Daily Archives: January 26, 2014
Report: Fatigue, fog were factors in 2012 vessel crash that killed Port Angeles man
The 40-foot Maverick, homeported in LaPush, and 90-foot Viking Storm, out of Vancouver, B.C., collided in heavy fog 35 miles west of LaPush at about 4:30 a.m. Sept. 28, 2012. Three of the four crew members of the Maverick abandoned the rapidly sinking vessel before it sank and were rescued by the crew of the Viking Storm crew within five minutes. The survivors were taken ashore in a U.S. Coast Guard rescue boat. Read more@penninsuladailynews cbcnews 23:11
Gulf of St. Lawrence oil and gas plans draw opposition
Seven P.E.I. municipalities have signed a resolution against oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A group called the Save our Seas and Shores Coalition sent template resolutions to the province’s approximately 75 municipalities. It called for either a moratorium until a review or public consultation is carried out, or a moratorium leading to a ban. Read more@cbcnews 22:51
Catch Shares – BJ Brown Summed Up What Was Going To Happen In The Fishing Industry In Gloucester 4 Years Ago
This was filmed in 2010 and it’s only gotten worse. What he predicted back in 2010 is about 10 times worse 4 years later. As I type this a fisherman just left my office. He is 52 years old and has fished his whole life. He is a stern man meaning he has no stake in what the owner of the boat may receive when he sells out his commercial fishing permits. He has only seen it get worse and worse and was telling me he has absolutely no idea what he could do for a living since all he knows is fishing. It’s sad and it is despicable what they did when they instituted Catch Shares and privatized the ocean and fish. Read more@goodmorninggloucester 21:47
Back in 2009 I started to collect the stories and add them to a thread on Cape Ann Online as sort of a journal and record for those who might have said they didn’t see this coming. There are three pages of articles from fishermen and about how it was and has decimated our working port and independent fishermen. Click here for the list of articles (3 pages worth)
FOIA docs shed light on Interior Dept – Wind Industry Exploits Direct Access and Influence – Interior Fails to Provide Transparency
Interior’s behavior is unacceptable and inconsistent with the Obama administration’s pledge to improve transparency across government. Taking a select few stakeholders into closed-door meetings to discuss the way forward on revising not only the 30-year take permits, but the broader eagle take rule is especially shocking considering how many strong feelings Americans have about allowing any industry to kill eagles. The meetings were not announced to the public, and specifically excluded tribes, industries, smaller conservation groups, and members of the general public that also care about how well Interior stewards our natural treasures. Read [email protected] 16:48
Bait and Switch, eco nut style by Wealth Foundation lackey Lew Milford – How the Right uses environmental law to kill American jobs?
No, that was not the title of the recent New York Times article about the Cape Wind offshore wind project. But it should have been. By Lew Milford , President of Clean Energy Group. Read more [email protected] More of the same Pew/CLF hogwash. 12:52
Governor Lolo Moliga calls for united front on 100% Buy America Act
Governor Lolo said the lobbying efforts waged by Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea are very aggressive and powerful hence there is a great danger that the amendments would be approved by Congress. He said the attempts by these two canneries to water down the provision of the Buy America Act threatened the operating security of the local canneries and the economic survival of the territory. Read [email protected] 12:32
California drought threatens coho salmon with extinction
The lack of rain this winter could eventually be disastrous for thirsty California, but the drought may have already ravaged some of the most storied salmon runs on the West Coast. Read more@sfgate 11:44
Special hunt authorized in South Carolina for double crested cormorants
The awkward-looking seabirds are one of nature’s most capable fish catchers -– yet they never seem to garner the respect heaped upon other avian piscators. In China, they have been trained to dive and harvest fish for commercial markets for more than 1,000 years. Here in the U.S., however, Read [email protected] 11:40
CETA Relevance to NL Inshore/Coastal Communities – Winston Fiander
Newfoundland and Labrador are blessed with some 40,000 kilometers of coastline which has hundreds of communities situated adjacent to some of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Read more@sustainablefisheriesca 11:08
In Our View/Obama’s Clean Water Act authority – Stopping the Bristol Bay mine
“EPA Assessment provides unequivocal evidence of the irreversible harm the mine would pose to the 14,000 direct salmon-fishing jobs in Bristol Bay,” writes U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell in a Jan. 23 letter to the president. “In addition to direct jobs impacts, thousands of indirect jobs are at risk in industries ranging from shipbuilding, to gear manufacturing, logistics and seafood processing.” Read [email protected] 09:44
Baker | Kathy Dunderdale’s fisheries legacy – Evaluating how the premiers handled the fishery
“Good-bye and good riddance to the worst premier the fishery ever saw,” I had a fisherman tell me this past Wednesday when Kathy Dunderdale pulled the chute on being premier. Such knee-jerk reactions are commonplace around these parts, of course, and politics is a provincial bloodsport to boot (you just never see people talk politics with such rage and petulance in other provinces … well, OK, Read more@cbcnews 08:00
