Source: New York Times, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
KITTY HAWK, N.C. - Hurricane Earl flooded roads and left thousands of people without power along North Carolinaνs coastline on Friday morning, but the weakening storm seemed to have passed without inflicting any serious harm as it churned north through the Atlantic.
Source: Wall Street Journal, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
HOUMA, La. - The fire that engulfed an oil and gas platform Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico heightened pressure on the energy industry, which is battling greater regulation and a deep-water drilling ban.
Source: Shreveport (La.) Times, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
MIAMI - Fishing and shrimping can resume in federal waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico stretching from Louisiana's far eastern shore into Florida's Panhandle, authorities said Thursday.
Source: The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
Commercial fishermen who've worked the waters east of the Mississippi River got good news Thursday when Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham said the state finally is able to send seafood samples from that area to federal labs.
Source: Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Sampling by environmental groups has found oysters contaminated with oil along the Louisiana coast befouled by the BP PLC oil spill, a finding that casts doubt on statements by state and federal officials that all seafood tested here is safe to eat.
Source: Washington Post, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
Willy Dean was on the Potomac River in a 22-foot skiff Tuesday morning when he realized there was something both abnormal and enormous in his net. It was a deadly 8-foot-1 bull shark, a 300-pound-plus killer that had likely been feasting on cownose rays at Cornfield Harbor, just off the shores of Point Lookout State Park.
Source: Public News Service, Boulder, Colo., Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - As people head to the Oregon coast for Labor Day weekend, a new report suggests the state could be doing more to protect the coastal waters and the fish and wildlife that inhabit them. Oregon agencies and task forces have been hard at work on plans for managing the ocean resources directly offshore.
Source: Bellingham (Wash.) Herald, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
After three years of negligible catches in what used to be the region's biggest commercial fishery, local fishermen are loading their boats with a near-record run of Fraser River sockeye salmon this year.
Source: Bloomberg, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
Chicago's seasonal ritual of boat parades may be scuttled as five states ask a judge to head off an invasion of Asian carp by blocking access to Lake Michigan.
Source: Abbotsford (British Columbia) News, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010
To make the tough job of managing and protecting our salmon resource even more confusing, sockeye salmon seem to be making a comeback in the very summer when the federally appointed Cohen Commission is studying their disappearance.
Source: Island Packet, Bluffton, S.C., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010
Willis Lewis Frazier, 50, a crew member of the Miss Pudgy, fell off the rail of the 47-foot shrimp boat around 5 p.m. about four miles from the north end of Hilton Head, the Coast Guard said.
Source: KTUU, Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska σ Gov. Sean Parnell's administration says it's on the offensive, telling the federal government that eastern Alaska's Steller sea lions no longer need strict protection. Parnell is asking regulators to de-list from the Endangered Species Act what he calls a recovered population.
Source: Sun-Herald, Biloxi, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010
PASS CHRISTIAN - The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will be taking an extensive sampling of major oyster reefs to look into the oyster mortalities discovered Wednesday and Thursday during sample dredges, said Scott Gordon, director of the DMR shellfish bureau.
Source: Record Searchlight, Redding, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010
The U.S. Department of Commerce is extending the disaster declaration for California salmon fishermen because of low numbers of spawning Chinook salmon returns on the Sacramento River.
Source: America Online News, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
A Boston lab hired by the United Commercial Fishermen's Association to analyze coastal fishing waters says findings suggest the government's claim that Gulf of Mexico seafood is safe to eat may be premature.
Source: CBC News, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
The estimate for the sockeye salmon return to B.C.'s Fraser River has been increased again, with the run expected to reach 34 million fish.
Source: Canada.com, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
In what she describes as a "perfect miracle," biologist and activist Alexandra Morton said she's "surprised and delighted" by the massive and unexpected return of about 30 million sockeye salmon to the Fraser River this year.
Source: Time, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Farmed salmon is never as good as wild salmon. Everybody knows that. The taste is duller, the flesh flabbier, the finish forgettable.
Source: Associated Press, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
TOKYO The star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group.
Source: Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
The recent boarding of a scallop vessel off Nantucket may be the first shot fired across the bow of the federal government in a dispute over a Maine tribe's right to fish in federal waters.
Source: St. Tammany News, Slidell, La., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Kenneth Feinberg, the federal administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility will be addressing anybody who was affected by the BP oil spill at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Northshore Harbor Center in Slidell.
Source: Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
LUBEC, Maine A small group of community members and leaders gathered Tuesday night around a new bench and sign at what eventually will become the Lost Fishermen's Memorial Park. The park overlooks Cobscook Bay, where since 2006 eight area fishermen have been lost at sea.
Source: Windsor (Ontario) Star, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
LaNassa Foods plans to reopen the former Kingsville Fishermen's Company fish plant, dock facility and a retail store on the Kingsville dock as early as next week.
Source: Chatham (Ontario) Daily News, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
One of the world's largest freshwater fish processors is in receivership and its 130 employees have received pink slips.
Source: Sheboygan (Wis.) Press., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Although we can understand the desire of sport fishing groups to have commercial fishing nets moved further out into Lake Michigan, we think it would be a drastic move on the part of the Department of Natural Resources.
Source: Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010
ABOUT 20 MILES OFF CHARLESTON The water has changed from green to a blue as remote as the ocean itself. Somewhere out here are 46 reefs, countless underwater rock ribs and wrecks swarmed by game fish that can and do get poached.
Source: AlterNet, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010
The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster.
Source: The Day, New London, Conn., Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010
Kansas City, Kan. By the hundreds of thousands, foreign fish push against the current to the side of where water rolls over an old dam in suburban Kansas City.
Source: Stories in the News, Ketchikan, Alaska, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
Juneau, Alaska Fishers trawling for pollock in the Bering Sea will have new guidelines beginning next year to minimize the accidental catch or "bycatch" of chinook salmon in their nets.
Source: WWL-TV, New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
POINTE A LA HACHE, La. In the far flung communities on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish, crabbers are finally reaping the benefits of their harvest.
Source: New York Times, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
King crab fishing in the Bering Sea is dangerous business, but contrary to what the cable television show suggests, it is not the deadliest catch.
Source: Shore News Today, Seaville, N.J., Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
More than two dozen strong, they blasted their air horns as they entered the harbor in Martha's Vineyard last Thursday. The flotilla, a mix of recreational and commercial fishermen from coastal communities across the Northeast, was in Massachusetts to protest restrictions on fishing imposed by President Barack Obama through executive order that they say creates needless layers of bureaucracy while threatening their livelihood.
Source: KUOW-FM, Seattle, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
Just west of Bellingham, a small fleet of reef netters continues to make a living the way the Lummi tribe invented centuries ago. But these reef netters aren't Lummis. On small barges anchored near a shallow reef, spotters in rubber boots and raingear cling to metal towers. They're on the lookout for sockeye salmon swimming toward Canada's Fraser River. It's a banner year for Fraser River sockeye and the people who catch them. KUOW's John Ryan reports from Lummi Island.
Source: National Public Radio, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
The South has been dealt a heavy blow this summer by BP's gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil has stopped flowing, but Gulf states are still dealing with the ongoing economic and environmental damage.
Source: Fish Information & Services, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
With the biggest sockeye salmon run in 100 years, many depending on the fishery are reaping the benefits. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has now authorized two more commercial openings for gillnetters, with one 24-hour fishery starting Monday, and another 12-hour opening Wednesday.
Source: The Vancouver (British Columbia) Province, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010
You've got to wonder whether a review should be ordered into the of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Source: MSNBC, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
Susan Linn personally has sniffed more than 1,000 samples of seafood from the oil-tainted Gulf of Mexico, so when friends at church ask the Pascagoula, Miss., scientist whether they should eat the fish, she has one answer:
Source: Swedish Wire, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
Worried their controversial livelihoods will be sacrificed on the altar of membership negotiations, Icelandic whalers are leading a rebellion against their country's European Union candidacy.
Source: Mother Jones, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
Food & Water Watch just released its 2010 Smart Seafood Guide to the safety and sustainability of more than 100 kinds of fish and shellfish.
Source: The Mercury, Pottstown, Pa., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010
REEDVILLE, Va. (AP) Like the whaling city of New Bedford, this Chesapeake Bay fishing village prospered from the sea not from the leviathans celebrated by Melville but a small, oily fish whose pungent scent envelops the stately Victorians lining Main Street.
