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Pacific Andes: Lafayette application has been sent for jack mackerel fishery
Pacific Andes’ flagship floating factory vessel Lafayette is not on the list of ships authorized to fish or transship in the South Pacific jack mackerel fishery for 2014, the organization in charge of the fishery, confirmed to Undercurrent News. However, an application has been filed to authorize the vessel, Pacific Andes told Undercurrent. In an article dated Feb. 17, a Pacific Andes spokesman had told the Sydney Morning Herald that Lafayette was headed for the jack mackerel fishery. Read more@undercurrent 06:35
The roiling drama of the planktonic world is a theatre of ambush predators, hermaphrodites and mucus-hurling cannibals
From the article: The effects of warmer water have begun to show up away from the poles. At NOAA’s Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island, Feely’s colleague Kevin Friedland has watched wild swings in ocean temperatures wreak havoc on the bottom of the food chain. One of the most ecologically and,,Read [email protected] 11:51
‘Not a fishing vessel’? Pacific Andes now says Lafayette can’t fish, as it heads for jack mackerel fishery
Commenting to the newspaper, a Pacific Andes spokesperson said the Lafayette is “not a fishing vessel”, explaining the quotas are set by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation “for the catcher fishing vessels it supports”. This is an interesting comment from a company that since 2010 has argued that the Lafayette could fish, after it tried to defend catches of 41,315 metric tons declared by Russia to the SPRFMO that year. Read more@undercurrent 08:08
I’m no Greenpeace fan, but, enough is enough. This is disgusting.
Monster fishing ship in Pacific, east of Australia – The world’s largest fishing vessel, the factory freezer ship Lafayette, has turned up in the Pacific Ocean east of Australia. Satellite-tracking systems registered the location of the controversial 49,000 tonne Lafayette and six attendant trawlers north-east of Norfolk Island on Friday, Greenpeace said. The Russian-flagged, Chinese-owned vessel is five times the size of the Dutch factory trawler Margiris, which was banned from Australian waters in 2012. Read [email protected] 14:20
Study Finds There Are Literally More Fish in the Sea
A new study from researchers with the Malaspina Expedition, managed by the Spanish National Research Council, found there could be 10 times more fish mass in the ocean than previously estimated. According to a release about the research published in the journal Nature Communications, 1,000 million tons of fish had been estimated prior to the study. Read more@theblaze 16:18
Can technological advances help acidifying seas?
Many scientists are increasingly acknowledging that we can no longer afford to dismiss some gee-whiz technological fixes outright. We need to understand what, if any of it, could help. In 2012, a controversial California entrepreneur motored off the coast of British Columbia and dumped 100 metric tons of iron dust into the Pacific Ocean, hoping to spark a 4,000-square-mile plankton bloom. Read [email protected] 11:22
Decline in North Sea fish length linked to rising sea temperatures
Over a 38-year period, the maximum body length of haddock, whiting, herring, Norway pout, plaice and sole in the North Sea has decreased by as much as 29%, coinciding with an increase in water temperatures of between 1 and 2 degrees Celsius*. Read [email protected] 13:06
High hopes for new Nordic whitefish processing machine Video
The machine we have developed locates the pin-bones with x-ray technology,using water-jet to trim away the bones with great precision and speed. The fish is guaranteed boneless with significantly less waste than manual filleting, says Kristjan Halvardsson in the Icelandic company Marel. Read [email protected] 12:43
In the Guest Writer Column – Joe Daughty – “Hey Cap! I’ve got you man. He’ll be here within the hour.”
