Group of Local Nonprofits and Investors Purchase ARC Hatchery
Richard Kraus explains the processes inside the hatchery. DENNIS – The Aquacultural Research Corporation has transferred its hatchery business to new ownership and management. A group of investors led by the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance made the $3 million deal to ensure the future of the hatchery in Dennis. ARC will now be led by CEO Rob Doane, who joined ARC in December of 2014...
Longtime hatchery changes hands
By Christine Legere Richard Kraus, one of three longtime owners of Aquacultural Research Corp. in Dennis, shows the workings of the shellfish hatchery in April in anticipation of a sale that was finalized Monday. MERRILY CASSIDY/ CAPE COD TIMES FILE DENNIS — A shellfish hatchery that has operated at the mouth of Chase Garden Creek for more than 50 years changed ownership Monday, and by Tuesday work was already well underway to empty old equipment out of the ramshackle hatchery building so it can be replaced in coming months with a new facility...
Lobster To Go
By Patrick Whittle Lobsterman Scott Beede returns an undersized lobster while fishing off Mount Desert, Maine. In Southern New England, stocks are in deep decline, but conditions are much better off Maine. PORTLAND, Maine — The lobster population has crashed to the lowest levels on record in southern New England while climbing to heights never before seen in the cold waters off Maine and other northern reaches — a geographic shift that scientists attribute in large part to the warming of the ocean...
How do I cook dogfish?
Trying out a new recipe can be difficult, even daunting for the most experienced chef. One of the things we work toward at the Fishermen's Alliance is to educate and encourage people to try a new seafood species in their every day meals. Learn more about spiny dogfish in this informational piece. We have partnered up with well-known chefs to bring you some options for preparing the seafood caught straight from the Cape Cod waters...
Prepared right, dogfish shark can be a tasty alternative to Cape cod
Cod lovers who want to eat locally sourced seafood may want to expand their palates. Cod has slipped almost entirely out of reach for local fishermen over the last decade as stocks have declined due to overfishing and environmental changes and quotas have been reduced to near nothing, business writer Lorelei Stevens notes in a July 26 story about fish supplies on the Cape...
Cape Cod Fishermen Sell Permits in Effort to Keep Business Viable
BARNSTABLE – The decline of groundfish is causing many fisherman to sell their permits and the Nature Conservancy is partnering with local fishermen’s organizations to acquire them in an effort to keep them local. Tenacious II’s Eric Hesse, of West Barnstable, recently sold two groundfish permits to the conservancy. “The Nature Conservancy has bought the permits as a way to ensure that they won’t migrate towards a large institutional-type buyer who might eventually own an inordinate share of the fishery,” Hesse said...
There's no cod from Cape Cod in local markets
By Lorelai Stevens EASTHAM – Step out of the hot, sunny day into the cool, fresh-smelling interior of Mac’s Seafood in Eastham and you’ll find a showcase full of glistening fish and shellfish nestled in a thick bed of ice chips. Bluefish, summer flounder, cod and striped bass fillets, bluefin tuna, halibut and swordfish steaks, monkfish tails, bright pink slabs of salmon, shucked Atlantic sea scallops and whole squid, plus clams, oysters and mussels in their shells...
Old men on their sea
By Patricia Harris and David Lyon GLOBE CORRESPONDENTS CHATHAM — From the vantage of the visitors’ balcony above Chatham Fish Pier, Fred Bennett scans the harbor with a practiced eye and begins to tick off the early season fleet. “There’s one scalloper, two lobstermen, two boats waiting for dogfish, one longliner, one handliner,” he says...
Selfies with Schoolies
Cat with Captain Austin By Cat Wilson, "That Girl in the More" for Cape Country 104 Recently, you may have noticed pictures of me floating around the internet taking selfies with fish. Do you want to take a guess at how many times I have gone fishing in the past decade? Come on… GUESS! The correct answer is only a couple of times. Each of those adventures has been within the past month or so...
On the Skate Campaign
Cape fishermen continue to prioritize fishery fieldwork on skates as a way of contributing to the government’s understanding of the species. You may recall from our Fall Newsletter that our fishermen advocated for and were granted an Exempted Fishing Permit (EFP) for the 2014-2105 fishing year, which expired on June 23, 2015...
Big herring catch off New England comes with worries
By Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press ROCKLAND — A little fish that New Englanders have sought since the Colonial era is at the center of a battle over how to manage massive boats that trawl swaths of ocean off the East Coast. The catch for the Atlantic herring, which travels in groups sometimes numbering in the billions, is in the midst of a massive boom...
Plenty of Fish in the Sea, but Red Tape Keeps Them There
Written by Alex Elvin, Photos by Jeanna Shepard Wes Brighton looked out the window of his 40-foot fishing boat the Martha Elizabeth — among the largest docked at Menemsha harbor on Monday evening — at the picturesque shacks and wooden piles lining the dock behind the fish markets. “Every vacationer makes Menemsha at least one night on their two-week vacation,” he said, ticking off the benefits of commercial fishing to the Island...
