NOAA Magazine 2014

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Weekend Schedule of Tuna Competition Events Saturday, August 9

Sunday, August 10

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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 Kevin Greenwood, Rick Fuller & Chris Urbach – Port of Newport Captain Doug Baird & Captain Eric Berkowitz – NOAA Pacific Fleet & MOC-P Nancy Fitzpatrick – Oregon Albacore Commission • James Rand & Barbara Moore – News-Times Heather Hatton & Eric Smileuske – Chinook Winds Casino Resort • Leslie Matheson – Director of Judging & Team Services Bonnie Prater – Judging Scorekeeper • Sharla Springer – Judging Coordinator • Lola Jones – Judging Team Director Lorna Davis – Executive Director, Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce Kathy Myers – Newport Food Pantry/Operation Snackpacks Jim Tough, Bay City Cruisers – Neal Hubbard, Rollin’ Oldies • Art Balhorn - Pepsi • Ed Woodry – AA Tent Company Valley Fire Center • Michelle Mausen – My Petite Sweet • Melody Pfister – Asian Slaw Salad • Jim Myers, Event Producer and the many awesome volunteers!

Proceeds from the weekend events benefit the Newport Food Pantry, PO Box 1415, Newport, OR 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 issues, and collaborating with other agencies who address various needs of those living in Newport. In 2013, we distributed over 180,000 pounds of food to 8,000 people. 34% of pantry recipients are children under the age of 18 and many are senior citizens. A large number of those who visit the pantry work more than one job to support their families. Through Operation Snackpacks, we distribute weekend food to 110 school children who live in food insecure households. Once a month we host Read & Feed, encouraging nutrition and family literacy. It’s a huge job and we can’t do it without all of the wonderful people who are so generous with time, talent, financial resources, and food donations. You help us with our mission that no child in Newport go to bed hungry. Thank You!

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Oregon Albacore Tuna provided by the Oregon Albacore Commission through Newport suppliers and fishermen.

Saturday, August 9 Tickets: $15 Adult $10 Student $5 Youth 6-15 Delicious Side Dishes Too! Limited ticket sales – go to www.tunabbq.com to order advance tickets online Port of Newport - 2000 SE Marine Science Drive – Next to Boat Launch & NOAA

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1:00 p.m.

Tuna Time with Tom at the MAK Grill Center!

BBQ cooking demo (with samples!) with Mr. Tuna himself, Tom Pfister.

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Oregon Albacore Tuna provided by the Oregon Albacore Commission through Newport suppliers and fishermen.

Sunday, August 10 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Awards Ceremony 2:00 p.m.

Tickets: $10 Adult $5 Students and Youth All you can sample from these amazing Albacore Tuna Chefs!

Delicious Side Dishes Too! Limited tickets are on sale at the entry gate.

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The Culinary Student Teams: South Sound Community College #1 Don Webster & Ben Coppin South Sound Community College #2 Keri Bird, Lamin Saho & Jeremy Pritchett The Flyin’ Hawaiians (Umpqua Community College) Pili, Carrie, Mindy & Shellie The Outback Cookers (Umpqua Community College) Deb, David, & Wayland Oregon Culinary Institute OCI students Manja, Manja! (Northwest Culinary Institute) Sara Goodlin, Darian Curtis, Jon Cobb, Matthew Matte The Last of the Culinarians (College of Western Idaho) Brenda Hurst, Laurie Vande Vooren, Casey Horton & Homer Ortiz

Student vs. Instructor Culinary Challenge!

Northwest Culinary Instutite Manja, Manja!

