Monday, June 29, 2009
California to close herring fisheries
The commercial herring fishery on the California coast will be closed for the first time in history in response to historically low population numbers. The commercial herring fishery inside San Francisco Bay, which occurs during winter, is also likely to be closed when the commission meets in September.
– Sacramento Bee
Read more: sacbee.com
Tough fishing vessel standards coming from Congress
Congress this year may impose new construction standards on the nation's fishing vessels, require training of skippers and mandate Coast Guard inspections in what would be the first major overhaul of the safety laws that regulate the nation's deadliest occupation.
– Longview (Wash.) Daily News
Read more: tdn.com
Palin says Yukon village getting subsistence fish
According to Gov. Sarah Palin's posts on Twitter, half of the people in Emmonak have met subsistence needs and the other half believe they can do the same.
– KTUU, Anchorage
Read more: ktuu.com
Fishing heats up on Bristol Bay
The fishing is heating up on Bristol Bay, the Big Daddy of Alaska salmon fisheries. Nothing compares to the bay — not the Copper River, not Cook Inlet, not Kodiak or the rest of the world, for that matter — when it comes to sockeye wealth.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his new blog: deckboss
Read more: deckboss.blogspot.com
But how hot will the bay become?
Take a look at the numbers for the South Peninsula and Bristol Bay in the ADF&G Blue Sheet: csfish.adfg.state.ak.us
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Exxon Mobil won’t appeal
Exxon Mobil Corp. said Monday it won't appeal nearly $500 million in interest that a court recently ordered it to pay to Alaska fishermen, business owners and others harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
– Anchorage Daily News
Read more: www.adn.com/exxonvaldez
Crew saved from Bristol Bay boat sinking
On 6-27-09 at 1753 hours, the village public safety officer in Pilot Point reported that the F/V Patricia Ann had sunk while fishing off the beach near Pilot Point in Ugashik Bay. The boat's owner, Al Evanoff, age 53, of Pilot Point, and the four other crew members on board were rescued by another fishing boat that came to their aid.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in this new blog: deckboss.
Read more: deckboss.blogspot.com
BC hake MSC certification hits snag
Attempts to achieve the first international certification of sustainability for a B.C. commercial
fishery have hit a roadblock following the filing of an official objection with the U.K.-based Marine Stewardship Council.
– Canada.com
Read more: www.canada.com
Bristol Bay catch rate up, processor limits reported
Bristol Bay fishermen caught 1.83 million sockeye on Sunday.
That's slightly above the 1.8 million fish per day processors told the state they could handle this year at maximum capacity.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in this new blog: deckboss.
Read more: deckboss.blogspot.com
Civil disobedience: Villagers fish Yukon River
In an act of civil disobedience, fishermen in six boats left the village of Marshall on Friday to go subsistence fishing on the Yukon River, though fishing was closed, said one of the protestors.
– Seward Pheonix Log
Read more: www.thesewardphoenixlog.com
No market for East Coast dogfish
Commercial fishermen who started the spring 2009 spiny dogfish fishery with hopes of making up to $600 per trip have been widely disappointed in New Jersey, with little export demand for the small sharks beyond what's already being landed in New England.
– APP.com, New Jersey
Read more: www.app.com
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The sockeye salmon fishing season for commercial fishermen in the Upper Cook Inlet has only been open since last week; but the first few days of the season have not been that bad, according to Department of Fish and Game Biologist Pat Shields of Soldotna. – KSRM, Kenia Peninsula
Read more: www.ksrm.com
B.C. salmon farmer apologizes
Marine Harvest routinely transports its large brood fish from the sea farms via the Port McNeill (B.C.) government wharf. This careful procedure involves moving both water and fish and we use the utmost care to prevent the escape of our fish. In more than 16 years of doing this transfer, we have never encountered as many wild pink salmon fry as this year.
– Clare Backman of Marine Harvest writing to the Port Hardy North Island Gazette about a number of wild pink fry killed as part of farming operations.
The photo shows some of the pinks killed.
Read more: www.bclocalnews.com
Alaska troopers investigate illegal Yukon fishing
State wildlife troopers are investigating reports of illegal subsistence fishing by villagers on the Yukon River to protest state catch restrictions on king salmon.
– Anchorage Daily News
Read more: www.adn.com/rural
Bristol Bay hits 1.8 million reds second day in a row
Wow, fishermen netted more than 1.8 million sockeye for the second consecutive day Monday in Bristol Bay, the Department of Fish and Game reports.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his new blog: deckboss
Read more: deckboss.blogspot.com
Bristol Bay packer imposes limits
This is a comment on Wesley Loy’s deckboss blog: “Trident Seafoods shut downing buying fish for one tide and is now on limits. Fishing has now died down in the Naknek district for the last three tides. Kind of strange to be this slow for this date.”
Source: Read more: deckboss.blogspot.com
No agreement yet on Klamath dam removal plan
Dam removal negotiators were unable to come to an agreement Tuesday, missing the deadline set for finalizing a plan to remove four aging dams on the Klamath River.
– Eureka Times-Standard
Read more: www.times-standard.com
Thursday, July 2, 2009
New fishing safety laws may be
on the way
Congress this year may impose new construction standards on the nation's fishing vessels, require training of skippers and mandate Coast Guard inspections in what would be the first major overhaul of the safety laws that regulate the nation's deadliest occupation.
– The Pueblo Chieftan
Read more: www.chieftain.com/articles
Gillnet boat seized in Cordova for illegal fishing
State troopers have seized a gillnet boat and hit the skipper with several charges including illegal fishing at the Copper River.
— Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his new blog: deckboss
Read more: deckboss.blogspot.com
Good fishery management = good food
A few years ago at the Double Musky Inn in Girdwood, Alaska, I had a halibut dinner so delicious, I can still taste that fish. Good restaurant? Yes, but even better fishery management.
– Gregg Easterbrook is a contributing editor of The Atlantic
Read more: www.theatlantic.com
Oregon marine reserve panel finds some common ground
The group charged with discussing marine reserves off the Coos County coast found some common ground, though not much.
The gathering of fishermen, environmentalists, scientists and ocean users agreed to eight potential recommendations to discuss in the coming months.
– Coos Bay World
Read more: www.theworldlink.com/articles
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