St. George Police – fisherynation.com

Tag Archives: St. George Police

UPDATED!: Lobster plant on Deer Island catches fire overnight

March 1, 2018 Canada

Police in St. George are at the scene of a fire that broke out overnight on Deer Island that badly damaged a lobster plant. This is the second time a fire has broken out at the Paturel International facility over the past six months. In September, a fire destroyed a lobster tank house on the site. The tank house was a major part of lobster fishing on Deer Island. More to come… >link< 08:00

Early-morning blaze destroys lobster processing plant in New Brunswick – Fire has destroyed a major lobster processing plant on Deer Island in southern New Brunswick. >click to read< 12:45

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
- North Pacific Fishery Management Council forced back into Cook Inlet salmon fray
  
  The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will open up a process next week that will likely take years to redesign the Cook Inlet salmon fishery management Read More »
- Inviasve fish, Part 2 — the managing
  
  Addressing invasive species issues requires dealing with two groups resistant to management — fish and people, so sound, scientific principles must be applied but psychology and Read More »
- Practice, confidence key to breaking down a fish
  
  I stepped tentatively into the fish-cutting arena guided by the patient, capable Ashley Watts, owner and operator of Local I‘a, which purchases fish from Oahu small-boat Read More »
- Penny Rich: Dangerous drilling
  
  Last month, the Orange County Board of Commissioners told Gov. Pat McCrory and President Obama that we oppose offshore oil and gas exploration, drilling activities and Read More »
- Commercials get nine hours to fish lower Columbia on Tuesday
  
  Nine hours of commercial fishing for spring chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River will begin at noon on Tuesday. The Columbia River Compact today approved Read More »
- Proposal to halt shrimp trawling in coastal North Carolina areas – video – Marine Fisheries Commission meets today in New Bern
  
  The State Marine Fisheries Commission is considering a controversial fishing ban that would stop shrimp trawling in North Carolina inner coastal waterways. The commission will discuss Read More »
- Commercial fisherman guilty in man’s sea cucumber diving death
  
  Jurors found Joshua J. Wodyga guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Levi Adams, 32, in a trial that ended on Friday in Ketchikan Read More »
- Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven to build two new stern trawlers for Icelandic seafood company Samherji
  
  The vessels will be 80m long and with hulls of ICE 1A* class, and equipped with a wide range of Rolls-Royce equipment, including main engines, thrusters, Read More »
- Seafood legislation would ban import of Russian-origin seafood products
  
  Legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate this week would impose a ban on the import of all Russian-origin seafood products still making their way Read More »
- DOCUMENTARY ON THE WAY EXPOSING THE ILLEGAL SINKING OF THE 110’ MV WILD ALASKAN AND COAST GUARD MISCONDUCT
  
  Darren Byler of Kodiak Alaska has been fighting the local Coast Guard Station for almost a decade now for what Byler calls a “Politically Motivated Fraud Read More »
- Perils of fishing in high seas keep mother glued to marine radio
  
  Lois Newell didn’t let her ears travel far from “the set” on Friday afternoon. The marine radio crackled and buzzed and broke out from time to Read More »
- North Coast Fisherman Fear for the Future of Commercial Fisheries as Offshore Wind Efforts Advance
  
  As plans to bring offshore wind to the North Coast move steadily ahead, commercial fishermen are urging federal and state regulatory agencies to pump the brakes. Read More »
- Oregon Coast charter boat captain uses sea as his salvation after paralyzing crash
  
  Depoe Bay is touted as having the smallest natural navigable harbor in the world. Life moves slow there, but on the Tacklebuster charter boat, the pace Read More »
- Resolution in support of Exxon Valdez “Reopener for Unknown Injury”
  
  On Friday, the council’s board of directors unanimously passed a resolution in support of the “Reopener for Unknown Injury” from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Multiple citizens Read More »
- Alaska trawlers furious about Walker’s council nominations
  
  Two months after a heated meeting, trawlers are again accusing Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten of short-changing their industry. Gov. Bill Walker Read More »
- Pilot describes ‘surreal’ rescue of 3 Halibut fishermen off N.S. coast
  
  The pilot of a Canadian Armed Forces helicopter that rescued three fishermen from their burning boat in the Atlantic Ocean Sunday says the fishermen should be Read More »
- F/V Chief William Saulis: Delaps Cove fisherman calls for raising the scallop dragger
  
  “There’s a huge desire here amongst the communities on the bay shore to see the vessel raised, and for a number of reasons,” said Colin Sproul. Read More »
- Gloucester fish company’s owe workers $203K in damages
  
  Kristian Kristensen and his two Harbor Loop companies — Cape Ann Seafood Exchange and Zeus Packing — must pay more than $200,000 in liquidated damages to Read More »
- Oil Company con game exposed; the old switcheroo by Jim Lovgren
  
  Oil companies developed techniques to not only locate oil and gas reserves thousands of feet below the ocean bottom, but to drill and recover them. Unfortunately, Read More »
- Judge: National Marine Fisheries Service erred in bluefish limits
  
  ST. CROIX – A federal judge has ordered the National Marine Fisheries Service to redo a portion of a biological opinion that was part of the process Read More »
- Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, July 5, 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 »
- Would Hawaii Marine Monument Expansion Hurt The Tuna Industry?
  
  Conservationists and others are crying foul over letters that state lawmakers recently sent President Obama that urged him to not consider expanding the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Read More »
- Lawsuit filed to Protect Pacific Humpback from fishing gear, Can lawsuits save North Atlantic Right Whale?
  
  The Center for Biological Diversity sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today for failing to protect endangered Pacific humpback whales from deadly entanglements in sablefish pot gear Read More »
- Fishing industry reels over government’s HPMA plans
  
  A statement on behalf of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, Seafood Scotland, Salmon Scotland, Scottish Association of Fish Producers Organisation and Community Fisheries Inshore Alliance was released Read More »
- A Big One! NEFMC Groundfish Committee Meeting – Wed. and Thurs. September 17-18, 2014 – Listen Live
  
  The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. each day at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel, 363 Maine Mall Road, South Portland, ME 04106. Read More »