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lishing a plant to process fish in the Peoria area. “We’ve had four different groups look at setting up a business here — three from China. One major U.S. seafood com- pany working with a Chinese company was just here a week ago,” he said. The suggestion has been made that a
processing plant that provides jobs would make more sense than an expensive elec- tric fence to keep carp at bay. “The government is talking about spending $20 million to $30 million to keep carp out of the Great Lakes. They ought to peel off $5 million for a process- ing plant right here,” said Jim Dixon, presi- dent of the Dixon seafood operation. Getting fish out of the Illinois River is nothing new to Dixon, representing the fifth generation of a family business that, in the early 20th century, pulled more than a million pounds of fish from the river each year for U.S. fish markets. The fish that Dixon’s family sold back
then were European carp and buffalo, rela- tives of the Asian carp, he said. “Americans like white, flakey fish that’s boneless and doesn’t taste like fish,” said Dixon, pointing out that while a filet of Asian carp qualifies, “you’re only using 10 percent of the fish.” “In China and Asia, they’re used to the head and the bones when it comes to fish,” he said. “(Asian carp) needs to be shipped whole or we need to find a way to get the meat off the bone, some kind of a steam cooker,” said Dixon.
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America’s Cup sailor de Ridder appeals 5 year suspension
SAN DIEGO (AP) — America’s Cup sailor Dirk de Ridder has been suspended from sanctioned events for five years by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), sail- ing’s international governing body, two people with knowledge of the decision said April 15. The people spoke with The Associated
Press on condition of anonymity because the suspension is being appealed.
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San Diego on short list to host next America’s Cup
SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego has made the short list of venues being considered to host the 35th America’s Cup in 2017, port commission chairman Bob Nelson said Friday. “It’s an honor for the San Diego
region to be shortlisted for the 35th Defense of the America’s Cup and the chance to showcase San Diego Bay on a worldwide scale,” Nelson said in a state- ment released to The Associated Press. “San Diego Bay is a dynamic, top-ranked venue that has much to offer a competi- tion of this scale.” If San Diego is chosen, racing would
be in 62-foot catamarans on the bay. San Diego hosted the America’s Cup in 1988, 1992 and 1995, with racing on the Pacific Ocean. An America’s Cup World Series regatta in 45-foot catamarans was held on San Diego Bay in November 2011. America’s Cup officials have cut the
list of potential venues in half, but it was- n’t clear Friday how many cities besides San Diego remain in contention to host sailing’s marquee regatta. The venue is expected to be decided by late summer.
Unless a review board or the Court of
Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturns the suspension, it effectively ends de Ridder’s sailing career. Not only is the 41-year-old de Ridder banned from the 2017 America’s Cup, but he’s unable to accept a $500,000 contract to sail in the Volvo Ocean Race, which begins later this year. Word of the suspension came less than
a week after two New Zealand attorneys criticized the international jury that pun- ished members of America’s Cup champi- on Oracle Team USA, including de Ridder, after investigating the illegal modification of boats used in warm-up regattas. De Ridder said via email from his home in the Netherlands that he couldn’t com- ment on his case. He was banished from the 2013 America’s Cup and Oracle Team USA was docked two points by the inter- national jury four days before the opening races of the regatta in September on San Francisco Bay. Oracle twice trailed Emirates Team New Zealand by seven points before staging one of the greatest
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candidate and Newport, Rhode Island, another former home of the America’s Cup, is thought to remain in the mix. Long Beach, California, has been elimi- nated, and Hawaii’s chances of hosting the Auld Mug could be fading. A spokeswoman in San Francisco
Mayor Ed Lee’s office said talks continue with America’s Cup officials to keep the
comebacks in sports by winning the final eight races to retain the Auld Mug. Jerome Pels, secretary general of the ISAF said via email that he couldn’t com- ment on either de Ridder’s case or on the report that was issued last week on behalf of Yachting New Zealand, in which two independent attorneys criticized the America’s Cup International Jury for “sig- nificant” procedural shortcomings and raised numerous concerns about evidence and the jury’s reasoning. In that report, which was based on
transcripts of the jury’s investigation last summer, the attorneys said two Kiwis on Oracle Team USA — grinder Matt Mitchell and shore crew member Andrew Walker — shouldn’t face further discipline by Yachting New Zealand. The international jury had barred Mitchell from the first four races of the America’s Cup match and expelled Walker. Likewise, de Ridder had been cleared
of further punishment by his national gov- erning body before the ISAF Disciplinary
regatta there. San Francisco Bay provided a stun- ning backdrop for the 34th America’s Cup in September, when Oracle Team USA, owned by software billionaire Larry Ellison, staged one of the greatest come- backs in sports to beat Emirates Team New Zealand. However, America’s Cup officials are unhappy that San Francisco officials are not offering the same terms as last year, including free rent for piers as well as police, fire and other services. Cup offi- cials also are opposed to paying the equivalent of union wages for construc- tion work. America’s Cup officials are believed
to be intrigued by Chicago. Neither side has commented due to confidentiality agreements, but it’s believed that avid sailor Donald Wilson, who founded DRW Trading Group in Chicago in 1992, has a hand in the Windy City’s bid. Wilson also founded the Chicago Match Race Center. Ellison has spoken of holding the
America’s Cup in Hawaii, but there are questions whether the state has the infrastructure to host the racing.
Commission issued the five-year suspen- sion.
Russell Coutts, CEO of Oracle Team
USA, declined comment on de Ridder’s case.
However, Coutts said on his Facebook page last week that “The ISAF jury appeared to be on a crusade to `save the America’s Cup’ and I believe they may have allowed that belief to cloud their judgment.” Paul Henderson, a former ISAF presi-
dent and former International Olympic Committee member, told the AP by phone from his Toronto home April 15 that he’d never heard of such a harsh penalty, and that the case raises serious questions of whether de Ridder and others received due process.
Henderson said the New Zealand attor-
neys wrote “an excellent report. You read it and say, `Oooh. I’m not sure due process was done.”
Henderson said de Ridder’s case needs to be heard by the CAS.
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