Daily Archives: September 10, 2013
Foreign vessels are catching lots of cod in NAFO areas next to us – Not everyone is happy!
The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker – Monday September 9, 2013 – listen 20:26
Unalaska Fisheries Committee Rejects Limits on Pacific Cod
Unalaska doesn’t want to close the door on new Pacific cod fisheries. The town’s Fish and Game Advisory Committee met Saturday. They voted 5-2 to reject a proposed moratorium on new Pacific cod fisheries in state waters until the state comes up with a new long-term management plan for the resource. more@kubc 20:17
Oversight Hearing on “Reauthorization: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act” Wednesday, September 11, 2013 10:00 AM
PANEL I – Mr. Samuel Rauch National Marine Fisheries Service – Dr. Patrick J. Sullivan – Mr. Richard B. Robins PANEL II – Dr. Ray Hilborn – Mr. Rod Moore – Mr. Vito Giacalone – Mr. Jeff Deem – Dr. John Bruno – Mr. Chris Dorsett [email protected] 16:22
PEI Fishermen’s Association taking major steps at self promotion campaign called “Taste Wild PEI Lobster Campaign.”
As they await the work of a region-wide panel studying low prices in the lobster industry, the PEI Fishermen’s Association is mounting an aggressive campaign to sell the merits of Island lobster to consumers both at home and around the world. more@sou’wester 14:01
Tropical storm Gabrielle heading to N.S., N.L. – Heavy rain, wind forecasted to hit Friday and Saturday
A tropical storm that has reformed near Bermuda is on track to hit Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador Friday. Tropical storm Gabrielle reformed Monday night. It’s expected to hit Bermuda Tuesday before heading north towards the provinces. more@cbcnews 13:37
Nova Scotia Fish Packers Association says the pre – election loan to Blue Wave Seafoods is questionable
The NDP is being criticized for a $500,000 loan made in a key riding on August 29 – several days before the election was called. Blue Wave Seafoods is getting the money to restructure its plant in Port Mouton. The plant is in a new riding – one that the NDP’s last fisheries minister hopes to represent. more@cbcnews 13:23
“Fatigue continues to be a major problem in the commercial fishing fleet,” Capt. Bruce Jones, Commander Sector Columbia River
GRAYS HARBOR, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard, working closely with the Washington Department of Ecology, safely coordinated the refloating of the 44-foot fishing vessel Adrianna, which went aground approximately one-half mile south of the entrance to Grays Harbor, Wash., Friday morning. It was reported by the vessel master that a “crew member fell asleep at the wheel.” more@dailyastorian 11:29
Scientist study the potential of marine material typically tossed overboard by the Scallop Fishery
When you think about sea scallops you likely picture them either pan-seared or fried. But researchers at the University of Rhode Island may be changing the way we think about scallops, with new discoveries about their beneficial uses in medicines or as a tasty new ingredient in fish food. more@ecori 10:39
A new effort is being made in the James River to help save an endangered and prehistoric fish.
The stones are expected to create a 70-foot by 300-foot by 2-foot high rocky river bed, an ideal spawning location for the Atlantic sturgeon . The species spends most of their adult lives in the ocean but return to their home river to spawn in both the fall and spring. Their long life span makes them slow to reproduce. more@progressindex 10:26
High Standards: It’s not JUST 8 weeks
The Coast Guard is the most selective armed force in the nation, and of those selected to serve in the nation’s premiere maritime service, Coast Guard recruits are among the most qualified personnel of any of the military services. Coast Guard recruits have the highest ASVAB scores and the most education of any of our sister services. – more@dodlive 09:58
I wonder how much of this goes on? Maryland Natural Resources Police Seizes More Than 200 Undersized Bass
A Silver Spring man is scheduled to appear in Annapolis District Court on November 15 on charges he and three companions caught more than 200 undersized striped bass. [email protected] 09:47
Mississippi DMR fisheries director will retire
Dale Diaz, 51, has been director of the Office of Marine Fisheries, which has 47 employees, since February 2007. He has worked for DMR more than 26 years, starting as a marine patrol officer. He advanced to lieutenant in the patrol before he moved Marine Fisheries as a biologist in the shellfish bureau. more@sunherald 07:47
Self-employed fishing boat captain accused in international drug conspiracy
“The evidence appears to show that the Defendant (Robert Evon) was involved in a conspiracy involving importation of approximately seventy-seven (77) kilograms of cocaine through several states including California, New Jersey and Vermont, and Canada. The Government indicates that Defendant has ties to an international drug smuggling operation,” Dancks wrote in the order she issued Monday afternoon. more@portlandpress 07:20
Are there ecological merits to trawling the seabed?
Trawling the seabed for fish is an environmental disaster; it wrecks ecosystems, destroys fish stocks and leaves behind a marine desert. Right? Environment campaigners say so. But there is growing evidence that the effect is sometimes very different, with trawling increasing fish stocks from the North Sea to the California coast. A new modelling study may for the first time have demonstrated why. more@newscientist 06:44
Letter: Report shows flaws in NOAA, Pew stands by Carmine Gorga, Gloucester, Ma
I have heard it so many times, that I call it the Pew Mantra. What is the evidence that organization’s environmentalists offer to prove that family fishing vessels engage in overfishing? What are the “facts” on which they build their case? Well, this is what they tell us: At each passing, bottom trawlers scrape the floor of the ocean and, just like clear-cutting forests, make a desert out of it. Sounds so convincing doesn’t it? more@GDT 04:23
National Research Council’s Fisheries report boosts both sides
“As we continue to digest the report, we are very pleased to see a variety of third-party findings that mirror what our organization and our fishermen have been saying for a number of years,” Northeast Seafood Coalition executive director Jackie Odell said in a statement. Most specifically, according to Odell, the report trumpeted the coalition’s and fishermen’s long-held position that there is a greater need for management flexibility in the Northeast groundfish fishery to account for shifting environmental and ecological conditions, as well as “the inherent limitations of science and a mismatch between policymakers’ expectations for scientific precision and the complex dynamics of the ecosystem.” more@GDT 04:14
