October 18, 2019 – fisherynation.com

Daily Archives: October 18, 2019

Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel 15 miles west of Coos Bay

October 18, 2019 National, Pacific

U.S. Coast Guard 13th District PA Detachment Astoria – A Coast Guard aircrew medically evacuated a 28-year-old man Friday morning off the fishing vessel ‘Alaska Ocean,’ which was operating 15-miles west of Coos Bay. A Coast Guard Sector North Bend aircrew hoisted the man after he experienced chest pains and seasickness. Watchstanders at the 13th Coast Guard District Command Center were notified at 3:15 a.m. by the company who owns the fishing vessel that the man was suffering medical issues. Photos, >click to read the rest< 17:27

Comment

1 passenger dead in Unalaska crash of PenAir plane flying from Anchorage that injured 10 others

October 18, 2019 North Pacific

A 38-year-old man from Washington state died when a PenAir plane went off the end of the runway Thursday afternoon at Unalaska’s airport, officials say. David Allan Oltman died of “traumatic injuries suffered in the crash,” according to updates Friday morning from Unalaska officials and Alaska State Troopers. Another critically injured passenger was flown to Anchorage. Nine others were also hurt, according to the city’s Department of Public Safety. Responders had to extricate one patient and evacuated the others. >click to read< 15:30

Wenatchee man killed in Alaska plane crash – Alaska State Troopers in a news release identified the man as 38-year-old David Allan Oltman. Marjie Veeder, a city of Unalaska spokeswoman, said Friday that he lived in Wenatchee. >click to read< 19:40

Comment

Aquaculture, lobstering tussle headed to Maine statehouse

October 18, 2019 National

Democratic state Sen. David Miramant, of Camden, is proposing a bill that would make approval criteria for new aquaculture leases stricter. Miramant’s bill would require new lease applicants to demonstrate that no practical alternative exists that would have less of an impact on existing uses. The proposal would also reduce the maximum lease acreage a person can hold from 1,000 acres to 50 acres. The proposal comes as some lobstermen are sounding the alarm that the increase in fish and shellfish farming in Maine’s waters could limit their ability to lay traps. >click to read< 13:04

Comment

Annual Irish Groundfish Survey Commences End Of This Month

October 18, 2019 International News

The annual Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS 2019) will take place off the North, West and South Coasts for six weeks from 31 October. Carried out by the Marine Institute, the IGFS is a demersal trawl survey consisting of around 170 fishing hauls, each of of 30 minutes’ duration, in ICES areas VIa, VIIb, VIIg and VIIj. As part of the requirements for the 2019 survey, fishing will take place within a 2-nautical-mile radius of indicated positions. >click to read< 09:50

Comment

Maine DMR to hold two lotteries for scallop licenses

October 18, 2019 New England

The Department of Marine Resources announced last Friday that it was opening two lotteries for scallop fishing licenses for the upcoming 2019-20 fishing season. One of the lotteries will be for scallop drag licenses, while the other will be for scallop dive licenses. Based on the number of licenses retired in 2018, DMR has determined that six scallop drag licenses and four scallop dive licenses will be available for the 2019-20 season. Both lotteries will remain open until 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8. >click to read< 08:52

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
October 2019

M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31

« Sep Nov »

October 2019
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

Recent Posts
- Eastern Shipbuilding to build 194 ft fishing vessel for O’Hara Corporation of Rockland, ME
  
  APRIL 5, 2013 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL, has signed a contract with O’Hara Corporation of Rockland, ME, covering construction and delivery of Read More »
- New DFO regulations, 30 major commercial stocks have been identified for rebuilding
  
  Canada is putting into law a requirement that it rebuild depleted commercial fish stocks, starting with 17 stocks that include Atlantic cod off Newfoundland, spring spawning Read More »
- Lobster marketing board meetings provide ‘good feedback’
  
  P.E.I. lobster fishermen have just a few more days to register to vote in the upcoming lobster marketing board plebiscite. The P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association has been Read More »
- Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance – Fisheries policy is breeding an industry beset by corruption
  
  As an organization led by commercial fishermen, we have long been concerned that the drive to consolidate the industry would lead to the kind of collusion Read More »
- Clam shortage in Nova Scotia due in part to weak dollar
  
  Craving clams? You’ll probably have to wait until the loonie digs itself out of its hole. Until the Nova Scotia clam season reopens in April, supply Read More »
- Icicle vessel runs aground
  
