Herring - Bad news

[KP161]

The New England Council took final action on Framework Adjustment 46 to the Groundfish Plan, an action that addresses potentially negative impacts facing Atlantic herring vessels if the current haddock catch cap is reached.

Fishery participants and processors had been working with the Council to increase the cap and avoid a fishery closure once their limit of haddock is reached. Placing the issue on a fast track in November, the Council increased the amount of haddock that the herring fleet may catch from 0.2 percent to 1 percent of the total ABC for both the Gulf of Maine and the Georges Bank stocks of haddock.

Under the new rules the Council expects herring fishing to continue without interruption throughout 2011.

[jug]

Catching too many haddock? No problem, we'll just increase your TAC 500 percent. As long as your not a small boat fisherman, you can do what you want. When the scallopers were facing closures due to high yellowtail catch, the NMFS simply increased the yellowtail TAC. MONEY talks in this country. I won't be at all surprised when the mid water fleet gets permission to sell their haddock by catch. NMFS is all about big business, not keeping fisheries healthy. I hope they all rot in hell.

[KP161]

Catching too many haddock? No problem, we'll just increase your TAC 500 percent. As long as your not a small boat fisherman, you can do what you want. When the scallopers were facing closures due to high yellowtail catch, the NMFS simply increased the yellowtail TAC. MONEY talks in this country. I won't be at all surprised when the mid water fleet gets permission to sell their haddock by catch. NMFS is all about big business, not keeping fisheries healthy. I hope they all rot in hell.

I'm pretty sure Norpel will be operating as normal. Brady Scofield called their bluff. Guy has plenty of $ so he said I'll just shut down and you'll lose all these jobs. They scrambled around saying we can't lose all those jobs and folded.

[FullStrikeAngler]

Catching too many haddock? No problem, we'll just increase your TAC 500 percent. As long as your not a small boat fisherman, you can do what you want. When the scallopers were facing closures due to high yellowtail catch, the NMFS simply increased the yellowtail TAC. MONEY talks in this country. I won't be at all surprised when the mid water fleet gets permission to sell their haddock by catch. NMFS is all about big business, not keeping fisheries healthy. I hope they all rot in hell.

I am pretty sure they can as lobster bait. I remember a couple years ago lobstermen in Maine found their bait barrels full of large haddock. With the price of lobster in the toilet they were better off filleting the bait and eating haddock all winter.

[On The Edge]

The New England Council took final action on Framework Adjustment 46 to the Groundfish Plan, an action that addresses potentially negative impacts facing Atlantic herring vessels if the current haddock catch cap is reached.

Fishery participants and processors had been working with the Council to increase the cap and avoid a fishery closure once their limit of haddock is reached. Placing the issue on a fast track in November, the Council increased the amount of haddock that the herring fleet may catch from 0.2 percent to 1 percent of the total ABC for both the Gulf of Maine and the Georges Bank stocks of haddock.

Under the new rules the Council expects herring fishing to continue without interruption throughout 2011.

I think i just threw up in my own mouth.