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11/13/2023

Charles Witek: “When recreational fishing groups begin to focus most of their conservation efforts on menhaden stocks, which are generally healthy, and ignore — or worse, oppose — needed management measures for marine finfish that are often sought by anglers, such groups’ commitment to conservation might well be questioned.”

November 13, 2023 – Charles Witek, a fisheries consultant, recreational fisherman, and writer of the “One Angler’s Voyage” blog, has recently called out sportfishing groups like the Coastal Conservation Association and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership for their “aggressive effor...

01/20/2023

Seafood industry leaders won't want to miss !

As the seafood industry changes, we're changing along with it.

We're ushering in a new era in our 22-year history of convening the world’s seafood thought leaders. 💭

The Global Outlook for Aquaculture Leadership, or GOAL, is now called The Responsible Seafood Summit, a name that better represents our vision of a world that embraces the role of responsible seafood in meeting global nutrition needs, for both farmed and wild seafood.

The first event under the new name and brand will be held at The Delta Hotel in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, from Oct. 2 to 5, 2023.

The Responsible Seafood Summit has been held in 18 cities on four continents (Asia, Europe, North America and South America) since its inaugural event in 2001.

In addition to the new name and brand, the event agenda is evolving, featuring a multi-track education program, more networking activities and more field trips to production facilities.

Though the name and feel of the event has changed, the mission has not – to encourage collaboration, facilitate dialogue and provide a pre-competitive platform for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas amongst the world’s seafood thought leaders.

Save the date, and we'll see you in Saint John! 📆👇🇨🇦
https://bit.ly/3XByMkw

10/07/2022

Spotted seatrout is being overfished by recreational anglers in the Gulf of Mexico. The Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries Commission has proposed reducing its catch in response.

October 7, 2022 — October 7, 2022 — Yesterday, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) announced a proposal that would reduce the catch of spotted seatrout, in an effort to reverse a decline in the species and reduce overharvesting. Spotted seatrout, also known as speckled trout, ...

09/15/2022

Back in the spring, Lynnhaven River Now & the Chesapeake Bay Foundation were celebrating their efforts to restore oysters in Virginia’s Lynnhaven River. But then waterfront residents began complaining about chunks of asphalt, metal wires & steel rebar mixed with the concrete being put in the water. Now the reputation of the two groups is tarnished in the eyes of some riverfront residents.

Back in the spring, Lynnhaven River Now was celebrating its efforts to rebuild the oyster population in one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most developed watersheds.

07/29/2022

A new book is spreading fictions about North American salmon farming. We’ve debunked 10 of them here.

July 28, 2022 — Earlier this month, Macmillan Publishers released Salmon Wars, by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, which the publisher describes as a “deep dive” into the farm-raised salmon industry. After extensively reviewing the book, Saving Seafood has identified numerous falsehoods a...

07/21/2022

is forcing into the traditional habitats of ocean , with major consequences for fishermen and fisheries managers. Science Center for Marine Fisheries

In fall 2021, SCEMFIS researchers set out on the F/V Pursuit to record how climate change is affecting surf clams and ocean quahogs, as warmer waters push th...

05/23/2022

Gulf of Mexico business owners say a government plan to take quota from commercial fishermen and give it to the recreational sector will hurt the industry & their customers.

“I don’t dislike the recreational sector,” says Karen Bell, owner of A.P. Bell Fishing Company. “But to shift [quota] to give it to someone else when we provide it to the non-fishing public, that’s a hard pill to swallow.”

The federal lawsuit challenges allocations approved by NOAA as part of Amendment 53 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico.

05/03/2022

Data from the COVID-impacted 2020 fishing season could impact future menhaden allocations, with major implications for Virginia’s fishing fleet.

May 2, 2022 — Action the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is set to take this week regarding menhaden allocations at its annual spring meeting could have a significant impact on some members of the fishery based on how they responded to the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago. On the agenda...

01/13/2022

The Fisheries Survival Fund, which represents the vast majority of full-time Atlantic sea scallop fishermen, is calling on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to create an “adaptive and proactive mitigation plan” that will allow both fisheries and offshore wind to prosper. Atlantic sea scallops, which are extremely sensitive to changes in the ocean environment, represent the most valuable federally-managed wild-caught fishery in the country.

January 12, 2022 — The following was released by the Fisheries Survival Fund: Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it will conduct a wind lease auction for 480,000 acres of ocean in the New York Bight area of the Atlantic. In public comments submitted late last week, the F...

01/07/2022

With help from a 2020 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant, Fishadelphia.Csf is connecting low-income consumers in Philadelphia with neighboring New Jersey seafood harvesters. The program’s diverse team promotes, develops, and markets local seafood, serving as a model for other communities working to incorporate healthy seafood into their diets.

Fishadelphia is a pilot community seafood program based in Philadelphia, that was awarded a Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant, designed to connect seafood to low-income consumers.

10/06/2021

As the Biden administration moves forward with its 30x30 plan, opponents of new marine monuments argue that managed waters are sufficient to meet conservation goals.

“If it’s not conserved unless it’s in a marine sanctuary that excludes fishing – which is a fairly radical & extreme point of view – then I think you get into a very different set of calculations about how you get to 30 percent,” says Dr. Roger Mann of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

On paper, it might seem like the Biden administration is close to meeting its goal of conserving 30 percent of the nation's oceans by 2030. But environmentalists say this ignores the fact that almost all of the most highly protected waters are in the remote Pacific.

09/23/2021

American fishermen are increasingly getting pushed to the side as U.S. waters become the focus of multiple, sometimes incompatible uses, according to Dr. Roger Mann of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Competing uses like large, no-take marine protected areas and offshore wind don’t function well with traditional fisheries management, he writes in National Fisherman.

The “space” for fisheries is shrinking. Commercial fishing won’t be the largest economic player as development of our oceans continues, but it is historically an important part of the economic and social structure of coastal communities.

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