National Marine Fisheries Service: New Regulations for Vermilion Snapper and Red Porgy Effective September 5, 2013

August 7, 2013 South Atlantic

Population assessment updates for vermilion snapper and red porgy were recently completed. The vermilion snapper update indicates the population is no longer undergoing overfishing (when fish are taken from the population too quickly) and is not overfished (when there are not enough fish in the population). The stock assessment update for red porgy indicates the species is not undergoing overfishing but is still overfished. Based on the outcome of these population assessment updates, NOAA Fisheries is proposing to modify several management measures for vermilion snapper and red porgy. @noaa.gov

2013, Effective September 5, National Marine Fisheries Service, New Regulations, Vermilion Snapper and Red Porgy

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
- Ten-Year Review for Bering Sea/ Aleutian Islands Crab Ratz Management Program
  
  North Pacific Fishery Management Council June 2016 – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This document is a 10 year review of the Bering Sea/ Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab Rationalization Read More »
- Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 2008 36′ Calvin Beal Lobster/Tuna
  
  To review specifications, information, video, and 57 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 11:59 Read More »
- East Hampton Trustee Calls On State To Control Gillnets Better After Whale Entanglement
  
  After a summer in which fishing nets anchored just off South Fork beaches ensnared swimmers and a seal and a humpback whale, East Hampton Town Trustee Read More »
- Podcast: Want to support San Diego’s shrinking local commercial fishing industry?
  
  Tommy Gomes has done his fair share of time at sea as a fourth generation commercial fisherman. Now, at 60, he’s dedicating much of his time Read More »
- Anxiety and Threats on the Kuskokwim as First Salmon Gillnet Openings Near
  
  Four weeks into salmon fishing restrictions, the atmosphere along the Kuskokwim River is tense. At a meeting Tuesday the stress the closures are causing was obvious, Read More »
- F/V Scandies Rose: Survivor Jon Lawler’s Wrenching Testimony, Experts note serious flaws in a USCG regulation
  
  The architects who testified were not involved with the development of the stability booklet for the Scandies Rose, a Washington managed boat which went down around Read More »
- Judge rejects efforts by feds, enviro’s to impose immediate restrictions on lobstering
  
  Last month, Justice Lance Walker sided with the Maine Lobstering Union and granted a temporary injunction to stop a new federal closure of a roughly 960-square Read More »
- 41st Maine Fishermen’s Forum on tap for March 3
  
  The weather has been crazy this winter, with the temperature sometimes below zero one day and near 60 the next. A semblance of order will soon Read More »
- Stock assessments show Maritime lobster population strong, fishery sustainable
  
  Adam Cook is a DFO biologist who tracks lobster populations along the Scotian Shelf and Bay of Fundy, waters that support nearly 3,000 commercial licence holders Read More »
- Lobster fisherman who stole his boss’s pug dog Franky, took it for a joyride, tortured it, shot it in the throat before dumping it at sea is jailed
  
  A man who tortured and killed a dog in Winter Harbor last year has been sentenced to a year in prison. Justin Chipman, 24, appeared in court Read More »
- ‘They’re not listening’: Fishermen, tribes voice concerns on two Oregon coast sites eyed for offshore wind farms
  
  Last week, the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced two draft Wind Energy Areas off the southern Oregon coast. One of them is offshore Read More »
- Mixed start in Monterey Bay for commercial salmon season opener
  
  Santa Cruz >> Martin Towne said he considered himself lucky when he landed 18 salmon on the first day of commercial salmon season Thursday. Towne docked Read More »
- South Jersey fishing ports escape brunt of storm, but fleet damage extensive up north
  
  New Jersey’s commercial fishing industry is asking the federal government to declare a “fisheries disaster” from Hurricane Sandy that could lead to aid to rebuild. The Read More »
- JMT tragedy: Looking for answers – and an apology
  
  I’m writing this after my annual trip to sit at Rame Head and look over the spot where my son Michael and his colleague Shane Hooper Read More »
- Project Fisheye Successfully Accelerates Development of New Underwater Camera
  
  Before looking at Project Fisheye let’s go back to the latest in fishing gear technology from the 1990s in Cornwall. Plymouth based fishing gear and net Read More »
- The History Of Dungeness Crab Season In San Francisco
  
  Dungeness crab season is back and in full effect! After a lengthy ban on commercial fishing of the delectable little crustaceans in California, dungeness crab season got Read More »
- ‘These boys loved what they did’: Former crabber on missing Destination talks about lost boat, lost brother
  
  Dylan Hatfield worked for six years aboard the Destination before leaving in 2014. He was tight with all of the crew, which included his older brother, Read More »
- Trapped by heroin: Lobster industry struggles with its deadly secret
  
  Maine lobstermen are plagued by opioid addiction, leading to deaths, ruined lives and even fishing violations to pay for the habit. Some in recovery also recognize Read More »
- Jury awards $595,000 in damages to Lummi Nation for 2017 fish spill
  
  Cooke Aquaculture accidentally released tens of thousands of nonnative Atlantic salmon in 2017, threatening native Pacific salmon, and the Lummi Nation’s traditional reliance on them. In Read More »
- UK sub ‘not involved’ in 2004 French trawler tragedy
  
  A British military submarine linked to the sinking of a French fishing trawler nearly 18 years ago had nothing to do with the incident, the UK Read More »
- Rare blue and cream colored lobster caught off New Hampshire coast
  
  Lobstermen catch thousands of the crustaceans every year, but every now and again a gem is found among the masses. On Monday, Rye, N.H., lobsterman Greg Read More »
- Opinion: Alliance defends prices paid to lobster fishermen
  
  I am writing on behalf of the Nova Scotia Seafood Alliance, in response to the editorial reprinted from the Charlottetown Guardian in Friday’s Chronicle Herald complaining Read More »
- 26 members of Congress urge House Appropriations Committee to reject funding Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico catch shares until rewrite of the MSA
  
  A total of 26 members of Congress, including Rep. John Tierney, have urged the House Appropriations Committee to reject funding for new catch share fishery management Read More »
- Scallop war reignites as British fishing trawler is seized by France
  
  A British fishing boat has been seized by France after a French captain accused UK trawlers of plundering their resources in the latest ‘Scallop War’ flare-up. The Read More »
- THE FORAGE FISH FARCE
  
  December 14, 2012 — The Providence Journal’s “PolitiFact” unit investigated claims made by Pew Environment Group in advertisements they ran in several newspapers asking east coast Read More »