Daily Archives: November 13, 2014
Photos:Commercial crab fishing season starts Saturday
While recreational crab fishing started on Nov.1, commercial fisherman at Pillar Point Harbor were busy this week getting boats ready for their season that starts on Saturday.Photos by John Green/Bay Area News Group See the rest here 22:43
More fishermen using personal flotation devices; still room for improvement
Commercial fishing has been getting safer as more people heading to sea are willing to wear personal flotation devices, says a fishing safety consultant with the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia. “Most folks are doing a good job,” says Tommy Harper. He was in Eastern Passage on Thursday, leading a man-overboard exercise for fishermen and an education session on personal flotation devices. Read the rest here 22:32
Milford waterman charged with more than 200 commercial shellfish violations
A commercial waterman from Milford was arrested on Nov. 1 and charged with 224 commercial shellfish violations following an investigation by DNREC’s Division of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Natural Resources Police. Read the rest here 20:37
US downgrades Thailand, Malaysia and Venezuela on human trafficking
The downgrades could cause some multinational companies to reconsider investments in industries accused 
of using trafficked labour such as fisheries, a lucrative business in Thailand, the world’s largest exporter of shrimp. Read the rest here 16:02
TSB report into deaths of 3 fishermen in Tabusintac released
Weeks after a small lobster boat grounded on a sandbar in Tabusintac Bay last year and sunk, killing all three people on board, five additional green buoys were added to the narrow channel, a report by the Transportation Safety Board reveals. Read the rest here 12:34
P.E.I. lobster fishermen vote in favour of lobster levy – Fishermen’s Association calls it ‘a great day’
“I’m quite excited about it,” said Avery. I’m really excited that fishermen supported marketing initiatives to promote lobster. And I think it’s going to be great. I think it’s a great day for the PEI Fishermen’s Association and the fishermen on PEI.” Read the rest here 12:18
Commercial Crab Season Set to Get Cracking Saturday – The Crab look Primo, Baby!!
Past the tourist traps at Fisherman’s Wharf, the real fishermen of San Francisco are at work hoisting stacks of crab pots onto boats that line the pier. The commercial Dungeness crab season in California opens Saturday. Fishermen are still in negotiations with wholesalers about a price, but say they hope to settle on that by Friday. If they do, the will have fresh crab by the weekend. Read the rest here 11:56
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New England cod decline similar to N.L. cod crash: scientist
Rose noted that while some people are jumping on fisheries management as being inept, it is . “The same people often don’t mention that the haddock stock there has been booming, with basically the same fisheries management,” he said. “So, the real culprit here is climate change and our use of fossil fuels — and the still-apparent lack of recognition of the impacts this is having. Read the rest here 11:28
Phillip Boudreau was dragged out to sea, ‘murder for lobster’ trial told
The Crown in Nova Scotia says a Cape Breton man was dragged out to sea with a gaff and tied to an aluminum anchor in a case of “murder for lobster.” Prosecutor Steve Drake delivered his opening arguments today at the , who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. Read the rest here and here 11:02
Large Pelagics Research Center and “Wicked Tuna”s Captain Bill “Hollywood” Muniz – Tracking Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Large Pelagics Research Center, Molly Lutcavage’s Gloucester-based research team will collaborate with long-term tuna research partners and stars of television’s “Wicked Tuna” series, Captain Bill “Hollywood” Muniz and his spotter, Mark Brochu. Wayne Perryman, leader of a NOAA project using hexacopters to study killer whales off the coast of British Columbia, is advising the UMass Amherst group on this project. Read the rest here 09:55
Fishermen say new restrictions unfairly overlook cod caught in lobster traps
Emergency restrictions aimed at protecting plummeting cod stocks, set to go into effect Thursday in the Gulf of Maine, have some fishermen complaining that one group that routinely kills cod won’t be affected by the new rules – the region’s lobstermen. Read the rest here 07:38
