National Fisherman articles from April 2007

National Fisherman archives from April 2007

April 2007: this month's highlights.(The hail)
April 1, 2007... Welcome to National Fisherman's 40th yearbook edition. As a baby-boom fisherman, I can remember reading the first yearbook, during the summer of my sophomore year in high school. It was published amid considerable fanfare: the contents page...

IFQs: limited entry, with more limits.(VIEWS from Alaska)
April 1, 2007... Limited entry permits and individual fishing quotas have developed over time to help managers control fish harvests. But what are limited entry permits and IFQs? In 1949 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the secretary of interior when...

Winter fishing.(Editor's log)
April 1, 2007... Winter fishing is about as tough as it gets. You stick any ordinary man on the deck of a fishing boat in the Gulf of Maine or the Bering Sea in late January and send him to Georges Bank or some other Godforsaken place, tell him he's going spend...

Fishing back when.(NF classics)
April 1, 2007... 50 YEARS AGO Ross Lefler is the newly appointed assistant secretary of the Interior Department, putting him in charge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His visit with local fishermen at the Boston Fish Pier is part of Lefler's attempt...

Photojournalist gets up close and personal in the North Atlantic fisheries.
April 1, 2007... Images of Fishermen The North Atlantic Photgraphy by Maria Olsen Written by Menakhem Ben-Yami & Bui Tyril GlobalOne Press, 2006 Hardcover, 388 pp., $92 www.images-fishermen.com I'm not a huge fan of coffee-table books. The few I've owned...

Reduce human error on your vessel with bridge resource management.(Shipboard Bridge Resource Management)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Shipboard Bridge Resource Management By Michael R. Adams Nor'Easter Press, 2006 Softcover, 169 pp., $34.95 www.noreasterpress.com What with all the renewed talk of licensing fishing captains, this textbook may come in handier than you...

Look before you license.(From Another Perspective)
April 1, 2007... Back-to-back sinkings and the tragic loss of six New England fishermen in one week has once again focused the public's attention on fishing vessel safety and the issue of licensing commercial fishermen as vessel operators. All of the...

Gulf shrimper weary of trawling a junkyard bottom.(Dock talk)
April 1, 2007... Let me take this opportunity to express y gratitude for NMFS' efforts toward the conservation of our natural waters along the Gulf of Mexico. My family and I have made our livelihood on the gulf for years, through shrimping and fishing. Without...

Checklists: onboard safety equipment, procedures and drills.(Consequences)
April 1, 2007... From U.S. Coast Guard reports On Aug. 1, 2003, a 66-foot commercial shrimping vessel out of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., got underway en route to Stock Island, Fla. The master was the only person aboard, and this was the first time he had...

Magnuson: a victory for the status quo.(From the town landing)
April 1, 2007... In the grand scheme of Congressional deliberations, taking five years to revamp the federal framework for fisheries management isn't too bad. But in a dynamic world like the ocean, five years is a lifetime. Sadly, the final push for...

Lobsterman promotes hard work over handouts.(Mail buoy)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... The state of the Northeast inshore lobster industry has to do with a perfect storm of sorts. First there was the North Cape oil spill that killed millions of lobsters, the Long Island Sound disaster, which killed just as many lobsters or more,...

Crossing the bar: a fisherman's haiku.(Mail buoy)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... You get back to Dutch, and find old friends at the bar. Another round, please. SCOTT COUGHLIN Seattle

'Consequences' article gets the fisherman's perspective.(Mail buoy)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... I am writing to add this background and clarification to the story "EPIRB maintenance and know-how saves fishermen," (Feb. '07, p. 10). The vessel in the article was grouper and snapper fishing because of the 70 percent reduction in the...

Cap'n sane says ...
April 1, 2007... The weirmen of Maine yesteryears ended their season and livelihoods 'round Thanksgiving with the last run of sea herrin'. Sometimes sooner in the years of no fish. It was the coming on of winter n'the weirman's time t'lay down his nets in...

Crab fishery gone crazy?(In search of the simple life)
April 1, 2007... It was one of those bad news, good news kind of things. The bad news came via satellite radio, a phone call from Phil Fogle on the F/V Incentive, a 106-foot crabber fishing (at the time of the call) 40 miles northwest of St. Paul Island in the...

