Daily Archives: September 15, 2014
Nations square off at International Whaling Commission conference
The commission’s 65th meeting kicked off in Slovenia with a vote of 46 to 11, with three abstentions, in favour of Greenland’s proposed 207 kills per year from 2015 to 2018, with conservationists fearing much of the meat meant for aboriginal subsistence was actually being sold. “More than 800 whales were condemned today just in the Greenland vote,” Wendy Higgins of the Humane Society International Shut up Read the rest here 19:51
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – AK fishing updates; high halibut $
Alaska’s total salmon catch looks like it will come in at just over 150 million fish – that’s about 20 million more than expected. That’s due in part to a healthy run of reds in many regions, notably Bristol Bay. With sockeye salmon shortfalls in Russia and a lower run than expected at B.C.’s Fraser River, market reports are putting Alaska sockeyes at a premium. Speaking of premiums – halibut prices are,,, Read the rest here 18:18
SAFMC Meeting – September 15-19, 2014
Webinar Registration: Watch the meeting LIVE as it happens – Sign up for daily Webinars here. Meeting Agenda here Briefing Book Materials 14:29
Placentia Bay – Boats destroyed in Southern Harbour wharf fire – as many as 10 vessels.
While the RCMP investigate, fishermen and boat owners
are figuring out what’s next, after an early Monday morning blaze at a wharf in Southern Harbour destroyed as many as 10 vessels. “I was talking to one fisherman there today and he was pretty devastated. He just bought two new engines to go on his boat in the last couple of weeks or so, and everything was destroyed.” Read the rest here 13:20
ASMFC Tonight @ConnDEEP Public Hearing on Cancer Crab management. 7PM, Old Lyme
Connecticut tonight, Maine September 22, Maryland September 24, Massachusetts September 24, Rhode Island September 25. Information is here for review 13:06
Maine’s problematic green crabs dwindled in 2014
University of Maine at Machias marine ecology researcher Brian Beal says the amount of crabs is 10 percent of last year’s level at a key Freeport trapping site. Beal says the harsh winter may have culled population. Read the rest here 12:47
The Gulf of Alaska is unusually warm, and weird fish are showing up
Something odd is happening in Northern Pacific waters: They’re heating up. In fact, it hasn’t been this warm in parts of the Gulf of Alaska for this long since researchers began tracking surface water temperatures in the 1980s, according to the NOAA. Read the rest here 12:26
Maine Voices: Dredging of Searsport Harbor would be economic folly – Rocky Allen, Maine Lobstering Union
Sen. Susan Collins has observed: “In parts of Maine, the environment is our economy.” No place epitomizes that principle more than Penobscot Bay. The members of the Maine Lobstering Union unanimously oppose the Searsport dredging project, as proposed, because it simply makes no economic sense for Maine. Read the rest here 11:53
Fraser River sockeye run still avoiding U.S. waters, frustrating Whatcom County fishermen
With the sockeye salmon run into the Fraser River nearly complete, the fortunes of local U.S. commercial fishermen haven’t improved much. In recent years about 50 percent of the sockeye run went south through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, putting the fish in U.S. waters. This season nearly the entire run has gone around the north part of Vancouver Island through Johnstone Strait into Canadian waters. Read the rest here 11:35
Trade agreement sparks Canadian interest in Grimsby, the UK gateway to seafood retailing
Grimsby played host to a strong delegation from Canada’s fishing fraternity, with companies with a combined turnover of £500 million travelling up from London to take in the award-winning cluster and meet with businesses keen to receive their exports. Read the rest here 09:23
Cod cut would increase discards, Shetland fishermen warn
Fishermen in Shetland are urging the EU and Norway to abandon a controversial cod management plan and increase North Sea quotas to help reduce dumping of healthy fish at sea.,, “On the one hand they want to eliminate discards, but on the other they want to cut quotas which would have the direct effect of increasing discards. Read the rest here 08:39
