National Fisherman articles from April 2008

National Fisherman archives from April 2008

April 2008: this month's highlights.(The hail)
April 1, 2008... Welcome to National Fisherman's 2008 Yearbook issue. As we have for a generation or more, we'll look at the preceding year, from a national perspective, with an eye for insights into the year to come. As in past editions, the Yearbook...

Seafood industry is the engine of our coastal economy.(VIEWS from Alaska)
April 1, 2008... People who follow Alaska news know that during the first year of my administration, we've done tremendous work on oil and gas issues, ethics reform and responsible budgeting. What hasn't made headlines is that we've also been working to...

A deal for you.(Editor's log)(nationalfisherman.com)
April 1, 2008... As we travel to trade shows around the country, we often hear from readers that it is difficult to find National Fisherman on the newsstand. I know this is frustrating, especially for longtime readers of the magazine who can remember when...

Fishing back when.(NF classics)(National Fisherman)
April 1, 2008... 50 YEARS AGO Shipbuilding lines convey only two dimensions. So what happens when a customer doesn't like the looks of his new boat? At Camden, Maine's Camden Shipbuilding yard, the first boat built from each new design is a model. Camden...

Daring Coast Guard rescue defies the odds in New England northeaster.(The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History By Theresa Mitchell Barbo, John Galluzo and Capt. W. Russell Webster History Press, 2007 Softcover, 128 pp., $19.99...

The salty side of the Wild West starts with the glimmer of California gold.(Shanghaied in San Francisco )(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Shanghaied in San Francisco By Bill Pickelhaupt Mystic Seaport, 2007 Softcover, 184 pp., $24.95 www.mysticseaport.org Let Kit Carson rest his spurs. This reprint of Bill Pickelhaupt's 1996 chronicle recounts the seafaring side of life in...

Sector apprehensions.(From Another Perspective)
April 1, 2008... Sectors are coming to New England groundfish management. How do I know? I attended a two-day workshop in Narragansett last month, and according to what I heard there, it's all over but the shouting. At some point in the not-too-distant future,...

The public's perspective.(From the town landing)
April 1, 2008... A recent front-page story in the New York Times described the deteriorating situation of local fishermen in coastal communities of West African countries, where governments have sold their countries' offshore fishing rights to large European...

Bristol Bay campaign integrates fishing and conservation.(Dock talk)
April 1, 2008... In an unconventional new partnership, Bristol Bay commercial fishermen have joined forces with the nation's largest coldwater fisheries conservation group, Trout Unlimited, to promote the eating of wild salmon from Bristol Bay as a way to...

When in doubt, notify the Coast Guard.(Consequences)
April 1, 2008... From U.S. Coast Guard reports Some boat owners delay or avoid general preventative maintenance, are reluctant to inspect and test equipment routinely, or put off minor repair jobs until they become major repair projects. Some may think they...

Should youngsters heed the call to fish?(Mail buoy)
April 1, 2008... I believe I can still make a living harvesting the bounty of the sea--enter into a tradition as old as the dawn of man--a fisherman. To live with virtually limitless freedom and to know ultimate vulnerability, to realize that I am truly at the...

Limited access restricts communities and tradition.(Mail buoy)
April 1, 2008... The following is a letter to Vito Calomo, chairman of the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Commission. Here are some of the reasons that we believe a control date for hook and line commercial fisheries in Massachusetts is a bad idea, and...

Cap'n sane says ...
April 1, 2008... Beulah Banning, our Cove crab lady who once got a write-up in the Whole Earth Catalog for her two-pound peaky toe crab mils, is our self-appointed politically correct officer. It's a cause of just one but Beul keeps calling meetings up at Amos'...

Happy humping grounds.(In search of the simple life)
April 1, 2008... Driving from the Maui airport heading for my hotel in Lahaina, I see throngs of tourists at every turnout. What are they looking at? I pull over to check it out. Nothing but an empty ocean, blue and sparkling, but empty. But no one moves, eyes...

