DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

ran el Studying Ocean Policies By PAUL MOLYNEAUX “Congress didn’t ask for the Pew White added, referring to the unin­ Fog obscured the view of the is­ Commission’s report,” said Senator tentional killing of nontarget species, lands off Spruce Head, Me., in mid­ Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of “Bycatch is something else.” June, as Leon Panetta, the former Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Testimony at public meetings in White House chief of staff, climbed Oceans and Fisheries Subcommit­ Alaska on Aug. 11 indicated that aboard Bob Baines’s lobster boat tee. She .intends to look at the presi­ Alaskan trawlers caught three times and set out to haul a few traps. dential commission’s report before the recreational halibut allocation as Panetta looked around shortly after taking other information into consid­ bycatch. “If that halibut bycatch the boat left the dock — all points of eration. could be converted into recreational reference had vanished behind a Regardless, the Pew Commission landings, imagine what that would be gray shroud. — originally headed by Christie worth,” said Hayden, former presi­ “It was amazing to watch this guy Whitman when she was governor of dent of the American Sportfishing go out and find his traps where you New Jersey — has already held five Association. While Hayden guards couldn’t see a thing,” Panetta said. of seven scheduled public meetings the interests of sport fishermen, he “At one point, the ropes for the traps around the United States and has also showed readiness to compro­ came up in a big knot. I looked and begun drafting recommendations. mise on no-fishing zones in marine thought, what a mess, but he untan­ Some fishermen contend, however, protected areas, or M.P.A.s. “Part of gled it.” that those recommendations pro­ my job will be to explain to recre­ It might have been the perfect mote an environmental agenda that ational fishermen the need for some metaphor for Panetta’s new job. He ignores socioeconomic impacts on M.P.A.’s, particularly in spawning made the trip as chairman of the small communities dependent on areas,” he said. Pew Oceans Commission, a 19-mem- fisheries. Panetta voiced his own support for ber panel that includes Gov. George “I don’t trust Pew,” said Jimmy commercial fisheries. “I come from E. Pataki of New York, Gov. Tony Donofrio, executive director of the a fishing family,” he said. “My Knowles of Alaska, several leaders Recreational Fishermen’s Alliance. grandfather ran a sardine boat out of in science and environmental action, Although he supports the Pew Monterey, and 1 know we have to and two commercial fishermen. The Commission’s focus on coastal devel­ preserve that culture.” commission plans to release a report opment and pollution, Donofrio had Zoning could accomplish that, said next September that it hopes will reservations about its process. Eileen Claussen, former assistant significantly alter Congressional ac­ “They’re environmentalists trying to secretary of state and chairwoman tion on the marine environment and write policy, and their feel-good con- of the Pew Commission’s Fisheries fisheries. servationism doesn’t address reali­ Committee. “Alaska has zoned areas Formed last year with a $4.5 mil­ ty,” he said. “Their thinking is that specifically for trawling, and the lion grant from the Pew Charitable everyone needs to make the same Trusts, the commission’s focus in­ sacrifice. That mind-set rewards the cludes a tangle of complex issues, industrial fleet and hurts the little includjng adjustments to fisheries guy. The hits should hit the big guys and aouaculture management sys- who killed the fisheries.” tems, rnastal development and Panetta said he hoped the quality coastal pollution — particularly non­ of the commission’s recommenda­ point squrce^^luUonHn that regard tions would allay the worst criti­ the commission plans tn take marine cisms and noted the high caliber of concerns upstream, asking even its members. “We have an esteemed Americansjn the heartland to share group of people on this commission,” the direct costs of protecting coastal he said. “The governor of New York; areas. Its Pollution Committee will the governor of Alaska; commercial meet in Des Moines, for instance, to fishermen; Mike Hayden, the former talk with farmers about the impact governor of Kansas: they are free of agricultural runoff on the nation’s thinkers. They’re not going to sacri­ estuaries. fice their credibility for anyone.” Not since 1969, when the Stratton The commissioners represent Commission put forth recommenda­ many interest groups with opposing tions that led to the formation of the agendas, and Pat White, a Maine National Oceanic and Atmospheric lobsterman and commission mem­ Administration and the establish­ ber, predicted that consensus would ment of the 200-mile fishing limit, be tough to achieve, particularly on has a high-level panel sought to steer fisheries issues. “For instance. I’m Congress on oceans policy. Some ob­ not enamored with I.F.Q.’s,” White servers question, however, the legiti­ said, referring to individual fishing macy of the privately financed Pew quotas, which give qualified harvest­ Commission, especially in light of a ers exclusive rights to certain fisher­ similar report, scheduled for release ies. “Others are.” in March 2003, by the Congressional­ ly mandated President’s Commis­ sion on Ocean Policy. ' Op9- Only the President’s Commission shares Stratton’s Congressional sanction and broad scope, including transportation and energy issues.

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