Fisheries in the News: September 2009

Excerpted from the Top of the World Telegraph

The Institute of the North distributes a weekly electronic news roundup from throughout the Arctic concerning maritime, aviation and telecommunications links, as well as other areas so critical for sustainable development. Download the latest TELEGRAPH newsletter (PDF).

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Title Date Publication keyword Summary
NOAA survey shows fewer pollock showing up in Bering Sea 09-25 Alaska Journal of Commerce pollock NOAA fisheries researchers presented preliminary findings to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's groundfish plan team that the population of the white fish remains low ...
Greenlandic minister pulls Fisheries Act from agenda 09-28 Sermitsiaq policy Fisheries Minister Ane Hansen has taken the Fisheries Act off parliament’s autumn session ...
Chum salmon fishery suspended in northern Yukon 09-21 CBC News salmon The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans has imposed a two-week moratorium on chum salmon fishing on the Porcupine River ...
US not there on salmon 09-20 New York Times salmon The Obama administration has submitted an amended version of a Bush administration plan to rescue 13 endangered and threatened salmon species in the Pacific Northwest...
Association criticises aid to Royal Greenland 09-19 Sermitsiaq fisheries Dansk Fisk believes the grant gives Greenlandic companies an unfair competitive advantage ...
US Bering Sea pollock survey finds fewer fish than anticipated 09-19 Anchorage Daily News pollock Government researchers have released data indicating that Alaska's Bering Sea pollock population remains low ...
Two new fees for Greenlandic fisheries 09-17 Sermitsiaq fisheries A new tax act allows taxation of all catches that bypass the Greenlandic fisheries beginning next year ...
Russian fishery certified as sustainable 09-17 Bristol Bay Times salmon The Marine Stewardship Council announced recently that it has awarded certification to a pink and chum salmon fishery on the Kuril island of Iturup and Gidrostroy ...
CDQ companies pour money into Alaska villages 09-10 Arctic Sounder CDQ The six nonprofit fishing companies operating under the Community Development Quota program continue to play a prominent role in Western Alaska ...
Tuna and pollock: a tale of two fisheries 09-10 Economist fisheries There are two ways to overfish the sea. One is to ignore scientific advice and plunder on regardless. The other is to accept the advice, and then discover it isn’t good enough ...
Monkfish important to Iceland's economy 09-07 Iceland Review monkfish With the ocean’s increasing temperatures, monkfish has spread considerably and is now caught along all of South and West Iceland ...
US fishermen embark on a new wave of fishing 09-06 Associated Press management NOAA Fisheries Service, the federal agency that oversees commercial fishing, is pressing regional fishery councils that set harvest limits around the country to adopt catch share programs ...
Researchers want to know more about octopus populations off Alaska 09-03 Alaska Public Radio Network

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 Federal researchers, biologists, and fishery managers are putting in place a research effort to better understand the octopus populations in federal waters off Alaska ...
Canada files protest over US fishing ban in Arctic Ocean 09-03 canada.com fisheries Canada has lodged a diplomatic protest with the U.S. government over its unilateral imposition of a fishing ban in a part of the Arctic Ocean claimed by both countries ...
Tender for Russian fish processing factory on Svalbard 09-01 Barents Observer commerce The Russian Fisheries Committee has announced a tender for the planning of a fish processing plant, which will be built in the Russian settlement of Barentsburg on Svalbard ...