Monthly Archives: January 2014
Local fishing organizations gear up for Cook Inlet meeting
KENAI — With more than 230 regulatory proposals, some several pages worth of suggested changes to the Cook Inlet finfish fisheries, nearly 500 written comments and several hundred pages of Alaska Department of Fish and Game opinions and reports, the seven members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries will have their work cut out for them in the coming two weeks. Read more@alaskajournal 22:36
Passmaquoddys, state reach tentative agreement on elver licenses
AUGUSTA, Maine — State officials and representatives of the Passamaquoddy Tribe have reached a tentative agreement on how the tribe will distribute elver licenses and manage the tribal catch for the 2014 fishing season. Read more@bdn 20:42
You SAFMC guys don’t have to hook up the Huskies. Your Pooler, GA Meeting has been canceled!
Public Hearing/Scoping Meeting Scheduled for Pooler, GA on January 30, 2014 CANCELLED Due to Winter Storm – The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is cancelling the January 30, 2014 public hearing and scoping meeting in Pooler, GA. The recent winter storm that hit the Southeast region has provided conditions unsafe for travel to and from the scheduled meeting. Therefore, in the interest of public safety the meeting is being cancelled. SAFMC website 17:32
MSA Reauthorization:Senate Bill On Magnuson-Stevens Coming Soon, Says Begich
“We have not laid down our bill yet,” said Begich. “We’re probably another six to eight weeks away form that. My hope is to finish out the second quarter of this year with a bill coming out of committee and headed to the floor.” Read [email protected] 17:04
NIOSH Takes On Injuries in the Fishing Fleet
For more than 20 years, NIOSH has been working to prevent accidental deaths in the fishing industry. Now, these safety experts are tackling injuries — the kind fishermen are used to getting every season. As KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal reports, that might make this a tougher problem to solve. Listen @kubc 16:49
The Great China Geoduck Ban Mystery
China’s ban on the importation of bivalves originating from the US West Coast could not have come at a worse time for the commercial producers and harvesters of oysters, clams and geoducks – especially geoducks. Read more@fishermensnews 16:37
Boat of the Week from the Athearn Marine Agency: 42′ F/W Novi Lobster/Scalloper,1979, Lobster,Scalloper Fiberglass over Wood, John Deere
Specifications and information here 15:57
Conservation groups file suit for court injunction to stop hatchery fish release in Elwha River
“The science is clear (heard that before!): Hatchery fish are detrimental to wild fish recovery,” said Kurt Beardslee, executive director of Wild Fish Conservancy, one of the groups in the filing. Read more@pdn 13:48
Decline in North Sea fish length linked to rising sea temperatures
Over a 38-year period, the maximum body length of haddock, whiting, herring, Norway pout, plaice and sole in the North Sea has decreased by as much as 29%, coinciding with an increase in water temperatures of between 1 and 2 degrees Celsius*. Read [email protected] 13:06
High hopes for new Nordic whitefish processing machine Video
The machine we have developed locates the pin-bones with x-ray technology,using water-jet to trim away the bones with great precision and speed. The fish is guaranteed boneless with significantly less waste than manual filleting, says Kristjan Halvardsson in the Icelandic company Marel. Read [email protected] 12:43
Why this little fish is on some of the biggest menus around
In the dead of Maritime winter, under frozen bays and harbours, drifting schools of smelt are preparing for an epic journey. Before these tiny silver fish start swimming up the freshwater brooks and streams where they were born, they’ll eat almost anything in sight. Read more@theglobeandmail 10:16
ATTENTION FISHERS: Fisheries Skills Training Courses – Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association
*All the above listed courses will be held at the Summerside Marine Training Centre. Information, and agenda here 10:03
Our biggest water hog is Delta Smelt
Slam man all you want but he is part of the environment. Man has both altered and enhanced the environment. The bottom line is simple: In a natural drought with no water storage, the Delta Smelt population would typically be near extinction levels. With stored water, their numbers are still thin but are more robust. Read more@mantecabullettin 08:10
U.S. Secretary of Commerce has declared the Fraser River sockeye salmon run a “fishery disaster”
Fisheries managers blame the decline on poor ocean conditions, warm river temperatures and habitat decline, among other things.The Fraser River empties out near Vancouver, British Columbia. The sockeye salmon from that river are a key resource for the state and tribal fishing industries in Washington. Read [email protected] 07:50
Fishing stakeholders’ focus shifts from rules to survival
Paul J. Diodati knew he was venturing into something of a maelstrom when he traveled to Gloucester on Monday night to listen to the concerns of local fishermen and stakeholders, while offering some fashion of a state of the state fisheries assessment at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries offices on Emerson Avenue. Read more@gdt 02:58
Fishosophy: Overfished or Depleted? By Nils Stolpe
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II) Contrary to what might have been true when Shakespeare had Juliet speak those words in the 1590s, how things are called is far from meaningless Read more@fishosophy 22:15
Fishing Groups Ask for Emergency Steps to Save Salmon – Brown and Obama administrations exacerbated impact of drought.
