Prince William Sound Pink salmon fishery back in business

August 17, 2019 North Pacific

Pink salmon commercial harvests are still below forecasts, but even with no prospect of rain predicted so far until Aug. 22, the catch in Prince William Sound rose from 17.6 million to 22.2 million within the past week. Preliminary harvest figures posted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game showed that 22,904,000 pinks comprised the bulk of the overall Prince William Sound harvest as of Aug. 14. The rest of the overall catch to date of 30.5 million fish in the Sound’s commercial harvest includes 5,026,000 chum, 2,526,000 sockeyes, 18,000 Chinook and 15,000 coho salmon. >click to read< 13:13

Alaska Department of Fish and Game, commercial harvest, Margaret Bauman, Pink salmon, pink salmon fishery, Prince William Sound

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
- Amid Hamptons Mansions, East End Fishermen Beat On Against The Tide
  
  On Gosman’s dock in Montauk, seagulls hovering above, I was greeted by the smells of gasoline and fish as I walked on the worn, white-speckled planks. Read More »
- When F/V Scandies Rose sunk west of Kodiak, he survived. Now he’s grappling with losing his crewmates.
  
  Dean Gribble, one of the survivors, grew up in Washington. He began salmon tendering when he was 11, and he’s spent the past 21 years crab Read More »
- H.R. 2504 – House approves Poliquin’s proposal for swifter exports of Maine seafood
  
  The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) that aims to limit mandatory inspections and hasten Read More »
- EU: Bottom trawling advocates and opponents make their voices heard
  
  On the eve of the meeting that the Fisheries Ministers of the European Union (EU) will hold in Brussels, the voices for and against the proposal Read More »
- South Korea: Five missing crew members of capsized fishing boat found dead
  
  Five missing crew members of a 24-ton fishing boat that capsized off the southwestern coast were found dead inside the vessel, Monday, Coast Guard officials said. Read More »
- Bahamas search finds life ring but no other sign of El Faro
  
  An intensive search by U.S. Coast Guard and Navy aircraft has turned up a life ring but no other sign of a cargo ship with 33 Read More »
- NMFS Requests Comment on a Change to Bluefin Regulations
  
  NOAA is seeking public comment regarding a request from the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance for an exemption from a regulation that prohibits having unauthorized gear Read More »
- Red snapper catches reported as outstanding, stock assessment needed now
  
  After two of the three weekends of the red snapper recreational mini-season, outstanding catches have been reported throughout the South Atlantic region. Here are some of Read More »
- Canada’s Second New Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel Launched
  
  Canada’s second of three new Offshore Fisheries Science Vessels (OFSV) was launched on June 5. The Canadian Coast Guard vessel was built by Seaspan’s North Vancouver Read More »
- ‘Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove’ fisherman sued for alleged negligence
  
  A former seaman has sued a Newport fisherman who starred in Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove” show, alleging that the man was negligent and caused Read More »
- South Mississippi’s recreational and charter fishermen want more snapper
  
  BILOXI — If South Mississippi recreational fishermen and charter boat operators had their way, they would get a larger share of the red snapper quota. That Read More »
- Team examines the evolution of wooden halibut hooks carved by native people of the Northwest Coast
  
  The Tlingit and Haida, indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast (NWC), have used carved wooden hooks to catch halibut for centuries. As modern fishing technology crept Read More »
- Atlantic Canada mackerel quota cut by 20 per cent – Move will reduce a key source of bait
  
  Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans is cutting the Atlantic mackerel quota by 20 per cent in 2019, after a recent assessment concluded the stock remains Read More »
- North Pacific Groundfish and Halibut Observer Program Sees Changes in 2015
  
  Fishermen and NMFS representatives discussed the . The overall feeling at the meeting seemed to be discontent with a grain of salt. Many fishermen who attended Read More »
- A lifetime of research links Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ to Midwest fertilizer runoff
  
  In the summer of 1985, Nancy Rabalais set sail on a research vessel into the Gulf of Mexico — and into the scientific unknown. Over nearly Read More »
- Patronage alleged after Massachusetts Environmental Police colonel’s pick for top cop job ignored
  
  FOX UNDERCOVER (MyFoxBoston.com) — It was Gary Duncan’s dream job, a big promotion to coastal bureau chief for the Massachusetts Environmental Police, where he’s worked for Read More »
- Coronavirus: Maine fishermen say they missed out on pandemic relief program
  
  Thousands of Maine fishermen and others in the seafood sector could have qualified for pandemic relief through the Paycheck Protection Program, but many were, apparently, unable Read More »
- The hard life of a fisherman who wouldn’t change it for the world
  
  Mark Ainsworth travels over 200 miles from Staffordshire to Plymouth’s Fish Quay, when he’s needed, to fish off the coast of Devon and Cornwall with experienced Read More »
- The St. Jude Is One of Seattle’s Last Commercial Tuna Boats
  
  It’s a Monday afternoon and Fishermen’s Terminal in Ballard is relatively empty. A man pulls into the parking lot in a minivan and snakes his way over Read More »
- California could be held liable for whale entanglements
  
  The Center for Biological Diversity is hopeful its lawsuit filed over whale and sea turtle entanglements is nearing its conclusion after a federal judge suggested she Read More »
- Inquest into Bugaled Breizh deaths sunk off Lizard coast of Cornwall
  
  The Bugaled Breizh went down on January 15, 2004 off the Lizard Peninsula in favourable conditions, with no apparent defects to the vessel. The possibility a Read More »
- Coast Guard suspends search for fisherman in the water in Nushagak Bay, Alaska
  
  The Coast Guard suspended its search for a person in the water in Nushagak Bay, Monday. Two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews and a C-130 Hercules aircraft Read More »
- New shellfish regulations taking effect in NC
  
  New regulations are taking effect in North Carolina to help keep shellfish safer for people to eat. The new rules are designed to the spread of Read More »
- This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Crab updates and outlooks for seafood at supermarkets.
  
  Lots of Tanner crab is coming out of Alaska this winter. Southeast Alaska wrapped up its best fishery in a decade with 80 crabbers hauling up Read More »
- Time to get enviro groups off taxpayer gravy train
  
  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recently issued a directive to end a 20-year string of “sue and settle” cases that have funneled untold millions of tax dollars Read More »