Monday, November 21, 2011
Dungeness still iffy
While San Francisco Bay Area fishermen wait for price negotiations to be settled, North Coast fishermen are still waiting to see if they'll be allowed to put pots in the water on Dec. 15.
– Eureka Times Standard
More:www.times-standard.com
Observers on halibut boats
Coming soon to a small halibut boat near you: fishery observers.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch, writing in SitNews, Ketchikan
More:www.sitnews.us
Klamath comment deadline
The deadline for comments on the Klamath dams removal project's environmental impact report has been extended to Dec. 30.
– Eureka Times Standard
More:www.times-standard.com
Stacking the deck in Alaska
I was at the Board of Fisheries meeting at which the Chitina Subdistrict’s classification was reversed from “subsistence" to “personal use." The outstanding fact that drove this decision was the stacking of the board with commercial fishermen.
– Fairbanks News Miner
More:newsminer.com
Blowing up fish pirates
New legislation would allow the Coast Guard to blow up vessels seized for illegal fishing.
– Anchorage Daily News
More:www.adn.com
Alaska salmon and MSC
Work has begun to determine whether Alaska's salmon fishery deserves Marine Stewardship Council certification for a third time.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his blog: Deckboss
Chukchi drilling sale flawed
A 2008 lease sale in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast remains legally flawed and should be cancelled.
– Juneau Empire
More:juneauempire.com
Stretching species law too far
The endangered species law is being used to gain control over landscapes and seascapes rather than to protect species, according to the Alaska wildlife official who works on state responses to federal species listings.
– Anchorage Daily News
More:www.adn.com
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
EATING HAGFISH
What Americans call pest, Koreans call best. So it is with hagfish, one of the main exports of Top Blue Marine, a fish exportation business and fish market opening soon in Crescent City.
– Crescent City Triplicate
More:www.triplicate.com
Central California Dungeness
In ports from Monterey to Mendocino, stacks of crab pots sit dry on the docks among quiet commercial boats, still tied up a week after the official Nov. 15 opening of the Dungeness crab season.
– Monterey Herald
More:www.montereyherald.com
Northern California Dungeness
While San Francisco Bay Area fishermen wait for price negotiations to be settled, North Coast fishermen are still waiting to see if they'll be allowed to put pots in the water on Dec. 15.
– Eureka Times Standard
More:www.times-standard.com
Oregon Dungeness
The U.S. Coast Guard's plan to conduct dockside safety checks of Dungeness crab vessels, known as Operation Safe Crab, will be temporarily postponed due to the delay in the start date of the crab season in Oregon and Washington states, and a low number of fisherman on the docks.
– Coos Bay World
More:theworldlink.com
Salmon disease labs probed
The federal government has launched an investigation after two labs got different results on whether infectious salmon anemia was present in two fish from British Columbia.
– CBC
More:www.cbc.ca
Cook Inlet catch helps many
The Cook Inlet commercial fishery is coming off an above-average year for harvest of sockeye salmon, but commercial fishermen are not the only ones who benefitted from the big run.
– Kenai Peninsula Clarion
More:peninsulaclarion.com
Inlet's beluga whales endangered
Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales were correctly listed as endangered, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a state lawsuit that claimed the listing will hurt economic development.
– CBS News
More:www.cbsnews.com
New video system cuts trawl bycatch
Commercial fishermen who use trawl nets are now looking at how underwater camera systems can help them catch the fish they want and avoid all the others.
– Pacific Fishing correspondent Cassandra Marie Profita writing for Ecotrope in Portland
More:ecotrope.opb.org
Kodiak now top halibut harbor
The final day of the 2011 commercial halibut fishery was on Friday, and the season ended with Kodiak overtaking Homer as the top port for halibut landings in the state. It's virtually the first time that's happened since the Individual Fishery Quota, or IFQ, management system was put in place in the mid 1990s.
– KSKA, Homer
More:www.alaskapublic.org
Feds reject NW salmon plan
An offer to try something new and different is on the table for restoring endangered salmon.
– Public News Service
More:www.publicnewsservice.org
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
KODIAK FISHERMEN RICHEST
Kodiak-based commercial fishermen by far brought home the largest amount of money among fishing community in the state – more even than the whole of the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
– KMXT, Kodiak
More:www.kmxt.org
Crabbers hold out for $2.50
The Northern California tradition of fresh Dungeness crab on Thanksgiving may be off the table as fishermen and seafood processers remain locked in a dispute over prices.
– San Jose Mercury News
More:www.mercurynews.com
Fish farmers sequence salmon genes
The International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon has awarded the Phase II contract for next-generation sequencing and analysis of the Atlantic salmon genome to the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland.
– Market Watch
More:www.marketwatch.com
Japan buys more salmon farms
Mitsubishi Corporation will accelerate expansion of its salmon (including trout) farming business through the acquisition of Salmones Humboldt S.A. through its subsidiary company, Southern Cross Seafoods S.A.
– Mitsubishi press release
More:www.4-traders.com
Protect salmon, kill striped bass
California's fish and game regulators are considering a proposal that would triple the limit and reduce size restrictions on striped bass in the rivers that feed the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as part of an effort to reduce the numbers of the voracious nonnative fish and protect threatened salmon runs.
– Redding Record Searchlight
More:www.redding.com
Alaska coalmine foes sue
Two groups opposed to a proposed coal mine across Cook Inlet from Anchorage said state officials have ignored an application for water rights that could protect salmon in the area.
– Anchorage Daily News
More:www.adn.com
Cheap money for fishermen
The Alaska Commercial Fishing and Agriculture Bank (CFAB) will be lowering its lending interest rate by 2 percent on existing and new loans effective Jan. 1, 2012.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy writing in his blog: Deckboss
More:deckboss.blogspot.com
They use dogs in fish mercury research
Researchers in Alaska studied dogs to learn how the buildup of mercury in fish curbs the power of antioxidants.
– Toronto Sun
More:www.torontosun.com
Fuglvog sentencing pushed back
The sentencing for a former fisheries aide to Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been pushed back again.
– Anchorage Daily News
More:www.adn.com
See you Monday
Mr. and Mrs. Fish Wrap, and all the little Wrappets, plan to be thankful for four days straight. We'll see you on Monday.
Thursday, November 24 - Friday, November 25
Thanksgiving Holiday.