Four fishery conservation groups have asked state and federal fishery and water officials to convene an urgent meeting to save California Central Valley Chinook salmon runs from the drought. Poor water management of rivers and reservoirs by the Brown and Obama administrations has also exacerbated the impact of the drought. Read [email protected] 20:04
I know it’s always over fishing, but this crap is being dumped into the ecosystem, and it ain’t helping!
Scientists, increasingly able to detect minuscule amounts of compounds, have begun to test sewage to gauge communities’ use of illegal drugs. Dan Burgard, an associate chemistry professor, knew students tried to get an edge. But he didn’t know about the “study drug.” “I was walking with a student,” Burgard said, “and they bemoaned that it wasn’t students cheating nowadays to get ahead, but that they were taking Adderall,” a potent amphetamine used to treat attention disorders. Burgard had an idea: Let’s test the campus sewage. What he and his students at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., found confirmed their suspicions. Read more@environmentalhealthnews
Commercial watermen speak vehemently against fisheries bill
The bill, SB145, would define how the natural resources department opens and closes fishing seasons, changes catch limits and modifies where fishing can take place via public notice. Read [email protected] 17:27
DFO Charges and convictions – Newfoundland and Labrador Region
The following table sets out charges and convictions over the last six months. Read more here 16:45
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council – Request for Proposals – Electronic Reporting System
All proposals must be submitted by February 15, 2014, Read more here 16:31
Enviro Suit alleges National Marine Fisheries Service ignored ‘best available science’ in sonar ruling. what…wha..
Hmm “Best Available Science”? The National Marine Fisheries Service violated federal law when it authorized the Navy’s use of sonar in training exercises off Hawaii and California through 2018, an environmental group said in a lawsuit filed Monday. Read more@latimes 14:45
New program to help Louisiana shrimpers upgrade or purchase equipment.
The shrimp refrigeration cost-share program provides eligible shrimp-vessel owners, docks and processors half the cost of refrigeration equipment for their businesses. Read more@houmatoday 12:15
Offshore Wind Advocates Want Feds to Delay Leasing Tracts Off Jersey Coast
Letter warns governor, legislators that untimely leases could hurt NJ’s offshore wind industry. Read more@njspotlight 10:50
Cape Cod oyster poaching cases cracked
“We’ve definitely identified somebody,” Balcom said Monday. “We caught him red-handed and anticipate charging him in the next couple weeks. “Where he sold the oysters is going to come as a pretty big surprise.” Read [email protected] 10:31
Fishery Fact Sheet – Northwest Atlantic NAFO Grand Bank groundfish fisheries, 2013
The extension of fishery jurisdictions in the late-1970s created NAFO and the fishery was utilized mostly by non-Canadian countries fishing outside the 200-m limit Canadian. NAFO manages 10 groundfish stocks associated with the Grand Banks and one elasmobranch species. Read more here 08:58
Kenai Kings Focus of Alaska Board Meeting – Video
Many fishermen feel it’s time for a rule change when it comes to the management of the king salmon runs in Alaska. The board will discuss possible policy changes in management of Kenai king salmon, what Kenai River Sportfishing Association’s Ricky Gease says is the top issue for the board. Read more@ktuu 08:31
Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: NOAA fishing report just shows tip of economic iceberg
Yes, the numbers are grim. The latest NOAA annual report on the Northeast groundfishery shows that landings were down by 24.9 percent across the region, while landings and values both hit four-year lows in Gloucester, and overall values fell by nearly 25 percent from the previous year. Read more@gdt
Markey wants seafood inspected for mislabeling – WASHINGTON — Fish sold on U.S. retail markets are routinely mislabeled, harming consumers while threatening the livelihoods of American fishermen, Democra
tic Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi said in a letter to President Barack Obama. (Ed Markey should pay attention to real issues that affect the fishing industry instead of shilling for Oceana) Read more@gdt 00:39
Acoustics comments extended; Walmart seals AK salmon deal, BOF at UCI
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