Source: The Vancouver (British Columbia) Province, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010
Hundreds of workers in fish plants and canneries are reaping the benefits of this year's record sockeye salmon run on the Fraser River.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010
NEW BEDFORD The implementation of Amendment 16, as the new fisheries management system is known, has left most of the groundfish fleet in the port of New Bedford tied to the dock since the new fishing year started on May 1. That has become an obvious concern to many of the shoreside businesses that support and depend upon an active fleet.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010
NEW BEDFORD The newly imposed system of groundfish catch shares appears to be working just the way both its detractors and its supporters believed it would.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
As if on cue, the rains vanished, the sun came out and a flotilla of fishing boats arrived from points north and west at the mouth of Vineyard Haven harbor Thursday to execute a flawless demonstration of seamanship for the national news media and President Obama.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
Reporting from Venice, La. President Obama served plates of barbecued gulf shrimp to guests at his 49th birthday party Aug. 9. But Kindra Arnesen, who runs a shrimp boat with her husband here in southern Louisiana, isn't nearly ready to eat what comes out of the tepid gray waters.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
The Coast Guard has intercepted and charged a commercial boat with illegally fishing for scallops in federal waters using only a permit written by the Maine-based Passamaquoddy Tribe.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
A 40-foot fishing boat sank three miles east of Gloucester Harbor Thursday morning and its captain, the sole occupant, was rescued by a passing sailboat, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Source: Vineyard Gazette, Edgartown, Mass., Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
The Vineyards first offshore farm-raised blue mussels will be distributed among Island fish markets and a few restaurants this weekend. The shellfish are being grown as part of a federally and locally-funded offshore aquaculture experiment to bring farm-raised blue mussels to market on the Island.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
Fishermen from Maine to Long Island and beyond tried once again to attract the attention of President Barack Obama when they steamed into the harbor at Vineyard Haven at noon Thursday to protest the government's ever-escalating assault on their proud, nearly 400-year-old industry.
Source: Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) is seeking nominations for the annual Fishery Achievement Award. This award recognizes individuals, entities, and fishermen in the Mid-Atlantic region who exhibit professionalism, diligence, and effort to protect living marine resources through partnership, public education, and enforcement actions. Anyone can submit a nomination and any person or organization can be nominated.
Source: KITV-TV, Honolulu, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
HONOLULU -- It turns out Oahus booming shrimp wagon business has not been particularly good for the states struggling aquaculture industry.
Source: KION-TV, Monterey, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
Monterey, Calif- For at least a month now White Seabass have been back out and around the Monterey Bay; fishermen didn't see their population boom here until around 2 weeks ago. Some say their appearance here could indicate the health of the water and ecosystem around the bay, as their numbers have been in decline in years past.
Source: PBS, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
JIM LEHRER: Now: two takes on New Orleans and Southern Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. We begin with a look at the psychological impact, first from the storm and then from the Gulf oil spill.
Source: United Press International, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 26 (UPI) Oysters harvested in Mississippi fishing waters are not contaminated with oil and are safe to eat, officials say.
Source: AOL News, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
(Aug. 26) Consumers are caught in the middle as food safety experts ponder the potential risks from shrimp, crab and fish from the Gulf of Mexico while mostly ignoring the frightening evidence of years of foreign seafood arriving at U.S. ports tainted with drugs, chemicals and bacteria.
Source: Seattle Times, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
In 40 years of dropping nets into Washington waters, Ray Forsman has never experienced fishing like this past week.
Source: Vancouver Sun, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
After three years of inactivity, B.C.'s fishery industry is The biggest Fraser River sockeye salmon run since 1913 is proving to be almost too big a bounty for British Columbia's fishery industry to handle.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
NEW BEDFORD Once overfished, spiny dogfish are now so plentiful in the waters of New England and the Mid-Atlantic that fishermen have reached the current catch limit after three months instead of six.
Source: KeysNet.com, Key West, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
A full moon Tuesday seemed to slow the lobster catch somewhat, but early trap pulls by the Florida Keys commercial fishing fleet hold the promise of a solid harvest.
Source: EurActive Network, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
After fears of a "mackerel war" were rekindled on Tuesday (24 August), a timely discovery by EU researchers could ease future fisheries spats as a natural method for extracting mass quantities of bluefin tuna eggs has been found, the European Commission announced yesterday (25 August).
Source: AOL News, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
(Aug. 26) The average consumer eats about 16 pounds of seafood a year and fishmongers say that their customers are loaded with questions on everything from which fish have fewer contaminants, like mercury and PCBs, to what can I buy that tastes like the fish I shouldn't eat?
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
Remember last week's column? When I tried to say that Cape Ann Fresh Catch was succeeding in reconnecting us to fish and fishermen?
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
Members of a Maine-based American Indian tribe have made informal claims to commercial fishing rights in federal waters in a bid that could pose a new threat to New England fishermen's quotas.
Source: Boston Herald, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
Sea-going protesters have set a course for the president's vacation spot on Martha's Vineyard with a flotilla that keeps growing and yesterday got a boost from Bay State Sen. Scott Brown.
Source: Detroit News, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
Henry "Doc" Rockhold describes his work as "no brains and all brawn." It's part self-deprecation and part recognition of how 40 years as a commercial fisherman on the rivers of Illinois have made nearly everything about his work second nature.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
NEW BEDFORD A brutal version of economic Darwinism pushed by the Obama administration is quickly transforming the New England groundfishery, according to assessments from fishing industry leaders presented here Tuesday.
Source: Southtown Star, Tinley Park, Ill., Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
OAKLAND, Calif. Shawn Mattiuz, manager of the Hapuku Fish Shop in Market Hall, a collection of upscale food purveyors in Oakland, has been watching the Gulf seafood saga play out in the ice-cooled trays of his display cases.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
The government in Washington is like the moon: It has two sides, the one facing Earth, and the one that remains hidden from view or the dark side, as some prefer calling it.
Source: WWL-TV, New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. When Hurricane Katrina made landfall five years ago, Plaquemines Parish was the first to greet her. The storm wiped neighborhoods, schools, fire houses and most everything else off the map, but not the people.
Source: Washington (D.C.) Examiner, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
ANNAPOLIS, MD. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson are heading to Annapolis to discuss how the Navy can help clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
Source: York (Maine) Weekly, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
It was a big day for the clams in Wells Harbor last weekend. Thousands of baby softshell clams, carefully raised by the Wells Clam Commission (of which I'm a nominal member), were released into the upper reaches of the marsh. They were released on the incoming tide to ensure they didn't get washed away before having a chance to dig into their new homes in the soft, mucky bottom of the tidal creek.
Source: Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage, Alaska, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska The public comment period on a proposal to change groundfish fisheries in order to help Steller sea lions has been extended.
Source: Redoubt Reporter, Soldotna, Alaska, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
As a commercial fisherman, Brent Johnson wants to haul in a big catch. But at 28.5 feet long and about as many tons, what he found in the water Aug. 7 off his family set-net site near Clam Gulch was more than he bargained for.
Source: Homer Sun, Plainfield, Ill., Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
LOCKPORT The discovery of an Asian carp in Lake Calumet in June has roiled the Asian carp debate waters, Lockport Alderman Pete Colarelli said on Aug. 13 at a Lockport chamber luncheon at Broken Arrow Golf Club.
Source: The Wenatchee (Wash.) World, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
BREWSTER Three years ago, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation began using purse seine nets to show they could catch thousands of hatchery-raised summer chinook, and release most of the natural spawners unharmed. The experiment is proving to be successful.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
Louisiana oysters are back, along with shrimp, creating a collective sigh of relief for local restaurants that depend on Gulf seafood. But supplies are still short and prices high, and production next year might be hurt by the very cleanup efforts meant to save oyster grounds during BP's 120-day Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Source: The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
With the national media gathered on Martha's Vineyard this week for President Barack Obama's vacation, fishermen are seizing the opportunity to organize a floating protest at Vineyard Haven on Thursday.
Source: Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
Kenneth Feinberg's effort to set the terms for handing out BP PLC's money to Gulf oil spill victims came under fresh attack Monday from state officials and private lawyers who said he planned to be too restrictive in deciding who gets paid.
Source: Mobile (Ala.) Register, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
THE MAN who said he was "determined to be more generous than any state court would be" has taken over the claims process from BP.
