Monthly Archives: August 2013
DFO POACHER PATROL Is Serious About Poaching!! Have seized eight boats and 50 gillnets as part of a crackdown on the lower Fraser
Fishery officer Nicole Gallant 30 officers are currently working on the lower Fraser, and they’re using boats, vehicles and even air surveillance. Enforcement operations are taking place throughout the day and evening, and Gallant says they’ll continue until the river opens or the sockeye stop running. more@castanet 06:49
Judge Lawrence O’Neill’s ruling opens the gates. Trinity River releases start Sunday
With additional Trinity River flows ready to be released on Sunday, the Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday with representatives of state agencies and a group doing outreach in Southern Humboldt to discuss water storage issues along Humboldt County rivers in an effort to protect future fish generations. more@imesstandard
Cape Breton Premium Seafoods plant destroyed by fire
Edgar Samson, president of Premium Seafoods Group, said he was saddened by the loss of the groundfish facility and retail market. He said the facility employed 60 to 70 people. The company has two other facilities that were not damaged. more@cbcnews 06:00
Governor Sean Parnell announces appointments to Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute ASMI board
Parnell reappointed Jack Schultheis and Kevin Adams, and appointed Amy Humphreys to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) Board of Directors. The institute promotes Alaskan seafood and develops market-oriented quality specifications. more@adn 05:04Second Bluefin Blowout tuna fishing tournament in Gloucester is on!
The first two boats headed out of Cape Ann’s Marina Resort in the first inky moments of Friday morning, steaming out under the stars, hoping that the early-bird truism still held some juice. By sunup, the other 43 tuna boats had joined them, making their way out with the sun in their eyes and visions of giant bluefin tuna — and the prize money it could bring — dancing in their heads. more@GDT 04:35
Coast Guard calls off search for well known and well liked Billy McIntire
The search for Billy McIntire was suspended around 7:45 p.m. Friday night and the Maine Marine Patrol will resume looking for his body this morning, Drozdowski said. He said the Coast Guard’s role in the search is over, unless the Marine Patrol calls for assistance. “Everybody loves Billy. He’s funny and always around,” said Beverly Tower, one of his friends. sadly, more@seacoastonline 23:25
In a remote farm lab far from the sea – In search of a dolphin killer
On a Pennsylvania farm 70 miles from the ocean, inside a sprawling lab facility built to treat horses and other four-legged animals, scientists are trying to solve this summer’s greatest sea mystery: What is killing the dolphins? [email protected] 17:58
DFO POACHER PATROL Working Double Time on the Lower Fraser River
have doubled their patrols on the lower Fraser River to battle poachers who are illegally catching threatened sockeye salmon to sell into the black market. All fishing for sockeye has been shut down in response to a low run size and dangerously high river temperatures to ensure as many of the salmon get upriver to spawn as possible. more@richmondreview 17:52
UPDATED:Two Maine fishermen overcome by gas from rotting Herring fish aboard 89-foot F/V Starlight – Third Man Keeps his wits, and saves them
The first fisherman was overcome and lost consciousness Friday and the second fisherman was sickened while trying to assist the first one. He said a third fisherman saw what was happening and used a breathing apparatus to help rescue the other two. more@penobscotbaypilot 17:32
Revealed: Fishermen’s work has got 25 times harder in last 150 years
It might sound like a fisherman’s tale, but trawlers have to work 25 times harder to catch the same quantity of fish today as they did 150 years ago, scientists have calculated…Catches had fallen so dramatically by the 1880s that even some trawler owners were calling for bottom trawling to be outlawed out to three miles from the shore, and concern about fish stocks led to landings being recorded from 1886. more@theindependentuk 16:48
“It is with a very heavy heart I write this letter to provide my resignation.” Ewell Smith Resigns from Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board
In a letter to Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board chairman Chef John Folse, Ewell Smith has announced his resignation as the executive director of the state’s seafood organization after serving in that capacity for more than 13 years. During his tenure with the organization, Smith has led market development, promotional activities and educational outreach for all of Louisiana’s seafood products. more@gulfseafoodinstitute 16:15
Scallop Industry Set Aside Program Funds Mid-Atlantic Loggerhead Turtle Research – Northeast Sea Turtle Collaborative tagged 20 deploying two solar-powered test units.
The research team worked from two commercial sea scallop vessel, the 91-foot F/V Kathy Ann and the 85-foot F/V Ms Manya, both based in Barnegat Light, New Jersey. The project was funded through the sea scallop industry’s research set-aside program awarded to CFF, providing an opportunity for the research organizations to collaborate in this year’s project as they have in previous tagging work. [email protected] 15:59
3 fishermen plucked from Miramichi Bay
Three fishermen from Esgenoopetitj First Nation were rescued in northern New Brunswick on Friday morning, after spending several hours in the water. more@cbcnews 15:02
A new organization is tackling low lobster prices and the public’s desire for local food in New Brunswick
Fisher to Platter allows consumers in southeastern New Brunswick to buy pre-paid shares of a fisher’s catch of lobster at a price both parties agree on. more@cbcnews
Kenai kings barely meet goal; record set for salmon catch
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seem to have met their escapement goal after all, but it was still the lowest return on record. more@alaskajournal of commerce 13:25
CDQ group battles delegation over quota
Alaska’s Congressional delegation is reluctant to talk about changes in the new Magnuson-Stevens Act until they’ve heard more from the state, but one thing is certain: they have no intention of changing the Community Development Quota allocations in the Bering Sea. more@alaskajournalofcommerce 13:21
Public Comments Sought on Proposed Changes to Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan
National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing to revise the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan to eliminate the consequence closure strategy due to changes in fishing practices that have resulted in lower harbor porpoise bycatch in the gillnet fishery. Click here to read the proposed rule and learn how to provide public comments on proposed changes.