(Sara Goodlin, Darian Curtis, Jon Cobb, Matthew Matte) vs. Instructor Chef Erol Kanmaz

Umpqua Community College The Flyin Hawaiians (Pili, Carrie, Mindy & Shellie) vs. Instructor Chef Cody Perry The Outback Cookers (Deb, David, & Wayland) vs. Instructor Chef Steve Cripe

Oregon Culinary Institute

Judges:

Chef Patti Curfman

(CEC, CEPC, ACE, AAC), owner Patti Cakes & 2012 Tuna BBQ champion

Michele Longo Eder

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Chef Ralph Pesznecker

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Chef Beatrice Kemp

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NOAA celebrates three years at Newport hub

BY ABBIE TUMBLESON Of the News-Times

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ow that three years have passed at the Newport hub, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has settled in well. Tuesday, July 1 marked the third anniversary since NOAA officially kicked off operations in Newport.

The NOAA Marine Operations Center-Pacific (MOC-P), which officially opened its doors on July 1, 2011, serves as the homeport for several of NOAA’s research and survey ships, as well as providing a variety of support for NOAA’s Pacific fleet.

NOAA signed a 20-year lease with the Port of Newport in August 2009, after Newport had been selected as the location for Pacific operations in a competitive lease award process that took about 22 months.

“It’s hard to believe it has been three years already,” Executive Officer Capt. Mike Hopkins said. “It has come a long way since we’ve been here. We have probably doubled the number of people working in the building itself. We’re almost up to a full building now.”

He added that the NOAA community is happy to be located on the central Oregon coast.

“We are getting used to what it is like here. I think we are doing a better job of becoming integrated into the community every year,” Hopkins said.

The NOAA MOC-P facility includes 40,852 square feet of office and warehouse space, a 1,300-foot-long pier and a small boat dock. According to NOAA’s website, the Pacific fleet collect data essential in protecting

marine mammals, coral reefs and historic shipwrecks, managing commercial fish stocks, understanding climate processes and producing nautical charts that help keep mariners safe.

The NOAA facility also fits in well with Port of Newport operations at the South Beach location. Across the bay, Newport’s historic Bayfront boasts a bustling commercial fishing industry as well as retail and dining locations.

Rick Fuller, NOAA MOC-P facilities manager with the Port of Newport, agreed that everyone seems to be happy.

“Everybody comments that the wharf is one of the better wharfs around,” Fuller said. “The facility itself has been performing extremely well without any major problems. The design and the intent of the design has been efficient, and all systems are operating to their full potential, which from my standpoint is a plus.”

The main buildings of the MOC-P facility were built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards for environmentally sustainable construction.

Additionally, Fuller helps provide assistance to ships that come and go.

“It’s a pleasant place to be working,” he said. “From an operations standpoint, I see ultimately happy people.”

Contact reporter Abbie Tumbleson at 541-265-8571, ext. 211 or abbie@newportnewstimes.com

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By DENNIS ANSTINE For the News-Times

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he primary focus for the officers and their families of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hasn’t changed as the Pacific research fleet enters its third year based in Newport, but its involvement in the Lincoln County community continues to strengthen.

By all accounts, it will take many more years before NOAA’s scientific, economic and communal contributions to Lincoln County and Oregon reach

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their high-water mark, but early returns indicate the relationship has the promise of growing into a healthy, positive bond.

Most importantly, the community has welcomed the federal agency and its 20-year commitment with open arms, and the newcomers from Seattle, the East Coast and elsewhere are adjusting to the central coast’s blustery weather and lifestyle just fine, thank you.

“All over it has been a positive move for most people,” said Tracey Brennan, co-president of NOAA Officer’s Family Association (NOFA), a support group for the agency’s families. She and her husband, NOAA Ship Rainier Capt. Richard Brennan, and their two sons moved here from Norfolk, Virginia.

“There’s always an adjustment when you relocate,” she said, “but overall we love the raw beauty of the coast – it’s very majestic. We appreciate the quality of life here, that it’s more relaxed with not as much tension and hassle. There is a different lifestyle here than in Seattle, for example, but most are enjoying the change.”

Brennan said as NOFA and others volunteer at schools and events, “it has been very positive with the community accepting us and enjoying us being here.

The more we have become involved, the more we appreciate this community.”

