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THE BOATING BUSINESS NEWSPAPER VOL. XLIV, NO. 8 FEBRUARY 2007
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Phil Dyskow
By JoAnn W. Goddard / Associate Editor
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Phil Dyskow, president of Yamaha Marine
Group, can comfortably call the Japanese-based
company his home. He has been associated with
Yamaha since the 1970s, with the exception of a
six-year stint at Fenwick Corp.
Soon after graduating from the University of
Hawaii, Dyskow imported Yamaha sailboats into
the United States. When the company opened its
marine division in the United States, Dyskow was
offered a job in the company’s Cypress, Calif.,
headquarters.
“I was actually the first employee of our marine
business in the United States,” says Dyskow.
He worked for Yamaha from 1981 until 1990,
quickly climbing the corporate ladder. He averaged a promotion every two years.
But an attractive offer from Fenwick led
Dyskow to head the fishing tackle company in
Huntington Beach, Calif.
“I lived in Huntington Beach, so it was one of
those naturals for me,” said Dyskow. “It was kind
of a dream job.”
But his heart was always with Yamaha. So in
1996, when Dyskow was offered the job of president at Yamaha, he took it.
In 1999 Dyskow relocated the company from its
West Coast headquarters to Kennesaw, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta.
Soundings Trade Only recently visited Yamaha,
located on Chastain Road, and talked in-depth
with Dyskow about his tenure, his management
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Court ruling invalidates discharge exemptions
Industry and BoatU.S. teaming up to fight ‘overbroad’ application of federal ballast regs
By Melanie Winters / Associate Editor
m.winters@tradeonlytoday.com
The chief lobbyist for marine manufacturers is teaming up with BoatU.S.
to fight possible legislation they say
could lead to onerous permitting requirements for boaters.
“This is drop-dead serious,” says Monita
Fontaine, vice president of government affairs for the National Marine Manufacturers Association. “This is very, very bad.”
The issue stems from a Sept. 18 federal court ruling.
Judge Susan Illston in the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of California gave the Environmental Protection Agency two years to start regulating discharge of ballast water from
cargo ships. This should alleviate the
longstanding problem of invasive
species entering the nation’s waterways, Illston said in her ruling.
The ruling, however, could have unintended consequences for recreational
boating.
“Clearly this country needs to attack
the invasive species issue,” said Margaret Podlich, vice president of govern-
ment affairs for BoatU.S. “We must do
something about ballast water.” But,
“The last time I checked, commercial
ballast water is very different from
recreational boat discharge.”
Fontaine agreed, calling the court ruling “overbroad,” because it would cover
any discharge from any vessel.
“I don’t think they [the court] understood the implications with regard to the
recreational marine industry,” she says.
“We were never involved in the lawsuit.
It was never intended to apply to us.”
Ballast water is taken in by cargo
ships and then pumped out at the
ports along a ship’s route to compensate for changes in weight as cargo is
loaded or unloaded. Organisms found
in that water are typically taken in as
well and could be released into a new
ecosystem.
More than 10,000 marine species each
day hitch rides around the globe in the
ballast water of cargo ships. A number of
these species are released into U.S. waters in the more than 21 billion gallons of
ballast water annually, according to court
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‰ MARKETING: Mike Walker says benevolence benefits business ......................p. 57
‰ PEOPLE: Jim Musbach rejoins Coast Distribution System as president and COO ..p. 59
‰ FOR THE RECORD: Regulator Marine recognizes its “5-Star Dealers” .............p. 63
‰ CALENDAR: The All Canada Show Des Moines opens Feb. 2 .......................p. 64
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