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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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    I’d like to get the conversation started about how the fisheries economic disaster relief should be invested. Over the past few months, since the disaster was Read More »

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    Sipekne’katik seek injunction from Nova Scotia Supreme Court to end threats, interference in lobster fishery

    The Sipekne’katik band is seeking a temporary court injunction to end blockades, interference and threats over its lobster fishing in southwest Nova Scotia. The band applied Read More »

  • Friends of Captain Jean Frottier devastated by loss of fisherman

    Frottier’s friends and fellow fishermen, many of whom have spent much of their lives at MacMillan Pier by his side, said they are devastated by the Read More »

  • Fishing boat captain from East Lyme pleads guilty in tax evasion case

    Peter P. Torres, a commercial fishing boat captain from East Lyme, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to failing to file tax returns on approximately Read More »
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    Divers to refloat boat destroyed in fire, 65 feet of wharf lost to the flames

    A team of divers is expected to get in the water in Twillingate Tuesday morning to refloat a longliner that burned and is now mostly submerged. Read More »

  • Thanks to Regulatory Induced Effort Reductions, Money for At Sea Monitors to last through October!

    NOAA now says it expects to continue paying for at-sea monitoring of Northeast multispecies groundfish vessels through Oct. 31, two months longer than the federal agency Read More »

  • Snow crab prices could be clawed back

    Halfway around the world there’s an uneasiness that may land this year’s Newfoundland snow crab industry in troubled waters. While the announced increase in price between Read More »

  • Researchers tackle unseen crab mortality in Alaskan groundfish fisheries, win best paper award.

    “The only way to have a substantial harvest of flatfish species is with a trawl. The question is how to make trawl fishing as sustainable as Read More »
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    Research models how deadly virus moves among Pacific salmon, trout

    For the first time researchers studying a deadly virus modeled how it spreads to young trout and salmon in the waters of the Columbia River Basin, Read More »

  • House bill HR 1335 would add ‘flexibility’ to federal fishing law (Still in session at post time)

    A bill sponsored by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, was debated on the House floor and appeared likely to be approved. The bill would reauthorize the four-decade-old Read More »
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    OPINION: Ban seismic testing, offshore drilling of NJ coast

    Summer is in full swing at the Jersey Shore. Over the next couple of months and into the fall, millions of visitors will head “down the Read More »

  • New Mid Atlantic Council recommendation revises fluke cuts

    A memo released by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council staff on Friday revised the earlier recommended fluke cuts downward from 43 percent to 25 percent for Read More »
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    “This community is very resilient” – Coronavirus doesn’t stop 91st annual Blessing of the Fleet in Biloxi

    It’s going to take more than a tropical storm and a worldwide pandemic to stop the Blessing of the Fleet in Biloxi. On Sunday, the 91st Read More »
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    Video: Coast Guard medevacs fisherman injured 170 miles southwest of Kodiak

    The Coast Guard medevaced an injured fisherman Saturday from a boat southwest of Kodiak Island. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak Read More »

  • Gang Green: Feel the Venom? The U.S. Shark Conservation Axe of 2013

    Nearly three years ago, I wrote “Shark and Awe in the U.S. Senate”, my account of the near-death experience that The U.S. Shark Conservation Act of Read More »
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    Maine shutting down more scallop areas to protect harvest

    Maine officials say the state’s shutting down a few high traffic scallop fishing areas to prevent overfishing. The Maine Department of Marine Resource is closing Sand Read More »

  • Poor common squid catches to continue in Japan

    Poor catches of surume-ika, or Japanese common squid, are likely to continue this year. The squid is used in popular home dishes such as sashimi and Read More »

  • Obama breaks his promise on frankenfish, (and everything else) and Alaskans will pay

    For close to two decades, AquaBounty, a company from Massachusetts, has been genetically modifying salmon. Apparently the whole years in the ocean, swimming back to the Read More »

  • Marine ecosystems still at risk as ‘the blob’ sinks deeper below the surface, says DFO

    The giant ocean ‘blob’ isn’t dead — yet. The warm patch of water that stretches along the Pacific Coast is currently resting several hundred metres below the Read More »
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    “Wind is the culprit,” – NOAA study shows wind influence in GOA Pollock abundance

    As Bob Dylan famously said “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” The study conclusively shows for the first time that Read More »

  • Federal Fishery Act Undergoing Reauthorization; Will dictate for generations the parameters for managing the fishing industry By LAINE WELCH

    SitNews – The rules that govern our nation’s fisheries are being retooled so it’s reassuring that Congress isn’t traveling in uncharted seas.,,,On Frankenfish,,, On Wal-Mart’s salmon diss,,, Read More »

  • Comparing the Pacific Coast’s Commercial Fisheries

    Since these Fish Reports focused exclusively on salmon and striped bass fishing in California, we wanted to share an expanded review of fisheries harvests and their Read More »
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    Fighting ALS One Crab Leg at a Time

    The Dwyer family has strong ties to Ketchikan and Alaska. Jenny Gore Dwyer was born and raised in Ketchikan. She can trace her family roots back Read More »
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    Newport News scallop boat embarking on 800 mile voyage to Bahamas to deliver disaster relief

    It’s literally all hands on deck aboard the Ocean Fox in Newport News.,,, “So we are gonna leave the bay, get down off the Cape Fear and Read More »

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