Daily Archives: June 7, 2014
Just now!! The War Cry Has Been Silenced.
A dredge named, “War Cry,” sits on the back deck of a New Bedford scallop vessel idled by a lack of fishing days. With so few fishing days and quotas the harbor in New Bedford is full of the remnants of a once proud fishing fleet. High prices for most species is the only thing between fishermen that once fed the world and oil funded non-governmental organizations and the assistance of oil funded non-governmental organizations. photo taken 18:25
Georgia’s commercial fishing fleet is hoping for a better season this year, and they just might get it
Following a year many regard as one of the worst shrimp harvests in recent times, those in the seafood industry say the 2014 catch is already looking promising. Still, some say, Tuesday might be a bit too early to open state waters — from the beach to 3 miles offshore — to commercial trawls, even though it is a little later than the normal May start date. Read more here 17:37
Effort by Sausalito group to designate great white sharks as endangered falls short
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission voted not to list the Northeast Pacific population of white shark as threatened or endangered. Bolstering the state view was another study by the National Marine Fisheries Service that put the population closer to 3,000. Read more here 14:25
EPA agrees to pesticide buffers to protect salmon
The settlement agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides was published Friday in the Federal Register. Read more here 13:57:10
Crab dumping lawsuit settled out of court
A lawsuit involving the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union and a fish plant on Random Island has been settled out of court. Golden Shell Fisheries sued the union after 200 fishermen dumped about 30,000 pounds of unprocessed crab off its wharf in Hickman’s Harbour in April 2013, during a price dispute. Read more here 10:11
Massachusetts Fishing Partnership – Safety training for SouthCoast fishermen an eye-opener
Thirty-three fishermen and SMAST students and staff tried out, for the first time for many of them, fire extinguishers, flares, bailout pumps, life rafts and survival suits — all at no charge to them. With thanks to the Massachusetts Fishing Partnership. Read more here 09:17
Responding to a supply glut, lobster buyers drop prices, impose quotas – Fishermen pointing fingers
“This is unheard of,” says Nellie Baker Stevens, of the Eastern Shore Protective Fishermen’s Association, speaking about the boat quotas. “We’re concerned that this is something that is going to be used by buyers in the future,” Nellie Baker Stevens, Eastern Shore Protective Fishermen’s Association. Read more here 08:53
Judge allows additional briefs in federal salmon management suit
United Cook Inlet Drift Association and Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund, who brought the lawsuit forward in February 2013, want federal oversight of the State’s salmon management — and believes that is what congress has intended in its regulations of fish in federal waters. Read more here 08:41
MEEK: Let’s tackle temporary Canadian workers
Everyone frets over Canada’s temporary foreign workers. But no one talks about our problem with temporary Canadian workers. Cory Guimond knows all about the latter group. Guimond’s a third-generation New Brunswick boat-builder from the high-unemployment area around Miramichi Bay. Read more here 07:53
