Daily Archives: January 2, 2014
READER’S CORNER: Dal tainted by fish-farm grant
A well-known operator of open-pen fish farms has been convicted on two counts of using illegal pesticides. Some of these pesticides are lethal to lobsters, and resulted in the deaths of several hundred pounds of crustaceans several years ago in New Brunswick. Studies have shown there may be a risk to human health from residual toxins from chemicals used in this industry. Strike one! The same operator of a fish farm in Queens County knowingly and secretly grew 240,000 fish with infectious salmon anemia to maturity, transported them to their processing plant in New Brunswick and processed them for market just before they would have died of the disease. They sought and gained approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to distribute the fish to supermarkets in Canada without identification to distinguish them from other salmon. Strike two. Read more@chronicleherald 23:26
Marine Policy 40 Securing Ocean Benefits for Society In the Face of Climate Change
Benefits humans rely on from the ocean-marine ecosystem services-are increasingly vulnerable under future climate. This paper reviews how three valued services have, and will continue to, shift under climate change: (1) capture fisheries, (2) food from aquaculture, and (3) protection from coastal hazards such as storms and sea-level rise. Climate adaptation planning is just beginning for fisheries, aquaculture production, and risk mitigation for coastal erosion and inundation. A few examples are highlighted, showing the promise of considering multiple ecosystem services in developing approaches to adapt to sea-level rise, ocean acidification, and rising sea temperatures. Ecosystem-based adaptation in fisheries and along coastlines and changes in aquaculture practices can improve resilience of species and habitats to future environmental challenges. Opportunities to sue market incentives-such as compensation for services or nutrient trading schemes-are relatively untested in marine systems. Relocation of communities in response to rising sea levels illustrates the urgent need to manage human activities and investments in ecosystems to provide a sustainable flow of benefits in the face of future climate change. Read the vision here! 21:17
Former Snopac Products Owner Greg Blakey Passes Away in Mexico
A man with a long history in the seafood processing industry in Alaska passed away recently in Mexico. Greg Blakey died on December 16th after suffering a heart attack that caused a motorcycle accident on a remote road on the Baja Peninsula. Blakey was the owner and President of Snopac Products, which he sold to Icicle Seafood’s in 2012. Read more@kdlg 19:16
Council For Sustainable Fishing – Urgent — there are looming threats to fishing in 2014!
We always hope for the best for a new year, but unfortunately commercial and recreational fishing interests face the looming threats in 2014 of more no-fishing zones, job killing “catch shares” schemes and congressional inaction on fixing the badly flawed Magnuson-Stevens Act, among others. Read more@councilforsutainablefishing 17:31
Lobster – Rock crab Fishery violations Prince Edward Island
January 2, 2014 – Moncton, New Brunswick Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Region, announced today six Prince Edward Island residents have been fined for fishing violations. The fines total $29,500. Read more@DFO 16:03
Aubrey Lee Price, 47, suspected of faking his own death, costing the Coast Guard more than $173,000, arrested
Price was reported missing by his family on June 18, 2012. A family member in Georgia reported the missing man to the Coast Guard after they had received a certified letter believed to be a suicide note from Price. The letter stated Price intended to jump off the Key West Express Ferry in the vicinity of Naples, Fla. Read more@uscgnews 15:49
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Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: Fish marketing plan deserve support
The State House bill aimed at better marketing the local seafood industry — filed by state Senate Minority leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, and already backed on the House side by Gloucester Democrat Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante — would create an entirely new function for the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries. Read more@gdt 12:45
BP Spill Windfall Will Test Texas Conservatives
Unlike most civil penalties, which go to the federal government, Congress in the RESTORE Act has decided that the money from the BP settled will be distributed to the five states which border the Gulf of Mexico. But Daniel Rothschild, a senior fellow at the free market R Street Institute, says huge sums of money in the hands of greedy and irresponsible politicians can come back to burden taxpayers, and Texas needs to make sure that doesn’t happen. First, he says officials have to avoid the urge to create new bureaucracies which will have to be funded by taxpayers after the oil spill money is gone. “Using this to do what some have suggested to create ‘green jobs’ corps and civilian conservation corps, that is going to have long term serious ramifications for the state,” he said. “It means more people on the government payroll, and in the future taxes are going to go up to continue to pay for it.” Read [email protected] 12:17
The New England groundfishery is a disaster. – Improve the science
Fishery managers declare catch limits that are little better than arbitrary because our definitions of overfishing are at odds, a condition created by murky, imprecise language in the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery and Conservation Management Act, further complicated by the inability to agree on the size of the fishery, its relative vitality, the impact of warming and acidifying oceans, the number of fish versus the size of the fish, the role of economics and management mechanisms — you get the idea. Read more@capecodonline 12:06
Women at sea cry ‘foul’ over weather gear fit
STONINGTON — For growing numbers of women in Maine’s commercial fisheries, the standard Grundens brand foul weather gear, or oil gear, is not cutting it. Commercial fisherman Genevieve Kurilec McDonald, a Bar Harbor native living in Stonington, is working on finding or creating another clothing option for herself and other fishing women. Read more@fenceviewer 11:47
Seaweed may be protected as value rises
According to the draft document, the plan is designed to provide recommendations – but not regulations – for long-term management of rockweed harvesting. Rockweed – a species of seaweed known as Ascophyllum nodosum – has become more marketable in recent years, in part because of new uses for the resource. Read more@kennebecjournal 09:21
