Legislature(2003 - 2004)
03/01/2004 03:30 PM Senate RES
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SJR 32- CONST AM: PERM FUND INCOME FOR DIVIDENDS
HJR 32-LABELING OF FISH & FISH PRODUCTS
CHAIR SCOTT OGAN called the Senate Resources Standing Committee
meeting to order at 3:30 p.m. All members were present. The
first order of business to come before the committee was HJR 32.
REPRESENTATIVE BETH KERTTULA, sponsor of HJR 32, introduced her
aide, Aurora Hauke, who worked on this legislation supporting
the timely labeling of fish and fishery food products.
It comes from my fundamental belief that people
deserve to know what's in their fish, where it's from
and how it's raised. We all know that wild salmon and
our fish taste better and it's better for you.
Thankfully, due to a lot of the people in this room's
efforts, people are beginning to realize that. Because
fish is such an important part of our economy, we need
to take advantage of this awareness and do everything
we can to support it and support our congressional
delegation's great efforts to see this.
CHAIR OGAN asked if language on line 7 saying that [farmed fish]
environments are treated with various chemicals is accurate. He
has heard that some farmed fish have PCBs.
REPRESENTATIVE KERTTULA said her understanding is that chemicals
are sometimes used, but she didn't know exactly what they are.
SENATOR KIM ELTON said he thought the language referred to the
feed that is often highly treated and broadcast. Not all of the
feed is absorbed by the fish and remains in the water column.
SENATOR RALPH SEEKINS inserted that antifungals have been added
to some farmed fish habitats and those can also be absorbed by
fish.
REPRESENTATIVE KERTTULA informed them that the Alaska Trollers
Association has said that when [farmed] fish are fry, their
water may be treated with chemicals to kill parasites and fungi.
CHAIR OGAN innocently asked if a sentence could be added that
says farmed fish tastes like mud, because that's what they taste
like to him.
SENATOR GEORGIANNA LINCOLN congratulated Representative Kerttula
on sponsoring this resolution. She sponsored the same one on the
Senate side and has no problem with HJR 32 moving forward.
REPRESENTATIVE KERTTULA added that the original resolve talked
about the global assessment of organic contaminants in farmed
salmon and the research involved in that report. The report
contained some erroneous information about Alaska salmon and
that language was removed.
SENATOR LINCOLN said language in the further resolve was also
changed to say the Alaska delegation supported timely labeling.
REPRESENTATIVE KERTTULA said that is correct.
SENATOR THOMAS WAGONER moved to pass CSHJR 32(FSH)am, version
\I.A, from committee with individual recommendations and with
the attached fiscal note. There were no objections and it was so
ordered.
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