Monday, February 10, 2014
SEAS HAMMER CATCHER-PROCESSOR
The catcher-processor Katie Ann diverted to Unalaska this weekend after a large wave blew out several windows on the vessel's bridge. In the process, about six crew members were injured.
– KUCB, Unalaska
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Fishermen thank EPA
Although most public discussion to date has focused on Pebble, EPA's assessment addresses all potential large-scale mining in the Kvichak and Nushagak drainages, uses Pebble as an example, and identifies fifteen other deposits where significant exploration has occurred.
– Juneau Empire
More:juneauempire.com
Kings avoiding setnets
Appearing before the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting in Anchorage, Gary Hollier said he experimented with nets of shallower depth last summer and found they caught significantly fewer of the big Kenai salmon.
– Homer Tribune
More:homertribune.com
Changes in Magnuson-Stevens
This time, a number of changes have been proposed by Rep. Dock Hastings, some of which could fundamentally change fisheries management and fisheries science in U.S. waters.
– Southern Fried Science
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Anti-gillnet group busy back east
The Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) of North Carolina is blamed by locals for the current regulatory environment.
– Beaufort Observer
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Halibut catch stuns CDQ
Coastal Villages Region Fund's halibut quota for 9,437 residents was cut by a stunning 48.9 percent from 210,248 pounds to 107,384 pounds.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy
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Rain heals California
It is healing the landscape across the Bay Area and Northern California, squelched the danger of wildfires and will put Tahoe winter sports back on the map for the coming three-day Presidents Day weekend.
– San Francisco Chronicle
More:blog.sfgate.com
Where's the fish?
Crescent City had a working harbor, but it was hard to buy local fish and seafood.
– Crescent City Triplicate
More:triplicate.com
SE salmon hatcheries important
Commercial fisheries have never been more important to Southeast Alaska, and the region's hatchery programs are a critical part of that success.
– KCAW, Sitka
More:kcaw.org
Fining derelict-boat owners
The state agency is actively billing nearly $2 million in recovery costs from others. They've also sent nearly $3.4 million through the collections process.
– SF Gate, San Francisco
More:sfgate.com
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
FISHERMEN RECEIVE LIFE VESTS
Ocean Safety has signed an agreement with Seafish to supply an initial 300 Mullion Compact personal flotation devices (PFDs) to commercial fishermen in England and Wales.
– World Fishing
More:worldfishing.net
New Cook Inlet rules
The board surprised some by voting 7-0 in favor of the scheme, despite opposition from some commercial fishing interests.
– Alaska Dispatch
More:alaskadispatch.com
Warm weather and salmon
The numbers are in: Last month was officially the warmest January on record in parts of western Alaska.
– KDLG, Dillingham
More:kdlg.org
Pebble chief steps away
John Shively, the former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and chief of staff to former Alaska Governor Bill Sheffield, who guided the company for six years while the proposed Pebble Project was hotly debated on a state and national level, announced this week that he would be assuming the role of chairman of the board of directors for the Pebble Project.
– Dutch Harbor Fisherman
More:thedutchharborfisherman.com
Go straight to bankruptcy
Expanding the number of SAFE areas is a key promise made to gillnet fishermen as a sop for banning them from the main stem of the river.
– Daily Astorian
More:dailyastorian.com
ASMI at Sochi
The spunky Alaskan with pink-tinged blond hair is the fastest cross-country skier in the world, and the most decorated U.S. female cross-country skier in history.
– ASMI
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WESMAR has new site
WESMAR products are operating in all major fisheries of the world, and on commercial and pleasure boats around the world.
– WESMAR
More:wesmar.com
Crewman lifted from F/V Arica
The helicopter crew safely transported the man to emergency medical services in Cold Bay for a commercial flight to Anchorage.
– U.S. Coast Guard
More:piersystem.com
History of Boldt decision
George Hugo Boldt was not a man anyone would mistake for a revolutionary.
– Tacoma News Tribune
Read more here:thenewstribune.com
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
SE CRAB FISHERIES DELAYED
Crab boats in Southeast were waiting at least until Wednes-day for the start of two lucrative commercial crab fisheries in the region.
– KFSK, Petersburg
More:kfsk.org
Bikes for cannery workers
Kodiak Island Trails Network, along with several other local charities and churches partnered to collect used bikes all day, with the hopes of fixing them up and providing them to cannery workers at reasonably low prices.
– KMXT, Kodiak
More:kmxt.org
Florida rules for cucumbers
State wildlife officials are considering tighter restrictions for harvests of sea cucumbers.
– San Francisco Chronicle
More:sfgate.com
Speaking of Florida
We had a major blunder yesterday. Blame it on the ungodly hour when your Wrap is prepared. Or the ungodly age your editor has reached. Whatever, Cortez in Florida is not Cordova in Alaska. I know it. I knew it yesterday before I grew befuddled. Alaska fish journalist Margaret Bauman was first to report the error. Don
Sitka herring suit
"I'm the chairman of the board of Sealaska Corporation. I told Sitka Tribe two or three years ago: You guys file suit, we'll be there."
– KCAW, Sitka
More:kcaw.org
Drought to cut salmon harvest
Fishing was fast and money was easy as buyers offered sky-high wholesale prices.
