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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 36 Number 12
August 2009
Wrung-out NE council passes groundfish Amd. 16
PORTLAND, ME – Roughly 200 exhausted people sat in a hotel meeting room June 24-25 as the New England Fishery Management Council worked its way through dozens of decisions for Amendment 16 to the federal groundfish plan. It was an awful two days. ...continued
Countries back CITES bluefin trade ban; US undecided
ARLINGTON, VA – Momentum is building on both sides of the Atlantic to severely restrict or even ban international trade of bluefin tuna in the run-up to next year’s meeting of nations that have signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, commonly known as CITES. ...continued
Common pool: 24-hr clock, 50% cut in days
PORTLAND, ME – Few are pretending that sector fishing will be a panacea, but the cold reality of what it will be like to fish within the common pool under Amendment 16 is now soberingly clear. ...continued
Council rejects drop chains in SNE/MA area
PORTLAND, ME – New York fishermen in particular let out a huge sigh of relief when the New England Fishery Management Council agreed on June 25 to eliminate a proposed drop-chain requirement from Amendment 16. ...continued
Sectors shoulder dockside, at-sea monitoring
PORTLAND, ME – Sector vessels will be heavily monitored both dockside and at sea once they begin operating in 2010, but the level of monitoring will be less burdensome than what was initially proposed. ...continued
Permit history to be sole factor for sector contributions
PORTLAND, ME – Of all the difficult and divisive issues in Amendment 16, the worst involved sector baseline calculations – the formulas to determine how permit history will be tabulated for sector members. ...continued
NE council eases rolling closures for sectors
PORTLAND, ME – Countless fishermen have been on the fence about whether to join sectors, but the New England Fishery Management Council made one pivotal Amendment 16 decision that, for many, may turn out to be the deciding factor. ...continued
Rec allocation angers commercial fishermen
PORTLAND, ME – Commercial fishermen expressed anger and deep frustration over the New England Fishery Management Council’s decision to use 2001-2006 as the Amendment 16 reference period for calculating allocation shares for the recreational fishery for Gulf of Maine cod and Gulf of Maine haddock. ...continued
Lobster coast copes with low prices
STONINGTON, ME – If media coverage could somehow pay off in higher boat prices, the lobster fleet would be sitting pretty. Both close to home and around the country, mainsteam media are telling the story of cheap lobsters. Consumers are hearing there is good value in eating lobsters now because not only are they fresh and locally caught, but they’re also more affordable than ever. ...continued
Fish advisories fail to consider value of mercury-selenium link
GRAND FORKS, ND – After years of extensive research, the University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center announced in June that results of environmental, laboratory, and human studies show that mercury levels in freshwater and ocean fish are not as harmful as previously thought. ...continued
LAC sends lobster tiered-license idea to zones
AUGUSTA, ME – The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) Lobster Advisory Council met on July 1 to review a preliminary proposal for a lobster harvester tiered-license system and agreed to send it out to the zone councils for feedback. ...continued
Maine slammed by red tide; thousands out of work
WEST BOOTHBAY HARBOR, ME – In mid-July, the coast of Maine was experiencing a staggering outbreak of red tide that forced the shutdown of nearly all of the state’s shellfish beds and threw approximately 3,000 harvesters and certified dealers out of work. ...continued
Industry to NMFS: Liberalize bluefin regs
PLYMOUTH, MA – About 30 industry people from as far away as New Jersey traveled to Plymouth on June 29 to tell the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) how it should go about easing fishing restrictions to give fishermen a better shot at landing US bluefin and swordfish quotas. ...continued
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