Tracking Magnuson-Stevens mandates.(Mail buoy)
April 1, 2008... In 2007, NOAA Fisheries Service staff, working with the eight regional fishery management councils, the three interstate fishery commissions and state fishery management directors, made significant progress in implementing the Magnuson-Stevens...

Agreement on Klamath River water use appears likely: utility company is expected to sign off on removal of four dams over the next 10 years.(ALASKA and PACIFIC)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] West Coast fishermen got a mix of news early in the year. On the good side, two years of settlement talks have produced a draft agreement between Klamath Basin tribes, environmental groups, fishermen and farmers....

Commission chops Pacific halibut quota by 7 percent: coastwise approach addresses migration.(ALASKA and PACIFIC)(International Pacific Halibut Commission)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Halibut quotas took a hit in January when the International Pacific Halibut Commission unveiled skimpier numbers for many of the management areas that dice up the North Pacific. The commission set the total harvest quota for all areas in...

NMFS recommends culling sea lions to benefit salmon: agency proposes the killing of 30 per year.(ALASKA and PACIFIC)
April 1, 2008... Officials in Oregon and Washington may soon be able to replace rubber bullets with real ones--to thin the herd of sea lions feeding on salmon at a Columbia River dam. NMFS recommends killing about 30 sea lions a year, or enough to ensure...

Chesapeake Bay's blue crab numbers prompt cutbacks: fishermen blame predators and loss of eelgrass, managers look to reduce fishing effort.(ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Virginia's attempt to rein in blue crab fishing has had little effect on stocks since 1994, and scientific advisers warned early this year there's no option left but to impose direct cutbacks on fishermen. At a Jan. 22 meeting the Virginia...

Where we live: San Francisco.(HOME PORT)
April 1, 2008... SAN FRANCISCO THE CITY Population: 744,041--7.2 million in the greater San Francisco Bay area Number of boats: 100 TOP FIVE SPECIES IN 2006 By value: By value: Dungeness crab--2.25 million pounds worth $4.39 million...

Fewer days at sea causing congestion in New Bedford: concrete floating docks could add berths.(ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Fewer fishing days and a growing fleet are making for overcrowded docks in New Bedford, Mass. Scallopers and draggers are rafted in groups of four or five, making it difficult to service vessels and dangerous for fishermen who board them....

Florida fishermen still fighting to use their own docks: county board pursues attack on commercial use in decade-old battle, despite court rulings.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... A Florida waterfront access saga that has brewing since the late 1990s appears to be entering a climactic phase as the Hernando County Board of County Commissioners attempts (with one strong voice of dissent) to force remaining fishermen off...

Jim, Dan and Rick Mears: Barnegat Light, N.J.(SNAPHOT: WHO WE ARE)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first proposed changes to the 2001 Mid-Atlantic tilefish management plan could help brothers Jim (left), Dan and Rick Mears keep a place in the fishery that was born in their hometown of Barnegat Light, N.J. ...

Texas officials go public on setting menhaden cap: fishermen proceed with voluntary reports.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2008... Texas officials moved closer to placing a cap on menhaden fishing in state waters as they revved up for hearings on the proposal in March. Concerns by Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission members that future over-fishing of a staple snack...

Fried Georgia soft-shell crabs with bread and butter: David Karwacki, Darien, Ga.(GALLEY WATCH: AT-SEA CUISINE)
April 1, 2008... March is the heart of the soft-shell crab season in Georgia. It's when David Karwacki, president of the Professional Crabbers Association of Georgia and 2006 National Fisherman Highliner, makes a good portion of his annual income. It's also...

The Vulcan: Salmon troller and dive boat: Craig, Alaska.(BOAT OF THE MONTH)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Harriet Wadley of Craig, Alaska, bought the Vulcan, she intended to make it catch fish--and last for a lifetime. "This is the last boat I'll ever own, if I'm lucky," says Wadley, who's been at the game of...

