Monthly Archives: September 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
Three Brain Surgeons Indicted in Waldoboro Arson Case – destroyed another man’s 36-foot lobster boat
James Simmons, 39, and Fredrick Campbell, 30, both of Friendship, and Jeffrey Luce, 36, of Whitefield, are alleged to have committed the June 21, 2012 arson of a boathouse on Friendship Road in Waldoboro which also destroyed another man’s 36-foot lobster boat stored inside. Read the rest here 22:18
Sean O’Brien is the Global Director for Xtratuf. He says that the boots are better than ever.
This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Improving the Tuf in Xtratuf. Sean O’Brien says that the boots are better than ever. “We addressed all of the concerns and actually made the boots better. We upgraded our materials and really upgraded processes to make sure there were no errors.” Listen, and read the rest here 17:20:14
Flag hopping fishing companies drive small fishermen to piracy. – The link between illegal fishing and piracy
Government authorities and shipping industry insiders are increasingly concerned that maritime piracy will rise globally as huge, commercial fishing firms—especially the ones that operate illegally—drive fishermen from poor countries out of business. “When people don’t have any way of feeding their families by fishing, they don’t have many options,” Read the rest here 16:44
Kent Island fishing boat captains charged
Tyrone Antone Meredith, 53, of Stevensville, and Herlen Vernon Lynch, 63, of Dover, Delaware, were charged Sept. 4 with operating as an unlicensed commercial fishing guide, failing to obtain federal licenses to operate a vessel, failing to have a license on board while charter fishing and using a consolidated sport license on a boat hired for recreational fishing, Maryland Natural Resources Police said. Read more here 13:48
In a chat with ‘Her Deepness’, Earle reveals her thoughts on eating seafood today, I don’t, and you shouldn’t either!
As Sylvia Earle, renowned marine biologist and pioneering oceanographer, sets out to establish ‘Hope Spots’ in the ocean that would work like national parks for protecting marine life, she remains vocal about her decision not to eat seafood. The exchange below has been edited for brevity and clarity. Read the rest here 10:39
In Depth: Powered by capital and its desire for profit – The Global Ocean Grab: A Primer
In this primer the most important questions regarding the effects and mechanisms of ocean grabbing are answered. It contains all you need to know to get a good grasp of important processes and dynamics surrounding ocean grabbing. Read the rest here. 10:09
Biloxi: Department of Marine Resources: Miss. Sound oyster reefs either depleted or stressed
“It’s pathetic,” said George Stores, a Bayou Caddy oysterman and member of the Oyster Task Force who was on board a state boat as reefs were surveyed. “It’s absolutely pathetic. I’ve never seen it this bad.”Read the rest here 09:24
Microplastic pollution discovered in St. Lawrence River sediments
Previously undocumented in North American rivers, concentrations of microplastic particles in the St. Lawrence are as high as has been observed in the world’s most contaminated marine sediments. Owing to their small size and buoyancy, they may readily pass through sewage treatment plants. Read the rest here 08:18
Scary lessons for Bristol Bay from recent B.C. mine-waste accident
For millennia, humanity’s insatiable appetite for valuable metals has degraded the integrity of ecosystems that provide habitat for the world’s wildlife, and the clean water and food humans need to thrive. During the past decade, proposals have emerged to develop several mega-mines on the North America’s West Coast on some of our largest free-flowing rivers that produce much of the world’s wild salmon. Read the rest here 07:52
Groups hope MSA update won’t move fish conservation ‘backwards’
A number of regional fishing associations are joining forces to strengthen the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The Sitka-based Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association announced last week (9-9-14) that it’s reached an agreement with the Alaska Marine Conservation Council and several east-coast industry groups to form the Fishing Community Coalition. Read the rest here 21:25
Boom! Oil-exploring seismic blasts could soon disrupt whale territory
NAGS HEAD, N.C. As early as next spring, the boom of seismic cannons will sound under the Atlantic Ocean as the first oil and gas exploration allowed off the East Coast in three decades gets underway. The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved opening an area of the Atlantic Coast from Delaware to Florida for the seismic blasts, saying there “has been no documented scientific evidence”,, Read the rest here 20:47
Rubio Introduces Legislation To Improve Florida Fisheries
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard, today introduced a bill that outlines legislative priorities that will improve fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic regions. Read the rest here 18:24
ONE LAST PUSH! ADD YOUR VOICE TO FISHING COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY CALLING FOR PROTECTION OF BRISTOL BAY
Bristol Bay, Alaska salmon fishermen are battling a proposal by a Canadian mining company to develop the “Pebble Mine”. If built, this copper and gold mine would become the largest open pit mine in North America and would straddle the headwaters of two of the richest salmon spawning rivers on the planet. INDIVIDUALS: Sign this petition, put together by Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay. Then share it with your friends. Don’t forget: the deadline is this Friday, September 19, at midnight EST / 8:00 Alaska time. 16:45
November referendum would dedicate $7 million in public money to Maine seafood and lobster processing.
THE US state of Maine has decided to challenge Canada’s historic and long held dominance of the North Atlantic lobster business. The New England community will decide through a referendum in November whether to spend $7-million of public funds on its seafood and lobster processing sector. Read the rest here 15:02Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Prefered Price List for September 18, 2014
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Group tells IRS Sierra Club evading taxes, colludes with commercial firms
Sierra Club officials pay no taxes on income the environmental nonprofit generates from solar panel sales by its commercial partners. At the same time, the functions in a manner that illegally benefits private commercial interests, including some of the nation’s largest energy firms. Read the rest here 12:04
Longtime Stonington lobsterman Frank Gotwals to chair the board of the new Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative.
As Sea Song, his 38-foot wooden boat, pulls away from Stonington Lobster Co-Op wharf, Gotwals gets into a rhythm that has become etched into his muscle memory over the past 40 years. Assisted by sternman Alyssa LaPointe, he pulls up to one of his red, white and blue buoys, and with the help of a gaff hook, brings two wire lobster traps to the side of the boat. Read the rest here 11:29
Greenport fisherman urges Suffolk DA to investigate village’s dock records
A North Fork fisherman has escalated his battle with Greenport Village after he said officials targeted his commercial boat for eviction from a village dock following long-standing criticism of the local government. Read the rest here 11:14
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