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- Mark Hager, left, positions a camera with the help of Anthony Lucia, right, as captain Al Cottone watches the feed on a monitor from his boat, the Sabrina Maria, in Gloucester, Mass., May 11, 2022. Hager's Maine-based startup, New England Maritime Monitoring, is one of a bevy of companies seeking to help commercial vessels comply with new federal mandates aimed at protecting dwindling fish stocks. But taking the technology overseas, where the vast majority of seafood consumed in the U.S. is caught, is a steep challenge. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Could trawler cams help save world's dwindling fish stocks?
By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press
Wed,12/07/22-7:36AM , 241 Reads
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — For years, Mark Hager’s job as an observer aboard New England fishing boats made him a marked man, seen as a meddling cop on the ocean, counting and scrutinizing every cod, haddock and flounder to enforce rules and help set crucial quotas.
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- The Bullenbaai oil terminal sits along the coast of the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao near Willemstad, Dec. 24, 2016. The terminal is at the center of an effort by Venezuela to get around U.S. sanctions, the Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Dick Drayer)
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US-owned firms appear to help Venezuela avoid US sanctions
By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press
Wed,11/16/22-2:33PM , 201 Reads
MIAMI (AP) — A company with an office in Houston and another owned by two American citizens appear to be helping Venezuela bypass U.S. sanctions and quietly transport millions in petroleum products aboard an Iranian-built tanker, The Associated Press has learned.
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- Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro attends the opening of 52nd General Assembly of the OAS in Lima, Peru, Oct. 5, 2022. The OAS communications director told the AP on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 that Almagro has invited the organization's staff leader to meet with him, shortly after receiving a letter from employees assuring him that they work in fear and in a "harmful" and unhealthy" environment. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)
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US supports calls for external ethics probe into OAS chief
By JOSHUA GOODMAN
Sat,11/05/22-11:48AM , 270 Reads
MIAMI (AP) — The head of the Organization of American States is facing growing calls, including from the Biden administration, for an external probe into possible misconduct tied to his intimate relationship with a subordinate.
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- In this photo made available by the U.S. Coast Guard, guardsmen from the cutter James, seen at background right, conduct a boarding of a fishing vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, on Aug. 4, 2022. During the 10-day patrol for illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing, three vessels steamed away. Another turned aggressively 90 degrees toward the James, forcing the American vessel to maneuver to avoid being rammed. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Hunter Schnabel/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
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China fishing fleet defied U.S. in standoff on the high seas
By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press
Tue,11/01/22-6:52AM , 262 Reads
This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean.
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