http://fishery.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2013-05-30T08:00:33Z Thu, 30 May 2013 08:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/30/fishing-for-a-cause.htm <ul> <strong>Support your local charity</strong></ul> <ul> The third annual Fishing For a Cause striped bass, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/od/CommonSpecies/a/Bluefish.htm">bluefish </a>and fluke catch-and-release tournament will be held Friday, June 21, from 12:01 a.m. to Saturday, June 22 at 4 p.m. The tournament will culminate in an awards dinner from 5:30 to 10 p.m. on the Saturday.</ul>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/30/fishing-for-a-cause.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/30/fishing-for-a-cause.htm Thu, 30 May 2013 21:00:24 +0000 2013-05-30T21:00:24Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/30/fish-have-been-moving-to-cooler-waters.htm <p> According to a report published in the journal Nature, there is more evidence of a rapidly warming planet that has broad repercussions for fish harvests around the globe. University of British Columbia researchers found that significant numbers of 968 species of fish and invertebrates they examined <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/od/Pollution/a/More-Evidence-Of-Global-Warming.htm">moved to escape the warming waters of their original habitats</a>. The new study is the first to assess the migration worldwide and to look back as far as 1970.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/30/fish-have-been-moving-to-cooler-waters.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/30/fish-have-been-moving-to-cooler-waters.htm Thu, 30 May 2013 08:00:33 +0000 2013-05-30T08:00:33Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/29/eel-fishing-in-maine-another-big-year.htm <p><strong>Enjoy it while it lasts</strong></p> <img class="alignnone" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/fishery/1/9/l/0/-/-/sm_eels.jpg" alt="elver" /> <p>Last year at about this same time I wrote of the eel craze in Maine. In a world in which fishermen are always getting pushed out of business it was only a matter of time before this issue got more attention.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/29/eel-fishing-in-maine-another-big-year.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/29/eel-fishing-in-maine-another-big-year.htm Wed, 29 May 2013 21:17:32 +0000 2013-05-29T21:17:32Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/19/its-shrimping-season-in-louisana.htm <p><strong>Shrimping In Terrebonne Parish</strong> </p> <p>It's shrimping season in Louisana. That's always an excellent sight to see, for the simple reason that the area is inching toward a recovery from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/19/its-shrimping-season-in-louisana.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/19/its-shrimping-season-in-louisana.htm Sun, 19 May 2013 20:10:34 +0000 2013-05-19T20:10:34Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/16/china-looks-to-overtake-farmed-catfish-market.htm <img class="alignnone" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/fishery/1/9/j/1/-/-/cat.jpg" alt="cat" /><p> <strong>Seeks to corner market </strong></p> <p> Thanks to a drop in American farmed catfish production, China is making a determined and deliberate effort to fill the void. American channel catfish production has dropped, naturally leaving a decline in shipments of American <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/od/CommonAquacultureSpecies/a/Catfish-The-Channel-Catfish.htm">channel catfish</a>. Countries that import catfish from America cannot satisfy its market demands, so China has a new marketing target, including eastern European countries, Mexico, Russia, Middle Eastern countries, African countries and South America.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/16/china-looks-to-overtake-farmed-catfish-market.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/16/china-looks-to-overtake-farmed-catfish-market.htm Thu, 16 May 2013 08:32:39 +0000 2013-05-16T08:32:39Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/13/home-on-the-range.htm <p> <strong>Where the deer and the tilapia play</strong></p> <img class="alignnone" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/fishery/1/9/i/1/-/-/tilapia.jpg" alt="tilapia" /> <p> Due to changing standards in the poultry industry, several Texas chicken farms were left teetering on the brink, but some innovative thinking might have saved a number of companies.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/13/home-on-the-range.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/13/home-on-the-range.htm Mon, 13 May 2013 20:22:37 +0000 2013-05-13T20:22:37Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/09/ignorance-is-bliss.htm <ul> <strong>NOAA report ignores disaster declaration</strong></ul> <ul> Unbelievably, last week NOAA released its annual status of the fish stocks 2012 in the Northeast, saying that there has been significant progress to end overfishing and rebuild fish stocks.</ul>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/09/ignorance-is-bliss.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/09/ignorance-is-bliss.htm Thu, 09 May 2013 08:32:43 +0000 2013-05-09T08:32:43Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/06/commission-to-set-oregon-fishing-seasons.htm <ul> The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will most likely set the 2013 ocean salmon and halibut seasons when it meets in Salem on May 10. They will begin to set the regulations for ocean coho and chinook salmon fishing from shore to three miles out. </ul>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/06/commission-to-set-oregon-fishing-seasons.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/05/06/commission-to-set-oregon-fishing-seasons.htm Mon, 06 May 2013 21:28:10 +0000 2013-05-06T21:28:10Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/04/29/chesapeake-bue-crab-population-drops.htm <ul> Is Nature to blame?</ul> <img class="alignnone" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/fishery/1/9/e/1/-/-/blue.jpg" alt="blue" /> <ul> There's a <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/od/CommonSpecies/a/The-Blue-Crab-About-The-Blue-Crab.htm">blue crab </a>shortage in the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/od/BoatMaintenance/a/The-Chesapeake-Bay.htm">Chesapeake</a>. You might be able to find them but they won't be cheap.</ul> <ul> At the landmark Fisherman's Inn and Crab Deck at the Kent Narrows, owner Andy Schulz says he'll have plenty of crabs for his waterfront crab feast this summer. But it's going to cost you. </ul>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/04/29/chesapeake-bue-crab-population-drops.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/04/29/chesapeake-bue-crab-population-drops.htm Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:20:48 +0000 2013-04-29T12:20:48Z http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/04/28/redfish-exemption-too-late.htm Move adds insult to injury <img class="alignnone" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/fishery/1/9/d/1/-/-/redfish.jpg" alt="redfish" /> <ul> About two weeks ago the National Marine Fisheries Service approved an exemption allowing groundfish sector fishermen to use 4-1/2" mesh to target <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/od/CommonSpecies/a/The-Acadian-Redfish.htm">redfish</a> under 100 percent observer coverage for the remainder of the 2012 fishing year, which ends April 30. </ul>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/04/28/redfish-exemption-too-late.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://fishery.about.com/b/2013/04/28/redfish-exemption-too-late.htm Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:04:08 +0000 2013-04-28T19:04:08Z