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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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  • 18-month search for a Great Lakes shipwreck is the subject of the next DCMM speaker program

    The mysterious disappearance of a commercial fishing boat in Lake Michigan, and the 18-month-long search that followed, is the topic of the next program in the Read More »
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    Marine Navigation Safety Regulations 2020: Canada Announces New Marine Regulations to Improve Safety, Security and Protection

    Canada has published new Marine Navigation Safety Regulations, which now apply to commercial vessels of all sizes, including fishing vessels, workboats, water taxis and ferries. The Read More »
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    Scotland: Innovative new Mair’s Pier to become fishing industry hub

    Wednesday will be a proud day for everyone at Lerwick Port Authority when the largest single project the harbour has ever undertaken is officially opened by Read More »
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    Michelle Malkin Investigates – Preview: Fishing Wars | Drowning in Regulations

    Commercial fishing boats in New England are going under at an alarming rate and hard-working families are being demonized by a multi-million-dollar environmental industry whose only Read More »

  • WWF calls for end to harassment and worse of fisheries observers

    With World Fisheries Day being celebrated today, WWF is calling upon fishery managers to urgently address the increasing assaults and intimidations targeted at fisheries observers and Read More »

  • US Commerce Renews Commitment to Environmental Stewardship with Awards Ceremony and New Green Store!

    As part of administration-wide efforts this week to commemorate Earth Day, the U.S. Department of Commerce held an award ceremony to recognize the 22 winners and Read More »
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    SMAST East opening draws interest nationally

    The official opening of the second SMAST facility created ripple effects beyond its location on South Rodney French Boulevard. Construction crews erected SMAST East at a Read More »

  • McCrory gets coastal issues report at N.C. Coastal Resources Commission’s meeting

    Gov. Pat McCrory says to come up with a vision for coastal North Carolina, state government needs to balance coastal issues such as funding coastal projects, Read More »
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    Fishermen’s Superstition’s: No bananas! No Whistling! But above all, it’s bad luck to be superstitious!

    Luke Whittaker set out to learn whether there are superstitions that live on among local fishermen. Here’s what he heard. Jerry Matzen III, commercial fishermen “Hang Read More »

  • Save LBI lays out evidence for cause of whale deaths

    On August 4th, 2023, Save Long Beach Island (LBI) filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the ongoing offshore wind energy vessel surveys using high intensity noise Read More »
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    Video: RNLI’s New Class of Waterjet-Propelled, Self-Righting, All-Weather Lifeboats

    When the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution was given the chance to design their dream lifeboat, they came up with the Shannon: a waterjet-propelled, highly-maneuverable, stop-on-a Read More »

  • Transferring red-snapper control to states is adored and despised – the current mess created by federal mismanagement.

    “There is now no question in our minds that our state directors do not represent the best interests of commercial fishermen. They fight us at every Read More »
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    The grants have been an absolute lifeline – Resilience Fund Supports the Fleet

    More than 850 fishing vessels affected by Coronavirus and Brexit have received resilience funding from the Scottish Government this year. ‘I’m hugely grateful for the Scottish Government’s Read More »

  • Biologists: Fisheries at Risk as Bills Target Science-Based Conservation – Reauth hearing tomorrow

    Are fish the next casualties in the war on science? A group of distinguished marine scientists, including a former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Read More »
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    The redfish fishery is returning. So is angst about quotas for inshore harvesters

    A coalition led by the union representing workers in Newfoundland and Labrador’s fishing industry is sounding the alarm about plans for an emerging commercial redfish fishery, Read More »

  • Marine Protected Area Science Co-Chair Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Charge by Dan Bacher

    Ron LeValley of Mad River Biologists, the former co-chair of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Science Advisory Team to create alleged marine protected areas Read More »

  • Ak jig fleet grows 224% – Updated fleet profiles

    This is Fish Radio. I’m  – Who fishes where – for what and where they call home. Alaska fishing fleet updates name names.  Alaska’s jig fleet, Read More »

  • Cormac Burke talks common sense about Leaving the EU

    FIGHTING FOR COMMON SENSE IN A SYSTEM WHERE A CORRECTLY ‘BENT’ BANANA IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIVELIHOODS, TRADITION AND HERITAGE Although the final decision of a Read More »
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    The 27 most captivating photos of the US Coast Guard in 2017

    From Guam in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic, from north of the Arctic Circle to south of the equator, the US Coast Guard Read More »

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  • Bevan Symposium on Sustainable Fisheries in Seattle, Washington and online, free and open to the public.

    Magnuson-Stevens Act – History and Future Examined  – The Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, Sam Rauch, our Northwest Fisheries Science Center Director, John Stein, and Read More »
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    Cape Breton First Nation’s plan for early fishing forced hand on new regulations

    A spokesperson for DFO says the department was preparing the new regulations for the early May start to the commercial lobster fishing season, but was rushed Read More »

  • The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong

    Kurtis Rumble speaks DFO’s Tony Blanchard about the  Crab Management Plan, Crab quota’s and QSA’s. Also,  one of the most popular places to go on Good Friday to Read More »

  • Prospects unclear in ‘crab country’; state committee to discuss delay’s impacts

    Being the sole proprietor of his commercial fishing operation for the last three years, Eureka resident Bob Borck said one of the important skills of the Read More »

  • FDA approval of AquaBounty GMO salmon decried by environmental and consumer groups

    Environmental and consumer groups in the United States and Canada are denouncing a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approving genetically modified salmon as Read More »

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