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Admiral Rufe. There was one that we sighted, Senator Stevens, 

 and when we went back, we could not relocate him, so we are as- 

 suming that he left the grounds, because we had good coverage. He 

 was last seen headed south, so we are assuming that when we 

 caught the other guys he took off. There is just a chance that there 

 may be vessels out there that we have not detected, but we are rea- 

 sonably confident that we have caught everybody that has been out 

 there trying to fish this year. 



Senator Stevens. In regard to law enforcement effort, how much 

 percentagewise are you allocating, in terms of the moneys available 

 to you in this district, for fisheries enforcement as opposed to other 

 normal Coast Guard activities? 



Admiral Rufe. I will have to provide an answer for the record, 

 Senator. 



Senator Stevens. Is it increasing or decreasing? 



Admiral Rufe. Oh, it is increasing, and I do have some figures 

 on that. I will give you one example, for the boarding program in 

 the 17th District, about 82 percent of our boardings are fisheries 

 law enforcement boardings and that compares to about 40 percent 

 Coast Guard wide. So, we do significantly more fisheries law en- 

 forcement in Alaska than we do anywhere else. 



[The information referred to follows:] 



The following table provides fisheries law enforcement effort and budgetary infor- 

 mation for the 17th Coast Guard District (D17) for fiscal years 1989-93. Cutter days 

 and aircraft hours include effort by both resources stationed in the 17th District and 

 those stationed in the Continental United States which are periodically assigned to 

 conduct operations in Alaska. The percentage of the 17th District's budget dedicated 

 to fisheries law enforcement takes into account only those assets permanently sta- 

 tioned within the 17th District. 



Year 



1989 

 1990 

 1991 

 1992 

 1993 



Note. 1993 data are for first three quarters of fiscal year 1993 only; fourth quarter data are not yet available 



Senator Stevens. This regional fisheries training team, what 

 will its relationship be to the fishery? I do not quite have a grasp 

 on what you are going to do with that team. 



Admiral Rufe. The team would be based here in Kodiak to pro- 

 vide training to our boarding parties that are aboard our cutters. 

 And one of the problems that we have now is that the fisheries reg- 

 ulations are just so complex, and our cutters do not come here 

 often enough, so that the boarding teams are not as well versed in 

 the complex regulations as they should be. What we would provide 

 here is a team that would be completely trained and up to speed 

 on the regulations in the North Pacific fisheries, and they would 

 provide training to our boarding teams. 



Senator Stevens. Would there be any participation of the fishing 

 groups with that team? 



Admiral Rufe. Yes. 



Senator Stevens. Arr they going to be able to get some orienta- 

 tion of what to expect? 



