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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 32 Number 11
July 2005
NMFS lifts haddock ban on herring boats
GLOUCESTER, MA – The herring midwater trawl fleet can go back to Georges Bank this summer without fear of being hit with large fines for inadvertently running into small amounts of haddock. ...continued
Herring/haddock emergency action
The emergency rule published in the Federal Register on June 13 by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) lifted the zero-haddock possession limit for Category 1 herring vessels and implemented a new 1,000-pound haddock limit. ...continued
Block team documents east-west tuna mixing
PACIFIC GROVE, CA - Eastern and western Atlantic bluefin tuna populations spend enough time in each other’s backyards to warrant a significant change in international management policy. ...continued
Block paper stirs praise, controversy
DURHAM, NH - The scientific paper on bluefin tuna migration patterns published by Stanford University researcher Barbara Block this spring has stirred up both praise and controversy. ...continued
Eric Hesse: Committed to fishing, Cape Cod
HARWICH PORT, MA - At the end of the second week in June, Eric Hesse was down at Saquatucket Harbor on Nantucket Sound starting to get his boat, the 34' Tenacious, ready for bluefin tuna season. ...continued
2005 bluefin rule restores general, harpoon quotas
GLOUCESTER, MA - The rules for the 2005 bluefin tuna season were announced on June 1, the start of the commercial fishing season, marking the first time in years that the annual specifications have come out anywhere close to on time. ...continued
Scientists rethink how to assess lobsters
WASHINGTON, DC – Lobster stock assessment scientists are revolutionizing how they determine the status of the American lobster resource. ...continued
Scallopers back turtle chains, gear research
BARNEGAT LIGHT, NJ – Prompted by a request from industry, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has published a proposed rule to require the use of “turtle chains” on scallop dredge boats fishing in the Mid-Atlantic each year from May through November. ...continued
Fishermen air cooperative research gripes
SEABROOK, NH - Emotions were raging as hard as the northeast gale outside on May 24 when 20 northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire coastal groundfishermen held a meeting with a single question in mind: Is cooperative research a racket or research? ...continued
Watch out for tags! Rewards for juvenile bluefin returns
DURHAM, NH - There’s a new bluefin tagging project going on this year, and participating scientists are asking fishermen – especially general category guys who opt to charter – to be on the lookout for juvenile fish with archival tags implanted in their bodies. ...continued
ME hires Robbins as whale gear specialist to develop low profile groundline
WEST BOOTHBAY HARBOR, ME - Maine lobstermen could be faced with a requirement to eliminate the use of floating rope in their groundlines in the next few years. ...continued
Clouds part for hot racing at Boothbay Harbor
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, ME - Maybe Charlie Begin was looking down on the race course and, to gain a better view, swept aside the fog and rain squalls that had threatened to postpone the opening round of the 2005 Maine Lobster Boat Racing series, which was held here the morning of Saturday, June 18. ...continued
White to retire as ME Lobstermen’s Association CEO
KENNEBUNK, ME – So the saying goes, “All good things must come to an end.” And that time has come for Pat White, who has decided to wrap up his tenure as chief executive officer (CEO) of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) effective Dec. 31. ...continued
DMR council approves limited entry for Zone A
AUGUSTA, ME - When the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) Advisory Council met here on June 15, they faced making a tough decision on whether to limit entry into lobster Zone A. ...continued
New Zone C lobster hatchery well underway in Stonington, Maine
STONINGTON, ME - The lobster hatchery project in lobster Zone C was well underway in late June, with the first year’s fund-raising goal in hand and construction of the facility in progress. ...continued
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