Daily Archives: August 20, 2014
‘Deadliest Catch’ Cleans Up with Wins at 2014 Creative Emmy Awards
Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch won big at the 2014 Primetime Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, August 16, taking home three awards including a win for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program. Deadliest Catch, which recently wrapped its landmark 10th season on Discovery Channel, also won for Outstanding Cinematography for Reality Programming and Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming. Read more here 22:52
Coast Guard medevacs 68-year-old man from F/V Tidelands
The Coast Guard medevaced a 68-year-old man Wednesday from the 200-foot fishing vessel Tidelands approximately five miles northeast of Great Machipongo Inlet near Cape Charles. Read more here 20:51
Coast Guard medevacs another injured fisherman. This one near Dutch Harbor
Introducing the New GARFO Groundfish Disaster Spend Plan Updates Webpage, by RONCO, (as seen on tv!)
NOAA Federal – To make it easier to find the latest news and developments pertaining to the groundfish disaster spend plan, we have created a new webpage with links to various information. This page will be updated periodically when new information on this topic is shared. So be sure and check back. For ease of finding, you may want to book mark this page. Have a nice day! Read more here 17:48
Where’s the fight for our fishery? – Phil Earle, Carbonear
If the government of the U.S.A. and the fishing fleets of foreign countries behaved in their fishery like they do here in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Americans would have a civil uprising; it would never be allowed to take place. Read more here 17:06
Alaska’s Fisheries – Dear Alaskan, Throughout my entire career, I have pushed to build our fisheries – Mead Treadwell
To represent Alaska, you have to know Alaska. I respectfully ask for your vote. Here’s why: My first job in Alaska, forty years ago, was helping former Gov. Wally Hickel in the fight for the 200 mile limit. That was the mid-1970’s. Read more here 15:57
Mendocino Coast fishermen smiling over 2014 salmon returns
Over the past decade the numbers of fall run Sacramento River Chinook salmon predicted to return by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) have been overestimated, sometimes wildly so. Read more here 14:58
N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission offers webcast of meeting – informal question and answer session at 6 p.m. tonight
This week’s meeting of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will be in Raleigh, but you won’t have to hit the road to follow the board’s discussions of red drum and other issues. For the first time, the commission will offer a live webcast of its meeting, which begins tonight with a public comment period and continues with business sessions Thursday and Friday. webcast instructions here, webcast link here Read more here 12:52
Newport: Two fishing vessels collide near the mouth of the jaws Monday evening – no injuries – photos
Just before midnight last evening (Monday), two fishing vessels, one leaving Newport, the other returning, came upon each other in the fog near the mouth of the Newport jaws. They were on a collision course. Both bridges tried evasive action but there was a collision anyway. The F/V Blue Horizon and the F/V Pegasus,,, Read more here 12:26
Government Waste – Regulatory Discards
This is what the government and their stupid regulations make us discard. Thrown away dead feeding the crabs. Fishermen would be more than happy to bring them home and give them away to feed the hungry. But nooo can’t do that. With what stupid regulations make us discard we could end hunger in this nation. Totally outrageous. 11:10
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 65′ DMR Trawler/Scalloper/Lobster, CAT 3408
This vessel had extensive rebuild and is presently used as a herring carrier. Specifications, and information and photos, Click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 10:51
A Look Into The Role Of Fisheries Observers – Today @ 12:20 PST/3:20 EST on OPB.org
On August 13, deck boss Richard Clayton Palek was arrested and charged with a federal misdemeanor violation of a law that prohibits anyone from forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, intimidating, sexually harassing, bribing, or interfering with a fishery observer. Palek allegedly threatened and physically assaulted the observer. TODAY @ 12:20 PST/3:20 EST NOAA Fisheries@NOAAFisheries “Think Out Loud”: http://bit.ly/1pMf55M 10:22
Delaware NREC issues shellfish aquaculture regulations – Permits could be issued as early as this fall
In anticipation of the moment when the state will begin accepting applications for shellfish aquaculture permits, Steve Friend started getting ready. He’s began building oyster and clam cages in March. Read more here 09:07
Up to $6.2m in payroll rebates for expansion of Mulgrave fish oil plant
A Guysborough County plant that produces fish-oil supplements is getting a $30-million expansion, with $6.2 million in help from the province. DSM Nutritional Products announced plans Monday to upgrade its Mulgrave facility. Read more here 08:51
Vietnamese fishermen eat snake for strength and enthusiasm at work!
It appears that Vietnamese fishermen eat a type of snake every time they go to sea in order to ensure strength and enthusiasm at work! Local fisherman Khairuddin Mustapha, who has befriended many Vietnamese fishermen and,,, meanwhile, Malaysia could rely on 100% fish imports by 2019. Read this and other interesting tidbits here 07:47
