Fishermen

Medical Emergency On 'Deadliest Catch'

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Deadliest Catch, Alaska King Crab, Convulsions, Bering Sea, Tv Replay, Fishing, Fishermen, TV News

"Deadliest Catch" (Tue., 9 p.m. ET on Discovery) highlights the very real dangers faced by the men fishing the Bering Sea for Alaska King Crab. Tue...

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'Deadliest Catch': Ramblin' Rose's Engine Fails During Storm

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Deadliest Catch, Discovery Channel, Alaskan King Crab, Fishing, Tv Replay, Fishermen, TV News

On "Deadliest Catch" (Tue., 9 p.m. ET on Discovery) Tuesday night the young captain and crew of the Ramblin' Rose faced a potentially lethal problem. ...

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BP Sees a Return to Grandeur as Gulf Fishermen Reel From Disaster

Rocky Kistner | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Bp, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Shrimp, Fishermen, Green News
Rocky Kistner

You can expect the media and the airwaves to be clogged with happy talk about the Gulf in the months ahead. We all wish it were true, but the facts -- and perceptions of those toiling in the fisheries -- just don't support it.

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Sad Farewell To Justin, On 'Deadliest Catch'

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Deadliest Catch, Discovery Channel, Justin Tennison Time Bandit, Justin Tennison, Fishing, Tv Replay, Alaskan King Crab, Alaska, Fishermen, TV News

The latest episode of "Deadliest Catch" (Tue., 9 p.m. ET on Discovery) featured a highly emotional tribute as the crew of the Time Bandit said farewe...

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Cape Cod, Without The Cod?

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Cape Cod, Cod, Fishing Ban, Small Business News and Trends, Cod Ban, New England Fishermen, New England, Fishermen, Small Business News

Hard times for cod fishermen in New England may become even more difficult with federal regulators reducing the amount of cod they can catch when fish...

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The National Ocean Policy Will Help Fishermen

Sarah Chasis | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Ocean Planning, National Ocean Policy, Oceans, Fisheries, Fishermen, Green News
Sarah Chasis

The truth is the National Ocean Policy will be GOOD for fishing. Agencies are tasked with helping preserve and restore important fish habitat, not to ban or curtail recreational fishing.

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Stranded At Sea

AP | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Bahamas, U.S. Coast Guard, Fishermen, Miami News, Miami News

MIAMI -- Authorities say four fishermen spent five days stranded off the Bahamas without food or water before being rescued. U.S. Coast Guard officia...

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In BP's Gulf, a Movie Runs Through It as Miracle Hopes Fade

Rocky Kistner | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Bp, Gulf Oil Disaster, Fishermen, The Big Fix Movie, The Big Fix, Green News
Rocky Kistner

The Big Fix is mandatory viewing for those who want to know what really happened on the ground along the bayous and beaches of a coast that is wedded to oil.

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BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses

Susan Buchanan | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Physicians, Clinics, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Chemical Exposure, Health Insurance, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Louisiana Dept. Of Health and Hospitals, Respirators, Detoxification, Crude Oil, Subra Company, Fishermen, Green News
Susan Buchanan

A multi-million-dollar study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, gauging impacts of the BP spill on cleanup workers, has so far enrolled 5,500 individuals -- mostly from Gulf states.

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Rebuilding Fisheries: There's an App for That

Mike Sweeney | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: The Nature Conservancy, Sustainable Seafood, Environmentalists, Ipad, Fishermen, Ecatch, Green News
Mike Sweeney

Enter eCatch, a new app developed by The Nature Conservancy and fishermen that lets them load their catch data at sea and have real time access to the latest information on where the fish are -- the ones they want to catch and the ones they need to avoid.

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As Dolphins Die, Gulf Residents Ask What About Us?

Rocky Kistner | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Dolphins, Gulf Oil Spill, Fishermen, Green News
Rocky Kistner

Willie Seaman of Irvington, AL, lays carpet and floors for a living. But last summer, as the BP well gushed thousands of barrels of oil daily int...

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Beach Soccer Hits El Salvador, Changing Lives Of Local Fishermen And Coffee Pickers

Oscar Pocasangre | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Coffee Pickers, Cultura, Fishermen, Beach Soccer, El Salvador, Latino Voices News
Oscar Pocasangre

Both the coffee picker and the fisherman were near the exit of the Salvadoran airport, along with many other young men who had also fished or farmed for a living. Outside the airport doors a boisterous crowd was cheering and chanting for them, many people were waving flags, and others were holding signs and banners with their names.

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The Truth About Canned Tuna

Find. Eat. Drink. | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Canned-Tuna, Pacific Ocean, Tuna, Albacore Tuna, Fishermen, Food and Related Products, Chicken of the Sea, Food, Fish Aggregating Device, Business, Produce, Slidepollajax, Food News
Find. Eat. Drink.

You care about your fruits, vegetables and meats. But what about that can of tuna you're buying? Here are a list of facts that might make you think ...

