Fishing Back When

By Jessica Hathaway

1971— Set for a fast trip across the Everglades for a rst-hand view of water problems in Florida is the state’s new Secretary of State Richard Stone (left).

On the cover: Battered and swamped against a pier in Rockland, Maine, during a winter gale, the Coast Guard tries in vain to pull a lobster boat off the rocks. The 1-year-old 38-footer owned by John Faulkingham was lost to the breakwater. J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Wash., launches a tuna boat and delivers another. The Aquarius and the Trinidad are the rst two of ve 184foot seiners being built at the yard with Marco hydraulics and power blocks. An Alaska Superior Court judge strikes down the state’s requirement to show sh history to acquire a salmon permit.

Exxon settles with the state of

Alaska as well as federal civil and criminal claims stemming from the Valdez oil spill in 1989. The oil company agrees to pay $1.1 billion after showing a pro t of $5 billion in 1990 and declaring that the settlement “will not have a signi cant effect on our earnings,” according to Exxon Chairman Lawrence Rawl.

NMFS Director William Fox con rms forthcoming emergency sword sh regulations resulting from November’s annual ICCAT meeting, including a 15 percent harvest reduction. Fox was considering area closures, quotas and “gear controls.”

On the cover: Matt Marinkovich shes for Puget Sound chum salmon in Washington’s Hood Canal. West Coast ports begin to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of a tsunami that struck some harbors with an 8-foot surge, following an 8.9 earthquake near Japan on Friday, March 11. Despite a complicated history with environmental activists, the Atlantic scallop shery seeks ecolabel certi cation through the Marine Stewardship Council. “We have a global market; we have a robust resource,” said Ross Paasche with the American Scallop Association.