Daily Archives: December 27, 2013
New Bedford Harbor Development Commission – Request for proposals – Launch Service
The New Bedford Harbor Development Commission is seeking requests from persons interested in operating a launch service (on call taxi service) in New Bedford Harbor for the 2014 boating season. Proposals due, January 27, 2014 Read the details here 22:04
Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester files bi partisan Seafood Marketing Program bill
The bill, which calls for the establishment of a Massachusetts Seafood Marketing Program within the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), has drawn the support of 23 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and the Senate. It calls for the establishment of a coordinated program within DMF to market seafood landed in the commonwealth and to take actions to increase consumer demand and preference for the local seafood products and support for the commonwealth’s fishing and seafood industry. Read more@wickedlocal 17:20
Alaska Court of Appeals reinstates fishing charges against ex-lawmaker, two others, forth pleads out.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Court of Appeals on Friday reinstated charges against a former state senator and others for violating conditions of their subsistence fishing permits. A wildlife officer in August 2009 cited then-lawmaker Albert Kookesh, D-Angoon, and others for catching more sockeye salmon than allowed under a subsistence fishing permit. Read more@adn 17:06
Chefs are on guard against crooked suppliers passing off cheap impostors for more valuable species
Douglas Katz is the chef and owner of Fire food and drink at Shaker Square,The Katz Club in Cleveland Heights, and Provenance at the Cleveland Museum of Art. And he’s an environmentalist. The group Entrepreneurs for Sustainability has named him a Champion of Sustainability. His main concern is the health of our oceans and rivers in an era of climate change. And that ties in to his primary passion…fine food. “The wild fish populations are depleting so you have to know whether there’s enough fish to sustain our restaurant.” Read [email protected] 12:01
North Pacific: Revisions to federal fisheries act released for public review
The House Natural Resources Committee released draft legislation Dec. 19 with 30 pages of proposed MSA changes that address several major fisheries issues, including catch share programs, electronic monitoring, rebuilding plans and the term “overfished.” Catch share programs also would be adjusted under the draft legislation. The law would define catch share programs in regulation, and give processors a spot at the table as future programs are developed. Read more@alaskajournal 11:05
Salmon farmer fishing for higher returns
As the co-owner of Omega Pacific Hatchery, near Port Alberni, Ms. Schmitt has been growing salmon for the fish-farming industry for 34 years. During that time, she figures the company has spawned more than 10,000 adult Chinook and reared more than 30 million juveniles from eggs. Along the way, she became convinced the best way to grow young Chinook salmon is to mimic nature by raising them in colder water, for longer and feeding them less than the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) does in its federally run hatcheries. Read more@globeandmail 08:03
NOAA gets low grades among fed workplaces – Patent and Trademark office #1 – The difference between destruction and production?
A NOAA spokesman declined to comment on the survey results, instead issuing a statement that did not address the apparent increasing dissatisfaction among the agency’s employees or indicate whether the agency’s management consider the results an accurate barometer of NOAA leadership and its workplace environment. The survey results particularly reflect a continuing trend of disenchantment among NOAA’s employees with the agency’s leadership, which has been a study in instability and upheaval for more than five years, beginning with the tumultuous term of Administrator Jane Lubchenco and into the current term of Kathryn Sullivan. Read more@gdt 00:36