Source: Statesman Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
What you're about to read isn't about a massive salmon die-off or the work of an organized fish egg poaching ring.
Source: The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
Richard Allen is a former commercial fisherman who works as a fishery consultant and lives in Westerly, R.I. His clients include the Environmental Defense Fund.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
NOAA fisheries attorney Charles Juliand's inflexible demand for cash nearly $50,000 from a well-liked Rhode Island commercial fisherman seemed like just another example of hard bargaining at the time, four years ago.
Source: WWL-TV, New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
NEW ORLEANS The supply of Louisiana Blue Crabs is now returning to normal.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
Two prominent area fishing industry attorneys contend that the relationship between the federal fishery case makers and a frequently-used expert witness who helps determine how much industry members can pay in fines creates a potential case-corrupting ethical conflict.
Source: Daily Comet, Thibodaux, La., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
Today, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ordered an emergency reopening of commercial crabbing in areas west of Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River that were previously closed because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Source: Scientific American, New York. Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
The meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES (pronounced "sight-eez") this past March was a decided defeat for the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Delegates voted 72 to 43 not to restrict fishing and international trade of the tuna so prized for its sushi that stocks are estimated to be at 15 percent of their historic levels. Although dismayed, conservationists remain upbeat, because they have at their disposal other management tools that could save the species.
Source: WPMI-TV, Mobile, Ala., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
SPANISH FORT, Ala. Alabama conservation officials have reopened state crabbing waters. They now say it's safe to eat crabs taken from the waters along the gulf coast. Good news for local restaurants. Restaurants say they hope crabs from the gulf again will boost business.
Source: Miami Herald, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
MIAMI Roberto Kasinsky peered into a 24,000-gallon tank, watching thousands of grayish-brown sturgeon swimming, their wombs filled with edible treasure.
Source: The Day, New London, Conn., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
Orono, Maine Two decades after a pair of reclusive brothers from a Maine lobstering family opened up for a night of storytelling for a movie, they're back, at the University of Maine.
Source: All Headline News, West Palm Beach, Fla., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) Ottawa and Canadian aborigine communities are on a collision course over control and management of sea resources in areas where the natives live. The conflict arose after the federal government allowed recreational fishing of sockeye salmon for the first time in half a century.
Source: Daily Press, Escanaba, Mich., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
SAULT STE. MARIE Three Sault Tribe members, found guilty on several fishing violations Friday, were ordered to pay more than $13,000 in fines and costs, according to court officials from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians who released final figures on the sentencings.
Source: Herald, Everett, Wash., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
It's been five years since two women from families that played a significant role in Everett's commercial fishing fleet started talking publicly about their dream.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
Some fearful and upset fishermen testified in Anchorage on Thursday against a federal proposal to shut down key commercial fisheries in the western Aleutians to provide more fish for the region's dwindling sea lion population.
Source: CanadaBusiness.com, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) With the state having a "narrow time frame" to save its seafood industry from being shunned by consumers, Gov. Bobby Jindal called Thursday for a $173 million program paid for BP PLC to monitor the safety and quality of Louisiana seafood for five years.
Source: FishNewsEU, Fraserburgh, United Kingdom, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
MORE claims that the US Government have moved too fast to reopen Gulf fisheries in the wake of the BP oil spill have surfaced in the US.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
The scandal-ridden federal fisheries law enforcement unit is sending a delegation to the third Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop - a five-day conference beginning Sept. 6 in Maputo, Mozambique, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has told the Times.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
Counting fish is a very inexact science. So, common sense would say that if a new technique offered the promise of much more accurate counts of fish, the government agency in charge of regulating America's fisheries would be all over it.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
SEWARD Salvage crews on Thursday towed a Seattle-based fishing boat from Prince William Sound where it had been grounded since late July to Seward, the U.S. Coast Guard says.
Source: Associated Press, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La. Biologist John Supan thinks he has developed what may be the holy grail for oyster lovers: a hardy breed of the delectable shellfish that stays fat enough for consumers to eat throughout the year.
Source: WLOX-TV, Gulfport, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) Frustrated commercial fishermen fear that oil and dispersant still in the water could have a devastating impact on their industry. They shared their concerns with the DMR this week, telling the Commission on Marine Resources their interests are not being represented.
Source: Tundra Drums, Anchorage, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
With this year's silver salmon run shaping up to be one of the worst on record, fishery managers brought an early end to commercial salmon fishing in the Kuskokwim area.
Source: Walton (Fla.) Sun, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
PANAMA CITY BEACH Capt. Mark Kelley of the charter boat Lady Kelley said he will be in Pensacola today urging the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council to reopen the recreational red snapper season for an additional 39 days beginning Sept. 1.
Source: The Daily World, Opelousas, La., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
There was good news hopeful news, anyway from the docks at Delcambre as the state's fall shrimp season gets under way.
Source: Mobile (Ala.) Register, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
Let's say there are two commercial fishermen. Both earned the same amount of money, and both were put out of work by the oil spill.
Source: Gulf Breeze (Fla.) News, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
Recreational charter vessels spend most of their days Federal and state reports are sounding an "all clear" for the Gulf of Mexico and the seafood harvested from it.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
After a quarter of the new fishing year with interest piqued by the region's introductory experience with catch shares reaction to the preliminary landing and sales figures in the groundfishery is mixed.
The Times-Standard, Eureka, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
As local representatives head into a final round of meetings on drafting marine reserves for the North Coast, they may be close to an agreement on a unified proposal that will be submitted to state rule makers.
Source: New York Times, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
PORTLAND, Me. Even as this city has evolved into a showplace for locavore restaurants and edgy designers, its working waterfront has remained a point of pride.
Source: Illinois Times, Springfield, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
Upset with the way lucrative government contracts for catching Asian carp on Chicago-area waterways were handed out, a group of commercial fishermen is speaking up.
Source: Homer (Alaska) News, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
Representatives of the Pebble Limited Partnership have spent the last several years traveling around Alaska making presentations to communities and chambers of commerce about their proposed mine project near Lake Iliamna.
Source: South County Independent, Wakefield, R.I., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
NARRAGANSETT Rent is due for 20 commercial fishing vessels in Galilee that were served eviction notices by the state Department of Environmental Management on July 20.
Source: Bloomberg, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Claude Luke throttles down his 21-foot aluminum work boat. Off to the left, the snout of an alligator disappears near the mouth of a watery gash in the Louisiana marshland.
Source: The American Thinker, El Cerrito, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
John Kerry and seven other senators from the northeast have sent a letter to President Obama asking for millions to buy out fishermen who have been forced into dire circumstances by our government.
Source: WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) A protestor from the commercial fishing industry interrupted Governor Haley Barbour's presentation Tuesday at the first meeting of the Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Commission. The panel is tasked with searching for the best ways to help South Mississippi recover from the BP oil spill.
Source: Miami Herald, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
BILOXI A group of commercial fishermen voiced their anger and concern during Tuesday's monthly Commission on Marine Resources meeting.
Source: Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
PENSACOLA Oil in the Gulf of Mexico isn't the only thing that's drying up for the Florida Panhandle since BP's spewing Deepwater Horizon well was capped.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Enough is enough. There is no need, no place for any more talk.
Source: Sheboygan (Wis.) Press, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
The Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, the Wisconsin Federation of Great Lakes Sportsfishing Clubs and the Northeastern Wisconsin Great Lakes Sports Fishermen and five leaders of those organizations who have fished on Lake Michigan for over the years filed a petition with the Natural Resources Board to adopt rules to separate the presence of commercial fishing trap nets from the heavily used sports fishing areas off the Sheboygan, Manitowoc and Two Rivers Harbors during the very busy sports fishing seasons of June, July and August.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
I signed up for my Cape Ann Fresh Catch share in the spring, vaguely thinking this was a nice thing to do; some fisherman would be sure of a market, and my family would be sure of weekly seafood.
Source: Nanaimo (British Columbia) Daily Press, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Expect more road barricades and other disruptions if the government doesn't start making progress on issues affecting First Nations, aboriginal leaders warn.
Source: Vancouver (British) Columbia) Sun, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010
VANCOUVER Fraser River sockeye are returning in droves, with commercial fishermen catching their limit within a few hours of casting their nets.
Source: Associated Press, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La. Commercial shrimpers out for the first season since BP's disastrous spill indicated their catch was plentiful and free of oil, despite a report by scientists that much of the crude remains below the surface of the Gulf.
