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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 35 Number 2
October 2007
NE council nixes herring 1A quota adjustment
PLYMOUTH, MA – Despite strong appeals from the directed herring industry and scientific and anecdotal information about an upsurge of herring in inshore waters, the New England Fishery Management Council voted against asking the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to boost the 45,000 metric ton (mt) quota for Area 1A for 2008 and 2009. ...continued
ME lobstermen turnout for FEIS, sink rope meeting
ELLSWORTH, ME – At the Maine Fishermen’s Forum last March, the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) announced it was going to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by two conservation groups to force the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to act on getting out new whale protection rules. At that time, MLA Executive Director Patrice McCarron asked the industry for contributions to help defray the legal costs of intervening in that lawsuit. ...continued
ASMFC approves Area 6 lobster v-notch plan
ALEXANDRIA, VA – After deeming the program to be “conservation equivalent” to a 1/16" increase in the minimum gauge, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) American Lobster Management Board voted on Aug. 13 to approve Connecticut’s comprehensive v-notch plan for all of Area 6, encompassing both the New York and Connecticut sides of Long Island Sound. ...continued
O’Haras celebrate 100 Years in the fishing business
ROCKLAND, ME – The O’Hara family and its patriarch, Francis “Frank” J. O’Hara, celebrated a combined 100th anniversary of being in the fishing business and vessel christening at its complex along Tillson Ave. in Rockland on Sept. 1. ...continued
RI council clarifies aquaculture authority
NARRAGANSETT, RI – The Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Council addressed a number of new business issues, including updates on aquaculture management, legislative proposals, and whelk recommendations during its Sept. 10 meeting. ....continued
MA backs off Outer Cape maximum lobster size
WESTON, MA – During its Sept. 6 meeting, the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Commission took action on a number of proposals that went out to public hearing late in August regarding the lobster, squid, and smooth dogfish fisheries. ...continued
$500,00 ME grant to finance capital improvements at Portland Fish Pier
PORTLAND, ME – The Portland Fish Pier now has some money in the bank to pay for much needed infrastructure improvement and to diversify the space currently occupied by the Portland Fish Exchange. ...continued
More funds available for Maine float rope exchange program
KENNEBUNK, ME – The Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation has received funding for Phase II of its Bottom Line Project, a voluntary groundline rope exchange. ...continued
Portland Fish Exchange hires new general manager
PORTLAND, ME – The Portland Fish Exchange has a new general manager.
Bert Jongerden was hired by the exchange’s board of directors in August to take on the job of managing the exchange and its seafood display auction. ...continued
Maine Zone C hatchery tests lobster enhancement
STONINGTON, ME – Nearing the end of its second season of operation, the Zone C Lobster Hatchery here is a collaborative effort, initiated and supported by fishermen, with the Stonington-based Penobscot East Resource Center (PERC) providing operational and staffing support. ...continued
Cod nursery dream growing on Martha’s Vineyard
WEST TISBURY, MA– American cod, once common in Martha’s Vineyard waters, hasn’t been fished here for years. But a group made up of Vineyard fishermen and others want to do something about that: They are talking about creating a nursery operation to raise cod for release to replenish the local population. ...continued
Hughes pioneered lobster hatchery science
OAK BLUFFS, MA – The Massachusetts State Lobster Hatchery and Research Station on Martha’s Vineyard hasn’t hatched juvenile lobsters since 1995. Today, the facility’s second floor offices are busy but the ground floor is full of empty plastic and fiberglass tanks. The electric saltwater pumps haven’t run for a while. ...continued
Urchin hatchery goal to supply sustainable fishery
LUBEC, ME – On Water Street in Lubec, just north of the bridge to Campobello Island, sits the R.J. Peacock Canning Company. On the back side of this historic building, past piles of processing equipment, old line, chain, and other waterfront clutter, emerge two small, black polyethylene pipes. The pipes run into the nearby channel, and they don’t begin to tell the story of the facility that sits just inside – the region’s most productive hatchery for the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis. ...continued
NH’s GreatBay zeros in on cod aquaculture
NEWINGTON, NH – Is Atlantic cod the next big species in American aquaculture? The principals at GreatBay Aquaculture think it could be and last year were successful in convincing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that the idea was worth further investigation. ...continued
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