Fish & Fishermen // Ryby i Rybacy

Three short-tailed albatross among a flock of northern fulmars. Short-tailed albatross (STALs) are critically endangered, so the International Pacific Halibut Commission has special provisions for recording any time sea samplers observe STALs out at sea during the annual stock assessment survey.  As a sea sampler, I did my best to grab my video camera and get a shot of them taking off or landing near the boat, to check and see if they had a band around their leg. This helps those ornithologists (bird scientists) figure out if the birds are coming from a known breeding ground, or somewhere else. If they don't have a leg band, it means that they might be breeding in a new spot, which is great! This summer, I recorded 8 different sighting of STALs. I am working on putting up videos for each one. For now, check out what I have finished! Sighting 1: These were the first short-tailed albatross that I saw. http://youtu.be/zkFsbbr9yTg Sighting 2: For this ...

Click below to watch how commercial fishers catch Pacific halibut in Alaska! Tu można oglądać jak rybacy na Alasce łowią halibut Pacyficzny! http://youtu.be/s-kEyrP4J-0

Check out my new video describing my project, at: http://youtu.be/O43u975T71o Background Fisheries scientists do their best to conduct important and relevant research. It is our hope that our work has some effect on the world around us. One way that we can affect the ecosystems that we study is through policy. But! What happens after a policy gets approved and put into place?   Who decides whether it is successful or not?   And how can relative success be measured? My name is Elizabeth Figus, and it is my goal to answer those questions. I study how one type of commercial fishing policy—individual quotas—affects both marine ecosystems and the fishers that depend on those ecosystems for their livelihood. The goal of my project is to determine the strong and weak points of individual quota fisheries policies from both social and bio-economic perspectives. I am looking at two fisheries:  The Pacific halibut ( Hippoglossus s...

I spent the summer working on a sampling vessel (the F/V Kema Sue) in the Bering Sea, for the International Pacific Halibut Commission. I made a short and silly film about the experience, which you can watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7HFIQ__MHM&feature=youtu.be Staff at the International Pacific Halibut Commission at training in Seattle, May 2013 Fishing Vessel "Kema Sue;" Kuter rybacki "Kema Sue"  Spędziłam lato w tym roku (2013) pracując na kutrze rybackim "Kema Sue" na morzu Beringa, jako próbnik morski, czyli "sea sampler." To jest stanowisko pracy dla Międzynarodowej Komisji Halibuta Pacyficznego (IPHC). Kręciłam krótki film o czasie na tym statku badawczo-rybackim. Niestety to jest po angielsku, ale można oglądać ten film na stronie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7HFIQ__MHM&feature=youtu.be

"Ekolodzy zwracają uwagę, że wschodnie stado dorsza (eksploatowane głównie przez Polskę) jest w słabej kondycji..." Czytaj więcej na stronie: http://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/swiat/news-polska-wygrala-ws-dorszy-w-przyszlym-roku-ograniczone-limity,nId,2288636#utm_source=paste&utm_medium=paste&utm_campaign=firefox

Well it has been awhile since my last posting on here, and I apologize for that. I have been busy over the past 6 months, skippering the Eyak troll tender over the summer, writing up a manuscript from interviews with Polish cod fishermen in 2014, and conducting outreach events around Alaska! I have been to Seward, Petersburg, Cordova, and Homer to speak with folks about halibut fishing, the Observer Program, and data collection on the water. In November, I head to Kodiak to discuss this more with residents, as well as attend the Ocean Boogie hosted by the Alaska Marine Conservation Council! I will put up more information about the Polish work in the coming months. For now, check out my flyer (below). If you happen to be in Kodiak on November 10th/11th, see you there!

Przeczytaj nowy artykuł na temat rybołówstwa w Polsce. Strona: Stakeholder Participation in the Polish Baltic Sea Commercial Fishing Fleet Więcej o czasopisma: http://rsm.czasopisma.pan.pl/index.php/61-wydania/1414-no-xxiv-2015 A new article on my research in Poland has been released, titled "Stakeholder Participation in the Polish Baltic Sea Commercial Fishing Fleet" You can read the article for free, at: Stakeholder Participation in the Polish Baltic Sea Commercial Fishing Fleet Check out more articles in the latest addition of the Annuals of Marine Sociology, at: http://rsm.czasopisma.pan.pl/index.php/61-wydania/1414-no-xxiv-2015