Daily Archives: July 26, 2014
Coast Guard medevacs fisherman from F/V Ursula off Port O’Connor, Texas – Video
The captain of the commercial fishing boat Ursula made a distress call to Sector Corpus Christi Command Center at approximately 8 a.m., saying one of his crewmembers had been experiencing unbearable stomach pain for several hours. Read more here, click photo for the video 19:41
Prized but Perilous Catch – In Hunt for Red Abalone, Divers Face Risks and Poachers Face the Law
FORT BRAGG, Calif. — Every year, as steady as the tides, lifeless bodies are pulled from the cold, restless water along the rugged coastline north of San Francisco. Most of the victims are middle-aged men. They wear black wet suits, usually hooded. They are often found in small coves framed by crescents of jagged rocks. An abandoned float tube sometimes bobs about nearby. Almost without exception, the victims are found wearing weighted belts that help them sink. Read more here 10:18
Bill Chaprales on the hunt for the elusive great white sharks
Captain Bill Chaprales and his son, Nick, run a commercial fishing business, maintaining 800 lobster traps and hauling in bluefin tuna. As the , they have also become a key part of the Cape’s burgeoning research into the rapid increase of shark sightings in recent years. Read more here 09:00
A call to end misleading labels on crabmeat
There’s a chance that the American crabmeat making your mouth water is American only by virtue of being repackaged in a plant in the United States. The problem that struggling Chesapeake Bay watermen and seafood processors are finding these days is that imported crabmeat is often labeled “product of the United States” when it is repackaged at an American facility. Read more here 08:31
Judge rules Beringia bearded seals improperly listed as threatened
The National Marine Fisheries Service erred in using a 100-year projection as justification for granting Endangered Species Act protections to the Alaska-dwelling population of that seal, U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline ruled. Whether Beringia bearded seals will ultimately retain Endangered Species Act protections was unclear Friday. Beistline ordered NMFS to correct deficiencies in its study of the population. Read more here 08:18
Caught off-guard by 2010’s sockeye record, processing plants have geared up for a repeat
VICTORIA — B.C.’s commercial fishing industry has been building capacity to handle this year’s forecast big sockeye run after being caught off guard by the record flood of the fish in 2010. “In 2010, it was the largest sockeye run in the Fraser we’d seen since 1913, and we hadn’t anticipated it and not a lot of people were geared up to handle it,” Read more here 04:25
