These are the issues that concern commercial fisherman of Bristol Bay in Alaska.
1. Copper River Salmon - But not for the reason you expect.
What the Copper River salmon marketers don't want to tell you is that their salmon is just like any other wild Alaska salmon, and that they get the "first fish of the season" is a marketing ploy which just allows them to raise money. They even get sponsored by Alaska Airlines just to fly that one fish down to Seattle. I think some people even consider copper river salmon to be it's own species of fish which is wrong. This is all there is.
Copper River salmon fisherman get paid $3.00 per pound for their fish, Bristol bay fisherman get paid 65 cents per pound. There's a huge disconnect here, the salmon quality is the same, they look and taste the same. Commercial fisherman on Ekuk beach even ice their fish right out of the water, they don't do that in the Copper River. Marketing has convinced the lower 48 that Copper River salmon is somehow special when it isn't.
2. The Egegik district - A pass-by fishery.
The Egegik district is a fishery that was 'developed' back in the 1980s. This district, the small highlighted area on the top is a pass-by fishery, meaning that they catch fish that the majority of their fish caught are fish that aren't even close or were planning on spawning in Becharof lake. The district extends so far out into the ocean that they catch nearly the entirety of the Kvichak river salmon, and many of the Nushagak river salmon. Since the Egegik district was 'developed,' the Kvichak district has suffered losses to it's escapement, and the fisherman there are hardly able to support themselves. Fisherman in the Naknek district, the nearest district past Egegik, have had many problems with catch over the years. One year, fisherman in the Naknek district averaged a 1,000 pound catch for the season, while Egegik district fisherman average 500,000 pounds. Egegik fisherman catch 500 times more fish than the district above them, the Egegik river would explode if that many fish were actually planning on going up that river.
It's written into law that if the Egegik district has to go into it's original boundary lines that are not extended into the ocean about 4 or 5 miles, that the Naknek fishermen have to go into their river as well. This happened for about 5 or 6 years and the difference was staggering, Naknek fisherman ended up catching 80 TIMES more fish than the previous year.
The Egegik district is effectively controlling all of the salmon escapement to the fisheries above it, once the Egegik district fishes for about 5 or 6 years in its current state, the rivers above it will have no escaped salmon to spawn, and the amount of salmon will dwindle until the fisheries will eventually close. However, Egegik fisherman have a lobby group that pushes the completely disconnected state-controlled law system to make the Egegik district even LARGER than it already is. Even this year it was extended 8 (or was it 80?) miles farther north, effectively cutting off even more fish that should have been brought into the river. The only reason why Egegik has a lobby group and no one else does at this point is because when you average a catch of 500 times more fish than your neighbors, you make 500 times more money. Fishing districts are meant to catch the fish that go into the rivers they surround, this is not a difficult concept. Egegik is way too small to be an actual fishery, yet they catch more fish than the districts above them that are 5 times larger.
3. Oil prices - Duh. For the canneries especially.
So to sum it up, Copper River Salmon are lame, this year they fished that district to death, it didn't operate this year (they were uuuuuunhappy about that), and Egegik is a fake fishery with too much support, the end. |
Today was a day where I found good stuff that will help me with my mental instability.
Google Reader. This is something that brings the internet to you like e-mail. They find articles and links to interesting things based on what you decide is your taste, and they deliver it to you in an e-mail form. You don't have to go find stuff anymore! Well, I mean you'll still have to find some things, but sometimes finding things that really matter takes a sideline to more fun things like Youtube or checking your e-mail 5000 times a day. So now not only do I get to do these fun things, I also get mental stimulation about interesting world stories and about new technology and weird philosophical ideas that I had never thought about, in a concise location.
One such thing Google Reader showed me was this wonderful Youtube video that has Ira Glass from NPR's This American Life. If you haven't heard about the show, it's a good one. In this clip he was doing an interview for young film/interviewer/article/creative whatever people, talking about storytelling. The points he brings up really hit home for me, and if you're a creative person I really recommend watching all four parts of it. You'll have a better understanding of storytelling, and the broad sense of creative development in general, plus Ira Glass is pretty frickin' cool. |
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Mar. 26th, 2008 @ 07:30 am
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Ughhhh 8am world music class I have to take to graduate.
