Daily Archives: December 6, 2014
Seafood fraud cases plummet as NOAA cuts investigators
In a sprawling warehouse five miles inland from the port of Newark, N.J., Scott Doyle was dwarfed by the metal shipping container that had just arrived from Indonesia and was headed to Maryland. It held 14 tons of pasteurized crabmeat, packed into 28,008 one-pound cans. To Doyle, who has been an investigator for 27 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization, the container held mysteries — and the potential for crimes. Read the rest here 20:56
“We fished squid this year where we never fished before,” Northern Cal fishermen catch abundant squid
have reported an above-average squid harvest. “We just followed them up there,” said Neil Guglielmo, captain of a 70-foot fishing vessel based in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles. “There was so much squid. “We fished squid this year where we never fished before,” Guglielmo said. Read the rest here 19:52
Blackjack “Her keel is bent, her decks are rotting and her rigging is in tatters. But we will restore her for the state of Maine,”
A crowd of boating enthusiasts welcomed the arrival Dec. 2 of the newest addition to the Sail, Power and Steam Museum — a circa-1900 Friendship sloop. Noel March, the newly elected commodore of the Friendship Sloop Society, said the Blackjack may be one of the two oldest Friendship sloops in the world. Read the rest here 12:46
New research debunks myth that shark derbies have a significant impact on blue sharks
As it turns out, blue sharks are travellers. Sharks tagged off NovaScotia are being caught far fromCanadian waters. “A lot of these tags are being recaptured way off in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, often by Spanish fishermen of all things,” he says. Read the rest here 10:18
City of Fernandina Beach opposes seismic testing for oil in ocean
Fernandina Beach has joined more than 25 coastal towns that are saying “no” to seismic testing in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. City commissioners unanimously approved a resolution to that effect Tuesday.,,the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, received approval this year for seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean, which had been declared off-limits for oil exploration since 1982. Read the rest here 09:21
John Pappalardo has submitted paperwork to replace Nature Conservancy’s Tom Dempsey on NEFMC
Pappalardo already has served on the council for three terms, serving five years as chairman, during which the New England fishery experienced big changes in management. Under a plan crafted by the council, fishermen were allotted a share of the overall quota of each groundfish stock based on their fishing histories. They then formed cooperatives that managed the combined quota. Read the rest here 08:34
Fishy EU goes fishing at Britain’s expense
The UK’s fishing industry is central to our national identity, and puts food on the table for millions. But Brussels wants to destroy it, and is doing a good job of doing so. The number of British fishermen has fallen by a quarter in the last two decades. Behind the scenes is the EU’s long-running (and much hated) Common Fisheries Policy which lays down the law for small time fishermen and huge trawlers alike, though the rules Read the rest here 07:50
