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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 34 Number 4
December 2006
ASMFC shrimp section sets 151-day season
PORTSMOUTH, NH – Unanimously supportive of industry’s request for a longer season, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Northern Shrimp Section met here on Nov. 6 and added 11 days to its previous “conditional commitment” to a 140-day 2006-2007 fishery. ...continued
Year of new boats documents trend to ‘bigger’
STONINGTON, ME – No, it’s not just your imagination. Lobster boats are getting bigger. A lot bigger.
Commercial Fisheries News has a unique vantage point for reaching that conclusion. Throughout the year, we cover launches of new boats in the Northeast region. Admittedly, we don’t get them all. But with the help of boat builders, many of whom are located in Maine, engine suppliers, and owners, we are on hand or follow up on a good portion of new boat launches in the region. ...continued
Area 1A closes to herring boats; bait, canning supplies tighten up
KENNEBUNK, ME – Bait dealers from Maine to Gloucester were scrambling to get bait for the lobster fishery as herring boats everywhere tied up following the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) announcement that 95% of the total allowable catch (TAC) of Area 1A herring would be harvested by Oct. 21 and the fishery in the area would be limited to bycatch levels. ...continued
‘Eliminator Trawl’ nets clean haddock catches
NARRAGANSETT, RI – The federal Cooperative Research Partners Program (CRPP) funded the research project entitled “Bycatch Reduction in the Directed Haddock Bottom Trawl Fishery” in 2004. This project investigated the use of a large-mesh squid net equipped with a rockhopper sweep to fish for haddock, while reducing the catch of other groundfish. One goal of the research was to develop a net to access haddock in a B-days-at-sea program. ...continued
LCMTs work on SNE lobster rebuilding
ATLANTIC BEACH, NC –Three Lobster Conservation Management Teams (LCMTs) have submitted recommendations to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) for rebuilding the Southern New England lobster stock, which now covers Long Island Sound and offshore waters as well as fishing grounds off Massachusetts and Rhode Island. ...continued
RI adopts Area 2 lobster effort control plan
PROVIDENCE, RI – Moving to meet the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) demand to cap effort in the Area 2 lobster fishery, Rhode Island’s Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has approved a trap allocation program that will limit the number of traps fished by the state’s lobstermen. ...continued
ASMFC increases state waters dogfish quota
ATLANTIC BEACH, NC – In a move that industry called “a step in the right direction,” the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Spiny Dogfish and Coastal Sharks Management Board voted on Oct. 24 to increase the 2006-2007 dogfish quota by 2 million pounds. ...continued
ASMFC lobster board trims Amd. 5 to three issues
ATLANTIC BEACH, NC – The majority of lobstermen who turned out in September for public information meetings on Amendment 5 to the interstate lobster plan told the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) that, with the exception of a uniform v-notch definition, they’d rather stick with the current area-by-area management system than shift toward standardized measures across the range of the resource. ...continued
GOMLF urging ME lobstermen to return rope exchange surveys
KENNEBUNK, ME – Any Maine lobsterman who has not received and returned a survey from The Bottom Line Project is being asked to contact the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation (GOMLF) to get one and fill it out. ...continued
Project tags, tracks Gulf of Maine lobsters
NEW BEDFORD, MA – A number of Gulf of Maine lobstermen have seen something new as they’ve been hauling their traps this fall – lobsters sporting bright yellow streamer tags. ...continued
ASMFC votes to reduce Area 1A herring TAC
ATLANTIC BEACH, NC – Garnering the necessary two-thirds majority required to overturn a previous action, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Atlantic Herring Section voted on Oct. 24 to reduce the total allowable catch (TAC) in Area 1A – the inshore Gulf of Maine – to 50,000 metric tons (mt). ...continued
Fishermen, gear specialists trade ideas at ICES
BOSTON, MA – The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) devoted the last day of its Oct. 30-Nov. 3 symposium held at the Seaport Hotel on Boston’s commercial waterfront to a special stakeholder forum. ...continued
NC winter bluefin fishery still an option
MOREHEAD CITY, NC – Although the 2006 bluefin tuna fishery has been pretty much a bust in New England, some fishermen are gearing up for the start of the winter fishery in North Carolina. ...continued
ASMFC board locked over summer flounder
ATLANTIC BEACH, NC – In a stunning reversal of a decision it had made just minutes earlier on Oct. 25, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board “reconsidered” – and then shot down – its initial vote to adopt a 19.9-million-pound 2007 total allowable landings (TAL) limit for summer flounder. ...continued
NFI-SMC announces RSA quota auction to raise research funds
CAPE MAY, NJ – This year’s auction of research set-aside (RSA) quota by the National Fisheries Institute-Scientific Monitoring Committee (NFI-SMC) will be held on Dec. 18. ...continued
Workman is back on the lobster credit beat
BOSTON, MA – There’s a familiar face on the waterfront these days. After a five-year sabbatical of sorts, Neal Workman is knocking on doors and once again offering lobster dealers throughout New England and Canada’s Maritime Provinces his credit-check and collection expertise. ...continued
ASMFC board adopts 10% lobster trap tax for Area 2
ATLANTIC BEACH, NC – Area 2 lobstermen who transfer traps among each other will be subject to a new 10% “conservation tax.”
The measure is intended to help “sustain the lobster resource by passively reducing traps in the Area 2 fishery,” according to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC). ...continued
ME begins red tide relief distribution; clammer applications due Dec. 12
AUGUSTA, ME – Shellfish harvesters, growers, and primary dealers in Maine are inching closer to receiving compensation for their losses from the devastating red tide event that shut down the industry for months in 2005. ...continued
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