Daily Archives: June 9, 2014
This is cool, A new free iPhone app tracks your vessel’s stability.
Fishing boats rock and roll, pitch, yaw, surge, sway, and heave. Skippers respond to the movements as they navigate rough seas in tough weather. Now, a new iPhone app provides stability indicators in time to make corrections. It is called SCraMP – for Small Craft Motion Program, and has a variety of tools boat operators can select – Listen to Laine Welch here 22:28
Local Calcasieu Parish seafood restaurants adjust to price hike on shrimp
It’s been nearly four decades since the price of shrimp has been this high, but it hasn’t hampered demand.The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries shrimp program manager Martin Bourgeois said the price for shrimp has nearly doubled since last year and it may be due to the lack of imported shrimp. Read more here 22:15
Louisbourg Seafood hopes to keep more than 1,000 crates of lobsters alive long enough to find buyer
Responding to a supply glut, lobster buyers are doing whatever they can to keep thousands of lobsters alive until prices improve. Many have dropped prices and imposed boat quotas on hundreds of Nova Scotia lobster fishermen from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Eastern Shore. Read more here 19:33
Fish and Ocean Grabbing: The Case of Commercial Fisheries – prepared by Seth Macinko and Brett Tolley
On April 8, 2009, a story in the New York Times quoted the administrator of NOAA (the federal agency in charge of managing OUR oceans) as saying that NOAA was “taking preliminary steps toward privatizing fisheries” (in New England). We submit that if the director of the Forest Service or the National Park Service or the Bureau of Land Management was quoted as saying those agencies were taking preliminary steps towards privatizing public forests, national parks, or public rangelands, that there would be an immediate outcry from “the left.” Read more here 17:04
FDA cites Linda Bean’s lobster processing plant for health violations
ROCKLAND, Maine — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found serious violations of federal seafood safety at Linda Bean’s lobster processing plant in the city’s industrial park. Read more here 15:34
Commercial fishermen agrees to pay $15,000 fine for illegally spearfishing
A commercial boating captain and his crew pleaded guilty to illegally spearfishing in waters off Valiant Rock in Block Island Sound. Captain Christopher Miller must pay a fine of $15,000 and participate in community service, state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Regional Director Peter A. Scully announced today. Read more here 13:46
What’s It Really Like to be a Commercial Fisher? – An interview with California Fisherman Mike Hudson
On the June 8, 2014 edition of Work with Marty Nemko, I talk with Mike Hudson, veteran commercial fisher. Can you actually make a living sustainably harvesting local salmon? How hard is it? Is it as freezing a venture as it sounds? Any tricks of the trade? Any ways to be kinder to the fish? Any fish stories? Listen to the interview here Hudson Fish Company website here 13:07
Groups call for Gulf of St. Lawrence oil and gas moratorium
A coalition of fishermen, environmentalists and First Nations groups have joined forces to oppose oil and gas activity in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by calling for a moratorium. The groups want and independent review and public consultation on whether oil and gas activity should be allowed. They say, the Gulf ecosystem is too fragile. Read more here 12:52
Fishing crews seethe at ineligibility for aid – “You’re going to have winners and losers.” Maggie Mooney-Seus
The National Marine Fisheries Service said 194 fishing permits qualified for the $32,000 check. But local fishermen say some fishermen own several permits, sometimes dozens, so the $6.3 million could benefit as few as 100 out of the nearly 800 who hold federal permits in Massachusetts. Read more here 12:19
One Year Later – We Remember Richard Gaines, and We Miss Him
This may be hard to believe. Its been a year since Richard Gaines was found dead.
People in the fisheries, and every sector attached to it felt an immediate void.
The passing of Gaines was catastrophic for many. From an industry perspective, none more so than the Gloucester Daily Times.
We were gifted to have the right combination of a great writer that informed of the issues of the day, an Editor that was supportive, and a crew that did such a wonderful job churning out article after article.
To say Richard Gaines is missed is an understatement.
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