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Coast Guard ‘eye’ looks for illegal fishing boats
United Press International
SOMEWHERE OVER THE
BERING SEA, Alaska — Nosing
the C-130 below clouds, Lt.
Frank Tabata leveled out on a
patrol for foreign vessels sus
pected of overharvesting fish
worth millions of dollars.
For the next 960 miles, the
prop plane pitched and rolled
over the slate gray Bering Sea,
dropping at times to 400 feet
above wind-whipped 20-foot
swells.
Green blips on a radar screen
located nine foreign fishing ves
sels. Each time one was spotted,
the C-130 dipped through the
cloud bank to report the vessel’s
location and fishing activity to a
nearby Coast Guard cutter.
“Basically, the job is to spot
and report what they’re doing,”
said Tabata. “The report goes
into the computer and if any dis
crepancies pop out, the cutter is
called in.”
While the Coast Guard looks
down with electronic equip
ment, many of the boats look up
with their own gear.
Since the United States in
voked its 200-mile fishing limit
in 1976, the patrols have moni
tored foreign fishing vessels’
compliance with limits and
fishing grounds.
“It’s a catch-up game,” said
John Strahle, a National Marine
Fisheries Service agent. “They
devise new ways to cheat and we
devise new ways to catch them.”
At stake is a multimillion-
dollar haul dominated by fore
ign fleets which have traditional
ly been ahead of U.S. fishermen
in large-scale bottom fishing.
The creation of the 200-mile
limit gave the U.S. commercial
fishing interests an opportunity
to build vessels that could com
pete with foreign fleets and de
velop a domestic large-scale
fishing industry.
It also created an enforce
ment problem. Just how much
overcatching goes on inside the
200-mile limit off Alaska is not
known.
The area is huge — about the
size of Mexico — and patrolled
by only a handfull of Coast
Guard cutters.
Most of the foreign fleet,
which fluxuates between 280
and 600 vessels off Alaska, is
thought to comply with the
quotas and restrictions in certain
waters, officials said.
That assumption is backed up
by the relatively small number of
vessels (43) seized since the 200-
mile limit went into effect. But
it’s also assumed that some viola
tions go undetected because of
the limited patrols.
“I think it’s much bigger than
the statistics indicate,” said Bill
Phillips, a fisheries expert on the
staff of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-
Alaska. “You’re looking at
maybe 10 to 15 percent of the
fishery as a whole at a
minimum.”
In dollars, the figure ranges
from a high of $40 million to a
low of $10 million, he added.
Stiffer sanctions in recent
years against those caught over
harvesting have lessened the
violations, Phillips said.
Prosecutors have sought
higher penalties to more accu
rately reflect the value of the Fish
taken, said Greg Taylor, an
assistant U.S. attorney for
Alaska.
“It’s true that in the last cou
ple of years, we’ve tried to up the
ante,” he said. “It’s a continuing
problem. It may have decreased
some, but I think they’ve gotten
more sophisticated, too.”
Although the law allows for
confiscating vessels, the highest
penalty in Alaska has been an
$850,000 fine and suspension of
fishing rights for a period, he
said.
Most of the seizures made
under the act have been of
Japanese vessels, which also
dominate the foreign fleet and
make up for nearly 1 million
metric tons of the 1.3 million
metric tons of ground fish taken
by foreign vessels off Alaska.
Japanese officials maintain
the violations are due to indi
vidual skippers and are not re
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whole.
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ANN ANDALE-ON-
HUDSON, N.Y. — People who
learn to read and find a love for
words at a young age have often
turned to writing careers as
adults.
Robert Kelly, author of two
dozen books of poems, said he
suddenly found he knew how to
read at the age of five.
Kelly, 49, is credited with de
veloping a unique voice that
blends classical poetic styles with
modern Americana.
City in the middle of the Great
Depression. Both of his parents
worked to earn money and, left
alone in the house, Kelly re
members the silence of its empti
ness as his first love.
His delight in reading and
being alone did not keep him
from being a high school drop
out. But, even during that
period he read, Kelly said, and
the man who excited him the
most was Ezra Pound, the Amer
ican free-verse poet.
Eventually, Kelly moved from
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a teaching position at Barti(|
lege that he has held ever a
Kelly doesn’t write abouH
Mid-Hudson area, but his uH
has consistently resounded*
its echoes. He is (irminhisfcf
that a poet is married loj
place of his work and traun
its energies into language
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spot
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bring all of himself to marl sti
In an age that stressessps lont
tor sports, Kelly has found
poem is a way of provokii|
reader to act. Unlike thee
box blurb, a poem forcesaj
son to struggleafteritsmeaai
he sans, and the reader mus
involved.
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poem, “The Looni,”hew^
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stronger than time,
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to know her
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from the ordinary.
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with the view that poetryshj
provide enjoyment. “Onhf
makes people restless cal
transform society,” her
Kelly attributes his enorn
productivity to whalhedocj
fore writing. He imaging
small amphitheater
the great poets of all I
Dante, William Blake, Acs
lus, Rilke. They are all lisifd
to him.
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other interests. Classical
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and learning new langni
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work and his repu
grown. His 1981 book“K
the Messenger” won
Angeles Times book at
Kelly believes his risingp
larky is due to the faclthaH 11
and more Americans are ft*
the need to listen.
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