Daily Archives: November 23, 2013
Scallop boat brought to safety after losing power on Bay of Fundy
A scallop boat and its crew that were adrift on the Bay of Fundy Saturday were rescued despite high winds and a falling tide. The Tide Nova lost power as it approached Halls Harbour, Kings County. “Time was of the essence,” he said. “If this had happened 20 minutes later, that boat would have been lost.” more@cronicleherald 21:25
Maine: Scallop conservation measures paying off with record average statewide price in 2012
Patrick Keliher, head of DMR, said in the same statement that the new management approach has been “challenging,” but gave credit to fishermen for making it work. “Their commitment to make necessary sacrifices and to work with us is now paying off,” Keliher said. more@BDN 19:37
Letter: Stories show need to focus on NOAA science – Mike Dyer, Essex, Ma
The Nov. 21 Times included several illuminating items about the state of our fisheries. In his letter to the editor, Paul Cohan took NOAA regional administrator John Bullard out to the woodshed, shredding Bullard’s recent “My View” piece. In the other, we learned that the New England Fisheries Management Council will not impose emergency restrictions on the big herring trawlers, against the protests of haddock fishermen, who say that the trawlers take too many haddock as bycatch. more@GDT 17:34
N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries: Red drum commercial harvest closes
“Since many fishermen report their landings through paper trip tickets, the red drum landings may be above the harvest limit for this period,” said DMF Director Louis Daniel. Daniel issued a proclamation closing the fishery as of 8 a.m. today. more@jdnews 15:47
BP Declares Total War on Trial Judge in Gulf Spill Case
The assault on U.S District Judge Carl Barbier concerns one particular battle in a larger legal war, and the oil company’s aggressive strategy could come back haunt it on other fronts. more@businessweek 13:26
F/V OPTIMUS – Maiden Voyage
Published on Nov 22, 2013 Maiden voyage on the F/V Optimus. John Barry has just built the ultimate fishing machine. Built by Northern Marine in Anacortes Wa. Radar Marine put in all the electronics. This boat is ready to kill some fish. 12:58
An island of fishing communities few know much about – Deer Island’s waves of change
A three-part video series on this remote fishing island – CBC’s Matthew Bingley visits Deer Island in a three-part video series that explores the stories affecting the islanders. more@cbcnews 11:19
Broken Bureaucracy – Magnuson-Stevens Act – It’s All Out of Balance
Since 1976, when the Magnuson-Stevens Act went into effect, both Captain Krusa’s regulation by natural selection and the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s promised balance between controlling harvests and protecting fishing communities have gone by the board. To be fair, the job has become extraordinarily complex, in large part because fish are hard to count, but also because the regulatory machinery, which includes government scientists, battling user groups, powerful conservation groups, and industry representatives, is broken. The result is a wasted resource and damaged communities. [email protected] 08:16
Cod, redfish recommended for endangered status
Several valuable commercial fish species in Newfoundland and Labrador, including Atlantic cod and redfish, are being considered for threatened or endangered status, CBC News has confirmed. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has recommended Fisheries and Oceans protect select populations of Atlantic cod, American Plaice, deep water redfish and Acadian redfish under the Species at Risk Act (SARA). more@cbcnews 07:50:02
Fish Wars Heat Up – Scott Christiansen, Anchorage Press Lay’s it All Out
There’s an established fishery war on the Kenai Peninsula that heated up in recent weeks on two battlefronts: politics and news media. The feud is yet another struggle over gear type and licensing,,, This particular feud is at least three decades old and pits commercial sport fishing guides and their clients against set net fishermen on the Kenai Peninsula. The sport fishers eye a particular prize: getting more trophy-sized king salmon upriver. The set netters have a prize, too: just keeping their jobs. more@anchoragepress 07:17
Changes to the rec and commercial management of swordfish in state waters approved by the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Changes to state rules approved by the Commission will allow fishermen who participate in this new commercial fishery to land and sell their catch in Florida. Additional changes include, more@fosterfollynews 07:01
“We’re in danger of closing,” University of Massachusetts’ Large Pelagics Research Center
Storm clouds, at least figuratively, have been gathering, seeded by growing concerns about how much longer the center will be able to do its work in an environment of increased competition among researchers for rapidly diminishing funding. more@GDT 06:17