Source: KPLC-TV, Lake Charles, La., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010
CAMERON, LA (KPLC-TV) Monday marked the start of the fall shrimp season in Louisiana, but you'd never know it by looking at the docks in Cameron Parish.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010
PORTLAND Pier owners who have proposed relaxing Portland's waterfront zoning restrictions have dropped their request to allow an additional 50 feet of dock space for pleasure boats on each pier.
Source: The Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010
DAGSBORO Chet Townsend has no formal training in the kitchen and had never worked in the restaurant business prior opening Fishkiller's Lobster Shack on Vines Creek Road, east of Dagsboro.
Source: Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, New Brunswick, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010
The Bay of Fundy waters are calm with a gentle swell rocking the 45-foot lobster boat, and Turnbull is looking praying, even for a dorsal fin to pierce the surface.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010
In the days before Sunday's world premiere of a documentary film that spotlights how the federal government continues to grind down the fishing industry, the latest and largest in a series of proposed buyouts has underscored a deep ambivalence within the fishing culture along the Northeast coastline.
Source: Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010
PLYMOUTH, Mass. Mike Secondo remembers the days when Plymouth's docks outshone its rock.
Source: Times Daily, Florence, Ala., Monday, Aug. 16, 2010
MOBILE, Ala. The remainder of Alabama's state waters is to reopen to recreational catch-and-keep fishing at 6 a.m. on Monday.
Source: Concord (N.H.) Monitor, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010
The catch for fishermen in the Northeast during the first three months following drastic rule changes fell 10 percent compared with last year, but revenue rose 17 percent, according to federal statistics released this week.
Source: The Advertiser, Lafayette, La., Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010
POINTE A LA HACHE Freshwater drawn from the Mississippi River might have saved Louisiana's eastern coastal waters from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico but it did great damage to this small fishing community nestled between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
Source: Daily Press, Newport News, Va., Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010
The number of oysters planted and sold by Virginia aquaculturists increased last year despite the sluggish economy. The uptick is perhaps the most positive conclusion from a report on the state's oyster and clam growing operations.
Source: Tri City Herald, Kennewick, Wash., Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010
The agency overseeing Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead fishery management is exploring alternatives to guide future federal hatchery operations and reduce the impact of human-raised fish on natural fish populations.
Source: IPS, Rome, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010
SANTIAGO, Aug. 15, 2010 The once booming salmon industry in Chile is trying to get back on its feet after the devastating health crisis that cut production in half. But its long-term viability has been called into question.
Source: Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010
TUSCALOOSA For Alabama's offshore fishermen, 2010 has been the lost summer. The fishing ban in federal waters resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spanned the entire red snapper season and still hasn't been lifted. But with the oil spill crisis subsiding, at least for now, there is potential good news in sight.
Source: Press of Atlantic City (N.J.), Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
The massive fish kill that littered about eight miles of Delaware Bay beaches on Wednesday with the rotting carcasses of smelly menhaden was likely caused by low oxygen levels in the water.
Source: Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
DEAL ISLAND -- Somerset County watermen are protesting a state plan to create oyster sanctuaries in the Manokin and Nanticoke rivers -- a measure that would ban them from working the productive oyster bottoms.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
There is no shortage of solutions for the perceived problems with Portland's working waterfront.
Source: WAGA-TV, Atlanta, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
DULUTH, Ga. - A fisherman from Duluth was fishing off the waters of Costa Rica when he says his boat was confronted by a Venezuelan tuna seiner. The Costa Rican government is now investigating the case.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
A letter promoting a "global fisheries enforcement training workshop" in Mozambique next month purportedly to be led by the discredited U.S. federal fisheries police chief who's now on paid leave after revelations of excessive enforcement against American fishermen was an oversight that is being corrected, NOAA said Thursday.
Source: Thrillist, Washington, D.C., Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
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Source: KTNA-FM, Talkeetna, Alaska, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
Over 30 people gathered in Wasilla to talk about fish data and allocations on Wednesday night. The Mat Su fishing community via Representative Mark Neuman, recently sent a letter to the Commissioner of the Department of Fish and Game. Sport fishers in the northern district of Cook Inlet want answers to a number of questions on the fishery.
Source: Truro (Nova Scotia) Daily News, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
WALLACE - Safety is the primary focus of a large federal investment to get the Wallace wharf shipshape.
Source: Post Chronicle, Denville, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
Some U.S. Gulf Coast fishermen say they have caught crabs with black-stained gills and others report seeing fish and marine life gathering strangely on the sea surface following the massive BP Plc oil spill.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
With the commercial fishing fleet struggling under unprecedented restrictions and reportedly facing widespread insolvencies, Gloucester's elected political leaders have called a Friday morning meeting with industry representatives to examine a $150 million emergency economic aid proposal from U.S. senators, led by John Kerry.
Source: Juneau (Alaska) Empire, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
From the Eastern seaboard to Pacific Northwest, former Sen. Ted Stevens' impact on fisheries has been and will continue to be immense.
Source: Statesman Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
Starting this week, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon will test five types of alternative commercial fishing gear on the lower Columbia River.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
PORTLAND Many fishermen are worried that a proposal to allow more non-marine development on the city's piers and wharves could increase rents and eviction notices.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
No one really knows how many crew members work the fishing vessels operating in state waters. And that could be knocking the crews and their communities out of potentially millions of dollars in grants and potential fishing quotas, according to industry leaders.
Source: Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
Local consumers may soon be able to find Massachusetts cod at seafood counters and grocery freezers next to Alaskan salmon and Maine lobster.
Source: Huffington Post, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
Eight days after returning home from his Gulf oil-spill response job, Jason Brashears has flashbacks of a scene that he witnessed one day in Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana: Thousands of fish gasping at the surface in a sea of foamy oil and dispersant.
Source: Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
BAR HARBOR, Maine The scene bore some similarity to what life on the water may have looked like 150 years ago, according to some scientists.
Source: Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
MACHIAS, Maine A Roque Bluffs lobster fisherman was arrested on a charge of operating a watercraft while under the influence on Tuesday afternoon after he allegedly struck a sea kayak with his boat and then fell overboard.
Source: Peace Arch News, Surrey, British Columbia, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
The sound of nets being ratcheted out of the Fraser River and big healthy salmon flopping into boats was music to the ears of commercial fishermen Tuesday.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
Ted Stevens died Monday the way Alaskans die, in a plane crash in the wilds of the state he devoted his life to.
Source: Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
TALLAHASSEE More than 5,000 square miles of federal waters off Florida's Panhandle were opened to fishing Tuesday.
Source: Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
David Scott's worst-case fears about how the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico would affect the area's seafood supply never materialized this summer, but that doesn't mean his Montgomery shop came through it well.
Source: The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
OCEAN SPRINGS Big shrimp, bigger shrimp or jumbo shrimp might be what Forrest Gump and Bubba would have said of Tuesday's largest shrimp harvest ever of the University of South Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
The worst return of red salmon to the Russian River in 33 years has convinced Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists to shutter the popular sport fishery the rest of the season and try to unravel how one of Alaska's most consistent fisheries suddenly went belly up.
Source: Canada.com, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
Federal fisheries officers are using a double standard for aboriginal and non-aboriginal fishermen, says a Nanaimo fish-buyer.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
A Haines commercial fisherman with a suspected case of paralytic shellfish poisoning who died in June did not die from the illness, according to his family and the state Department of Health and Social Services.
Source: Indian Country Today, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Commercial fishermen and tribes are condemning a bill they say would cripple the authority of a federal agency to protect the environment near a huge copper and gold mine proposed for southwest Alaska.
Source: Times Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
Victory yells and the pulse of drums echoed across the waters of Kulleet Bay north of Ladysmith yesterday morning as a protest flotilla of small boats from Stz'uminus (Chemainus) First Nation heard the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was calling off a geoduck fishery because of safety concerns.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
The opponents of Pebble, the giant copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska, have asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to invoke its potent and rarely used power to block the potential mine.
Source: Boston Globe, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
MATINICUS ISLAND, Maine It's muscle power not a diesel engine's horsepower that propels Nat Hussey's lobster boat as he tends to his lobster traps.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
FAIRHAVEN The big tides associated with the new moon delivered an unwelcome surprise to beachgoers on Fairhaven's West Island on Monday.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
They're calling it a financial rescue package for fishermen. But how can using $100 million in federal money to help even encourage fishermen to go out of business be viewed as a rescue from anything but the ability to make a living?
