MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
Georges Bank Yellowtail Flounder Working Group Meeting with Fishing Industry
May 16, 2012
In April NOAA Fisheries Service and the NEFMC established a joint working group to look at mitigating the impacts of reduced Georges Bank yellowtail flounder catch limits on U.S. Fishermen in 2012. The following was released by NOAA and the NEFMC this morning:
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- Cantwell gets few answers from NOAA at tsunami debris hearing
- NOAA awash with acting leadership roles
- NOAA sustainability reports shows new gains
- Celebvocate: Angela Kinsey of ‘The Office’ fights ‘seafood fraud’
- HASTINGS: Time to improve the Endangered Species Act
- MASS. LT. GOV. TIMOTHY MURRAY: Massachusetts invests in its port communities
- JESSICA HATHAWAY: 'National Fisherman' editor says New York Times misrepresented catch share support
- FORBES: Will U.S. Sovereignty Be LOST At Sea? Obama Supports U.N. Treaty That Redistributes Drilling Revenues
- New Bedford Yellowtail Meeting Confirms Some Suspicions of Industry; Former Mayor Accuses Feds of "deliberate incompetence"
- Bluefin groups blame NOAA for tuna discard rap
- Feds eye new rules for bluefin tuna catch
- Fishery managers to hold talks with New England fishermen over catch reductions
- Charter captains describe big-boat cod raids
- Failure of CFP Reform is too High a Cost
- World Trade Organization rules against dolphin safe labeling
- Vietnam protests China's S. China Sea fishing ban
- Fisheries Congress attracts more than 1,300 delegates from 65 countries
- Scientists debate seafood certification systems
- ASFMC: States Schedule Hearings on Black Drum Public Information Document
- States Schedule Public Hearings on Atlantic Striped Bass Addendum III
- Massachusetts and Rhode Island Schedule Hearings on American Lobster Draft Addendum XVIII
- ACCSP Releases Atlantic Coast Fisheries Data Collection Standards
- ASMFC River Herring Benchmark Assessment Indicates Stock is Depleted
