Saving Seafood

Documentary focuses on decline of fishery

May 18, 2016 — New Hampshire Public Television is set to debut its fishing documentary, “Saving New England Fisheries,” on Thursday. As with the subject it covers, the documentary raises far more questions than it answers.

The bullet points of the hour-long documentary, which was produced in conjunction with New Hampshire Sea Grant, are familiar to any fisherman, fishing family or fishing stakeholder on Cape Ann.

The documentary, which debuts Thursday night at 9, is scheduled to air five more times within the next week on New Hampshire Public Television. It is also scheduled to air on WGBH in Boston on Friday at 9 p.m., as well as being available for online viewing beginning Friday.

The producers of “Saving New England Fisheries” touch on the history of the Northeast multispecies groundfishery and the demise of some species — most notably the iconic cod — against the forces of fishing and climate change.

Read the full story at the Gloucester Times

‘Saving New England Fisheries’ to air on New Hampshire Public Television

May 16, 2016 — PORTSMOUTH, NH — The documentary “Saving New England Fisheries” was premiered during a screening on Friday night at the Sheraton in Portsmouth.

The hourlong special, created for New Hampshire Public Television, is hosted by Willem Lange. It traces the history of groundfishing in the Gulf of Maine, and balances the work scientists are doing to conserve natural resources against the need for commercial fishermen to make a living from the ocean.

One of the fishermen featured in the film is David Goethel, owner of the 44-foot fishing trawler Ellen Diane out of Hampton. Goethel is suing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over its at-sea monitoring program in federal court. He said that he has had to pay for in-person monitors since March, at the cost of approximately $700 per trip.

The government used to cover that cost.

Read the full story at the Manchester Union Leader

COMMERCIAL FISHERIES NEWS: Reflections from the other side of a cod crisis on “The Rock”

September 2, 2015 — A few weeks ago, I traveled with a film crew from New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV) to Newfoundland.

While there, we visited with scientists and fishermen to see what we could learn about their experiences since the 1992 Cod Moratorium.

The trip was for a new NHPTV documentary being produced in partnership with NH Sea Grant/UNH Cooperative Extension about the groundfish crisis here in the Gulf of Maine.

We were particularly curious about what we’d find since cod stocks are finally beginning to recover and Newfoundlanders may be on the ‘other side’ of their cod crisis.

Read the full opinion piece at Commercial Fisheries News