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Weekend Schedule of Events Celebration of NOAA Pacific Fleet’s 1st Anniversary in Newport

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Special Salute to NOAA Friday, August 10 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

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We thank the following men and women for their tremendous support!

Tom Pfister - Director of the Great Albacore Tuna BBQ Challenge Don Mann & Maureen Keeler – Port of Newport Captain Wade Blake & Commander Mike Hopkins – NOAA Pacific Fleet & MOCP James Rand & Barbara Moore – News-Times Heather Hatton & Eric Smileuske – Chinook Winds Casino Resort Lurlyn Patrick – Director of Judging & Team Services Bonnie Prater – Judging Scorekeeper Corey Rock – BBQ Team Liaison Lorna Davis – Executive Director, Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce Steve Chrisman – Classic Car Show Director Art Balhorn - Pepsi Jim Myers – Producer & the many awesome volunteers!

Portion of the proceeds of the Weekend Events benefit: P.O. Box 1415 – Newport, Oregon 97365 The Newport Food Pantry is dedicated to providing for the needs of hungry people by collecting and distributing food, educating the community about hunger, and collaborating with others who address needs. No child in Newport should go to bed hungry. Around 330 families representing 750 come to the pantry each month seeking emergency food assistance. 34 percent of pantry recipients are children under the age of 18.

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Celebration of NOAA Pacific Fleet’s 1st Anniversary in Newport Friday, August 10 • 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

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Dinner only $5 and includes a side dish, chips & Pepsi product or water! Ceremony honoring NOAA including a special 1st Year Anniversary cake provided by Chinook Winds Port Dock 7 - 600 S.E. Bay Blvd -Newport’s Historic Bayfront

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NOAA fleet supports ocean and climate research

By Terry Dillman Of the News-Times

While much has changed since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Pacific research fleet dropped anchor at its new operations center in Newport’s South Beach peninsula one year ago, much has stayed the course.

“It’s gone pretty well so far,” said Capt. Wade Blake, the commanding officer for NOAA’s Marine Operations Center – Pacific (MOC-P), noting that it’s mostly been business-as-usual for the fleet and support center. “The facility and port are serving us well, we survived the winter storms without incident, the community has been very receptive and helpful, and we just keep doing what we do.”

Blake, who took command in September 2011, marks 27 years of service with the NOAA Corps in October. The NOAA Corps is one of the nation’s seven uniformed services, similar to Capt. Wade Blake (Photo by Terry Dillman) the U.S. Navy or U.S. Coast Guard, with 321 NOAA commissioned officers trained in engineering, earth sciences, oceanography, meteorology (weather), fisheries science and other related disciplines. They operate ships, fly aircraft, manage research projects, conduct diving operations, and serve in staff positions throughout NOAA. Blake considers NOAA an “environmental intelligence agency” that makes nautical charts, collects environmental data, and engages in a wide

spectrum of projects “to get the whole picture of what’s going on – everything from space to the depths of the ocean.”

His role is to oversee the operation of the agency’s entire Pacific fleet of nine ships, including the four (Bell M. Shimada, McArthur II, Miller Freeman and Rainier) that now call Newport home, and the ships’ commanding officers report to him. The staff at the Newport facility provides support for all NOAA ships plying both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

“We have a lot of dedicated folks throughout NOAA who are passionate about their work,” Blake said. “Everything we do here is focused on supporting those ships, keeping them supplied with fuel, food and people, keeping them out there pursuing their projects and missions.”

Making sure they can do so “in a safe, efficient manner” is the prime objective.

One by one, after mooring for the winter for repairs and replenishing, the vessels headed out this spring and summer “more or less on schedule” for various research missions. Blake said the McArthur II remains at the pier in a “warm lay-up status” with a skeleton crew ready to activate her and go out if needed. Agency funding allocates a total number of sea days each year for all ships, and McArthur’s allocation was doled out among the other vessels “to maximize their efforts and keep them operating at a higher tempo.”

Blake said all vessels would begin returning in October and November, bringing more people and more activity to the NOAA pier – activity that would again ebb and flow as those ships move in and out of Yaquina Bay pursuing their missions.

