Daily Archives: June 4, 2014
Lobster boats tie up Tuesday as processors seek fish plant workers
“Where it really hurts is where one harbour is on a quota and the harbour next to them isn’t. One buyer puts his fishermen on a quota and the other fellows don’t,’’ Campbell said. “That’s where it affects them — it really affects them.’’ Read more here 19:32
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – The expanded observer program’s first annual report is revealed this week.
The category with the most new coverage and information was the catcher vessel hook and line in the Gulf of Alaska — in that fishery we did see some substantial discards in those fisheries compared to some other gear types — in the skate fisheries, rockfish, shark and halibut discards in the directed halibut fishery in particular – that we didn’t have information on before. Read more here 19:19
Shea turns her back on NL; no ice compensation for fishermen
OTTAWA – New Democrat MP Ryan Cleary (St. John’s South-Mount Pearl) is outraged that the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has ruled out ice compensation on Newfoundland’s northeast coast. Read more here 17:36
Watch this interesting video – Steve Cadrin “Optimal Yield from Mixed-Stock Fisheries”
This is the third speaker of session 2, Steve Cadrin, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries Oceanography, School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His talk is titled, “Strengthening the Scientific Basis of the 2006 Management Requirements: Optimal Yield from Mixed-Stock Fisheries” Click here 16:19
What Disaster Aid Won’t Do for Massachusetts’ Fisheries
According to a deal announced last week, Massachusetts will receive nearly half of the federal disaster relief funds coming to the Northeast groundfish industry. Nobody thinks it will solve the fishery’s problems. Read more here 14:44
Alaska salmon MSC client: We humbly pay the money to stay in the game
International Seafoods of Alaska (ISA), one of the four remaining Alaska salmon companies to be keeping the Alaska salmon fishery in Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, sees little consumer awareness of the brand in the United States but reason enough to stay committed to the certification. Read more here 13:41
Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to consider changing smelt fishing regulations
OLYMPIA – The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider proposed changes to recreational and commercial smelt fishing regulations in Puget Sound during a public meeting June 13-14 in Olympia. Read more here 12:55
North Carolina: New commercial fishing fund in Senate budget plan
RALEIGH — The state Senate has passed a budget bill that includes a new commercial fishing fund proposed by the N.C. Fisheries Association and backed by the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission. Read more here 12:44
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: LaBlanc 44′ 11″ Lobster/Crab, Fiberglass, Volvo, Permits
Specifications, and information, Click here 10:49
PEI: Labour shortage cause of lobster quotas, says processor group
You understand the chronic labour shortage our industry is facing. So now that the daily landings have become as large as they are it’s making it difficult to process lobsters throughout the region.” King, who speaks for eight P.E.I. processors, said they could use 400 employees at those plants right now. One plant in particular in the eastern region, is operating at 55 per cent capacity. Read more here 10:06
Too much lobster a problem for Northumberland Strait fishery
Uncertainty swirled around the lobster fishing industry again Tuesday as the old issue of supply and demand came into play. Read more here 09:11
Skipper of crew stranded on ice pan hails rescuers
The skipper of a crab-fishing boat whose crew used an ice pan to stay alive on Sunday is deeply impressed by the search and rescue team that brought him and his colleagues to safety in Newfoundland’s Notre Dame Bay. “We just struck a little bit of ice there. I guess I put one through her,” said Lorne Fudge, describing how the DLL Venture ran into trouble while the crew was returning from the crab grounds. Read more here 09:01
Maine says swipe cards made elver season a success
One of the state’s most lucrative and threatened marine fisheries – elvers – rebounded this year, prompting the Maine Department of Marine Resources to declare the just-completed eight-week season a success.Meanwhile, state officials said Tuesday they are considering expanding a new swipe card system – a mechanism used to track an individual elver fisherman’s catch – to other fisheries. Read more here 08:15
Medical student hopes to start mobile medical clinic for fishermen
Miranda Rogers has seen firsthand the ailments affecting people who work in Maine’s fishing industries: infections from handling bait, skin cancer from heavy sun exposure and more common health problems that go undetected when fishermen skip medical appointments because the fishing is good. Rogers grew up on Orr’s Island, the daughter of a lobsterman, and spent three summers hauling and baiting traps. Inspired by her experience, Rogers said her goal now is to improve health care access for fishermen. Read more here 08:00
Maine fisheries chief moves to suspend license of accused lobsterman
Theodore Gray, 34, was charged May 9 after Marine Patrol officers found him in possession of 269 lobsters shorter than the minimum size limit, 123 breeding female lobsters that had been marked with a V-shaped notch on their tails, and 20 traps that belong to another licensed lobsterman, DMR officials have said. Gray fishes out of Stonington. Read more here 07:19
West Coast groundfish certified as sustainably harvested 14 years after economic disaster
After the United States established a 200-mile exclusive fishing zone in 1977, the groundfish fleet grew rapidly, helped by the government. Warnings from scientists that the fishery was being depleted went unheeded until 2000, when the 20-year catch average dropped from 74,000 tons to 36,000 tons and the federal government declared an economic disaster. Read more here 06:48
DeFazio-Huffman-Herrera Beutler Amendment Saves West Coast Fishermen $2.4 million – Read more here
Family of fisherman killed in dock fall gets $900,000 settlement
NEW BEDFORD — Eastern Fisheries, Inc. has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a fisherman who died in a January 2011 fall from a Hassey Street dock that was slippery with snow and ice. Read more here 06:21
