Daily Archives: July 19, 2013
EPIRB notifies Coast Guard of disabled vessel with 3 people 63 miles offshore
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Three people stranded on a disabled fishing boat 63 miles east of Mount Pleasant, S.C., are receiving Coast Guard assistance Friday because of a life-saving piece of equipment on board the vessel. The trio, too far offshore to communicate using their VHF-FM radio, activated the vessel’s Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon at 10:54 a.m., which instantly provided GPS coordinates, notifying Coast Guard watchstanders that a boat was in trouble. continued@uscgnews
The Long Haul: Shared Hopes for Our Fisheries’ Future
As fishing areas close in the face of dwindling stocks, we look at what the hopes are among fishing folks for the future. In some areas — such as lobsters, scallops and striped bass — there are success stories that can be looked at to determine what is going right. But other areas of the sea are closed, and some wonder if they will stay that way. continued@wcai
Bureau of Reclamation plans water release for lower Klamath in hopes of preventing fish kills
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.—The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation proposes to release water later this summer from the Trinity River in California in hopes of preventing fish kills in the lower Klamath river. The Klamath Basin straddling the California-Oregon border is in a drought that has led to irrigation shutoffs, recalling similar events more than a decade ago when thousands of fish died in the lower Klamath. continued@marinindependent
NOAA hosting open house of Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is hosting an open house of its Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute. continued@ktoo
Thanks to those who’ve taken our Long Haul poll. What We Agree On: Healthy Oceans, Sustainable Fisheries
Thanks to those who’ve taken our Long Haul poll. You’ve reminded us that, for all our differences, we agree on some fundamental issues in fisheries. continued@wcai
Fisheries Economist Gunnar Knapp on This Year’s Price Increase in Bristol Bay
The sockeye harvest this year in Bristol Bay came in short of the pre-season forecast and is low compared to the harvest’s recorded in recent years. However, the base price paid to fishermen jumped up by 50-cents. KDLG’s Mike Mason recently spoke with a leading fisheries economist in an effort to explain how the base price is set and why in increased this year. Listen @ kdlg
THE COMMITTEE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION AND DIRECT NOAA TO CLOSE NERO IMMEDIATELEY
Posted 13:03:54 DEPARTMENT’s of COMMERCE and JUSTICE and SCIENCE and RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2014
p. 30 “Northeast Regional Fisheries Office. However, given NOAA’s lack of cooperation and reversal of commitment, the Committee has no choice but to take action and direct NOAA to close NERO immediately and to dissolve all necessary operations into existing facilities located throughout the region. Specifically, NOAA is directed to improve outreach and services to the fishing industry by configuring fishery science centers and fishery statistic offices as newly configured and less stove-piped portals to the local fishing communities. With minimal overhead investment, including technology investment and updated staffing plans, these offices could be much better utilized to serve a larger NMFS purpose. Instead of relying on, or having to travel to, the NERO office for direct industry support, fishermen would have better and more immediate access to NMFS support services at existing NMFS offices in their home states, if not their homeports. The Committee directs NOAA to ensure that core NMFS support services be retained and accessible in all regions currently served by NERO, including New England, Mid-Atlantic, and South-Atlantic regions, at these local centers and offices. NOAA, in consultation with the Committee, shall work with the General Services Administration immediately to develop a plan to resolve NERO’s current leased space, and create a plan to redirect an adequate portion of NERO’s larger operational costs to outfit the local regional offices.” THE REPORT
From the Deckboss: Walmart keeps hearing it from Alaska. I wonder if the Governor knows they are back dooring Alaska Salmon to Brazil?!!
First global atlas of marine plankton reveals remarkable underwater world
Now researchers from the University of East Anglia have helped to compile the first ever global atlas of marine plankton – published today in a special issue of the journal Earth System Science Data. [email protected]
President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick are working together to push Cape Wind forward for political advantage.
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For example, a May 3, 2010, FAA PowerPoint presentation to Eastern Service Area Directors includes a slide titled “Political Implications” which states: “The Secretary of the Interior has approved this project. The Administration is under pressure to promote green energy production. It would be very difficult politically to refuse approval of this project.” continued@dailytimes
Commercial fishing brothers fight over fishing spot – Deputies reel one in for battery, criminal mischief
Lance Lamee, 51, asked his brother if he was going to fish the frontside or backside of the location, to which Lawrence replied “all of it” and that Lance wouldn’t be messing with him anymore.
‘Real-time’ fish counts from in Gulf of Mexico a Senate priority, and it should be in every US Fishery Management Region
WASHINGTON – Senators want federal regulators to start using “real-time” fish counts in assessing the health of red snapper and other species in the Gulf of Mexico, a move they say would ease catch limits. continued@newspress
Department of Fisheries concerned about low number of salmon in Skeena River – Video
Canada’s Department of Fisheries has responded by shutting down all commercial and recreational fisheries in the area. But local fishermen are worried that the Americans are not doing the same. link
Coalition of commercial fishermen have sued the Alaska Department of Fish and Game over its management of the 2013 sockeye run
In its 19-page lawsuit the Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund — a commercial fishing advocacy group — accuses the commissioner of Fish and Game of reallocating fish from the commercial groups to other user groups by refusing to allow commercial setnet fishermen extra hours of fishing during the heaviest portions of the sockeye salmon run. continued@penclarion
Great urgency in debate over Great Bay – reduce the level of nitrogen and other pollutants discharged
This is a point in the regulatory process where all citizens have the ability to affect the final outcome and language of a critical regulatory process. This is an opportunity that cannot be taken lightly, and a deadline that cannot be missed. continued@seacoastonline
Virginia is coping with its first run-in with a phrase no one in public health or the seafood business ever wants to hear: oyster disease outbreak.
Three people became sick recently after eating raw oysters collected from the same private grounds off Fisherman Island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. They ate the oysters at restaurants in Massachusetts and Maryland, victims of a pathogen that grows naturally in warm waters known as Vibrio parahaemolyticus. continued@pilotonline
StarKist Celebrates 50th Anniversary In American Samoa With Commemorative “Made In America” Canned Products
In celebration of its 50th anniversary in American Samoa, StarKist Co. today announced the launch of newly branded “Made In America” canned StarKist, continued@prwire
