff until the oil shut it down. All of which has zilch to do with the topic....