Daily Archives: March 20, 2014
Big changes, worry of lower prices in Maine Elver fishery
Nearly 22% of that quota is assigned to the state’s four Indian tribes, with the largest share going to the Passamaquoddies. The remainder of the quota will be harvested by the 436 licensed, non-tribal fishermen. To manage the fishery, the Maine Department of Marine Resources plans to assign each of the fisherman an individual quota of how many eels they can catch in the season. Read more here 21:29
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Crab updates and outlooks for seafood at supermarkets.
Lots of Tanner crab is coming out of Alaska this winter. Southeast Alaska wrapped up its best fishery in a decade with 80 crabbers hauling up one and a quarter million pounds in 11 days. At an average fishermen’s price to of $2.70/lb the Tanner fishery is worth more than $3 million to the region. Read more here 18:47
Ensuring We Continue to Preserve the Independence of the Inshore Fleet in Canada’s Atlantic Fisheries – The Honourable Gail Shea
The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement: As a proud Maritimer, I know full well the importance of the inshore fishery to our communities and the pride that it instills in Atlantic Canadians. The Atlantic fishery is steeped in our culture and our history. That is why it became so disheartening to see our inshore fishermen gradually losing control over their enterprises over the early part of the last decade. Controlling agreements emerged and in many cases, effectively took control of the fishing licence from the person who was actually doing the fishing. Read more here 16:23
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BOF talks Yukon, Bristol Bay issues
Alaska’s Board of Fisheries took action on a handful of Yukon River and Bristol Bay salmon management proposals today. The board is holding its statewide king and tanner crab meeting in Anchorage, and the agenda includes certain issues in other fisheries. Read more here 15:36
Canada-Korea trade deal boon for fishery: processors’ rep
An effort was made this morning to promote the benefits of the coming Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement and to Newfoundlers and Labradorians. It is not an easy task to get the trade agreement on the radar, given the roughly $22 million average for exports from this province to the Republic of Korea from 2010-12. Read more here 14:43
Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery could open today – fishery on a two-hour notice
That means seiners could have their nets in the water as soon as Thursday morning, if the department’s test samples find a high enough percentage of mature roe, or eggs, in the fish. ktuu Read more here Seiners worried by weak herring market kcaw Listen, and Read more here 10:41
25 years later, Exxon Valdez spill effects linger
For a generation of people around the world, the spill was seared into their memories by images of fouled coastline in Prince William Sound, of sea otters, herring and birds soaked in oil, of workers painstakingly washing crude off the rugged beaches. Bernie Culbertson was preparing to fish cod when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. With oil in the water, fishing came to a standstill and life for he and other fishermen drastically changed. Read more here 10:10
Tracking endangered leatherback sea turtles by satellite, key habitats identified
The study, part of doctoral research by Kara Dodge supervised by her advisor, Molly Lutcavage of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Large Pelagics Research Center (LPRC) in Gloucester, followed leatherbacks in their northern US feeding grounds. Read more here sciencedaily 08:16
ENGO Created Regulatory By Catch: New Oceana Report Exposes Nine of the Dirtiest U.S. Fisheries
WASHINGTON – Today, Oceana released a new report exposing nine of the dirtiest fisheries in the United States. These nine fisheries combined throw away almost half of what they catch and are responsible for more than 50 percent of all reported bycatch in the U.S., injuring and killing thousands of protected and endangered species every year. Read more here 08:05
Is Cape Wind going forward?
Parker said the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound has around 30,000 supporters, who come from all income levels and social backgrounds. They are largely a grassroots organization that arose after Jim Gordon proposed to build a 25 square mile wind power plant, in public waters between mainland Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, in 2001. Read more here 03:51
