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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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  • UPDATE: 24 hour commercial salmon fishery now underway on the Fraser River – Video

    WATCH: Commercial gillnetters are taking full advantage of a 24 hour sockeye salmon opening in the province. Jill Bennett has the latest. It’s a busy day Read More »
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    Pilot Program – Port allows fish sales from boats at Fisherman’s Wharf

    Fishermen have been granted the legal right to sell fish from their boats at Fisherman’s Wharf for the first time in nearly two decades. The pilot Read More »
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    Letter: Fishing and farming communities need solutions

    Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s draft report on the lower Snake River dams raises important questions about the future of our region’s salmon runs, energy and infrastructure. Read More »

  • Coast Guard officer relieved of command after grounding of 87-foot patrol boat

    The Coast Guard officer who was relieved of the command of a Jonesport-based cutter is being investigated for his role in the grounding of the 87-foot Read More »

  • Coast Guard medevacs man near Nantucket, Mass.from F/V Mekong

    BOSTON — Coast Guard rescue crews medically evacuated a 39-year-old male from the fishing vessel Mekong approximately 10 nautical miles east of Nantucket, Mass., at approximately Read More »

  • Concerns linger over Lake Superior’s historic herring fishery

    Minnesota fisheries managers are concerned about the long term health of the lake herring fishery in Lake Superior. Biologists worry not enough young herring are surviving Read More »
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    The nations oldest fishing port’s lobster trap tree survives

    The country’s oldest fishing port is celebrating the holidays once again with a community Christmas tree made from a stack of lobster traps, ornamented with lights Read More »

  • ‘Stop this right now’: Cape Breton fisherman worried about seismic testing

    Fishermen in Cape Breton are worried about the impact planned seismic testing at the Donkin mine will have on their lobster grounds and livelihoods. Kameron Coal has been given the Read More »
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    Federal study surveys spawning Atlantic Cod – Research area sits in waters zoned for offshore wind projects.

    NOAA, the state Division of Marine Fisheries, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology are all participating Read More »

  • North Star Marine Insurance Services LLC is a new sponsor of Fisherynation.com

    We are proud to announce that the Fairhaven Ma. branch of  North Star Marine Insurance Services LLC is a new sponsor of Fisherynation.com.  Bradford Bowen  brings Read More »

  • Maine to consider $3 million bond, other measures to combat shellfish-threatening ocean acidity

    Rep. Mick Devin, D-Newcastle and the most vocal voice in the fight against acidification, said the arithmetic is simple. “Our marine economy is at stake here. Read More »

  • B.C. First Nation, fisheries officials agree to herring management plan

    A First Nation on British Columbia’s central coast is applauding what it says is a dramatic move toward science-based, joint management of area herring stocks. The Read More »
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    B.C. fish farm fire may have allowed non-native salmon to escape

    A Vancouver Island fish farm company says it’s still trying to determine whether any farmed Atlantic salmon escaped into B.C. waters after a fire damaged one Read More »
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    Dan Webster Champions Sustainable Shark and Fisheries Trade Act

    U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., is leading three other members of the Florida delegation in wanting the U.S. Commerce Department to increase regulation on the international Read More »

  • Researcher lays out three major possibilities for Alaska king salmon crash

    Ed Farley, of NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center Auke Bay Laboratory in Juneau, laid out some of the reasons why scientists think chinook stocks have been Read More »

  • Genetic study pursues elusive goal: How many humpbacks existed before whaling?

    Scientists from Stanford University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other organizations are closing in on the answer to an important Read More »

  • Carillion Canada to Pay $250,000 for Federal Fisheries Act Violations

    Following  a full investigation by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, chargeswere laid against Carillion Canada  Inc., and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. The charges followed the repeated deposits of Read More »
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    Corey Arnold’s best shot: a horse and a cat go fishing for crab

    Everyone looks forward to Halloween. You get a bunch of crabbers in a bar and it gets pretty crazy. I’d bought this horse-head costume in advance and, Read More »

  • Virginia Marine Police arrest two accused of poaching thousands of protected fish

    Marine police have had numerous complaints about poaching in the southern branch of the Elizabeth River over the last two weeks, according to Marine Police Officer Read More »

  • Bristol Bay buyback up for discussion

    According to an email from Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA), 81 percent of drift permit holders responded to a survey last year saying they Read More »

  • Illicit Business – Are Louisiana’s anglers selling their recreationally caught speckled trout?

    When fish are getting yanked into the boat almost as quickly as an angler can get a lure in the water, the fun sometimes overcomes discretion, Read More »

  • New South Wales catch shares – Talk of revolt as fishers drown in bureaucracy

    NORTH Coast fishers say imported muck will be the only seafood on the menu once statewide commercial fishing reforms reduce the state’s already pathetic domestic fish Read More »

  • FFAW-Unifor wants all of Area 6 shrimp quota for inshore fleet

    Union, members say boats, fish plants, whole communities to die out if no change made to policy The FFAW-Unifor held a press conference in St. John’s this Read More »

  • Craig Medred Trashes Fisherman, He Responds – Dispatch News fall short of journalistic standards

    My name is Wally Page. I’ve been a Cook Inlet commercial fisherman since before statehood. I’m nobody special, just a regular Alaskan working hard to support my family. Read More »
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    With Trap War Brewing, Maine Department Of Marine Resources Implements Limits For Lobster Trawls

    The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is imposing a new five-trap limit for lobster trawlers in an area around Mt. Desert Rock, about 6 miles Read More »

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