Monday, June 11, 2012

BRISTOL BAY FISHING UNDERWAY

Commercial fishing is underway in Bristol Bay but only in the eastside districts.

– KDLG, Dillingham

More:kdlg.org

Good news from Cordova

The sockeye catch has now surpassed 1 million fish.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss

More:deckboss.blogspot.com  (scroll down)

Halibut bycatch cut

After four days of contentious hearings, federal fisheries managers voted to reduce the bycatch of halibut caught by trawlers and certain other commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Alaska by 15 percent.

– Alaska Dispatch

More:www.alaskadispatch.com

Study surveys otter damage

Sea otters are expanding throughout Southeast Alaska and dining on crab, sea cucumbers, geoduck clams and more as they go.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Morgan writing in SitNews, Ketchikan

More:www.sitnews.us

Ocean Beauty idles P’burg plant

Ocean Beauty idled the Petersburg plant before, in 2010, in expectation of a low pink return.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss

More:deckboss.blogspot.com (scroll down)

W. Coast sardines doing just fine

But in reality, this important fishery is doing just fine thanks to existing precautions.

– Monterey Herald

More:www.montereyherald.com

Sitka fish in Galesburg, Ill.

What the founder of Sitka Salmon Shares calls “a small frontier outpost in the middle of nowhere” and Galesburg are now linked by a love of good food, as well as a philosophy that embraces healthy living, social interaction and support of small business.

– Galesburg, Ill., Register-Mail

More: www.galesburg.com

Shocked fisherman medevaced

A Bering Sea fisherman who suffered a major electrical shock and heart complications has been medevaced from his ship by the Coast Guard and flown to Dillingham.

– Anchorage Daily News

More:www.adn.com

Army ship grounded in Kodiak

The landing craft Monterrey was then intentionally grounded in front of town.

– KMXT, Kodiak

More:www.kmxt.org

 

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

MOVING YOUR PRODUCT UPSCALE

It's in Vancouver that the spot prawn has become a superstar ingredient, receiving top menu billing for its local, seasonal, and sustainable appeal, not to mention its sweet, lobster-like flavor and firm texture.

– The Oregonian

More:www.oregonlive.com

Stay alive

The video shows two crewmembers becoming trapped as the boat disappears underwater.

– Cannon Beach Gazette

More:
www.cannonbeachgazette.com

Little harm from grounded vessel

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has revised downward the amount of diesel fuel spilled from the U.S. Army Reserve landing craft Monterrey, which was intentionally grounded after hitting a charted rock, just off shore of downtown Kodiak.

– KMXT

More:www.alaskapublic.org

Fishing down, unemployment up

Unemployment in Unalaska more than doubled in April, coinciding with the wind-down of a major fishing season.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Alexandra Gutierrez, reporting for KUCB, Unalaska

More:kucb.org

Medevac near Chignik

Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak personnel this morning medevaced the captain of the fishing vessel Providence after he injured his hand near Chignik.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss

More:deckboss.blogspot.com

Debris: Invasion of alien species

And more invasive species could be hitching rides on tsunami debris expected to arrive in the weeks and months to come.

– Fox News

More:www.foxnews.com

Marketing village salmon outside

But for one Yukon Kuskokwim Delta fish buyer, there is a clear goal: marketing Kuskowkim River salmon to areas outside Alaska.

– Alaska Public Radio

More:www.alaskapublic.org

Fine upheld in B.C. protest fishery

B.C.'s high court has upheld a $300 fine for illegal fishing against B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins for his participation in a decade-old protest fishery on the Fraser River.

– Maple Ridge (B.C.) News

More:www.mapleridgenews.com

Harper: A Canadian George Bush?

Harper is eliminating the DFO program that monitors contaminants in our oceans.

– Huffington Post

More:hwww.huffingtonpost.ca

Another view of halibut bycatch

Tracy Chandler of F/V Topaz in Kodiak had some thoughtful remarks about an article we linked to on Monday. It concerned the reduction of halibut bycatch by the trawl fleet.

Read her response:Trawl Objection

 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

IRE OVER ANTI-GILLNET VOTE

A campaign targeting gillnetters takes class war to the Columbia River.

– Willamette Week

More:www.wweek.com



Dippers yanked off Copper River kings

All king salmon caught in dip nets must be released immediately. The closure is for the rest of the season.

– Fairbanks News Miner

More:
newsminer.com

Grounded and oozing oil

The 174-foot Army vessel Monterrey remains grounded on Puffin Island, surrounded by containment boom to limit the spread of any diesel fuel from the vessel.

– Coast Guard

More:www.uscgnews.com

Russian salmon MSC certified

The NE Sakhalin Island pink salmon fishery on Russia's east coast has been awarded Marine Stewardship certification.

– MSC

More:www.msc.org

S. Africa fears loss of MSC cert

South Africa's commercial hake trawl fisheries could lose their Marine Stewardship Council membership next month, cutting the industry off from the lucrative European market and jeopardizing about 5,000 jobs.

– Business Day, South Africa

More:www.businessday.co.za

Port Orford tries ag plan

Will the smashing success of Community Supported Agriculture carry over to fisheries in Oregon?

– Pacific Fishing correspondent Cassandra Marie Profita reporting in Ecotrope, Oregon Public Broadcasting

More:ecotrope.opb.org

Kodiak salmon season begins

Kodiak Area Management Biologist James Jackson says it's still too early to tell what's hot and what's not, and he describes a lot of the fishing at this point in the season as "average."

