Boat Bait

Here's the hook: 2009 Smart Gear winners announced: top prize goes to an underwater baited hook designed to reduce longline seabird bycatch.(NATION/WORLD)
National Fisherman; 12/1/2009; 683 words; ...seabird bycatch from longlining by strategically setting hooks beneath the turbulence of a boat's propeller. The curtain of opaque water then hides sinking bait from scavenging seabirds, such as albatrosses. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Until now...

Sam lives his wildlife dream on TV.(News)
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 11/16/2009; 701 words; ...whales, elephant seals, penguins and a 'bait ball' - where thousands of anchovies formed...it and it swam within five feet of our boat. "I used to watch the BBC science series...comes along it's amazing. "Anchovy bait balls are big enough to fill a stadium...

Our dwindling herring stock
The Boston Globe; 11/16/2009; 904 words; ...still fish commercially on my 35-foot boat, mainly for bluefin tuna, but I spend...the herring stock immediately. Small boat fishermen like me have been sounding the...mesh net for herring, usually behind two boats in a practice called pair trawling. Most...offshore. But we have experienced a ...

Maine anglers worried about disease threat from Chesapeake Bay ; Stripers migrate to Maine from the bay. The disease may explain why the catch is down recently.
Portland Press Herald (Maine); 11/15/2009; 1398 words; ...mackerel, menhaden and other bait. Like several other states...million a year on food, fuel and bait and support a fleet of about 140 active charter boats. Other marine fish - mackerel...order to spread out and feed on bait fish, said Gary Nelson, a...

Outdoors: Heavy rain slows strong striper fishing
Capital (Annapolis); 11/15/2009; 1110 words; ...require the use non- offset circle hooks or "J" hooks with a gap of less than -inch when using bait, and limit the number of lines to six per boat while trolling. The draft regulations also require that anglers use barbless hooks when trolling...