Capt. Wade Blake, commanding officer of NOAA’s Marine Operations Center-Pacific (MOC-P), cautions

that any involvement in the community needs to be secondary to the NOAA’s fisheries, hydrographic, ecosystem and ecosystem survey projects. But it is a responsibility he and others take seriously.

“First of all,” he said recently, “we’re very pleased with this facility (40,852 square feet of office and warehouse space and a 1,300-foot-long pier, all leased from the port) and grateful to the city for its support, which we appreciate. We see it as the beginning of a great relationship.”

NOAA, its officers and their families have begun to become more involved in the community through outreach by doing more volunteering. For its part, Capt.

Blake said, the base has gotten involved in a variety of community events and has held guided tours to more than 3,000 visitors to the base and its ships during the last two years.

Blake said he meets with city and county officials often to let them know what’s going on on the base “so they can let other groups know what we do and how we fit into the community,” he said.

“We’ve been getting more involved as a group but a lot of our community involvement is self-generated from a group like NOFA or officers on a ship,” he said.

“As a group, some helped clean up a park in Toledo and helped put flags out on the highway during holidays.

When things like that pop up we will get involved.”

For example, when St. Baldrick’s Foundation for childhood cancer research held one of its head-shaving fundraisers this past May in Newport, Piper Berkowitz, the 9-year-old daughter of Capt. Eric Berkowitz, who is director of marine operations at the local base, shaved her head along with other family members.

Piper and her team, which included NOFA members, raised more than $6,000 as Newport and NOAA supporters became involved, which included three crew members of the Rainier shaving their heads while docked at Petersburg, Alaska.

NOFA has been involved in several other community events, including the Newport Food Pantry’s “snacks packs” programs for children, Christmas and holiday events, and a silent auction.

NOFA is also sponsoring a photo contest for its employees, especially those who are traveling aboard ships in the Pacific Ocean, which will provide the

Photo by Dennis Anstine

photographs for a 2014 calendar. As with its other events, a portion of the proceeds will go to local charities and groups, Tracey Brennan said.

“We’re now canvassing local businesses and we hope to have all photographs submitted by Sept. 15 with the goal of having the calendars ready to be sold in October,” she said. “We hope the proceeds will help fund some of our local events, too.”

Business as usual

Community involvement will likely become increasingly important for NOAA because its impact on small, isolated Newport and Lincoln County promises to be immense during the next 18 years or longer.

At this point, however, Capt. Blake and other NOAA Corps officers remain focused on their mission, which is to have “our ships continue doing what they are designed to do.” That involves about 110 crew members and about 55 office and warehouse employees at the base to support the vessels’ sea-going missions.

The ships include: -Bell M. Shimada and Oscar Dyson, both fishery survey vessels that primarily work the waters of the West Coast, including off Alaska’s Aleutian and Kodiak

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islands. They survey for the density of population of a variety of fish, including sardines and hake off the mainland and pollock, salmon and cod in Alaska waters.

NOAA also does a killer whale survey along the coast during the summer months, “which is important because they have a significant impact to the salmon population,” Black said. The results of all the surveys assist the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in keeping its management programs up to date.

-The Rainier and Fairweather do hydrographic surveys mostly in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, updating and creating new nautical charts of the ocean’s floor. Blake said many charts are too old to be useful, and other areas have no mapping at all.

Overall, eight vessels are under Blake’s command, down one recently with the decommissioning of the Miller Freeman, which will be replaced by a new vessel called the Rueben Lasker. There are three ships stationed in Hawaii and a fourth, the McArthur II, is currently undergoing maintenance in a Seattle shipyard.

While there is more to grow since NOAA moved from Seattle to Newport, federal funding for its missions has decreased during the last year as the government has been forced to “sequester” its spending in a variety of ways.

