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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 38 Number 3
November 2010
Enforcement abuse update: IG report; NOAA actions
WASHINGTON, DC – Late in September, Commerce Department Inspector General (IG) Todd Zinser released a follow-up report to the one he issued in January that raised serious questions about federal fisheries enforcement and prosecution practices, especially in the Northeast. The new document provides details on more in-depth investigations into specific complaints of unfair treatment. ...continued
Scallop Amendment 15: Disagreement as strong as it gets
NEWPORT, RI – Amendment 15 to the federal scallop plan was three years in the making. It contains a number of important measures, including badly needed fixes to the research set-aside program and some rather significant changes to the general category individual fishing quota program. ...continued
NE council rejects scallop permit stacking
NEWPORT, RI – Scallopers will not be allowed to stack permits under Amendment 15 to the federal scallop plan.
The New England Fishery Management Council reached this verdict during its Sept. 28-30 meeting here before a roomful of deeply divided industry members. ...continued
NE council shoots down scallop leasing option
NEWPORT, RI – With permit stacking off the table for the scallop fishery, the New England Fishery Management Council then took up the difficult issue of permit leasing on Sept. 29 during an extremely intense meeting. ...continued
Trip limit boosted for gen cat IFQ scallopers
NEWPORT, RI – The New England Fishery Management Council has approved several significant changes to the general category scallop fishery’s individual fishing quota (IFQ) program under Amendment 15 to the federal scallop plan. ...continued
NMFS’s Schwaab OKs in-depth fishery management review in New England
NEWPORT, RI – National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Director Eric Schwaab has authorized an extensive review of the fishery management process in New England that will utilize input from potentially hundreds of fishermen, scientists, fishery managers, state officials, and community leaders across a broad spectrum of interests. ...continued
NE council seeks skate wing emergency action
NEWPORT, RI – Responding to desperate cries for help from industry, the New England Fishery Management Council has asked the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to take emergency action to increase the skate wing possession limit to “ensure that optimum yield is reached in the skate fishery.” ...continued
Georges bluefin beckon small boats despite big risks
GLOUCESTER, MA – Scores of small boats from Gloucester and adjacent ports, many in the 30'-to-40' range and some even smaller, did the unthinkable this fall. They and their two-to-three-man crews fished for bluefin tuna on the northern edge of Georges Bank near the Hague Line. ...continued
Extensive research implicates bacteria in lobster shell disease
KINGSTON, RI – There are significant differences between lobsters with shell disease and those with no symptoms of the disease. That was a major conclusion of the ninth annual Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium titled “New Approaches to Understanding Emerging Marine Diseases: From Science to Management.” ...continued
Maine DMR, SAC move ahead on scallop rules, ask for public input
HALLOWELL, ME – The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) and the Scallop Advisory Council (SAC) are gearing up for a busy winter season of management discussions and are looking for feedback and suggestions from the public. ...continued
Editorial
US must embrace bluefin stock news at ICCAT
In a remarkable turn of events, there was extremely encouraging news coming from scientists in the run-up to the Nov. 17-27 meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). ...continued
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