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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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  • You SAFMC guys don’t have to hook up the Huskies. Your Pooler, GA Meeting has been canceled!

    Public Hearing/Scoping Meeting Scheduled for Pooler, GA on January 30, 2014 CANCELLED Due to Winter Storm – The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council  is cancelling the January Read More »

  • Coast Guard terminates 5 vessel voyages for safety violations in Southeast Alaska . All five vessel crews were required to return to port in Petersburg

    Coast Guard Station Ketchikan boarding teams terminated the voyages of the vessels following at-sea commercial fishing vessel safety boardings where a variety of safety violations were Read More »

  • Cape Breton lobster website directs you to lobster, fresh off the boat

    A new website is highlighting where people in parts of Cape Breton can purchase fresh lobster right off the boat. Lobster fishermen from Bay St. Lawrence Read More »

  • UPDATED – Not Good: Lobsterman Jailed, Fined Over Illegal Lobsters

    A Maine lobsterman who kept undersized and V-notched lobsters has been sentenced to two days in jail and fined $50,000. The Department of Marine Resources is Read More »

  • InnovaSea Systems Inc. has raised $15 million for farming fish in the open ocean

    Boston-based InnovaSea Systems Inc. has raised $15 million to develop an all-in-one system for farming fish in the open ocean, an approach that the company and Read More »

  • NEFMC fails to agree on scallopers’ wish to enter long-closed areas

    Thursday the council failed to come to terms about the specifics of the plan in Georges Bank, which centers on an area on the Canadian line Read More »

  • Using Intimidation, China tries to create new fishing areas on the East Sea

    VietNamNet Bridge – Colonel Le Thanh Van said China was trying to create new fishing areas in the East Sea (South China Sea). Specifically, China strengthened Read More »

  • Three Fishermen Rescued from Sinking F/V Fjord Mist off the Washington Coast this morning

    WARRENTON, Ore. — Coast Guard Station Quillayute River, Wash., crews rescue three fishermen from the sinking  F/V Fjord Mist two miles west of James Island, Friday. The fishermen Read More »

  • Fishermen get that sinking feeling: New industry plans could squeeze out smaller family-owned operators

    “Why do they have to get rid of small businesses just to make room for big business?’’ he said. “They do it with everything — look Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: Rhode Island Marine 55′ Steel Lobster/Scalloper/ Scallop-LAGC-IFQ permit

    Detroit 8-V-71 Twin Disc All USCG Required Safety Equipment Including Satellite 406 EPIRB and Givens (4) Person Life Raft (4) Pipe Bunks in Foc’sle Stainless Steel Read More »

  • Lee County derelict crab trap cleanup planned for July 10-19

    Southwest Floridians who like to boat, fish or catch crabs should be aware that the state will be closing the blue crab trap fishery briefly in Read More »
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    F/V Jamie Lynn stuck ashore due to tides, strong winds, and a needed plan to release her

    Feb. 6 when high-speed winds howled through the Lowcountry, a shrimp trawler was pushed into the mud. It remains there until a plan can be made Read More »

  • Video: Coast Guard medevacs crewman from F/V Stella near Kodiak, Alaska

    A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak hoists a  35-year-old hypothermic crewman from the deck of the 58-foot Kodiak-based  fishing vessel Stella Read More »

  • Canada Q&A – Without massive government subsidies, can the salmon farming industry survive?

    Can the salmon farming industry survive without massive government subsidies,” writes Marike Finlay-de Monch in Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia, “and does a forensic economic analysis show that Read More »
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    Fish and Wildlife Service official reportedly violated conflict of interest rules

    Richard Ruggiero, chief of the Division of International Conservation at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, may have violated federal ethics rules by his involvement in Read More »
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    Father and Son Busted With More Than $17M in Sea Cucumbers

    A father and son have been indicted on charges of smuggling illegally harvested sea cucumbers worth more than $17 million into the United States and selling Read More »

  • Fishermen in Cape Tormentine, Murray Corner and nearby Little Cape upset at loss of lobster buyer

    They were at the wharf last year and actually, they drove the price up. We wouldn’t have got as much for our lobsters last year if Read More »

  • Commercial Snapper limit announced in the South Atlantic

    Fisheries officials have announced a reduction in the daily trip limit for the commercial harvest of vermillion snapper in the South Atlantic. Effective March 2, the Read More »

  • Virginia is coping with its first run-in with a phrase no one in public health or the seafood business ever wants to hear: oyster disease outbreak.

    Three people became sick recently after eating raw oysters collected from the same private grounds off Fisherman Island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. They ate the oysters Read More »

  • Regulators Postpone Plan to Try to Preserve Lobsters

    Interstate fishing regulators have decided to hold off on starting the process of crafting a plan to try to preserve the dwindling southern New England lobster Read More »

  • My Turn: Why rush to judge the Pebble Mine? – Abe Williams of King Salmon, president of Nuna Resources

    Juneau Empire – As a fisherman, I depend on fish for my livelihood, but I also understand that commercial fishing no longer sustains us and is Read More »
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    Ocean temperatures off N.S. dip after record breaking year, have moved back to normal

    Following a season of record-breaking surface temperatures last year, ocean temperatures in the waters around Nova Scotia have moved back to normal this summer, says the Read More »
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    Building, wharf collapse on Gloucester waterfront

    Cape Ann Ice owner Scott Memhard was one relieved man last night as he stood surrounded by fire trucks off Commercial Street and surveyed the wreckage Read More »
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    Feds must end push for ocean aquaculture

    The world’s oceans are in trouble. Litter, urban runoff, dead zones, leaking oil rigs and other factors put stress on sea life, notably fish, and cause Read More »

  • Maritime Radar to Celebrate 70th Anniversary

    The first Type 1 radar system was produced and installed on a fishing trawler in 1947. It would become the first type-approved radar of any kind, Read More »

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