Daily Archives: September 12, 2014
Catch Shares: Investment Firms are taking over the Fishing Rights
What does it take to buy a share of the American ocean? Policymakers assured the nation that fishing rights would never migrate out of U.S. control through catch shares or end up as properties of investment firms. Environmental groups have similarly touted catch shares as a tool for communities and fishermen and overlooked the role investors can and do play. As the Snow’s deal now makes clear, those pacifications are baloney. Read the rest here 22:29
The Southeast Alaska summer troll fishery is being extended by 10 days
That allows continued fishing through the end of this month. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Pattie Skannes says all species of salmon except Chinooks can be harvested. But the fishery is mostly about cohos. Read the rest here 19:10
New Regulation to Prevent Gear Conflict Between Lobster and Herring Fishermen
The Maine Department of Marine Resources
has implemented an emergency regulation to prevent potential gear conflict between herring fishermen and lobstermen working in an area off the coast of Mount Desert Island. Read the rest here 18:21
Just as Americans start to see lower gas prices, big oil wants to sell US crude overseas
But just as American consumers seem to be benefiting from this system,,, interested parties in the oil industry are pushing to allow greater exports of crude from the US. (US crude exports have been banned since the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s.) They can get higher prices from the global market,,, But to allow more crude exports would essentially undermine the strides America has made in becoming energy independent. Read the rest here 17:28
Coast Guard medevaces fisherman 90 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Coast Guard rescue crews from Air Station Cape Cod medically evacuated a 64-year-old man 90 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Friday. Watchstanders at the Sector Southeastern New England Command Center received notification at 10:36 a.m. from a crewmember on the fishing vessel Albi that a man onboard was suffering from chest pains, numb limbs, and dizziness. He did not have his prescribed blood pressure medication. 16:20
Fishing prohibited in Long Island Sound due to Bridgeport fire
A foamy substance with a red tint was observed in the water, so the Coast Guard will fly a helicopter this morning over the harbor and along the shoreline to determine its spread. As a precaution, all commercial and recreational fishing is prohibited from Norwalk to Milford while tests are completed, according to Coast Guard Capt. Ed Cubanski. Read the rest here 13:36
North Carolina: Additional measures to protect marine mammals, fisheries during seismic testing
The state is requiring additional measures to protect marine mammals and offshore fisheries for a proposed scientific project that would involve seismic testing off the North Carolina coast for several weeks this fall. The N.C. Division of Coastal Management issued its response Monday to a federal consistency determination submitted by the National Science Foundation. Read the rest here 12:28
Florida oysters in crisis: ‘Our industry needs to be shut down,’ Apalachicola seafood rep says
Things in the bay have gotten so bad, oyster fishermen can barely pull out enough oysters to pay for the gas their boats use, said Shannon Hartsfield, president of the Franklin County Seafood Workers Association. “Our industry needs to be shut down,” When reached by phone, Hartsfield stood by those remarks and said that while his members are afraid of the consequences of closing the fishery, they know something has to change. Read the rest here 12:24
If you have an opinion on fluke management, now is the time to make it known.
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will be holding a series of scoping hearings to collect the public’s input on a broad range of issues to be considered for the Comprehensive Summer Flounder Amendment. Fourteen scoping meetings have been scheduled from Virginia through Massachusetts from the end of September through the third week in October. Read the rest here 09:48
Morro Bay officials oppose Dynegy wave parks – “they just ignored everything the fishermen said,”
Morro Bay city councilmembers voiced unanimous opposition to two proposed wave-power-generation facilities off the coast. “It looks to me, in the proposal … that they just ignored everything the fishermen said,” Councilwoman Nancy Johnson said of Dynegy’s permit application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for wave parks in Estero Bay and off Point Estero. Read the rest here 09:16
You gotta read this one! – Fishing family’s civil-rights suit against state officials reinstated – the “organized crime of fishing.”
Court documents claim Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) officers have stopped members of the Tarabochia family dozens of times since 2000, filing 27 criminal counts in 11 separate cases in four counties without ever obtaining a conviction. DFW Deputy Chief Mike Cenci, a defendant in the lawsuit, denies the family’s allegations of a “vendetta.” But he added: “You don’t know this family. Just because a person wasn’t convicted doesn’t mean he didn’t do it.” Read the rest here 08:01
Catch-and-release tuna fishery catches 20% of N.S. market
Three years ago, the federal government began allowing catch-and-release bluefin tuna fishing. Canada has a quota of almost 500 tons for bluefin tuna. The recreational fishery is allowed ten tons, based on the estimate that three per cent of fish will die during encounter. Read the rest here 07:42
Royal Star Fish Plant in Tignish, P.E.I., benefiting from selling $3M in shares
Francis Morrissey says the community investment program let the plant build an addition and a freezer, without borrowing the money. The province let the Tignish, P.E.I., company sell shares earlier this year, which it did under a subsidiary company called Royal Investment Cooperative. Morrissey said many investors are local fisherman and so they benefit directly. Read the rest here 07:33
Squid fishing debuts on North Coast
Squid fishing boats docked in Eureka for the first time Thursday, unloading 124,000 pounds of squid at the Fisherman’s Terminal Commercial squid fishermen from Southern California were drawn to the North Coast by following squid that were driven out of their typical habitat by a rise in ocean water temperatures,,, Read the rest here 06:56
