AUGUSTA -- The LePage administration this week reaffirmed that it was open to changing rules that would allow some groundfishing boats to land and sell lobsters in Maine. The governor's willingness to consider the practice, known as by- catch, comes on the heels of the messy divorce between Gov. Paul LePage and ex-Department of Marine Resources chief Norman Olsen.
AUGUSTA -- Norman Olsen's opponents began mobilizing in mid- March, days after the now-resigned commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources verbally charged into one of the most sensitive debates in the state's fishing industry. Olsen, a former fisherman and lobsterman, told attendees at the annual Maine Fishermen's Forum in Rockland that groundfishermen should be allowed to keep and sell lobsters accidentally caught in their nets. The practice, known as by-catch, is not allowed in Maine.
One night -- check that -- one play in Texas expedited John Madsen's college football career. Nearly a year later, the Utah wide receiver still can't believe it happened. Considering he didn't play high school football and had to walk on at two colleges, Madsen didn't expect to be on the field with the game on the line at Texas A&M, of all places.
MANTA, Ecuador, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fisheries, research scientists and tuna fishers boarded a vessel in Manta, Ecuador today and will spend the next two months at-sea launching the next phase of a globally coordinated project to promote effective, practical techniques to reduce the environmental impact of tuna fishing. Purse seine vessels, which use large nets to catch fish, provide the world with millions of tons of tuna every year. When crews use floating objects that attract fish, called FADs, it makes the method more time and fuel efficient. But there is one main drawback - by catch, the unintended capture of marine life. An average of 5% of a vessel's catch can be non-tunas and sharks. The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has called for a significant ...
Pity the Norfolk spot, the preferred species for live-line fishermen in this area. It faces relentless fishing pressure from Delaware south not only from both the recreational and commercial fleet, but also from predatory fish such as stripers, blues, sea trout and other species including flounder. There are few laws and regulations if any targeted to protect the species and to date, a formal coastwide stock assessment plan has not been made. In addition, smaller spot, we're told, remain a major component of the by catch associated with seine, trawl and pound net fisheries of Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina as well as that of the South Atlantic shrimp trawl fishery. Add to that, in recent years untold numbers of smaller spot that would ordinarily be returned to the brine by recreation...
... on spot stocks though in recent years the bycatch by shrimp trawlers has been reduced 50 to 75 perce...
Gene Mueller's column on the dangers of individual fishing quotas (IFQs) in the Gulf of Mexico aptly describes some of the problems fishermen could face if quota systems become the leading fishery- management tool there ("Free market taking over Gulf," Sports, May 10). Traditional IFQ programs are, in practice, equivalent to making a public resource - our fish - like private property because only certain people are allowed to catch them. There are other problems associated with this type of management, too. IFQs can result in significant job losses. Small-business fishermen or those who fish for multiple types of fish often get squeezed out, and any new fishermen who want to enter the business can be shut out. With fewer fishermen, even small businesses that support fishing communities ...
PHILADELPHIA - Look closely at the surprising 7-2 Atlanta Falcons and you'll notice they bear a striking resemblance to the 2000 Eagles. Both coming off 5-11 seasons. Both led by catch-me-if-you-can quarterbacks who use their running skills to confound defenses. The Eagles' Donovan McNabb averaged 7.3 yards per carry that year. The Falcons' Mike Vick is averaging 7.2. McNabb had a .580 completion percentage that year. Vick's is .579.
The ranking achieved by Catch 31 Fish House & Bar in the Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront in the sixth annual "America's Best Restroom" national contest, sponsored by Cintas Corp., and decided by the public online voting. The top-ranked was Jungle Jim's International Market in Fairfield, Ohio.
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