Daily Archives: June 21, 2014
Listen to Bristol Bay Fisheries Report for June 20, 2014
The Bristol Bay Fisheries Report for June 20th includes an update on harvest and escapement across the Bay and a story about an effort to reinstate the J-1 Visa program for Alaska’s seafood processing industry. The report also includes a story about the efforts of the BB-RSDA to stop development of the proposed Pebble Mine. Click here 19:45
Cormorant airlifts crew member from fishing vessel off St. John’s
Search and rescue technicians performed hoist operations to transfer a person with medical concerns from a fishing vessel east of St. John’s Saturday afternoon. According to the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax, a Cormorant helicopter was dispatched from 103 Squadron in Gander. The helicopter conducted the hoist on a vessel more than 400 kilometres off the coast of St. John’s. The male patient, 30, was transferred to St. John’s to receive medical treatment. There is no word yet on his condition. cbcnews 19:33
Why Are We Importing Our Own Fish?
As go scallops, so goes the nation. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, even though the United States controls more ocean than any other country, 86 percent of the seafood we consume is imported. But it’s much fishier than that: While a majority of the seafood Americans eat is foreign, a third of what Americans catch is sold to foreigners. Read more here 14:18
WPFMC Press Release: Fishery Scientists Address Overfished Striped Marlin Stock,
HONOLULU (20 June 2014) A group of prominent scientists, resource economists, sociologists, population modelers and other knowledgeable experts from throughout the Pacific concluded its three-day meeting Thursday in Honolulu with recommendations for the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council on federally managed Read more here 10:51
Watermen report Chesapeake blue crab shortage – Video
Blue crabs are big business along the Chesapeake Bay during the summer months. They’re a Virginia tradition — steamed, deviled, or battered up and fried, blue crabs are in high demand for miles around. But this year, they’re in short supply. Read more here 08:49
Sealing disasters marked as Elliston memorial opens – Video
The Sealers Memorial — a project that was six years in the making — honours the crew of the SS Newfoundland who froze to death in March 1914 when poor communications led them to be stranded in a blizzard, as well as the crew of the SS Southern Cross, which sank in the same storm. In all, 251 sealers died. Read more here 08:30
RCMP investigating death on a fishing vessel – To be Updated
The RCMP in Bonavista is investigating a death that occurred on a fishing vessel at sea on Friday. There’s no word yet on where the incident happened. Police said there are limited details available, and that several agencies are currently investigating. The RCMP is waiting for the boat to return to port to get more information. cbcnews 08:23
Fishermen take heart in herring rules, while “The herring industry has been set up to fail,”
CHATHAM — Relatively few people in New England eat sea herring, but a lot of the fish they love to eat, do. That’s why local fishermen are cheering two decisions by federal regulators this week that they hope will have a positive effect on cod, haddock, tuna and other important commercial species Read more here 08:10
My View: Feds cannot ignore other fisheries data
On the morning of June 5, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center hosted a Pre-TRAC meeting at the New Bedford Public Library. The TRAC is an international agreement between the United States and Canada under which yearly catch limits for George’s Ban,,, Read more if you can. Pay-wall. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/ 07:52
Thailand slams US trafficking report
The Foreign Affairs Ministry has slammed the United States for downgrading Thailand in its human trafficking report and urged it to reconsider the decision. The US downgraded Thailand, Malaysia and Venezuela on Friday to its list of the world’s worst centres of human trafficking, opening up the countries to possible sanctions and dumping them in the same category as North Korea and Syria. Read more here 07:39
3 lobstermen charged in connection with boat house fire
The State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested three men in connection with a fire two years ago that destroyed a boat house and a lobster boat inside . The fire involved a large Quonset hut boathouse; owned by Donald Simmons, a lobster fisherman. Read more here 05:20
