Daily Archives: August 19, 2014
Anyone that supports this should be forced to lick the skidmarks out of Fred Krupps Dirty skiveys
Vitter: Gulf Council Considers Red Snapper Allocation Pushed by NY Based Environmental Activist Group. The amendment today is endorsed by the New York based Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). EDF has received a $225,959 Fisheries Innovation Fund grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This grant program is primarily funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Walton Family Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Read more here 22:25
Maine Lobstering Union Mourns Fallen Lobsterman Jeremy Philbrook
The IAM Maine Lobstering Union (IMLU) Local 207 mourns the loss of member Jeremy Philbrook, who died on the job last week after falling overboard and drowning, investigators believe. Philbrook, 36, was an early, key supporter of the formation of the IMLU. Read more here 20:52
Connecticut: State study an important first step in solving lobster die-off
Depending on whom you ask, there’s a variety of answers for why the lobster population is falling, starting with a die-off in 1999, the year after the peak, when the take was down more than a million pounds. Lobstermen have claimed, State scientists have blamed. Read more here 20:19
Appeals court orders state board to reconsider Atlantic City windfarm
The order requires the BPU to reconsider Fishermen’s Energy’s application to build the 25-megawatt project — which it rejected in April while citing costs to ratepayers — using supplemental information. “This is a big win both for Fishermen’s Energy and the state of New Jersey,” said Fishermen’s CEO Chris Wissemann. Read more here 16:38
The Cahills hosted a SeaChange Party for the wealthy Hollywood Oceana crowd. Oh! You weren’t invited?
“Yes we want to make sure that we regulate how much fish that (the fisheries) get,” said Rachael Harris, “but also what happens in the wake of those nets is that sea turtles and all kinds of different wildlife are disrupted and killed, and also the ocean floor is completely disrupted.” Speaking about her own inspiration for attending, Jenna Ushkowitz joked about being a dolphin in her past life. Oceana has such momentum and they make such large movements. (oh yeah) Read more here! 16:03
Impact of Shrimp Quota Cuts Felt in Twillingate: Mayor
The impact of drastic cuts to the inshore northern shrimp quota are being felt this summer. 
says the third shift at the Notre Dame Seafoods plant in Twillingate didn’t get any work, and he’s not sure what that will mean in the long term. He says the second shift still hasn’t earned enough hours to qualify for Employment Insurance, and the third shift hasn’t had any work at all. Listen to the audio’s here 15:01
Northwest Alaska villagers concerned about dead salmon washing up along Kobuk River
For the last week, from Shugnak all the way down to Kotzebue, people are reporting dead fish washed up on the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River in astonishing numbers. The fish appear to have been healthy and unspawned. Some have mysterious white welts dotting their backs. Read more here 14:39
Baytown, Texas – Coast Guard: 3 rescued, 1 missing from Texas shrimp boat
The U.S. Coast Guard says three crew members have been rescued from an overturned shrimp boat and it will resume a search for a missing man. A Port of Houston Fireboat crew rescued two people who were stranded on top of the boat and a woman trapped under it. It’s unclear how the boat named Mr. Anthony overturned. Authorities haven’t identified the crew members. Read more here 14:16
Morro Bay: Life on the wide, blue water – Bill Blue makes his living catching crab and cod out of Morro Bay
Bill Blue has fished for 40 years out of Morro Bay, and his career is far from over. The 58-year-old Morro Bay resident and owner of the Brita Michelle docks along the Embarcadero near Beach Street and makes his living catching Dungeness crab and black cod. “I love being out on the water,” Read more here 13:15
GARFO: Distribution of Northeast Multispecies Groundfish Disaster Monies to States for First-Third of Consensus Plan
NOAA has awarded the first set of grants to five states (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut), totaling approximately $10.6 million to provide direct financial assistance to fishermen affected by the groundfish fisheries resource disaster. We are working with the state of New York to finalize their grant application and hope to distribute that award shortly. Eligibility Criteria for First-Third of Federal Funding, All the details, Read more here 10:50
As Illegal Fishing in Gulf Grows, U.S. Fishermen Call for Stronger Policies and Enforcement
It seems that every week brings another story of U.S. Coast Guard or other Gulf Coast maritime law enforcement giving chase to foreign fishermen who have snuck into U.S. waters to fish illegally. Foreign illegal fishing in the Gulf, mostly by Mexican crew in boats called lanchas, is a persistent – and alarming – problem, say authorities from Gulf Coast states and the federal government. Read more here 10:16
Fiji police investigate high-seas shooting video
A mobile phone left behind in a Suva taxi by an Asian fishing boat crewman is at the heart of a horrific video showing the killing of four castaways on the high seas. Whether the dead men are Fijian, stateless Rohingyas from Burma or Somalis, is still unresolved. Nor is it known who killed them or why. Read more here 09:58
Dredge opponents fear Penobscot River pollution
For the opponents of the Searsport dredge project, mercury contamination is the big worry. Those concerns deepened in February when the Maine Department of Marine Resources closed seven square miles to lobster and crab fishing after unsafe levels of Read more here 08:25
