NOAA reports on revenues, ignores costs under catch share regime
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May 14, 2011 - Emphasizing "welcome news" about the first year under Amendment 16, the head of the National Marine Fisheries Service has noted data in a scientific report showing an increase in revenues nine months into the new regimen, which includes the catch share system.
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Commercial fishing revenues up in Northeast during first 9 months of new regulations
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PORTLAND, Maine — Fishing vessels in the Northeast that catch haddock, cod and other so-called groundfish earned more money during the first nine months of new commercial fishing regulations than the year before, even while their harvest fell, federal fishery officials said Thursday.
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Fishermen wary of fed report
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SEABROOK — Two days of testimony and meetings on the devastating effect new federal "catch share" regulations are having on the state's once-thriving fishing fleet ended yesterday with a boatload of doubt.
The assessment team included representatives from the U.S. departments of Labor, Environmental Protection, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development and the Small Business Associations. Its visit was part of a tour of New England and New York fishing ports affected by the recent federal changes.
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Tighter Lobster Rules Irrelevant As Economics Will Close This Fishery
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The practical likelihood the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will vote this Spring to close all lobster fishing from Cape Cod south to Virginia is extremely doubtful, regardless of press stories to the contrary.
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Flooding could spell disaster for Mississippi seafood industry
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As historic flooding along the Mississippi River continues moving south, the Corp of Engineers was forced to release fresh water through the Bonnet Carre Spillway near Norco, Louisiana Monday morning.
All of that fresh water will eventually make it into the Gulf of Mexico. And mixing fresh water with salt water could spell disaster for the seafood industry.
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