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Trymaine Lee

Louisiana Shrimpers Still Enduring Effects of Gulf Oil Spill

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Gulf Shrimp Season, Gulf Shrimp, Shrimp Season 2011, Gulf Fishermen, Deepwater Horizon, Mississippi Delta, Shrimp Season, Gulf Oil Spill, Fishermen, Black Voices News

Today was the start of shrimp season in Louisiana, and way down in the Mississippi delta, fishermen and shrimpers struck out from the small black fish...

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Gulf Activists Stage Protest as BP's Cleanup Slows

Susan Buchanan | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Ken Feinberg, U.S. Congress, New Orleans Police Dept., Oil Pollution Act, Human Health, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Oil Companies, Offshore Drilling, Boemre, Gulf Restoration Network, Fishermen, Green News
Susan Buchanan

BP's gushing well was capped in mid-July of last year but that was hardly the end of the spill saga for Gulf Coast residents.

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Fishermen React To Game-Changing New Shrimp Regulations

AP | By CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Maine Shrimp, Shrimping, Shrimp, Fish, Animals, Fishing Regulations, Maine Shrimp Laws, Overfishing, Fishermen, Food News

PORTLAND, Maine -- One of New England's last open-access commercial fisheries could be closed to new participants as regulators look at new ways to ma...

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A Luring Fashion Annoying Fishermen

Westword | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Hair Accessories, Fishing in Colorado, Fishing Lures, Feather Hair Accessories, Fishing Lures Trend, Denver News, Feather Fashion, Colorado Fishermen, Fishermen, Feather Earrings, Denver News

On the list of worldly problems that piss off fly fishermen, rock stars and teenage girls are usually pretty low; newbies who stomp around and spook t...

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BP Oil Spill Compensation Fund Winding Down

Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Oil Spill Fund, Economic Crisis, Business News, Environment, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Kenneth Feinberg, Fishermen, Business News

(Reuters) - The fund BP (BP.L) set up to deal with compensation claims after 2010's Gulf of Mexico oil spill is starting to wind down after paying...

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Funds For Reviving the Coast Will Be Lean, Even With BP's Infusion

Susan Buchanan | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Tulane University, Lake Borgne, Plaquemines Parish, Mrgo, Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Gulf Coast Leadership Forum, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Lower Ninth Ward, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Dept. Of the Interior, Bonnet Carre Spillway, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Fishermen, Green News
Susan Buchanan

An injection of BP funds and continued spending by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may not be enough to counter decades of erosion along the Gulf, sp...

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One Year Later, Congress and Industry Do Nothing to Make Drilling Safer

Frances Beinecke | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Oil Industry, Louisiana, Bp, Doc Hastings, The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Coast, Offshore Drilling, Fishermen, BP Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary, Oil Spill 2010, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Last week, Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, declared, "Drilling is safe." It was as if we learned nothing from the BP disaster and the ongoing suffering it has caused.

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Overfishing 101: How Ocean Fish Populations Are Managed in the U.S.

Lee Crockett | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Congress, Fish, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oceans, Animals, Overfishing, Fishermen, Green News
Lee Crockett

According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the economic value of ending overfishing and rebuilding all of our depleted U.S. fish populations could add up to $31 billion in sales and support 500,000 new jobs.

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Is It Worth Cleaning the Chesapeake If There Are No More Watermen?

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water, Farm Bureau, Chesapeake Bay, Oysters, Fishermen, Doi, Rockfish, Epa, Green News
Gary Liberson, PhD

Biologists and regulators are trying to save the Chesapeake Bay, but in doing so they are endangering the local waterman to such a degree that by the time the Bay is saved the fisherman will be gone.

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Keeping Afloat: Why Supporting Small, Local Commercial Fishermen is Important [Video]

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Skeeternyc, Food Videos, Commercial Fishing, Pe & Dd Seafood, Food Curated, Union-Square-Greenmarket, Long Island Sound, Shellfish, Long Island, Nyc, Day Boats, Local Food, Phil Karlin, Riverhead, Documentary, Food, Fishing, Dragging, Fisheries, Overfishing, Liza deGuia, Seafood, Fishermen, Food News
Liza de Guia

I met up with Phil Karlin a couple weeks ago to learn all about small, family-owned commercial fishing operations in the New York area.

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A Forgotten Fisherman Fights to Survive the BP Oil Disaster

Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Louisiana, Gulf Oil Spill, Storycorps, Gulf of Mexico, Nrdc, Fishermen, Green News
Rocky Kistner

JJ is a survivor in this hard scrabble fishing community. In good times before the oil catastrophe and Katrina, he says he could make thousands of dollars a night shrimping. Now he doesn't have enough money for gas.

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WATCH: Gulf Residents' StoryCorps Project Burst BP's PR Bubble

Peter Lehner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Industry, Louisiana, Bp, Shrimp, Gulf Fishermen, Storycorps, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Coast, Fishermen, Smarter Ideas, Green News
Peter Lehner

2010-10-20-NRDC.jpg"If this whole environment gets demolished, what good is a boat?"

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