Daily Archives: March 12, 2013
The Pacific Fisheries Management Council seek public comment on proposed North Coast salmon season
Regional wildlife officials are seeking public comment on the proposed salmon fishing season for both commercial and recreational fishermen. The Pacific Fisheries Management Council laid out a detailed series of alternatives at a meeting Monday. Council members will hold a public hearing to collect comments in Eureka on March 26. They will meet in Portland, Ore., from April 6-11 to discuss and set the final rules. continued
Proposed Rule; Request For Comments; Proposed 2013-2015 Spiny Dogfish Fishery Specifications
E-Mail comments may be submitted, identified by NOAA-NMFS-2013-0044 via the Federal eRulemaking Portal Read more
Now this is Real Environmentalism in it’s purest form – Volunteers needed for herring run cleanup April 6
Watch House Natural Resources Committee Magnuson-Stevens Act Hearing LIVE 10:00 am ET – 3/13/2013
Watch the hearing live (10:00 AM ET) 
PANEL I
* Bob Jones, Executive Director, Southeastern Fisheries Association
* Dr. Robert Shipp, Chair and Professor, Department of Marine Sciences – University of South Alabama
* Robert Dooley, President, United Catcher Boats
* John Pappalardo, Chief Executive Officer, Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association
* Captain Keith Logan, Charterboat Captain, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
* Bob Gill, Co-owner, Shrimp Landing, Florida
* Joseph Plesha, Chief Legal Officer, Trident Seafoods Corporation
PANEL II
* Sam Rauch, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, NMFS, NOAA, Department of Commerce
James Hennigan Director of Outreach and Communications Advisor
House Committee on Natural Resources, Majority
(202) 226-9019 | http://naturalresources.house.
Blowing in the wind – Menakhem Ben-Yami
American commercial fisheries are feeling increasingly beleaguered. On top of being plagued for the last four years by the adverse catch-share system, they had been hurt by the mega-spill of oil in the Mexican Bay, severely injured by the recent hurricane Sandy and struggled, evidently in vain, to obtain their share in the related federal damages. The way the wind blows Recently, East Coast fishermen have been alarmed by a new threat: the plan for a gargantuan network of offshore wind-power farms, steps hard on their fishing tows. For example, two hundred 150-180m tall wind turbines are projected to be erected on lease sites overlapping spawning and fishing grounds of several commercial species. Continue
Doug Gregory takes over as executive director Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council on May 20
After more than two decades as Monroe County’s marine extension agent, Doug Gregory soon heads to Tampa to become executive director of the federal Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. continue
John Lee’s Dented Bucket Blog has a new look!
John Lee has reworked his blog, and has included the photography of Zach Harvey, Kieeran Broach, and aerial photographer Wayne Davis. Click on The Dented Bucket
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Who owns the fish?
“We’ve been frozen out,” said Collins, who docks near the Golden Gate Bridge. “This system has given it all to the big guys.” More and more wild-caught fish species and fishing territories in the United States are managed under catch shares, which work by providing harvesting or access rights to fishermen. These rights – worth tens of billions of dollars in the United States alone – are translated into a percentage, or share, that can then be divided, traded, sold, bought or leveraged for financing, just like any asset. Catch shares have been backed by an alliance of conservative, free-market advocates and environmental groups, some of which have financed scientific studies promoting the merits of the system, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found. continued
Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore Billboard Campaign in Halifax – “Don’t want to risk eating ISA diseased fish? Don’t buy open pen farmed Atlantic salmon.”
In the wake of news that ISA-diseased farmed salmon is being processed for human consumption, Eastern Shore residents have launched a bold new billboard campaign designed to educate consumers about the possible health risks associated with eating open pen farmed salmon. continue
Editorial: Witness list shows Magnuson-Stevens Act talks a sham from start
So, you’d like to think that New England will be well represented at these hearings, right? Wrong. The only scheduled New England witness scheduled to speak before the House Natural Resources Committee, where Malden Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Ed Markey is the ranking Democrat, is John Pappalardo of the Cape Cod Hook Fishermen’s Association. And that’s a shameful affront not only to rank-and-file fishermen in Gloucester and beyond, but at slap at our fishing communities, as well. continued
NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on Proposed Actions for Red Snapper in the South Atlantic – Comment Period Ends May 13, 2013
Read the bulletin here
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