Source: Miami Herald, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
Roberto Kasinsky peered into a 24,000-gallon tank, watching thousands of grayish-brown sturgeon swimming, their wombs filled with edible treasure.
Source: Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
NEWPORT Oregonians who bought pink shrimp at the coast or at large stores over the past few days have reported a rather unusual occurrence. Their seafood glows in the dark.
Source: WISH-TV, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) A rare yellow lobster pulled from Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay is heading to college. Lobsterman Denny Ingram said Wednesday the unusual yellow lobster will be moving to the aquarium at the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus in Narragansett.
Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
Southern Illinois University is getting $1.1 million from the state to try to find benefits that can be derived from the Asian carp infesting some rivers.
Source: Stories in the News, Ketchikan, Alaska, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
Catch share programs can cause consolidation, trimming the number of vessels and stakeholders in a fishery. After all, that's a primary goal: to rein in too many boats going after too few fish. Too often, rights to the fish get bought, sold or leased away from small, fishing dependent fishing towns.
Source: Associated Press, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
BARATARIA, La. To assess how heavy a blow the BP oil spill has dealt the Gulf of Mexico, researchers are closely watching a staple of the seafood industry and primary indicator of the ecosystem's health: the blue crab.
Source: WXVT-TV, Greenville, Miss., Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Hoping to bolster confidence nationwide in the safety of Louisiana seafood, some industry representatives have headed for Washington.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
Seven Northeast U.S. senators including John Kerry are asking President Obama for a $150 million financial rescue package for the region's fishermen, $100 million of which would pay for a buyout plan to reduce the size and capacity of the fishing fleet
Source: Detroit News, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
Theriot, La. Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country, pre-shrimp season tradition known as the "Blessing of the Boats."
Source: Canada.com, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
Following an abundant herring fishery this spring, Vancouver Island commercial fishermen are rubbing their hands and anticipate paying down a few bills due to early sockeye salmon returns.
Source: Naples, Fla., Daily News, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
NAPLES Several Southwest Florida fishermen are reeling in some financial relief after filing claims with BP.
Source: Vancouver (British Columbia) Sun, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
Buildings are only as strong as their foundations; trees are only as firm as their roots and in the aquaculture industry, our fish are only as successful as their brood-stock.
Source: The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010
Whether it was limiting the number of days a fishing boat could spend at sea or limiting how many fish could be taken, the reality is all the same for fishing ports like New Bedford: too many boats going after the same catch.
Source: Times Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010
Members of Stz'uminus (Chemainus) First Nation will take to the water to protest against a commercial geoduck harvest this morning, the band announced in a release on Sunday.
Source: Associated Press, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea North Korean authorities seized a South Korean fishing boat and its crew Sunday in waters off the divided peninsula's eastern coast, the South's coast guard said amid heightened tensions over the sinking of a southern navy ship.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
NEW BEDFORD A bipartisan coalition of eight Northeast U.S. senators Thursday appealed to President Barack Obama for a package of economic relief for the New England fishing industry, which is struggling under the weight of newly imposed regulations and restrictions.
Source: Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
Commercial fishing reopened in areas east of the Mississippi River last week, but St. Bernard Parish shrimper Jerome Ronquille expects it'll be a long time before he ventures out again to trawl the marshes outside of Hopedale.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
NEW BEDFORD Elected officials in Massachusetts and other states are putting renewed pressure on the Commerce Department to force changes in the way the fishing industry is regulated in the Northeast in one case taking it all the way to President Barack Obama.
Source: Times Picayune, New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
Louisiana has a public relations conundrum. We feel it necessary to keep driving home the point that the plague of oil BP unleashed upon our waters is one of America's worst environmental catastrophes. By far the largest oil spill to ever befoul American waters, the millions of gallons of oil that erupted from the toppled Deepwater Horizon Rig, we argued, threaten one of the world's most bountiful and delicate ecosystems.
Source: Daily Chronicle, DeKalb, Ill., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. A 3-foot-long Asian carp discovered in a Chicago waterway near Lake Michigan appears to have spent most of its life there and may have been planted by humans who didn't know what type of fish it was or the environmental risk it posed, researchers said Thursday.
Source: Barnstable (Mass.) Patriot, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
For Les Hemmila and his crew of two, working conditions couldn't have been lovelier than the day last week when they headed down to the flats off Bone Hill Road in Cummaquid. The sky was cloudless, the air was fresh, and the water was almost-Mediterranean turquoise. And Hemmila and his crew, Kevin Flaherty and Tim Maki, were pounding the posts and stringing the lines that will be supporting sacks of young oysters in the bay's high tides until the mollusks are ready for market.
Source: Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
ROCKLAND, Maine U.S. Coast Guard Station Rockland was honored during a ceremony and celebration of the 220th birthday of the Coast Guard on the opening day of the Maine Lobster Festival.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
The long suspected but closely guarded secret that ousted federal fisheries police chief Dale J. Jones remains on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration payroll was pried from the agency this week by a subpoena threat and another standoff with congressmen representing Massachusetts' fishing cities.
Source: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
EDINBURGH, Scotland (UPI) One fisherman was rescued and another was missing and feared dead after a Scottish ferry bound for Belgium struck a shrimping vessel, authorities said.
Source: The Dispatch, Berlin, Md., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
OCEAN CITY Citing the often evoked doctrine of sovereign immunity, the town of Ocean City this week formally filed a motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit brought against it and the U.S. Coast Guard by the owner of a commercial fishing boat.
Source: Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wash., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
SHELTON McKernan Hatchery near Shelton, which produces 10 million chum salmon fry each year, has gained a new lease on life with the infusion of $158,000 from the Purse Seine Vessels' Owners Association.
Source: Chicago Tribune, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
HAMPTON As its oyster hauling business began to slide, L.D. Amory & Co. filed a claim with BP. That was a month ago. The company, one of the few seafood processors left in downtown Hampton, is still waiting for a reply.
Source: New York Times, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
The Obama administration's latest report on the Gulf of Mexico disaster set off a war of words Wednesday among scientists, Gulf Coast residents and political pundits about what to make of the Deepwater Horizon spill and its aftermath.
Source: The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
NEW BEDFORD One day after holding a law enforcement summit meeting with the theme "effectiveness, consistency, transparency, communication," NOAA officials gave up a secret they have been guarding for months: Dale Jones, the scandalized former chief of fisheries law enforcement, is still on the NOAA payroll with no job assignment.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
They see no evil. They hear no evil.
Source: America Online, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
A major U.S. fish research company has tampered with the DNA of Atlantic salmon by adding a quick-growth gene that allows the fish to eat year-around and grow more quickly. And the Food and Drug Administration is about to allow these genetically engineered salmon to head to market, the company says.
Source: The Day, Stamford, Conn., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
By all accounts, the sea scallop fishery is a bright spot in the commercial fishing industry, with harvests at levels federal regulators have deemed "sustainable" - a seal of approval that overfishing is not occurring.
Source: Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
GOULDSBORO, Maine More than three months after the last remaining sardine cannery closed forever, a new owner who plans to process lobster at the facility has been found.
Source: Homer (Alaska) News, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
The originally grim-looking commercial fishing season in Upper Cook Inlet has become brighter for the industry with the increased price per pound of sockeye salmon and the above-forecast run.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
KENAI Sean Boulay had a grin plastered across his face a couple of hours after donning his waders, wheeling his blue and white cooler onto the sand and sticking his net into the water.
Source: Vancouver (British Columbia) Sun, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
Tuesday's "hard landing" of the B.C. Ferries' Queen of Nanaimo at a Mayne Island dock is just the latest example of how the hunt for a West Coast delicacy, the Dungeness crab, has disrupted a major West Coast transportation link.
Source: Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010
The local wing of the Coastal Conservation Association, the Mid-Coast chapter, is looking for volunteers to help with its cleanup of shorelines and abandoned crab traps in the Ponce Inlet backwaters area on Aug. 28.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
BOSTON The nation's top fishery managers met Tuesday with industry leaders from California to Maine to discuss ways to improve the troubled fishery law enforcement system amid findings of mismanagement, misspending and questionable fines.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
Reporting from Grand Bayou, La. The Atakapa-Ishak people live just above water. There are no roads, no sidewalks, no mailboxes, just a stand of houses sprouting from spits of land in a sea of marsh grass. The only path in or out of Grand Bayou is by boat.