Asian carp commercial fishery trial a success in Illinois: fishermen take 30 tons of the invasive species in three weeks, look to develop a market.(NATION/WORLD)
April 1, 2008... Rob Maher, commercial fishing manager for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, and Chad Isaak, a commercial fisherman out of Carlyle, Ill., agree that the first commercial fishing venture on the Kaskaskia River in Illinois was a...

New England.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(New England Fishery Management Council )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The New England Fishery Management Council met in an unusual one-day session in January to continue efforts to develop a comprehensive sector management program that would allow groups of fishermen to enter into contractual agreements and...

Mid-Atlantic.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council in late January and early February held hearings on Amendment 1 to the tilefish management plan. Proposed management actions could establish an IFQ program and: * implement commercial trip limits...

South Atlantic.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(South Atlantic Fishery Management Council )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council in February held a series of informal "scoping" meetings on annual catch limits, limited access privilege programs, and mackerel quotas. One topic: determining allocations of fisheries between...

Gulf of Mexico.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic fishery management councils were planning to hold a joint public hearing in Islamorada, Fla., in mid-February to solicit public comment on a draft aquaculture amendment. The amendment will require...

Pacific.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(Pacific Fishery Management Council)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... California Central Valley fall chinook salmon stocks appear to be undergoing a significant decline, according to Donald McIsaac, executive director of the Pacific Fishery Management Council. McIsaac said that if the low abundance is confirmed,...

North Pacific.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(North Pacific Fishery Management Council )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is considering several options to reduce king salmon by-catch on the part of midwater pollock trawlers. The toughest of these could include a salmon by-catch limit that could, if met, terminate...

Western Pacific.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is requesting that the Government Accountability Office "investigate the expenditures of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council" in response to concerns about the council's questionable use of...

Caribbean.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)(Caribbean Fishery Management Council )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. John deJongh cited his efforts with respect to the fishing industry in his State of the Territory address, in late January: "To help protect our local fishermen, we have become fully involved with the Caribbean Fishery...

2007 year in review: a lot happens in a year.(Yearbook 2008)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... In the course of a year, wild harvest fisheries supply the world with about 200 billion pounds of fish, give or take. Not nearly enough to eat, they tell us, but too much to sustain. By the same token, the world consumes about 80 million...

For a little baitfish, herring has stirred up a controversy out of proportion to its price.(Northeast)
April 1, 2008... Still inexpensive at less than 15 cents a pound, herring in 2007 did not come cheap in every sense of the word. There were new troubles all around New England's herring fleet, and not just in the embattled midwater trawl sector, now facing...

For grouper fishermen, it's nice to be right, but good stock assessments would have been better.(Gulf/South Atlantic)
April 1, 2008... Fishermen will remember 2007 as the year they were right and the best available science--on which years of economic hardship in the grouper fishery were based--was finally seen to be wrong. NMFS acknowledged long-term problems with red...

Marine protected areas may be all the rage, but please, industry says, let us give our 2 cents.(Pacific)
April 1, 2008... The debate over establishing marine protected areas, or the stricter no-take marine reserves, is well under way on the West Coast, and fishermen fear being left out of the process as well as the loss of lucrative fishing grounds. Oregon...

2007 typified by good landings, decent prices; can this really be commercial fishing business?(North Pacific)
April 1, 2008... Like any other year in the North Pacific, 2007 had its share of commercial fishing incidents worthy of chronicle, the biggest of which began already in January as fleets readied their boats for Pacific cod. With a harvest of 36 million pounds...

Low quotas take gloss off IFQ among snapper fleet; swordfish a bright spot.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC: YEAR IN REVIEW)(individual fishing quota)
April 1, 2008... After the first year of the Gulf of Mexico red snapper individual fishing quota program, price is up but federal managers drastically slashed the TAC (to 5 million pounds in 2008 compared with 9.12 million pounds in 2006), leaving...

Blue crab turns in a lackluster year; groundfish fleet flees Pine Tree State.(NORTHEAST: YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2008... Constricting groundfish rules drove more boats out of Maine to Massachusetts ports in 2007, and Mid-Atlantic fishermen got just a temporary reprieve from summer flounder cutbacks that could bring a shutdown in 2008. An exodus of draggers...

