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FISHING FRUSTRATION: A multi-part analysis of the first quarter under catch shares |
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- 39% of vessels are fishing - Idle ships crowding port - Supply companies pinched
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - August 29, 2010 - The Standard-Times today published a multi-author multi-part investigation into the effect of the catch share form of fisheries management known as "sectors" upon New England fisheries after the first quarter since the implementation of the new system. Sectors are a form of catch share management under which the catch allocations for the sector boats aren't issued directly to the permit-carrying boats. Rather, they go to the sector, where they are pooled together. This is significant in that the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires a referendum to approve a system of individual quotas, which federal officials avoided through this new hybrid arrangement. The Standard-Times is a Dow Jones Local Media Group paper. NOTE: The Standard-Times is a subscription site. Unregistered visitors are able to read three stories per month, and registered visitors may view ten. For unlimited access, please follow the subscription instructions on the site. |
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Harvard-educated letter-writing fisherman to miss protest |
| The Gloucester commercial fisherman who sent an open letter to President Obama through a full-page in the Vineyard Gazette will not be in the flotilla that will rendezvous at noon today outside Vineyard Haven in a nautical informational picket line. | |||
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Ice demand has melted away |
| Scott Memhard talks mostly about the past as he walks around his ice plant that once provided up to 300 tons a day to local fishermen. Memhard, who bought Cape Pond Ice with his father in 1983, still has the machinery to make that much ice. But for years now — because of tough fishing regulations and an exodus of fishermen — he sells just a few tons each day to local captains. | |||
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NOAA backtracks; Gloucester landings up |
| Commercial landings data for the first three months of the fishing season from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was somewhat confused, leading to the widespread, incorrect conclusion that landings in Portland, Maine, were booming while landings in Gloucester were falling. | |||
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New NOAA numbers say fishing revenues up 17 percent |
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By JAY LINDSAY and DAN MCDONALD BOSTON and NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - August 14, 2010 - The catch for fishermen in the Northeast during the first three months following drastic rule changes fell 10 percent compared to last year but revenues rose 17 percent, according to federal statistics released this week. It's too soon to draw broad conclusions, but the relatively stable first-quarter numbers are cause for cautious optimism about the switch, said Patricia Kurkul, the National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast regional administrator. "It's sort of on track with what we saw last year, so there's nothing catastrophic going on here," Kurkul said. |
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BOSTON HERALD: Fishing for help
It shouldn’t be the Wild West out there on the high seas, but as one sign in the flotilla said, “Fishing families are working families.” That is a message Obama and his underlings should remember.
