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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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  • Angela Sanfilippo: ‘What Gloucester has done for me’

    Angela Sanfilippo told her story Thursday afternoon and she told it well, the traces of her Italian heritage still dancing in her voice. It’s a pretty Read More »

  • WICKED TUNA: Season Five Premiere on Nat Geo Brings New Challenges, (Video)

    This Monday, top-rated series WICKED TUNA is returning to National Geographic Channel for Season Five. Some of the captains are still struggling, with a rough winter Read More »

  • Sea stories beckon large audience as Fishers hook the crowd with talent (they can very taleted!)

    Wet Dog Cafe was full to the brim with diners Friday night; there was a waiting list to snag a table. Waiters weaved in between patrons, Read More »

  • Bluefin tuna don’t forget a good thing when they find one. The Dented Bucket

    Stare at this picture. It’s a bit like the children’s book, “Where’s Waldo?” or for an older generation where’s Richard Scarry’s “Goldbug.” But instead of one Waldo Read More »

  • Burgeoning sea otter population in southern Southeast Alaska depletes commercial fishery species

    Sea otters enjoy feeding on sea cucumbers, sea urchins, Dungeness crabs and geoducks. Unfortunately, so do people. In southern Southeast Alaska, commercial fisheries for these invertebrate Read More »

  • Kiribati deal shocks fishing world – US Tuna Fleet Forced Out – Chinese and Taiwanese boats take over

    A tiny South Pacific nation has shocked the fishing world by revealing without warning that it has forced most of the American tuna fleet out of Read More »
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    Lobster fisherman defends maligned practice of ‘controlling agreements’

    The federal government’s attempt to stop corporate control of the lucrative lobster fishery is facing another challenge, and the Nova Scotia fisherman at the centre of Read More »

  • Herrera Beutler: To save steelhead, we must cut sea lion numbers

    Steelhead, longtime residents in our rivers here in the Pacific Northwest, are now approaching extinction with alarming speed. This isn’t exaggeration; the Oregon Department of Fish Read More »
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    Severe Weather on the High Seas

    Many seafarers find themselves subjected to harsh elements, and when it comes to the ocean, nothing “stirs the pot” like the wind; and the winds are Read More »
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    Passengers on whale-watching boat spot snake floating in water off Cape Cod

    Passengers and crew on a whale-watching boat off Cape Cod spotted something very unusual in the water last week. The Cape Cod Times reports the Hyannis Read More »
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    Offshore wind to have major ‘adverse’ effects

    Offshore wind farms could have a major “adverse” impact on commercial fisheries, according to a long-awaited analysis from the Interior Department released yesterday. The Bureau of Read More »

  • Habitat Hearings over, New England Fishery Management Council tackles options

    Federal regulators are deciding the scope of a management plan for thousands of square miles of fishing grounds off New England that has deeply divided fishermen Read More »

  • Obama administration takes step toward allowing Atlantic Ocean drilling

    The Obama administration forbids Atlantic Ocean drilling through 2017. An earlier version of President Obama’s five-year offshore drilling plan permitted such activity, but he excluded Atlantic Read More »

  • Gulf of Mexico Commercial harvest of gray triggerfish will reopen in state and federal waters Aug. 1

    When the gray triggerfish season reopens, new bag and trip limits will also be in effect in Gulf state and federal waters. The recreational bag limit Read More »

  • Video Report: Ride along with the largest commercial fishing operation in Michigan

    A major player in Michigan’s commercial fishing industry, Serafin Fisery, is located in Pinconning. Dana Serafin runs the business with his father, Jerry. Jerry tells us, Read More »
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    FISH-NL calls on DFO to take direct control of scientific quota of redfish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

    “The FFAW-Unifor should not be controlling science quotas,” says Boyd Lavers, an inshore harvester from Port Saunders on the Great Northern Peninsula, and Captain of FISH-NL’s Read More »
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    Environmental groups sue to restrict salmon fishing for Northwest orcas

    The Center for Biological Diversity, which filed a lawsuit nearly two decades ago to force the U.S. government to list the orcas as endangered, and the Read More »
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    Past lobster season openers starts and misses in southwestern Nova Scotia

    There are years the opening of the lobster fishery off southwestern Nova Scotia goes off without a hitch, but not always. The season is always slated Read More »
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    Commercial fishermen hit hard by king cuts

    Commercial king salmon fishermen will have a tough time making ends meet this summer. The all-gear harvest limit for Chinook salmon — the pot of king Read More »
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    Province wants cash, house from banned commercial fisherman

    The B.C. government is asking to seize a Gabriola Island home and more than $1.3 million in cash from a commercial fisherman who is banned from Read More »
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    Best salmon return since 2014 leads to longer season for North Coast fishery

    North Coast fishing crews idled by an early end to the Dungeness crab season will have a longer 2019 salmon season than in recent years after Read More »
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    Daniel Pauly’s Three Big Moves to Save the World’s Threatened Fisheries

    In the last 60 years, globalization has transformed largely sustainable, small-scale local fishing enterprises into something very different. Now “largely corporate-owned and controlled” fleets subsidized by Read More »

  • Enviros look for way forward after Antarctic fisheries motion fails at international meeting

    Conservationists are trying to determine a way forward after the annual Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) meeting ended on Friday. Representatives Read More »

  • Pilot Point, Alaska – 1 fisherman dies, 1 missing after skiff overturns

    PILOT POINT, Alaska (AP) — A commercial fisherman died and another is missing after a skiff overturned on the Ugashik (oo-GA’-shik) river near Pilot Point on Read More »

  • Already, I’m skeptical. Dalhousie professor to probe effects of aquaculture business

    Jon Grant doesn’t much care for the taste of Atlantic salmon. But the Dalhousie University oceanographer is passionate about Atlantic Salmon farming. He says critics who Read More »

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