Well, I can’t believe I’m gonna tell this story, because it was kinda a rotten thing to do. But it was insanely funny at the time. I had been running a swordfish longline boat named the “Kelly Ann” out of Ft Pierce Fl. for quite a while. I got myself into a situation where I’d fired an under achieving crewman and couldn’t find a replacement. Decent crew were hard to find these days and I had began to…Read the story
Whale meat snacks seized at German trade fair
The meat is illegal in Germany and the majority of the EU. “Norway is breaking the law in several ways here,” said Astrid Fuchs of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. “Both the import and the sale are illegal.” Read more@theguardian 08:48
LIVING HELL: Enslaved aboard 10 ships of shame
WHEN a fisheries patrol vessel intercepted three foreign vessels fishing illegally off the coast they found “modern-day slaves” forced to live and work in appalling conditions. Some of the crew, mainly Indonesian and Taiwanese, had been working on the tuna fishing vessels for between three and five years without being paid. Read [email protected] 07:36
Japan says Kennedy dolphin tweet improper
TOKYO – Japan accused critics of its annual dolphin hunt — including U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy — of being hypocrites for not lamenting the killing of cattle and chickens in their countries for food. The southwest fishing town of Taiji finished its annual roundup of bottlenose dolphins Tuesday, a longheld tradition that Kennedy called “inhumane” in a message on Twitter. Read [email protected] 11:41
Masifundise supports a fisheries allocation process that benefits those most in need
We ran this on Jan. 7th, Many small-scale fishermen are threatening to turn to organised crime in order to sustain their families. This is a follow up article from Masifundise – Masifundise supports a fisheries allocation process that benefits those most in need. The furore around the line fish allocations is still raging, even after government granted interim relief to previous rights holders. As an organisation that works with thousands of small-scale fishers around the country, we need to offer a few critical comments on this matter. Read [email protected] Special Thank’s to Carsten Pederson 12:54
BBC’s six-year cover-up of secret ‘green propaganda’ training for top executives
The BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds over six years trying to keep secret an extraordinary ‘eco’ conference which has shaped its coverage of global warming, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The controversial seminar was run by a body set up by the BBC’s own environment analyst Roger Harrabin and funded via a £67,000 grant from the then Labour government, which hoped to see its ‘line’ on climate change and other Third World issues promoted in BBC reporting. Read more@dailymail 13:10
Second Second Giant Sea Creature Washes Ashore Along Santa Monica Coastline
SANTA MONICA, CA — For the second time in recent months, a giant sea creature has washed ashore in California. First it was a rare oarfish that had grown to a freakish 100-foot length. This time it was a giant squid measuring a whopping 160 feet from head to tentacle tip. These giants look different but experts believe they share one important commonality: they both come from the waters near the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in the Futaba District of Japan. Scientists believe that following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant an unknown number of sea creatures suffered genetic mutations that triggered uncontrolled growth – or “radioactive gigantism.” Read more@lightlybraisedturnip 21:11
There’s Whale Meat in the Beer! – Icelandic ‘whale beer’ condemned by conservationists
The brewery’s website claims people who drink it become “true Vikings”. Conservationists have criticised the sale in Iceland of a beer which its makers claim contains dead whale. Icelandic brewery Steðji has teamed up with whaling company Hvalur to launch the beer, which is said to contain whale meal. (bore say’s, “draw one!”) Read [email protected] 12:27
Many small-scale fishermen are threatening to turn to organised crime in order to sustain their families
Public protector investigations of mismanagement of the fishing industry are mounting against Minister of Agriculture, Forestries and Fisheries Tina Joemat-Pettersson. Many small-scale fishermen are threatening to turn to organised crime in order to sustain their families after losing their long-term fishing rights. “Since there is absolutely nothing else I can do, I will have to join the army of illegal fishers,” said Charles America, one of the fishermen who have been declined a line-fishing licence. “I will have to run the gauntlet between legal and illegal fishing. It is sad, but there’s absolutely nothing else I can do.” Read more@timeslive 19:40
Price of bluefin tuna nosedives at Tokyo auction – Dramatic Pew statement- “You have to wonder what the last fish is going to cost,”
TOKYO — Sushi restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura paid 7.36 million yen (about $70,000) for a 230-kilogram bluefin tuna in the year’s celebratory first auction at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market on Sunday, just five per cent of what he paid a year earlier despite signs that the species is in serious decline. Read more@therecord 12:27
Fishing; More Protection for Big Ones
Many popular measures to combat overfishing help conserve mostly small juvenile fish. The results from a set of international studies may now revolutionize fishing regulations. Read more@sciencedaily 12:28
Marine Policy 40 Securing Ocean Benefits for Society In the Face of Climate Change