Last year’s shore-based staff of 35 has grown to 55, and will likely increase to 65 as they “figure out what we need” and work toward hiring more folks. And they have worked with Oregon State University (OSU) and Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) “to collaborate on research efforts,” Blake added.

and direction between points.

In 1870, the federal government established the first agency to provide weather observations and warnings within the U.S. Army.

The Weather Bureau itself began in 1890, when Congress transferred those services to the Department of Agriculture. The service evolved in scope and capacity, becoming the National Weather Service in 1970. Today, NOAA is the nation’s primary source of weather data, forecasts and warnings.

The fishing industry has played a vital role in the nation’s history since its inception. Formal efThe NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker was recently built and launched in Wisconsin. While the forts to protect fisheries started in vessel is destined for homeporting in San Diego, it could eventually end up in Newport.

1871 with the founding of the U.S. (Courtesy photo) Commission of Fish and Fisheries, charged with protecting “food Scientific foundation fishes,” along with scientific studies for managing Science, research, and their practical applications and protecting marine mammals. In 1882, the USS to everyday life is the foundation of the National Albatross became the first government research vesOceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). sel built exclusively for fisheries and oceanographic NOAA “enriches life through science,” says Jane research, during three decades of service, Albatross Lubchenco, the agency’s administrator since 2009. discovered more new marine species than any other “Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the research vessel, launching a tradition for NOAA’s curdepths of the ocean floor as we work to keep citizens informed about the changing environment around them.”

NOAA’s history is an integral part of the history of science and scientific research in the United States.

NOAA has existed as an officially designated agency only since 1970, but the three agencies – the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Weather Bureau, and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries - that, along with other elements, merged to become NOAA are among the federal government’s oldest.

Much of the nation’s scientific heritage and legacy lies within those three agencies.

NOAA’s genealogy traces back to 1807, when science-oriented Capt. Wade Blake, the commanding officer for the NOAA Marine Operations Center – Pacific, President Thomas Jefferson cre- stands next to the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada, the state-of-the-art newest member of the ated the Survey of the Coast to fleet. (Photo by Terry Dillman) provide nautical charts for safe passage along the nation’s coastlines and into rent marine research efforts. the nation’s ports. It provided the foundation for Today, that research takes place in laboratories extensive research and information “to enhance throughout the nation and aboard the fleet of ships the safe and efficient navigation of our nation’s and airplanes operated by the NOAA Commissioned waterways,” according to NOAA’s website (www.

Officer Corps. noaa.gov). NOAA currently manages the network that provides a common reference and coordinate system for all maps and charts, including position (latitude and longitude), elevation, and distance

On a mission

movement through the water, which gives scientists an opportunity to study fish and marine “NOAA’s mission touches the lives of every Amerimammals “without significantly altering their can,” says Lubchenco, who brought an extensive behavior,” and thus collect more accurate data. It background as a marine ecologist and environmenfeatures multi-frequency scientific sounder, multital scientist, and expertise in oceans and climate beam sonar, direct sampling capabilities, dynamic change to the agency’s leadership position. That positioning system, and extensive wet and dry mission, which focuses on “science, service and labs. stewardship,” is to understand and predict changes Renowned author and poet Maya Angelou once in climate, weather, oceans and coasts, share that noted, “I’ve learned that people will forget what knowledge and information with others, and conyou said, people will forget what you did, but serve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems people will never forget how you made them feel.” The folks who call Newport home provided proof of Angelou’s statement by making an indelible impression on the Shimada’s officers and crew when the vessel arrived on June 6, 2010.

The 208-foot ship arrived on unrelated matters in time for the community homeport groundbreaking ceremony and celebration, following in the wake of its 210-foot sister ship, the R/V Miller Freeman, which glided into port a day earlier. After spending a year in a Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard prepping for F/V Excalibur makes its way past the NOAA homeport pier on its way out of Yaquina Bay. the voyage home to the Pacific NOAA research vessels play a vital role in developing surveys and maps for commercial fisherNorthwest, the Shimada and its ies. (Photo by Terry Dillman) crew set sail, narrowly missing the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as the broadsides between Oregon and and resources.

Washington officials over NOAA’s controversial The NOAA MOC-P plays a central role. selection of Newport as the fleet’s new homeport It serves as homeport for four NOAA research and continued. survey ships, including the state-of-the-art vessel With the sea days wearing on them, Newport and Bell M. Shimada, commissioned in 2010.

