Daily Archives: September 21, 2013
SITTING IN: How wrong is the Pew mantra? Dr. Carmine Gorga
Gloucester —I have heard it so many times, that I call it the Pew Mantra. What is the evidence that NGO’s environmentalists offer to prove that family fishing vessels engage in overfishing? What are the “facts” on which they build their case? Well, this is what they tell us: At each passing, bottom trawlers scrape the floor of the ocean and, just like clear-cutting forests, make a desert out of it. Sounds so convincing doesn’t it? more@wickedlocalGloucester
It’s like, I keep puting this up! Climate change pushing lobster north, study says
The study, co-authored by Dalhousie University marine biology professor Dr. Boris Worm, compiled 40 years worth of data to explain several significant marine species shifts seen in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. “The question we asked was ‘Are fish on the move?’ — generally — and if they are, are they moving in the direction the temperature is moving or are they doing something else?” he said. more@cbcnews 20:13
Coast Guard rescues 4 F/V Chaos fishermen from beach near Dutch Harbor, Alaska
Coast Guard watchstanders at the 17th District command center in Juneau received a call from the Chaos crew Friday night, relayed through the Dutch Harbor harbormaster, reporting that the 54-foot longliner had been at anchor and adverse weather had caused the anchor line to break and forced their vessel ashore. more@uscgnews 18:42
Haddock research could lead to increased opportunities – “What we’re seeing on the south coast of Newfoundland is so interesting.
Thanks in large part to acoustic surveys conducted in 3Ps in 2012 and 2013 — by the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research of the Fisheries (CFER) of the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University — which suggested that the haddock might be making a comeback in 3Ps, the provincial government is providing $25,000 for CFER to pursue research into the abundance of haddock off the south coast of the province. more@thetelegram 12:47
A follow up to yesterday’s Somethin’ ain’t adding up here – NSEDC fisheries dispute with long-time critic gets nasty
Fisherynation Featured writer and Groundswell Fisheries Movement’s Stephen Taufen sent me an email last night with an article attached that he wrote that ran in Alaska Report that should be read when looking at the history of Alaskan CDQs and of course, the history of Tim Smith and Norton Sound Economic Development Corp (NSEDC). An article linked here from Alaska Journal “NSEDC fisheries dispute with long-time critic gets nasty” was short on detail’s of the beginning of a very long running tussle that has turned into accusations Tim Smith being a stalker, while in reality, he seeks open process. 12:11
But Taufen’s 2009 article opens up much more than the feud, it brings back the issues of the Community Development Quota (CDQ) and raises the question, should this issue be addressed in the Reauthorization of MSA?
The Alaska Fisheries Report – KMXT Kodiak
Coming up this week, Southeast fishermen get extra time to target coho this month, NOAA wants your feedback on Amendment 95, we’ve got a review of this summer’s Yukon fisheries, and the backlash over a cartoon, all on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had stories from KYUK’s Angela Denning-Barnes in Bethel, and KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg. listen@kmxt 09:35
No Impacts Expected to Next Year’s Fishery from the Sinking of the Lone Star
For the next several day’s a group of salvage experts will try once again to raise the sunken tender Lone Star from the bottom of the Igushik River. The impact of the sinking on the local commercial salmon fishery was outlined this week during a meeting in Dillingham. KDLG’s Mike Mason was there and filed this report. listen@kdlg 09:23
Anyone want a boat? Fishing boat stuck in Penobscot River flats for more than 2 years up for salvage
HAMPDEN, Maine — More than two years after it ran aground, a 57-foot fishing boat remains firmly lodged in the flats of the Penobscot River. The boat, which has the name “Roamer” painted on its hull, was declared abandoned in January of last year. It is now up for salvage, according to Dan Prichard, director of the state Bureau of Parks and Lands Submerged Lands Program. more photos more@bdn 09:04
Baker | Are coral beds protected from oil drilling?
Corals are a relatively new concern on the marine environmental radar and there’s apparently still quite a lot left to be learned about them — but that doesn’t mean they’re not important. Those zones have been closed to any fishing activity that involves gear coming into contact with the bottom. In an interesting twist, however, those fishing bans do not necessarily prevent oil companies from doing drilling or exploration around sensitive coral zones. more@cbcnews 07:49
Point Judith gets out-of-town boost
The port of Point Judith, which has seen a steady reduction in the size of its local fishing fleet since the 1990s, received a much-needed economic boost this year from out-of-town vessels. Hailing from mid-Atlantic ports from Wanchese, N.C., to Cape May, N.J., these vessels began coming in the spring and used the Narragansett port through the summer in many cases to offload their squid or scallops and to take on fuel, ice and supplies. They came for one simple reason, they were following the fish. more@providencebusinessjournal 07:33
Letter: Lingering questions over NOAA’s perpetrators – Marty Stillufsen , Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.
I was on a first name basis with the late Times staff writer Richard Gaines, and I am writing to see if there are any answers to lingering questions surrounding issues he had covered within the fishing industry. Have Chuck Juliand (Northeast region attorney) and Dale Jones (head of NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement) been promoted, given any new raises, reassigned — or fired? Furthermore, was special investigative master Judge Swartwood paid with Asset Forfeiture Funds or the operating budget of the National Marine Fisheries Service? more@GDT 04:08