– EastBayExpress, Oakland, Calif.
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Crab missing in B.C.
The fisheries ministry has cut the number of patrols in the region over the past 10 to 20 years due to "other pressures and staff limitations."
– The Tricities Now, Port Moody, B.C.
More:thenownews.com
Setnetter openings depend on kings
Under what is being called "paired restrictions," when the in-river king salmon fishermen are restricted to catch and release, the restriction to 12 hours kicks in.
– Homer News
More:homernews.com
Whale sushi
Two sushi chefs who served whale meat at a now-shuttered Santa Monica restaurant pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for their part in a scheme to import and sell cuts of whale including tail meat and "whale bacon."
– L.A. Times
More:foodservice.com
Thursday, February 13, 2014
VICTORY FOR MAT-SU SPORTIES
We are discouraged by the needless, unscientific attacks on the more than 5,000 Cook Inlet commercial fishermen and their families that have occurred over the last 10 days," Arni Thomson, executive director of the Alaska Salmon Alliance said.
– Mat-Su Frontiersman
More:frontiersman.com
Inlet personal use is unchanged
The Cook Inlet's personal-use fishery remains largely unchanged in the midst of a process that has dramatically restructured commercial set and drift gillnet fishing in the same region.
– Homer News
More:homernews.com
Inlet fishermen have a friend
The problem with the virulent partisan politics that plague America today is that they can blind people to action that is in their own best interest.
– Alaska Dispatch
More:alaskadispatch.com
Protecting W. Coast puffins
The Natural Resources Defense Council wants the tufted puffin population in Oregon, Washington, and California listed under the Endangered Species Act.
– Portland Tribune
More:portlandtribune.com
Rescue near Cold Bay
Coast Guard Communication Station Kodiak received a call from the master of the 680-foot fish processing vessel Ocean Phoenix who reported that the 25-year-old female crewmember was suffering from chest pains and needed medical assistance.
– Coast Guard
More:uscgnews.com
Fighting fish pirates
The U.S. Senate is considering two international treaties that Sen. Lisa Murkowski says would help crack down on pirate fishing in the North Pacific.
– Alaska Public Media
More:alaskapublic.org
Salmon to the Philippines
The State of Alaska is looking for someone to supply over 6,000 cases of pink salmon to be donated to disaster relief efforts in the Philippines. That adds up to nearly 150,000 15-ounce cans.
– KMXT, Kodiak
More:kmxt.org
Processors fined
Three fishing companies that operate in Alaska have been fined about $275,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for pollution violations stretching back to 2008.
– KUCB, Unalaska
More:kucb.org
B.C. salmon quota plan
For the president of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union, the news that commercial salmon fisheries could potentially be run by a quota system poses a threat to the small guys, who won't have the finances to fish.
– CJFW, Terrace, B.C.
More:cjfw.ca
Sporties dislike Youngs Bay plan
"This is punitive and sets a dangerous precedent."
– Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian
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Friday, February 14, 2014
GOP LEGISLATORS SUPPORT PEBBLE
Several members of the Alaska Legislature sent a letter of support earlier this month to the head of the company looking at developing the controversial Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay region.
– Alaska Public Media
More:alaskapublic.org
House member to retire
Hastings, first elected in 1994 and now chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee said a desire to spend more time with his family in Washington state was an important factor in his decision to retire. Hastings is overseeing changes to the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
– Reuters
More:reuters.com
Inlet fishermen hit hard
Fishery management decisions approved this past week in Anchorage hit hard at commercial harvesters, as the state fisheries board sought to protect depleted numbers of late run Kenai River king salmon and provide more fish for anglers.
– Cordova Times
More:thecordovatimes.com
Crude causes fish heart problems
After carrying out a detailed study on marine life, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found link between oil pollution and heart diseases in fish.
– News Tonight Africa
More:newstonight.co.za
Fisherman, now homeless, dies
Bouck grew up on Queen Anne, worked most of his adult life as a fisherman, but suffered an accident that left him unable to work.
– King 5, Seattle
More:king5.com
Thermal energy on Akutan
A recently published study of geothermal energy sources on Akutan Island indicate the resource holds significantly more potential than previously thought.
– Dutch Harbor Fisherman
More:thedutchharborfisherman.com
NW Alaska ports
A much-needed Arctic port study stalled this winter as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers considers more than 20 different configurations of three possible ports in Northwest Alaska.
– Dutch Harbor Fisherman
More:thedutchharborfisherman.com
Support aquaculture
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production sector worldwide, now supplying over 50 percent of the global demand for fish and seafood.
– The Northern View, Prince Rupert
More:thenorthernview.com
Alaska Fisheries Report
Coming up this week, bad news for Cook Inlet commercial fishermen is coming out of the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting, the stormy weather caused a number of injuries on a factory trawler out west, and, wait for it: Magnetic Salmon.
– KMXT, Kodiak
More:kmxt.org
Youngs Bay sporties banned
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today passed rules that establish a control zone at the mouth of Youngs Bay and prohibit recreational fishing from Aug. 1-Sept. 15.
– Coos Bay World
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