Now NOAA keeps you posted online.(Mail buoy)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... Now that the president has signed the reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act into law and the celebrations are over, it's time to begin the difficult work of implementing the law in the same spirit of...

Exxon continues battle to whittle Valdez settlement: but as company appeals punitive damages total, some say oil spill fight is winding down.(ALASKA and PACIFIC)
April 1, 2007... Exxon Mobil Corp., which has announced record profits of $39.5 billion for 2006, is continuing its battle to reduce the punitive damages it must pay for the 1989 ExxonValdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. Exxon is appealing the 9th...

Reaction mixed to lifting oil and gas leasing ban: Alaska officials, harvesters differ over act.(ALASKA and PACIFIC)
April 1, 2007... The Bush administration in January lifted a prohibition on offshore oil and gas leasing in salmon-rich Bristol Bay, an action that drew sharp criticism as well as optimism for an energy boom in a region reeling from low fish prices and high...

Deaths of six fishermen bigger calls to improve safety: Maritime institute president advocates licensing; politicians fault days-at-sea restrictions.(ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Recent fishing accidents that claimed the lives of six New England fishermen are causing some safety experts to call for more stringent fishing safety regulations, and some politicians to call for less restrictive fishing regulations. New...

Replanting program aims to rejuvenate oyster beds: clamshells to rebuild Delaware Bay reefs.(ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2007... Empty shells from Mid-Atlantic sea clam processing plants may be the last best hope for saving Delaware Bay oyster beds, where native shell stock has been disappearing for years as oysters succumbed to disease. "We're losing somewhere...

Home port: where we live : Pacific City, Ore.(City overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... THE TOWN Population: 1,027 Fleet size: 34 commercial fishing vessels TOP FIVE LANDINGS IN 2006 By value Black rockfish--28,957 pounds worth $33,238 Lingcod--6,895 pounds worth $11,276 Chinook salmon--2,180 pounds worth $11,046...

Louis Daniel begins work as N.C. fisheries director: fishermen applaud choice of executive assistant to retiring division chief Preston Pate.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... North Carolina fishermen say Louis Daniel, the new director of the state Division of Marine Fisheries, knows the science and the politics in fisheries management. Daniel, 43, replaces Preston Pate, who retired in February after 10 years at...

Group fishes for diversity in N.C. waterfront access: aims to protect state's maritime interests.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... The North Carolina Waterfront Access Study Committee hopes to put the skids on the loss of coastal economic diversity. Fish houses and commercial docks seem to vaporize almost overnight as property values rise and more waterfront property...

Florida rock shrimp: Rodney Thompson Port Canaveral, Fla.(GALLERY WATCH: AT-SEA CUISINE)(Cape Canaveral Shrimp Co.)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Rodney Thompson, a well-known local boatbuilder, pioneered the rock shrimp business on Florida's Atlantic coast nearly 40 years ago, says his daughter Sherri McCoy, who is now co-owner of the Cape Canaveral Shrimp Co. "He worked hard for a...

Richard Isaksen Belford, N.J.(SNAPSHOT: WHO WE ARE)(Belford Seafood Cooperative)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... The biggest change here, Richard Isaken tells visitors to the Belford Seafood Cooperative, is that "fishing used to be fun." "I just liked it. My father started taking me when I was 7, and I never got off the boat," Isaksen says. Now,...

Fla. shrimp co. still open despite state restrictions: interim solution settles port security issues.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2007... Cape Canaveral Shrimp Co., at risk of having to close its doors after more than 40 years because of costly new port security requirements, has negotiated an interim agreement with Port Canaveral and state officials that should allow the company...

New Bedford, Dutch Harbor still tops on landings list: Rough hurricane season causes Gulf of Mexico towns to slip on 2005 ranking of U.S. ports.(NATION/WORLD)
April 1, 2007... New Bedford, Mass., enjoyed its seventh consecutive year as the nation's most valuable fishing port, and Dutch Harbor-Unalaska yet again landed the most seafood as NMFS released its list of the top U.S. fishing ports for 2005. New...