“Nothing has really changed as far as our missions are concerned,” said Blake, “but we have had to adjust

what we do with our funding. The cost of diesel fuel, for example, has doubled from $2 to $4 in the last few years. Our operating costs have gone up, so we’ve had to cut back on our days at sea.”

While there has been an operating reduction, he said, there has been no cutting back on personnel because the vessels need to be maintained and properly manned when they do their missions.

The NOAA Corps consists of only commissioned officers, but its “civilian masters” and wage marine employees work for hourly wages and are represented by unions.The fleet, Blake said, consists of five different personnel systems between ship and shore, “so it can get confusing.”

NOAA’s silver lining

The promise of jobs and contracts with local vendors was an important part of the attraction for the local and regional economy after a 2010 survey was done by the Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County (ecdev@orcoast.com or 541-961-3837).

The report estimated that NOAA’s presence could mean a $32 million annual influx – equivalent to 800 fulltime jobs in the county – after 10 years. Even without factoring in the value of attracting additional marine science research, the impact estimates about $20 million annually in the local economy.

While the amount of money that NOAA will circulate through the local economy is real, it’s unlikely that

NOAA will ever be an important employer of local residents because its jobs are listed nationwide, it hires the most qualified candidates and rarely advertises locally. Blake said he recalls NOAA hiring only two people living here.

The report also placed the NOAA budget for products and service at $8 million per year ($2 million per boat), though Caroline Bauman, the alliance’s executive director, cautioned that the local economy would capture only about half of that at the outset as companies take time to adapt to serve the need of the fleet.

For his part, Blake has given several talks at local economic development meetings about the ins and outs of smaller local companies doing business with the government.

Bauman said that during the last three years more than 200 separate businesses have been represented at such training workshops and that there are more than 90 Lincoln County companies on the eligibility list for government contracts, which includes jobs with Oregon State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service.

She said Blake’s seminars have been invaluable and have often been attended by statewide employment and economic development officials, “which has helped people from all over the state learn more about NOAA. That’s also good for our tourism.”

The bid process, Blake said, can be especially difficult.

He said NOAA buys a lot of goods from local vendors, including contracting with Carson Oil Co. for its diesel fuel, but the bidding process get competitive when the

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contract is in excess of $25,000.

“We are focused now not to just construction trade contracts,” said Bauman. “We’re seeking more service providers such as Lazerquick and Lincoln Glass, small companies that are able to access NOAA with business for less than $25,000.”

The goal is to have companies in all five categories doing business with NOAA, including those that offer highly skilled marine trades service work, such as a ”large bilge pump repair service, for example,” she said.

Bauman, who expects to finish a research analysis soon on what it takes to do business with the government, said the county isn’t making as much money from NOAA and the Hatfield Marine Research Center as it can, but there has been growth.

“We knew it would take time because of the bid process,” she said, “but with more local companies working with NOAA our bids will become more competitive.

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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.

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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, fresh-frozen 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 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).

OREGON ALBACORE

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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Just play with your Winners Circle card, and we’ll randomly select two players every hour to enter the Whirlwind of Cash booth to grab cash out of mid-air. What you catch, you keep!

WEEKLY DRAWINGS Sundays, 12pm-8pm

Collect a free entry every week during the promotion when you check in with your Winners Circle Card, and collect even more when you play in the Casino! Then, we’ll draw for one finalist every hour. On Sundays, we’ll remove $1 bills from the Whirlwind of Cash booth, and replace them with $5s, $10s, $20s, $50s and $100s! What you catch, you keep!

Complete rules available at Winners Circle.

August 29 & 30, 8pm Tickets $35–$50

Trace Adkins

September 19 & 20, 8pm Tickets $53.50–$68.50

Joe Nichols

October 24 & 25, 8pm Tickets $18.50–$33.50

The Beach Boys December 5 & 6, 8pm Tickets $33.50–$48.50 On Sale September 5

For tickets call 1-888-MAIN ACT (1-888-624-6228) or purchase online at chinookwindscasino.com Discount available for Winners Circle Members.

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