Daily Archives: October 15, 2013
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Congressional Working Group forum. Senator Tom Casperon (R-Escanaba) testify’s
The forum, “Reviewing 40 Years of the Endangered Species Act and Seeking Improvement for People and Species,” featured 17 panelists. Each panelist represents a wide range of diverse groups and interests across the country. They discussed ways the ESA could be altered to better serve state issues and needs. more@abc10up 23:22
Stone Crabbers Strike against Joe’s Stone Crab. Say they low balled the Wholesale price.
Joe’s defended the price as appropriate for the start of the seven-month season for stone crabs, saying it has never set wholesale rates this high on Day One. Stephen Sawitz, the COO of Joe’s, which his family owns, said prices typically increase as the season approaches Christmas. He said he did not want to be stuck overpaying for claws before he got a sense of how much supply would be out there this year. “If the price drops, I’m stuck,’’ he said. more@miamiherald 22:57PETA Strikes out on Maine Lobster Lunacy, kicks it up a notch with Alligator Cruelty in Louisiana – Nite Crawlers in Nebraska Next!
The animal rights group nut’s, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is pushing for the prosecution of a swamp tour operator accused of striking an alligator, but the St. Martin Parish District Attorney’s Office is questioning the strength of the case. more@theadvocate 22:19
Columbia River Basin Salmon Management Policy Talks to begin on Columbia commercial seine fishing
A new advisory board to provide recommendations for developing a commercial seine fishery on the lower Columbia River will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2108 Grand Blvd. The public is invited to the session of the five-member Emerging Fishery Advisory Board. more@thecolumbian 21:08
“Eat Gulf Seafood” Videos Tell Story of Seafood and Good Times
“Eat Gulf seafood,” said Joanne McNeely sitting in her Tallahassee, FL office. “The purpose of our organization is fairly simple, to develop a strategy to showcase the Gulf of Mexico’s great seafood.” more@gulfseafoodnews 20:29
U.S. Coast Guard grants extension to some certificates of documentation for commercial vessels.
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it will allow commercial vessels engaged in domestic voyages between ports in the United States or its possessions to operate with an expired certificate of documentation as long as they are in compliance with all other requirements for operation. more@uscgnews 16:31
Bering Sea crab season opens today; fleet still tied to the docks
Not so Pretty Penny is off to a lousy start. Murkowski, Young, Hastings, Press Pritzker “We urge you to use your authority consistent with the Antideficiency Act to responsibly manage the 2013 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands crab fisheries.”
The Alaska King crab season opened today, but without IFQ permits most of the fleet of 80 vessels remain tied up in port. Permits cannot be issued until the government shutdown is ended, or NMFS gets permission for a reallocation of personnel. The delays are currently costing around $1000 per day per vessel, but things could get much more costly if the shutdown is not resolved in the next four or five days. more@alaskafishradio 13:26
This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Crab season stats and salmon tallies. More fisheries updates after this…
October 15th marks the start for Bristol Bay Red kings, Bering Sea Tanners and Snow crab. The Red King crab catch is up this year by 91/2 percent with 8.6 million pounds. Tanners is reopened this year with a 3 million pound quota. The Bering Sea Snow crab catch is down by nearly 19% at just under 54 million pounds. Due to government shutdown,,listen@fishradio 12:48
“Doing this job isn’t to get rich. It’s a quality of life.” Waterman John VanAlstine – Soaking up the wisdom of the watermen
It’s not every day that you can shoot the breeze with some watermen — the shrinking group of men and women who make a living oystering, crabbing and fishing on the bay — but the Watermen Heritage Tours program has made it possible. [email protected] 12:42
A life on the water – Newburyport’s Bob Yeomans feted for 45 years at sea
NEWBURYPORT — Veteran boat captain Bob Yeomans has a saying about life on the Atlantic: There are no 401(k) plans to be had by fishing Jeffrey’s Ledge. So Captain Bob continues on, taking out the Erica Lee II on fishing trips and coastal discoveries as he has for decades. more@newburyportnews 12:05
Coast Guard responding to F/V Sea King – taking on water with four people aboard off Ponte Vedra, Fla.
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – Coast Guard boat and helicopter crews are en route to rescue four people aboard a sinking shrimp boat about 2 miles east of Ponte Vedra, Fla., Tuesday morning. more@uscgnews Update: – Flooding is now under control on the 88-foot shrimp boat that was taking on water. Coast Guardsmen passed a dewatering pump to the vessel and are using it and the Sea King’s dewatering pump to keep up with the flooding. All four people remain aboard. The Sea King is expected to arrive in Mayport Tuesday afternoon. 11:20
The NEFMC/ENGO Edsel – Editorial: Time to put brakes on bogus ocean ‘habitat’ measure
The federal Habitat Omnibus Amendment, already a confounding six years in the works, has a nice ring to it. more@GDT The Edsel is most notorious for being a marketing disaster. Indeed, the name “Edsel” became synonymous with the “real-life” commercial failure of the predicted “perfect” product or product idea. Similar ill-fated products have often been colloquially referred to as “Edsels”. Since the Edsel program was such a debacle, it gave marketers a vivid illustration of how not to market a product. The principal reason the Edsel’s failure is so infamous is that Ford had absolutely no idea that the failure was going to happen until after the vehicles had been designed and built, the dealerships established and $400 million invested in the product’s development and launch. Incredibly, Ford had presumed to invest $400 million (well over $4.0 billion in the 21st century) in developing a new product line without attempting to determine whether such an investment would be wise or prudent. wiki 06:52
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Sudden disappearance of sardines has serious economic and ecological effects on the B.C. coast
A $32-million commercial fishery has inexplicably and completely collapsed this year on the B.C. coast. The sardine seine fleet has gone home after failing to catch a single fish. And the commercial disappearance of the small schooling fish is having repercussions all the way up the food chain to threatened humpback whales. more@vancouversun 0:21
