Daily Archives: June 12, 2013
Nova Scotia Fishermen fined for selling groundfish they hadn’t reported catching – one banned from fishing for life
Federal prosecutor Jodi Mailman said investigators inspected Deep Cove Aqua Farms Ltd. of Blandford in June 2011, looking for information on fish and fish products the company had bought as part of the fisheries department’s investigation into the possible illegal purchase and sale of groundfish. The company and its owner, Andrew Schnare, are due back in court next month. Several of the 11 fishermen charged in the case have pleaded guilty and received thousands of dollars in fines. continued@ChronicleHerald
Georgia’s territorial waters open for commercial and recreational shrimp harvest
Georgia waters are now open for commercial and recreational harvest of food shrimp. As of Tuesday, commercial-food shrimp trawlers can operate in Georgia’s territorial waters open to power-drawn trawls. Commercial and recreational cast-netters, as well as those using a beach seine, can harvest food shrimp from waters open to the use of these gears. [email protected]
Fishermen, Michael Cohen, owner and director of Santa Barbara Adventure Company, travelled to Capitol Hill to EXCLUDE you!
Cohen operates an outfitting business that runs sea cave kayaking tours within the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Scorpion Anchorage State Marine Reserve and Painted Cave State Marine Conserv
ation Area. ( maybe if fishermen are excluded, ALL uses should be excluded) continued@santabarbaraindependent
URI, Greenfins Developing Techniques for Tuna – the first effort in the United States to breed tuna in a land-based aquaculture facility
Swimming around and around in a 20,000 gallon tank at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus are several large yellowfin tuna captured last fall about 100 miles off the Rhode Island coast. continued@newswise
N.S. fishermen ordered to repay thousands in EI claims
A Cape Breton MP said dozens of people in the northern part of the island have been cut off from employment insurance, again. Eyking said this latest decision will leave many people with no income outside the fishing season, and that will devastate the community. continued@cbcnews
Maine House won’t overturn fines for lobsters bycaught by ground fishermen
AUGUSTA — Maine-based groundfishing boats that catch lobsters in federally regulated waters probably will continue to face the threat fines as large as $50,000, with the defeat of a bill that would have lifted the state-assessed penalties on Maine fishermen. continued @ kennebecjournal
Why Bristol Bay matters – Alaska and Washington, children of a common ancestor.
Alaska’s Bristol Bay fishery is a useful illustration of interwoven economies. The commercial sockeye salmon fishery is the most abundant and valuable on the planet, providing nearly half of the world’s wild catch. Washington is a direct beneficiary, home to nearly 800 Bristol Bay commercial permits. [email protected]
Outdoors: Both man and nature must share blame for demise of shellfish
Several factors are implicated in their demise. Over-fishing, pollution, habitat degradation, diseases and bad weather can all affect the highly vulnerable 2-year scallop life cycle. My brother Gary, who has shell-fished the Cape all his life, connects their disappearance with the loss of our eel-grass beds. [email protected]
Letter: Why can’t they just let us fish? – Dave Walker, Dartmouth Ma.
I have posed this question to many people and in The Standard-Times: After having fished the waters of the Atlantic for hundreds of years, can someone tell us the last time we ran out of a fish? Any fish? They’ve obviously been doing fine reproductive-wise for all these years, so why the sudden interest by the ocean’s version of tree-huggers? continued@southcoasttoday
Status quo tightens squeeze on fishermen
Just six weeks into the new fishing year, Gloucester and other New England fishermen and their federal regulators share a common belief that the very existence of the fishery is in peril, yet both sides remain entrenched in their feelings regarding how to deal with the crisis the federal Department of Commerce acknowledges is an “economic disaster.” continued @ Gloucester Daily Times