Yaquina Bay finally hove into view last June on Launched in September 2008, the Bell M. Shimada what one Shimada crew member described as was the fourth of a new class of high-tech fisheries “a dreary, cloudy, foggy, lousy, no-good Sunday survey ships designed to meet specific data collecmorning” – adding that it’s the kind of day folks in tion requirements for the NOAA Fisheries Service, the Pacific Northwest are accustomed to. and the new standards for a low acoustic signature As if on cue, the fog began to lift “like a rising set by the International Council for Exploration of stage curtain” as the ship made her way between the Seas. the jetties. It unveiled a small fleet of pleasure The ship’s namesake, Bell Masayuki Shimada craft, charter boats, and commercial fishing ves(1922-1958), was known for his contributions as a sels, all filled with people waving American flags fishery research biologist to the study of the tropiand cheering. Other folks lined the “postcardcal Pacific tuna stocks so vital to the development of worthy bridge that perfectly defines the skyline West Coast commercial fisheries after World War II. of Newport” and the jetties that “led us under the Its primary mission is to study, monitor, and collect bridge like a red carpet aisle, velvet ropes and all.” information on a wide range of sea life and ocean Ship’s horns and bells rang out, and Sheehan said conditions, mostly in U.S. waters along the West she “was startled to hear the perfect echo” across Coast from Washington to southern California. the water. Through it all, the F/V Michelle Ann When federal officials commissioned the vessel in spouted water from her main fire hose, a tradiJanuary 2010, Rear Adm. Jonathan Bailey, director tional sign of highest nautical honor. of the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation OperaOn that dreary, cloudy, foggy, no-good Sunday tions and the NOAA Corps, called her “a significant morning, the town of Newport was welcoming achievement in the agency’s efforts to modernize its NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada home. fleet of fisheries, oceanographic, and hydrographic survey ships.”

The ship’s design allows for quieter operation and

Support services

MOC-P also provides administrative, engineering, maintenance and logistical support to the ninevessel Pacific fleet; and houses the MOC directorate, which oversees both the Pacific and Atlantic marine centers, and all NOAA ship operations.

NOAA officials celebrated 200 years of service in 2007 – the same year that the Port of Newport submitted a bid to provide a new home for the Pacific research fleet, responding to the agency’s request for proposals as a long-standing lease at Lake Union in Seattle neared an end. NOAA awarded the bid in August 2009, port officials managed a $38 million, 22-month construction project completed in May 2011, and NOAA signed a 20-year renewable lease with the port in July 2011.

The South Beach peninsula where the NOAA MOC-P facility is located is also home to one of the nation’s premier marine research facilities at HMSC, as well as the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

Local, state and federal officials believe it could help transform South Beach into an international hub for research and development on ocean health – a key component in climate change.

The fleet itself provides floating, mobile platforms for marine science research, collecting data essential to protecting marine mammals, coral reefs and historic shipwrecks, managing commercial marine fish stocks, understanding climate processes, and nautical charting. They also deploy and maintain buoys that gather oceanographic weather information and other data.

Their activities also support existing NOAA facilities located at HMSC. The Newport Research Station at HMSC is the only ocean port research facility for NOAA’s Seattle-based Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Located in the heart of Oregon’s groundfish, salmon

and other fisheries, the vessels offer support for the 70 scientists and staff who conduct marine science research throughout the Pacific coast region. Capt.

Rick Brown, a retired NOAA Corps officer and current program manager at NWFSC at HMSC, says their work depends on those NOAA ships “to support a variety of fisheries and ecosystem-based cruises.”

During the field season (spring, summer, autumn – roughly April through October or November), the vessels are almost always out at sea, conducting essential ocean research, fisheries surveys and seafloor mapping. When home, they are highly visible from many viewpoints, standing out at the facility’s central location in Yaquina Bay that allows them quick, easy access to the ocean, from where they can fan out in any direction for exploration purposes.

Former Gov. Ted Kulongoski called the homeport’s construction in Newport “a landmark event for this state,” noting that the ensuing research and development that could evolve from it “will not only put Newport on the map, it will put Oregon on the map.”

