Daily Archives: August 26, 2018
Company widens net in seafood secrets case
National Fish & Seafood and Kathleen A. Scanlon, the former employee the seafood processor is suing for allegedly stealing trade secrets for her new employer, had appeared to be heading for a settlement. Now, not so much. The Gloucester-based seafood processor last week amended its complaint against Scanlon, its former head of research and development and quality assurance, and her new employer, Tampa Bay Fisheries, by adding more defendants and more details of the alleged conspiracy and corporate theft. >click to read<17:50
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for August 24, 2018
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UPDATED: Major search operation ends for two missing fishermen – Bodies found by wreckage
Lifeboats from Gorleston and Caister were dispatched around 8pm after a cruise ship found three men in a life raft in the North Sea. An Associated Press journalist onboard the Pacific Princess said the ship turned around to help the men after they sent up a flare. HM coastguard said all three men were rescued, but they reported that two of their colleagues were unaccounted for. Two helicopters, multiple merchant vessels, and two lifeboats from Norfolk are involved in the search. >click to read<11:29 – Search for missing fishermen called off after bodies found by wreckage >click to read<20:18
Whale-watchers ask why herring fishery carries on where right whales sighted
A whale-watching tour operator and one of her customers say they are concerned nothing was done to stop herring seiners after two North Atlantic right whales were spotted in the Bay of Fundy off Brier Island, N.S. ,,”My big concern is the herring fishery,” Blackman said. “The seiners have been moving in every night. The last three nights they have been right in the place we spotted the whale this afternoon. Right in the opening between Brier Island and Long Island. “We’re watching the herring seiners come in, and they set up with these huge nets which are endangering the whale.” >click to read<09:51
John McCain, US senator, war hero, ‘maverick,’ has died at 81
Sen. John McCain, who endured five years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp, served for more than 30 years in the U.S. Senate and ran for president of the United States twice, died on Saturday at his home in Arizona, 13 months after he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain died at 4:28 p.m., according to a spokesman. His wife and other family members were with him. >click to read<09:02
