Daily Archives: January 31, 2014
Bankrupt fish processor’s quota for sale – 25 per cent, or 3,750 tonnes, of the province’s total allowable silver hake catch.
The deadline for offers is Friday, March 14, at 3 p.m., according to a notice published in this newspaper on Jan. 28. The Business Development Bank of Canada appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as receiver for D’Eon assets under its security, including the fishing licence, on Dec. 10, 2013. Read more@chronicleherald 23:21
Tug-of-war over salmon on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula may reach fever pitch
Each summer in Alaska, salmon by the millions flood into the great mixing bowl of Cook Inlet between the popular and populated Kenai Peninsula to the south and the towering, wild Aleutian Range to the north. The fish are money — Alaska wild silver prime for the taking — and for that reason they have come to fuel one of state’s longest-running and most contentious political battles. Read more@alaskadispatch 23:09
Can Regulations Help a Man Learn to Fish? Kissing boss Bloomberg’s ass?
(James Greiff’s boss just granted $56 million to increase fish stocks in Brazil, Chile and the Philippines.) There probably isn’t a lament repeated more often by small business owners than the complaint that government regulation is strangling them. Maybe there’s some truth to this, and yet what sometimes goes missing is the corollary: Without regulations, some of those businesses might not survive. The latest example comes from a New Bedford, Massachusetts, commercial fisherman who told Fox News that limits on how many fish can be hauled from U.S. coastal waters will be the ruin of the domestic industry. Be sure to click the links! Read [email protected] 19:41
Did You Know: Montauk Is Ground Zero for Community Supported Fisheries
Lucky us. On Long Island it’s easy to find fresh fish. Try living in suburban New Jersey, where my sister lives, and you have to drive two towns over to find a store that sells fish and only fish. Read more@edibleeastend 16:03
Board of Fisheries is in Session! Listen Live.
When in session, the Board of Fish hosts streaming live audio. Click here 15:44
The Upper Cook Inlet Board of Fisheries meeting starts this Friday.
Posted January 27, 2014 Alaska Board of Fisheries to Meet in Anchorage, January 31–February 13, 2014 on Upper Cook Inlet Finfish information here 17:42
No worries! – BSEE, Coast Guard Responding to Loss of Well Control Incident in Gulf of Mexico
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Coast Guard are responding to a loss of well control event at Vermilion Block 356 in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 108 miles southwest of Lafayette, Louisiana. Read more@gcaptain 12:08:
42-year-old Fisherman Coast Guard medevaced from New Bedford F/V PATIENCE
NEW YORK – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 42-year-old man from a New Bedford, Mass., fishing vessel approximately 75 miles south east of the New York Harbor, Thursday. The patient is currently in stable condition and is being evaluated by the Jersey Shore Medical staff. Read more@ucgnews 10:39
Maine seafood company set for ‘exponential’ growth as Silicon Valley investor buys in
Roughly 80 percent of its business is scallops and haddock. While the scallops are sourced from all over the world, from local fishermen to scallop farms in Peru, the haddock all arrives frozen from Scandinavia — hook-and-line caught, not trawler-caught, Pardy pointed out. Read more@bdn 09:43
Shelton Barlow – Atlantic Marine Industries Hall of Fame – 2014 Mariner of the Year
All of his work with and for fishermen earned Barlow entry this year into the Atlantic Marine Industries Hall of Fame as 2014 mariner of the year. He received the special recognition during the recent Fish Canada Workboat Canada trade show in Moncton. The Navigator Magazine and Master Promotions Ltd. sponsor the award. Read [email protected] 08:37
The Alaska Board of Fisheries on Friday kicks off a two-week meeting with a fish war at its center.
Sportfishing interests are asking the state to protect plummeting numbers of Kenai River king salmon by restricting commercial fishing. Setnet groups are pressing for access to healthy runs of sockeye. Read more@ADN 08:24
Mass. Fishing industry Bill expands appeals rules for transfer of permits
Proposed legislation to protect due-process rights of the holders of fisheries licenses and permits has passed the Massachusetts House and is on the way to the Senate for deliberation there. Read more@gdt 01:27
Our View: One fish, two fish … way too many fake fish – Was it wild salmon you ordered? Would you be surprised and disappointed to learn that you got coho instead? Read more@gdt
