April 30, 2015 โ The following was released by the Maine Department of Marine Resources:
Cabral seeks $450,000 for SMAST project
DARTMOUTH, Mass. โ April 28, 2015 โ UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Divina Grossman and officials from the Universityโs School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST) praised legislators in the House of Representatives Tuesday for their continued commitment to invest in fisheries research to pursue accurate data.
An amendment, filed by Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral, would provide $450,000 for the Division of Marine Fisheries in collaboration with UMass Dartmouth to assess the biomass of fish.
โI want to thank Chairman Cabral and his House colleagues who have demonstrated how valuable this funding is to the important collaborative research at SMAST,โ said Grossman in a news release. โUMass Dartmouth is fully committed to research that strengthens the scientific basis for fisheries management, which is critical to the social and economic development of the region.โ
LOUISIANA: Why pogies for speckled trout fishing?
April 29, 2015 โ Pogies are readily available in good numbers and are easy to catch if you can throw a cast net.
Steve Shook is known for two things: using live pogies to catch big speckled trout and fishing the rocks of East Timbalier Island.
Shook has notched up three 10-pound speckled trout in his life: a 10-pound, 1-ounce fish he took in December 1989 on a smoke-colored plastic shrimp on a jig; a 10-pound, 2-ounce fish caught in June 1989 on a live pogie near Belle Pass; and a 10-pound, 8-ounce fish taken with a live pogie from Fourchon Beach.
Note that none of the fish came from East Timbalier proper.
Strangely, the idea for fishing for speckled trout with live pogies came to him while he was slow-trolling with pogies on a down-rigger for king mackerel off of North Carolina. Pogies are excellent kingfish bait.
Read the full story from the Louisiana Sportsman
NEW YORK: Goodbye Seals, Hello Whales: City Marine Life Changes With Warmer Weather
April 28, 2015 โ One of the last seals of the season was spotted waving goodbye on the beach in Rockaway Park on Monday morning.
Springtime marks a changing of the guard in marine wildlife, as many seals move north out of our inlets and bays and Humpback Whales arrive from more southern waters.
Over the weekend, a seal, this one entangled in some kind of netting, was spotted in Brooklyn near Kingsborough Community College, according to the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, an organization that aids injured marine animals.
The Brooklyn seal darted back into the water before Riverhead workers could get to it.
The foundation encourages anyone who spots the injured seal or any other whale, seal or turtle to report it to its 24 hour hotline and help determine whether or not the animal is injured.
EPA: Moving some of New Bedford Harborโs PCBs offsite most โcost-effectiveโ plan
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. โ April 27, 2015 โ The EPAโs decision to ship PCB-contaminated material from the harbor offsite rather than burying it on the shoreline is a positive step but does not mean the clean-up fight is over, officials for the Buzzards Bay Coalition said Friday.
The EPA announced at an educational meeting Thursday that plans to place PCB-laden contaminants in confined disposal facilities, known as CDFs, have been scrapped. Instead, the material will be shipped to a PCP-regulated landfill in Michigan.
Environmentalists, including representatives of the Buzzards Bay Coalition, had raised concerns that these disposal facilities could expose residents to airborne PCBs and other potential hazards.
After studying the issue, the EPA decided that shipping the material offsite rather than keeping it on the shoreline was the โmost effective and efficientโโ solution, said Kelsey OโNeil, community involvement coordinator for the EPA.
Read the full story from the New Bedford Standard-Times
MASSACHUSETTS: Port Society, Fishing Heritage Center part ways
NEW BEDFORD โ April 27 โ The Port Society of New Bedford has ended its partnership with the fledgling Fishing Heritage Center just months after it was announced.
Late last year the two parties announced the Heritage Center would be located in the Marinersโ Home, which is about to undergo a restoration. Part of the Heritage Center was to be in the Seamenโs Bethel, which will be connected to the Marinersโ Home by a glass corridor.
The project is the recipient of a conditional $440,000 Massachusetts Cultural Council facilities grant, which requires matching funds from the Port Society.
Fred Toomey, president of the Port Society, described what appears to be a mutual misunderstanding of what was to be done with the Heritage Center. โWe were working together and everything was moving forward at a good pace,โ Toomey said. โThey established themselves as a 501(c)3 (nonprofit organization). Then things kind of fell apart.
Read the full story from the New Bedford Standard-Times
New Bedford remains nationโs most valuable port
April 22, 2015 โ This seaport landed $379 million worth of seafood in 2013, mostly scallops, making it the leading U.S. fishing port in terms of dollar amount of fish and seafood landed.
New Bedford and the Hampton Roads area of Virginia were the only two ports on the Atlantic coast that rank in the top 20 American ports in terms of value.
The numbers are according to the United States Seafood Report issued by Icelandic bank รslandsbanki's research department.
WASHINGTON: Oyster growers win permit for new anti-shrimp spray in bay
April 21, 2015 โ A new permit issued by the Washington Department of Ecology will allow shellfish growers to use a nicotine-like pesticide to combat a growing native population of burrowing shrimp that threaten valuable shellfish beds in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor. However, some locals and environmentalists say the pesticide, Imidacloprid, will do more harm than good.
The shellfish industry is huge in the Pacific Northwest, injecting an estimated $270 million or more into the regionโs economy, according to NOAA. It supplies thousands of people with jobs. Washingtonโs tidelands โ especially those in Willapa Bay โ have been particularly productive for more than 100 years.
Burrowing shrimp undermine this industry, shellfish growers say. The creatures do exactly what their name suggests: they burrow into shellfish beds, making the beds too soft for shellfish cultivation. Their burrowing churns the tidelands into a sticky muck, smothering the oysters.
โThe shellfish industry is a key economic contributor in Washingtonโs coastal areas and, by issuing this permit, we can help protect the economic vitality of these family businesses for years to come,โ said Sally Toteff, director for Ecologyโs Southwest Region, in a statement April 16.
NORTH CAROLINA: Great cause, help needed; Operation North State fish day needs volunteers
April 21, 2015 โ When it comes to giving back to our veterans who suffered from injury, both physical and psychological, few do it better than Operation North State.
Terry Snyder and the staff of volunteers give men and women who served our country so faithfully an opportunity to fish on waterways across North Carolina. On April 30 Operation North State will be on Badin Lake at the Drive Access Area where 50 volunteer fishermen will pair up with a wounded or disabled veteran for a day of fun on the water. TI runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
According to Snyder, the Badin Lake Top Shelf Fishinโ Festival is coming along nicely. But thereโs always room for more. Snyder has asked anyone willing to donate food, money or time to contact him.
He also needs 12 boaters who are willing to give a day of their life to someone who donated much more for everyone in this country and other countries as well. He also says he has room for five more wounded/disabled veterans.
Read the full story from the Montgomery Herald
VIDEO: Local fishermen concerned over possible fishing restrictions off SC coast
LITTLE RIVER, S.C. โ April 20, 2015 โ Monday, local fisherman voiced their concerns over The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council's proposed expansion on prohibited federal fishing zones off the South Carolina coast.
The organization, run by the federal government, protects endangered Atlantic fish species from North Carolina to Florida.
Some local fisherman walked out during the meeting after they heard the areas and methods proposed to protect snapper and grouper species off the coast.
"Council is considering closing some pretty substantial economically important areas of fishing ground off the shore here,โ said Chris Conklin.
Conklin is a local representative for the management council.
He says the group now considers three possibilities a one square mile, a 3.1 square mile, and a 13 square mile protected zone off the Georgetown Coast.
Conklin, a fisherman himself in Murrells Inlet, realizes the possibilities of closing this area.
Read the full story and watch the video from WBTW
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