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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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  • Shrimp size on the rise after Hurricane Matthew

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  • North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission places emergency limits on Southern Flounder

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  • “Operation Broken Glass” – Three Men Plead Guilty for Illegally Harvesting and Selling American Eels

    Three individuals pleaded guilty in federal district court in Charleston, South Carolina, to trafficking more than $740,000 worth of juvenile American eels aka “elvers” or “glass Read More »

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  • Red Snapper: management of a public resource gone completely haywire. And we’re paying to have this done to us.

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    No lobstering until right whales leave Cape Cod Bay

    For the past three years there has been a ban on setting lobster traps and pots in the bay from Feb. 1 through the end of Read More »

  • Inlet Fish Producers sold to North Pacific Seafoods, a subsidiary of the Japanese trading house Marubeni

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