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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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  • F/V Alaska Juris Fisherman Medevaced near Cold Bay, Alaska

    The Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk crew rendezvoused with the Alaska Juris approximately 110 miles north of Cold Bay, safely hoisted the man aboard the Read More »
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    Alaska commercial fishing picks and pans for 2016

    The start of 2017 marks the 26th year for this weekly column on Alaska’s seafood industry that aims to make readers aware of the economic and cultural Read More »

  • Nova Scotia: Proposed five cent lobster levy is out of bounds says MLA

    “I honestly don’t know where Keith Colwell gets off thinking he can impose a five cent a pound tax on lobster without getting the approval of Read More »

  • NEFMC and MAFMC propose new bycatch reporting system for Northeast fisheries

    The Mid-Atlantic and New England fishery management councils jointly proposed the revision. They want the revision to apply to all 13 fishery management plans in the Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 72′ Steel Shrimper / Groundfish Dragger, Cat 3412, 2 Cummins gen sets

    To review specifications, information and 2 photos, >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 13:46 Read More »

  • Listen to The Alaska Fisheries Report

    Coming up on this Elvis Birthday Week edition: The state slaps down the Cook Inlet sports fishing industry’s attempted resource grab, the Board of Fish is Read More »

  • Western Gulf fishermen join discussion on catch sharing

    Come February, a federal fisheries council will continue to discuss catch-sharing programs in Alaska trawl fisheries – this time with a bigger voice from southwest fishermen. Read More »

  • Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce EDITORIAL: Shame to share for scallop shenanigans – ANDREW JENSEN, MANAGING EDITOR

    Alaska’s rural communities will lose out after a backdoor move to preserve  the status quo in the state scallop fishery backfired in the closing days of Read More »

  • Fisheries committee calls for ‘rebuilding plan,’ information sharing on northern cod stocks

    The once-mighty northern cod stock off Newfoundland needs an immediate “rebuilding plan,” according to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. The federal committee on the fishery Read More »

  • Allegedly inoxicated fisherman hoisted from sinking F/V Charlie & Carol off Ilwaco, Wash. coast Sunday morning – video

    Coast Guard Sector Columbia River in Astoria received a call from the only man aboard the 36-foot fishing vessel Charlie & Carol at approximately 11:30 p.m., Read More »

  • Really, Rosemary

    Lifelong Alaskan Rosemary McGuire, 38, who grew up in a home here without electricity or running water, has commercially fished out of Cordova, paddled miles of Read More »
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    Racing the past in Jonesport, Maine: 5 days aboard the world’s fastest lobster boats

    The lobstermen who make up this strange party compete all summer long on a race circuit that takes them and their boats to 11 fishing communities Read More »
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    An Update from Commissioner Keliher

    Dear Industry Member, I’m reaching to share what’s been happening recently at DMR. It’s been a busy summer. CARES Act – Negotiations with NOAA on our Read More »
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    Legal fight over Open Hydro continues

    Local businesses left holding the bag for millions of dollars worth of work installing a tidal turbine in the Minas Passage want the Irish parent company Read More »
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    Meghan Lapp’s response to Oceana Gib Brogan’s NY Times Article “A Knockout Blow for Fish Stocks”

    Unfortunately for NY Times readers, this article is full of false and misleading information. It has caused quite a stir not based on fact, but based Read More »

  • Greg Fulcher betting on scallop permit consolidation to recoup $7m

    Greg Fulcher — who has just bought the scallop vessel Alaska, and fishing permit, for a record-high sum of $7 million — believes sector consolidation will bring management Read More »

  • Matt Ridley: Beware The Corruption Of Science

    As somebody who has championed science all his career, carrying a lot of water for the profession against its critics on many issues, I am losing Read More »

  • Glovertown Fish plant has work, but no workers

    In a province that has seen some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, it must be hard for employers to fathom there is a Read More »
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    Kodiak man killed in Bering Sea fishing accident

    A 55-year-old Kodiak resident died last week aboard a fishing vessel during a transfer operation in the Bering Sea, according to Alaska State Troopers. Alaska State Read More »

  • Lobsterman accused of stealing traps, Some confiscated equipment belongs to late Tony Rahn

    PORTSMOUTH — A lobsterman charged with one felony, two misdemeanors and more than 130 violations — including allegations that he stole a deceased lobsterman’s traps — Read More »

  • South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting June 13-17, 2016 Cocoa Beach FL

    The public is invited to attend the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council to be held in Cocoa Beach FL at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront . Read the Read More »

  • Republican Senate candidate Dan Winslow wants to fight for fishermen, National Standard 8, Saltonstall-Kennedy funding

    “Fishermen by default are environmentalists. I think you can be pro-fisheries and pro-environment.” Winslow criticized catch limits and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration policies, and said Read More »

  • ‘Wicked Tuna’ and Tequila’

    The fishermen of Gloucester, Massachusetts are in the hunt once again to catch the biggest and largest quantity of their prize bluefin tuna. Often they have Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for April 25, 2016

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 22:45 Read More »

  • Demand for fishery abuse report gains steam. Republican Paul Broun and Senator John Kerry lean harder on Commerce

    The 66-case study, which reportedly runs more than 500 pages, with recommendations by the author — special judicial investigator Charles B. Swartwood III — was submitted Read More »

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