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Due to their low aqueous solubilities, the PCBs and PAHs lay on the surface of soils and waters. PCBs and PAHs adsorb strongly to the organic fraction of soils (Girvin & Scott, 1997; Hiller et al., 2011). Soils contaminated with PCBs and PAHs are transported directly or indirectly by rivers to the water reservoir and are subsequently converted into the bed sediments. Therefore, soils could be considered as the primary sinks for these organic contaminants. PCBs and PAHs are persistent in the environment, resistant to degradation process, and accumulate in food chain. This will eventually bring health hazard to living organisms, including mutagenicity and carcinogenicity (Hiller et. | tftCJjEG Q C NEWS . Newsletter of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council WINTER 2010 ISSN 2151-2337 Ecosystem-based Management of Fisheries in the US Pacific Islands The Council was established by Congress in 1976 to manage marine resources and maintain opportunities for sustainable domestic fishing in the US exclusive economic zone waters and high seas around Hawaii American Samoa Guam the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the eight US Pacific remote island areas. nwhi Bottomfish By the Numbers aloha Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Bottomfish Fishery United Fishing Agency manger Frank Goto 2nd from left with l-r Tim Timmoney Troy Lanning and Bobby Gomes fishermen from three of the last eight permitted bottomfish vessels operating in the NWHI. The NWHI bottomfish stock is healthy not overfished and not experiencing overfishing as indicated by the most recent stock assessment published by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in 2009. For copy of report visit www. . Estimated Biomass 3 026 000 lbs Harvestable Stock or Maximum Sustainable Yield MSY 1 062 000 lbs 2007 Landings 191 158 lbs Percent of Harvestable Stock Caught in 2007 18 Source Hawaiian Bottomfish Assessment for 2008. Brodziak J. R. Moffitt G. DiNardo. 2009. Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center National Marine Fisheries Service. The tradition of fresh opakapaka onaga hapuupuu butaguchi and other bottomfish from the Leeward Islands could fade into history as the fishery bows out by the New Year. For more than a hundred years local commercial fishermen braved the unpredictable weather in the 1 200-mile stretch of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands NWHI to return with holds full of fresh fish for our local markets. Fishing ceased for a brief time during WWII but resumed shortly thereafter. The fishery expanded in the 1970s and the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council brought it under federal management in the

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