Drilling ban on ballot
Tags: Oil Spill
Governor Charlie Crist called for a special session of the legislature to ask lawmakers to let voters consider a constitutional amendment to ban offshore oil drilling………….It’s comforting to know that our politicians are maintaining their focus on today’s most important issue – getting themselves re-elected.
Oil in Fish
Tags: Oil Spill
According to the Key West Citizen, NOAA launched a mission to test deepwater fish for oil contamination in areas that are currently closed to fishing. According to the article, the study could reopen some areas if the fish prove not to be tainted. Lisa Natanson,
Another Ban – Another Productivity Boost
Tags: Regulation
The South Atlantic Fisheries Council has banned fishing in 23,000 sq miles of ocean, including areas off the Florida Keys, in order to protect deep-sea coral colonies. According to the expert, experienced commercial fishermen at the environmental group Oceana “Bottom trawling consumes more fuel than
Oil Spill – What’s to Fear?
Tags: Oil Spill
It is only stating the obvious, when I say that a shutdown will be hard on everyone connected with commercial fishing. Few people can survive for long without a regular income, and most fishermen have neither reserves to fall back on, nor alternate work options.
Oil Spill
Tags: Oil Spill
It seems that we just can’t ignore the oil spill. There is nothing we can do to stop it if it’s going to come. There is nothing we can do to prepare for it, and we have no idea what the impact will be if
No more shark fin soup in Hawaii
Tags: Shark
The State of Hawaii has banned the consumption of shark fins. According to the Miami Herald, ‘the state is attempting to help prevent the overfishing and extinction (there’s that scary word again) of sharks around the world’, and the bill passed the Hawaiian legislature with
Under-regulated fishermen?
Tags: Regulation
It seems amazing to those of us in the industry, but there is an obvious perception among the general public, that commercial fishing is insufficiently regulated, and because of it, the stocks of multiple marine species are either in a state of collapse, or being
There goes another fish house
Charleston, South Carolina – Stopped in at Mount Pleasant Seafoods, a fish house started in 1946. The owner, Walter Toler, had just died the month before, but the fish house itself, had already died in the headlong rush by regulators to reduce fishing effort. Shem
Lawsuit targets federal fishery regulators
Tags: Regulation
The City of New Bedford, Massachusetts, along with several fish houses, and individual fishermen, have filed suit against the Secretary of Commerce, and the administrator of NOAA. Among other things, the lawsuit claims that NOAA’s fishery allocation plans give preferential treatment to certain groups, and
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Global Warming?
Monday, June 28th, 2010 Posted in Commentary, Fishery Issues, Industry