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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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    Nations 1st Urban Sanctuary Designation Sought For Popular Offshore Fishing area, Baltimore Canyon

    The National Aquarium on Monday announced it is seeking the public’s support in its effort to nominate the Baltimore Canyon off the coast of Ocean City Read More »

  • New Seine Skiff Based on Tug Boat Design

    In June, 2014, Seattle-based Snow Boat Company delivered a new 24-foot by 13-foot seine skiff to King Cove, Alaska for the area M salmon fishery. The Read More »
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    DFO Investigation: traps placed in right whale protection zones, Meanwhile In Nova Scotia, 172 traps seized

    Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) are investigating whether 33 licence holders violated measures meant to protect North Atlantic right whales. The DFO confirmed that Read More »
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    Washington State Ferries vs crab pots: The price of the conflict

    The summer season is a very busy time for the Washington State Ferries when several million people are expected to catch a boat. But it is Read More »
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    Making a killing – As whales die in frightening numbers, New Brunswick’s lucrative snow crab industry struggles under a global spotlight.

    It all started when Charles Anastasia’s boat sank. This was in 1979, when 26-year-old Anastasia took to the ocean every morning to fill his nets with Read More »

  • Lyons: Cortez fish-tossing case a whopper of a tale

    There are “Gilligan’s Island” plots less far-fetched than the twists and turns it took to navigate a local commercial fishing boat skipper’s case to the U.S. Read More »

  • Coast Guard rescues two fishermen near Block Island

    Coast Guard crews rescued two fishermen from a sinking vessel 10 miles south of Newport, Rhode Island, Monday. At approximately noon, the two person crew of the 38-foot Read More »

  • La Pointe Seafoods Lobster pound in Belliveau’s Cove destroyed by fire

    La Pointe Seafoods in Belliveau’s Cove caught fire at 8:30 p.m Sunday. Pierre Boissonnault, the company’s president, said there was over 4,500 kilograms of lobster in the Read More »

  • Groupergate – Goliath Grouper Is Overfished

    In Florida, the Goliath grouper is considered to be responsible for the depleting of spiny lobsterharvest, and sport fishermen blame them for eating snappers. But a Read More »

  • Carteret County trawler Lady Barbara sinks at the dock in Oriental Harbor

    The Lady Barbara, a 71-foot shrimp trawler owned by Ralph Talyor of Marshallberg, sank in the harbor near Hodges Street, beside the docks of Garland Fulcher Seafood, after Read More »

  • Guest View: Rotating closed areas may be better for stocks

    By Ron Smolowitz – Ron Smolowitz is a marine engineer and retired NOAA Corps officer, and has been conducting fisheries research and fishing gear development for almost Read More »

  • Kiwi dies on commercial fishing trawler

    A Nelson man has died after being struck by a wire on a commercial fishing vessel on the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand authorities are investigating after Read More »
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    Federal Judge asked to decide outcome of White Marlin Open after organizers say $2.8 million winner failed lie-detector test

    Fishermen are known to tell tales. But a federal judge in Baltimore is being asked to determine the outcome of the White Marlin Open after organizers Read More »

  • Bald eagles bad news for seabird on Oregon Coast

    Scientists at Oregon State University who are studying the seabird have documented how the increase of bald eagles – especially along the central Oregon coast – Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 12, 2016

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 13:54 Related Read More »

  • Zeldin: Congress needs to block president’s latest Marine Monument plan

    Recent Marine Monument designations proclaimed by the Obama Administration have been the largest in U.S. history. In 2016, President Obama declared a 490,000 square-mile area of Read More »

  • Longtime leader Robin Samuelsen to be honored at Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle

    Those supporting and attending the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle this week will gather to honor one of Bristol Bay’s most dynamic and productive leaders — Read More »

  • Another chance to prosper

    It began quietly, this year’s white shrimp season, on Friday. If you know how to look for the rhythms of the bayous, you could see the Read More »

  • Stock Island Fishermen bank on stone crab to salvage season

    Commercial trap fishermen are banking on a healthy stone crab season to help cover losses from a shaky start to spiny lobster season that was more Read More »

  • Seattle renewable energy company plans $200M wind farm off Oregon Coast on YOUR fishing grounds!

    Principle Power, a renewable energy technology developer headquartered in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, received a go ahead from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to submit a formal proposal to Read More »

  • Cod was key to our survival – Earl Snelgrove, St. John’s

    I was born in the small fishing community of Grates Cove, Trinity Bay near Baccalieu Island in the later part of the 1920s and used to Read More »

  • On This Day – September 28, 1889: Cape fishermen heading for South Africa for mackerel

    A century ago the fishermen on Cape Cod were making plans to spend the winter fishing for mackerel off the Cape of Good Hope off the Read More »

  • Lobster price depends on whose plate

    Last week the news was filled with stories about the price of Maine lobster reaching its highest point in 10 years or more. Some trade publications Read More »

  • Oregon and South Carolina lawmakers protect U.S. Coast Guard air stations in Newport and in Charleston

    A provision included in the U.S. Coast Guard Reauthorization Act of 2015 will keep the air station in Newport open for at least two more years. Read More »

  • China fishing plan in Antarctica alarms scientists

    Scientists studying the Antarctic’s marine life received some unexpected news this month: China plans to vastly increase fishing for Antarctic krill – small crustaceans that are Read More »

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