On-deck fatalities can be averted
From U.S. Coast Guard reports
Most fishing-vessel fatalities can be attributed to flooding, sinking or capsizing, and nearly one in four results from falls overboard; however, fully 10 percent of all fatalities occur when crewmen are struck or snared by equipment.
Pacific Sardines and P-Cod
Californians benefit from better count; rise in P-cod price is viewed as at end
New methodology in population surveys spells more accurate quotas for West Coast sardine seiners, but can they find the fish?
Save tuna and fishers
As I write, representatives of 175 countries are considering banning international trade in bluefin tuna.
National Fisherman supports trade controls, but not a ban, and we wish this were the position of the Obama administration.
Clean up the act
Industry, anglers call for Congress to modify Magnuson
By Kirk Moore
Paul Theriault held one end of a banner on Capitol Hill and cheered passionately as Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared, "The days of managing fisheries with ideology, not science, need to come to an end... We need to start caring about fishermen as much as we do about fish."
ATY North
Holland tries V-drive on tuna; now's a good time to repower
The last week in February, Holland's Boat Shop in Belfast, Maine, was loading a 38-foot lobster boat onto a trailer and sending it to Marblehead, Mass., where her owner, Matt Finn, will finish it off. And, in early April, another truck-and-trailer rig is due at Holland's to pick up a 32-foot tuna boat and haul it to David Webber in York, Maine.
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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