Daily Archives: November 18, 2012
One presumed dead after scalloper sinks off P’town, Jean Frottier, 69, of Wellfleet missing
PROVINCETOWN – U.S. Coast Guard vessels and state police divers worked into the night Sunday searching for the body of a fisherman about 2 miles off Race Point after the vessel he was on began capsizing around 11:30 a.m.
Coast Guard Station Woods Hole received a call from the lobster boat Glutton about another boat, Twin Lights, capsizing after becoming tangled in fishing gear, Chief John Harker of the Coast Guard station in Provincetown said.
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Bluefin tuna don’t forget a good thing when they find one. The Dented Bucket
Stare at this picture. It’s a bit like the children’s book, “Where’s Waldo?” or for an older generation where’s Richard Scarry’s “Goldbug.” But instead of one Waldo in the photograph, there are many. I can count about 12 giant tuna in this photo. You have to look carefully, squinting your eyes through the glare, but the fish are there and they are large. I love this shot. Wayne Davis took it. The name of the boat is the Fearless and she’s out of New Bedford, a big old steel rig, battered and worn. http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=698e03792e01700f74359f279&id=3ce1272235&e=7af44a6811
SPINY DOGFISH RESEARCH SESSION December 17, 2012 South Kingstown, RI
To Register Please Contact: Jane Dickinson, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation [email protected] (401)515-4892
http://www.savingseafood.org/images/december%2017%202012%20dogfish%20research%20session.pdf
Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update
“The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.”
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Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries 3: Advancing Sustainability
The purpose of this conference is to elevate the discussion of current, developing concepts on the sustainability of United States marine fishery management, towards possible future use in improving contemporary practices. The conference will examine three theme areas, each of which focuses on policy, science, and process issues associated with three germane topic areas of high current interest. Findings that emerge from this national conference regarding advancing sustainable fishery management practices could be considered for changes to current policy or regulatory approaches developed at Regional Fishery Management Councils or implemented by the National Marine Fisheries Service, or legislative changes via reauthorization of the Magnuson –Stevens Act, as appropriate. http://www.managingfisheries.org/index7.htm
Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral-Fishing industry needs research money as well as disaster relief
The elections may be over, but the current Congress still has work to do…..We need reliable, independent science. And Massachusetts is best equipped to provide it….That’s because there has not been adequate, sustained funding for independent research centers…..environment using scientific evidence that is, by its own scientists’ admission, often unspecific, unproven and unreliable. NOAA has been put in the position of acting not only as judge and jury, but as prosecution, defense and expert witness…..In particular, the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) at UMass Dartmouth is uniquely suited to provide this research. SMAST has an ideal location as well as a history of fostering positive collaboration between all fishing stakeholders. SMAST can also boast a proven record of success in fishery research. In the 1990s the scallop industry was on the verge of collapse when SMAST pioneered new research on a very tight budget that proved the scallop population wasn’t devastated, http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121118/OPINION/211180303
