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Date Posted: 02:35:32 10/23/06 Mon
Author: Don Johnson
Subject: Russian Pie - Fisheries Allocation

I looked up from the table to see Ken tearing his newspaper to shreds and throwing the pieces in the air.
He then got busy stomping the pieces into the carpet and muttering.
"Those dang rotten sport fishermen, they won't be happy till they plum ruined all our fishen," Ken said.
He then continued by glaring at me, because he knew I kind of liked those sport fishen guys.
"What they do, write something nasty about the
commies?" I asked.
"No they think's that, just because folks are willing to pay big bucks to sport catch our fish,
that should gives them some kind of super priority when we allocate fish!" he whaled.
"Those guys are CRAZY !! THEIR OUT OF THEIR SCULLS !!," he ranted.
I sliced off a piece of raspberry pie and slid it to him on
a paper plate.
"Here, shovel that in your mouth," I said.
"Where'd you get that from?" he asked.
"Mrs. Fletcher; you know the little old lady across the street who keeps trying to stick
her rake in your scull, as you back your car over her Honeysuckle Roses," I said.
"Yeah that there is one nutty lady," he said as he smiled and grabbed the plate.
"She sure makes great Russian Raspberry Pie," I said.
"Why they call it Russian anyway?" he asked
"Everyone says the Russian's planted them bushes up there where we picks 'em," I said.
I could tell that he agreed because half of his pie had vanished.

Let me ask you this Ken; if you only had a limited number of raspberries and had to choose who you were going to give them to for pie making, who would you
give them to, a person who made the best or the worst
pies?" I asked.
As he swallowed the last bite he started mumbling and squinting up his eyes.
"What's that supposed to be, some kind of trick sideways question?" he responded
as he gulped down some milk and wiped his face.
"Come on, just answer the question," I said.
"Well of course I would want to give them to the one who makes the best pie," he finally admitted.
"Then why would you want to give those fish to someone who didn't use them
for the best purpose possible?" I asked.
"That's not what I'm saying! I'm saying that we get the best bang for our fish buck
when we spreads those fish around to all kinds of groups, not just you sporties," he wined.
"You mean like we currently spread around 90 percent of our sockeyes to only
commercial users?" I asked.
"That's different, there's to many of them for the public to
use," he said.
"How's that different? I'm pretty sure that properly marketed,
we could sell all of them salmon
to some sport fisherman. It would just be a matter of
advertising," I said.
"So you would just give "some" of those berries to folks who don't know how
to make pie?" I asked.
"No! Why can't you get it? I'm just saying we get a stronger economy and fishery
by allocating fish to all kinds of users instead of just a few," he said.
"How can you get the best deal on anything by selling to the lowest bidder?" I asked.
"Your looking at it all wrong; it's not the lowest bidder, it's strength in diversity of users," he said.
Ok forget about berries, what about fish like down where
you work. Would you guys dump the most fish to be gutted on the slowest gutter in the line? I asked.
"Heck no!" he said.
"Right! You'd send the most fish to the guy who did them the way that made the cannery
the most money, the same can be said about them berries or even publicly own fish," I said.
"Yeah but you're just talking about making money, sometimes those fish should be
allocated to stuff that don't make anyone money, like subsistence fishing," he said.
"Well then I guess it all comes down to what fisheries use people value the most don't it?" I asked.
"Yeah, if folks decide that a sockeye on a subsistence dinner plate is the best use of
the resource, then those fish should be allocated there and not sold," he said.
"Yeah, the trick is that the public needs to make a straight decision as to where the
best value of a fishery is at. That would mean fish allocation decisions NOT made
by some group or person who has a special interest axe to grind on the issue," I said.
"It's just a matter of the state deciding where the highest value of a salmon is really at," he said.
Ken rubbed his head as he considered all the little fishies out there roaming around the
ocean and the tons of politicians trying to scoop them up before they even get in town.
"Yeah, yeah I've had enough of figuring out other folks problems, let's have another slice
of Mrs. Fletcher pie," he said.
"Now by eating this here pie you know you're admitting that we should give
Mrs. Fletcher priority berry allocation when we gets some, right?" I asked.

He looked at me with a little smile and said, maybe, but that there means I will have
to do a whole lot of taste testing to decide that allocation.There might be lots of taste
testing in everyone's future but if she ever finds out that you've been eating her pies,
we may both get a rake up side the head.

Don Johnson

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