Fisheries in the News: July 2009
Excerpted from the Top of the World Telegraph
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| Title | Date | Publication | keyword | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pribilof Canyon in Bering Sea mapped | 07-31 | MarineLink | mapping | A new high resolution seafloor survey of Pribilof Canyon in the eastern Bering Sea reveals dramatic details of this undersea canyon ... |
| Herring value could rise in world food aid programs | 07-31 | Alaska Journal of Commerce | herring | A pilot project to introduce canned herring into international food aid programs could provide critical protein to hungry people ... |
| Norwegian fish farming threatens wild cod | 07-31 | Barents Observer | farming | Fish farming of cod is about to become a threat to the stock of wild cod in the Norwegian oceans, according to the World Wildlife Fund ... |
| Study finds hope in saving saltwater fish | 07-31 | New York Times | conservation | In a paper in the journal Science, an unusual collaboration of marine ecologists and fisheries management scientists offer a global assessment of the world’s saltwater fish and their environments ... |
| Dyeing to count -- Fish and Game tests new way to estimate smolt numbers | 07-29 | Redoubt Report | smolt | The out-migrating smolt abundance estimate is one of several indicators biologists use to forecast the strength of future runs of returning adult sockeye salmon |
| First Nations fishery opens up in Yukon River | 07-27 | CBC News | salmon | A significant increase in the number of salmon in the Yukon River has enabled fisheries authorities to lift restrictions on the First Nations subsistence fishery, and raises the possibility the sport, commercial and domestic fisheries could be opened up as well ... |
| Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska remains top fishing port | 07-22 | NOAA News | commerce | Commercial fishermen unloaded 612.7 million pounds of fish and shellfish at the port of Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska, in 2008, mostly pollock, making it the country’s top port for the amount of fish landed for the 20th consecutive year ... |
| Fishery council's new rural committee announces meeting | 07-22 | Bristol Bay Times | outreach | A group meant to inform rural Alaskans and Alaska Natives about federal fishery issues will meet for the first time in August. The seven-member Rural Community Outreach Committee will serve as an advisory group to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council ... |
| Capelin fishing shows promise | 07-21 | Iceland Review | capelin | Capelin have been detected on herring boats deep north off Langanes, news source visir.is reports. A scientific analysis of the quantity has not yet been made, but the captains call it a promising sign of good capelin fishing later in the year ... |
| Bristol Bay sockeye harvest nears 30 million | 07-17 | Alaska Journal of Commerce | salmon | Bristol Bay fishermen harvested nearly 28 million salmon through July 12, by far exceeding the 20-year harvest average of 25 million reds in the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery ... |
| Mackerel fishing halted in Iceland | 07-10 | SIKU News | mackerel | Iceland's minister of Fisheries Jón Bjarnason placed a ban on mackerel fishing in Icelandic waters this season, effective immediately. The decision was made when the quota of 112,000 tonnes was almost finished ... |
| Russian Far East border guards free illegally caught crabs | 07-07 | RIA Novosti | crab | Border guards on Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin have released into the sea over 26 metric tons of live crabs from two vessels earlier detained for poaching, a border guard spokeswoman said ... |
| Extension of the Grey Zone agreement | 07-02 | Barents Observer | regulation | Norway and Russia have exchanged letters about extending the interim agreement on joint measures of fisheries and fisheries regulations in the Barents Sea ... |
The purpose of the 2009 International Arctic Fisheries Symposium was
to initiate international discussions for conserving
and managing future fisheries in the Arctic Ocean,
including managing migratory, transboundary
and straddling fish stocks.
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