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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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  • Major salmon escape at a Cooke aquaculture site in Hermitage Bay – The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker

    Cooke Aquaculture says it lost up to 20,000 salmon from a sea cage on the south coast last week. The company said high tide and unusually Read More »

  • Gulf Seafood Institute Responds To Seafood Safety Concerns During Government Shutdown

    As the government shutdown continues, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors responsible for the safety of the consumer’s food, including seafood, have been furloughed. “It makes me Read More »

  • American Samoa: Local fishing fleet shocked at killing of navigator

    The apparent murder of a navigator on board a vessel docked in Pago Pago Harbor has come as a shock to the close knit fishing fleet. Read More »

  • Broken Bureaucracy – Magnuson-Stevens Act – It’s All Out of Balance

    Since 1976, when the Magnuson-Stevens Act went into effect, both Captain Krusa’s regulation by natural selection and the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s promised balance between controlling harvests and Read More »

  • Coastal Villages Region Fund protesting low 2014 halibut quota

     Because of catch limit changes by the International Pacific Halibut Commission, the Coastal Villages Region Fund’s (CVRF’s) allowable catch will be reduced by almost 50 percent. During Read More »

  • Pembrokeshire fisherman search resumes: One fisherman has been rescued

    Coastguards have confirmed one man has been found and taken to hospital in the search for the crew of a sunken fishing boat in Pembrokeshire. The Read More »

  • Sable Island: Criminal colonists settle on deserted island

    The very name Sable Island conjures up romantic images of crazed French prisoners murdering their guards as the penal colony engulfs in the flames of mutiny. Read More »

  • A Blast From the Past from Richard Gaines – Green ‘activists’ gaining control of fisheries – It’s only gotten worse!

    GLOUCESTER, Mass. —  Two fishermen were hanged in effigy at a protest by a crowd of 300 outside the regional office of the federal fisheries service Read More »

  • NOAAgate: how ‘ocean acidification’ could turn out to be the biggest con since Trawlgate!

    For years this has been touted by environmentalists as possibly the greatest threat to the planet after “global warming.” According to Jane Lubchenko, the (former) head Read More »
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    NC shrimpers say new rules for trawlers will destroy industry

    The state Marine Fisheries Commission voted Thursday to begin drafting rules that would limit trawling for shrimp in North Carolina’s inland coastal waters, a move that Read More »
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    FISH-NL plans second certification application for 2019, but only if harvesters step up to the plate

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) announced plans today to move forward with a second application for certification in 2019, but Read More »

  • Prince Edward Island fishermen want dedicated cabinet minister

    A dedicated minister and department of fisheries should be created to tackle the issues and challenges facing the second most important primary industry in the province, Read More »
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    NOAA ship Bigelow back after extensive trip

    A team of scientists that just completed a 54-day trip at sea aboard the 209-foot National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel Henry B. Bigelow, which Read More »

  • DFO should rethink eulachon plan for 2013 say First Nation leaders

    Chilliwack Progress – Sto:lo Tribal Council president Clarence Pennier said they are asking that DFO rethink the eulachon plan for 2013. DFO limited 30 First Nations on the Lower Fraser River, Read More »
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    Wrangell reflects on the sea, loss with proposed Mariners’ Memorial

    A group of mostly fishermen is fundraising to build a mariners’ memorial in Wrangell. Organizers say it’s a way to remember those lost at sea. Gig Read More »

  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Strong-armed Tactics Taken to Task

    Attorney Daniel G Rodgers held a press conference on Monday at Southampton Town’s Shinnecock commercial fishing dock in Hampton Bays to call attention to what he Read More »

  • Capelin count: DFO spending $2.4M to study fishery ‘linchpin’

    The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is spending more time and money on understanding why capelin stocks haven’t recovered. “Capelin are a linchpin; that’s the simplest I Read More »
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    Land Based vs Open Pen Aquaculture – Fish out of ocean water dampen aquaculture enterprise

    Some day, it might be possible to raise salmon in land-based closed containment ponds and make a profit. But that day is still a long way Read More »

  • Department of Fisheries concerned about low number of salmon in Skeena River – Video

    Canada’s Department of Fisheries has responded by shutting down all commercial and recreational fisheries in the area. But local fishermen are worried that the Americans are Read More »

  • Farr introduces “Screw the Fishermen” bill to protect federal waters off California.

    The timing is impeccable. (Oh yes it is! It’s Pewpeccable!) On the same day the Weekly ran a story about a campaign to protect underwater seamounts, ridges Read More »

  • Scientists from Canada find transgenic Atlantic salmon can cross-breed with a closely related species – the brown trout.

    AquaBounty, which created the salmon, said any  risks were negligible as the fish they were producing were all female, sterile  and would be kept in tanks Read More »

  • An evening aboard the “Wild Alaskan,” a Bering Sea crab boat turned strip club

    With Monday’s news that state regulators had revoked the liquor license of the Wild Alaskan in Kodiak, most people will likely never be able to answer Read More »

  • Massive Molasses Spill Devastates Honolulu Marine Life – “Everything down there is dead.”

    That’s one stunning quote from Hawaii News Now’s latest report about the devastating damage that’s been done to the marine life off Honolulu’s Sand Island by Read More »

  • Here’s The Hard Work That Goes Into Catching Your Lobster – Lots of great photos in this article

    Lobster boat captain Craig Stewart and sternman Tim Lovett start work before sunrise and haul traps for hours on end. To experience the life of a Read More »

  • Alaska fishermen and their families have led the Walmart/MSC charge – Alaska salmon row moves onto political stage

    THE ongoing dispute between Alaskan salmon fishermen and the US retail giant is moving into the political arena. Walmart has said it will only buy Marine Stewardship Council Read More »

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