National Fisherman articles from August 2000

National Fisherman archives from August 2000

The high cost of buybacks.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A few years ago, the federal government "bought back" dozens of groundfish boats in the Northeast. Specifically, Washington paid vessel owners a percentage of a year's stock and removed the vessels from the fleet, in some cases sinking them or...

Alaska crabber challenges co-ops, trawlers.
August 1, 2000... I am opposed to the implementation of crab cooperatives and believe they * will eliminate all competition; * will work towards privatizing another public resource; * will disenfranchise crew members; * will set in place a...

Paying the price in Southeast's red king fishery.(fishing boat lost off Southeast Alaska)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The red king crab fishery opens once a year -- if that. The price last fall was $6.35 a pound -- "unprecedented" -- according to Kathy Bothello, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and double the price it had been in 1997....

MAIL BUOY.(letters)
August 1, 2000... Could arrowtooth flounder be eating sea lions' pollock? I never thought much about arrowtooth flounder until I made a routine stop at the processing plant which was processing the Peggy Jo's arrowtooth delivery. It struck me that each large...

Cap'n Sane Says ...(fishing humor)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Saturday Cove, Maine Well, the lobster shedder season's upon us n'so's Bubba Beal, our clam cop. Shedder time's when lobstermen swear at dealers, dealers swear low prices ain't their fault n'fishcrats gather in conventions riggin' up...

NATIONAL.
August 1, 2000... You can't win: NMFS gets it from both sides in suits Gloucester says agency is choking boats; advocacy groups say regulations aren't enough It's tough for fishermen to feel much sympathy for NMFS, but every once in a while, you've got...

Magnuson Act Update.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... "It's not dead" Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is doing everything she can to assure that Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization goes forward as planned. Not only has she lined up the support of Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Ted Stevens...

PACIFIC.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... NMFS levies huge fines in Calif. blackcod overages Two fishermen plead guilty as a third one disappears; a processor garners 299 citations A fisherman is on the lam from criminal charges while a Monterey processor faces huge penalties...

HOME PORT Where we live.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... ANACORTES, WASH. THE TOWN Population: 14,000 Fleet size: It's estimated there are about 150 commercial fishing boats in the harbor, 70 percent of which fish Alaska. SOME LOCAL BOATS AND THEIR FISHERIES Breakers Edge --...

SNAPSHOT Who we are.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Ernie Eldredge Chatham, Mass. Cape Cod weir fisherman Ernie Eldredge likes the independence that comes with being a commercial fisherman, even if the Barnstable County Council nearly eliminated his livelihood a few months back, when it...

NORTHEAST.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Oil spill in Maryland is described as "wake-up call" 140,000 gallons escape Patuxent River containment boom; beaches, fishing grounds fouled Watermen upset over the spill of 140,000 gallons of oil into Patuxent River at the Potomac...

GULF * SOUTH ATLANTIC.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The U.S. Attorney's Office says at least 15 shipment of spiny lobster, total value $2.5 million, were brought into the United States at Bayou La Batre, Ala. Four people are indicted in Fla. spiny lobster bust Government alleges...

Grilled shrimp with mullet roe.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Ronnie Lewis of the 57-foot Capt. Alton started out commercial fishing, which he did for 15 years. "Then for the past eight years I went into cooking and was part owner of a seafood restaurant," Lewis says. "But I got burned out, so here I am...

Centurion.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... "Prizes waiting to be won." -- Sue Laird, fisherman and vice president of Prime Select Seafoods, on Copper River kings Fishermen, marketers hatch Copper River king plan Label emphasizing quality, origin of fish may be the key to maximizing...

BOAT OF THE MONTH.(Centurion)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
August 1, 2000... Centurion Salmon, herring and cod seiner The 52-foot Centurion began life as the Renee K, says Jeanne Carroll, who's fished the boat with her husband, Glenn. The boat fished out of King Cove, on the Alaska Peninsula, until the Carrolls...

CANADA.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... "The federal government needs to adopt a precautionary approach to the seal population." -- Earle McCurdy, Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union For cod's sake, limit seals, Newfoundlanders urge Harp herd is said to jeopardize...

MARKET REPORT.
August 1, 2000... GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC SPINNY LOBSTER Higher prices, landings bode well for season ahead for fleet in keys After a dismal 1998-'99 performance, the Florida spiny lobster fishery recovered its composure during the most recent...

