Opinion ID: 2204600
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Application, hearing request, and continuances

Text: In 1987 Doubleday applied for permits to both the Northern and Southern fisheries. For the Southern fishery, he claimed on his application that he participated in 1981 and 1982 as both a skipper and holder of a crew member's license. He claimed on his application for the Northern fishery that he participated in that fishery as a crew member from 1979 to 1984 and as a skipper from 1981 to 1984; he later amended this application to claim points for participation as a skipper from 1978 to 1980. Finally, for both the Northern and Southern fisheries, he claimed points for ownership of the fishing vessel EASTERN and relative income dependence. After requesting additional evidence from Doubleday to support his claims for points in the Southern fishery, the CFEC approved only 16 points for participation in the Southern fishery as a skipper in 1982, and it found no evidence to support his claims for any additional points in either fishery. Because he had not shown that he had ever harvested sablefish from the Northern fishery during the qualifying years (1975-84), the CFEC found him ineligible to even apply for a permit in the Northern fishery. Doubleday requested an evidentiary hearing. The CFEC granted multiple requests from Doubleday for continuances, first setting the hearing off until 1989 [9] and then until 1995. [10] Doubleday represented himself at the 1995 hearing, but it too was continued because Doubleday had no documentary evidence and was not prepared to represent himself. The final portion of the hearing was held on January 24, 1996, and the record was left open until June 2, 1997, at Doubleday's request. After the record was closed in 1997, the hearing officer denied Doubleday's permit applications.