Folks from Newport, Lincoln County, and throughout Oregon agree, and have eagerly welcomed NOAA’s presence and personnel to the community.

Economic impacts

During the competitive lease process, port officials touted Newport as “the best working waterfront on the West Coast,” with its commercial fishing fleet, U.S. Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay, and ocean research activities. Port and NOAA officials say the heart of the homeport project is marine science, research, and education, with Newport, in particular the South Beach peninsula, as a pivot point.

The NOAA fleet, they said, would not only enhance research efforts, but would help attract additional marine science ventures, putting Newport’s marine research profile on a rising tide.

Caroline Bauman, executive director of the Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County, released an economic impact analysis, providing an estimate of the how the move could affect the local and regional economy in the next decade and beyond. The EDA is a non profit public-private partnership that aims to diversify the central Oregon coast economy, and assist in generating quality jobs. It also coordinates economic development efforts with agencies, regional groups, and the Oregon Business development Department.

Over time, the analysis indicated it could mean a $32 million annual influx - equivalent to 800 full-time jobs in Lincoln County - after 10 The NOAA homeport facility is community-oriented and offers facility and vessel tours years. Even without factoring in for community groups and organizations like this group of volunteers from Oregon State the value of attracting additional University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center. (Photo by Terry Dillman)

marine science research, the impact still pencils out to about $20 million annually in the local economy.

Part of the impact involved landing contracts to provide goods and services to NOAA for its operations.

The analysis also factored in construction costs, maintenance, and repair to the port of Newport, the impact of crew jobs associated with the four NOAA vessels, direct support, administrative, and executive staff to estimate impacts on total personal income over time for Lincoln County as a whole. Using basic input-output regional economic modeling, Bauman made the estimates with technical assistance from Hans Radtke, a natural resource economist in Yachats; Shannon Davis from Corvallis-based The Research Group; Lt. Andrew Colgrove, who headed up the MOC-P transition team; workforce analyst Will Summers; and regional economist Erik Knoder.

“We expect the NOAA fleet homeported at Newport to expand the area’s critical mass with regard to marine-related activities,” Bauman wrote.

In general, the four research vessels and related activities would add to Newport’s reputation as a major marine research and management center, enhancing and complementing HMSC and its already wide spectrum of ongoing scientific and research projects.

Other facilities and programs include support for commercial fishing vessels plying their trade off the West Coast and Alaska, the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Marine Mammal Institute, Northwest Marine Renewable Energy Center, and the Ocean Observatories Initiative.

The homeport has 175 full-time jobs associated with it - 110 as crew members and direct support for the vessels, 65 administrative and general support staff.

Estimated annual payroll (at $65,000 per job) would range from $4.9 million during the first five years to $8.8 million 20 years out. That translates into estimated total personal income of $7.8 million and $14.1 million per year, respectively.

Estimated NOAA budget for products and services is $8 million per year ($2 million per vessel). Bauman said the local area would capture “no more than 50 percent” of that business at the outset. “We anticipate this percentage to grow over time as companies move, grow, and adapt to serving the needs of the fleet,” she added. Over time, the annual total personal income derived from providing supplies and services is estimated at $2.7 million to $3.2 million.

HMSC scientists and staff are currently involved in a myriad of oceanographic and other marine studies. The NOAA fleet, the analysis indicated, would encourage and support additional research activities and programs.

An additional $17 million to $18 million in research grants are possible, based on “a cumulative effect” of NOAA combined with other institutions. Those additional research projects mean more faculty, staff, graduate students, and other expenditures.

The personal income impact is estimated at $13.6 million per year ($7.2 million in payroll, $6.4 million in supplies and equipment). Most likely, the analysis noted, the effect won’t begin until after the third

year, and gradually increase to the estimated levels after 10 years and beyond.

The lease between the Port of Newport and NOAA is a 20-year contract, with an option to renew.

Factoring in initial construction costs for the first two years, followed by the annual impact for the duration of the lease in maintenance and repair ($1.28 million), NOAA payroll ($7.8 million to $14.1 million), vendors ($2.7 million to $3.2 million), and additional research ($7 million to $13.6 million) shows an estimated impact to total personal annual income reaching $32.12 million in years 10 to 20. Using a full-time equivalent of about $40,000 payroll income per year in Lincoln County, it translates to the equivalent of 800 full-time jobs in the Newport area.

