Daily Archives: November 21, 2014
Risky weather delays lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia
The season was to begin Monday along Nova Scotia’s South Shore and southwestern region, but there was plenty of uncertainty Friday about the weather, said Frank Quinn, area director in Yarmouth for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Read the rest here 23:03
Baker: So Sarah McLachlan hates the seal hunt; what else is new?
If you wanted to get a ticket to see songstress Sarah McLachlan on her two-stop tour through Newfoundland, you’re S.O.L., as the young urbanites like to say.,,some folks around these parts have taken to calling for a boycott of McLachlan. Stop the press! A musician hates the seal harvest! Read the rest here 22:41
Fish Tales: Paul Vitale mulls next step in a fishing life
He is a Gloucester guy, raised up from a Gloucester kid in a Sicilian family, so Paul Vitale came honestly to the water and to fishing as generations of Gloucester kids had done before him. Now 42, Vitale spent his childhood running down to the docks, game for any task that needed doing on his father’s boat that tied up down The Fort. Read the rest here 20:58
Boris Worm, Coming Around Again – ‘Extinction’ of saltwater fish to fishing bandied on social media
Continuous reverences to the Nothing but Jellyfish 2048 dogma that was used in Pews “Oceans of Abundance” to compel Obama to create the National Ocean Policy Bureaucracy Builder, The doom date flicked out of recent angler social media blogs like the Grim Reaper’s scythe: By 2048 all saltwater fish will be extinct due to overfishing, lives! Read the rest here 18:37
Conservationists Are United On Fukushima Threat To Oceans, while Over Fishing is the Real Threat!
These people are cracked! Greenpeace UK ranks “destructive fishing, pollution and climate change” as the leading threats to the oceans, while radiation from Fukushima doesn’t get a mention in its Oceans Defender campaign.” Read the rest here, if you can stand it! 14:45
Spoofed Satellite Feeds Trouble Google’s Eye in the Sky
The new Global Fishing Watch, an ambitious attempt by Google and others to monitor illegal fishing boats globally in real time, faces a technical challenge: Fishing boats operating in non-permitted territories that alter their tracking systems to mask their physical location. Read the rest here 11:35
Calais man who sold pesticide that killed lobsters admits lying to agents
A Calais man waived indictment and pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a false statement to federal agents in connection with the illegal use of a pesticide in Canada five years ago. Read the rest here 09:31
NSCC School of Fisheries providing education, training and safety
YARMOUTH – When Marcel d’Entremont starting fishing on a fish dragger in 1981,, “My safety training was this: the owner of the boat looked at me and said, ‘The life raft is on top of the house, the immersion suit in the bow is mine. Don’t touch it.’” Read the rest here 09:13
Seals gobble half a million fish – commercial fisheries report almost 500K in losses
Professional fishermen in Finland are up in arms about damages to their catch and equipment from grey seals. Recent figures from the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute estimate that the market value of fish lost to seals is 466,000 euros. (578,820.87 US Dollars) Read the rest here 09:00
Council closes scallop beds; raises crew levels
The closure will cost millions of dollars in the short term, but are predicted to have a payoff in years beyond 2017 when the areas can reopen and the grown scallops harvested. The council also voted to raise the maximum crew levels aboard scallop boats from seven to eight to allow boats to train new crew members. Read the rest here 08:32
Fieldwood Energy reported an explosion on its Echo Platform in the Gulf on Thursday; 1 dead, 3 injured
The bureau said in a statement that the platform was not in production at the time of the explosion and damage was limited to the area. The statement said there was no indication that any oil had spilled into the ocean. Read more here 23:57
