Fraser River chinook – fisherynation.com

Tag Archives: Fraser River chinook

More restrictions for Fraser River chinook fishermen

June 22, 2020 Canada

All but one of 13 Fraser River chinook populations assessed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada are currently at risk. New restrictions this year include maximum size limits of 80 cm in southern marine recreation fisheries to help mitigate risks to larger females, and an expanded fishing closure off the mouth of the Fraser River. Additional closures have been added in the Strait of Georgia and Juan de Fuca Strait for protection of the Southern Resident Killer Whales. >click to read< 09:35

Comment

British Columbia: Commercial salmon sector braces for another tough year on coast

January 21, 2020 National

B.C. commercial salmon fishermen are waiting for pre-season forecasts due next month after 2019 delivered the lowest returns on record for prized Fraser River sockeye. Last year also brought in sweeping fishing restrictions for Fraser River chinook because of fears for their survival and for the endangered southern resident killer whales, which depend on that species as their main source of food. >click to read< 11:22

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
December 2024

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

« Nov

December 2024
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
- Community mourns young lobsterman lost at sea
  
  Tylar Michaud’s boat, F/V Top Gun, was found Friday, July 21, southwest of Petit Manan Bar, with its engine running but no one on board. “The Read More »
- Sweden has until July 31 for scientific justification claiming that North American lobster is invasive
  
  European Union scientists have given Sweden until July 31 to address U.S. and Canadian objections to Sweden’s claims that North American lobster is an invasive species Read More »
- Body taken from F/V Osprey, Police find drugs aboard; no foul play seen
  
  Police had found Grindle’s body on the floor of his stateroom. Also in the room, police found a “small amount of an undisclosed substance,” consistent with Read More »
- Moulton, reps press NOAA on monitors
  
  “We made it very clear that we don’t support the costs of at-sea monitoring being shifted to the fishermen,” Moulton said after the meeting. Moulton, along Read More »
- Rep. Golden calls on NOAA to provide more information on whale deaths
  
  Representative Jared Golden is calling on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, to give full transparency on their findings from 18 recent whale strandings. Read More »
- Fishermen’s frustration grows as reality of protecting whales sinks in
  
  The president of the Maritime Fishermen’s Union says there is “increasing frustration” among his members after a new temporary closure of an area east of Miscou Read More »
- Hope fading for recovery of northern cod off Newfoundland: ‘This stock isn’t growing’
  
  Hopes have been dashed for a recovery of the once mighty northern cod stock off Newfoundland, a leading conservation group says. Three years after scientists confirmed Read More »
- Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 123′ Longliner-Freezer (Catcher/Processor)
  
  Specifications, information and 53 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:23 Read More »
- Fishing Vessel Runs Aground at Woods Hole
  
  A 67-foot steel-hulled fishing vessel went aground in Woods Hole passage late Monday morning. No injuries were reported after the vessel, named Hope & Sydney, from Point Read More »
- BP agreement could cut oil spill fines
  
  BP has won an agreement from the Justice Department that there will be no penalties on the barrels of crude oil the company was able to Read More »
- Paul Fraser back in the Slammer for refusing to sign release conditions
  
  Paul Garrett Fraser of Eighth Street is charged with mischief by interfering with the lawful use of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans building on Westmount Read More »
- Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, December 20, 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 Read More »
- Hearing November 19th! State of the 2019-20 Dungeness Crab Season and Putting Fish Friendly Highways in the Fast Lane
  
  Senator Mike McGuire, Chair of the. Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (JCFA), and Assemblymember Mark Stone, Vice Chair, are hosting an important hearing next week Read More »
- Maine lobstermen appeal federal judge rejection of lawsuit
  
  The Maine Lobstermen’s Association is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that rejected a lawsuit aimed at blocking new regulations designed to protect the endangered North Atlantic Read More »
- F/V Villa de Pitanxo: Deadly sinking of trawler blamed on main engine failure
  
  A Spanish fishing trawler sank in stormy waters off Canada last week, leaving 21 sailors dead or missing, because its engine failed, the owner of the Read More »
- Regulator hopes Gulf mapping tool can defuse tension between drillers, fishermen
  
  HOUSTON — The federal government is racing to roll out a new mapping tool that it hopes will lead to a truce between offshore drillers and Read More »
- UPDATED: With their season on hold, fishermen protest low price of crab on the steps of the N.L. legislature
  
  With the price of snow crab less than one-third of what it was a year ago, Newfoundland and Labrador’s fishermen are rallying on the steps of Read More »
- Shipping container traffic making waves on St. Lawrence/Great Lakes system
  
  On Monday, the container ship Peyton Lynn C, which loaded in Antwerp, Belgium, passed through the locks in Massena and Iroquois, Ontario, on her way upriver Read More »
- Danny Williams says Harper needs to be pushed on trade – International trade minister denies link between hydro project and fish regulations
  
  The federal government insists it is not forcing Newfoundland and Labrador to drop fish processing rules in return for financial support for Muskrat Falls, although former Read More »
- Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan visits B.C. slide site, says it’s her ‘top priority’
  
  Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan visited the site of a massive landslide in British Columbia’s Fraser River ,, She says the disaster at Big Bar, northwest Read More »
- His passion is lobstering, his worry is the future
  
  Christopher Robert Tobey Jr. was born on July 22, 1991, in Portland, into a family of fishermen. He spent a lot of time on the docks Read More »
- 3 fishermen rescued after vessel sinks off South Shore of Massachusetts
  
  Three fishermen are recovering from “severe hypothermia” after their vessel sank. Scituate Town Administrator James Boudreau said the town’s emergency dispatch center received a 911 call Read More »
- How to turn around our local shrimping industry
  
  Given the harsh local winter and hampered shrimp season this year, a more generous and innovative local community of seafood customers is required for shrimpers to Read More »
- UNCLOS – Bay du Nord oil could become 1st in world to see payments flow to UN’s International Seabed Authority
  
  A deepwater oil project 500 kilometres from St. John’s could generate a rich stream of revenue for Newfoundland and Labrador and tax benefits for Ottawa — Read More »
- Jeffrey Hutchings, advocate for independent fisheries science, dies at age 63
  
  A Canadian ecologist and fisheries scientist who criticized political interference in scientific advice on declining fish populations, particularly the northern cod, has died at the age Read More »