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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 37 Number 3
November 2009
Yellowtail ACL could crush scallop fleet
PLYMOUTH, MA – Scallopers have known for months that the situation could be grim, but during the New England Fishery Management Council’s mid-September meeting here, the reality became all too clear. There will not – absolutely will not – be enough yellowtail flounder quota available to fill the needs of both ...continued
Scallop Amd. 15 advances; spring hearings likely
PLYMOUTH, MA – After nearly two years of wrangling over complicated and immensely controversial issues, the New England Fishery Management Council met here Sept. 22-24 and signed off on a wide range of alternatives for Amendment 15 to the federal scallop plan. ...continued
Scallop industry split over permit stacking, leasing
PLYMOUTH, MA – Limited-access scallopers up and down the Atlantic seaboard are bitterly divided over whether vessel owners should be allowed to stack two permits onto one boat and/or lease days-at-sea and access-area trips among each other. ...continued
FW 21 proposes new scallop area closure, 2010 specs
NEWBURYPORT, MA – The New England Fishery Management Council is proposing to create a new scallop rotational area in the Great South Channel under Framework Adjustment (FW) 21 to the scallop plan. ...continued
Scallopers irate over set-aside shortfall
NEWBURYPORT, MA – Framework Adjustment 21 to the federal scallop plan is proposing a few modifications to the industry’s observer set-aside program. ...continued
Northern shrimp stock looks ‘good’ for 2010
PORTLAND, ME – After years of hobbling along, the tide may have turned for Northern shrimp fishermen.
The shrimp stock is healthy. The population is made up of multiple “above-average” year classes. And the five-year-old shrimp that promise to make up the 2010 fishery should be beautiful. ...continued
US, Canada disagree on Georges yellowtail TAC
PLYMOUTH, MA – The US/Canada Transboundary Management Guidance Committee (TMGC) could not reach agreement this fall on a 2010 total allowable catch (TAC) for Georges Bank yellowtail flounder, which has put the US in an extremely difficult position. ...continued
CITES threat hangs over US dogfish industry
NEW BEDFORD, MA – With spiny dogfish blanketing the ocean to the point that fishermen often can’t avoid them, it’s hard to believe that the very future of the commercial fishery is in doubt. ...continued
ME rope exchange, ghost gear projects funded
KENNEBUNK, ME – Maine lobstermen who weren’t able to participate in the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation’s Bottom Line Project rope exchange when funding ran out will have another chance later this year. ...continued
Repowers begin under ME program; new applications still accepted
STONINGTON, ME – Federal stimulus money began making its way into Maine fishing communities this fall through the Maine Clean Marine Engine Program. ...continued
ME working waterfront program helps build new Isle au Haut pier
ISLE AU HAUT, ME – Work has begun on another of the growing list of projects designed to preserve working waterfront in the state of Maine, this time to replace Isle au Haut’s 50-year-old pier with a brand new structure that is 60% larger and will be equipped with a new mechanical hoist and ramp for accessing adjacent town-owned floats. ...continued
Bluefin CITES trade ban: Everything depends on ICCAT
WASHINGTON, DC – The US government will not co-sponsor a proposal, formally submitted by the Principality of Monaco, to ban trade of bluefin tuna under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which meets in March. ...continued
FISH SAFE
Do the math; support new safety measures
The loss of 43-year-old Jaime Ortiz, who fell from the Gloucester-based Dominatrix on Oct. 13 while the 39' lobster boat was approximately three miles from shore, has once again put this fishing community in mourning. ...continued
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