Tuna, shrimp hop MSC bandwagon, and the hake fleet puts its thumb out.(PACIFIC: YEAR IN REVIEW)(Marine Stewardship Council)
April 1, 2008... West Coast salmon fishermen will remember last year as near catastrophic in terms of run strength. The salmon fleet experienced widespread closures associated with weak returns to the Klamath in 2006. Last year, fishermen were expecting a...

Hot hand: halibut longliners trump lower quota via higher ex-vessel price.(NORTH PACIFIC: YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2008... Alaska's commercial fishermen will largely remember 2007 as the year of better prices and plenty of fish. Preliminary harvest data from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game put last year's total salmon catch at 212 million for all five...

Life & fish: it's a tough world out there!
April 1, 2008... A frat-boy-style prank went awry when authorities found a rental truck filled with rotting fish, cow parts and pig organs that stunk so, they subsequently evacuated residents of a Tucson, Ariz., neighborhood, the Associated Press reported. ...

Glen Brooks, president of the Clearwater, Fla.-based Gulf Fishermen's Association, continued the fight against federal vessel monitoring system requirements for Gulf of Mexico reef fish vessels.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Glen Brooks, president of the Clearwater, Fla.-based Gulf Fishermen's Association, continued the fight against federal vessel monitoring system requirements for Gulf of Mexico reef fish vessels. While fishermen lost the first round in federal...

Sherri McCoy.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2008... Sherri McCoy, co-owner of Cape Canaveral Shrimp Co., convinced state law enforcement and port authority officials to loosen strict new port security requirements affecting the company's docks. The regulations, which had required an...

Blue Water Fishermen's Association.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... After earlier rejecting a request by the Blue Water Fishermen's Association to allow some research-oriented longline fishing in the Charleston Bump and Florida East Coast closed areas, NMFS later agreed to a scaled down plan that would allow...

Wayne Magwood.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... When Southeast BioDiesel in North Charleston, S.C., pitched its fuel to the local shrimp industry last summer, Wayne Magwood, a leader in the shrimping community and former president of the South Carolina Shrimper's Association, decided to give...

David E. Frulla.(NORTHEAST)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Lawyer David E. Frulla helped Delaware watermen win a limited horseshoe crab season in 2007. A Sussex County Superior Court judge ruled against a state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control-imposed moratorium. The court...

A lobbying effort by the Garden State Seafood Association and testimony from lobstermen like Charlie Van Salisbury telling their side of the story prevented New Jersey's Legislature from booting commercial traps off the state's network of artificial reefs.(NORTHEAST)
April 1, 2008... A lobbying effort by the Garden State Seafood Association and testimony from lobstermen like Charlie Van Salisbury telling their side of the story prevented New Jersey's Legislature from booting commercial traps off the state's network of...

With North Carolina's once-robust industry in steep decline, U.S. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) led off a longshot movement to amend stock rebuilding deadlines in the federal Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.(NORTHEAST)
April 1, 2008... With North Carolina's once-robust industry in steep decline, U.S. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) led off a longshot movement to amend stock rebuilding deadlines in the federal Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The law's...

Five Makah Tribe members.(PACIFIC)(Gray Whale Management Plan )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... An unauthorized gray whale hunt in September landed five Makah Tribe members in hot water with tribal officials and the federal government. The tribe has charged the five with violating its Gray Whale Management Plan as well as state and...

Capt. John Cota.(PACIFIC)
April 1, 2008... Capt. John Cota, a pilot aboard the container ship Cosco Busan, had his pilot license suspended while state and federal agencies investigate the ship crash that spilled 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay in November. Cota's...

Pete Leipzig.(PACIFIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Members of the Eureka, Calif.-based Fishermen's Marketing Association recruited new members and tied up their boats early last year over the lack of signed market orders from processors. Pete Leipzig, the association's executive director, said...