Full speed ahead

Still, all the dollars-and-cents discourse about jobs, economic development and growth obscures the fleet’s true purpose: providing mobile laboratories and platforms for marine science research, and supporting NOAA’s stated mission to manage the nation’s fisheries and conserve protected species in the face of a changing climate.

It’s research wrapped around the mysteries and wonders of the ocean, with the NOAA fleet and other research vessels providing the stage.

Blake said the relationship with the community remains strong, with several thousand folks from various groups and organizations scheduling tours of the vessels and facility during its first year, along with regular visits from and discussions with local, state and federal officials.

As for the much-talked-about debris headed toward the Pacific Northwest from the 2011 tsunami that wreaked havoc in Japan, Blake said the NOAA research fleet is “not directly involved, but follow standard procedure to report and document what they see. So far, they haven’t encountered anything. It’s definitely a concern.”

NOAA leaders are currently watching the November election campaign, along with everyone else in the nation, as budgets and funding often hinge on the outcomes, especially with what Blake noted as “the rising costs of doing everything we do.” He said NOAA and its adjuncts deal with the same things everyone else does at home, except on a much larger scale.

NOAA leaders are also immersed in an overall long-term fleet plan. Meanwhile, Blake said MOCp would continue with “business as usual,” keeping the fleet shipshape and operational to focus on the mission of “science, service and stewardship.”

Terry Dillman is a reporter of the News-Times.

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OREGON ALBACORE COMMISSION The Oregon Albacore Commission (OAC) is an industry-funded state commodity commission under the umbrella of the Oregon Department of Agriculture, which appoints the nine members of the commission, five harvesters, three processors, and one public member. The OAC is funded exclusively from an assessment on the cash value on all albacore landed in Oregon, split equally between the harvester and the “first receiver.”

The OAC’s primary activities include marketing and promotion, information dissemination, consumer education and research. The Commission exhibits at major seafood and food industry trade shows under the Seafood OREGON umbrella with the state’s three other seafood commodity commissions. The OAC produces marketing materials, furnishes supplier contacts and works to enhance the use and consumption of “troll caught” Albacore.

THE FISHERY

Members of our Oregon Albacore fishing community feel personally accountable for the wholesomeness of the fish, the long-term sustainability of the fishery, and the health of our oceans. Local Oregon fishermen deliver the very best albacore, whether fresh, freshfrozen or micro-canned in small batches.

The Oregon fleet is made up of independent family fishermen who have chosen albacore fishing as a lifestyle and care about good food and good fishing. An Oregon Albacore fisherman is a rugged spirit driven by the adventure, ready for the fast and furious action when the albacore start to bite and are proud to bring one of Oregon’s food treasures to your table.

The fast, powerful Oregon Albacore – silver flanked with long slender lateral fins – are hand-caught, one at a time, and handled with care all through the process. The boats tow lures called “jigs” from fishing lines attached to outriggers, that are extended on either side of the boat. Tuna is also caught on individual poles held by fishermen using bait. Once

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an albacore bites, the fisherman lands it by hand, removes the barbless hook, and transfers it to ice for the fresh market or to an on-board freezer. In both cases the fish is preserved in as fresh a state as possible.

This type of fishing, sometimes called trolling, hook and line, or pole-caught, produces the very best quality, and eliminates inadvertent catch of other types of fish (called by-catch).

Wild Oregon Albacore is remarkable – not only is it delicious and easy to cook, but it delivers so many important nutritional benefits, most notably very high levels of Omega-3s.

Oregon Albacore is ideal for the cook because of the many forms to choose from. During the season (usually June through October), you can buy fresh albacore right from the fishermen on the dock.

At the market, you’ll find Oregon Albacore that is fresh or frozen at sea, meaning frozen when the fish was in pristine condition, only moments out of the ocean.

Or you can enjoy the flavor and convenience of canned or pouched albacore prepared in small batches and cooked just once, which seals in all the flavorful juices and nutrients, including the valuable Omega-3s.

So whether you buy fresh, fresh-frozen or canned, Oregon Albacore delivers a great value and is a delicious and convenient source of protein with a moist texture and rich flavor.

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