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and my bathroom is leaking water too from I-don't-know-where. |
THE QUARTER FROM HELL IS ALMOST OVER!
DON'T KILL ME LIKE I ASKED YOU TO BEFORE!
It's late, I'm going to bed, I have to perform part of the 1st mvt of tchaikovskys violin concerto tomorrow. After that I'll be a lot more relaxed.
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I'm finally living by myself, my roommate left after i told him he only had a day to move out. It got to the point where housing called my mom and talked to her about it. After that I was rather livid, and I had to do something about it. So now that he's gone the apartment is a lot more controlled, but still dirty because I haven't had time to clean it. Plus he still has yet to take his dishes out of here. Once that happens I'll probably spread out and move my computer into the living room.
Other than that mess, I've been dealing with this crazy orchestration project that I've been working on since November... It's for the piano professor here at my school, and I'm not really a fan of his music. It's like over an hours worth of Disney children's music, and he wants it for full orchestra. He wants all the parts done by March 1st, and I still have 4 out of the 13 pieces left to go. I'll get it done, but I'll probably be hating every minute of it. Luckily he called me recently and told me I'd be getting more money out of it than we originally talked about. He really likes my work, so I guess it's a good thing.
I feel like this whole project, and school for that matter, are really taking away from my own personal progress into the career that I want to achieve eventually. I want to write music for things, but all I do is play violin and orchestrate music for this project. I feel like I'm working in the wrong direction and there's nothing I can really do about it at this point except wait until summer when it'll finally be over.
Oh and I got a new car recently too, a 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe, it looks like this:
Feb. 16th, 2008 @ 03:25 pm
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Yesterday was my birthday, yay.
I didn't really do anything though, I just sat around and was bored. I also found out after cleaning out my e-mail that I had a $179 charge which was a renewal on a subscription that I canceled. It's a big mess now because apparently to cancel a subscription to those retards takes 15 days. I canceled mine 2 days before the subscription ended, so they decided to charge me for another YEAR. To be more specific it's a ventrilo server that our WoW guild was using. Someone was supposed to pay me back for the first year but they never did. So not only am I screwed from that but I got screwed because they charged me because I didn't cancel the service fast enough, which is absolutely ridiculous. I'm hoping to get a refund from them eventually, that is if they ever respond to my 'ticket'. They don't even have an e-mail or a phone number listed on their site.
Other than that, I feel very stressed out about school, my living situations, and what I'm going to do once I'm done here.
My roommate dropped out of school because he went to part time and started to have to make payments on his student loans. Since this is on-campus housing we're in, he subsequently got kicked out of this apartment. But, he's still living here.
He checked out of the apartment by moving all of his belongings into my room and into my car, making things "look" clean, and then checking out. Since then he's been "looking" for a new place while still living here. He intends to pay me for rent, but I don't know how that will happen. I want to get him out of here as soon as possible which is incredibly difficult because he has no initiative. I can't move him myself or else I probably would because eventually I will get that frustrated.
My life is already stressful enough without more added difficulties from being robbed of what little personal space I have in the world.
I feel like I'm becoming more bitter and angry over time, and I don't like that. I just want to stay the same Jeff I always am. I don't want to let life get to me so much that I start having to resort to being offensive or defiant. I don't want avoid problems, I want to face them like I always do, calmly and curiously. It gets harder and harder though the more problems I get. I never used to get fed up and have ultimatums or become angry.
I just wish I had something good to look foreward to, that's how I usually get through things, but I'm realizing now that I have precious little to hang on to.
The only thing that ever stays constant in my life is music.
Dec. 20th, 2007 @ 09:32 pm
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foreward-slash space space foreward-slash
open parenthesis, oh
space space capital why
space period close parenthesis
back-slash space space back-slash
lopsided boobies.
