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CA Biologist allegedly embezzles $800,000 from ESA studies for drugs and gambling

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He is scheduled to be sentenced next week. LeValley and his attorney, William Kimball, said they cannot comment on the case at this time. Raymond misled LeValley, saying he needed the money for timber clearing and other fire prevention work that was needed but for which there was no funding, according to court documents. Tracey Avila's trial is awaiting a new date. (News Researcher Janet Balicki contributed to this report.
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Board creates new state waters cod fishery in Bering Sea

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Kluberton said that an entry level, open access fishery in the Bering Sea seemed to respond to requests the board heard. A parallel fishery also operates in state waters in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, which generally follows federal rules. In 2006, the board created a state waters Pacific cod fishery that is southwest of the new fishery, in the Aleutian Islands, which also takes 3 percent of the BSAI ABC. That fishery had a GHL of 20.7 million pounds in 2012, although...
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