Monthly Archives: January 2014
The Upper Cook Inlet Board of Fisheries meeting starts this Friday.
Alaska Board of Fisheries to Meet in Anchorage, January 31–February 13, 2014 on Upper Cook Inlet Finfish information here 17:42
EDITORIAL: Reviving groundfish
Even heavily overfished, nearly depleted groundfish stocks can fully recover. That, says Dalhousie University marine biology professor Boris Worm, is the underlying message in the stunning rebound of haddock stocks — from near collapse to waters teeming with fish — on Georges Bank. Read more@chronicleherald 17:26
Hawaii longline boats face lower tuna catch quota
HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii’s longline fishing boat owners expect their sales of ahi will drop by millions of dollars under an agreement in which the United States will reduce its longline tuna catch for three years starting in 2015. Nearly 90 percent of the total U.S. longline catch of bigeye tuna is caught by Hawaii boats. Read more@hawaiinewsnow Tales of a Hawaii Longliner here 17:06:12
Fisherman bit in the ass by sea lion in Sitka!
A 19-year-old crewman sitting on the railing of a fishing vessel in Sitka received minor injuries Sunday after a sea lion bit him from behind, according to Alaska State Troopers. Read more@ktuunews 16:45
Celebrating Alaska Seafood
This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. It’s time to celebrate seafood. I’ll tell you more after this Listen @fishradio 15:52:33
Important meetings in Florida and Georgia this week! – Council for Sustainable Fishing
This week, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will conduct public input meetings in Florida and Georgia on proposed fishery management plan amendments that will affect the black sea bass trap fishery, gray triggerfish, Spanish and king mackerel, and how Annual Catch Limits are calculated on some unassessed snapper-grouper species. Click here for the public meeting schedule, how to submit written comments and the amendment documents. 15:25 Click here for Council for Sustainable Fishing
Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; request for comments; American Lobster Fishery; Control Date for Lobster Conservation Management Areas
At the request of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, this notice announces a control date that may be applicable, but not limited to, limiting the number of permits or traps a business entity may own in Lobster Conservation Management Area 3 or in any of the Lobster Conservation Management Areas. Meet the Fisherman:: Fred Bennett
When he began fishing 35 to 40 years ago, almost all cod fishermen were hook fisherman except for a few draggers.”On a typical day trip, you would fish 4,500 hooks, all hand baited,” he says. “In the early stages of my career, I would get the guys,, Read more@wickedlocal Recipe for COD ORVIETTO included 14:11
Portsmouth: New England Fishery Management Council Meeting – January 28-30, 2014
Full council Meeting at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel, 250 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 – NEFMC January Council Meeting Webinar Registration here Meeting Agenda here 13:38
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) – Public Meetings Scheduled: Preserving and Protecting MA Groundfish Industry
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) is developing a plan to help protect, preserve and strengthen the Commonwealth’s commercial groundfish industry during the ongoing fishery disaster caused by substantially reduced catch limits. Schedules, and locations. Read [email protected] 11:49
Canada bids to develop a national lobster brand
CANADIAN lobster fishermen are looking at plans to develop a distinctive national brand for its most popular shellfish. Read more@fishupdate 09:22
‘Recreational’ oyster farm proposed on Little Bay at Durham, NH
DURHAM — Amid a surge in commercial aquaculture across the Great Bay region, one group is planning the first-ever recreational oyster farm. Read more@fostersdailydemocrat 09:10
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
US Shark Fishermen, Oceana wants you to waste the fins from your legal fishery
State shark fin bans are under threat—from NOAA – Primordially graceful, sharks have roamed our oceans for 400 million years. They ruled the seas before the first vertebrates crawled onto land, swam alongside dinosaurs, and survived mass extinctions that exterminated 90 percent of all life on earth. But they might not survive us. Read [email protected] 17:22
Committee studies elver license rules
The Legislature’s Marine Resources Committee was scheduled to hold a work session Wednesday morning on a controversial bill that would force elver fishermen with licenses issued by any of Maine’s four federally recognized tribes to have those licenses validated in writing by the Department of Marine Resources. Read more@fenceviewer 16:34
How much gold is enough for the Golden King Crab fleet? – Gold crabbers get nod for boost
The golden king crabbers’ bid for a bigger quota narrowly won an endorsement from the Unalaska Dutch Harbor Fish and Game Advisory Committee. By a 5-3 vote last week, the committee supported an amendment to boost the annual catch by 5 percent, less than the 15 percent sought by the longline crab coalition. Read more@bristolbaytimes 15:45
Fluke Fight. New Jersey fights New York’s efforts to take summer flounder
New Jersey fluke fishermen claim New York is trying to take their fish. The border war of sorts has been going on for several years but appears to finally be heading toward a vote on the issue in February. New Jersey has the bulk of the quota for fluke, also known as summer flounder, on the East Coast. New York is No. 2 and wants to increase its harvest. “It’s New York looking at extra fish we have in New Jersey. It’s as simple as that,” said Tom Fote, of the Toms River-based Jersey Coast Anglers Association. Read more@pressofatlanticcity 13:17
Just Now!! The water boat in New Bedford, Massachusetts pulls up to deliver some much needed water
Capable of pumping 7000 gallons of water in 40 minutes the water boat is crucial to the vessels that utilize the port during the freezing weather of winter when frozen garden hoses just won’t do. 13:03:32
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries calling for public input on proposed changes to the Louisiana Wild Seafood Certification Program.
A public meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Feb. 25 at the agency’s headquarters, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge. The changes involve product registration requirements for retail packages, supply chain verification process and guidelines for logo use. They can be viewed at www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/register.htm. Information: www.wlf.la.gov and www.facebook.com/ldwffb. 12:19:
