In Mixed Catch, NF Senior Editor Linc Bedrosian spotlights a wide range of commercial fishing-related news items from coast to coast.
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Maryland residents hoping to land a summer job, listen up! If you're planning to live or work in the Ocean City/Salisbury/Cambridge area this summer, the Oyster Recovery Partnership may have a job for you.
Thursday, 04 April 2013
Of all the writing that Charlie Ess, our North Pacific bureau chief, does for NF, I love his at-sea stories the most. Charlie really knows how to make a fishing trip come alive. And happily, we get to share another one of them with you in our May issue.
Tuesday, 02 April 2013
I hope everybody had a good chuckle over the April Fools edition of yesterday's newsletter. Certainly the folks in the historic but troubled Northeast groundfish fishery could use a laugh. But with massive cuts to Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank cod harvest quotas taking hold next month, I'm guessing that right now, nothing really seems funny to them.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu said the journey of a million miles begins with a single step. You'd almost think he had the lengthy Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization process in mind.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
It's been a long winter, but the calendar says spring has sprung. It doesn't look like it here in Portland, Maine, where Tuesday's storm brought the season's snowfall total in the city to 90 inches.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
It's pretty quiet in our Portland, Maine, headquarters today. That's because the office is closed thanks to what appears to be a nasty late winter snowstorm — apparently dubbed Ukko (pronounced YOU-ko) — that could dump about a foot of snow on our fair city and up to 18 inches to the north and west of us. Hence, most of our troops are working from home today.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Many people don't really know what fishermen's work entails; if they live in a coastal community, they may see the boats leaving or returning to port or maybe even get to watch a vessel's catch being offloaded. Yet they don't know how fishermen go about their jobs once the boats steam out of sight.
Thursday, 07 March 2013
April 20 will mark the third anniversary of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon well killed 11 workers and some 200 million gallons of oil gushed into the gulf before the well could be capped. Fishermen are still dealing with the spill's effects, as we show in the April issue of NF.
Thursday, 28 February 2013
As NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco sails off into the proverbial sunset today, a question usually reserved for presidential candidates comes to mind. Are fishermen better off today than they were four years ago? Northeast groundfishermen would say, "No."
Thursday, 21 February 2013
East of the Hague Line
By Gordon Holmes
Trafford Publishing, 2012
676 pp., hardcover, $35.44; softcover, $25.44; e-book, $3.99
www.trafford.com
There isn't a lot of down time on a fishing boat at sea, so it may take a fisherman some time to get through the more than 600 pages that make up Gordon Holmes' novel "East of the Hague Line." The good news is it's worth taking that time.
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Callifornia crabbing: Here's a fun video shot on the decks of the Majestik while catching Dungeness crab off the coast of northern California.
The United Fishermen of Alaska, a statewide commercial fishing industry trade association representing 36 member organizations, announces the election of Jerry McCune of Cordova District Fishermen United as president.
NMFS has announced two senior leadership changes that the agency says align with changes it is making to its West Coast operations.
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