04/07/1995 03:43 PM Senate RES

          SJR 20 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FISHING QUOTAS                         
                                                                              
 SENATOR LEMAN announced SJR 20 to be up for consideration.                    
                                                                               
 SENATOR TAYLOR moved to adopt the committee substitute to SJR 20.             
 There were no objections and it was so ordered.                               
 ANNETTE KREITZER, Legislative Aide to Senator Leman, pointed out              
 the changes in the committee substitute.                                      
                                                                               
 SENATOR TAYLOR said his concern was that "and crab" was still found           
 on lines 22 and 28 and needed to be deleted, because it's an                  
 expansion of federal authority.                                               
                                                                               
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 SENATOR TAYLOR continued saying that the feds have not been                   
 involved in this resource before.  The other thing that he was                
 concerned with is that he thought there would be something in the             
 draft encouraging, to some extent, a federal entity to allocate in-           
 state resources that we have jurisdiction over, at this point.                
                                                                               
 SENATOR HOFFMAN responded that earlier it was stated that since we            
 had Americanized the fleet, many of the beneficiaries of the                  
 fishery in the Bering Sea are Seattle based.  He thought by                   
 including other species, the scales would be brought more to                  
 Alaskans than to people from Seattle.  Adding crab would benefit              
 more Alaskans than the Seattle based fleets.                                  
                                                                               
 A suggestion by the United Fishermen of Alaska of adding "Bering              
 Sea" on page 2, in front of ground fish and crab would address                
 their concerns, he said.                                                      
                                                                               
 SENATOR TAYLOR said he had a constituent group in Petersburg that             
 doesn't necessarily feel that UFA is representing them on that                
 point.  They pioneered most of the crab fishing in the Bering Sea.            
 He would like to see the resolution address pollock as opposed to             
 expanding out to the generic term "ground fish."                              
                                                                               
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 He thought a statement was also needed stating that in our coastal            
 waters we shall make the allocation, period.                                  
                                                                               
 SENATOR HOFFMAN said that Senator Taylor's concern could be                   
 addressed in another resolution dealing with the management of the            
 resources.  He is talking about community development quotas and              
 how we support them and crab has already been initiated by the                
 Alaska Crab Association.                                                      
                                                                               
 SENATOR HALFORD commented that on page 3, line 3 he would like to             
 see "addresses" changed to "guarantees."  Unless that is the case,            
 these programs aren't worth a hoot to us, he said.                            
                                                                               
 SENATOR HOFFMAN moved to change "addresses" to "guarantees."  There           
 were no objections and it was so ordered.                                     
                                                                               
 SENATOR TAYLOR moved on page 2, lines 22 and 28, and on page 3,               
 line 4 to delete "and crab."                                                  
 SENATOR HALFORD objected and asked if this applied only to crab in            
 the Bering Sea.  SENATOR TAYLOR said that was correct at this                 
 point.                                                                        
                                                                               
 SENATOR HALFORD said he didn't mind with regard to the Gulf.                  
                                                                               
 SENATOR LEMAN asked about reallocation from existing Alaskan crab             
 fishermen.  SENATOR HOFFMAN said he didn't object to excluding                
 that.                                                                         
                                                                               
 SENATOR LINCOLN, looking over her notes, said someone said that               
 crab is mostly outside of state waters and in federal waters.                 
 SENATOR TAYLOR said he thought a lot of our crab fishery that the             
 state has been regulating for years lies in federal waters.                   
                                                                               
 SENATOR HALFORD suggested adding a further resolve saying nothing             
 in this resolution shall be construed as: and then say specifically           
 the things we don't want to do, such as encouraging the IFQ's.                
 SENATOR TAYLOR said that would be fine with him.                              
                                                                               
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 SENATOR HOFFMAN said he was concerned that if this resolution was             
 going to do any good, it still had to go to the other body and                
 we're running out of time.                                                    
                                                                               
 SENATOR TAYLOR moved to withdraw his motion to delete "and crab."             
 There were no objections and it was so ordered.                               
                                                                               
 SENATOR HALFORD moved to adopt a conceptual amendment adding a                
 Whereas stating that nothing in this resolution shall be construed            
 as: Senator Taylor's problem of allocation within Alaska waters,              
 the Alaska vs. outside in a positive way, Senator Hoffman's                   
 interest, and his feeling that we should not in any way endorse the           
 IFQ process.  SENATOR TAYLOR said he would like that one also.  He            
 added that he would like another line stating that in no way should           
 this be construed as a grant of jurisdiction to the federal entity            
 by this state.  There were no objections and it was so ordered.               
                                                                               
 SENATOR HALFORD moved to pass SCS HJR20 (RES) from committee with             
 individual recommendations.  There were no objections and it was so           
 ordered.