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EPA grant to fund sea lamprey testing. Lamprey threaten both the ecosystem and commercial fishing in the Great Lakes

November 25, 2012 Uncategorized

LANSING — A $392,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant will pay for testing sea lamprey repellent on three to-be-named spawning streams in the state. The project is expected to be completed within the 10 years the EPA requires.
Sea lamprey are attracted to the smell of their young and repulsed by the stench of their dead, said Michael Wagner, lead researcher on the project and an assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University. http://record-eagle.com/statenews/x1839360630/EPA-grant-to-fund-sea-lamprey-testing

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The Provincetown fishing fleet has had its share of tragedy, Carol Green has formed a committee to raise money for a permanent memorial in Provincetown

November 25, 2012 New England

“You wake up, and your life is forever changed,” said Provincetown resident Joan Cordeiro, whose husband, Ernest, died on the Patricia Marie. “They’re gone, and you keep thinking that they’re going to find them. It is, ” it’s heartbreaking.”

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121124/NEWS/211240318/-1/NEWS11

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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update November 25, 2012

November 25, 2012 New England

http://hosted.vresp.com/1181479/fabfb06fd2/545568053/ad93d20bca/

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Alaska whale hunters wary of oil drilling-“This place has been transformed because of oil.” Barrow, Alaska

November 25, 2012 North Pacific

Barrow, Alaska — Minutes after the hunters’ harpoon pierced the flesh of a bowhead whale, the call went out. By cell phone and radio, Alaska whale hunters wary of oil drilling-“This place has been transformed because of oil.” “The infrastructure that you see in Barrow is what was brought in by oil,” Leavitt said. “Before the discovery of oil, there was no education past eighth grade. This place has been transformed because of oil.” http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Alaska-whale-hunters-wary-of-oil-drilling-4062827.php

I guess Ollie Leavitt thinks it’s also time to bring “progress” to Indigenous tribe discovered in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest!

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Alaska’s salmon harvest, value falls from 2011 dropping 21 percent and 30 percent, respectively.

November 25, 2012 North Pacific

Alaska’s salmon harvest and value for 2012 came in well below last year, dropping 21 percent and 30 percent, respectively. According to preliminary state tallies, the value of the salmon catch totaled nearly $506 million at the docks this summer on a statewide catch of 124 million fish. That compares to a 2011 take of 177 million salmon valued at just over $641 million. http://www.thebristolbaytimes.com/article/1247years_salmon_harvest_value_falls_from_2011

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Sardine fishery quota slashed for 2013, but worries remain.- Oceana, “It is frankly unbelievable”, Pacific Fishery Management Council – catch levels will be lower in 2013

November 25, 2012 National

While catch levels will be lower in 2013 than in 2012, the fishery council ignored increasing catch rates by Canada and Mexico; ignored warnings from scientists that the stock is collapsing; and failed to account for the importance of sardines as prey for whales, seabirds and other fish like salmon and tuna, Oceana wrote. http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&ndb=1&id=57017

I think OCEANA are the ones ignoring increasing catch rates by Canada and Mexico, and should refocus on the problem. If there is a problem.

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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