Daily Archives: September 20, 2014
Eat Local, Eat Weird? The Secretive Monkeyface Eel Is Both.
Kirk Lombard paused to watch a skinny, middle-aged man in a beat-up wetsuit hop around the rocks with a bamboo stick. The man slid the stick between the cracks of the rocks, somehow hooking half a dozen fish in a matter of minutes. Lombard hadn’t caught a thing all day. Intrigued, he climbed down from Squack Rock to ask the man who he was and what he was up to. “Call me Cambodian Stan,” said the man. “This” — he gestured at the 4-foot-long bamboo pole and out to the rocks below his feet — “is called poke poling.” Read the rest here 21:26
Plymouth lobsterman to face charges after fight over tangled lines
PLYMOUTH – A local lobsterman will face assault charges after tangling with another lobsterman on the water off White Horse Beach.Police said the 56-year-old man became enraged after his lines tangled with the other lobsterman’s lines near Flag Rock. Read the rest here 20:37
MU professor, complaints led to tenure denial, accused of research misconduct by the same people named in the complaint.
A University of Missouri professor says he was denied tenure for reporting the possible misuse of federal grants. Wildlife biologist Dylan Kesler filed a 2013 complaint under the federal False Claims Act. He says two colleagues in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences improperly paid their spouses at least $130,000 from large pools of scientific research money while the women remained home with newborns. Read the rest here 15:47
Conservationists Spar With Fishermen Over World’s Largest Marine Monument
From the article: “It is very likely that the canneries would go away if the proposed monument expands,”, “they are getting squeezed” by increasing regulations and competition from Asia. Monica Medina, the senior director of International Ocean Policy for National Geographic, says the debate over whether to expand the monument really should not hinge on a cost-and-benefit analysis to fisheries. Read the rest here 15:17:34
Boys will be boys. Just not here! Motels cast drunken, bed-wetting fishing crews adrift
Drunken, bed-wetting fishing crews are unwelcome at South Canterbury motels. South Canterbury Moteliers Association president Maree Winter said people coming off fishing boats were behaving badly, in part due to excessive drinking. As a result some moteliers had decided to turn them away, she said. “They wet the beds. Not just a little bit, but a bucketload,” she said. “They get drunk and disturb other guests, they smoke in the rooms.” Read the rest here 13:52
National Fisheries Institute (NFI) calls out the Environmental Working Group for it’s not so good “Good Seafood Guide”
The professional fearmonger, anti-vaccination-conspiracy-theory-pusher, and all-around activist shop that is the EWG is out today with another addition to their collection of flawed reports on mercury and seafood. This new EWG’s Consumer Guide to Seafood is a rehash of the same debunked and tired tropes EWG has been trying to push on the public for years. Read the rest here 11:13
Kamloop: Adams Lake Indian Band Commercial Fishery Opens – Video
The Shuswap Commercial Fishing Enterprise has been successfully operating on Kamloops Lake for several years. First Nations fishers have been able to sustainably catch fish and sell it commercially creating jobs and economic opportunities. Today, the Adams Lake Indian Band became the latest First Nation to join the initiative. Watch the video here 10:55
New Bedford: New regulations affecting scallop catch, industry leaders say
This year’s scallop catch is expected to come in lower than in previous thanks to the tightening of catch limits, local industry leaders say. Jim Kendall of New Bedford Seafood Consulting said things are looking good from a sustainability perspective, thanks to measures aimed at leaving younger scallops in place. Read the rest here 09:43
Tribes Request King Bycatch Reduction as Pollock Season Wraps Up
As the Pollock season wraps up in the Bering Sea, the Association of Village Council Presidents and the Tanana Chiefs Conference want immediate action to protect declining Western Alaska King Salmon stocks from trawl bycatch. Listen, and read the rest here 09:07
Pollock Fleet Sees Spike in Squid Bycatch – Exceeding the Bycatch Quota
While salmon is still the main species that pollock fishermen are trying to avoid taking as bycatch this summer, there’s another creature that’s been causing problems in the Bering Sea. Along with their pollock, fishermen have pulled up about 1,100 metric tons of slimy, pink squid this summer. That’s more than four times their catch limit,,, Read the rest here 08:57
Mike McGeoghegan steps down as PEIFA president
After a five-year term of successive re-elections, Mike McGeoghegan has stepped down as president of the largest fishing organization in the province. The Pinette-based fisherman has retired from the industry and can no longer remain in his capacity. Read the rest here 08:34
