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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 37 Number 10
June 2010
Scallopers ramp up efforts to avoid yellowtail
NEW BEDFORD, MA – Determined to prevent a repeat of last year’s problems in Closed Area II, scallopers are signing up to voluntarily participate in a “yellowtail flounder bycatch avoidance system” for this year’s Nantucket Lightship Access Area fishery. ...continued
SNE lobster stock in ‘recruitment failure’; TC calls for five-year fishing moratorium
ALEXANDRIA, VA – In a jaw-dropping development, biologists have called for a five-year harvesting moratorium on the Southern New England lobster stock after deeming it to be in “recruitment failure.” ...continued
Herring landing days set for June; more coming
PORTSMOUTH, NH – Fishermen will be able to land Atlantic herring from Area 1A on 10 different days between June 1 and July 5.
The allowable landing days are June 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 29 and July 5. All other days in-between are designated as “days out” of the fishery. ...continued
Groundfish: Are ‘accumulation limits’ next?
MYSTIC, CT – Now that groundfish sectors appear to be here to stay, the New England Fishery Management Council is asking a new question: Should it put “accumulation limits” on sectors or even individual permit holders to prevent them from gathering “excessive shares” – or too much quota – in the fishery? ...continued
New England council initiative
Groundfish, skate, monkfish plan consolidation
MYSTIC, CT – In what could turn out to be one of its most challenging initiatives yet, the New England Fishery Management Council has agreed to “pursue” consolidating three of its major fishery management plans (FMPs) – groundfish, skates, and monkfish. ...continued
Debate intensifies over groundfish permit buybacks; pollock, GOM winter flounder catches threatening
MYSTIC, CT – As fishermen were struggling to adapt to an entirely new way of fishing under Amendment 16’s sector and common pool strategy, the New England Fishery Management Council took several steps to potentially alleviate at least some pressure on the fleet in the days ahead. ...continued
Shrimp section closes 2010 season 24 days early
PORTSMOUTH, NH – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Northern Shrimp Section took emergency action during an April 30 telephone conference call to close the 2010 shrimp season on May 5 instead of May 29. ...continued
Herring monitoring: Where’s the money?
MYSTIC, CT – One of the primary objectives of Amendment 5 to the federal Atlantic herring plan is to improve catch monitoring of both landings and discards in the fishery.
But it’s now all too clear that catch monitoring is going to be expensive. And so far, there’s no clear-cut way to pay for it. ...continued
Herring small-mesh addendum fails on tie vote
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Small-mesh bottom trawl (SMBT) fishermen will have to land herring this year under the same days-out schedule as the directed herring fleet. ...continued
Herring assessment on track for June 2012
MYSTIC, CT – Despite the grim reality of a 26,546-metric-ton (mt) total allowable catch (TAC) for Area 1A for the next three fishing years, herring industry members and managers have come to consensus that waiting until June 2012 for a new “benchmark” stock assessment will best serve everyone in the long run. ...continued
Herring border transfers prickly due to low TAC, sardine plant closure
MYSTIC, CT – The long-standing practice of issuing permits to Canadian carrier vessels to transship herring caught by US fishermen into Canada for sardine processing has become even thornier this year for two reasons. ...continued
Scientists warn: Don’t directly compare Bigelow, Albatross IV survey catches
WOODS HOLE, MA – No doubt about it, the Northeast region’s new survey vessel, the Henry B. Bigelow, catches more fish than her predecessor, the Albatross IV. ...continued
Skate possession limit expected to increase
MYSTIC, CT – It wasn’t a done deal at press time, but almost everyone involved expected the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) would soon significantly increase the skate wing possession limit for the 2010 and 2011 fishing years. ...continued
Downeast Cod Academy will train fishermen to farm
WISCASSET, ME – Keenly aware that vital employment opportunities in coastal communities are limited and vulnerable, several groups have formed a partnership to provide training for Downeast Maine fishermen in a brand new industry – cod farming. ...continued
Lobster settlement ’09: Southern New England worrisome; Eastern Maine-Bay of Fundy encouraging
WALPOLE, ME – The 2009 Lobster Settlement Index, a cooperative research effort by scientists and fishermen from Canada through Rhode Island, shows a continued dip in the numbers of young-of-the-year and juvenile lobsters counted in most sampled areas along the coast and offshore. ...continued
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