Fish Talk in the News – Friday, April 13
A few weeks ago, Legal Sea Foods and New England food distributor Agar Supply announced that they are partnering to create a new label for Agar’s seafood that will have a bar code on each package to...
View ArticleTalking Fish by the Numbers
It’s been just over one year since we launched TalkingFish.org, and we’re proud of how far we’ve come in that time. In December, we wrote a year-end post pulling out our favorite blog posts of 2011. To...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, April 20
Until last month, most of us had never heard of “pink slime,” and now we might have something else to worry about – “tuna scrape.” Tuna scrape is tuna backmeat, scraped from the bones, and it’s often...
View ArticlePenny wise and politically foolish
Two weeks ago, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies determined that federal dollars would be better spent by closing down the Northeast Regional...
View ArticleCongress, Catch Shares, and the Councils
Nick Battista is Marine Programs Director at the Island Institute. Ben Martens is Executive Director of the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association. The fisheries of our country are diverse and each face...
View ArticleTaking Stock of New England Fish: Part 1
Mike Palmer is Research Fisheries Biologist in the Population Dynamics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. TalkingFish.org: First, please tell us about your background: how did you become...
View ArticleTaking Stock of New England Fish: Part 2
Mike Palmer is Research Fisheries Biologist in the Population Dynamics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. This is the second post in TalkingFish.org’s “Taking Stock of New England Fish”...
View ArticleInvesting in fisheries science for management success
To me, fisheries management often feels like looking across the Grand Canyon at the beckoning but unreachable other side. Everyone has a shared goal for management but no idea how to really make it...
View ArticleTaking Stock of New England Fish: Part 3
Mike Palmer is Research Fisheries Biologist in the Population Dynamics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. TalkingFish.org: Despite our best efforts, there must always be some uncertainty...
View ArticleTaking Stock of New England Fish: Part 4
Mike Palmer is Research Fisheries Biologist in the Population Dynamics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. TalkingFish.org: Our laws indicate that the best available science be used to...
View ArticleLost in the Fog
A fishery management control rule is “a specified approach to setting the [acceptable biological catch—ABC] for a … stock complex as a function of the scientific uncertainty in the estimate of [the...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, February 6
Summary documents for the Omnibus Habitat Amendment 2 DEIS public hearings and public comments are now available. These files will be posted on NEFMC’s website soon. Maine lawmakers are proposing four...
View ArticleRecognizing the Threats to River Herring
This post was originally featured on The Pew Charitable Trusts. Blueback herring, a species of river herring, were once found in such enormous numbers that rivers along the Atlantic coast were said to...
View ArticleA Habitat Committee Without Particular Concern for Habitat
Is New England’s fishery management system broken? It certainly seems so after last week, when the stakeholder body that designs and recommends plans and methodologies for managing our fisheries...
View ArticleThanksgiving Eel: A Fish to be Thankful For
Around this time of year, people are eagerly thinking about the food that they will prepare for their Thanksgiving Day feast. While turkey has become the contemporary centerpiece of the holiday meal,...
View ArticleTaking Stock of New England Fish: Part 2
Mike Palmer is Research Fisheries Biologist in the Population Dynamics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. This is the second post in TalkingFish.org’s “Taking Stock of New England Fish”...
View ArticleInvesting in fisheries science for management success
To me, fisheries management often feels like looking across the Grand Canyon at the beckoning but unreachable other side. Everyone has a shared goal for management but no idea how to really make it...
View ArticleTaking Stock of New England Fish: Part 3
Mike Palmer is Research Fisheries Biologist in the Population Dynamics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. TalkingFish.org: Despite our best efforts, there must always be some uncertainty...
View ArticleTaking Stock of New England Fish: Part 4
Mike Palmer is Research Fisheries Biologist in the Population Dynamics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. TalkingFish.org: Our laws indicate that the best available science be used to...
View ArticleLost in the Fog
A fishery management control rule is “a specified approach to setting the [acceptable biological catch—ABC] for a … stock complex as a function of the scientific uncertainty in the estimate of [the...
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