Sundog: Salmon seiner.(BOAT of the MONTH)
April 1, 2007... When Chris Moss graduated from his old wooden salmon seiner and had the Sundog built new in 1978, longevity and packability must have entered his mind. "It was one of the fin big boats to arrive up here in the lower inlet," he says. ...

Newfoundland plant's fate hinges on review of bids: four companies vie for processor's assets.(NATION/WORLD)
April 1, 2007... The future of Newfoundland's Fishery Products International remained uncertain in early February while an independent committee reviewed bids to purchase Atlantic Canada's largest seafood processing operation. The company's 1,700 plant...

The New England Fishery Management Council has published a "press backgrounder" on the groundfish fishery.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: New England)
April 1, 2007... The New England Fishery Management Council has published a "press backgrounder" on the groundfish fishery. The two-page document presents an overview of federal groundfish regulations and offers bullet-point answers to the following questions:...

Complying with the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council's plan for summer flounder.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: Mid-Atlantic)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Complying with the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council's plan for summer flounder will complicate life for recreational and commercial fishermen alike. Both sectors face reduced quotas as a result of federally mandated efforts to...

The International Pacific Marine Educators Conference, which brought together marine educators from 18 countries in Honolulu in January, has resulted in the establishment of a Pacific network of marine educators designed to ensure the health of the Pacific and the communities that depend upon it.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: Western Pacific)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... The International Pacific Marine Educators Conference, which brought together marine educators from 18 countries in Honolulu in January, has resulted in the establishment of a Pacific network of marine educators designed to ensure the health of...

A Humboldt Bay, Calif., fisherman is hoping that eight times is a charm.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: Pacific)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... A Humboldt Bay, Calif., fisherman is hoping that eight times is a charm: According to the Eureka Reporter, Dave Bitts is hoping that this year he will at long last secure the appointment to the Pacific Fishery Management Council he has so long...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council and its committees were holding their first meeting of the year.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: North Pacific)
April 1, 2007... The North Pacific Fishery Management Council and its committees were holding their first meeting of the year, in Portland, Ore., as National Fisherman was going to press. The agenda included charter halibut management, Bering Sea and...

For several years, the South Atlantic Fishery management Council and Controlled Access Committee have received presentations from academics, council staff; and NMFS regarding the use of individual fishing quotas in various fisheries.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: South Atlantic)
April 1, 2007... For several years, the South Atlantic Fishery management Council and Controlled Access Committee have received presentations from academics, council staff; and NMFS regarding the use of individual fishing quotas in various fisheries. In...

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is seeking applicants to serve on an Ad Hoc Recreational Red Snapper Advisory Panel.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: Gulf of Mexico)
April 1, 2007... The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is seeking applicants to serve on an Ad Hoc Recreational Red Snapper Advisory Panel. The panel will develop new ideas for managing the recreational and for-hire red snapper fisheries. ...

There is a seasonal prohibition on fishing for or possession of red, black, tiger, yellowfin or yellowedge grouper in Caribbean federal waters beginning Feb. 1 through April 30.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils: Caribbean)
April 1, 2007... There is a seasonal prohibition on fishing for or possession of red, black, tiger, yellowfin or yellowedge grouper in Caribbean federal waters beginning Feb. 1 through April 30. This prohibition does not apply to such grouper harvested and...

The year in review: response to change is essential to success.(Yearbook 2007)(Cover story)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Someone once said the only constant in the universe is change, and fishermen certainly can attest to that. It might be weather, which changes with or without preamble, or it might be price. Sometimes it's the fish, who change their minds and...

The 3 keys to IFQs: allocation, allocation and allocation.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2007... In 2006, individual fishing quotas evolved from concept to reality in the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery. But long before the year was done and the red snapper IFQ implemented, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council was pondering a...

Recreational, commercial forces unite, win some flexibility on fluke rebuilding timetable.(NORTHEAST)
April 1, 2007... Ever since Congress demanded an end to overfishing, in 1996, commercial fishing groups have pleaded for "flexibility" in rebuilding schedules. It finally happened when commercial and recreational fishermen made common cause over one species....

