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  The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet           

  It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

  

  NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

   While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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  • Alaska Editorial: Mind the gaps

    This week in Anchorage, the state brought in experts to identify the gaps in the draft plan. They received some useful comments. Reviewers urged that more Read More »

  • Fairhaven Shipyard proposes controversial wall

    The North Shipyard has been the subject of environmental investigations in recent years. In 2012 EPA cited it for violations of the Clean Air Act. The Read More »
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    Hundreds of upset shrimpers pack Houma meeting

    “We are on the bottom. It’s time to stand up and say we are not going to be on the bottom anymore,” says a shrimper. Passionate Read More »

  • ‘Wild Alaskan’ floating strip club owner guilty of dumping human waste in harbor

    The owner of a crabbing boat that was converted into a floating strip club off the shore of an Alaskan island has been found guilty of Read More »
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    Federal inaction drives lobster feud

    A Coast Guard cutter and two helicopters (one RCMP, one DFO) provided little more than backdrop scenery to the boiling tensions on the Acadian shore Monday. Read More »

  • Fish Distribution: Warmer waters shake up Shore fishing

    “Marine fish are very sensitive to a change in temperature — they can only survive in a narrow range, so they are seeking out cooler waters Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman near Cold Bay, Alaska

    The Coast Guard medevaced an injured fisherman approximately 40 miles west of Cold Bay, Alaska, Wednesday. At 2:30 p.m. an Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter Read More »
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    Three in one week.

    They say a week is a long time in politics, or if you wait ages for a bus, three come along at once – in just Read More »

  • Sea Shepherd confronts illegal Antarctic Patagonian toothfish poaching vessel – placed under citizens arrest!

    Bob Barker skipper Peter Hammarstedt said he had notified the Thunder captain and his crew “that they have been placed under citizen’s arrest”. “They must cease Read More »
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    A True Pioneer – Captain Magne Kristoffer Nes has passed away

    Magne Kristoffer Nes passed away in Edmonds, WA, surrounded by his loving family. Magne was born in Karmøy, Norway to Didrik and Elen (Ella) Nes, the Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 63′ Steel Shrimper/Trawler,1986, Dragger, Shrimper Steel, Detroit

    Specifications, and information and 10 photos of the vessel, click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 13:20 Read More »
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    Two dead whales found lodged under hull of Australian warship docked in San Diego

    The whales were discovered as the ship, HMAS Sydney, berthed at Naval Base San Diego, the Australian Royal Navy said in a statement. Experts say the Read More »

  • B.C. coast to see historic cleanup of marine debris as Japanese tsunami money runs out

    A coordinated marine-debris cleanup described as the largest in Canadian history is underway all along B.C.’s west coast, from the remote wave-tossed beaches of Cape Scott and Read More »
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    Federal Liberals treat East Coast fishery as ‘second class’; move to ban at-sea fish farms off BC, but not eastern Canada?

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) accuses the Liberal Party of Canada of talking out of both sides of its mouth Read More »

  • ‘Tis the season in southwestern Nova Scotia! Fishermen gearing up for Nov. 30 start of lobster fishery

    Unless delayed by weather, the lobster season in lobster fishing area (LFA) 34 – which takes in all of Yarmouth County and parts of Shelburne and Read More »

  • AK sockeye salmon market faces wild card with Fraser River run

    Salmon fishermen were back out on the Copper River yesterday/Monday hoping for a catch of 33-thousand sockeyes. The first 12-hour opener last Thursday was slow going Read More »

  • Groups planting eelgrass, vital to the survival of many species on Nova Scotia’s south shore while fighting Green Crabs

    The two groups are working on transplanting eelgrass beds that have been nearly wiped-out by the invasive European green crab. According to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Read More »
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    In major reversal, WA agrees to gillnets on Columbia in 2019

    The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission agreed last week to allow the use of gillnets during the fall salmon fishery on the Lower Columbia River while Read More »
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    A Look Back At Cape Cod’s Fish Traps

    Captain Steve Karras – My father was a commercial tuna fisherman in the 1940s and 50s, when the predominant way to catch tuna in New England Read More »
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    ‘Life-Threatening’ Emergency on Humboldt Bay as Harbor Entrance Silts Up; Commercial Shipping Closed Down

    The entrance to Humboldt Bay Harbor is dangerously shallow at the moment — so shallow that commercial ships are unable to traverse the channel leading to Read More »

  • American Samoa hosts the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council March 11-14, 2013

    The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council will convene its 156th meeting next week at the Governor H. Rex Lee Auditorium. Sam Rauch, NOAA Acting Assistant Administrator Read More »

  • NOAA Ripped and Gutted the Heart and Souls of those seeing no way out of financial ruin – ‘We’ve been left with nothing’

    A few years back, when the feds advised Joe Orlando to increase his number of fishing permits, he invested some $400,000, continuing to follow all the Read More »

  • The Mercury-Laden Fish Floated for School Lunches – Dogfish

    From the article: Cussed Dogfish – New England fishermen have hated dogfish for a long time, and there has never been a significant domestic market for Read More »
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    Profiles in Training: American Seafoods Company

    Lance Camarena recognized from a young age that he wanted to work in the learning and development arena.,, Today, Camarena is Director of Training & Organizational Read More »
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    Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: July 13, 2020

    Baywide daily harvest dropped below 2 million for the first time since July 4th. The total harvest is over halfway to the pre-season forecast swimming in Read More »

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