Benefits humans rely on from the ocean-marine ecosystem services-are increasingly vulnerable under future climate. This paper reviews how three valued services have, and will continue to, shift under climate change: (1) capture fisheries, (2) food from aquaculture, and (3) protection from coastal hazards such as storms and sea-level rise. Climate adaptation planning is just beginning for fisheries, aquaculture production, and risk mitigation for coastal erosion and inundation. A few examples are highlighted, showing the promise of considering multiple ecosystem services in developing approaches to adapt to sea-level rise, ocean acidification, and rising sea temperatures. Ecosystem-based adaptation in fisheries and along coastlines and changes in aquaculture practices can improve resilience of species and habitats to future environmental challenges. Opportunities to sue market incentives-such as compensation for services or nutrient trading schemes-are relatively untested in marine systems. Relocation of communities in response to rising sea levels illustrates the urgent need to manage human activities and investments in ecosystems to provide a sustainable flow of benefits in the face of future climate change. Read the vision here! 21:17
Computer Model Predictions: Major Reductions in Seafloor Marine Life from Climate Change by 2100
An international team of scientists predict seafloor dwelling marine life will decline by up to 38 per cent in the North Atlantic and over five per cent globally over the next century. These changes will be driven by a reduction in the plants and animals that live at the surface of the oceans that feed deep-sea communities. As a result, ecosystem services such as fishing will be threatened. Read more@sciencedaily 11:13
Saving the Antarctic scientists, er media, er, activists, er tourists trapped by sea ice
UPDATE: get a load of the hilarious announcement from the expedition, where they claim sea ice is disappearing, see update 2 below. There’s quite an ongoing worldwide fascination over the So much sea ice in Antarctica that a research vessel gets stuck, in summer! episode with the ship Akademik Shokalskiy we first reported on WUWT. I think it was best summed up by this Tweet: Read more @wattsupwiththat.com 18:29
Revealed: how global warming is changing Scotland’s marine life – Kinda like here!
The report points out that over the last 30 years landings of cold-water fish like cod, haddock and whiting from the north-east Atlantic have halved. This trend is predicted to continue in the coming decades. Kinda like here! Read more @heraldscotland 05:28
Ya can’t make this stuff up! – This weird deep-sea worm has a dick on its head – From the good folks at grist
The bone-eating snot-flower worm (or Osedax mucofloris if you wanna get prissy) was just discovered less than a decade ago, on the ocean floor — and it’s hella weird. For starters, 600 or more males can compete for each female. (AW yeah!) Plus, it looks like a fluffy pink cloud. Well, a cloud with a giant dick blossoming out of it: Read [email protected] 11:42
Let’s talk Nut’s! – PETA: Serving fish at an aquarium is like serving “poodle burgers” at a dog show.
PETA TO National Aquarium of New Zealand: Please Don’t Eat the Fish! Serving fish at an aquarium is like serving “poodle burgers” at a dog show. That’s the message that was sent to Rob Yarrall, manager of the National Aquarium of New Zealand, in a letter fired off this morning by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Australia asking that all fish dishes be removed from the menu. Despite the fact that fish are intelligent animals who feel pain and that part of the aquarium’s role is to act as an educational facility, the Fish Bowl Cafe includes fish and chips on its menu. more@scoopnz 20:31
Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle.
As the temperature dropped to freezing, Okene recited the last psalm his wife had sent by text message, sometimes called the Prayer for Deliverance: “Oh God, by your name, save me. … The Lord sustains my life.” To this day, Okene believes his rescue in May is a sign of divine deliverance. The other 11 seaman aboard the Jascon 4 died. Video and more@dailynews 16:12
Books and papers cited most often by fisheries scientists by Trevor Branch
Books and papers cited most often by fisheries scientists – here Methods – I conducted an exhaustive search of potential references on Web of Science, Google Scholar, and through personal contacts, examining reference lists, looking through colleague’s libraries, etc. Based on discovery rates I estimate this list contains >90% of all highly cited references. Read more from Trevor Branch (scroll to bottom of page) 15:59
Rolls-Royce Builds a Salmon Tanker
A boat built for fish would seem to be a technology whose time will never come. But Rolls-Royce is designing one. For salmon, to be specific. Bakkafrost is paying Rolls-Royce $9.4 million to design and equip the ship, which will be built at the Tersan shipyard in Turkey and delivered in May 2015. more@businessweek 12:50
Stephen Taufen sent me a can of Fields Wild Salmon, Premium Red! I feel ALIVE!
I opened the can, drained it, and started to eat it with a fork. I felt life taking over my body with every bite! I MUST have more! Thank you, Stephen, for the jump start, and the Crewmens Association hat! Fish Killed – Boats Filled! BH
Using satellite imagery from Google Earth, Daniel Pauly and Associates Bust Ancient Persian Gulf Weir Fishermen! Now THAT’s Science!
Ah. He’s a clever one! Large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be catching up to six times more fish than what’s being officially reported, according to the first investigation of fish catches from space conducted by University of British Columbia scientists. more@sciencedaily 22:26
