Shrimpers worry as season starts
As commercial fishing season starts the shrimpers are concern over the oil and prices.
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As commercial fishing season starts the shrimpers are concern over the oil and prices.
Several commercial fishing areas had an “emergency reopening” for fishing in Louisiana parishes.
US Coast Guard has rescued two people in the water after abandoning their ship in North Bristol Bay.
Federal authority has reopened some fishing areas in Mississippi but some fishermen are not happy with as they thing it is too early to fish.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service NMFS has approved a Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) proposal meant to curtail overfishing.
Federal government bankrolled $5 million setting up ‘permit bank’ to help fishermen buying permits for groundfish fishing.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has re-opened 5,144 square miles of Gulf waters to commercial and recreational finfish fishing.
It‘s a muscle power for Maine lobstermen as they shun diesel and prefer to row boat and pull traps by hand.
Some Gulf fishermen protest the re-opening of fishing grounds following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf seafood industry is in tough situation as oily image harm their business as much as the impact of oil spill.
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