PACIFIC (COD) TIME.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Alaska fishermen once looked down their noses at P-cod. Not any more. The inky sky absorbs the harbor lights while the warming diesel's thick exhaust curls about the docks. It's five o'clock on a late February morning, and the freshening...

NUTS TO IMUS! FLUSH RUSH!(Tom King, shark fisherman, interview)(Interview)
August 1, 2000... A New Englander succeeds with nautical talk radio -- and he doesn't even bash commercial fishermen. Capt. Lou Gainor sits in front of a microphone in a broadcast booth at WATD, a radio station in Marshfield, Mass., preparing a shark expert...

HEAVY LIFTING.
August 1, 2000... Floridian Bud Collins has hoisted his share of gag grouper aboard, and he's got a hernia to prove it. In a few days, 32-year-old Bud Collins will check into the hospital for a hernia operation, but today he's going fishing anyway. "If...

ENDANGERED ESTUARIES.
August 1, 2000... Quantifying the effects of coastal pollution is difficult, but clearly the nurseries where fresh and saltwater meet are in jeopardy. Scientists have captured suspected perpetrators of the Long Island Sound lobster massacre -- a gang of...

GLASS PLUS.
August 1, 2000... An Alaska boatyard has quite a reputation for cutting up boats and then putting them back together with modern composites. Should you happen to stumble upon Eric Sloth's Sloth's Fiberglass at the east end of the Northern Enterprises Boat...

POSITIONING YOURSELF.
August 1, 2000... Charting equipment manufacturers are doing lots of little things that are designed to help you get the big picture. Versatility. More for the buck. That's what navigation hardware and software manufacturer's are giving fishermen. More to...

BOTTOM LINE.
August 1, 2000... The antifouling paint your father used is on the way out. Antifouling paint has been used in this country since 1851, when copper bottom paint was offered as a replacement for a lime and tallow mixture (which often included copper...

On the Move.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... KIRK SPITZER has been appointed president of ALFA LAVAL USA following a restructuring of the organization. Restructuring of the former Alfa Laval Separation Inc. resulted in the consolidation of its separation, thermal and flow businesses into...

Company News.(briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... CARTOGRAPHY CHOSEN. Navionics and Northstar Technologies have announced that Northstar's new electronic charting system, the 952XD, will use Navionics cartography. The 952XD is compatible with Navionics' postage stamp-sized NavChart[TM]...

POWER TO THE PUMP.(mechanics, analysis)
August 1, 2000... The best hydraulic drive system is one that dovetails with a boat's equipment and runs quietly with minimal maintenance. Think of all the ways hydraulics are used on a fishing boat: running winches, steering, deck cranes and haulers, to...

Turbo Duck bucks tradition; a light touch for engine, boat.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The 36-foot Turbo Duck is bucking a tradition that's been a hard one to get by. The Turbo Duck, a lobster boat built for Eben Elliot of Wallace, Nova Scotia, is an aluminum boat with an UltraJet water pump hooked up to a 375-hp Caterpillar...

Comfort is key to conversion; fiberglass seiners repowered.(part time fishing boats)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A few new boats have been built recently with the creature comforts of a recreational boat for fishermen retiring from full-time commercial fishing, but who want to continue fishing part time. Fred Dyson, a veteran Bristol Bay fisherman and...

Shrimpers abound in La. yard; Virginia Sue gets a makeover.(boat remodeling)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Shrimp boats, shrimp boats and more shrimp boats; that's the message coming from Ocean Marine of Bayou La Batre, La. The yard has nine steel boats under way and three in the water for Gulf Coast shrimp fishermen, says Irvin Jemison, president...

Battery-powered light an alternative to flares.(buoyant signals, evaluation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... ACR's DistresS.O.S. is a buoyant signal that boasts 150,000 candela of light intensity. When you read about fishermen who left port but were never found, you can't help wondering what happened to them. Did they make it off the boat? Could...

Little pump seeks lot of fish.(by Inventive Marine Products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... CanaVac Micro is designed not to damage or stress your catch. It's tough to design a small fish pump that will move a lot of live fish without damaging or stressing them. But that's what Inventive Marine Products in Nova Scotia, Canada,...

AT A GLANCE.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... GOUGEON BROTHERS suggests its WEST SYSTEM[R] 105 RESIN AND 205 HARDENER for cool weather construction, restoration and repair jobs on fiberglass and wooden boats that require a durable, fast curing epoxy. The low viscosity 105 Resin will wet...