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New rockfish catch limits eyed

May 12, 2014 Mid Atlantic, New England

Worried by recent declines in the numbers of Maryland’s state fish, Atlantic states fisheries regulators are weighing slashing the annual striped bass catch by up to one-third next year all along the East Coast and in the Chesapeake Bay. “It’s called being regulated out of business,” said Robert T. Brown Sr., president of the Maryland Watermen’s Association. He contended that “there’s no shortage of fish.” Read more here 21:25

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Togiak Herring Update: Most Participants Have Called it a Season

May 12, 2014 North Pacific

Alaska’s largest herring fishery is essentially over despite that fact that the fishery is open until further notice. The total harvest in this year’s Togiak sac-roe herring fishery is over 24-thousand tons, which is still short of the 27.8-thousand ton quota available to fishermen. Read more here By Mike Mason 19:22

Pacific Walruses Removed from the Unusual Mortality Event in the North Pacific Pacific walruses have been removed from the unusual mortality event declared in the North Pacific for several marine mammal species. KDLG’s Mike Mason has the story. Audio report here 19:25

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“simply the best fish in the world.” Royalty. Copper River salmon shall arrive in Seattle on Friday

May 12, 2014 North Pacific

The will open for the season Thursday morning and the first fish is expected to arrive at Sea-Tac at 6 a.m. Friday. But the demand will be high because of the short open fishing period. The open window for the Copper River District is only 12 hours on Thursday, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Gave Division of Commercial Fisheries Read more here 18:06

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This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch …The reds start running this week at the Copper River – a market outlook

May 12, 2014 North Pacific

It’s hard to believe but Thursday marks the official start of Alaska’s 2014 salmon season with a 12 hour opener at the Copper River. The year’s first fresh sockeye salmon will be flown out and featured in markets far and wide. Read more here 16:47

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CBS Sixty Minutes – Saving the wild salmon

May 12, 2014 Canada, National

May 11, 2014, 7:40 PM|Do salmon farms help or hurt the declining wild salmon population? Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the controversy surrounding the multibillion dollar industry. Watch the video here 15:28

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ASMFC Spring Meeting, May 12-15, 2014 is under way

May 12, 2014 Mid Atlantic, New England, South Atlantic

Board/Section meeting proceedings will be broadcast daily via webinar beginning at 10 a.m. on May 12^th, continuing daily until the conclusion of the meeting (expected to be 3:15 p.m.) on May 15^th. The webinar will allow registrants to listen to board/section deliberations and view presentations and motions as they occur. Read more here Webinar registration is here 12:28

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BP oil spill: methane persisted in sea after microbe cleanup

May 12, 2014 Gulf of Mexico

As much as half a million tonnes of natural gas, 80 percent of it methane, leaked into the deep sea as a result of the blowout on April 20, 2010, on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig. The leak triggered a surprising “bloom” of marine bacteria that feasted on the gassy hydrocarbon plume. The bugs did indeed remove a significant amount of the gas, but their population crashed while the leak was still in progress, it said. Read more here 12:15

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Record Prices For Stone Crab Claws Amid Scarcity

May 12, 2014 Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic

Florida Keys-based tells The Key West Citizen that fish houses paid $25 to $30 a pound for jumbo-sized claws, $18 to $21 a pound for large claws and $8 to $11 a pound for medium claws. Read more here 10:40

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Falmouth Ma. police tip foils lucrative elver eel poaching

May 12, 2014 New England

FALMOUTH — The Falmouth Department of Marine and Environmental Services responded to a suspected case of elver poaching Saturday, saving about 35 pounds of the young and valuable eels. The department received a tip when a driver near a herring run saw two men who quickly left in a truck when the passer-by tried to engage them, department Deputy Director Chuck Martinsen said. Read more here 08:24

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New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Lobster fisheries seeking MSC certification

May 12, 2014 Canada

The MSC, an international non-profit organization, has a program to label fish products indicating the product is from a well-managed and sustainable fishery. This labeling helps consumers in their decisions on buying fish. Read more here 08:09

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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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