PBS NewsHour and NPR feature dogfish
We collaborated with PBS NewsHour and NPR's Weekend Edition on a segment about dogfish, which featured Chatham fisherman Jamie Eldredge. Dogfish are very important to the livelihood of Cape Cod's small-boat fishing fleet. We work with many partners to promote dogfish to Americans. Sea to Table is bringing dogfish to restaurants and university campuses across the country and will soon offer a mail delivery service...
Herring Buffer Zone
Cape Fishermen Speak Up Against Destructive Fishing Methods Learn more in our new fact sheet. The midwater trawl fleet for sea herring is too big for our coastal waters. A buffer zone can protect our local fisheries. The Fishermen's Alliance is working hard alongside local fishermen to push for a buffer zone off the backside of Cape Cod that would prohibit industrial herring trawlers from fishing in nearshore waters...
Celebrating 25 years
We are proud to share with you a few media pieces about how our humble grassroots organization grew up to be a nationally-respected nonprofit run by fishermen, for fishermen. Cape Cod Times. "Cape fishermen's group celebrates 25 years at sea," August 9, 2016. Cape Cod Broadcasting's Sunday Journal as heard on 99.9 The Q, Cape Country 104, Cape Classical 107...
Cape Cod Scallop BLT Pizza Video
DELICIOUSLY LOCAL We are partnering with Buy Fresh Buy Local Cape Cod to bring you a series of short, fun cooking videos featuring local seafood from Cape Cod fishermen. Try out the recipe yourself!
Electronic Monitoring
On-board cameras are changing fisheries monitoring in New England. Home page slide photo caption: Connie Delano, IT project manager with MRAG Americas, hooks up a video camera to the F/V Dawn T in Harwich, on April 26, 2016. The camera will be used to monitor fish catch and discards. The Fishermen's Alliance and local fishermen have been at the forefront of an important campaign to get NOAA Fisheries Service to allow fishermen to use digital cameras rather than human monitors to document their catch at-sea...
Cameras to be used for monitoring New England groundfish fishery for the first time
Cameras to be Used for Monitoring New England Groundfish Fishery for the First Time The use of cameras is intended to provide an accurate and cost-effective alternative for fisheries monitoring in New England. (Harwich, Mass...May 26, 2016) June 1 marks the beginning of a new era for fisheries monitoring in New England. This year, for the first time, up to 20 participating fishermen from Massachusetts, Maine and potentially elsewhere in New England, will use digital cameras rather than human monitors to document discards of groundfish, such as cod, haddock and flounder, on commercial fishing trips...
Cape scallop fishermen cash in on grounds closer to home
Mark Costa, the cook on the fishing boat Aidan's Pride that was tied up at Saquatucket Harbor in Harwich on Thursday, helps prepare the boat to head back out to sea. Federal regulators recently opened up an area to scalloping about 70 miles southeast of Saquatucket, making life easier on small Cape-based boats. Photo Credit: Steve Haines/Cape Cod Times By Doug Fraser HARWICH PORT — The scalloping was pretty poor north of Provincetown last month for the crew of Aidan’s Pride; they towed their dredge for hours just to get a hundred pounds...
Fisherman explores foreign markets
Fisherman Doug Feeney, left, shakes hands with Tony, right, of Fastnet Fish LTD in the United Kingdom, a big purchaser of dogfish for the country's famous fish 'n chips. In April, dogfish fisherman Doug Feeney attended the Seafood Global Expo in Brussels where he discovered that European fish buyers are most concerned with their own nations’ perception about sharks...
Regulation Change May Keep Cape Scallop Fishermen in Local Waters
Father-son duo, Bob & Drew Keese, are scallop fishermen aboard Beggars Banquet. Photo Credit: www.fishypictures.com By BRIAN MERCHANT, CapeCod.com NewsCenter CHATHAM – Local small boat scallop fishermen will be able to fish an area of local waters that has been closed since 2014. The New England Fishery Management Council has changed regulations to allow for scallop fishing in the Nantucket Lightship Access Area which is about 65 miles southeast of Cape Cod...
Scallopers will fish closer to home in 2016
CAPE COD SMALL-BOAT SCALLOP FISHERMEN APPLAUDOPENING OF LOCAL SCALLOP GROUNDS New Regulations Mean Safer Fishing Close to Home (Chatham, Mass...May 5, 2016) On May 3, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service released regulations that open the Nantucket Lightship Access Area to New England’s small-boat scallop fleet...
Dogfish Marketing Campaign Update
Dogfish Marketing Campaign Fisherman Doug Feeney, Row 34 Chef Jeremy Sewall, Board Chairman Nick Muto and fisherman Greg Walinski. There’s a common question around town — why is Icelandic cod at the fish market instead of locally-caught seafood? It’s as simple as the theory of supply and demand. The Cape Cod fleet catches more than 6 million pounds of dogfish a year and is paid less than 20 cents per pound...