  Icicle Seafoods’ The/Gordon Jensen struck rocks on Saturday and the U.S. Coast Guard had to escort the damaged vessel to Ketchikan for repairs. Coast Guard public Read More »
- Our Jobs, Our Resources: Unfair Sharing of Northern Shrimp
  
  The future of our coastal communities is at risk. Thousands of jobs are in jeopardy due to unfair sharing of the northern shrimp resource. The federal Read More »
- Commercial King Mackerel Trip Limit to Decrease in the Southern West Coast Florida Subzone
  
  The daily vessel trip limit is reduced to 500 pounds beginning 12:01 a.m., local time, January 24, 2015, for Gulf group king mackerel in the southern Read More »
- Maine’s problematic green crabs dwindled in 2014
  
  University of Maine at Machias marine ecology researcher Brian Beal says the amount of crabs is 10 percent of last year’s level at a key Freeport Read More »
- ‘Deadliest Catch’ cast member has Vilonia ties – Shares his story of turning his life from drugs
  
  Flashing his boyish smile, 29-year-old Dan Borovina of Washington said he is used to living on the edge but it is not the place where he Read More »
- Food Poisoning Bulletin – In Canada, Smoked Fish Recalled for Possible Botulism
  
  In Canada, Orr’s Fine Meats and Deli in Ontario is recalling Smoked Fish because the product may permit the growth of the . The store is Read More »
- US scallop inventories expected to decline in 2013 on new management plan
  
  Framework Adjustment 24 to the Sea Scallop Plan was approved at the November 2012 meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council. The action sets specifications Read More »
- Massive Fish Kill in the Klamath River After Flash Floods Inundate its Waters with Debris
  
  Shocking photographs from Siskiyou County near Happy Camp show thousands of dead fish in the Klamath River after flash floods sent a deluge of debris into Read More »
- Nez Perce tribe hopes to spark return of chinook with artificial beds
  
  The Nez Perce tribe is taking advantage of overproduction at the Clearwater Hatchery to seed some local streams with spring chinook redds – spawning beds or Read More »
- Alarmingly warm water in Gulf of Maine bringing changes
  
  Officials have suggested that higher temperatures in the gulf have been a factor in bacterial outbreaks in bivalves and in sea lice infestations in Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Read More »
- Juvenile striped bass maintain average abundance in Virginia waters in 2017
  
  Preliminary results from an ongoing long-term survey conducted by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science suggest an average year class of young-of-year striped bass Read More »
- That sky keeps on falling. Apparently the anti-fishing foundation funding doesn’t follow suit.
  
  Nils Stolpe FishNet-USA – “New research shows that industrial fisheries are responsible for dumping nearly 10 million tons of perfectly good fish back into the ocean Read More »
- Lobstermen throw cold water on Maine state plan to protect whales
  
  Fishermen in the heart of Maine’s $485 million lobster industry don’t like a state proposal to protect endangered right whales from buoy lines, arguing that it Read More »
- Orange, yellow, blue, and even ‘Halloween’: The rarest lobster colors, explained
  
  It may feel like a new, brightly colored lobster has been pulled off the New England coast and onto your social media feeds every other week Read More »
- Maine Panel Approves 2014-15 Scallop Rules
  
  The state Department of Marine Resources said Wednesday that the council signed off on proposed rules for the season. The rules call for the season to Read More »
- Recommended gear rules for Right Whale safety are adopted
  
  With the National Oceanic Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) under a fast approaching, court-imposed deadline to develop new whale protection rules, the Zone C Lobster Management Council held a special Read More »
- Just Now!! Out Bound from New Bedford, F/V Arcturus
  
  10:19 Read More »
- This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Crab season stats and salmon tallies. More fisheries updates after this…
  
  October 15th marks the start for Bristol Bay Red kings, Bering Sea Tanners and Snow crab. The Red King crab catch is up this year by Read More »
- Gulf Oystermen are Struggling.
  
  The recent heavy rains are to blame for the DMR closing the Pass Christian oyster reefs Tuesday afternoon. more@wlox,com It’s 98 percent off this year. That’s Read More »
- DiMillo’s buys its neighbor – and lobster supplier – on Portland’s waterfront
  
  One of Maine’s biggest restaurants has purchased one of Maine’s largest lobster dealers. The family that owns DiMillo’s On the Water restaurant and DiMillo’s Marina on Read More »