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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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  • Marine Resources Committee approves stripped-down version of lobster license changes

    Lawmakers on the committee that handles marine resources issues voted Wednesday to make modest changes in the rules that control lobster fishing licenses in Maine, side-stepping Read More »

  • ‘Deadliest Catch’ tragedy: Sig Hansen in tears as crab fishermen friends are lost at sea

    Crab fishing is a dangerous profession and that was made tragically clear on Tuesday night’s emotional episode of “Deadliest Catch.” On the Discovery Channel show, the Read More »
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    Juvenile striped bass maintain average abundance in Virginia waters in 2017

    Preliminary results from an ongoing long-term survey conducted by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science suggest an average year class of young-of-year striped bass Read More »

  • Massachusetts fisheries officials: Loophole in striped bass fishery needs closing

    Massachusetts fisheries officials want to to close a loophole in state regulations that resulted in what they believe were illegal landings of striped bass last year. Read More »

  • TRADEX 3-Minute Market Insight – Uncertainty for Norwegian Salmon Exports; Hokkaido Chum Withdraws From MSC

    Published on Aug 11, 2014 – The Fraser River Sockeye run began last week in B.C. – 750k LBs caught during first 38 hours –  Other news Read More »

  • It’s like, I keep puting this up! Climate change pushing lobster north, study says

    The study, co-authored by Dalhousie University marine biology professor Dr. Boris Worm, compiled 40 years worth of data to explain several significant marine species shifts seen Read More »

  • The sinking of the Trawler Dalny Vostok – Russia vow’s to continue searching for 13 people missing, investigation begins

    Russia vowed Thursday to continue searching a vast area of the frigid Sea of Okhotsk for 13 people missing after a fishing trawler sank, killing at Read More »

  • DRIVE TO DRILL: The growing resistance to Atlantic oil and gas drilling

    (The third in a three-part series. To read the first, “Energy lobbyists behind governors’ crusade for Atlantic drilling,” click here. To read the second, “Gov. McCrory Read More »
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    Lobsters must be comfortably numb before cooking: Swiss government

    Switzerland has banned the common culinary practice of throwing fresh lobsters into boiling water as part of an overhaul of its animal protection rules. “Live crustaceans, Read More »

  • Coast Guard medevacs unresponsive fisherman near Jonesport, Maine

    A Coast Guard rescue crew medevaced an unresponsive crewman from the fishing vessel Melinda Ann Saturday afternoon from Englishman Bay near Jonesport, Maine. Station Jonesport watchstanders Read More »

  • Feds agree to return $71,500 stolen from fishermen’s cooperative in South Thomaston

    One of the largest fishermen’s cooperative in the state will get back $71,500 seized by police during an investigation into the theft of more than $1 Read More »
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    New Brunswick officials suspected pesticide use near lobster pens

    An email exchange between employees of Northern Harvest Sea Farms and New Brunswick environment officials reveals the tensions at play last summer and fall during sea Read More »
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    Somebody keeps stealing the Coast Guard’s bells and gongs in Maine

    Expensive brass gongs and bells are being stolen from navigational buoys off the coast of Maine, and the Coast Guard is asking for help to track Read More »

  • Support from United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union on BC herring fishery

    In support of the Nuu‐chah‐nulth Tribal Council request dated Jan 5, 2015, the United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union – Unifor recommends to all  commercial herring Read More »

  • Nova Scotia fisherman concerned about recent thefts of live lobster

    A Nova Scotia lobster fisherman says he is troubled by the recent thefts of roughly 2,700 kilograms of live lobster in the province. Hubert Saulnier, a Read More »

  • Trade agreement sparks Canadian interest in Grimsby, the UK gateway to seafood retailing

    Grimsby played host to a strong delegation from Canada’s fishing fraternity, with companies with a combined turnover of £500 million travelling up from London to take Read More »
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    3 safe after shrimp boat takes on water off Little Talbot Island

    Three people are safe and back on land after their shrimp boat took on water near Little Talbot Island Thursday morning.  According to Jacksonville Fire Rescue, Read More »
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    He’s not shellfish: N.L. fisherman gets catch of a lifetime, and lets it go

    Most fish harvesters like to keep what they catch, but a fisherman in the Bay of Islands decided it was his patriotic duty to let one Read More »

  • Challenging NOAA’s “Arctic Report Card 2014” on polar bears

    This year, polar bears are virtually the only species that NOAA mentions in their Arctic Report Card – they’ve put all their icon-eggs in one leaky Read More »

  • King fishery closed

    Fisheries managers in Southcentral Alaska might still be wrestling with what to do about a weak return of king salmon to the Copper River, but their Read More »
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    Revisited: Americas Finest – Follow the construction of this Bering Sea Fishing Trawler from start to finish

    We posted this on September 15, 2015 and a lot of water has gone over the dam, or better yet, a whole lotta steel has flown into Read More »

  • Cuomo threatens to sue if fluke quotas aren’t reallocated

    Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo threatened Tuesday to sue the federal government if two interstate fishery-management agencies meeting in December fail to reach an “equitable” redistribution of Read More »

  • Royal Star in Tignish is working on a process – Pasteurized lobster could open new markets

    P.E.I. is a step closer to marketing lobster that will last up to a month after it is cooked, and that could make it much easier Read More »

  • Tiny sea creatures are heading for extinction, and could take local fisheries with them

    A species of one of the world’s tiniest creatures, ocean plankton, is heading for extinction as it struggles to adapt to changes in sea temperature. And Read More »

  • Congressmen Seek Investigation Of Hawaii Fishing Practices

    Four Democratic congressmen have written to officials at the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claiming that Hawaii’s longline fishing fleet is Read More »

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