Daily Archives: October 12, 2012
Email from Stephen Taupen – Groundswell Fisheries Movement – Catch Shares
NPFMC approves statement of purpose and need for groundfish rationalization by James Brooks/ [email protected] Kodiak Daily Mirror
Oct 10, 2012 (Wednesday) The North Pacific Fishery Management council has approved a groundfish rationalization motion that includes many of the items sought by the Kodiak Island Borough and city of Kodiak.
On Tuesday, the final day of the weeklong fisheries meeting in Anchorage, the council approved a statement of purpose and need for groundfish rationalization. The statement isn’t a plan or even a blueprint — but it sets the council’s goals as it embarks on a multi-year process that will wholly alter the shape of pollock and cod fishing in the Gulf of Alaska……..The brunt of this,and Stephens response will be in the comment section to save space on the front page, Read More.
Kodiak Daily Mirror — Friday, October 12, 2012 (as published)
Henny Pennys self-declare a crisis in the gulf fisheries
To the Editor:
Wednesday’s article about the North Pacific Fishery Management Council missed the trickery of disaster economics used by central Gulf of Alaska groundfish trawlers. Alaska Groundfish Data Bank and Whitefish Trawler Association representatives boldly declared “there is a crisis in the Gulf groundfisheries.”………Read more
NPFMC directs NMFS to modify new observer program Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal of Commerce
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council took up a new deployment plan for marine observers at its October meeting, asking the National Marine Fisheries Service, or NMFS, to conduct further outreach, clarify a few components and plan to review certain items after one year.
Read more: http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/October-Issue-2-2012/Council-directs-NMFS-to-modify-new-observer-program/#ixzz296AM6K1f
Editorial: Inshore cod assault cries out for catch share reforms GDT
The grim ineffectiveness of NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco’s catch share fishery management system as presently carried out in New England may never have been more apparent than this week, when even NOAA’s new regional administrator and the Environmental Defense Fund, which pushed this system from the start, came out in favor of making key reforms to it. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/opinion/x1684125865/Editorial-Inshore-cod-assault-cries-out-for-catch-share-reforms
The New York Times is Finally Catching Up! They should pay attention.
Will Seismic Blasts Upend Atlantic Marine Life? By EMMA BRYCE As a federal decision draws near, environmental and commercial fishing groups are marshaling their forces to protest a plan by the Obama administration to allow
So Hey! Have you heard about the Slaughter that lies ahead or those Marine Mammals we’ve been saving? Thu May 3, 2012 9:01 PM EDT
It’s true. And so begins the destruction of the Eastern Seaboard that all the Wind mill, “Drill Baby Drill” people have been waiting for. It’s all about energy independence, right?
Reducing global warming, green energy, not letting the Chinese beat us in the “Green Race” Well. It’s gonna cost us, and it’s gonna cost a lot more than money.
It’s gonna cost a lot of marine life, and this is only the beginning as this administration opens up the North West Atlantic to energy production..Read More
71st Annual Meeting – Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission – Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel – Philadelphia, PA
FINAL AGENDAPlease Note: The following changes have been made to the Preliminary Agenda: (1) the Atlantic Menhaden Board, originally scheduled for October 23 from 12:30 – 1:30 PM, has been canceled (the Board will meet next in December to consider approval of Amendment 2); (2) The Weakfish Board, originally scheduled for October 25 from 10:45 – 11:45 AM, has been moved to October 23 from 12:30 – 1:30 PM; (3) for October 25, the Spiny Dogfish and Coastal Sharks Board will meet at 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM, the Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Board will meet at 1:15 – 3:15 PM, with the ISFMP Policy Board and Business to meet at 3:15 PM and 3:45 PM, respectively. http://www.asmfc.org/71stAnnualMeeting.htm
PEW ENVIRONMENT: Historic Moment for Menhaden – Spreading the Fertilizer
The following was published by Lee Crockett, the Director of US Fisheries Campaigns for the Pew Environment Group. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-crockett/the-bottom-line-historic-_b_1932301.html
Analysis: Warning of a “depleted” menhaden stock and a population that has “plunged nearly 90 percent over the past 25 years,” Lee Crockett, Pew Environment Group’s Director of US Fisheries Campaigns, paints a bleak picture of the current Atlantic menhaden population. But, by leaving out several important pieces of information, Crockett’s portrait is exaggerated and one-sided. Along with a similarly misleading petition from Northeast Fisheries Program Director Peter Baker, Pew’s most recent op-ed is part of a continuing pattern of selectively omitting relevant facts about menhaden. Examining these omitted facts reveals a situation that is much less dire than Pew suggests.
Time to talk fish – Mary Lochner – Anchorage Press News
Some of the issues at question: Are there unknown reasons for the crash related to the ocean environment, or is salmon bycatch from pollock fisheries to blame? If harvests have to be restricted, who should get first priority for catching the available fish? Which is the best management strategy for maintaining a healthy fishery, and who should get to decide what that is?……Read More.
