Recently added articles from National Fisherman:
December 2009: this month's highlights.(The hail)
Dec 01, 2009; ... The leaves in southern Maine are all but turned, which means one thing--Pacific Marine Expo (Nov. 19-21) is around the corner. Seattle is a great city for a trade show built around commercial fishing because the city itself is built around fishing. I know--Seattle is ...
Value, not price, key to wild salmon fishery.(VIEWS from Alaska)
Dec 01, 2009; ... In the Sept. 8, 2009, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, authors from around the globe pointed out that this year more than 50 percent of worldwide seafood consumption will come from aquaculture production. While some of the articles' points may be debated, ...
No end of fish.(Editor's log)
Dec 01, 2009; ... Say what you want about Daniel Pauly; he knows how to get your attention. Pauly is a professor at the Fisheries Center of the University of British Columbia and the principal investigator of university's Sea Around Us Project. He is also a vocal critic of commercial ...
Paying for others' neglect.(Washington lookout)
Dec 01, 2009; ... Modern fisheries management is based on the promise that industry sacrifices to rebuild and maintain healthy stocks will be rewarded with opportunities to harvest optimum yield. What environmental group has not argued that short-term economic losses will be recovered manyfold when a ...
Thriving oceans, thriving fishermen.(Dock talk)
Dec 01, 2009; ... Fishermen sometimes ask us why Environmental Defense Fund wants to make fishing profitable. The answer is our core belief that unless both people and the planet thrive, neither will. For fishing, that means both fishermen and the oceans must do well at the same time. With so ...