Boat of the Week from the Athearn Marine Agency: 42′ Northern Bay Lobster/Scalloper,2003, Lobster,Scalloper Fiberglass, Detroit
Specifications, and information click here
The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Recent Posts
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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update October 27, 2013
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Catch Shares Enable Wealthy Landlords to Gobble Up Local Fisheries
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South Africa: Nation Hosts International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).Convention of Tunas Meeting
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Key West: Lobster traps limits not well received
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French fishermen could pay to fish British waters after Brexit
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Not Good. Alaska approves key permit for Pebble copper-gold mine, with conditions
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Red drum season closed for summer after commercial harvest exceeds annual quota – CCA-NC Very Concerned!
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Maine elver fishing quota may be slightly reduced – Department of Marine Resources is advocating for status quo
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Louisiana Shrimp Fishermen Face New Challenges – White Spot Disease
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Auction scheduled for lease rights for wind farm, Fishermen seeking to block
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LIFO – Northern shrimp quota panel hears from New Brunswick fishing companies
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Ironwood Ridge grad’s ‘Deadliest Catch’ work may earn him an Emmy
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California pearls.Turns out the Golden State accounts for the vast majority of the U.S. sturgeon and caviar production.
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Letter: Celebrate efforts to make commercial fishing safer
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A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history
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Eastern Shipbuilding lands huge contract to build Coast Guard offshore patrol cutter
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This frame is for rent!
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Mote Receives National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant Money to Bring Electronic Monitoring of Fisheries to Gulf (Way too intrusive)
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4 crew members found, Search ongoing for missing fisherman off the coast of Cape Breton
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Deep-sea cameras reveal commercial fisheries having little impact on seafloor biodiversity
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Illegal fishing nets seized on Fraser River by DFO
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Community rallies support for lobster fisherman seriously injured while working on lobster boat
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Early reports point to decent MS shrimp season
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Organizations threaten NOAA with lawsuit over industrial ocean fish farm funding
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Fish Board mostly leaves Sitka herring alone following truce between users
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