Daily Archives: November 14, 2014
Voices From the West Coast Tuna Fishery – Interview Clips, Transcripts, & Photos
In the early 1900s, the West Coast tuna industry was born in the small coastal California town of San Pedro, near Los Angeles. An abundant coastal fishery allowed fishing and canning businesses to soon expand to nearby Terminal Island developing into . At the heart of it all was a thriving immigrant community. Read the rest here 22:08
Commercial fishing – Alaska’s largest employer continues to add more jobs to its roster.
Commercial fishing jobs grew last year to a level not seen since the year 2000, according to the state Department of Labor. Driven primarily by an increased salmon harvest, notably from the record run of pinks, fishing jobs grew by nearly 2.5 percent last year. That brought the annual monthly average to 8,400 jobs, just 400 shy of the record over a decade ago. Read the rest here 16:48
El Salvadore national charged with lying about residency to work on Alaska fishing crew
Alaska State Troopers arrested a fishing boat crewmember Wednesday in Unalaska, accusing the man of lying about his Alaska and United States residency on a commercial license. Read the rest here 15:07
Feds Reverse Course, Lift Ban on Fishing for Rare Pacific Bluefin Tuna – Center for Biological Diversity Distraught!
“Bluefin tuna have been decimated by overfishing, and the world has called in their Pacific bluefin tuna fleets — but California fishermen continue to catch endangered Pacific bluefin tuna,” said Catherine Kilduff with the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Fisheries Service is supposed to protect fish on the path to extinction, not push them deeper into crisis. Yet that’s exactly what they’ve done.” Shut up Lady! Read the rest here 13:27
“The entire system is broken, the fishing industry is being driven into the ground.”
Ed Barrett, president of the Massachusetts Bay Ground Fishermen’s Association, says the new regulations to restrict cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine for the next six months are a for the fishing community “complete disaster” for the fishing community. Read the rest here 13:03
The Eye in the Sky – Google, SkyTruth And Oceana Target Illegal Fishing With New Technology
SkyTruth, Oceana and Google announced Global Fishing Watch, a big data technology platform that leverages satellite data to create the first global view of commercial fishing. A prototype was unveiled at the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia, with a public release version in development, SkyTruth said. Read the rest here 12:42
Fishermen need better life-jacket designs, union says,
The head of the Maritime Fishermen’s Union says the industry should design better life-jackets for fishermen if it wants them to wear them. Christian Brun, the MFU’s executive secretary, was responding to the Transportation Safety Board’s recommendations Thursday in a report into the sinking of the Marie J in northeastern New Brunswick in May 2013. Read the rest here 12:02
Stories from the Galley
Michael Vlahovich discussed his passion for building and restoring wooden boats as a result of his childhood growing up on the waterfront of Tacoma, Wash. His family came to the Pacific Northwest from Croatia 100 years ago and began the family tradition of commercial fishing and boat building. Read the rest here 09:05
Editorial: What fate for fishermen
A few weeks ago folks got a chuckle out of the fallout from Charlie Baker’s emotional story about a fisherman who felt he had ruined his sons’ lives by guiding them into the family business. Who’s laughing now? Read the rest here 08:53
Commercial harvester says seals, not climate change, is the reason for decline of cod in New England
An Associated Press story recently drew a comparison between the decline of cod in the United States with what happened to the northern cod stocks in the late 1980s and 1990s that impacted Canada’s east coast communities and changed the face of the fishery in this province. Read the rest here 08:20
