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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 37 Number 5
January 2010
Tough choices: Scarce yellowtail allocated
NEWPORT, RI – The New England Fishery Management Council has decided to allocate enough yellowtail flounder to scallopers in 2010 to cover what they likely will encounter as bycatch during normal fishing activities. ...continued
Fishing industry petition aimed at stopping US FWS support for bluefin CITES listing
SALEM, NH – The fishing industry has launched a campaign to stop what it increasingly believes is the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) intent to support an international ban on the trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna. ...continued
Cumulative missteps capsized Costa & Corvo
WOODS HOLE, MA – In what has become an all too familiar story to marine safety experts, Coast Guard investigators have concluded that the sinking of the 74' New Bedford-based Costa & Corvo was the result of a series of missteps over time that added up to suddenly destabilize the vessel, causing it to capsize. ...continued
New England council votes Channel stays open; scallop days cut in 2010
NEWPORT, RI – Although scallop fishermen were successfully able to avert a proposed new area closure in the Great South Channel, they ended up being deeply disappointed with the New England Fishery Management Council’s decision to sharply reduce days-at-sea and access-area trips for the 2010 fishing year. ...continued
Mass DMF asks NMFS to reconsider 2010 open area scallop days
BOSTON, MA – Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) Director Paul Diodati has asked National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Regional Administrator Pat Kurkul to reconsider the New England Fishery Management Council’s mid-November decision to allocate fewer open-area days-at-sea to scallopers in 2010. ...continued
Scallop FW 21 to reduce turtle interactions
NEWPORT, RI – Scallopers working in the Mid-Atlantic next year will have to abide by additional restrictions to further minimize the impact of incidental takes on sea turtles. ...continued
ICCAT ratchets down eastern bluefin quotas
RECIFE, BRAZIL – Under intense pressure from environmental groups to radically slash bluefin tuna catches in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, more than 350 delegates from 39 member nations gathered here Nov. 9-15 for the 21st meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). ...continued
NE council seeks ‘status quo’ for red crabs
NEWPORT, RI – Acknowledging that market complications severely curtailed landings in 2007, the New England Fishery Management Council has recommended to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) that it reject a 2007-based target total allowable catch (TAC) alternative for the Atlantic deep-sea red crab fishery. ...continued
Herring cuts prompt ME statewide meeting
AUGUSTA, ME – Maine lobstermen, bait dealers, and local and state politicians and officials gathered at the Augusta Civic Center on Dec. 1 to discuss the impact of herring quota cuts for the 2010 fishing season and beyond. ...continued
Fleet Fisheries opens retail market; better prices to consumers, boats
NEW BEDFORD, MA – Word of a good thing travels fast, and if the crowds of hungry customers are any indication, then Fleet Fisheries Inc.’s new Fisherman’s Market is going to be a huge success. ...continued
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