Source: Boston Globe, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
New Englanders do love their seafood and tourists also expect to eat lots of fish. And while we hear about the sad plight of some Gulf of Mexico fishermen losing their industry, the oil spill hasn't affected the North Atlantic seafood business at least for now.
Source: WAFF-TV, Huntsville, Ala., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
HANCOCK COUNTY, MS (WLOX) Some Hancock County crabbers say their recent catch may be contaminated by oil. Monday, they pulled up dozens of crabs. When they cracked their shells, they found a shocking sight, they can't explain. The gills were tainted black.
Source: Times-Standard, Eureka, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
I went to the Eureka and Crescent City MLPA open houses. What is abundantly clear to me is the "big stick" the staff coerces the public with. They are as nice and helpful as they can be, but it is clear that their agenda is more important than the sustainable fishing industry the North Coast has been collaboratively working on for a decade or two.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
Kitty Stillufsen bought a pickup truck when she was a teenager to sell her father's leftover lobsters.
Source: Worldchanging, Seattle, Wash., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
I caught up with Alexandra Morton in Buckley Bay to walk with her awhile on her Get Out Migration trek from Echo Bay to Victoria. It was an amazing surprise to find about 100 people from local communities (mostly Hornby, Denman, and Buckley Bay), and from all walks of life, joining with her for the stroll along Baynes Sound - a hub of the aquaculture sector.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
The campaign by Gloucester's Statehouse delegation calling for a special federal prosecutor to investigate possible criminal actions by federal fisheries enforcement agents is welcome. It is also overdue.
Source: Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
MOBILE Both commercial and recreational fishing could reopen within days on the Alabama coast after a summerlong layoff because of the Gulf oil spill, the head of the state conservation agency said Tuesday.
Source: Seattle Times, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
Endangered Steller's sea lions are faring so poorly at the tip of Alaska's Aleutian Islands that the Obama administration is calling for emergency commercial fishing closures for two prominent species: Atka mackerel and Pacific cod.
Source: USA TODAY, Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
Louisiana officials will meet this week to set the opening of the white shrimp season, a welcome sign on fishing grounds in the Gulf of Mexico, which were devastated by the oil spill.
Source: Food Safety News, Seattle, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
As waters reopen for fishing in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles offered a public confidence boost for the local seafood industry saying on Sunday he would "absolutely" eat Gulf of Mexico seafood.
Source: Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana have a hard time swallowing the government's assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don't smell too bad.
Source: Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
GULF OF MEXICO Scientists have completed their survey of this summer's Gulf of Mexico dead zone an area of low-oxygen water harmful to marine life and found it to be one of the largest since measuring began in 1985.
Source: Japan Times, Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks are declining at a dangerous pace, experts and members of an international nongovernmental organization warned at a forum Tuesday in Tokyo, urging Japanese consumers to be more aware of the problem when they opt to eat sashimi and sushi.
Source: The Oregonian, Portland, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
If you like Michael Pollan, and you eat fish, you should get to know Paul Greenberg. In his new book, "Four Fish: The Future of Last Wild Food," the freelance journalist and longtime fisherman pulls readers into waters around the globe to explore the history and current state of the four fish that dominate our menus salmon, cod, tuna and bass.
Source: PBS, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
Commercial fishing, one of northern New England's iconic industries, is threatened. There are fewer boats on the water, more regulations and declining markets. How are the men and women who catch fish reacting to the challenges? New Hampshire Public TV reports.
Source: AOL, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg announced Monday that state waters in the Pensacola region of Florida are now reopened to commercial fishing of finfish and shrimp.
Source: WWL-TV, New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS Four days after the FDA reopened 2400 square miles of waters, east of the Mississippi River for shrimp and finfish, relatively few commercial fishermen are back on the water.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
Gloucester's state lawmakers have launched a campaign for a special federal prosecutor to investigate possible criminal behavior by national fisheries enforcement agents, who seized assets from and fined fishermen and then spent the money.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
KENAI The commercial fishing season has turned out to be better than expected in Upper Cook Inlet.
Source: Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government's assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don't smell too bad.
Source: Hamptons Online, Southampton, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
East Hampton Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and members of the East Hampton Town Board, including Supervisor Bill Wilkinson, were joined by prominent environmentalists and Suffolk Legislator Jay Schneiderman at a news conference where they proposed funding a three-year Bay Scallop seeding initiative at the town's shellfish nursery.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
Alienated from the New England and Mid-Atlantic fishing community and its pivotal congressional representatives, the Obama administration fisheries chief convenes a one-day national law enforcement summit Tuesday in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to pick up the pieces of a scandalized law enforcement.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
With a stacked deck on one side of the issue, and the resulting loss of more and more credibility by the day, there is no question that the regional council system of federal fishery management is badly broken.
Source: Wall Street Journal, New York, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
HOPEDALE, La. Jittery local officials are trying to stop BP PLC from removing some of the equipment and workers the company deployed along the Gulf Coast to cope with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as it prepares to start sealing its damaged oil well for good on Tuesday.
Source: Times Picayune, New Orleans, Saturday, July 31, 2010
After a month of near-total closures of commercial fishing grounds across southeast Louisiana due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, state officials on Friday reopened a large section of waters east of the Mississippi River for shrimp and finfish harvesting after consultation and lab tests approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
KODIAK Surprise! It turns out that salmon fishing is the most dangerous fishery in Alaska and crabbing in the Bering Sea is the safest.
Source: Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Saturday, July 31, 2010
PORTLAND, Maine A team of 25 scientists surveying piers, docks and coves on the region's coast for invasive pests is documenting the growing problem of sea squirts as well as a newcomer, red alga, that has been spreading in southern New England.
Source: Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, Friday, July 30, 2010
For months, a federal ban in the Gulf of Mexico has forced too many deep sea boats to ply narrow zones of water that didn't have enough fish.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Friday, July 30, 2010
Commercial groundfish landings in New England have crashed since the May 1 start of the new regulatory system tied to allocated catching rights, or "catch shares," for fishing cooperatives known as sectors.
Source: Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass., Friday, July 30, 2010
An injured fisherman on a boat about 40 miles south of Nantucket was rescued Wednesday and brought to Provincetown by a Coast Guard crew.
Source: Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H., Friday, July 30, 2010
PORTSMOUTH The state's struggling small-boat commercial fishing fleet received good news on Wednesday when the U.S. Department of Commerce released $1 million that will be used to buy permits critical in allowing New Hampshire fisherman to increase the amount of groundfish they are allowed to catch and sell.
Source: The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla., Friday, July 30, 2010
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. | Chincoteague, Moonstone, Bayou La Batre, Blue Point, Wellfleet, Malpeque ... this was what I knew of the sea as a child: the list of oysters on the menu board at Grand Central Terminal's Oyster Bar. My father used to take my sister, Laura, and me there after our parents divorced.
Source: Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Friday, July 30, 2010
At a time when the supply of local finfish is unpredictable, the price of shrimp is spiking and the only thing reliable about raw local oysters on the half-shell is their scarcity, the appearance of soft-shell crabs on New Orleans area restaurant menus are cherished occasions to remind yourself that things could, in fact, be worse.
Source: Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass., Friday, July 30, 2010
Early explorers marveled at the abundance of marine life in Cape waters, but a new report released yesterday paints a picture of the decline of many species over hundreds of years in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, just a few miles to the north.
Source: Peninsula Clarion, Kenai, Alaska, Thursday, July 29, 2010
A commercial fishing camp owned by Charles "Chuck" Smith on Kalifornsky Beach Road suffered an estimated $160,000 in damages from a fire Wednesday.
Source: News and Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind., Thursday, July 29, 2010
NEW ALBANY A recovery operation is under way for a commercial fisherman who fell off a boat in the Ohio River after a possible medical emergency Thursday morning.
Source: Sarasota (Fla.) Herald Tribune, Thursday, July 29, 2010
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. With the Gulf oil spill capped and the huge slicks from it disappearing, the big picture of the environmental disaster looks better than it has for months.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Thursday, July 29, 2010
Rita Merritt, a Boston fisherman's daughter in a family fishing business in North Carolina and a broadly respected two-term member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, has been dumped by the Obama administration despite overwhelming support for her reappointment up and down the coast.
