Peter Bradley - Herring Scraps (Page 2)

Herring Scrap 33: Pen Pals Pt. 1 (An Alaska Public Records Act Request)

Back in Scrap 30, I sent a letter to ADF&G about why I think the recent Unfished Biomass study is falsely premised and needs revision - I'd noticed a signal in the data that suggested that the data might not have been based on observational studies for

Herring Scrap 32: State of Scraps

Hello scrappers! I haven't posted anything in awhile, but I've written a whole lot since you last heard from me, so much that the scrap machine got a bit clogged. I've got several mostly done scraps in the hopper, but there's been

Herring Scrap 31 - Buffalroe Biomasstrology

The other day I was poking around in a bookstore and I spotted John Williams' novel Butcher's Crossing (1960), a grisly novel depicting an 1870's buffalo hunt. A young academic from the east coast travels west, inspired by Emerson, looking for a connection to nature,

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

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