Daily Archives: October 8, 2012
I realize its not US fishery news, well, not yet anyway, but it damn sure will be. The links between fish stocks and seals
Kim Smith – Fishery Activist
One of the videos currently featured at Fisherynation.com is making the rounds and having an impact. Usually they are exposed for a short time, then forgotten.
JoeyC of GoodmorningGloucester posted an article The Problem with Catch Shares which includes a video being featured here . One of his regular followers (he has so many!) watched the video,
and read the the anecdotal words of some wise men passed youger men aout the future. ” I remember my dad telling me when I graduated from college and was at the crossroads of either coming down the dock or continuing my education to become an Economics professor. He said- “Joey if you come down the dock, there’s always gonna be fish and they’re always gonna need a place to offload them.” Never back then could he or I imagine how much they would have hyper-consolidated the industry and reduce the number of fishermen in our harbor by 80%. So in the middle of composing this post Pete Mondello pulled up to load bait to go lobstering. Pete doesn’t have any fishing permits any,,,,,,” Read more.
A GMG regular, a lady named Kim Smith read the post, and watched the video. It made enough of an impact for her to write a post on her blog, and become active. There is a petition linked at her blog.
This is grass roots activism at its finest! I welcome Kim Smith – Fishery Activist!
Alaska cod pot fisherman earn extra flexibility with new octopus quota – Alaska Dispatch
Jim Paulin | Dutch Harbor Fisherman | Oct 06, 2012
The giant Pacific octopus probably won’t shut down the pot cod season early again this year in the Bering Sea.
Last year, the bycatch limit of 150 octopus was reached on Oct. 24, and the big boat Pacific pot cod fishery closed with 647 metric tons unharvested,
according to Krista Milani of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Unalaska…. Read More http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-cod-pot-fisherman-earn-extra-flexibility-new-octopus-quota
Study shows new signs of sea change By Richard Gaines Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times
Sea surface temperatures along the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem — the waters off the New England and Mid-Atlantic coasts — were the highest ever recorded during the first half of 2012,
the government reports.“A profound warming event occurred on the Northeast Shelf this spring, and this will have a profound impact throughout the ecosystem,” said Kevin Friedland, a scientist at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole. The average sea surface temperature in the region exceeded 51 degrees, surpassing the previous record for the time of year, from 1951. The average sea surface temperature for the time of year over the past three decades was more than three degrees lower than the high http://www.gloucestertimes.com/topstories/x1618663563/Study-shows-new-signs-of-sea-change
Tuna cannery owner wants to boost region’s processing capacity AMERICAN SAMOA
The owner of the Samoa Tuna Processors cannery wants the territory to become the regional hub for fish processing to grow its business Tri Marine International, which owns the cannery, wishes to advance its plans by helping Pacific island countries take greater ownership of the fish harvested from their territorial waters. Managing director Joe Hamby said that unlike American Samoa, many Pacific island countries do not have the land mass, population or infrastructure to have boats unload fish on their land and implement fish processing. Therefore, American Samoa is a logical choice for a processing hub.
