ANNONCER
Federal engineers have decided to open the swollen Mississippi River to protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans but flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country.
There was a rumour that the Atchafalaya Basin could be closed to commercial fishing because of rising water.
The Fraser River eulachon, an oily smelt-like fish prized by First Nations, has been designated an endangered species nears extinction.
A Leamington fishing boat captain was slapped with huge fine for leaving gill nets in Lake Erie in 2009.
Members of the Federal Subsistence Board are expecting lower number of salmon bycatch in Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea Pollock fisheries.
Federal regulators are planning to put additional limits on commercial and recreational gag grouper fishing through 2015.
Commercial salmon season takes off slowly in Half Moon Bay due to the rising price3s of fuel and bad weather.
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene its Vessel Monitoring System Advisory Panel May 24 – 25, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The panel will meet to discuss operation, design, and usage of vessel monitoring systems (VMS), as well as resulting data from these systems. Also on the agenda is a discussion regarding the current and future needs of vessel monitoring systems software, including methods to improve VMS products and services.
After a year of Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and BP oil spill, Louisiana’s coastal waterways and inland bays are still feeling the heat of the incident.
A new poll reveals that wild salmon are as dearer to the people of British Columbia as the French language is.