Feds offer emergency loans to idled salmon industry

December 7, 2023 Pacific

Last spring, the commercial chinook salmon season was completely cancelled. Now federal officials are offering emergency subsidized loans for an industry in crisis. The loans must be repaid over a 30-year term, though no payments are required over the first year. George Kostyrko, a spokesman for the federal Small Business Administration, or SBA, said the aid is meant to help a now struggling sector. “The closure has had an economic impact on the commercial and recreational fishing and those associated with the broader salmon fishing industry here on the west coast,” Kostyrko said. more, >>lick to read<< 06:50

California, emergency subsidized loans, George Kostyrko, Oregon, Small Business Administration, West coast salmon fishing industry

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
December 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 31

« Nov

December 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	31

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
- Lobster catches high, prices low
  
  RIVER JOHN – Lobster season ended on Monday in the Northumberland Strait, leaving Ronald Heighton, Northumberland Fishermen’s Union president, a chance to reflect. Read more here 08:18 Read More »
- A man-made attempt to save the rarest fish on Earth (its a guppy!)
  
  Olin Feuerbacher took a deep breath and plunged into the warm aquamarine water of a $4.5-million 100,000-gallon concrete and fiberglass tank in the middle of the Read More »
- Peter Shelley throws down at the hearing: The Magnuson-Stevens Act is Working in New England
  
  Good morning, Senator Begich, Senator Warren, Senator Markey, Congressman Tierney, Congressman Keating, and other members of the panel. My name is Peter Shelley. I am Senior Read More »
- Proposal sent to minister – Fishermen propose ‘flexible’ closures to protect whales and livelihoods
  
  Lobster fishermen are asking Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc to consider a proposal that would allow them to continue fishing close to the shores of northeastern New Read More »
- New tech could unveil the secret life of Bristol Bay red king crab
  
  Fishery researchers in Alaska are using cutting-edge technology to track migratory patterns of one of Alaska’s tastiest catches — the red king crab. Biologists tagged 150 Read More »
- Van Drew and Desiderio Pursue Answers on Whale Deaths, Wind Farm Issues
  
  Congressman Jeff Van Drew and Cape May County Board of Commissioners Director Leonard Desiderio said they will work together on issues surrounding the proposed wind farms Read More »
- Mint worker convicted of smuggling gold in rectum sentenced to 30 months
  
  Leston Lawrence, 35, made only a brief statement before a ruling from Ontario Justice Peter Doody. “I’d just like to say thank you, sir, and that’s Read More »
- How Much Does a Crab Boat Cost? – Average Price
  
  So how much does a crab boat cost nowadays? To begin with, you’ve got to have loads of dough if you’re aiming for the best crabbing Read More »
- Former Minerals Management Service director, Elizabeth Birnbaum,: US ‘on a course to repeat’ Gulf oil spill
  
  In an opinion piece in the New York Times, the former Minerals Management Service director, Elizabeth Birnbaum, says the Obama administration “still has not taken key Read More »
- ‘A healthy ocean means a healthy fleet’: salmon, crab, kelp, and climate the focus of annual fisheries forum
  
  Dispatches on the state of California’s fisheries this year have brought “a mix of some glimmers of better news, while still struggling with difficult issues,” California Read More »
- These Politicians that tell you they are they are concerned about the Groundfishery are on a different page!
  
  Greed Energy – The Massachusetts Green Energy community (and the Mass fishing industry) has been duped and they still don’t get it. When the general population Read More »
- FISH-NL calls on Labour Board to conduct vote – FFAW-Unifor’s membership numbers ‘misleading’
  
  Almost 16 months after FISH-NL presented an application for certification, the preliminary report of an investigator with the Labour Relations Board was released last week, with Read More »
- Bonneville Power Administration: Making Senses of Salmon Runs
  
  Portland, OR – While the vast majority of ESA-listed stocks have shown significant increases in abundance since their listings in the 1990s, the return numbers for Read More »
- Macduff Shipyards celebrate as newly built vessel is signed over to owners
  
  The Celestial Dawn, BF 109 was designed between Macduff Shipyards and firm Macduff Ship Design and built at the yard’s fabrication hall in Buckie. The brand Read More »
- Louisiana shrimpers applaud new Turtle Extruder Law
  
  Today is a monumental day for our shrimp industry and will show the world that Louisiana fishermen and processors have always been concerned with the successful Read More »
- NOAA Predicts 70 Percent Chance of Rainy La Niña Weather Across the Pacific Northwest
  
  The drought-stricken Pacific Northwest is expected to see heavy rainfall in the coming months, scientists say. The NOAA predicts that the La Niña weather pattern could Read More »
- Vision IV taking on her prawn trawls in Newlyn.
  
  Built at Buckie’s famous shipyard, Zander Jack’s Vision IV is one of the largest prawn trawlers to visit Newlyn this summer…along with the Ocean Vision…trawling, especially Read More »
- Shell report hints giant pipe on sea floor off Nova Scotia will be abandoned
  
  A new report commissioned by Shell Canada shows it would be safer and easier for the company to abandon a multi-million-dollar two-kilometre pipe at the bottom of Read More »
- Deadliest Catch Captains Making Mischief for charity at The Captain’s Whiskey Slam
  
  In what may very well be the most chest-hair-growing partnership in modern memory, Fremont Mischief Distillery has teamed up with Deadliest Catch celebrity crab captains Sig Read More »
- How False killer whale’s remove bait from longline fishing gear captured on video for first time
  
  How Hawaiian false killer whales remove fish from longline fishing gear has for the first time been observed by a team of researchers and fishermen. The Read More »
- DFO minister: No compromise on independence of inshore fishery
  
  Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans says there will be no backtracking on measures to preserve the independence of Atlantic Canada’s inshore fishery.”I’m not interested in Read More »
- Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 47′ MDI Gillnet/Lobster, CAT 3406, Kubota 12 KW 3 Phase Generator
  
  Specifications, information and 24 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:52 Read More »
- Fishing for a Future After Brexit
  
  Dawn breaks on Newlyn, an industrious fishing harbour in southern Cornwall. Seagulls scream and circle a sardine hauler that has just come in from a night Read More »
- Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 40′ Young Bros. Lobster/Tuna, 6 Cylinder Detroit 6-V-92, North Lights – 8 KW Genset
  
  Specifications, information and 29 photos click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:51 Read More »
- Why Deadliest Catch’s Johnathan Hillstrand didn’t actually retire
  
  At the end of Deadliest Catch season 13, Time Bandit captain Johnathan Hillstrand retired after 37 years of crab fishing. His boat isn’t one of those Read More »