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San Diego - Tuna Industry, 1980

 File — Box: 745, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6

Scope and Contents

A collection of reports, testimony, letters, memos, new releases and articles. Examples are: Stapled packet containing a note (9/24/80) from August Felando (Pres., Am. Tunaboat Assn.) to Congressman Wilson & attached photocopies of a letter (9/18/80) from Mr. Felando to the Chairman, GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC), Mr. Felando’s 16 page statement to TPSC & “Status of United States Tuna Fleet and Foreign Sales” (12 pp.) re/ “public hearings on petitions filed TSUS or TSUA item No. 112.34 by petitions, the Governments of Malaysia and Morocco;” photocopies of Vern Griffin, “Fishermen turn tide in battle over porpoise rules,” San Diego Tribune (n.d.) & Benjamin Shore, “Petition Urges U.S. Stand Firm in Tuna Dispute,” The San Diego Union, 8/1/80; 1 copy of a news release from The Gail Stoorza Co. (9/9/80) re/ “Lowery Calls For Immediate Boycott of All Mexican Seafood Products;” 1 letter (8/11/80) from Frank Moore (Asst. to the President for Congressional Laision) & 1 letter (8/27/80) from J. Brian Atwood (Asst. Sec. for Congress-ional Relations, State Dept.) to Congressman Wilson re/ “a secondary boycott on Mexican fish and fish products” & Congressional concern over the “seizures of six U.S. tunaboats by Mexico;” 1 photocopy of a letter (7/31/80) to President Jimmy Carter with signatures of 34 Congressmen urging the “need to act decisively to protect the nearly $2 billion American Tuna industry;” 1 photocopy of a KCST-TV “Editorial,” re/ a “Tuna War” broadcast on 8/18,19 & 20/80; 1 photocopy of a letter (8/22/80) from CA Assemblyman Peter Chacon to President Jimmy Carter & attached photocopy of “Tuna Men Blame Porpoise Rules in Fatal Shark Attack,” Los Angeles Times (8/21/80) re/ the Assemblyman’s critique of regulations & restrictions on the tunaboat industry; photocopy of a 6 page letter (8/14/80) from August Felando (Tunaboat Assn.) to S.D. Mayor Pete Wilson & attached photocopy of the congressional petition sent to President Carter for a secondary boycott of Mexican fish products re/ Mr. Felando’s meeting with Mayor Wilson providing him with “background information about the Mexican/USA tuna conflict;” 1 packet containing letters, telegrams, memos, office notes & news clippings for July 1980 re/ seizure of American tunaboats by Mexico; 1 letter (7/16/80) from Elliot L. Richardson to Congressman Wilson & attached copy of Richardson’s “Prevention of Vessel-Source Pollution An Attainable Goal,” reprinted from Oceans (Mar./Apr. & May/June, 1979) re/ “a comprehensive treaty . . . of law for the oceans would . . . be the most effective means of protecting the marine environment;” 1 stapled packet containing a memo (7/29/80) from Congressman John Breaux to “Co-sponsors of H.R. 7039, The American Fisheries Promotion Act,” & the Congressman’s letter to the Editor of the Washington Post re/ an article by Celia Dugger (7/2/80) entitled “Gift to U.S. Fisheries Hits Sales Resistance on Hill;” 1 letter (7/14/80) from Zeke Grader (Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Assn.) to Secretary of Commerce Phillip Klutznick re/ “Appointments to the Pacific Coast Management Council;” 2 photocopies of news articles – Arthur Golden, “Mexico Warned On Seizure of U. S. Tunaboats,” The San Diego Union (7/5/80) & Vern Griffin, “. . . right boils,” San Diego Tribune (7/4/80); 1 copy of a “Press Release” from the “Papua New Guinea Embassy, Washington D.C.” (6 pp. including map) re/ lobbying for U. S. “recognition of Pacific island nations’ sovereignty over highly migratory species of fish, especially tuna;” 1 stapled packet containing corresp. (Apr.-May, 1980) from Congressman William J. Hughes, Lionel Van Deerlin, Clair W. Burgener, Bob Wilson, & attached copies of “convincing statements in opposition to the Studds Amendment [to H. R. 6310] by John B. Breaux, Chairman, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, and by the Department of State” including a copy of “Revised April 16, 1980 Vote on Studds Amendment to H. R. 6310 (Inclusion of Bluefin under FCMA)” listing the names & votes of the 40 members on the subcommittee; 1 letter (4/24/80) from Elliot L. Richardson (Ambassador at Large, Dept. of State) to Congressman Wilson and a copy of Elliot L. Richardson, “Power, Mobility and The Law of the Sea,” Reprinted From