Not much exuberance about rationalization; many are relieved by hiatus in discussions.(NORTH PACIFIC)
April 1, 2007... AS the years go by, Alaska fishermen will likely remember 2006 as the year of groundfish ratz angst. That term, shorthand for the rationalization of the Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries, graced the subject headers of countless emails,...

Klamath River points to importance of fishery and the limits of government on several fronts.(PACIFIC)
April 1, 2007... It's been a grueling year for commercial salmon trollers on the West Coast. Despite higher Chinook returns to the Sacramento River and relatively stable returns to other major rivers, the Klamath River runs rule much of the fishing...

Katrina and '05 friends still cast shadow over fisheries, but rays of sunshine exist.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2007... Hurricane recovery is a concept much talked about and seldom experienced in coastal regions of the upper Gulf of Mexico, where many families still live in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In Louisiana, oysters...

New world order: $2 haddock, $4 cod, and doubt: can climate change lurk below the surface?(NORTHEAST YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2007... By the end of January 2007, auction prices told the story of New England's depressed groundfish industry: large cod selling for $3 or $4 a pound and haddock, the old and newly abundant mainstay, at $2. Meanwhile, Mid-Atlantic fishermen and...

Total salmon landings good, unless you fished soft spots; P-cod business is coming on.(NORTH PACIFIC YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2007... With a preliminary catch total of 141.5 million fish, Alaska's salmon industry will remember 2006 as one of its better years. Save for Southeast's missing pinks and Cook Inlet's dismal sockeye showing, most harvest areas reported healthy...

Dungeness fleet hits jackpot; albacore fishery offers relief to out-of-work salmon trollers.(PACIFIC YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2007... Fishermen on the West Coast got a mixed bag of successes and disappointments in 2006, but the fixedgear fleet got hit with the hardest restrictions. That is, except for those vessels who also fished for Dungeness crab. Dungeness...

George Barisich.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... George Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fishermen's Association, lost everything to Hurricane Katrina but his family, his resolve and his pickup truck--which subsequently blew its engine. None of this stopped Barisich and several...

Carlos M. Gutierrez.(NEWS MAKERS)
April 1, 2007... U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez declared the West Coast salmon fishery a failure in August of 2006, after considerable pressure from California and Oregon congressmen. But despite the declaration, lawmakers were unable...

Larry Brand.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... University of Miami marine biologist Larry Brand takes on coastal development interests and the state of Florida by saying that nutrient-rich runoff is a factor in the growth of red tides, adding scientific weight to an argument fishermen have...

Sarah Palin.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Commercial fishermen lauded the November election of Sarah Palin as governor of Alaska. Many said Palin, who fishes a salmon setnet site in Bristol Bay, represents the small guy and is the fishiest governor the state has known since Jay...

Michael Jepson.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Michael Jepson, a fishery anthropologist, socioeconomic advisor to regional management councils and current program director for the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation in Tampa, Fla., has pushed fishery managers to consider innovative...

Mary Beth Tooley.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... The Northeast midwater trawl fleet will retreat from the Gulf of Maine in summer 2007. Trawlers will be out of the gulf from June 1 to Sept. 30 during the herring spawn, under Amendment 1 to the herring plan. The amendment also marked the end...

Rick Robbins.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... The full shutdown of Delaware Bay's horseshoe crab bait fishery finally happened in 2006 despite the industry's offer of a males-only harvest. Delaware officials "chose a political remedy rather than a science-based approach to the issue," says...

Bruce Jenkins.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Bruce Jenkins, chief operating officer for the Canadian mining company Northern Dynasty, says that while it's impossible to extract metals without impact, it can offset damage by restoring alternative salmon habitat. The company's Pebble Mine...

Greg Mulkey.(NEWS MAKERS)
April 1, 2007... Oregon Dungeness crabber Greg Mulkey, along with other crabbers and some industry businesses, sued the state over new crab pot limits instituted for the 2006-07 season. A court denied the plaintiffs' request to stall the implementation of the...

Vito Giacalone.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... A proposal advanced by the Northeast Seafood Coalition would end New England's practice of regulating effort via days at sea and replace it with a point system to allow fishermen to spend more time on the water while avoiding fragile species....

Bill Hogarth.(NEWS MAKERS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Alaska charter boat operators and others hopeful that the North Pacific Fishery Management Council would take action toward implementing charter IFQs suffered a blow late last year, when the council rejected a request from NMFS director Bill...

