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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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    Massachusetts Commercial Fisherman Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion

    A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty today to evading taxes on income he earned as a commercial fisherman. According to court documents and statements made in court, Read More »
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    Netherlands to ban live boiling of lobsters, crabs

    Minister Carola Schouten of Agriculture wants to ban the live boiling of lobsters and crabs. She will also look into what can be done in the Read More »
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    Cocaine in the Water Is Hurting River Eels

    The Earth’s waters are laced with drugs—from prescription and over-the counter medications, to caffeine, to antibiotics from personal care products. Marine environments are also tainted with Read More »

  • Board of Fish does not act on task force proposals

    The Alaska Board of Fisheries met last week to look at statewide finfish issues, and took up a proposal submitted by the Upper Cook Inlet Task Read More »

  • My Turn: Time to continue moving Alaska forward – By Sen. MARK BEGICH

    The election is over and the dust has settled. I congratulate Dan Sullivan. He and I disagreed on many issues, but now he is senator and Read More »

  • Bristol Bay fishermen petition the State to intervene regarding sockeye salmon prices.

    An online petition that went live Nov. 3 had more than 821 signatures from fishermen and other supporters as of Nov. 10, asking the State of Read More »
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    Let’s go to Canada! 60 thousand offer to those who know how to wash fish

    Canada based company, located in Quebec, offers jobs for Mexicans with fish washing experience. The best part is that there is a striking salary of 60 Read More »

  • DFO ‘intellectually and morally bankrupt’ in provincial redfish allocations, N.L. minister says

    Corner Brook MHA and former provincial fisheries minister Gerry Byrne says Newfoundland and Labrador deserves a higher allocation of redfish this season and is calling the Read More »
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    Something Big is in the works at the Port of Toledo’s Shipyard, Repair work continues, unabated!

    JH Kelly ironworker crews are close to half way through the job of constructing the port’s towering new work building. When completed later this year this year the Read More »

  • We have not published anything by a non-scientist… until today! A fisherman responds to George Burgess

    Recently on CFOOD we started a new series where we talk to fishery biologists and let them steer the conversation. We (try to) post one per week and Read More »

  • Squids Hampered by Acidifying Oceans

    Acidifying oceans could dramatically impact the world’s squid species, according to a recent study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers. Since squid are both Read More »

  • Out in Left Field – “and their Senate leaders reward them with $33 million in fisheries welfare”???

    “Our recreational sector was never looking at handouts to sit at home like the New England commercial sector, but we were just looking for an honest Read More »

  • Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. bucks Mid Atlantic Council flounder reduction plan

    .“The implications and economic tragedies resulting from such a reduction will have resounding negative consequences on the entire East Coast,” Mr. Thiele said in a letter Read More »

  • The guilt never fades over wasted fish

    I have been a commercial fisherman for more than 30 years, and I’ve caught a lot of fish. I feel good about that. But there is Read More »
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    Squid washing ashore by the hundreds ‘live fast and die young’

    An alarming number of squid are washing ashore along parts of Nova Scotia’s coast. Experts say although it’s unusual to see such mass die-offs, the deaths Read More »

  • OUR OPINION: Back off, NOAA – enterprisenews.com, and who the hell is NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen? Put yer hand back in yer pocket, parasite!

    At the urging of Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown, and Gov. Deval Patrick,  among others, the U.S. Department of Commerce last week declared the Northeast  Read More »
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    Fishermen-developed “banger bar” helps reduce risk of injury on crab boats, OSU study finds

    Dungeness crab fishermen are at high risk for on-the-job injury, but having a metal bar to bang crab pots against as they harvest can help them Read More »
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    Please, Donate if You Can to the San Francisco fishing fleet fire recovery fund

    An early morning fire destroyed Pier 45, Shed C on May 23. While we were fortunate not to lose any lives in this tragedy, San Francisco Read More »

  • Thirteen Breton fishermen stand trial for smuggling illegal migrants to British beaches

    Thirteen Breton fishermen stood trial on Monday on charges of ferrying illegal migrants from the coast of Brittany to British shores for thousands of pounds per Read More »
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    Fishing boat gets stuck in Danish ice, collides with bridge

    A fishing boat on Wednesday got stuck in the frozen waters of the Limfjord in northern Denmark. The Defence Command Center (Forsvarets Operationscenter) was informed of Read More »
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    Alaska’s Commercial Harvesters Listed as ‘Critical Infrastructure’

    Plans are in progress to conduct the multi-million dollar Bristol Bay salmon fishery this summer in a manner that keeps harvesters, processors and the seafood itself Read More »
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    Tagging along on the secret life of the lobster – tagging them to find out where they go

    To the average consumer, a lobster is just a meal sitting on a plate waiting to be eaten. Most have no idea that that meal has wandered Read More »
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    Washington senator wants B.C. to follow suit and phase out net-pen fish farms

    A Washington senator says he wants to see British Columbia join the state in phasing out ocean-based Atlantic salmon farms when the province decides whether to Read More »

  • Disapearing Job’s: Eric Hesse is a fisherman based in Cape Cod

    Here’s how he describes his job: When I started, there were hundreds of boats that would go out especially in the winter chasing codfish. But there Read More »

  • Searchers find second ship from doomed expedition

    The second of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a storied expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage Read More »

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