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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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    25 Years ago Today – The Northern Cod Moratorium

    Sunday, July 2, marks a quarter of a century since then federal fisheries minster John Crosbie announced what was planned to be a two-year moratorium on Read More »

  • American Lobster Settlement Index | Update 2016

    Just as US and Canadian lobster landings seem to be breaking all the records, settlement has been dipping to all-time lows. The disconnect is causing a Read More »
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    Jeanne Moser to be Shaheen’s guest for Trump speech

    Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, announced Friday she will bring Jeanne Moser of East Kingston as her guest for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for April19, 2019

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    Cape Sable Island fisherman recalls ‘sea monster’ encounter 42 years later

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    US Senate candidate Nardolillo on Sheldon Whitehouse’s Conflicting Positions

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    Gulf shrimp season opens Sunday in state and federal waters while shrimp boats will set out lacking workers

    Tuesday’s blessing-of-the-fleet event at the Brownsville Shrimp Basin felt similar to the one a year ago, with a sermon from Father Mark Watters and an issue Read More »

  • Greenland killer whale butchering in photo posted on Facebook

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    How We Know Megalodon Doesn’t Still Exist?

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    Talking kettles of fish with Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson

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    Quinn Fisheries buys six of Carlos Rafael’s scallop boats

    Mayor Jon Mitchell announced the purchase at a hastily announced 3:30 press conference Wednesday afternoon. The mayor had sought to keep the bulk of Rafael’s boats Read More »

  • Diesel stove likely cause of boat fire

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  • Zooplankton decline reported in North Atlantic

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    MFC draft plan would cut southern flounder harvest

    The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) heard a presentation on draft Amendment 2 to the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Friday during its meeting in Jacksonville Read More »
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    The U.S. is hungry for seafood, but more industrial aquaculture is not the answer

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  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 104′ RSW Lobster/Crabber/Seiner, 850HP Cat, 2 Deere Auxiliaries

    To review specifications, information, and 51photos, >click here<, Vessel in good condition, and would make a great salmon tender seiner or west coast crabber.  To see Read More »

  • Anxiety grows about red tide bloom 5-15 miles off northeast Gulf of Mexico local beaches

    It’s like Florida’s version of The Blob. Slow moving glops of toxic algae in the are killing sea turtles, sharks and fish, and threatening the waters Read More »

  • Alaska Board of Fisheries changes commercial drift fishing in Cook Inlet

    On Monday, the Alaska Board of Fisheries approved several changes to the Central District Drift Gillnet Fishery Management Plan outlined in a proposal submitted by the Read More »

  • Fisherman on board F/V Miss Courtney Kim near Sanak Island, medevaced numerous injuries after a crab pot fell on him

    JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew forward deployed to Cold Bay conducted two medevacs, for one infant and one mariner, from Read More »
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    Boat capsizes near Cape Kiwanda due to rough conditions

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  • Karena Adler, 62, pioneer for women in the fishing industry, dies

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  • Letter: Fight further takeover of our fishing grounds – Jim Tarantino Gloucester, Ma.

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  • Crawling with crab! Temporary glut slows processors

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