Sen. Ted Stevens.(NEWS MAKERS)
April 1, 2007... For his work in pushing the reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act through Congress, the United Fishermen of Alaska recognized Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) as "Person of the Year in Alaska Politics." Stevens won...

It's a tough world out there!(Life & Fish)
April 1, 2007... Three staff members of the Australian Broadcasting Corp., including a reporter, are admitted to a hospital after eating baked marlin from the canteen at the network's Ultimo headquarters in New South Wales, according to the Sydney Daily...

Cooling their tarheels: N.C. fishermen mark winter's passage doing gear work and looking forward to spring.(Dockside diary)
April 1, 2007... Even when the weather is mild, winter tests North Carolina's commercial fishermen. Although less time is spent on the water, there's plenty of work. There are nets to repair and rehang, crab pots to repair and boats to maintain. Trouble...

Hooked on politics: Gov. Sarah Palin's close ties to fishing will be tested as she deals with oil and gas, Pebble Mine and, of course, fishermen.(In profile)
April 1, 2007... Come early July, don't look for Alaska's new governor, Sarah Palin, in the halls of the capitol in Juneau, where she faces a mountain of work building a new administration. No, she'll be in rubber boots picking sockeye at the family's Bristol...

U.S. seafood consumption dips somewhat for 2005: on plus side, consumer spending up $3.3b.(NATION/WORLD)
April 1, 2007... Americans ate a little less seafood in 2005 than they did in 2004, but they spent a little more for it, according to the 2005 edition of "Fisheries of the United States." The annual report, released in early February, states domestic...

Experimental design: National Fisherman's annual look at innovative ideas that may or may not have made a splash in the fishing industry.(Boats & Gear: Hall of Fame)
April 1, 2007... Some great ideas are hatched under circumstances that prevent the concept from catching on, though it may be the harbinger of things to come. Such was the case with the beam trawler Resolute, which was built in 1891. It never proved out, but it...

Dredge on wings: Ronnie Bevans' new oyster boat can fly.(Boats & Gear: Boatbuilding)
April 1, 2007... The Bevans Oyster Co. in Kinsale, Va., is one of the largest oyster growers and planters on Chesapeake Bay. The company harvests thousands of acres of oyster beds and requires several good boats to work the oyster grounds. So, when Ronnie...

A touch of glass: slowly if not surely, touch screens are making their way into the wheelhouse.(Boats & Gear: Wheelhouse electronics)
April 1, 2007... It has only been in the past five or six years that boat owners have shown any interest in touch screens. Until then, touch screens were used for shoreside applications. Though even there, they were initially considered something of a novelty,...

P.E.I. boat slips into Maryland; scalloper tests powder coating.(Boats & Gear: Around the Yards)
April 1, 2007... On Canada's Prince Edward Island, Hustler's Fiberglass Boats in Bloomfield recently completed a new mold for their 44-foot 6-inch hull. The new hull is wider across the transom by 14 inches, making it 14 feet 9 inches. The keel is slightly...

Seiner-longliner is sponsoned; jets power Alaska bowpickers.(Boats & Gear: Around the Yards)
April 1, 2007... By April 1, when the Paige Marie steams away from Fashion Black smith in Crescent City, Calif., and heads for the Southeast Alaska fishing grounds, she will go out longer and about 7 feet wider than when she arrived. And she'll have gained some...

Historic Va. railway still busy; octogenarian recalls ark layout.(Boats & Gear: Around the Yards)
April 1, 2007... In January, the Estelle Leonard was hauled out at Chesapeake Marine Railway in Deltaville,Va. The 59' 9" x 22' 3" x 7' 1" Chesapeake Bay buy boat was built in 1927 by Jabez Tyler of Cambridge, Md. Recently, she has been working out of...

Trouble at the dock? Your boat can make the call Boatsense Solutions links your cell phone with onboard sensors.(Product roundup)
April 1, 2007... Cell phone capability seems to be expanding exponentially--video, music, games, photos, voice and text messaging. Now Boatsense Solutions offers a cell-based remote monitoring system. While your boat is tied to the dock or on its mooring, this...

