Daily Archives: March 19, 2014
Public Comments Split on Gulf of Alaska CFAs
On Monday night roughly two dozen community members filled the borough assembly chambers for the Kodiak Fisheries Work Group meeting. It was a long night of testimony, panel discussion and guest presentations, as the work group considered what recommendations it might pass on to the city council and borough assembly for bycatch management in the Gulf of Alaska trawl industry. Read more here 21:19
MOSSOM CREEK: Port Moody hatchery to be a leader in sustainability
Plans to build a state-of-the-art hatchery and education facility on the footprint of the destroyed Mossom Creek Hatchery are taking shape. With a cost initially pegged at $1.2 million, including corporate and community donations and in-kind services, a low-impact, innovative building is set to rise from the ashes and could be open by next spring. Read more here tricitynews 19:46
NJ KOs plan for wind power farm off Atlantic City – Who’s smiling now, pal
ATLANTIC CITY – New Jersey energy regulators have taken the air out of a $188 million plan to build a wind power farm off the coast of Atlantic City. Read more here 18:50
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Alaska’s salmon hatcheries set records last year
Alaska’s salmon catch set a record last year– and so did the salmon returns to Alaska hatcheries. The 2013 Alaska salmon catch was an all time high of 283 million fish and hatchery returns topped 110 million. Read more here 17:37
Boat of the Week from the Athearn Marine Agency: 104′ RSW Offshore Lobster/Crabber,1980, Crab,Lobster Steel, CAT
Specifications, and Information here 16:28:32
CNMI Got ‘Jacked,’ Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Is Told – “We were blind-sided and treated unfairly,”
Inos said it is possible for NOAA and US Fish and Wildlife Service to continually disapprove any management agreement so they can retain control over the submerged lands within the monument. He asked the Council to support Commonwealth efforts to have the submerged lands “presently being held hostage by the US Departments of Commerce and the Interior returned to their rightful owners.” But President Barack Obama’s,,, Read more here 16:16
BC Commercial Crab Harvester Fined $20,000 for Fishing Illegally
MASSET, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired ) – On December 11, 2013, in Masset Provincial Court, Stan William Steer was found guilty of violations of the Fisheries Act. Justice H.J. Seidemann III fined the commercial harvester, and owner of the vessel STEER CLEAR, $20,000 for setting crab traps in McIntyre Bay during a period that was closed for all crab fishing. Read more here 15:13
Coastal Conservation Association says commercial fishermen exaggerating how many sea turtles impacted by recreational fishing.
While plaintiffs (the NCFA and CCFA) imply that state hook-and-line fishermen accounted for 45 percent of sea turtle interactions according to 2013 North Carolina Sea Turtle Strandings and Salvage Network (STSSN) information, the actual STSSN data show that state recreational fishermen accounted for no more than 25 percent of fishing gear interactions with sea turtles and 4 percent of gear-caused sea turtle fatalities,” the CCA stated. Read more here carolinacoastonline 15:00
Viewpoints: 40-year-old Endangered Species Act sets a high standard in forbidding extinction
More than 40 years ago I began studying California’s amazing freshwater fish fauna, made up mostly of species that lived nowhere else. Back then few people cared about these species. Only a handful of biologists had studied the native fishes, aside from trout and salmon. That all changed with the birth of the federal Endangered Species Act, 40 years ago Saturday. Read more here sacbee 12:47
New system eases lamprey passage
Pacific lamprey will now be able to more easily swim past the McNary Lock and Dam on the Columbia River. Dam managers have installed a new lamprey passage system — the first of its kind for the toothy, eel-like fish. Read more here columbian.com 12:06
Shea’s science
Things have never been so weird as they are right now. Pam Anderson, the First Lady of Ladysmith, proud possessor of a silicon valley of world renown, joins Sam Simon, the cancer riddled co-creator of the Simpsons, to jet to Newfoundland and offer Newfie sealers,, Read more here 10:52
Fairhaven Shipyard’s North Yard becomes the Board of Health and Selectmen candidates’ night “political football”
Three of the candidates agreed that the town should follow the lead of the Department of Environmental Protection, which is currently investigating the shipyard. Charlie Murphy, Steven Riley and Jeanine Lopes all agreed to help enforce whatever mitigation the state agency determines is appropriate. But Board of Health challenger Louise Barteau separated herself from the pack,,,Read more here 08:06
New Bedford: Scallop buyers get lessons in science, regulation
Scallop boats are allowed only about 32 days at sea per year, but scallops are so abundant and lucrative that working on a boat still can be extremely rewarding. Eastern Fisheries’ veteran captain Christopher Audette, who after 20 years on the water looks and sounds like someone from central casting, told the foreign visitors that deck hands on his boat took home more than $200,000 last year. Read more here southcoast 07:53
State targets NOAA science, tactics in its most recent filing of its lawsuit against federal fishing regulators.
The National Marine Fisheries Service used sub-standard methods of data collection and violated the rule of federal law when it failed to consider alternatives to its preferred catch limits or how those alternatives would affect fishing communities, Massachusetts has charged in its most recent filing of its lawsuit against federal fishing regulators. Read more here 01:07
