Scallop Dredge
Maine’s winter scallop fishing season opened on Saturday with scallopers facing even more uncertainty than usual. New rules controlling the Gulf of Maine scallop fishery could have a big impact on Maine’s scallop fishing fleet. The New England Fishery Management Council recently approved adjustments to its scallop fishery management plan aimed at conserving the […]
Old fashioned use of fish waste as fertiliser has provided the inspiration for a win-win project in the north of Norway, with waste from the shrimp industry proving to be a first-class ecological fertilizer. “In the old days, people used fish waste as fertilizer and that’s where we got the idea,” says Halgeir Jakobsen, potato […]
As Christmas approaches most people’s minds inevitably turn to Santa Claus and his bag of gifts. But fishermen in Sussex have a very different type of claws on their minds right now. They are in the middle of a revolutionary conservation drive which to them is literally a matter of life or death. Faced with […]
Could you soon be pumping shrimp shells into your gas tank?
What makes more sense, eating prime Gulf of Mexico shrimp or turning them into gasoline? If Midwestern farmers have their way, we’ll be turning shrimp into gasoline. If you burn a gallon of corn-based ethanol in your car, you’re pouring nitrogen onto a field in […]
Crab Fishermen
A body that washed up on a Half Moon Bay beach was that of Benjamin Hannaberg, the 58-year-old owner of a crab boat that apparently capsized last week on a crab-fishing trip, the San Mateo County coroner said today. A passer-by spotted Hannaberg’s body south of Poplar Beach at 1:43 p.m. Tuesday, Half Moon […]
Salmon Farm
Fish-farming giant Marine Harvest said yesterday that about 24,000 salmon had escaped from its operation at Loch Ewe, in Wester Ross. The company said the loss was discovered on Thursday, just before the fish were due to be taken to a harvesting site at Mallaig and a full investigation was being carried out by […]
Pearls
Crab tooth or a pearl? Paula Miller thinks it’s a keeper. The Bay City resident was dining on stone crab claws over the weekend, and after digging out a decent dollop of the delectable delicacy, she dove in. Crab isn’t supposed to crunch. Miller investigated and found what appeared to be a popcorn kernel in […]
Colorful Lobsters
A veteran fisherman of 45 years, fishing in the lobster boat Jennifer Jean, has landed his first blue lobster. Last week a lobster trap came up with a market size blue lobster. “I have seen pictures of blue lobsters but this is the first time in my life that I have seen a blue […]
King Crab Catch
Fishermen last month harvested boatloads of giant red king crab from Bristol Bay, Alaska where stocks of the tasty crustacean have been increasing. Eighteen crabs harvested by fishermen aboard the FV Stormbird will end up not on the dinner table, but in research labs in Kodiak and Seward instead. The crabs, all females […]
This is the result of an oil spill
Crab fishermen who lost most of their seasonal earnings because of the Cosco Busan oil spill last month have reason to hope they’ll recoup some of their losses. On Monday, the San Francisco-based law firms of Hanson Bridgett & McGuinn and Hillsman & Palefsky announced the settlement of […]