Source: FishUpdate.com, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Thursday, July 29, 2010
ICELAND has told the European Union that its fishing grounds are not open to negotiation and must remain under the control of the Reykjavik Government
Source: Providence (R.I.) Journal, Thursday, July 29, 2010
Researchers, concerned about a "critical" decline in lobster stocks in southern New England and the mid-Atlantic states, proposed a drastic remedy: a five-year moratorium on lobster fishing.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Thursday, July 29, 2010
Federal authorities are investigating the cause of death of a whale found stuck on the bow of a Princess Cruise ship near Juneau this morning.
Source: Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, Thursday, July 29, 2010
Don Benninghoven is an unlikely martyr to the cause of ocean protection.
Source: Gander (Newfoundland) Beacon, Thursday, July 29, 2010
Basil Goodyear of Lumsden managed to fill his crab quota offshore in the 3K area on the northeast coast of the province, as did other fish harvesters from his area. For inshore fishers, that was not always the case.
Source: Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, Thursday, June 29, 2010
One of the most serious economic and environmental threats to Wisconsin in recent years is the imminent invasion of Asian carp into Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes. This invasion must be stopped.
Source: The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Thursday, July 29, 2010
CAPT. DAVID MARTIN was a boy when Jacques Cousteau's adventures inspired him to go to sea.
Source: FishNewsEU.com, Fraserburgh, United Kingdom, Thursday, July 29, 2010
THE Irish Pelagic Sustainability Association Western mackerel fishery has been certified as sustainable following a 19-month MSC assessment.
Source: FishNewsEU.com, Fraserburgh, United Kingdom, Thursday, July 29, 2010
THE European Union is now a signatory to a regional fisheries management convention designed to ensure that fishing from Western Australia to South America is subject to agreed international rules.
Source: Windsor (Ontario) Star, Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Great Lakes Fish Corporation, the largest fish processor in Ontario, has announced it is in bankruptcy protection.
Source: Herald Tribune, Sarasota, Fla., Wednesday, July 28, 2010
POINTE A LA HACHE, La. Way down in the delta, just south of the Belle Chasse Ferry at Beshel's Marina here, black men with work-worn hands and several generations of fishing in their blood sat around on old milk crates, hoping for a piece of the oil cleanup action that seems to have bypassed their little stretch of the bayou.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Responders have placed containment boom around a sheen leaking from a grounded fishing vessel in Prince William Sound, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Source: Newsvine, Seattle, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
A new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has created a mile-long slick after a tug boat struck an abandoned well off the Louisiana coast.
Source: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News Miner, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
FAIRBANKS It doesn't appear enough Yukon River king salmon will reach Canada to fulfill Alaska's obligation as part of an international treaty.
Source: Tulsa (Okla.) World, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The shrimp is plentiful at Bodean Restaurant & Market, three months after the BP oil spill began threatening the seafood supply in the Gulf of Mexico.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The owner of a Juneau restaurant has pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the Lacey Act by buying thousands of pounds of subsistence-caught halibut on the cheap to sell at his business, according to the U.S. attorney
Source: Redoubt Reporter, Soldotna, Alaska, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
For sport anglers fishing from the banks of the Kenai River or dip-netters wading into the muddy river mouth, sockeye salmon are easy to count it's one at a time, as each fish is reeled in or hauled by a net to shore. For Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists, tracking numbers of sockeye in the Kenai River is no simple matter.
Source: Virginia Business, Richmond, Va., Wednesday, July 28, 2010
A 39,000-square-foot seafood-packing center under construction on the Eastern Shore is expected to give commercial fishermen more control over sales of their catch.
Source: York (Maine) Weekly, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Town Dock No. 1 on the York River will receive a much-needed renovation through voter and state funds. The half-century-old wooden pier used by commercial fishermen and recreational boaters will be widened and strengthened this winter, at an estimated cost of $1.1 million.
Source: The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
After extensive lab testing and negotiations between state fisheries managers and the federal government, commercial fishing in most areas east of the Mississippi River could resume by the end of this week, more than 100 days after the beginning of the massive Gulf oil spill.
Source: Canadian Business Online, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
BRUSSELS (AP) Iceland says it wants to keep its fishing sector out of the hands of the European Union when it joins the bloc.
Source: Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass., Tuesday, July 27, 2010
CHATHAM Recent decisions in lawsuits against the federal government have led some to conclude that federal fishery regulators are not doing enough to verify that herring boats are accurately reporting what they catch.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
PORT CLYDE I've been a commercial groundfisherman for 12 years and make my living bringing cod, haddock, dabs, hake and pollock to Maine's dinner tables.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Charlie Baker, the Republican candidate for governor, proclaimed the need Monday for stronger state support for the fishing industry's fight to survive Obama administration policies and he pronounced himself ready to provide it.
The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Two of Minnesota's top elected officials said Monday that Asian carp are poised to invade state waters and represent a major threat to the state's $2.2 billion fishing industry.
Source: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
FAIRBANKS If you want to catch a Chena River king salmon, you'd better do it today.
Source: Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, Monday, July 26, 2010
Twelve miles off the Louisiana coast, an underwater mound known as Ship Shoal teems with blue crabs.
Source: WVUE-TV, New Orleans, La., Monday, July 26, 2010
New Orleans The love for Louisiana Seafood runs deep among locals and visitors and that hasn't changed since the Oil Disaster. But customers will find some of their favorite seafood dishes are no longer on the menu because of the Oil Rig explosion.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Monday, July 26, 2010
PORTLAND Patrick Malia told me to pick up the 14-pound salmon be careful, they're slippery, he said and look the silvery beauty in the eye.
Source: KCNC-TV, Denver, Monday, July 26, 2010
HOUMA, La. (AP) As survival stories go, the Voisins have a gem: It goes back more than 200 years ago when the first members of their family to set foot on Louisiana soil weathered a monster storm in spectacular fashion, clinging to their porch while others were washed away.
Source: The Day, New London, Conn., Monday, July 26, 2010
Just as he's done for the past seven years, Bishop of Norwich Michael Cote marked the 56th annual Blessing of the Fleet Sunday by splashing every fishing boat at the Town Dock with holy water. But the greatest blessing, fishermen and residents say, is that despite rising costs and stricter regulations, this small handful of boats, the remnants of Connecticut's last commercial fishing fleet, has survived.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Times, Monday, July 26, 2010
Federal Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has said he is "interested in exploring" the creation of a buyback program for fishing boats grappling with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration policies and catch limits designed to force out "a significant fraction" of the current independent feet.
Source: Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., Monday, July 26, 2010
Commercial watermen, backed by three trade organizations the Chesapeake Bay Commercial Fishermen's Association, the Maryland Watermen's Association and the Maryland Oystermen's Association understand that something must be done to protect and nurture the bay's remaining native oysters.
Source: The Day, New London, Conn., Monday, July 26, 2010
Anyone who has taken a stroll through Stonington Borough can surely attest to the familiar smell of lobster and fish, and the sound of seagulls swarming overhead. These are the smells and sounds of the livelihood of many citizens in southeastern Connecticut. Not only is it a livelihood and career, but for many this is a passed down legacy of generations in the borough.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Monday, July 26, 2010
Jarrett Drake's livelihood has been spared, at least for the time being.
Source: Boston Herald, Monday, July 26, 2010
Government regulators have backed off a plan to ban lobstering in southern New England waters for the next five years. That's good news for local lobstermen who won't have to join already long unemployment lines, and for the coastal communities that rely on maritime industries.
Source: Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass., Sunday, July 25, 2010
Last week brought some good news for lobstermen. A threatened five-year ban on lobstering in the waters from Cape Cod south to North Carolina was shelved when regulators were swayed by the pleas of lobstermen and the absence of definitive scientific evidence that overfishing has resulted in a sharp drop in the number of lobsters in the fishery.
Source: Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Saturday, July 24, 2010
A federal court has ordered the National Marine Fisheries Service to reconsider a petition by a group of Port Clyde fishermen who filed a civil action lawsuit against the agency.
Source: Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register, Friday, July 23, 2010
The reopening of more than 26,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico to all fishing Thursday won't immediately affect central Gulf Coast fishermen because the area is far southeast of their traditional offshore fishing grounds.
