Many were expecting their lines would be vibrating with fish after not being able to fish in 2006. The industry has paid the price in terms of fishermen losing their boats, infrastructure such as ice plants closing, and fishermen leaving the industry. There were three others, according to the Congressional Research Service: * In 1994, $12 million was appropriated for industry assistance in the form of fishing permit buybacks, habitat restoration jobs and data collection jobs. Many South...

Sunday, November 11, 2007 By Gail Kinsey Hill The rapid expansion of wind farms could put hawks, eagles and other raptors on a collision course with fields of giant turbines and their 150-foot blades. By year's end, more than 1,500 turbines will be churning out electricity in the Columbia River Gorge, a windy corridor at the forefront of a nationwide effort to produce cleaner energy. If bird studies confirm the fears of wildlife biologists, green-minded states might be forced to weigh the...

Five fishing vessels work fulltime supplying Egmont with fish, mostly school shark and rig a small, toothless shark commonly sold as lemonfish which can be caught commercially only by set netting. The North Island population has genetically dwindled to a single maternal line, giving it status as a distinct sub-species now known as Maui's dolphin. The lack of dolphins in the area an observation supported by DoC research has Mawson at a loss to understand the rationale for extending the...

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By the time her sons attended school, Stratham's farming roots were much less obvious, with only a handful of farms left. The family's decision to protect the farm made it possible to hand the land down to future generations, like her son Nathan and his wife, Judy, who both work the farm with Lorraine and her husband, John. When Merrill was attending junior high and high school at the regional school in Exeter, Stratham was full of dairy and other types of farms. Merrill knows most of them...