Daily Archives: October 3, 2012

Scientists Still Eyeing the ‘Dead Zone’ By Terry Dillman. This article SCREAMS for collaborative research!

October 3, 2012   National

This article is a perfect indication of the benefits of industry involved collaborative research, while the history of  R/V Henry B Bigelow demands cut backs to NOAA’s pathetic role of stock assessment.

Hypoxia team keeps watch on coastal waters
Spring transition is the time of year when coastal wind patterns switch from winter’s southerly flow to summer’s northerly pattern. The summer pattern favors upwelling, the ocean process that ushers nutrients to the surface, providing nourishment for near-shore marine life. It also brings conditions conducive to hypoxia, or low oxygen levels, in the water, creating “dead,,,,,,,,,,,,,Led by oceanographer Kip Shearman, the researchers worked with 10 Oregon crabbers, attaching sensors to about 60 crab pots deployed between Port Orford and Astoria. Because many crabbers use anywhere from 300 to 500 pots, the researchers could select locations, where the sensors recorded temperatures every 10 minutes during the crab sea,,,,,,,“Fishing has been good to me and I’m happy to be giving something back,” Al Pazar, one of the crabbers involved in the project, said at the time. “I love working with OSU, and Sea Grant in particular has helped establish a good connection between Oregon’s fishing industry and academia. It’s a no-brainer to utilize the local volunteers from the fishing fleets and their gear.”
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Five Indicted on Charges of Embezzling Nearly $500,000 From Trident Seafoods Five people with ties to Kodiak, Alaska

October 3, 2012   North Pacific
Five people with ties to Kodiak, Alaska have been indicted on charges of wire fraud related to the embezzlement of almost $500,000 from Trident Seafoods. US Attorney Karen Loeffler made the announcement Oct. 1 in Anchorage.
 According to the indictment, one of the five used her position as a bookkeeper for Trident in Kodiak to write Trident checks to the other four from January 2008 through August 2010. The allegations say the bookkeeper used her check writing authority with Trident to draft some 52 checks on a Trident account and made them payable to those four, as well as to her minor son. The five adults shared the proceeds of the checks, the indictment alleges. It is further alleged that the bookkeeper concealed the fraud by creating fraudulent accounting records so that the payments appeared to be legitimate. Assistant US Attorney Aunnie Steward, who presented the case to the grand jury, indicated that the law provides for a maximum total sentence of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both for each count, as well as restitution of the embezzled funds. The actual sentence imposed would be based on the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendants. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Kodiak Police Department assisted in investigating the case. http://fnonlinenews.blogspot.com/2012/10/five-indicted-on-charges-of-embezzling.html
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CLF – Why We Need to Fight for Cape Wind. Now. The Koch Brothers! The Koch Brothers! It’s always the fracking Koch Brothers. Dry up, you Ninnys

October 3, 2012   New England

11 years. That’s how long we’ve been waiting for the promise of Cape Wind: clean, renewable energy; new, green jobs; reduced air emissions and carbon pollution; energy at a predictable price over the long-term; and energy security. At a time when the evidence of global warming is overwhelming, and the need for jobs critical, unleashing the potential of this home-grown offshore wind project can only be a good thing.

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October 3, 2012 at 2:47 pm

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This editorial is not accurate. This project is environmentally irresponsible. How any environmentalist can ignore the damage to the eco system that they crucify fishermen over, is obscene. To ignore the assult of the ocean bottom that will be supported with your short sighted position is revealing. 80% approve? Hogwash. This is an ocean destroying industrial complex.

Lets see if they post it.

http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/why-we-need-to-fight-for-cape-wind-now/#comment-2363

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Lobster council executive director abruptly resigns from Maine Lobster Promotion Council

October 3, 2012   New England

By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff
Posted Oct. 02, 2012, at 5:38 p.m.

PORTLAND, Maine — As Maine and its lobster industry work to revamp the way the state’s signature seafood is promoted, there has been an abrupt shakeup in who will lead that effort.

Dane Somers, executive director of the Maine Lobster Promotion Council, resigned his position Tuesday, according to a press release sent out by the council. Marianne LaCroix, the council’s director of marketing the past six years, takes over as acting director, effective immediately, according to the council’s chairwoman, Emily Lane. Lane is vice president of sales for Calendar Islands Maine Lobster Company.

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/10/02/business/lobster-council-executive-director-abruptly-resigns/

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Final action scheduled for charter-commercial halibut split North Pacific Fishery Management Council

October 3, 2012   North Pacific

By MOLLY DISCHNER  Morris News Service – Alaska

  Alaska Journal of Commerce
Final action scheduled for charter-commercial halibut split
MOLLY DISCHNER  Morris News Service – Alaska
October 2, 2012 11:14 PM AKDT

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will consider several alternatives for Pacific halibut allocations at its October meeting.

The council meets today through Tuesday in Anchorage, and has scheduled two full days for halibut issues. The council is slated to take final action on the halibut catch sharing plan for Southeast, or Area 2C, and Southcentral, or Area 3A. The council is tasked with finding a way to split a combined catch limit, set by the International Pacific Halibut Commission, or IPHC, between commercial and charter fishermen.

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-10-02/final-action-scheduled-for-charter-commercial-halibut-split

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Fierce Competition, Fish Piracy, Led to NW Fishing Industry Decline, Says New Book

October 3, 2012   National, Pacific

McMINNVILLE, Ore. (PRWEB) October 03, 2012  The waters off the coast of Washington state and British Columbia were once filled with fish pirates and border bandits vying for salmon, according to a new book by Linfield CollegeProfessor Lissa Wadewitz The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea documents how fishing practices in the late 19th and early 20th centuries turned the boundary waters into a lawless Wild West. When the neighboring countries of the U.S. and Canada established their shared border, no one told the salmon. Driven by instinct, the iconic fish of the Pacific Northwest migrated straight across the border, drawn to historical spawning grounds. In the competition for salmon that ensued, Wadewitz says pirates smuggled fish http://news.yahoo.com/fierce-competition-fish-piracy-led-nw-fishing-industry-100200646.html

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States Schedule Hearings on Atlantic Menhaden Draft Amendment 2 – The dates, times, locations, and analysis provided by savingseafood.org

October 3, 2012   Mid Atlantic, New England

The Draft Amendment presents a suite of options to manage and monitor the stock in both the short and long-term. These include options to end overfishing; change the biomass reference points to match the fishing mortality reference points; and establish,,,,,,,,,,read more

The Draft Amendment responds to the findings of both the 2010 benchmark stock assessment and the 2012 stock assessment update that indicate the stock is experiencing overfishing but may or may not be overfished depending on,,,,,Read more

http://www.savingseafood.org/state-local/states-schedule-hearings-on-atlantic-menhaden-draft-amendm-2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SavingSeafoodRss+%28Saving+Seafood%29

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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Public Listening Session: Clean Ocean Zone Initiative

October 3, 2012   Mid Atlantic

October 2, 2012 — The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting will be held Tuesday, October 16 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm,

 and will be held at the Ocean Place, One Ocean Boulevard, Long Branch, NJ 07740.

 Based on the input received during the Council’s Visioning Project, ocean pollution is one of the most widely shared concerns among all stakeholder groups.
At this month’s Council meeting, the nonprofit organization Clean Ocean Action (COA) will give an overview of their long-term efforts to stop pollution and
their current campaign to permanently protect the waters of the New Jersey/New York Bight. After the presentation,
COA and Council leadership will be available to answer questions from the public. You can attend in person or via the internet.  For online webinar access register here.
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