seal–fishery interactions – fisherynation.com

Tag Archives: seal–fishery interactions

Do seals affect your commercial fishing activity?

August 6, 2018 International News

Seals eat approx 7% of their body weight when they eat – say 24lbs. Unfortunately, seals don’t necessarily eat the whole fish that they pick from fishermen’s nets – they tend to take a single mouthful from each fish – often to get at the liver – especially with fish like hake. To this end the NFFO are carrying out a survey and encourage all those fishermen who have been affected to take part. This survey is for commercial fishermen in England about their experiences of interactions with seals (seals feeding on catches, damage to gears and entanglement). Your responses will help us better understand the extent of seal–fishery interactions around the country and identify options for non-lethal measures to reduce these interactions. Participation in the survey is voluntary. Video, >click to read<08:58

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
April 2024

M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

« Mar

April 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

Recent Posts
- Bluefin tuna sells for low pandemic price at Toyosu’s 1st 2021 auction
  
  The most expensive bluefin tuna sold under the hammer at 2021’s first auction at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market failed to land a million-dollar bid or anything Read More »
- Seafood Processing Vessel’s Operator Continues to Expose Crews to a Bounty of Safety, Health Violations
  
  Working in the Alaskan fishing industry – an occupation already regarded as one of the nation’s most dangerous – employees aboard the F/V Pacific Producer faced Read More »
- In St. John’s 150 years ago, a giant squid had its picture taken. That photo would ignite the world’s imagination
  
  Before one remarkable moment in downtown St. John’s a century and a half ago, the giant squid lived only in the tall tales of sailors and Read More »
- NOAA Climate Scientists Predicted Third Warm Winter In A Row
  
  Warmer-than-normal conditions are most likely across the southern two-thirds of the continental U.S., along the East Coast, across Hawaii and in western and northern Alaska. -–NOAA, Read More »
- Australia: Senate inquiry on impacts of seismic testing starts in Hobart
  
  An inquiry into the impact of seismic testing in Australian waters has heard there is little scientific research into the effects it has on marine life Read More »
- Fishermen weigh options, risks as dire limits near – Faces of fishing’s ‘disaster’
  
  The desperation shows on their faces and in the risks they’re taking to keep their mom-and-pop businesses on a lifeline. If pulse fishing hadn’t occurred, our Read More »
- Off-Bottom Oyster Farming Launched in Grand Isle Waters
  
  A project demonstrating an alternative way to grow oysters, using off-bottom systems, has launched in the waters off of Grand Isle. If successful, the project could Read More »
- Editorial: Ex-AG’s report, hardly independent, needs further review
  
  But it was clear from the start that the Preservation Fund, which paid for Harshbarger’s services, essentially had the probe and the report right under its own Read More »
- Fed up shrimpers may look to state for oversight
  
  Missed payments, cash draws against the future and unpaid bills. Shrimp fishermen and plant workers from Newport to Eureka are feeling the financial pinch as a Read More »
- Commercial Fisherman Captain Stanley Russell Bayley of Scarborough, Maine, has passed away
  
  Stanley was born on Nov. 26, 1943, in Biddeford to Russell and Bessie Bayley. Raised on Jones Creek in Pine Point, Scarborough, Stanley started his first Read More »
- Ørsted shares fall 25% after it reveals troubles in US business
  
  Shares in the world’s largest offshore wind company tumbled by nearly a quarter on Wednesday, after it said it may have to write down the value Read More »
- Changes To Northeast Multispecies Common Pool Fishery Days-At-Sea Counting Rates For Fishing Year 2012 Effective Date: September 26, 2012
  
  http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nr/doc/12/12mulfy11yearenddasadjustmentphl.pdf Read More »
- Options presented for Washington’s ocean salmon fisheries based on predictions
  
  Fish managers released their options for Washington’s ocean salmon fisheries that reflect recent concerns over projected chinook stocks and optimism about improved returns of coho. Three Read More »
- Green investors don’t see the damage they inflict on the environment
  
  Sometimes you have to step back and take stock of what you are doing to address certain problems,,, The approval of Viking Energy appears to have Read More »
- NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center scientists to conduct Gulf of Alaska/Eastern Bering Sea Surveys
  
  NOAA has chartered three commercial fishing vessels for the Gulf of Alaska survey. F/V Sea Storm, F/V Alaska Provider, and R/V Cape Flattery – will conduct Read More »
- ‘Expensive lobster is good for everyone in N.S.’: Winners and losers as prices of crustaceans skyrocket
  
  Unless you buy it regularly, you may not have noticed lobster prices have quietly skyrocketed over the last couple of years. “Also, people had some more Read More »
- Alaska’s Commercial Harvesters Listed as ‘Critical Infrastructure’
  
  Plans are in progress to conduct the multi-million dollar Bristol Bay salmon fishery this summer in a manner that keeps harvesters, processors and the seafood itself Read More »
- Rockfish closure another blow to Southeast fleet
  
  Southeast Alaska fishermen won’t get to target yelloweye rockfish in 2020, and that’s another notch in tightening belt for the area fleet. The Alaska Department of Read More »
- FFAW’S March of Madness
  
  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) describes the FFAW-Unifor’s demonstration Wednesday through downtown St. John’s as a “march of madness.” “FFAW Read More »
- Fisherman died after lifejacket suddenly deflated after falling from west Kerry trawler
  
  A Portugese fisherman drowned when the lifejacket he was wearing suddenly deflated after it was punctured by net cables when he fell overboard from a Kerry Read More »
- NMFS is harming efforts to ban the sale of shark fins Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States.
  
  Absolute foolishness– The Shark Conservation Act of 2010 was designed as a statutory shield to protect the world’s troubled shark populations. Any sensible person would deduce Read More »
- Pallone, Environmentalists Want Shipping Speeding Rules Enforced
  
  Is the sonar activity related to offshore wind farms leading to whale deaths? The debate rages on. The Long Branch-based environmental group Clean Ocean Action suspects Read More »
- Iles-de-la-Madeleine lobster fishery achieves MSC certification
  
  The fishery is located in Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) 22 surrounding the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the east coast of Canada. Read More »
- Atomic Attraction: Wind Power’s Abject Failure Forces Europe to Embrace Nuclear Power
  
  To call Europe’s rapid embrace of nuclear power ‘passionate’ is not overstatement. Much to the horror of wind and solar acolytes, a growing number of EU Read More »
- South Atlantic Red rules under review by the NMFS (noaa fisheries is not an agency)
  
  Miami Herald – NOAA proposes to develop an equation to determine the annual catch limit for both the commercial and recreational sectors if fishing is allowed. Read More »