Recreational fishing is deadly on the Fraser, but commercial fishing is, again, the deadliest job in America. According to Trade Only Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that commercial fishing is the deadliest job, but the real danger is not the Alaskan crab boats like Deadliest Catch suggests, but rather the northeast suffers more deaths. [...]
Pacific Hake Fishing
Six Fish Species Rebound Thanks To Catch Limits?
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service is touting the success of their fisheries management strategies as six populations of fish have returned to healthy levels. In a report delivered to Congress, they have shown that the Bering Sea snow crab, the summer flounder on the mid-Atlantic coast, the haddock in the Gulf of Maine, the Chinook salmon [...]
Whole Foods gets Holier Than Thou. Good for Whole Foods.
The upscale grocery chain, Whole Foods, recently moved up a decision to buy only seafood for its stores that meet the sustainability criteria of groups like the the Blue Ocean Institute, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, and the Marine Stewardship Council. That’s tough news for New England commercial fishermen, who are amongst Whole Food’s biggest [...]
Predator Ireland: Hamish Currie’s Amazing fishing charter out of Northern Ireland
Every now and then we find a charter skipper's fishing site that really blows us away. That's the case with Hamish Currie's Predator Ireland, which makes port north of Belfast in picturesque Cushendall, right on the glens of Antrim. Hamish specializes in catch-and-release fishing in the stormy Irish sea for Shark, Cod, Pollack, Mackerel, Whiting, [...]
December Lake Lanier fishing report
December Fishing Report Happy Holidays to you all. December has been a much better month on the lake. The lake turnover has completed lakewide and the fish have turned on. We have caught fish from Young Deer to above Clark's Bridge this week. The key every where on the lake is to find the bait and when [...]
Hot Hurricane Irene Bass Bite on Cape Cod Bay
Last night and early this morning it was difficult to believe that hurricane force winds are expected for tonight and tomorrow. Cape Cod Bay looked more like a skating rink than anything else. Hard to imagine that 8 foot waves could very well be rolling through the Bay in less than 24 hours! Last night [...]
New York Times: Fish Smarter, Not Less
Are we finally finding a solution to bycatch? An article published in the New York Times this week focused on innovations that could be beneficial to both fishermen and fish, specifically as it relates to unintended bycatch.Tim Werner, the director of the marine conservation engineering program at Boston's New England Aquarium is one who is [...]
Cod and Haddock Rebounding in North Atlantic
This is a complicated story: Cod and haddock were plentiful in the north Atlantic in the 1970s and 1980s–and the commercial fishing industry thrived. Then the populations just went away. Over-fishing deserved some of the blame, but now it appears that the story was more complicated that. Isn't it always? When Cod populations were down [...]
Customer books a new personal record 6 sportfishing charters for the 2011 fishing season.
John Curran is is high hook in my book. Over the last few years John has coordinated many great fishing charters. But this year he is my hero filling my calender six times this season from early spring Haddock to mid spring stripers. When the summer kicks in were headed for the mighty blue fin [...]
2011 Cape Cod Fishing Charters best bookings in the past five seasons. All ready at 70% full for this year.
Jon Sweatman and Tom Ireland Are chomping at the bit to wet there lines soon. This year with the new 37' charter boat these boy aren't fool in around hiring my guild service three times. The first trip will take us fishing for Cod And Haddock in the early spring. Then in early summer drifting [...]