– KMXT, Kodiak

More:www.kmxt.org

Kuskokwim subsistence fishery closed

Weeklong salmon fishing closures went into effect Sunday for subsistence fishers on the Kuskokwim River.

– Alaska Public Radio

More:www.alaskapublic.org

Coal will hurt fish

A report on the Morrow Pacific coal export project concludes the project will have "unavoidable" impacts to Columbia River fish during dock construction and coal transportation on barges and ships.

– Pacific Fishing correspondent Cassandra Marie Profita reporting in Ecotrope, Oregon Public Broadcasting

More:ecotrope.opb.org

Tsunami foam coming

Federal officials say it's likely that much of the foamlike material that is littering beaches in Southwestern Washington and Oregon is some of the first debris from Japan's calamitous 2011 tsunami to show up on U.S. shorelines.

– Seattle Times

More:seattletimes.nwsource.com

 

Thursday, June 14, 2012

NEARING OPILIO CATCH LIMIT

As of Wednesday morning, fishermen have less than 1 million pounds of snow crab left to catch.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Alexandra Gutierrez, reporting for KUCB, Unalaska

More:kucb.org

Proposed marine park devastating

The commercial fishing industry says it's devastated by plans to create the world's largest marine park network.

– ABC Rural

More:www.abc.net.au

Anti-gillnet crowd wrong

And we found at least 11 states besides Oregon that allow commercial gillnetting.

– The Oregonian's PolitiFact

More:www.politifact.com

Sea otters spreading

Sea otters are expanding throughout Southeast Alaska and dining on crab, sea cucumbers, geoduck clams, and more as they go.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch, writing in the Capital City Weekly

More:www.capitalcityweekly.com

Copper River kings low

Commercial harvesters have topped the 1 million mark in their harvest of the famed Copper River sockeye salmon, while the Chinook harvest remains below average.

– Alaska Native News

More:alaska-native-news.com

Copper River sockeye featured

Fresh Copper River sockeye salmon will be the showcase ingredient at the first ever Whole Foods Fishmonger Face-Off at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Beth Poole, writing for Copper River/PWS Marketing Association

More:hosted-p0.vresp.com

Helping imperiled vessel

Coast Guard aircrews and a good Samaritan fishing vessel crew responded to a 70-foot landing craft taking on water more than 100 miles south of Cordova.

– Coast Guard

More:www.uscgnews.com

Single fish float back home

A fish farm float that was lost from Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in the March 2011 tsunami and later found on an island off Alaska was delivered to its owner.

– Japan Times

More:www.japantimes.co.jp

Waiting for Kodiak fish

Biologist James Jackson says it's still too early to tell what's hot and what's not, and he describes a lot of the fishing at this point in the season as "average."

– KMXT, Kodiak

More:www.kmxt.org

Zach Malone passes

Zack Malone, an employee of Highland Refrigeration in Seattle for five years, passed away on June 10, two days after his 26th birthday.

More:Help Malone Family.com




Friday, June 15, 2012

FAMILIES HURT BY CHINOOK SHORTAGE

Families that rely on Chinook for food yearlong have had to make sacrifices and fish less and less.

– Alaska Public Radio

More:www.alaskapublic.org



Lice problems in Scotland farms

A report published by the Salmon and Trout Association claims to include evidence of widespread failure to control sea lice in the Scottish salmon farming industry.

– FishNewsEU

More:www.fishnewseu.com

Are you poisoning consumers?

If people won't pay sufficient attention to activists' agenda, then rattle 'em at the dinner table.

– Huffington Post

More:www.huffingtonpost.com

Tainted Korean shellfish

The Food and Drug Administration is urging food distributors, retailers and food service vendors to remove from the market oysters, clams, mussels and scallops imported from South Korea because of possible contamination with human waste and norovirus.

– Seattle Times

More:seattletimes.nwsource.com

Alaska Fisheries Report

Coming up this week, the trawlers in the Gulf will see a 15 percent reduction in allowable halibut bycatch; to err is human, but to hit Error Island could get you arrested; and the biggest freaking crab you'll never get to eat.

– KMXT, Kodiak

More:www.kmxt.org

Readying to move grounded vessel

The U.S. Army Reserve is preparing to move the landing craft Monterrey.

– Alaska Public Radio

More:www.alaskapublic.org

Acidification on West Coast

About one-third of the carbon dioxide (CO2) humans pump into the atmosphere eventually diffuses into the surface layer of the ocean.

– Wired

More:www.wired.com

No fishing job, then suicide

A California man with unrealized dreams of working in the Alaska fishing industry stole a taxicab, drove through security at the Port of Anchorage, and jumped to his death from a fuel tank.

– Anchorage Daily News

More:www.adn.com

EPA clobbers American Seafoods

American Seafoods Company LLC and Pacific Longline Company LLC have agreed to phase out the use of ozone depleting refrigerants, implement a comprehensive leak detection and repair program aboard a number of their vessels and pay a penalty to resolve federal Clean Air Act violations.

– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss

More:deckboss.blogspot.com

New Coos Bay port chief

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay commissioners selected David Koch as the organization's new CEO.

– Coos Bay World

More:theworldlink.com

 


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