Reel them in with electrifying new features: hook-and-line fishermen have a powerful option, courtesy Lindgren-Pitman.(Product roundup)
April 1, 2007... It's winter, and for those fishermen who head to sea in the spring, summer and fall, this is the time of year when a lot of thought goes into the equipment you would like to have on the boat and how to get it. For the rod-and-reel...

Shakespeare's new Cruisenet, a high-speed cellular network, launches Internet access as soon as you start up your computer.(At a glance)
April 1, 2007... SHAKESPEARE's new CRUISENET, a high-speed cellular network, launches Internet access as soon as you start up your computer. A wire less option gives you remote access. The CruiseNet includes a four-port EV-DO or lxRTT cellular router and a...

Gold Eagle has a new product to counteract the effects of ethanol-blended gasoline.(At a glance)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... GOLD EAGLE has a new product to counteract the effects of ethanol-blended gasoline. MARINE FORMULA STA-BIL is designed to prevent gum and varnish from forming. The mixture also has corrosion inhibitors to protect fuel tanks, fuel lines,...

ZF Marine is introducing its 360 IV transmission.(At a glance)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... ZF MARINE is introducing its 360 IV transmission. The new transmission is a 14-degree V-drive unit. It is more compact than the previous generation 350 series, 95 pounds lighter, has more ratio variations, can take the SmartCommand control...

Marport, which specializes in acoustic imaging, is taking orders for the Trawl Explorer G2, which will be available in mid-April for mid-water and bottom trawling.(At a glance)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... MARPORT, which specializes in acoustic imaging, is taking orders for the TRAWL EXPLORER G2, which will be available in mid-April for midwater and bottom trawling. The company says this is the first software-defined broadband net sounder. The...

Severn Trent De Nora has a new approach to onboard sewage treatment with the Coast Guard-approved Type II Mariner omnipure sanitation devices.(At a glance)
April 1, 2007... SEVERN TRENT DE NORA has a new approach to onboard sewage treatment with the Coast Guard-approved Type II MARINER OMNIPURE sanitation devices. The unit treats sewage by producing a sodium hypochlorite disinfection solution from seawater. The...

Thermoboat produces Prolan, a marine lanolin lubricant that's nontoxic, non-carcinogenic and completely natural.(At a glance)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... THERMOBOAT produces PROLAN, a marine lanolin lubricant that's nontoxic, non-carcinogenic and completely natural. It can be used on outboards, trailers, winches, props and even small hulls (among other things) to decrease drag. It also can be...

Bulletin board.(Calendar)
April 1, 2007... APRIL 24-26 European Seafood Exhibition/Seafood Processing Europe Pares des Expositions, Brussels, Belgium * www.euroseafood.com Seafood buyers and sellers from across Europe and the world converge at the European Seafood Exposition...

Navico Holding.(ON THE MOVE)(appoints Jens-Thomas Pietralla)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... NAVICO HOLDING announced recently that JENS-THOMAS PIETRALLA has taken on the role of president and CEO after the retirement of CEO Darrell Lowrance. Lowrance will become a member of the company's board of directors. Pietralla joined the Navico...

Gladding Memorial Awards.(ON THE MOVE)(Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute )(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... The Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute presented the GLADDING MEMORIAL AWARDS for commercial fishing conservation leadership to two commercial fishermen, CARLTON (JACK) YOUNG of Placencia, Belize, and CEYLON CLAYTON of Little Bay,...

www.commercial-fishing.org.(COMPANY NEWS)
April 1, 2007... A new membership-based Web site, WWW.COMMERCIAL-FISHING.ORG, offers an interactive online resource for the commercial fishing, seafood and aquaculture industries. With free membership, users can participate in industry discussion forums, buy...

Beier Radio.(COMPANY NEWS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... In 2006, BEIER RADIO received accreditation from the London-based Nautical Institute for the company's dynamic positioning training course. "We are extremely pleased to receive this honor recognizing the high level of training our customers...

Johnstone Straits, B.C.(Last set)
April 1, 2007... Capt. Teddy Assu stands on the stern of the steel-hulled Sandy Ann looking for chum salmon, while his wife, Denise, runs the drum.