Daily Archives: September 27, 2013
Canada Continues to Advance Sustainable Fisheries Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems at the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
Halifax, Nova Scotia – At this year’s annual meeting in Halifax, the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) adopted a range of measures to strengthen the conservation and management of key fish stocks and to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME) that form habitat for many of those species. more@dfo 22:37
N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries asking pound net fishermen to be turtle diligent in checking nets
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries issued a news release Friday in response to last week’s reported interactions with the sea turtles. In addition, the division is asking the public to promptly report turtles entangled or caught in fishing gear. [email protected] 22:24
Wild salmon: Are their best days all behind them?
Chinook salmon returns are setting records on the Columbia this year. But 80 percent are hatchery fish. Thirteen wild salmon populations in the region are listed as endangered and 11 are threatened. The latest threat, warming waters, comes on top of the longstanding dangers of hydropower for salmon. more@crosscut 20:29
Three Fishermen Rescued from Sinking F/V Fjord Mist off the Washington Coast this morning
WARRENTON, Ore. — Coast Guard Station Quillayute River, Wash., crews rescue three fishermen from the sinking F/V Fjord Mist two miles west of James Island, Friday. The fishermen were safely transported to Station Quillayute River by one of two 47-foot Motor Life Boat crews that responded to the sinking 50-foot fishing vessel; the second vessel remained on scene until the fishing vessel sank at 11:23 a.m. in 103 feet of water. more@uscgnews Additional photo’s here 17:53
A safety program created for fishermen and delivered by fishermen test piloted in British Columbia
FISH SAFE has helped to move forward a culture of safety and helped fishermen in British Columbia to see where the safety shortcomings are on their own vessels. But the idea has always been that this is a program that could benefit the fishing industry in all of Canada. With this in mind, this week and part of next week, a version of the program – Safest Catch Nova Scotia – is undergoing a pilot project on the East Coast of the country, with some training and execution of the program happening in southwestern Nova Scotia, including in Yarmouth and Digby counties. more@ycvanguard www.fishsafebc.com 14:16
October 1, 2013 Closure of the New York Summer Flounder Fishery
NMFS announced that the 2013 commercial summer flounder quota allocated to New York has been harvested. Effective 0001 hours, October 1, 2013, fishing vessels issued a Federal moratorium permit for the summer flounder fishery may no longer land summer flounder in New York for the remainder of the 2013 calendar year Click here to read more. 13:51
Back in Black: Black Sea Bass Stock is Rebuilt
The wait wasn’t easy but it’s over. NOAA Fisheries has declared the southern stock of black sea bass successfully rebuilt. With that, the combined commercial and recreational catch limit for this popular species has more than doubled, to 1.8 million pounds. The southern stock of black sea bass ranges from Cape Hatteras, NC to the Florida Keys. For the communities along that stretch of coast, the higher catch limit is extremely good news. [email protected] 13:47
Are rebounding cod numbers really behind the decline in crab? The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker
We’ll hear more concerns about the salmon escape in Hermitage Bay. listen@the fisheriesbroadcast 13:38
Coast Guard medevacs crewman from F/V Poncho 60 miles south of Intracoastal City
NEW ORLEANS — A Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a 45-year-old crewman from a 100-foot shrimper approximately 60 miles south of Intracoastal City in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday. more@uscgnews
Haida Salmon Restoration Corp’s work has been described as a “rogue experiment”. Is it? – Company officials find receptive audience in Squamish
But the operators of a B.C.-based company under investigation for possible violations of Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act appear to be making headway in their quest to gain public and scientific acceptance of the iron fertilization project done in the summer of 2012 in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Haida Gwaii. more@thechief 12:17
Coho tangle-net fishing coming to lower Columbia
The Columbia River Compact on Thursday approved eight days of fishing downstream of Warrior Rock on Sauvie Island with 3.75-inch-mesh nets and recovery boxes. The nets can not be in the water longer than 30 minutes at a time. Tangle nets are smaller mesh nets than used traditionally. They are intended to catch fish by tangling in the teeth or jaw, rather than in the fragile gills. Wild fish can be placed in the recovery boxes, then released. more@thecolumbian 11:54
Documentary filmmaker Twyla Roscovich captures the wild life of salmon
It’s a Vancouver International Film Festival first for Ms. Roscovich, who has worked as a director and cinematographer for the BBC Natural History and Discovery Channel. The film raises questions about the salmon-farming industry’s role in the situation. Ms. Morton’s Pacific Wild Salmon Society financed the project. more@globeandmail 10:07
Report: Polluted farm runoff linked to toxic green algae slime in U.S. waters
They call it the green slime, a toxic ooze of algae that covered lakes and other water bodies across the United States this summer, closing beaches in Wisconsin and Kentucky, and killing scores of dolphins, manatees, birds and fish in Florida, a report says. more@wapo 09:45
NMFS is harming efforts to ban the sale of shark fins Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States.
Absolute foolishness– The Shark Conservation Act of 2010 was designed as a statutory shield to protect the world’s troubled shark populations. Any sensible person would deduce this. Few could have anticipated, however, that the National Marine Fisheries Service would pervert the act and use it as a regulatory spear against millions of sharks, against conservation and against common sense. more@wapo 03:56
An open letter from the MSC to Alaska – From the Marine Stewardship Council/9/26/13
An open letter and fact sheet to address negative and inaccurate statements about the MSC program by ASMI, Alaska elected officials and trade journal reporting. more@fishradio via Deckboss 02:37