Foreign Affairs, Spring 1980, pp. 902-919 re/ “the importance of US naval and air mobility to project national power” & the dangers with “expanding coastal state claims over ocean space” thus the need for the 3rd UN Conference on The Law of the Sea to address this issue; 1 large, stapled packet containing letters, memos, office notes & news articles (Dec. 1979-Mar. 1980) from Congressman Wilson, J. Brian Atwood (Asst. Sec. for Cong. Rel., Dept. of State), “Memo to the Boss- Karen,” Western Union Telegram (Tuna Industry, Unions, etc.), The San Diego Union & the San Diego Tribune & photocopy of 2 pages from 90 Stat. 345 – “April 13 Fishery Conservation Act P.L. 94-265” re/ seizures of U.S. tuna vessels by Costa Rica, Mexico’s sovereignty claims, S. D. fishermen concerns, embargo concepts & other items. A collection of letters, telegrams, memos, government reports & news articles. Examples are: 1 large, stapled packet containing corresp. (Apr.-Mar. 1980) from Jack C. Rowland (United States Tuna Foundation), National Fisheries Policy Conference, William Nelson (National Shrimp Congress), “Memo To The Boss – Karen,” August Felando (Pres., Am. Tunaboat Assn.), Congressmen Van Deerlin, Burgener, Wilson & Breaux & J. Brian Atwood (Asst. Sec. for Cong. Rel., State Dept.) re/ Congressman Studds’ amendment to to H.R. 6310, bluefin tuna management & opposition to the amendment from a variety of groups; 1 letter (4/18/80) from Paul M. Calvo (Governor of Guam) to Congressman A.B. Won Pat re/ an incident involving the “tuna purse seining vessel, the Jeanette C” & local immigration officials preventing crew members coming ashore at the commercial port for R & R; 1 page photocopy of “Porpoise Mortality Status Report No. 80-2;” 1 stapled copy of “U.S. Delegation Report Ninth Session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, February 27-Apr. 4, 1980, New York” (45 pp. + Attachment, 5 pp.); 1 photocopy of Vern Griffin, “U.S. has new ball game on porpoise kill issue,” San Diego Tribune (3/26/80); 1 “Memo For File—Karen” (3/21/80), attached memo (n.d.) from the Am. Tunaboat Assn. & photocopy of San Diego Tribune cartoon & articles (3/17/80) re/ S.D. losing its tuna port status & the tuna/porpoise issue; small, stapled packet containing corresp. (May 1979-Mar. 1980) from Jack C. Rowland for David G. Burney (U.S. Tuna Assn.), National Fisheries Policy Conference resolve & Craig Van Note (Ex. V.P., Monitor, the Conservation, Environmental & Animal Welfare Consortium) re/ concerns over how amendment H.R. 4351 to H.R. 6310 would extend U.S. unilateral control over Atlantic Bluefin tuna; 1 copy of a Western Union Mailgram (3/16/80) from Harold F. Cary (U.S. Tuna Foundation) to Congressman Wilson requesting his “help contacting members Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee asking defeat of Studds Amendment;” 1 photocopy of a 4 page letter (n.d.) from fisherman & constituent Don Correia to Wilson re/ Mr. Correia’s “response to the Commerce Dept’s hearings (Mar. 17-21, 1980) concerning the taking of porpoise during the American tuna fishing process;” 1 letter (3/5/80) from John P. Mulligan (Pres., Tuna Research Foundation, Inc.) re/ interest in regional director positions available for nomination to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); 1 photocopy of Ken Hudson, “10 Tunaboats To Move To Mexico, Porpoise Laws Blamed For U.S. Losses,” The San Diego Union (3/5/80);1 stapled photocopy of Federal Register (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2/15/80) Part II, Dept. of Commerce, NOAA—“Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations Proposed Rules, pp. 10552-10563; 1 page photocopy of Ken Hudson, “Tuna Fleet Is Moving Abroad,” The San Diego Union (2/14/80); photocopies of news articles by Grace-Marie Arnett, “New Rules Kill Tuna Fleet” & “U.S. Proposes Stiff Rule On Tuna Porpoise Kills,” The San Diego Union (2/4 & 1/9/80); 1 copy of “Draft Environmental Statement—Proposed Regulations and Conditions for the Issuance of a General Permit Governing the Taking of Marine Mammals Associated with Tuna Purse Seining Operations,” U.S. Dept. of Commerce . . . National Marine Fisheries Service, 1980, 84 pp. + reference pp. & copy of “50 CFR Part 216.24;” 1 “Memo for the Record” (1/8/80) re/ August Felando & Chilean relations.

Dates

  • created: 1980

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From the Collection: English

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