Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance

cape cod commercial fishermen's alliance

youtube offfacebook offtwitter off instagram off

Search

Menu
  • Who We Are
    • About
    • Staff
    • Board of Directors
    • Fisheries
    • Careers
  • Our Work
    • Policy
    • Programs
    • Cape Cod Fisheries Trust
    • Scientific Research
  • Support Us
    • Donate Now
    • Ways to Give
    • Join the Alliance
    • Fisherman Membership
    • Become a Sponsor
    • Shop to Support
  • The Wheelhouse
    • Seafood by the Seasons
    • Commercial Fishing Grounds
    • Gear Types
    • Think Like A Fisherman
    • Meet Some Fishermen
  • Events
    • Hookers Ball
    • Meet the Fleet
    • Special Events
  • News
  • Contact

News

KEEP UP WITH THE FLEET

Sign up for our mailing list for news and events.

Captain Eric Hesse has spoken out about the need for more accountability . David Hills/Fishy Pictures

Commercial fishing: Professional, personal and political

October 28, 2020

Ben Martens, executive director of Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association, said that for too long fishermen have been undervalued. Like farmers, they are essential to feeding the country, but they receive far less support. “The hard work is being done right now to protect our marine resources, but we aren’t as a nation stepping up to protect the people and the communities that harvest that seafood,” Martens said...

Continue Reading

By 1921 and 1922, the haddock fishery had exploded.. NOAA photo.

A century of haddock captures the American fishing experience

October 28, 2020

As the Fishermen’s Alliance is now working with food banks and pantries around New England to provide nutritious, delicious haddock chowder to people having trouble putting food on the table, we began to wonder about the history of haddock, the role it has played in the region’s history, why it has always seemed to be even more popular in New England than elsewhere...

Continue Reading

After about six months, this tuna head became fermented fish fertilizer. Photo courtesy of Sarah Gribbin.

PHOTO GALLERY: Fish as fertilizer

October 28, 2020

Cape Cod Ferments is launching fermented fish fertilizers, which are available through Delicious Living, and the first few batches are made from fish heads and fish carcasses that, since they couldn’t be used for bait, were just going to waste. Now, thanks to Nicole Cormier and Nicholas Frechette, the fish waste from Salt Seafood Company and Hatch's Fish Market is working on its second life as a fertilizer for farms and gardens across the peninsula...

Continue Reading

Photo Courtesy of Christopher Seufert

It’s called Amendment 23: Why the push for ‘full accountability’

October 28, 2020

People old enough to remember 1968 tell me that for upheaval, crisis, confrontation, and angry division, the year we are living through now most closely resembles that momentous one. My guess is that history books will agree. In a far smaller, more specific way, when people reflect on New England’s fisheries years from now, they might also see 2020 as an historic, fulcrum moment...

Continue Reading

The Chatham Fish Pier is always popular.

Small Boats. Big Ideas. September 2020

October 05, 2020

Read our latest issue from September 2020!

Continue Reading

Steve Gennodie is the new owner of Chatham Pier Fish Market

The new guy at the pier is steeped in the fishing business

September 23, 2020

Captain Mike Abdow has walked across the busy parking lot of the Chatham Fish Pier many times with a couple of big, beautiful striped bass, and people will call out and ask if they can buy them. Abdow will say “Sure,” then walk into the back door of the Chatham Pier Fish Market where that bass will soon be in the case. “I think that’s important to people,” Abdow said...

Continue Reading

Grayson, Frances and Emerson Leyshon enjoyed their time visiting the Chatham Fish Pier .

Pier program is a constant in uncertain times

September 23, 2020

After visiting the observation deck at the Chatham Fish Pier, three siblings climbed around the metal sculpture honoring fishermen and talked about all they had learned. Frances Leyshon, 8, was able to say what fish was coming in, dogfish, and “they filled the whole back of the boat.” Emerson, 6, knew commercial lobstermen came in as well – and had gotten to see a boat unload...

Continue Reading

The Greater Boston Food Bank is among several food banks that are pleased to be distributing haddock chowder. Courtesy photo.

From local veterans to food banks state-wide, haddock chowder is a hit

September 23, 2020

Emily Yerby works for the Greater Boston Food Bank and came home from an “insanely” hard day at work too exhausted to cook dinner. So she threw some haddock chowder on the stove, the same chowder that has been offered at pantries across the state. “It was perfect,” she said. “This for me has been a silver lining during all this chaos.” The Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance new haddock chowder first arrived in mid-August and proved popular right away...

Continue Reading

On this obelisk are the names of every man and boy lost at sea on October 3, 1841. The names still ring with familiarity; Snow, Paine, Atwood, Mayo, Cook, Rich, Hopkins, Dyer, White, Smith.

The October Gale of 1841 was the worst single killer of fishermen in Cape Cod history

September 23, 2020

Make a list of 57 people you have known since childhood, from your hometown. Make them all men, mostly young men, some teenagers. Think about what they mean to you, the experiences you’ve shared. Then try to imagine all of them dead, lost without warning, never to be seen again.

Continue Reading

One of the assets of the Chatham Pier Fish Market is its location, owner Steve Gennodie says. Doreen Leggett photo.

PHOTO GALLERY: Chatham Pier Fish Market has a busy summer

September 23, 2020

The more things change, the more they stay the same, and the Chatham Pier Fish Market shows the truth in that. Take a picture tour of the Chatham Fish Pier Market, which although updated has been an important presence at the pier for more than 50 years. Meet Steve Gennodie, the new owner, who has some improvements in the works, but was drawn to the site for its history...

Continue Reading

Photo Courtesy of Christopher Seufert

Here’s how comment moves into the federal process

September 23, 2020

The old line about legislation and sausage being similar – you don’t really want to look too hard at how either of them is made – comes to mind for fishing regulations too. It can be quite a process. Right now we are in the thick of an effort to improve what’s known as “the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan.” Amendment 23 to the plan is on the table, put there after years of discussion (cantankerous and otherwise) backed by data and research...

Continue Reading

Our haddock chowder is a win for local fishermen and food pantries.

Small Boats. Big Ideas. August 2020

September 17, 2020

Read our latest issue from August 2020!

Continue Reading

<< < 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 >  >>  

fisheries policy 316

block programs

fisheries trust 316

  • Who We Are
    • About
    • Staff
    • Board of Directors
    • Fisheries
    • Careers
  • Our Work
    • Policy
    • Programs
    • Cape Cod Fisheries Trust
    • Scientific Research
  • Support Us
    • Donate Now
    • Ways to Give
    • Join the Alliance
    • Fisherman Membership
    • Become a Sponsor
    • Shop to Support
  • Events
    • Hookers Ball
    • Meet the Fleet
    • Special Events
  • News

Contact Us

1566 Main Street
Chatham, MA 02633
508-945-2432
Email Us

Copyright Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance, Inc.. | Privacy Policy | Site Credits

KEEP UP WITH THE FLEET

Sign up for our mailing list for news and events.