Daily Archives: September 23, 2014
Digby and Annapolis halibut fishermen and fish plant rack up big penalties
A Little River fish plant and five Digby Neck and Islands halibut fishermen have received fines totalling $71,000 and another seven halibut fishermen from the Annapolis Royal area have received $50,000 in fines and penalties. As the result of a three-year investigation into the halibut fishery on Digby Neck, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans charged Ocean Trawlers, operated by Fred Trask of Little River, and fishermen,, Read the rest here 22:00:12
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is searching for two missing shrimpers south of Southwest Pass, Tuesday.
Watchstanders with Coast Guard Sector New Orleans command center received notification from an offshore rig reporting a capsized shrimping vessel at 4 p.m. The reporting source stated two people were rescued by the good Samaritan vessel Miss Anna from the keel of the 75-foot shrimping vessel Christopher’s Joy. Search is on for two missing crewmembers of the Christopher’s Joy. 21:44
Maritime lobster industry watches Maine vote on boost for processors
The lobster industry in the Maritimes faces a new competitive threat from south of the border. People in the industry in Eastern Canadian are watching closely as Maine awaits the outcome of a November vote that could see US$7 million of public money pumped into lobster processing. Read the rest here 18:01
Press Release: New Bedford Fishing Community Fund established to prevent hunger and homelessness for those relying on seafood industry
United Way of Greater New Bedford, Massachusetts Fisherman’s Partnership and High Liner Foods have teamed up to provide short-term emergency aid for individuals and families relying on fishing or the seafood industry for their livelihood. The fund is modeled after a similar fund that High Liner Foods helps to support in the Gloucester area. Read the rest here 16:52
Coast Guard cutter involved in collision with fishing vessel off Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Coast Guard is investigating a collision Tuesday between the Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo and the 42-foot commercial fishing vessel, Sea Shepherd, approximately nine nautical miles east northeast of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Read the rest here 14:59
Wanted: NC fishermen to collect lost crab pots, other fishing gear
The collection is scheduled to begin Jan. 19 in an area from Currituck Sound southward to Oregon Inlet. The federation will pay fishermen $300 a day and their mates $100 a day to retrieve lost and abandoned crab pots and other fishing gear, during a time of year when no crab pots are allowed in the water. Read the rest here 13:16
New restrictions pose threats for local lobstermen – “It will be disastrous for these guys all the way from Sandwich to Hull,”
Since he set his first trap in 1963, Bill Adler’s life has revolved around commercial lobster fishing. But the future of the industry on which Adler and many others have thrived is in peril due to a new federal ban on fishing from January to April in Cape Cod Bay and part of Massachusetts Bay. Some lobstermen are estimating an annual loss between $50,000 and $70,000 due to the ban that is designed to protect endangered whales, Read the rest here 12:53
P.E.I. fall lobster prices are going up and landings are good according to fishermen’s group
Prices in the last week have moved up to $3.50 a pound for canner size lobster and $4.00 a pound for markets, according to the president of the Prince County Fishermen’s Association, Lee Knox. Read the rest here 10:21
Study links changing winds to warming in Pacific – ocean warming period from 1920 to 1940 predates the big increases in greenhouse gases
A new study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America over the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, related to global warming. The study compared ocean surface temperatures from 1900 to 2012 to surface air pressure, a stand-in for wind measurements, and found a close match. Read the rest here 09:04
Ship Strikes of Whales are more common than you might think!
Marine biologist Greg Silber is after new insights to prevent US vessels from striking whales. “What we did was build a whale model that was completely to scale,” Silber told Business Insider. “The same density, the same weight, the same size, relative to the size of the vessel model. And then we ran the ship model at the whale.” Read the rest here 08:29
Warm waters strain shared BC-Washington salmon fishery – So what happened this year?
The Memories has been in Chuck Horjes’s family for 54 years. He began as a teenage deckhand in the 1970s, eventually working his way up to his current position as captain of the 54 foot commercial fishing vessel. Over the years he has travelled up and down the West Coast from Alaska to Oregon in search of salmon. This year he decided to fish an area known as the “salmon traps” near the San Juan Islands in Washington, Read the rest here 06:45
