Daily Archives: July 19, 2015
Father questions late start to trawler Returner search
As a huge air, sea and land search yesterday again failed to find any sign of the 13m trawler Returner, Alan Fairley questioned why it had taken so long for Fisheries to act on signs the boat’s responder had stopped working. After revelations that a transponder installed by Fisheries to monitor where the vessel went had deactivated about 1am on Saturday, the department stressed the device was for compliance rather than safety purposes. Read the rest here 23:02
Shall we eat tigers? This is how it would work – we would breed tigers in captivity, thousands of them.
Then we would go into the jungle with big drag nets and catch every animal we could find as feed for the tigers. Some of these animals, big and small, would be thrown into the tigers while still reasonably fresh. Others could be ground up and cooked with other ingredients to be made into tiger-feed pellets. Actually, we would be better off grinding them up in this way because the fresh animal feed could introduce bacteria that increased the mortality rate at our tiger farm.Many people mistakenly believe that aquaculture is the equivalent of farming ruminants. Read the rest here 15:14
Joe Lane, the lobster guy
Joe Lane is a multi-generation lobsterman. He said his lobstering ancestors probably date back to when fishermen started fishing for lobsters.,, This summer, he’s lamenting that he hasn’t been able to put as much time out on the ocean as he’d like, because he’s in the throes of opening a restaurant, along with his lobster roll stand.,, selling fresh live and cooked lobsters, and lobster rolls, lobster tacos, lobster BLTs, lobster grilled cheese sandwiches and lobster Newburg (on Sundays). He also offers a “lobster cone.” Read the rest here 12:28
Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, July 19, 2015
The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the update here 
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Former investigator is convinced hull damage sank the F/V Arctic Rose
In 2001, a remote-operated camera on the bottom of the Bering Sea captured ghostly images of the sunken Arctic Rose fishing vessel, including footage of a narrow, dark splotch along the hull. Coast Guard officers who investigated the April 2, 2001, sinking eventually concluded that the video showed only an area of peeled paint, and was of no consequence in a calamity they say was most likely the result of flooding through an open hatch door. But a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator initially assigned to the case came to a radically different view of what went wrong; this theory was never publicly disclosed. Read the rest here Video-Trial Graphics – Arctic Rose Sinking 09:23
Dozens of sturgeon found dead in Columbia River
Washington Fish and Wildlife officials have received repeated reports of dead sturgeon this week on the Columbia River. On Wednesday, Paul Hoffarth, district biologist for Fish and Wildlife, began adding up the sightings. His rough total came to 66 dead sturgeon in the Columbia River from McNary Dam to Boardman. More than 20 were reported upstream, from the Hanford Reach downstream to the McNary Dam. The exact cause of the die-off of the largest freshwater fish in North America is a mystery. Read the rest here 08:25
