Peter Bradley - Herring Scraps (Page 2)

Herring Scrap 30 - An Open Letter to the Authors of the Unfished Biomass Simulation Study

A letter to ADF&G staff describing the low quality and inconsistent historical data serving as the foundation for the Simulation Study to Determine Unfished Biomass of herring in Sitka

Herring Scrap 29 - Charting The Harvest Level Proposals

This scrap is dedicated to the volunteer members and meeting-goers of Sitka's Local Advisory Committee to the Board of Fisheries. They've been meeting every week for a few weeks now (mostly about salmon so far) and will be meeting every week for a few weeks more

A computer-generated image depicting several herring wearing suits with large shoulder pads.

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Herring Scrap 28 - Herring Revitalization Committee pt 2

Back in March, I posted a scrap explaining the emergence of a State of Alaska policy vehicle called the Herring Revitalization Committee (HRC). It seemed that the point of the committee, before it even began, was designed to promote the "restructuring of the Alaska herring resource." I was

Herring Scrap 27: Deriving a Threshold from Unfished Biomass

In Scrap 26, I explained that Unfinished Biomass doesn't actually factor directly into the math driving this fishery, but is conceptually linked to the threshold level (below which fishing won't happen). What I didn't make clear is the jurisdictional reason for this flimsiness: while