Monthly Archives: November 2014
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
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
Hired skipper ban heads to court; Silver Bay goes global; Snazzy AK salmon updates
Since the IFQ plan was put in place in 1995, the number of hired skippers has topped 50% and the quota owners have been charging high rents for the fish which has inflated the cost for IFQs. The goal is to get back to a predominantly owner operated fleet that provides entry level opportunities for coastal Alaskans. Read the rest here 20:21
County Council greenlights stricter rules for jellyfish companies
Beaufort County Council approved new rules designed to more strictly regulate local jellyfish operations Monday night. However, representatives of the only existing local jellyfish business and two council members worry the changes are too vague for the business to follow. Read the rest here 17:41
Is Cape Wind Dead? Leading Constitutional Law Expert: Expensive Cape Wind Power Contract “Forced Down NSTAR’s Throat”
“The Settlement Agreement between NSTAR, the Department of Energy Resources and Cape Wind makes it crystal clear that the only reason NSTAR agreed to buy Cape Wind power was to secure the Department’s support for the NSTAR-Northeast Utilities merger,” said Tribe. “If that merger fell through, then NSTAR was relieved of its obligation to purchase electricity from Cape Wind.” Read the rest here 13:55
A Vessel Van Gogh
There’s no end to the artistic talent in Newfoundland and Labrador. Much of it inspired by the scenic fishing villages like Twillingate, Newfoundland. That’s where Jason Sharpe learned to paint from his dad. Together they developed a love for an unconventional canvass, one that floats in harbours and at at sea. See their stunning sterns and beautiful bows and the challenging work faced by a vessel Van Gogh. Watch the video here 13:20
Mass Governor Elect Baker wants broader input on cod regulations
Questioning the federal estimates used to essentially ban commercial cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine, Governor-elect Charlie Baker said it is time for other scientists to have a say. Baker and Senate minority leader Bruce Tarr, who represents Gloucester, said Massachusetts must do its own analysis of what is happening with the cod population in,,, Read the rest here 12:23
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 47′ Steel Trawler – C-18 CAT engine new 2013
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Editorial: NOAA cod measure cannot be allowed to stand without challenge
Perhaps the scariest thing about the new “emergency measures” being imposed on Gloucester fishermen and the New England groundfishing industry is that no one seems surprised. Angry? Frustrated? Desperate? You bet — and with good reason. Read the rest here 09:23
Sullivan Win’s! Begitch Out! Loses Chair, U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommitee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Republican Dan Sullivan won Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, defeating first-term incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. Sullivan led Begich by about 8,100 votes on Election Night last week and held a comparable edge after election workers had counted about 20,000 absentee, early-voted and questioned ballots late Tuesday. Read the rest here 08:00
Scientists Challenge Seafood Ecolabeling & Sustainability Standards
“Only ten percent of global fisheries have gone through private ecolabelling programs,” said Thor Lassen, president of Ocean Trust and a co-convener and principle organizer for the Forum. “There simply is not enough money to certify all fisheries in the world, nor does it make sense. We have to be more pragmatic when it comes to the ecolabelling of seafood products.” Read the rest here 23:28
