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Adak, Norton Sound net new crab fishery regulations and more – Molly Dischner

March 22, 2014 North Pacific

Alaska’s Board of Fisheries took steps toward creating more crab fishing opportunity in Norton Sound and near Adak this week. Read more here BOF approves Kuskokwim dipnets, shorter gillnets Read more here BOF addresses Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound crab Read more here Cook Inlet fishermen ask BOF to reconsider setnet changes Read more here BOF talks Yukon, Bristol Bay issues Read more here 22:58

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VIMS scientists star in new children’s book

March 22, 2014 National

Taking head counts of fish isn’t glamorous work, but it’s made literary stars of sorts out of a team of researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. A new non-fiction children’s book called “Counting the Fish in the Sea” depicts the ongoing efforts of Jim Gartland, multispecies survey leader at VIMS, and his colleagues to gather wide samples of fish species in order to gauge the overall health of the ocean. The book is written for children ages 8 to 12. Read more here dailypress.com 22:04

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Passamaquoddy tribe working to lift individual elver quotas

March 22, 2014 New England

BANGOR, Maine — Members of the Passamaquoddy tribe are submitting emergency legislation that seeks to lift individual fishing quotas for elvers. Read more here 16:30

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Commercial Fishermen Battle for Their Right to Exist – Another Resource Grab

March 22, 2014 ENGO, National

U.S. commercial fishermen say that for decades now, their industry has been on the brink of extinction due to excessive regulatory action often driven by environmentalist sport-fishing groups. Former fishermen from Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, states in which commercial net fishing has been eliminated following the adoption of environmentalist-driven regulations, have been vocal in warning other coastal states of an interest group called the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA). Read more here 11:45

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Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. ordered to pay $100,000 for academic research after illegal pesticide dump

March 22, 2014 Canada

Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd., a division of Cooke Aquaculture, was ordered to pay $500,000 in fines by a court last year after it pleaded guilty to dumping a pesticide not approved for marine use into the Bay of Fundy. The pesticide, Cypermethrin, killed hundreds of lobster about four years ago. Read more here 10:13

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P.E.I. biologist says low temperatures help kill invasive tunicates

March 22, 2014 Canada

Cold winters tend to kill off tunicates, a pesky invasive species that attaches itself to mussels, draining them of nutrients and pulling them off their mesh sleeves. Read more here 10:07

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Trucking of Sacramento River salmon starts Monday

March 22, 2014 Pacific

More than 12 million juvenile hatchery salmon will get a truck trip downstream starting Monday to help them circumvent the harmful effects of drought on the Sacramento River. Read more here sacbee 09:37

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Nor’easter may spawn 45-foot-plus waves

March 22, 2014 Canada, New England

Ocean Models Showing Development of Large Atlantic Gale, NOAA weather models are beginning to resolve a storm system expected to develop off the coast of New England mid-next week. By March 27, 2014, the system may generate seas exceeding 45 feet in some areas of the North Atlantic east of Maine and Nova Scotia. This image shows the combined effect of swell and waves using NOAA’s Wave Watch III model (valid March 27, 2014 at 6 Z; run on March 21 at 0 Z). noaa.gov 06:34

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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