Daily Archives: March 14, 2015
Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Cape Cod
Search and rescue crews from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, Massachusetts, medically evacuated a man from a fishing boat 110 miles east of Cape Cod, Friday. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Boston Command Center received an urgent call from the fishing vessel Capt Joe stating that a 62-year-old crewman aboard was suffering from severe abdominal pain. Read the rest here 22:38
Science is ‘in decay’ because there are too many studies, finds, er, new study
Science could be in decay as there are simply too many new studies, a new study has found The research, dubbed ‘Attention decay in science,’ was recently published online by professors from universities in Finland and California. They concluded scholars can’t keep pace with scientific literature. Read the rest here 20:36
Proposed fishermen’s academy aims to keep teens in school
ROCKLAND, Maine — The Class of 2015 at Oceanside High School started with 203 freshmen in the fall of 2011, but by this year only 158 seniors remain, a decline of nearly 25 percent. The Oceanside principal is proposing the school offer a fishermen academy to keep young fishermen in the classroom instead of dropping out without a high school diploma. Read the rest here 17:45
Fishermen in coastal New Orleans parishes identify a new safe harbor for hurricanes, but there’s a catch
Commercial fishermen in the 
have identified a place to serve as a safe harbor for their boats during hurricanes, though they probably will have to spend at least one more hurricane season with no officially authorized place to go when a storm churns its way up from the Gulf of Mexico. After working with the U.S. Coast Guard, state- and parish-level offices and private landowners, fishermen have identified a stretch of the southern wall of the Hero Canal in Plaquemines Parish as a place where as many as 200 boats could tie up and ride out a hurricane. Read the rest here 17:34
Emerging Fishery: Asian Carp nuisance seen as growth industry
“The best way to control anything is to eat it up,” said Luu at her company in Ledbetter, on the outskirts of Paducah. “This is the second most consumed species of fish in the world. As a result, we can save our other species of fish.” Her company markets the carp as “Kentucky Blue Snapper,”,. She hopes to create 60 jobs paying about $10 an hour after receiving state approval last month to receive up to $1 million in state tax incentives. Another $4 million in similar state aid has been approved for two other nearby carp processors since 2013. Read the rest here 11:25
Walker announces North Pacific council nominations
Gov. Bill Walker announced late on March 13 his nominations for two North Pacific Fishery Management Council seats, which expire August 10 of this year. The two seats up for nominations are those of chairman Dan Hull and Ed Dersham. For Dan Hull’s seat, which represents small boat commercial interests, Walker has nominated Dan Hull, Buck Laukitis, and Paul Gronholt. For Ed Dersham’s seat, representing sportfishing interests, Walker has nominated Andrew Mezirow, Richard Yamada, and Arthur Nelson. Read the rest here 10:45
Officials across Cape Cod estimate repairs from ice floes damaging infrastructure will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As temperatures warmed on Cape Cod this week, officials began to calculate the damage that ice has done to docks and pilings. At the same time, ice floes the size of small boats appeared on some Cape Cod Bay beaches, creating a cold and ephemeral stir of their own. In Provincetown, 87 protective fender pilings at the town pier have snapped due to the movement of the ice, and in Barnstable Village 36 pilings at the town marina are either lifted, leaning or broken because of the ice. Read the rest here 09:27
2015 charter and commercial halibut management measures announced
NMFS is providing notice of the immediate effect of regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). The commercial IFQ halibut season opens Saturday, March 14, 2015. At its annual meeting in January, the IPHC recommended to the governments of Canada and the United States catch limits for 2015 totaling 29,223,000 pounds. Read the rest here 07:23
Aerial Pics Show Pinnipeds Packed Into Astoria
Aerial pictures of this year’s high number of marine mammals in the Lower Columbia have surfaced. Early last month, 7,600 pinnipeds were counted between Buoy 10 and Portland during a WDFW survey. One picture looks like some Alaskan walrus haulout, but actually shows a large number of harbor seals laying up on Desdemona Sands off Astoria. Read the rest here 00:02:54