Dec. 20th, 2007 @ 07:45 pm
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bustatunez: Another Rimbaldi Mystery.
some1namedjeff: *pops a one-a-day*
some1namedjeff: it's almost midddddniiiiiight it's almost miidddddddniiiiiiight it's almost miiiiidniiiiiiiight right nowwwwwwwwww
some1namedjeff: IT"S ALMOST MIDDDDNIIIIIGHT
some1namedjeff: (it's almost middniiiiight)
some1namedjeff: IT"S ALMOST MIDNIIIIIGHT RIGHT NOWWWWWWW
bustatunez: and I almost went crazy
bustatunez: b/c I'm watching Alias the entire way through
some1namedjeff: *polka like interlude with cabaret dressed women*
bustatunez: (downloaded)
bustatunez: except like
bustatunez: the theme song for the 1st season was for some reason detuned a semitone up
bustatunez: or rather, about 75% of a semitone
some1namedjeff: hmm!! :D *polka still going*
bustatunez: drove me crazy b/c it still sounded like it was in F, but it was actually closer to F#
some1namedjeff: you silly goose with your perfect pitch *laugh track with POLKAAA*
some1namedjeff: midnight, is coming *whispers* it's coming, it's coming, it's coming
some1namedjeff: *orchestral shimmering* and when it coooooomes... i'll... just...
some1namedjeff: *orchestra flurries up into a storm, and then flurries back down again* *speaking* what will i do? well i'll tell you! *DOMINANT*
some1namedjeff: I"LL SING AND DAAANCE *polka* I"LL SING AND DAAAANCE, oh damn it's MIIIIIIIIDNIIIIIIIGHT RIIIIIIIGHT NOWWWWWWWW *orchestra gets really loud and climaxes with a MAJOR with ADDED 9 or 2 whichever you prefer CHOOOOORD*
some1namedjeff: *begins tap dancing*
some1namedjeff: *the orchestra starts doing little chords along with the tap dancing*
some1namedjeff: all of a sudden NUCLEAR MISSILES EXPLODE!!!!!
some1namedjeff: IN RED WHITE AND BLUE
bustatunez: stop talking?
Apr. 3rd, 2007 @ 12:07 am
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It's like feeling you have a body inside your body, or a burning in your chest. It's like talking to yourself but feeling like you're not the one responding.
I feel like I want a connection with someone.
Other than that, It's really hard to explain.
Dec. 30th, 2006 @ 04:12 am
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Nov. 16th, 2006 @ 10:09 pm
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Here's a sentence written in normal japanese.
現代の日本語でよく使う漢字は千九百四十五字あります。
in romaji: "gendai no nihongo de yoku tsukau kanji wa sen-kyu-hyaku-yon-jyu-go ji arimasu."
Ok now a side by side comparison. First is the normal translation, the second is the literal translation.
"The kanji used often in modern Japanese number 1945 characters."
"Modern's Japanese within often use kanji (subject) 1945 exist."
This is why japanese is impossible to equate to english, making it THAT much more fun! :D
Oct. 25th, 2006 @ 08:28 pm
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Things like this happen often to me.
me: "Hey, are you hungry?"
roommate: "not really"
me: "well let me know when you're hungry cause (i'm hungry and) i'd like to go out somewhere"
roommate: "kay"
*a few hours go by*
roommate: "oh i forgot you were hungry"
me: "..."
roommate: "we could still go out somewhere before i go over to my friend's place"
me: "kay"
*a few minutes pass*
roommate: "well ross is here and i think we're just going to go to my friend's place (which you don't want to go to because we just smoke the place up and you don't smoke). why can't you just be glad that we aren't having to mooch money off of you for food, bye."
A few days earlier it was this:
backstory: my roommate is penniless, he owes me a lot of money, and since he couldn't save his game on god of war he decided he needed to buy a memory card. so we went to fred meyer and he bought one for 30 dollars. he already has one but he left it in seattle, where he would be going in 4 days. 30 dollars.
me: "hey, are you hungry, we could get some food on the way home"
roommate: "yeah, where we're already half way home? i could maybe get you jack in the box or something"
me: "i'm not really feeling like jack in the box, i had that last night... how about dairy queen? i don't have my wallet though"
roommate: *sigh* "i don't have any money to buy you food."
he had just spent 30 bucks...