Scott Boley.(PACIFIC)(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Fisherman, processor and scientist Scott Boley, a tireless advocate for the fishing industry, died at his home in May at the age of 58. He worked hard to bridge the gaps between science and fishing and between fishing and the public. Boley was...

Ted Stevens.(NORTH PACIFIC)
April 1, 2008... Nobody has bent fishing legislation, the federal budget and other financial facets toward Alaska more than the state's senior U.S. senator, and last summer Ted Stevens became the subject of an FBI probe in light of allegations that he and other...

Kathy and Ed Hansen.(NORTH PACIFIC)(United Fishermen of Alaska's Fisherman of the Year award )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The United Fishermen of Alaska's Fisherman of the Year award went plural when the group's 37 member organizations, its board of directors and other supporting members named Kathy and Ed Hansen, of Juneau, as the 2007 award recipients. The...

Sig Hansen.(NORTH PACIFIC)
April 1, 2008... Bering Sea crab captain Sig Hansen and his fishing brothers found themselves fending off flack from the crab industry after they began marketing Russian king crab legs and claws to suppliers such as Wal-Mart. While critics wrote editorials and...

Selling survival: the federal official whose mission has been instilling a culture of safety in Alaska is taking her act on the road.(Safekeeping)
April 1, 2008... There was a time when Alaska fishermen weren't so keen on addressing fishing vessel safety, recalls Jerry Dzugan, executive director of the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association. Dzugan remembers fishermen's reactions when in 1993 he...

A day at the beach, somewhat: chasing skipjack with Alabama's Ben Harvard.(At sea)
April 1, 2008... With the day's lunches on board and the fuel tanks full in his 33-foot Southbound, Ben Harvard had only to top off the oil in the 210 Cummins and it was time to go. He wasn't about to get jumped again. Just yesterday, a competitor beat him...

Built to suit: Rozema Boat Works turn out a planing 55-footer for commercial and charter fishing as well as research.(Boats&Gear: Boatbuilding)
April 1, 2008... In April, the Alaska Adventure will leave Rozema Boat Works in Mt. Vernon, Wash., and head to Homer, Alaska, where she will fish as a long-liner for halibut, a gillnetter for salmon and do charter work. At times the boat will haul up to 12...

To catch a carp: an invasive Asian flier tests a La. net builder.(Boats&Gear: Trawl design)(Innovative Net Systems)
April 1, 2008... "Heads up, here comes another one," shouted Wyatt Doyle, crew chief for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Columbia, Mo. Sure enough, a 30-inch silver carp slammed its head against the gunwale of the 25-foot aluminum boat....

Powering port's last pogy boat; maritimes boat heads for B.C.(NORTHEAST)
April 1, 2008... In February, the 80-foot New England pogy boat Taylors Creek was tied up at the Rose Marine dock in Gloucester, Mass. The Taylors Creek is the only pogy boat still based in Gloucester, says Rose Marine's Frank Rose, a port that used to receive...

Wash. boatyard is a busy joint; tribe gets an aluminum packer.(WEST)(Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op in Port Townsend, Washington)(Organization overview)
April 1, 2008... The Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op in Port Townsend, Wash., has been repairing boats, primarily wooden boats and primarily commercial boats since September 1981, when it was incorporated with eight members. "We like working with commercial...

Scalloper is hauled for repairs; seiner opts for traditional skiff.(SOUTH)
April 1, 2008... Ampro Shipyard in Weems, Va., hauled and repaired the 93-foot Suzee Q in December. Ike Martin of Poquo son, Va., owns the steel-hulled scalloper along with two other scallop boats, the Crystal and the Katie. The boats work out of Seaford, Va....

After winter, spring your engine: a few drops of Engine Release can break up cylinder corrosion.(Product roundup)
April 1, 2008... In two or three months fishermen and non-fishermen alike will be hauling their outboards from under the lean-to or boat shed, and if they are lucky--meaning they winterized it properly and kept it out of the rain and snow--they should start up...

