Social and Economic Impacts. (ALTERNATIVE 1) Alternative 1 will have negative social impacts on hook fisherman and on the Chatham/Harwich community. The imposition of a daily trip limit (1,000 lbs.), reduction in DAS (up to 40%), gear restrictions, and continued closed areas will likely combine to eliminate the centuries old hook fleet causing negative social impacts. Alternative 1 will make it unlikely that a directed GB cod fishery using longline gear will be viable (see Table 14 in Section 5.3.1). Thus, communities heavily dependent on GB cod such as Chatham and Harwichport will be disproportionately impacted. The GB Hook Sector was approved in Amendment 13 to provide an opportunity for Hook and line fishermen to continue to pursue the traditional fishery for cod and xxxxxxx. Pending changes to the Multispecies FMP (Framework 42) may potentially undermine the Sector concept as well as eliminate the likelihood that hook and line fishing can remain profitable. As noted at the Social Impact Informational Meetings, “because of increased regulations in many fisheries, small vessels have lost much of their flexibility to move from one fishery to another. In Chatham, meeting participants felt that regulations have “boxed them in” to particular fisheries, making it difficult or impossible for them to maximize their opportunities and/or adjust to changing conditions. When combined with the inherent limitations of small vessels, the regulations have reduced fishing opportunities to the point that many fishermen cannot guarantee a year-round income from fishing for themselves or for their crew.” (NEFMC, Am 13 FSEIS, Appendix I) Individuals who wish to continue commercial fishing will likely switch to gillnetting or relocate their homeport. This will cause a disruption within the principle communities (Chatham/Harwichport) for shore based businesses and could eventually lead to the loss of piers, wharfs and docks which are in high demand for residential purposes. This outcome will further diminish the possibility for these communities to reenter the fishery once stocks have rebuilt. The well-documented social ills that follow the collapse of a traditional industry are likely to be a result of implementation of Alternative 1. In 2004, vessels targeting multispecies in Chatham/Harwichport experienced 59% decrease in landings. If the Operations Plan is not approved and an allocation of GB cod is not made to the Sector, hook and line vessels that would otherwise be part of the Sector would likely ...
Social and Economic Impacts. Recommendation Nearly all the constituency groups interviewed supported incentives to landowners to improve and maintain habitat. This included the use of tax deductions, conservation easements, and restructuring of the federal tax codes to allow expensing rather than amortizing capital road expenditures such as culvert replacements. A pro- gram of incentives must be developed to allow the value of the permanently designated standing and downed trees to be deducted from the timber owner’s yield or other state taxes. The valuation of these trees could be based on the yield tax value . schedules, and would be claimed when harvesting is completed for the associated harvest unit adja- cent to the WLPZ. This may also help encourage landowners to include watercourse protection zones in conservation easements. The benefit of providing landowners tax credits against the retained recruitment trees will encourage the retention of important habitat features and is likely to prevent legal proceedings for property taking. If we are going to pay millions for rehabili- tation, then tax credits for the retention of key habitat features may be a reasonable step.
Social and Economic Impacts quate to define safe thermal limits and deter- mine potential thermal impacts for each Key factors that affect thermal requirements and stress include food availability, DO, previ- ous exposures to stressful situations, innate metabolic rate (i.e., hatchery fish have lower metabolic rates that their wild counterparts). Until a more site-specific physiological approach is used in conjunction with a water- shed analysis, determining site-specific ther- mal requirements and impacts on salmonids as a result of timber harvesting will remain in the realm of conjecture.
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Social and Economic Impacts. 1. The Supply System agrees to monitor primary and secondary socioeconomic impacts of the nuclear projects during construction and to report quarterly to the Council.
