Daily Archives: May 11, 2015
Commercials to fish Tuesday night in lower Columbia – 14 hours of commercial fishing for spring chinook
Washington and Oregon officials have approved 14 hours of commercial fishing for spring chinook salmon Tuesday in the lower Columbia River. The Columbia River Compact on Monday adopted a fishery from 4 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday from Beacon Rock downstream to the ocean. Tangle nets with 4.25-inch-maximum mesh are required. Read the rest here 20:48
Cashing in! “Developing the Blue Economy on Florida’s Gulf Coast.”
Building on a strong fishing history and an ideal spot in the midst of three national estuary programs, the Sarasota-Manatee-Charlotte county region already is building momentum on its own as a maritime economic development engine, a report commissioned by Gulf Coast Community Foundation says. From boat building to artificial reef design to turning the region’s mullet roe into a valuable delicacy, the region has developed a coastal economy that employs 30,000 at 1,839 businesses with payrolls in excess of $600 million per year, according to the report. Read the rest here 19:14
Unalaska city council ducks halibut bycatch issue
When Mayor Shirley Marquardt goes to bat for the industrial fishing fleet in the struggle over halibut bycatch next month in Sitka, she won’t be speaking on behalf of the Unalaska City Council. The city council did vote to pay her way to the meeting, but avoided the halibut bycatch issue. The fish versus fish battle puts halibut one side, facing off against yellowfin sole, turbot, flounder and other flatfish, and Pacific ocean perch, sold mainly in Asia by the Seattle-based distant water fleet. Read the rest here 18:46 This revealing article has miraculously, disappeared!
Vandalism to lights and buoys endangers mariners in Pacific Northwest
The Coast Guard is asking for the public’s help to put a stop to the vandalism of aids to navigation throughout the Pacific Northwest. Several navigational lights in the region have been vandalized rendering them inoperable or limiting their visibility. Recently the batteries were deliberately and illegally removed from a light marking a red and black dayboard on a tower at Reach Range H Rear Light and other aids near Gray’s Harbor. Graffiti applied to the Elk Rock Island Light 13 near Portland, Ore., obscured the green dayboards making them harder to see at a distance and more difficult to read in general. Read the rest here 16:46
Super Bait
A new type of bait is changing the game for anglers and commercial fishermen alike. Fishing Physics holds the patent to the new super bait, and there is nothing else like it. This eco friendly fish bait… made out of a special hydro gel is a better fish attractant, reusable, and cost effective. A handful of commercial boats are trying out the bait right now. Perry says fishermen are doing a comparison of live bait to theirs. Audio, Read the rest here 15:55
South Africa’s Oceana Group in acquisition talks with US menhaden harvester Daybrook Fisheries
South Africa’s Oceana Group is in acquisition talks with the parent company of
. Daybrook produces around 60,000 metric tons of fishmeal and 30,000t of fish oil, from its processing operations in Empire, Louisiana. The company also has 11 purse seine vessels and ten spotter planes. Although Daybrook is the second largest in the sector, the company is much smaller than Omega Protein, the biggest player. Read the rest here 15:14
Cold water blamed for slow crab season in Cape Breton
First it was the ice, and now frigid water temperatures are causing more problems for Cape Breton crab fishermen. Main-a-Dieu fisherman Joe Forgeron isn’t worried about meeting his 285,000-pound quota by season’s end on Sept. 1, but he figures it may take longer than last year.Forgeron, who fishes out of Louisbourg, said the colder-than-average water temperatures translate into slower-moving crab, which means smaller-than-average catches. “This season’s been all right, but, Read the rest here 15:00
Steve Train, lobsterman
Dropping out of college doesn’t lead to financial hardship in every case. When Steve Train, 48, left Northeastern University in Boston as a young man, he had only 12 courses left to take before he would graduate with a business degree. By then, however, the Long Island resident had decided he wanted to be a lobsterman. So he decided to spend his limited funds on buying more lobster traps and a larger boat, rather than pay for college tuition for a degree he would never need. Read the rest here 14:51
Federal employment minister Pierre Poilievre says fish plants must boost wages
Canada’s employment minister says changes to temporary foreign worker legislation will not be reversed or delayed after complaints by New Brunswick fish plant owners. Pierre Poilievre says the solution to the shortage of workers that fish plant owners are concerned about is very simple, “hire unemployed New Brunswickers.” “Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can’t attract enough employees. That’s the free market, that’s how it works.” Read the rest here 14:33
Louisiana House moves turtle extruder shrimp-net rule moves forward unanimously
The Louisiana House took a great step forward on Wednesday when it unanimously passed a House Bill 688. The measure — if it passes and is signed into law by the governor — would remove a ridiculous law from Louisiana’s books. It is a step that can and should be taken. The current law prevents state Wildlife and Fisheries agents from enforcing federal laws requiring shrimp nets to have turtle excluder devices. The law was passed in the 1980s, when debate over the TEDs was at a fever pitch. Read the rest here 14:14
Marine Sanctuary’s Wrong Science Accelerated Florida’s Coral Reef Destruction
At exactly the time I should have been paying the closest attention, Florida was suffering probably the biggest environmental disaster in its history. It happened on my watch but I wasn’t watching. Billy Causey is the for the National Marine Sanctuary. Causey is the man most responsible for keeping the faulty hypothesis alive and well. Scary when you consider he failed to earn his doctorate, so in 2006 the University of South Florida gave him an honorary one anyway. “Oh, he likes to be called Doctor,” one his staff told me. Read the rest here 11:02
What’s killing off B.C.’s young salmon?
Hundreds of millions of young salmon are emerging from rivers along the B.C. coast, beginning a perilous journey that will take them north into the Gulf of Alaska. What happens on that remarkable migration, which most of the fish will not survive, remains one of the greatest mysteries of ocean science. Read the rest here 10:39
Is fish farming coming to San Diego’s coast?
“My goal is to create seafood everyone can afford,” said Donald Kent, president of the institute. He is also chief executive of Rose Canyon Fisheries, a startup proposing the fish farm backed by Christy Walton, the Walmart billionaire and former resident of National City who Forbes has called the world’s richest woman. Read the rest here10:30
