Totally rebuilt $24 million dollar-380" factory ship headed to portland maine from overseas...Their going to target all the sea herring and mac's from maine to down south....they have a few 100-150" troller's of their own as well as local troller's willing to supply them..it'll process 400,000 ton's and the frozen catches will be sold to south africa.Fish will be off loaded in boston,maine and maybe the chesepeake....most of the fishing will be done in george's bank..


this ship needs to be sunk:liquify:

sickening

How in the world does this crapola get the OK to happen.. how many local coom boats parked at the docks by law the majority of the year.. but foriegners, no prob.... Sink It is right...bet in gets the OK to haul where it wants to too.

:yak5: do they leave anything alone?

this ship is owned by a us co. called "american pelagic seafood"
ships name is the "american freedom"

they said only 35-40% of the offshore stocks of herring and mac's have been tapped...

F@%$#^ good old usa goverment .....not F@&%^$ clue as to what their doing to the ocean.

ughhhh...

Although I share your disgust, I seem to recall that in the heyday of stripedbass fishing, offshore herring stocks where very heavily fished by foreign vessels within miles of our shores. Somewhere, I also recall reading that scientists theorized the absence of herring caused a "biomass flip" which resulted in an over abundance of sand eels inshore (something you outer cape guys seemed to enjoy). I am, however, a bit skeptical about the whole theory, particularly because I remember very consistent and spectacular late fall fishing behind Nantucket that was based on sea herring blitzes. Nevertheless, I tend to wonder if the subpar inshore fall fishing we have experienced in recent years isn't in some way related to major schools of bass feeding offshore on big sea herring populations. I'd be interested to know if any of you fishery biologist types can comment on this possible inverse relationship between sand eels and sea herring.

If I wanted to I could go down the pier and catch 50 horse macks in a half a day,, early spring ... haven't seen one in 5 yrs .. that really sux . hearing situation is great too .. closing runs ... for what ..

this ship is owned by a us co. called "american pelagic seafood"
ships name is the "american freedom"

they said only 35-40% of the offshore stocks of herring and mac's have been tapped...

F@%$#^ good old usa goverment .....not F@&%^$ clue as to what their doing to the ocean.

Id say USA is one of the leaders in conservation it only gets worse as you go to other countries.