COMMERCE
Subscriber Services
Classified Ads
Subscribe
Advertise
NEWS
This Month
Editorial
Letters
F/V Safety
Past Issues
ABOUT US
Contact Us
Latest Issue
Subscribe
History
MORE CONTENT
CFN Archives
Links
Each month exclusively in the PRINT edition of CFN
Along the Coast
Ask the Lobster Doc
Bearin’s
Classifieds
Coming Events
Editorial
Enforcement Report
FISH SAFE
Fleet Additions
Letters
Lobster Market Report
New Boats
News Catch
Quahog Market Report
|
Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 33 Number 12
August 2005
Scallopers looking at new ’06-’07 rotation
PORTLAND, ME – Scallopers will be working under a revised area rotation schedule and new days-at-sea allocations during the 2006 and 2007 fishing years. ...continued
Scallop general category proposed changes in FW 18
PORTLAND, ME – The New England Fishery Management Council has decided to include new proposals in Framework Adjustment 18 to deal with burgeoning landings and rapid growth in the general category scallop fishery, where permit holders are allowed to harvest up to 400 pounds of meats per trip. ...continued
Allocation issues prompt new council policy
PORTLAND, ME – Following a series of meetings with industry advisers to solicit advice about allocation, capacity, and the use of various management tools, the New England Fishery Management Council adopted a new “conservation and management policy” that will guide its future decision-making. ...continued
Allocation policy statement
The following is the new conservation and management policy adopted by the New England Fishery Management Council on June 21 in Portland, ME. The policy will be used to guide the council’s future decision-making. ...continued
NE council ‘prefers’ strictest herring alternative
PORTLAND, ME – Concerned about localized depletion and overcapacity in Area 1A, the New England Fishery Management Council voted to send its strictest proposal out to public hearing as a “preferred alternative” for Amendment 1 to the federal herring plan. ...continued
Fishermen call for end to GOM rolling closures
PORTLAND, ME – Small boat fishermen from New Hampshire, Gloucester, and Cape Cod sent a resounding message to the New England Fishery Management Council this spring and early summer by collectively pleading for an end to inshore rolling closures, especially in blocks 124, 125, 132, and 133 in the Gulf of Maine. ...continued
Hudson Canyon scallop decline cause for action
PORTLAND, ME – The enormous biomass of scallops that for years fueled an extremely productive fishery in the Hudson Canyon area has been fished down. Scallopers no longer catch their 18,000-pound limit in record time or even at the rate of 1,500 pounds per day over 12 days. ...continued
Bluefin grading records show quality decline
DURHAM, NH - While New England fishermen have been frustrated by the shortage of bluefin close to home in recent years, something even more insidious has been happening in the fishery – the quality of the bluefin they have managed to catch in the Gulf of Maine has declined significantly. ...continued
Guest Column-
Where do bluefin spawn? Another point of view
I have to come out of retirement to rebut what I feel is misleading information on bluefin tuna spawning. Scientist Barbara Block, after many years of tagging large bluefin tuna with satellite tags and archival tags, came to the same conclusion that bluefin tuna researchers at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southeast Fisheries Center in Miami Beach reached in the 1960s: ...continued
Campbell’s penchant for detail makes bluefin tuna quality analysis possible
SEABROOK, NH - Bob Campbell is a self-described “pack rat,” someone who never throws anything away. That trait recently proved to be a godsend for researchers trying to document a perceived decline in bluefin tuna quality. ...continued
Herring Amendment 1; October hearings likely
For public hearing purposes, the New England Fishery Management Council has picked Alternative 7 as its “preferred alternative” for Amendment 1 to the federal Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Herring. ...continued
NMFS set to change overfishing guidelines
SILVER SPRING, MD - National Standard 1 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, which requires federal fishery managers to end overfishing and rebuild fish stocks, is getting something of a makeover. ...continued
NE council bids fond farewell to four members
PORTLAND, ME – In a bittersweet moment that marked a major changing of the guard, the New England Fishery Management Council paid tribute to four of its own on June 23. ...continued
Moosabec, Stonington events set stage for late season mayhem
STONINGTON, ME - With three races down and five left to go, the 2005 Maine lobster boat racing season has reached a savory juncture. At this point, anything might happen. It most likely won’t happen, but it could. In racing fans’ books, that’s the definition of “potential.” ...continued
Veteran NC industry advocate Jerry Schill moving on to farm life
NEW BERN, NC - After nearly two decades at the helm of the 750-member North Carolina Fisheries Association (NCFA), Jerry Schill is putting himself out to pasture in a manner of speaking.
...continued
|
|
Tell us what you think.
