Daily Archives: August 26, 2014
Coast Guard, good Samaritans assist fishing vessel near Sitka, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and three good Samaritan vessels assisted the fishing vessel after it began taking on water near Cosmos Cove Tuesday morning. Read more here 20:08
AK retaliates against Russian seafood boycott; Mariculture RFPs wanted
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Alaska retaliates against Russia’s seafood boycott reactions and help wanted to get Alaska mariculture moving. If Russia won’t buy US salmon roe, pollock, whiting and other seafoods, we won’t buy theirs. Read more here 16:53
Seals Are Officially Cape Cod Public Enemy #1- Now They Are Stinking Up The Streets
So the seal population is officially so bad that they are turning the ocean into a sewage plant and making the streets of P-Town literally smell like shit. Oh, and many experts believe the population is only going to keep booming and inundating more marinas and other space inhabited by humans in the next few years. Read more here 15:48
Aug. 28-29 – Gulf of Maine Cod Peer Review Meeting – Sheraton Harborside Hotel Portsmouth, NH
Meeting: The public is invited to listen in to a panel of scientific experts who will review the recently released Draft Gulf of Maine Cod Operational Assessment Report.The meeting is scheduled to convene at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday and 8:30 a.m. on Friday. Please click here for all meeting documents, including the agenda and other materials to be considered. Webinar Information: Click here to join in online Full Press Release here 13:47
Pound Net Watermen Prepare for Menhaden Bycatch Limits
Today, a Maryland waterman with a pound net can catch as many menhaden as he or she would like, on Friday, that gets cut back to 6,000 pounds a day to protect the species from overfishing, Video, and Read more here 12:26
Japan plans to propose a 50 percent cut on catches of young bluefin tuna in the Western and Central Pacific
Japan plans to propose a 50 percent cut on catches of young bluefin tuna in the Western and Central Pacific, officials said Tuesday (Aug 26), in a historic shift aimed at safeguarding the at-risk species. Tokyo – the world’s biggest consumer of tuna – has been reluctant to reduce catches, despite mounting scientific evidence that stocks are near collapse. Read more here 11:35
Three brothers who live in the Lower Keys, buyer charged in spiny lobsters take case
Three brothers who live in the Lower Keys have been indicted for harvesting spiny lobsters from illegal habitat called casitas, catching more than their daily commercial bag limit and falsifying commercial fishing reports to conceal their take. A commercial fish wholesale buyer has also been charged Read more here 08:25
‘Adopted’ baby lobsters released in Shediac Bay
Thousands of baby lobsters have a new home near Shediac, thanks to an adoption program designed to sustain the species and the industry. Lobster larvae have less than a one per cent chance of growing to maturity in the wild, said Diego Ritchie, the program co-ordinator. Read more here 08:09
Katsheshuk Fisheries fined $90K for incident that killed worker
A St. John’s court has fined Katsheshuk Fisheries $90,000 for occupational health and safety charges laid after a man was killed on a shrimp trawler two years ago. Aaron Cull, 25, was killed in February 2012 when a metal door on a holding tank fell on his neck while he was working on the trawler . Cull’s father, Kenneth Cull, was on board the Katsheshuk II when the accident occurred; he was one of the first people to reach his son. Read more here 07:53
UPDATE: 24 hour commercial salmon fishery now underway on the Fraser River – Video
WATCH: Commercial gillnetters are taking full advantage of a 24 hour sockeye salmon opening in the province. Jill Bennett has the latest. It’s a busy day on the Fraser River today with the 24 hour opening of the commercial salmon fishery, Watch, and Read more here 02:08