Cooking up a classic: navigator Stove Works brings back two traditional oceangoing wood stove designs.(Product roundup)
April 1, 2008... Since 1891, when Lunenburg Foundry and Engineering in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, first fired up its furnaces, the company was the place to go for fishermen building a boat. There were large ticket items like the Fishermen's Ratchet Windlass for...

Marine Simulation released volumes one and two of the Rovsim Undersea Pilot Series.(At a glance)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MARINE SIMULATION released volumes one and two of the ROVSIM UNDERSEA PILOT SERIES. These are visually realistic and highly configurable simulations for using submersible remotely operated vehicles with a range of...

ACR Electronics' new searchlight, the RCL-330A produces 1 million candela when both 35-watt metal halide high-intensity discharge lamps are on.(At a glance)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ACR ELECTRONICS' new searchlight, the RCL-330A produces 1 million candela when both 35-watt metal halide high-intensity discharge lamps are on. The light is remotely controlled and can be rotated 360 degrees with a...

Evinrude's latest addition to its outboard lineup is the E-TEC 300-HP model with the new SLE Magnum gear case for better speed and engine efficiency.(At a glance)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EVINRUDE'S latest addition to its outboard lineup is the E-TEC 300-HP model with the new SLE Magnum gear case for better speed and engine efficiency. The outboard is a big-block two-stroke with direct injection....

Jonathan Paul Eyewear offers their line of Trilenium Gold9 glasses that fit over prescription eyeglasses with blue-light filtering lenses as the best way to filter out bright-blue light reflected off water.(At a glance)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JONATHAN PAUL EYEWEAR offers their line of TRILENIUM GOLD9 glasses that fit over prescription eyeglasses with blue-light filtering lenses as the best way to filter out bright-blue light reflected off water. Filtering...

Delta "T" Systems expanded its engine compartment ventilation equipment with the 4-inch DC Blower.(At a glance)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DELTA "T" SYSTEMS expanded its engine compartment ventilation equipment with the 4-inch DC BLOWER. The ignition-protected fan, enclosed in a plastic housing, delivers airflows of 350 cubic feet per minute. It comes...

Davis Instruments developed the Whale Tail XL for outboards.(At a glance)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DAVIS INSTRUMENTS developed the WHALE TAIL XL for outboards. It extends behind the prop, turning the prop's energy into lift, while boosting a boat's top speed and improving fuel savings. It keeps the bow from...

Bulletin board.(Brief article)(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... APRIL 22-24 European Seafood Exposition/Seafood Processing Europe Parc des Expositions, Brussels, Belgium * www.euroseafood.com More than 1,600 exhibitors from 87 countries convene in Brussels for the European Seafood Exposition...

NMFS.(ON THE MOVE)(National Marine Fisheries Service's James W. Balsiger)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NMFS announced in February that JAMES W. BALSIGER, the agency's Alaska regional administrator since 2000, was being promoted to take on the role of acting assistant administrator. Bill Hogarth served from early 2001...

Icicle Seafoods.(COMPANY NEWS)
April 1, 2008... ICICLE SEAFOODS has donated $200,000 to the University of Alaska at Anchorage, with $150,000 of the donation designated for the Institute of Social and Economic Research. That portion is earmarked for expanding research and educational programs...

American Seafoods.(COMPANY NEWS)
April 1, 2008... Seattle-based seafood processors AMERICAN SEAFOODS recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Community Advisory Board. The program awards grants to communities in Alaska and commits $75,000 annually to various community projects. The...

Fisheries institute says mercury message flawed: decries New York Times tuna investigation.(NATION/WORLD)
April 1, 2008... Two recent New York Times articles on high mercury levels in tuna sushi have generated a flurry of criticism from the National Fisheries Institute, a leading seafood advocacy group, which calls the reporting "error-filled" and "alarmist." ...

Gloucester, Mass.(Last set)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The groundfish dragger Josephine is tied up to the dock after John Orlando (front) and Capt. Matt Russo spent the morning fishing in the December snow.