Oregon's Commercial Fishermen Weather a Season of Change and See a Brighter Future
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One year ago, Oregon's commercial groundfish trawlers, based out of Astoria, Newport, Coos Bay and Brookings embarked on the 2011 fishing season under an entirely new fishery management program known as a "catch share" system. The new system was the product of years of painstaking public process involving the Pacific Fishery Management Council, fishermen, scientists, seafood processors, community leaders and members of the environmental community.
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How Scientists Came to Love the Whale
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“Whale Carpaccio — 130 Kroner.” Thus read an appetizer on a menu at a restaurant in Bergen, Norway, when I dined there a few years back. I wanted to sample this odd dish. What would the experience be like? Would the meat be chewy like pork, or flaky like fish?
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DICK GRACHEK: Common-sense questions for NOAA, Commerce
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We're gonna' have to start putting fishermen observers on NOAA's Oversized Research Vessel The O/R/V Bigelow. Fishermen are needed on that operation who know what size net to use, are familiar with setting out the net, and who know how, where, and when to look for fish.
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TALKING FISH: Maine shrimp: From boom to bust
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Maine or “Northern” Shrimp (Pandalus borealis) have been targeted by fishermen in the Gulf of Maine for generations and are the small, delicious shrimp that normally make their way to our appetizer or dinner plates for the holiday season. This year though, Maine shrimp will be much harder to come by as the fishing season has been shortened due to a decline in the population according to the most recent population assessment.
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GLOUCESTER TIMES: Positive steps in 'partnership'
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It's been 15 years now since a group called the Massachusetts Fishing Partnership launched its own health-care plan.
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