Daily Archives: April 25, 2014
Is there a sustainable future for America’s most popular seafood?
I stare at the beaker of cloudy water, trying to make sense of the slow swirl of particles inside — a mixture of small red specks and pale threads. “Those white squiggles,” Jim Sweeney says, pointing with just the edge of his fingernail to help orient me. “Those are the post-larvae.” He means, those are what I’ve come to see: shrimp. Specifically, they’re Litopenaeus vannamei, or Pacific White Shrimp,,,grist.org Read more here 17:26
Gillnetters critique off-channel plan
Southwest Washington’s regional manager of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife came to Cathlamet Monday to discuss the start of a salmon net pen rearing project, and commercial fishermen used the opportunity to express their displeasure with changes to the Columbia River gillnet fishery. waheagle.com Read more here 15:51
Gulf Reef Fish Data Reporting Proposed
In Florida state waters, a proposed rule from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission would give more definition to the numbers of reef species. The proposal, designed to provide more accurate catch and effort data for reef fishing, would require private recreational anglers to take part in the Gulf Reef Fish Data Reporting System. theledger.com Read more here 15:44
Bodega Bay honors fishing tradition at annual event
The annual Bodega Bay Fisherman’s Festival is 41 years old this year, though its centerpiece — the Blessing of the Fleet — goes back 56 years, to a time the commercial fishing industry was at its height. pressdemocrat.com Read more here 15:33
LETTER: Snapper Plentiful – Bob Zales
As the world knows by now, thanks to the Environmental Defense Fund and 20 commercial fishermen (that includes at least 5 charter boat owners who own red snapper IFQs) the current projected recreational red snapper season will be a maximum 11 days. newsherald.com Read more here 15:11
CSF STATEMENT ON EXPERIMENTAL GBYTF FISHERY Presented to New England Fishery Management Council
Dr Rothschild stood before the NFMC yesterday, and read this statement. The status of groundfish stocks in New England is shrouded in considerable uncertainty. This uncertainty often raises the question as to whether stocks that are claimed to be overfished are actually overfished or vice versa. Uncertainty in this determination reflects in turn whether management regulations intended to correct these characterizations are effective. Read the Statement here 10:53
NO SEAL, NO DEAL – Petitioning Arctic Council: Refuse observer status for the EU until they repeal the seal ban
We the undersigned call on the Arctic Council member states and permanent members to: Be mindful of the rights of law-abiding Inuit and other seal hunters to participate in a seal hunt that provides much needed sustenance and economic opportunities in the Arctic and other coastal regions. Sign the Petition 09:58
Scientists track drop in lobster numbers
Marine scientists are not sure what is causing the decline in baby lobster settlements in their traditional near-shore, rocky habitats except they now seem to rule out overfishing. Theories for the decline include the effects of predators, warming ocean temperatures, pollution and shifting availability of food as possible causes. salemnews Read more here 09:38
Fishermen’s Energy to file court appeal after New Jersey rejects offshore wind farm proposal so they can wreck some ocean
An executive for the coalition of investors trying to build the country’s first offshore wind farm today said it will appeal a decision by New Jersey regulators to reject the $188 million project. Read more here 09:13
Cape Wind: The windy 10-year war
The state of Massachusetts, in its nutty devotion to wind-powered, ocean-based generating plants deployed, in cooperation with the federal government, in a strangling circle around the Vineyard, does not feel your pain. Indeed, the state’s aim is not only to conspire over the Cape Wind project, but to elbow aside valid economic and environmental concerns,,,mvtimes Read more here 08:42
Obituary: Radio host John Furlong was voice of rural Newfoundland
Though his journalism career spanned more than 40 years, John Furlong may be best known for hosting CBC Radio’s The Fisheries Broadcast from 2005 to 2013. The Broadcast (as it is known) made its debut in 1951 and is one of the longest-running radio shows on the continent and an evening ritual for much of the province. As host, Mr. Furlong “was the voice of rural Newfoundland,” said Peter Gullage, executive producer of news for Newfoundland and Labrador. globeandmail Read more here 08:12
PEI Fishermen’s Association receives support to conduct research on the growing halibut industry.
Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea, on behalf of the Honourable Rob Moore, Minister of State for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), and PEI Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development Minister Ron MacKinley were in Summerside to announce a combined investment of $153,600 for the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association (PEIFA) to conduct Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association (PEIFA). Read more here 07:14
Fish worker advocates push for ‘code of conduct’ for SouthCoast companies
NEW BEDFORD — To improve safety in industries dominated by immigrant workers, a local group will try to recruit city companies to sign a workplace code of conduct. “We want the fish companies to take measures so there are no more deaths, no more accidents,” said Adrian Ventura, director of Centro Comunitario Trabajadores. Read more here 03:44
