Daily Archives: February 2, 2013
NOAA Fisheries Names Doug Lipton Senior Research Economist – Nice! Another Enviro-Capitalist—just what we need.
Dick Grachek
Nice! Another Enviro-Capitalist—just what we need. Since NOAA pretty much finished off most New England fishing based on disgracefully shoddy science at the Portsmouth council meeting last week, it appears that people are waking up and wondering what’s behind all of this obvious hostility towards the fishing industry. How could our own government be so hell-bent on eliminating traditional coastal family fishing operations that have supplied millions of pounds of the cleanest food on the planet for over 400 years? Read more
Ocean Blasting Opposed by Members of Congress
The plan, proposed by the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management last year, would open the Mid-Atlantic to seismic surveys, using sound blasts louder than a jet engine to penetrate thousands of feet into the seabed. In addition to being the first step towards drilling in the Mid-Atlantic the effects of the exploration itself are hazardous to marine life big and small causing a range of impacts to from panic to death for miles. Read more
Read this article, and review the attached link’s. ” Have you heard about the slaughter that lies ahead for those marine mammals we’ve been saving?” Read more
LCDC votes to keep Pacific City on wave energy development list
“It was the biggest travesty of justice I’ve seen – including 26 years in the Legislature,” Paul Hanneman told the Headlight Herald. Hanneman, a former state legislator and former Tillamook County commissioner, is currently active in the Pacific City Dorymen’s Association, which opposed wave energy development off Pacific City and Neskowin. Read more
Gone fishing with New Bedford Standard Times writer Don Cuddy, aboard New Bedford’s F/V Sea Escape – Georges Bank
Don Cuddy steps outside the box, and enters an unfamiliar world, the F/V Sea Escape. Great pictures, and an interesting story! Narration and slide show. Watch, and listen
Coast Guard transports monk seal to Oahu for urgent care
HONOLULU — Coast Guard crews, working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration transported a Hawaiian monk seal from the Big Island to Oahu for urgent medical care, Friday. The HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point, Oahu, received the seal at Kona International Airport, Kailua-Kona, Friday morning. Read more
OPINION: My personal Pebble – Melvin Andrew
I adamantly opposed Pebble before, following the ‘crowd’ who opposed it due to water and fish issues. Water and fish is our life, sustenance, and way of life. I was raised commercial fishing and subsistence fishing my whole life and know the importance of them. Read more
Conservation Law Foundation’s Peter Shelley, “The science is clear”
Conservation Law Foundation’s Peter Shelley made an impassioned plea to the NE Fisheries Management Council yesterday to be courageous in its management of the cod fishery to avert a commercial collapse that could
threaten an entire generation of New England groundfishermen. In a statement below, CLF says the Council’s recommended cuts don’t go far enough and that the cod fishery should be shut down to allow stocks to rebuild. read more
From the Deckboss. A Needed Juicy Diversion – Listening in
A potential legal showdown is brewing between United Fishermen of Alaska and the Kenai River Sportfishing Association. Read more, Well, Deckboss can just imagine what kind of stir this is causing!
Cod industry will collapse due to new cuts
“It’s really grim,” said Fiorelli, Reuters reports. “These stocks are in real decline and questions were raised about whether they’ll ever come back.” An economic analysis by the council, which fishers consider too cheerful, estimated that the cuts would lower overall groundfish revenues by 33 per cent, from about USD 90 million in 2011 to about USD 60 million this year. Read more
ANALYSIS: Why are fishermen angry about the new cod quotas if they can’t catch cod anyway?
In the wake of Wednesday’s vote by the New England Fishery Management Council to slash cod catch rates by 77% in the Gulf of Maine and by 55% in Georges Bank,the question arose: “Why, if the fishermen can’t find fish anyway, do they care if the quota is cut?” Saving Seafood interviewed fishermen, industry members, and scientists to pose that question, and compiled their answers. The result follows: Read more
