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NOAA sets minimum size limit for parrotfish caught in St. Croix waters
The regulation has been through the public hearing process and had input from fishermen before that. Carlos Farchette, the St. Croix member of the Caribbean Fishery Management Council, told The Daily News in March that local fishermen had input on the development of the regulation. @virginislandsdailynews
Massive storm spans Atlantic Ocean, coast to coast
The storm shown here stretches west to east from Newfoundland to Portugal. Its southern tail (cold front) extends into the Caribbean and the north side of its comma head touches southern Greenland. continued
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy a friend of Long Island Sound
Despite the continued fiscal and economic challenges confronting the state, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is making the right choice by continuing state investment in cleaning up Long Island Sound. The legislature should support his position. Read more
links
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/
http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/npfmc/
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
American Alliance of Fishermen and their Communities
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound
Groundswell Fisheries Movement
Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance
http://www.shrimpalliance.com/
Virginia Institute of Marine Science The College of William and Mary Gloucester Point, VA
Court tries to tally money stolen from whaling commission – More Tails of the AFF Travel Fund?
Federal prosecutors said a former director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, who pleaded guilty in May to stealing commission funds, spent some of the more than $420,000 she embezzled on her and her husband’s gambling. “Some of the money is money that was consistent with (the commission’s) purpose but not technically approved by a particular grant,” Fitzgerald said. But Ahmaogak and her husband, former North Slope Borough Mayor George Ahmaogak, spent thousands of dollars gambling at casinos in the Caribbean, New Orleans and Las Vegas, according to Internal Revenue Service Special Agent Clinton Wight, who testified Wednesday. Maggie Ahmaogak made cash withdrawals with the commission’s credit card and received fraudulent reimbursements for hotel rooms or plane tickets during or just after the trips, which were paid for by the commission or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Wight said.
fleet rationalization, a big part of the catch shares scam
The following direct quotes are from “Assessing the Potential for LAPPs in US Fisheries.doc “. This document proves that the big green mafia and their puppets at NMFS & the NEFMC knew all about the devastating job destroying results of catch shares, which we are now experiencing here on Mass Bay!
Part-time fishing jobs were also lost when the fisheries shifted to LAPP management. This was largely a result of fleet rationalization, which necessitated a 60 percent decrease on
average of crew positions in the LAPP fisheries
In addition, fishing heritage within some communities was lost as fishermen gained the economic incentive – and means – to retire.
