Daily Archives: June 11, 2013

Missing fisherman may have been shot over lobster dispute – Witnesses tell CBC News gunshots heard morning of Phillip Boudreau’s diappearance

The case police have put together draws a disturbing picture of an out-of-control fight over lobster fishing territory that ended in gunfire and death. Police officers told CBC News last week that they believed Boudreau was involved in an altercation with men on a larger boat. continued @ cbcnews

Opening day brings big shrimp in small numbers

Calm seas and hot weather greeted fishermen Tuesday morning on the first day of shrimp season in Mississippi. Shrimpers were allowed to drop their nets beginning at 6am Tuesday. continued @ wlox

Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet tows disabled F/V Ocean One, finds numerous safety violations

uscg logoMANASQUAN INLET, N.J. – The Coast Guard towed a disabled 75-foot fishing vessel with three people aboard Tuesday after the boat lost power approximately two miles offshore. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet received a call from the captain of Ocean One reporting they lost all power and did not have enough anchor line to anchor. continued @ uscgnews.com

Bering Sea Canyons May Become New Marine Wildlife Preserve

The Federal agency responsible for commercial fisheries in the Bering Sea have made, what some consider, a landmark decision Monday, June 3rd. The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, or NPFMC, has decided to consider classifying the Bering Sea Canyons as a wildlife preserve. continued @ Alaska Public Media

Cod 017 telling amazing story

Of the millions of cod caught in Newfoundland and Labrador waters in the past 500 years, few have stood out in any special way from all the rest. However, that may have changed on August 31, 2012 when Gerry King from Badger’s Quay caught a cod – cod 017 – on Ireland Shoal, which is about 20 nautical miles from his community. continued@ the coaster

State House News Q & A with Markey and Gomez – Markey inconsistent on fishery issues, and we already knew he was in the Cape Win pocket.

Boston —The two comers for the open U.S. Senate seat have opposing positions on Cape  Wind, with Republican businessman Gabriel Gomez arguing the offshore wind farm  is not cost-competitive while U.S. Rep. Ed Markey says he has backed the energy  project and sought to speed it along. In response to written questions from the News Service, both candidates  offered their plan for helping the state’s fishermen, who are faced with sharply  reduced catch limits regulated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric  Administration. continued @ wickedlocal.com

 

Harpswell lobsterman, 90, swims to safety after boat sinks

BDNPhillip Tuttle was home Monday afternoon recovering from cuts and scrapes suffered in the ordeal, according to his daughter-in-law Verian Tuttle. “He’s a pretty stubborn, feisty Mainer,” she said Monday. continued @ BDN

Kake fisherman Cornell Perry Bean Jr, Drowns in Eastern Gulf Coast near Cordova

In a trooper dispatch, the Cordova Police Department received a report from the fishing vessel Esperanza losing a man overboard for ten minutes, retrieving him after a brief search, and attempting CPR around 7:30 a.m. Monday. continued @ ktuu.com

Coast Guard medevacs crewman from F/V Alaska Spirit near Nunivak Island, Alaska

The Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell’s embarked MH-65 Dolphin helicopter medevaced the 28-year-old man, suffering from a crushed finger, to emergency medical personnel at the clinic in Bethel approximately 115 miles away. continued @ uscg logouscgnews.com

Cod scientist is questioning why DFO is increasing individual quotas on Northern Cod

Listen @ The Fishery Broadcast with John Furlong

International Salmon Treaty Fails Yet Again!

Members of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) and its North American partner, the International Salmon Treaty Fails Yet Again!are disgusted with the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO) for failing to stop the resumption and escalation of commercial salmon fishing in the waters off Greenland. continued @ fish and fly

Scientists want protections for salmon in Tongass

JUNEAU, Alaska – More than 200 scientists have signed onto a letter asking Congress to enact legislation protecting 1.9 million acres of salmon habitat in this country’s largest national forest. continued @Newsminer

Coast Guard offers dockside safety exams to fishermen in Bristol Bay, Alaska

uscg logoExaminers will arrive in Dillingham, King Salmon/Naknek and Egegik Monday. Fishermen can sign up for an exam by calling Coast Guard Sector Anchorage, at 907-538-4103, or by speaking directly with one of the Coast Guard examiners working in Dillingham, Egegik and King Salmon’s harbors. continued@ alaskanativenews.com

Settlement reached over alleged flaws in Fairbanks fish hatchery

FAIRBANKS — The state has reached a settlement with the designer of the Fairbanks Ruth Burnett Sport Fish Hatchery for alleged flaws in the building’s design. continued @ Fairbanks Daily News

Seal tagging will be a first on East Coast

 Researchers hope to place tags on seven gray seals this week off Chatham and Wellfleet. It will be the first such tagging on adult gray seals in U.S. Atlantic waters, and scientists hope it will answer many of the questions they share with local residents and fishermen about these large marine mammals. Waring hopes the tagging data will begin to answer questions such as where adult seals go when they leave the beach, how deep they dive, what they feed on and whether they are shuttling back and forth between the large Canadian seal colonies off Nova Scotia or north in the St. Lawrence River. continued @ capecodtimes

“It’s like a light has been extinguished — a light that always kept looking for the truth,”

photo credit Jim Kendall

photo credit Jim Kendall

On many a morning, Richard Gaines would walk through the front doors of the Gloucester Daily Times, exchange a few brief hellos, and then walk briskly to his desk in the far left corner of the newsroom, sit down and make the first of what would seem like hundreds of phone calls.  continued @ Gloucester Daily Times“I going to cause some trouble today,” he’d proclaim. continued @ Gloucester Daily Times

At the Boston Herald – Richard Gaines, 69, reporter