Daily Archives: November 1, 2014
Boat Goes Down Near Matinicus, One Fisherman Recovered, 2 missing, Search Continues
Coast Guard search and rescue crews saved one person and are looking for two others after a fishing boat sank near Matinicus Island, Maine, Saturday. Watchstanders at the 1st District Command Center in Boston, Massachusetts received an emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) distress signal from the 45-foot fishing vessel No Limits, home ported in Cushing, Maine. Read the rest here 18:58 Video Report here 20:49
Fisherman John L. Yates convicted of violating Sarbanes-Oxley will be heard by the Supreme Court
When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, in the wake of the Enron scandal, a key provision was aimed at making a federal crime the type of conduct committed by the energy company’s auditors: rampant destruction of documents, computer drives and email that detailed Enron’s fraud on its investors. Read the rest here 15:11
Stakeholders ponder Fundy’s future – Fishermen consider condition of bay; politicians contemplate power possibilities
Hubert Saulnier quit school at 15 to fish and spent the next 45 years hauling his living from the waters of the Bay of Fundy. “I’m not an environmentalist — far from it,” Saulnier said. “I like to kill fish, and I like to kill as much as I can.” The big issue for him used to be about leaving “our kids” with a good fishery. “Well, I think we need to leave our children and our grandchildren a clean ocean. The fishery will take care of itself if we do that. “If the ocean is not clean then nobody will have anything.” Read the rest here 11:19
In Polley’s Wake, Downstream Alaska Fears BC’s Mining Boom
Roaring at seven knots up the U.S. side of the Stikine River, a grizzly bear of a man named Mark Galla steers our jet boat through a gauntlet of protruding logs, attempting to point out the exact point at which Alaska becomes British Columbia. Against the vastness of the surrounding wilderness, the border is invisible, almost arbitrary. Until recently, most Alaskans couldn’t see it either. Read the rest here 10:51
Disapearing Job’s: Eric Hesse is a fisherman based in Cape Cod
Here’s how he describes his job: When I started, there were hundreds of boats that would go out especially in the winter chasing codfish. But there aren’t really any codfish left. They were severely depleted by overfishing and it’s made for kind of a bleak picture. There’s no telling when it’s going to come back. . Listen, and read the rest here 08:45
GMFMC to give significant portion of recreational red-snapper quota to charter-boat industry – Up to 95% could be privately owned!
Recreational-fishing advocacy groups have come out with guns blazing after the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council voted at a meeting last week in Mobile, Ala., to further decrease the size of the recreational red-snapper quota. Reef Fish Amendment 40 awards a yet-to-be-determined amount of fish to the charter-boat industry, and those red snapper will be taken entirely out of the recreational quota. Read the rest here 08:33
Tom Dempsey Resigns from the NEFMC
I’m writing to tell you that I’ve accepted a new job and, for that reason, have resigned as a member of the New England Fishery Management Council. I’ll be working with The Nature Conservancy’s Sustainable Fisheries Initiative in California,,, Read the rest here 08:24
‘Pervasive’ amounts of radioactive material found in LA, Long Beach harbors
Steven Manley, a marine biologist with California State University-Long Beach, says the most probable source of the contamination is the Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant. Iodine-131 is regularly used to diagnose and treat cancers of the thyroid gland. The material is later expelled, and it enters sewer systems and water treatment facilities. Read the rest here 08:03