Source: Providence (R.I.) Journal, Friday, July 23, 2010
WARWICK - Faced with angry and skeptical fishermen from along the East Coast, a regional regulatory group Thursday backed off on a proposal that would have banned lobster fishing from Cape Cod to North Carolina for the next five years.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Friday, July 23, 2010
Gov. Deval Patrick's choice to write to the Secretary of Commerce rather than contact his friend, President Obama, on behalf of the economically hard-pressed fishing fleet is drawing a mix of frustration and anger together - along with fateful resignation that his options, as discussed in a public strategizing session here, are limited.
Source: Kansas City (Mo.) Star, Friday, July 23, 2010
Great Lakes governors and mayors - including Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley - are banding together to explore big changes for the Chicago River to protect the world's largest freshwater system.
Source: Dutch Harbor (Alaska) Fisherman, Thursday, July 22, 2010
Commercial fishermen in the famed Bristol Bay wild Alaska sockeye salmon fishery were heading home in late July with smiles on their faces, warmed by base prices averaging 95 cents a pound for the 28 million reds netted.
Source: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Thursday, July 22, 2010
KODIAK -- Salmon processed at a Kodiak plant will be getting a new tag.
Island Seafoods plans to tout the plant's connection with sustainable energy on a new label.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Thursday, July 22, 2010
A draft reauthorization of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, circulated for comment by a California congresswoman, contains anti-fishing language that would bar commercial trawling in the nation's 14 sanctuaries - including Stellwagen Bank where the vast majority of groundfish landed in Gloucester are caught.
Source: Providence (R.I.) Journal, Thursday, July 22, 2010
Lanny Dellinger says he pulled a lobster trap about five miles off Newport a few days ago and found 18 little lobsters in it, each one the size of a Bic lighter.
Source: Mainichi (Japan) Daily News, Thursday, July 22, 2010
I recently saw "The Cove," a U.S. documentary film featuring the catching of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. It was once feared that the screening of the film might be canceled in the face of fierce protests by opponents who claim it is an anti-Japan movie.
Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, Thursday, July 22, 2010
FAIRBANKS - There was no mirror to confirm the panicked look on my face, but I could feel it.
Source: The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
With their armored bodies and menacing pincers, Louisiana's blue crabs were shaped by nature to be tough guys in the highly competitive coastal marsh.
Source: Global Post, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
VICTORIA, Seychelles - It takes less than five hours to turn a fresh fish into a canned meal and the biggest tuna cannery in the Indian Ocean produces 1.5 million cans every day.
Source: The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
South Louisiana residents rejoiced last week when the state reopened most of its recreational fishing grounds, which had been closed because of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Source: Baltimore Sun, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
OK, so there's a move afoot to increase the commercial striped bass catch in coastal waters.
Source: Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
University of Florida veterinary pathologist Dr. Brian Stacy has seen firsthand the major threats faced by sea turtles over the past few months.
Source: Agricultural Research Service, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Fast-growing farm-raised salmon and trout that are sterile can now be produced using a method developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. Blocking reproduction can enhance growth, and is important for fish being reared in situations where reproduction is undesirable.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
PORTLAND - Fishermen are notoriously hard to organize because they don't stay in one place for long. So Willis Spear of Yarmouth took Monday off and motored his 35-foot lobster boat around Casco Bay, meeting up with lobstermen as they worked their trap lines.
Source: Business Week, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
A year after an island feud among lobstermen erupted in gunfire, one of the two lobstermen on the receiving end of island justice is speaking out against a mainland jury's decision to acquit the fellow lobsterman who fired a near-fatal shot.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
By executive order, President Obama has hit the go button for the creation of a political system for writing ocean and Great Lakes usage plans overseen by a new National Ocean Council.
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is asking Americans fishing in the Yukon River to voluntarily reduce the number of chinook salmon they catch.
Source: Boston Globe, Tuesday, July 20, 2010
NEW BEDFORD - Jarrett Drake turns on the ignition - vroom - and the satisfying thrum of the boat's motor suddenly swallows the quiet of early morning. It's 5:06 a.m.
Source: Business Week, Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Seafood from large parts of Louisiana's coastal waters is safe to eat despite the BP oil spill, but the state's processors are running out of inventory because the federal government has been to slow to test the fish, Gov. Bobby Jindal and seafood industry leaders said Monday.
Source: WMBB-TV, Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, July 20, 2010
BP has made sweeping changes to its Vessels of Opportunity program in Franklin County.
Source: Boston Globe, Tuesday, July 20, 2010
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced a new national policy yesterday for strengthening the way the United States manages its oceans and coasts and the Great Lakes.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Next time you unhook a feisty rainbow trout, consider where the gorgeous rouge- dappled fish spent its early days.
Source: The Times-Herald, Port Huron, Mich., Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Lake herring could be making a comeback in Lake Huron, part of a cycle that has seen a resurgence of native species.
Source: The Ecologist, London, Tuesday, July 20, 2010
It's one of the healthiest, most versatile 'weeds' around. Asian countries have enjoyed the benefits for centuries. So where is the market for homegrown UK seaweed?
Source: Los Angeles Times, Monday, July 19, 2010
Didactic - however worthy - is not much fun. Ecological and planet-saving literature tends to argue for the essential.
Source: Associated Press, Monday, July 19, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - A Louisiana State University biologist hopes his work will bring crawfish boils to football tailgate parties within a few years.
Source: Boston Herald, Monday, July 19, 2010
Coming to a picnic table near you: Claws - the lobster that can squeeze its own lemon juice.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Monday, July 19, 2010
There were far more sighs than cheers last week when U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke confirmed he would grant a six-fold increase in the current year's total allowable catch for pollock in the New England fishery.
Source: Providence (R.I.) Journal, Monday, July 19, 2010
Many years ago a restaurant waiter served a single-clawed specimen of a lobster to Ernest Hemingway. When Hemingway asked: "Where's the other claw?" the waiter explained that the lobster had probably lost it in a fight. The notoriously macho author quickly retorted, "Well, take this one back, and bring me the winner!"
Source: The News Journal, Wilmington, Del., Sunday, July 18, 2010
Everywhere eastern oysters grow, from the salty Chincoteagues of Virginia's Eastern Shore to the Apalachicolas harvested in Big Bayou along Florida's Gulf Coast Panhandle, they take on a flavor unique to their habitat.
Source: The Oregonian, Sunday, July 18, 2010
The Monterey Bay Aquarium's decision to include wild-caught salmon from Oregon on its list of products to avoid is an outrage ("Oregon-caught salmon: The science behind an 'Avoid' listing," July 7).
Source: Houston Chronicle, Saturday, July 17, 2010
The Gulf of Mexico isn't dead because of BP's oil spill, but fishermen are fearful that a species may disappear from its waters like the Pacific herring did from Alaska's Prince William Sound after the Exxon Valdez disaster.
Source: United Press International, Friday, July 16, 2010
ATLANTA, July 15 (UPI) As fans of the reality show "Deadliest Catch" know, commercial fishing can be deadly, with more than 500 fishermen dying from 2000-2009, U.S. officials say.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Friday, July 16, 2010
Its law enforcement system scarred by a damning Inspector General's report and audit, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is preparing a summit conference to begin fixing the system.
Source: FishNewsEU, Fraserburgh, United Kingdom, Friday, July 16, 2010
THE Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, representing 3,000 commercial crab fishermen licensed by the state, has entered the Louisiana blue crab fishery into the Marine Stewardship Council's certification programme.
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Friday, July 16, 2010
Secretary Gary Locke who last month stood by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco and resisted urgings by a cadre of congressional lawmakers to hike a number of catch limits viewed as being unnecessarily low confirmed Wednesday he was raising the limit on pollock from six to 36 million pounds.
Source: Agence France-Presse, Friday, July 16, 2010
TOKYO A monster tuna caught off Japan turned heads at a Tokyo fish market Friday, where the 445 kilogram (981 pound) bluefin the biggest caught here since 1986 sold for 3.2 million yen (36,700 dollars).
Source: Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H., Friday, July 16, 2010
SOMERSWORTH When Allen Patterson walked recently to one of his usual fishing spots along the Salmon Falls River, the catch-and-release fisherman expected to reel in some small game and enjoy a day with his stepson.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Friday, July 16, 2010
Environmental advocates said Thursday that they have sent letters to the owners of four hydroelectric dams, threatening to sue them under the U.S. Clean Water Act unless they take action to protect Atlantic salmon in the Kennebec River.
Source: Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Friday, July 16, 2010
People who want to eat fish only if it's caught in an ecologically benign way should shop for fish caught by Mainers.
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