Bald eagles bad news for seabird on Oregon Coast
Scientists at Oregon State University who are studying the seabird have documented how the increase of bald eagles – especially along the central Oregon coast – is having a significant impact on the murre’s reproductive success. It is developing into a fascinating ecological tale of which the ending has not yet played out. more@kval 11:01
Coast Guard searching for missing lobsterman off Ogunquit Maine coast
The Coast Guard is searching for a man missing since just before midnight off the waters of Ogunquit, Police Sgt. Matt Buttrick said early Friday. The fisherman left last night in the commercial F/V Clover, out of Perkins Cove, and the search for him began before midnight, Buttrick said. more@seacoastonline 08:57
North Carolina Fisheries and Wildlife officers cover wide jurisdiction – 4,000 miles of shoreline plus 2.5 million acres of marine and estuarine waters.
The Division of Marine Fisheries’ jurisdiction covers all coastal waters and extends three miles offshore while the Wildlifre Resources Commission is primarily responsible for inland, or fresh, waters. Both patrol joint waters. There are 3,169 active commercial fishermen and 1.5 million recreational fishermen in coastal and joint brackish waters. more@topsailadvertiser 08:43
Scientists develop new method of estimating fish movements underwater
The radio signals that are the backbone of traditional GPS cannot pass through seawater. But sound travels remarkably well, so scientists often use acoustic telemetry to estimate an individual fish’s location. That means attaching an acoustic transmitter to a fish and then using a network of stationary underwater listening stations to monitor for the short clicking sounds that these tags emit. When a fish swims near to a receiver, its click is heard, and its individual code number is recorded. [email protected] 07:22
Letter: The Designated Port Area (DPA), Cape Pond Ice and NOAA – Carmine Gorga, Gloucester, Ma.
I could never be a bureaucrat. If I were one such policy maker, I would know for sure the damage my decision would bring upon Scott Memhard and the Cape Pond Ice Company. Because of the decisions of other bureaucrats at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, fishermen can no longer go to fish as they once did. And the destruction of those jobs at sea is creating havoc on land. more@GDT 06:34
A federal judge ruled the needs of salmon in a Northern California river outweighed the needs of farmers
In his ruling O’Neill cited testimony from biologists who said without additional water the migrating salmon in the Klamath River could become stuck in one place and become susceptible to a parasitic disease like the illness that killed tens of thousands of fish in the Klamath back in 2002. The Trinity flows into the Klamath in Northern California, some 500 miles from Fresno. more@ksfn 06:10
Report: Record tuna catch in 2012
MAJURO, Marshall Islands — Tuna catches in the western Pacific hit record levels in 2012 and coincided with record global market prices that bumped the value of the fishery to an all-time high of over $4 billion, according to a report presented to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission’s scientific committee that met in Pohnpei last week. And an increase in U.S.-flagged purse seiners fishing has resulted in a “sharp increase” in catch. more@islandbusiness 22:34
NMFS/ Pacific Fishery Management Council Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), 2015-2016 Groundfish Specifications
On August 22, 2013, NMFS and the Pacific Fishery Management Council announced their intent to prepare an EIS in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 to analyze the long-term impacts on the human (biological, physical, social, and economic) environment of setting harvest specifications (including [email protected] NMFS will be accepting written, faxed or emailed comments 21:05
In Canada, Maine Lobstermen Get Both A Rival And A Tutor
There’s nothing quite like the sweet, succulent taste of Maine lobster. And fishermen off the state’s rocky coastline have been catching more and more of the tasty crustacean over the past five years. But that surging supply has overwhelmed Maine’s limited marketing and processing capabilities and driven down the prices paid to lobstermen. more@npr 20:38
Fisheries Survival Fund takes aim at yellowtail flounder stock assessments that are “deeply flawed” and unsuitable for use as a regulatory tool.
The Fisheries Survival Fund wrote to NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Director Dr. Bill Karp. It said the uncertainty factor in the assessments is so great that they are effectively useless. more@southcoasttoday 20:27
Crossing the Bar – The legend of Canadian Fishing Company skipper Benny Lagos runs in the tide now.
The legend of skipper Benny Lagos runs in the tide now. For more than seven decades Lagos was one of the top performing skippers for the Canadian Fishing Company in a career that began in a rowboat and ended on a fully-powered seiner. On Monday, following a brief illness, Lagos died in Campbell River. He was 99. His father was a fisherman and so was his grandfather Rosalio who took the boy gillnetting up to Johnstone Strait when he was just eight or nine years old. more@campbellrivermirror 19:35
Crossing the Bar – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark;
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
What boats fish where in Alaska – and where they call home – Alaska Fish Radio
Many people are surprised to learn that 80 percent of Alaska’s seafood landings come from federal waters, meaning from three to 200 miles offshore. Management oversight falls to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and they’ve compiled a user friendly booklet profiling the fishing fleets through 2010, with an addendum for 2011 that includes names of every boat. more@alaskafishradio 16:16
Comment by Monday 8/26 on Halibut Catch Sharing Plan
Information is here! https://fisherynation.com/public-notices 21:12
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