Sometimes, all i want is to just be able to hang out with the people i'm close to. I'm tired of my priorities and views being basically stepped on. it really hurts when things i say or things that i value get ignored or forgotten THAT many times. i'm the friend that's a nice guy and can be really helpful, but shouldn't be around because he thinks he's better than everyone else because he has high standards of living. I don't have a problem with the way other people live their lives, but when i'm so closely connected with it, it really deals me some good jabs in the stomach (*insert something ironic about being hungry*).
how would you feel if you were in my position? (it's a rhetorical question, you'd be starving. we don't have any palatable food at home because i'm tired of buying it all.) and before you say "move out," i've already been there.
Oct. 21st, 2006 @ 01:17 am
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account for what Mr. Katou says in each of the following dialogues:
yamada: yottsu dekimshita
katou: moo yottsu mo dekimashita ka?
ishii: yottsu dekimashita
katou: yottsu dake desu ka?
higashi: yottsu dekimashita
katou: yottsu shika dekimasen ka?
Yeah, I couldn't do it either, so just watch this.
Oct. 20th, 2006 @ 11:11 am
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Engrish.com is funny.
Seems santa likes hot young asians.
Oct. 16th, 2006 @ 02:08 am
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Well it's been a few months since my last post and my apartment is just as dirty as it was 4 months ago...
Here's my latest musical thing: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=141747&songID=4395178
I haven't been writing music as of late because I've been obsessed with World of Warcraft... Now mind you i'm not one of those crazed maniacs that spend 10 hours a day on it, but I got into a good group of friends. That's probably why I enjoy it most, the social aspect. It's good to write music though.
ok I'm going to write a run-on paragraph now:
There's also a rodeo in town and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. I could though, because all the rodeo people have their trailers parked across the street. I really hope our new orchestra conductor doesn't suck, if he does suck it'll be just what happened in highschool. You get an amazing conductor/teacher for 2 or 3 years, then the last year he leaves and you're screwed. Some new guy comes in and takes his place and ends up having emotional issues and doesn't know how to teach, and doesn't really try actively to figure out how to do things the way they're supposed to be. The Uncyclopedia is cool, http://uncyclopedia.org. go there and search to your hearts content, everything is hilarious. One of my favorites is the timeline http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Timeline which can read the future! :D
here's an excerpt: June 23, 2014 - The four year Mexican occupation of China finally ends after a brutal massacre on Mt. Everest. Reappointed Chinese government officials reported that Mexican invaders had been using Mt. Everest to freeze five million tons of burritos for export to Australia.
Sep. 3rd, 2006 @ 01:02 pm
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My apartment is really dirty, and I wish I had time and energy to clean it.
I love the sound of planes flying overhead, and whenever I hear them I always have to find them in the sky, no one else seems to care.
When I was little, we had a house with big windows that faced in the direction of the sun during the morning, it was the best feeling just to lie on the carpet where the sun was, to feel the warmness.
I don't think God can time travel, but I won't hold it against him if he can.
Composition for me is a very religious thing I've realized.
I wish I had more Frosted Flakes for tomorrow morning.
Beds are comfy.
"an intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." -Aldous Huxley
May. 9th, 2006 @ 03:39 am
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There was a man named Stan.
He liked to blend Bland.
Bland blended well with forlorn cows corns,
but not very well with mormons.
Britney Spears ate my shears,
it ruined her voice like most things,
she sang anyways and people liked it,
Britney Spears is dumb.
There was a man named Britney Spears.
He liked to eat shears bland, like most things.
He sang to forlorn cows in corn, they liked it.
Britney Spears is a dumb mormon.
Mar. 3rd, 2006 @ 01:47 am
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my last post was lame...
you know what's even lamer? me posting directly afterwards in my livejournal about my last post, and about how lame it was, and how figuratively dejected i am because of it's lameness. all while using poor syntax.
Dear livejournal,
I am so dejected by the lameness of my last post. It feels as if for a moment I've lost my touch, and that my posts will never be the same. Oh livejournal, I mourn. The sadness. Oh, the hurt. You're such a good listener livejournal. While I'm at it, I hate myself and I want a pony.
Feb. 7th, 2006 @ 08:03 pm
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