Daily Archives: October 10, 2014
Two Dead After Taiwan’s Largest and Most Advanced Research Vessel Sinks
Two people are reported dead and 43 have been rescued after the Taiwanese-flagged ocean research and survey vessel ‘Ocean Researcher V’ sank Friday night off the southwest coast of Taiwan. The report adds the ship sank Friday night just after 8 p.m. in the vicinity of the Penghu Islands, located in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and the China mainland. The area was likely experiencing weather related to Typhoon Vangfong just to the east. Read the rest here 22:35
Poll: Majority of Marylanders Support 1-Year Crab Moratorium
After a record high number of crabs caught in 2012, the past two years have been a completely opposite story. With watermen putting all their effort into catching what few crabs they can, a new poll by Goucher College has proposed a solution to the low crab population that they say the majority of Marylanders are behind. The idea that 63 percent of Marylanders support according to the poll calls for the crabbing season to be shut down for a full year. Read the rest here 20:50
Climate change forcing fish stocks north: study
A study has produced the strongest evidence yet that climate change is forcing hundreds of valuable fish species toward the poles. The paper, published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science on Friday, concludes that Canadian and Arctic waters may end up with more species and greater abundance. Read the rest here Wonder if the CLF/Pew Eco Quackeroos even look at this. 17:43
Skipper grounds vessel, gets busted in failed sobriety test, Blows a .115 – Leads to a slight pollution issue.
A Coast Guard Station Bellingham 45-foot Response Boat- Medium crew towed and safely moored the fishing vessel 
at the Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes after receiving a report that vessel was aground in the Swinomish Channel Thursday evening.,, Upon boarding the vessel, the Adelie crew suspected the master of the vessel was intoxicated,,, Read the rest here 16:20
Ocracoke’s Fisherwoman – (it’s fisherman!)
Ocracoke Island has a long history and proud tradition of living off the water, and the people who, despite increased regulations, continue this tradition and livelihood are called working watermen, and occasionally, waterwomen. What is a waterman? A “working waterman” is a commercial fisherman, clammer, crabber, or oysterman. Tree Ray, who lives on Ocracoke Island, is one of the working waterwomen, and has been commercial fishing for nearly seven years. Read the rest here 15:53
New Study Finds Fishermen’s Expertise is Rarely Considered by Scientists
The study, published this week as Editor’s Choice by the ICES Journal of Marine Science shows that if scientists from Canada to Kiribati had worked more closely with fishermen over the last 100 years they could well have prevented infamous events like crashes in regional cod populations, as well as some of the rapid degradation we are currently seeing in tropical coral reef environments. Read more here 11:45 ICES article here
Makah to celebrate dock completion today in Neah Bay
A flotilla of boats will tie up for the first time at a new $13.8 million dock during a blessing and ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. today. The dock will be open for business Monday. Fishing boats and oil response vessels — the boats that will use the dock — will tie up at the industrial hoist, said Debbie Ross-Preston, coastal information officer for the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Read the rest here 09:08
Zone C members discuss federal rule-making – Of particular interest is the amount of cod bycatch in lobster traps
Sarah Cotnoir, Resource Coordinator for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, alerted the Zone C Council to a New England Fisheries Management Council draft amendment to the Magnuson Stevens Act. “Lobster gear is definitely on the radar, especially in western [Casco Bay area] Maine,” said Cotnoir. “Everything and anything is on the table.” Of particular interest is the amount of cod bycatch in lobster traps, said Cotnoir. Read the rest here 08:37
Man netted $75,000 with phony commercial fishing claim after BP oil spill
Prosecutors said that Morris applied for disaster relief funds in October 2010, presenting false documentation indicating that he had earned money as a commercial fisherman before the spill. Polite said Morris, who had never been in the commercial fishing business, received about $75,000. Read the rest here 08:11
Hundreds of pounds of Lake Erie fish left to spoil in untended nets
A Leamington commercial fishing company and boat captain have pleaded guilty to allowing fish to spoil and have been fined a total of $3,500. Conservation officers got a tip in early August that spoiled fish had been seen in a commercial trap net on the northwest side of Pelee Island. Read the rest here 08:07
Angela Sanfilippo: ‘What Gloucester has done for me’
Angela Sanfilippo told her story Thursday afternoon and she told it well, the traces of her Italian heritage still dancing in her voice. It’s a pretty good story. An American story with all the familiar tinting of the immigrant experience. At its heart, it is a Gloucester story. Read the rest here 07:29
New Fisheries Might Be Headed to Unalaska
Next year will likely bring new fisheries to the western Aleutian Islands, now that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued its final report on the way commercial fishing affects an endangered population of Steller sea lions. Read the rest here 07:08
