Daily Archives: July 3, 2014
New Jersey asks judge to block ocean blasting plan
BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey environmental officials went to federal court Thursday trying to block a federally approved research plan that involved blasting the ocean floor off New Jersey with loud sound waves. Read more here 20:54
Fishermen advised of dangers of flesh-eating bacteria
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), V. vulnificus can cause an infection of the skin when open wounds are exposed to warm seawater; these infections may lead to skin breakdown and ulceration. Vv is often called a “flesh eating bacterium”. Read more here 19:56
Latest BBSRI Forecast Puts the Bristol Bay Sockeye Run at 38-Million
Catches appear to be tailing off at the Port Moller Test Fishery but there appears to be a sizable tail left to this year’s sockeye run. This has led to an updated in-season total run forecast of 38-million sockeye. Listen, and read more here 16:22
Nils Stolpe: Atlantic herring – lots of smoke but where’s the fire? – Click Here
Peter Shelley is a lawyer who works for the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). Apparently among his duties is providing entries to the CLF website “Talking Fish.”
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the groundfish debacle in New England, Mr. Shelley and the CLF, utilizing the court system and a whole bunch of money (according to their IRS Form 990 filed in 2011- the last year available on the Guidestar website – total CLF revenue was $5,800,000, up $1,250,000 from the year before), have been playing a pivotal role in the groundfish fishery management program via the management process and the courts since before it was a debacle. Evidently the groundfish fishery wasn’t enough to fill Mr. Shelley’s plate so he has been involved in Atlantic (sea) herring management as well. Read more here 14:34
Fishing Vessel Engineering: An Easy Fix For Generator Caused Electrolysis – Ten photos
When you run one of your generators do your L.E.D. indicator lights twinkle? Do your digital read outs jump around or other types of lights flicker? Or maybe the zinc anodes on your hull and pipes are going away very quickly near one of your gen. sets. These are all possible signs that your generator is shocking the boat. Before you call the cavalry for another expensive house call, why not pull a cover off of your generator and inspect the wiring for some easy to spot issues that could be your trouble. Read more here 11:09
Sounding off on Magnuson
GLOUCESTER — The final word fell to Gloucester fisherman Paul Vitale, the last speaker of the day at the fisheries listening session,, “How many businesses could survive an 80 percent reduction in the amount of things they can produce and sell?” Vitale said of the cuts imposed by NOAA in the annual quotas for the allowable catch for cod and other groundfish. “An 80 percent reduction is obscene. They think they’re saving the fish. Who are they saving them for?” Read more here Retrospective: Mass. fishermen warn of dire future 08:48
Coast Guard sets Port Condition Yankee for Morehead City, NC
The Coast Guard Captain of the Port (COTP) North Carolina has set Port Condition Yankee for Morehead City in preparation for the anticipated weather impact of Hurricane Arthur. The port of Morehead City is closed to all inbound traffic. No vessel may enter the port of Morehead City without the permission of the COTP. Read more here 08:23
Lobster catches high, prices low
RIVER JOHN – Lobster season ended on Monday in the Northumberland Strait, leaving Ronald Heighton, Northumberland Fishermen’s Union president, a chance to reflect. Read more here 08:18
Lobster jobs at risk over Temporary Foreign Workers changes – could look elsewhere to process, like Maine, or shipping overseas.”
New Brunswick lobster processors say changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program will force them to move jobs out of the province. The federal government imposed restrictions on the program to curtail alleged abuses that left Canadian workers jobless. Read more here 07:47
Hurricane Arthur leads to warnings, evacuation – first hurricane of 2014 Atlantic season, may hit Nova Scotia Saturday
Arthur strengthened to a hurricane early Thursday and threatened to give North Carolina a glancing blow on U.S. Independence Day, prompting the governor to warn vacationers along the coast not to risk their safety by trying to salvage their picnics and barbecues. Read more here 07:31
Maine: Midcoast researchers prepare for new battle with invasive green crabs
FREEPORT, Maine — This time last year, Brunswick Marine Resources Officer Dan Devereaux pulled back a clump of mud along the banks of Harpswell Cove and revealed a swarm of green crabs frenetically scurrying for cover. Read more here 07:22
National View: The high cost of cheap shrimp
The Guardian recently revealed shocking results from a six-month investigation of the Thai fishing industry: Much of the shrimp sold in American and British supermarkets were produced with slave labor. While shrimp sold to U.S. consumers hail from a number of different countries, including our own,,, Read more here 07:03
