Daily Archives: February 18, 2014
MSA REAUTHORIZATION NATIONAL WORKSHOPS: SEATTLE KICKOFF GREAT SUCCESS
SEATTLE — On Tuesday, Feb. 11, the Center for Sustainable Fisheries and National Fisherman magazine kicked off their National MSA Reauthorization tour in Seattle. Representatives from CSF included President and CEO, Brian J. Rothschild, and Chief Operating Officer, Kate Kramer. Jessica Hathaway, Editor-in-Chief, took part in the workshop on behalf of National Fisherman. Read more here 19:50
LOOKING FORWARD – Monday, March 17th, 2013 – Boston MSA Public Workshop – Former Congressman Barney Frank to discuss MSA Reauthorization
St. John’s company planning to build wind turbine farm in waters off Stephenville – “clean, green energy,” costing less than 10 cents per kilowatt hour!
Beothuk Energy, based in St. John’s, announced ambitious plans last fall to build 30 gravity-based wind turbines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It’s estimated they would generate 180 megawatts of “clean, green energy,” costing less than 10 cents per kilowatt hour to produce. Beothuk pegs the estimated cost of the project at about $400 million, funded entirely through private investment. Read more@cbcnews
Seattle renewable energy company plans $200M wind farm off Oregon Coast on YOUR fishing grounds!
Principle Power, a renewable energy technology developer headquartered in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, received a go ahead from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to submit a formal proposal to use 15 square miles of federal waters off the Oregon Coast for its $200 million WindFloat project. Read more@geekwire 17:42
Coast Guard conducts medevac of injured man from R/V Sikuliaq in the Great Lakes
At about 8:45 a.m., the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay was notified via a shipboard radio of an injured man aboard the motor vessel Sikuliaq, a 254-foot U.S.-flagged research vessel, which the cutter’s crew was escorting through the ice at the time. Read more@uscgnews The R/V Sikuliaq 14:46
Sackton: NMFS, DOC to blame for 38% drop in New England haddock revenue since 2011,- (And their ecoevangelical ENGO’s masters are too!)
We have been struck by the success of the recent Canadian winter haddock season. In January, in just a few ports in Nova Scotia, Canadian boats landed more than 2,000 metric tons of haddock (nearly 4.5 million pounds). The newspapers were filled with stories of overloaded harbors, full processing plants, and higher revenue based on great market prices.,,,Meanwhile, the fisheries disaster in New England keeps unfolding. According to a recent letter from the chair of the New England council to the head of the Department of Commerce (DOC), 2013 groundfish landings in New England will be around 43.4 million pounds, with revenue of only $55.8 million. This represents a 38% reduction in revenue since 2011. No wonder New England fishing businesses outside of the scallop industry are facing extinction. Read more@undercurrent 14:24
Industry Lawyers Wrong on Closed Areas Science: An Open and Shut Case, Says Talking Fish! Hehehe ya. ok!
Some smart son of a bitch at Talking Fish mocked an article at National Fisherman, So it must have come as a surprise to these dozens of scientists from leading institutions to read in National Fisherman that “there are no scientific studies showing that closed areas, in temperate areas like New England, provide benefits to fishery productivity or conservation.” The dozens of scientists include Google Maps Fish Survey Chief Daniel Pauly! I will tell you, listening to the MAFMC climate presentation, and now this A Changing Climate in Fisheries Management, There will be a lot more about this ahead..Talking fish 13:49
Lawsuits could lead to changes at Northwest fish hatcheries
PARKDALE, Ore. (AP) – People on the West Coast have counted on fish hatcheries for more than a century to help rebuild populations of salmon and steelhead decimated by overfishing, logging, mining, agriculture and hydroelectric dams, and bring them to a level where government would no longer need to regulate fisheries. Read [email protected] 12:55
Voices from the Fisheries – Interviewee: Ian Parente
Abstract: Ian Parente, 30, is a commercial fisherman out of Sakonnet Point, RI. He is a second generation commercial fisherman who has fished his whole life and bought his own vessel out of high school; he also has 2 brothers that fish. Mr. Parente now fishes mostly for groundfish offshore on his common pool boat; his other boat does not have a groundfish permit and mostly monkfishes. Listen @noaa.gov 12:12
The roiling drama of the planktonic world is a theatre of ambush predators, hermaphrodites and mucus-hurling cannibals
From the article: The effects of warmer water have begun to show up away from the poles. At NOAA’s Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island, Feely’s colleague Kevin Friedland has watched wild swings in ocean temperatures wreak havoc on the bottom of the food chain. One of the most ecologically and,,Read [email protected] 11:51
China doesn’t have any Arctic coastline, but it is keen to cooperate with those countries that do
Danish Arctic Ambassador Erik Vilstrup Lorenzen and Greenlandic Deputy Foreign Minister Kai Holst Andersen made the remarks in an interview with China Daily in Beijing on Monday. They are in China seeking more opportunities for cooperation, focusing on fishing products, mining and scientific research. Read more@xingtaunet 11:14
Out-of-season fishing research set-aside program ripe for abuse, critics say
“The perception held by many of our stakeholders has been that certain fishermen have been abusing the system by not reporting their [research set-aside] landings,” Richard B. Robins Jr., chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, wrote in a Nov. 8 letter. Read more@newsday 2014 RSA Auction Lots, and Revised Auction Contract here @fishingunited.com 10:22
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission – “Sustainably Managing Atlantic Coast Fisheries”
Sustainably Managing Atlantic Coastal Fisheries – Five year strategic plan – 2014-2018 Read the report here 09:53
John Bullard – GARFO Administrator of NOAA Fisheries – YOU”RE ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT!! COME ON DOWN!!!
Published on Feb 17, 2014 “There’s room for everyone, if we plan.” John Bullard, Northeast Regional GARFO Administrator of NOAA Fisheries NMFS VIDEO Ocean Frontiers website: http://ocean-frontiers.org/ 09:38
Gov. Martin O’Malley has failed Chesapeake Bay
In his recent State of the State address, Gov. Martin O’Malley touted his accomplishments in Chesapeake Bay restoration. On closer examination, the record reveals that his claims were misstatements, at best. Read [email protected] 09:22
and in Fisherynation Sports this morning, ‘All hell has broken loose right now’
‘All hell has broken loose right now’ — massive Portland Pirates hockey brawl leaves ‘yard sale of equipment to clean up’ LEWISTON, Maine — The Portland Pirates faced off against the Adirondack Phantoms here Sunday. According to the Pirates’ website, the hometown team secured a 2-0 shutout win, but the results will likely be overshadowed by the night’s gigantic fight, the video of which is long — clocking in at three minutes, 24 seconds — but with hardly a wasted moment. The Video tape 07:02
Shoals Marine Laboratory announces new director
DURHAM — Wildlife ecologist Jennifer Seavey is the new executive director of the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, the University of New Hampshire and Cornell University announced. Read more@fostersdaily 06:55
