Daily Archives: July 2, 2014
OK to Catch More At-Risk Salmon if Monitored, Scientist Says
A federal decision allowing commercial fishermen to catch five times the usual amount of endangered coho salmon this year should not be a cause for alarm, said Dr. Brian Riddell, president and CEO of the Pacific Salmon Foundation, a non-governmental organization working to conserve salmon. Read more here 21:42
Menendez – Pallone – Booker Push To Prevent Drilling Off Atlantic Coast – Don’t stop there! No Wind Either!!!
“New Jersey’s tourism, ports, and together support a workforce of more than 1.5 million people. The impact of a major oil spill here would be devastating. We have a duty to keep our coastal economy and our ecosystems safe and sustainable.” Listen and Read more here 21:21
New Jersey: Opposition To Seismic Testing Plan
New Jersey environmental officials say they will go to court in an effort to block a plan for seismic testing of the ocean floor. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has approved the testing that’s designed to examine ocean sediments as part of a study of climate change and sea level rise. Listen to the report 21:07
Feds bust Boca man for illegally taking, then shipping, Florida Keys lobster
A Boca Raton man pleaded not guilty in federal court in Key West Friday to taking, possessing, transporting and selling Florida Keys spiny lobster in violation of federal law. Eric Burman, 60, faces a possible sentence of up to five years in prison, supervised release of up to three years and a fine of up to $250,000. Read more here 16:09
Open Ocean Trading and Aikido Bay Form Strategic Partnership To Support Lobster Industry
Open Ocean Trading and 
Aikido Bay announced today a strategic partnership in an effort to create a better method for establishing prices for American lobster. The partnership aims to provide transparency and stability in the marketplace for this product through open and competitive transactions. Read more here 13:18
The predator-prey model presented at Congressmen Teirney and DeFazio’s MSA Listening Session in Gloucester by Dr. Carmine Gorga
Carmine Gorga* July 1, 2014 Thank you, Congressman Tierney Thank you Congressman DeFazio For coming to Gloucester. There is much that the US Congress can do to help a fishing community like Gloucester. Today I would like to focus our attention on issues of science. Specifically, the existence of the predator-prey model of relationships among fish stocks—and its absence from the deliberations of NOAA and NMFS. Read the presentation here 12:01
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 48′ Fiberglass Duffy Lobster boat, 475HP, 6 Cylinder Detroit 60 Series Diesel
Specifications, and information and 19 additional photo’s Click here 11:24:05
Newport halibut landings dominate tri-state commercial activity
NEWPORT — Newport-based commercial fishing boats caught more than half of the 121,881 Pacific halibut harvested in Oregon, Washington and Northern California waters during a 10-hour window last week. Read more here 09:05
A couple of articles at GDT – Meeting on fishery aid distribution set for here …and Sounding off on Magnuson
The state’s first public meeting on the spending plan for Massachusetts’ $14.5 million portion of the federal groundfish disaster funds is scheduled for Gloucester on July 14. That meeting, the first… The final word fell to Gloucester fisherman Paul Vitale, the last speaker of the day at the Fisheries listening session on the reauthorization of Magnuson-Stevens, held yeterday at City…Pay-Wall. www.gloucestertimes.com 08:31
“The Great Heat.” Could Global Warming Turn The Sound Into Blue Crab Heaven?
NEW HAVEN — — Global warming already has begun to transform Long Island Sound, according to many marine scientists, creating climate-change winners, like blue crabs, and losers, like lobsters. historical fishing and climate records According to those records, beginning in the late 1880s, southern New England experienced several decades of extraordinarily warm weather. Lobster populations plummeted (just as they did a century later). Blue crabs began to multiply, as did a number of other species better suited to warmer waters. “The Great Heat.” Read more here 07:48
Scallop council rejects state agency’s recommendation, urges longer season
BREWER, Maine — A divided state scallop advisory council ignored the recommendations of 
with the Maine Department of Marine Resources and proposed the same number of fishing days for next season. Justin Boyce, a scallop dragger from Stonington, which is in Zone 2, who serves as vice chairman of the council, was critical of the department’s recommendations. Read more here 07:30
Mississippi shrimp season slows down after strong start
Shrimp season in Mississippi opened less than two weeks ago. And following a strong start, things have slowed down a bit for shrimp fishermen. It’s the sound they like to hear at St. Michael’s: Conveyer belts moving shrimp from the boats to the dock. Read ore here 07:12
