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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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    Commercial Fisherman Carl Blackman, Jr., of New Bern, North Carolina has passed away

    Carl O’Brian Blackman, Jr., 65, passed away August 26, 2023, surrounded by his family. Carl was known for his sense of humor, loyalty, kindness, and love Read More »

  • East Coast fishermen spar with federal government over cost of at-sea monitors

    Every year, the federal government spends millions monitoring New England commercial fishermen to ensure they ply their timeless maritime trade in accordance with the law. Now, Read More »
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    Poll shows overwhelming numbers of the public support local fishing

    Overwhelming numbers of the public believe the government should not be allowed to squeeze fishing communities out of our seas, a fishing body has said. In Read More »

  • Baby lobster abundance suggests strong harvests will continue

    Lobster fishermen and government officials are seeing indications are that lobster stocks will be plentiful in the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the next few years Read More »
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    Sad day for Newlyn, tragedy for a fishing family.

    A Newlyn fishing family suffered a tragic accident yesterday when a crew member who was working on the beam trawler Resurgam. Local emergency services were called Read More »

  • KEATING, TIERNEY URGE ONCE AGAIN FOR FISHERIES DISASTER ASSISTANCE

    “Once again I join with my colleagues to strongly urge for the inclusion of fisheries disaster assistance in the FY2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill. The letter we Read More »

  • Dirty Secret Behind Wind Turbines, They Need Lots Of Oil

    Offshore wind turbines may generate green energy, but they use a lot more oil than proponents like to admit. Just installing the foundation of a single offshore Read More »

  • This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. No Effort, Bad Prices, and Low Fish Counts… Fall Cod is a Snooze

    The fall Pacific cod B season  hasn’t made many waves since opening  on September 1st. The 9.6 million pound Central Gulf  harvest has hardly taken a Read More »
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    Hundreds Of Unexplained Whale Deaths Might Be Linked To Offshore Wind Farms….

    “….there is at least a possible link between the proliferation of offshore turbines and the increase in whale deaths. It’s logical, no?” Perhaps a bigger mystery Read More »

  • Prince William Sound Herring count looking up

    One thousand feet over Prince William Sound, the plane tilted sideways, its left wing stretching toward the waves below as pilot Mike Collins circled in for Read More »
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    Lobster, from the Jersey coast to your dinner plate

    It had been a long four days at sea aboard the Two Dukes, harvesting thousands of pounds of American lobster and a sideline catch of Jonah Read More »

  • IS THE G.A.O. SLOWWALKING ITS INVESTIGATION OF OFFSHORE WIND IMPACTS? By Jim Lovgren

    On June 15, 2023, Congressman Chris Smith issued a press release touting the acceptance by the General Accountability Office [GAO], of a request by the House Read More »

  • Man will bring fake orca to Astoria to try to scare off sea lions on docks, “I just put two and two together”

    A fake orca is headed for the Port of Astoria next month — in yet another attempt to scare off hundreds of sea lions that have Read More »
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    Biden to restore Obama’s marine national monument

    President Biden announced that he will restore protections to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, The restored protections, which Biden will sign on Friday, will prohibit Read More »

  • UPDATED!! NEFMC – Revised Council Meeting Agenda!

    Dear Interested Parties: Because of the winter storm that is headed to New England, the Council leadership has reorganized the previously distributed agenda. The meeting will Read More »
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    Dow honored, DMR Excellence Award named for Andy Mays

    Two men known well to the Mount Desert Island commercial fishing community were honored at the annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum last weekend at the Samoset Resort Read More »
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    Crawling with crab … at last

    Pacific County boat decks are finally crawling with healthy Dungeness crab after a two-month regulatory delay, a tardy start due to violent seas and a disastrous Read More »

  • Mr. Governor, Don’t Build That Wall

    Governor Lepage joined a coalition of governors in February who support offshore oil drilling. Lepage became the first Northeast governor to join the Outer Continental Shelf Read More »

  • Bay Area crab fishermen prepare for Saturday’s long overdue season opener

    The crab pots were piled eight high along the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor dock Wednesday afternoon as Dungeness crab fisherman loaded boats in preparation for Read More »
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    Coronavirus: International turmoil keeps the lobster at home

    Commercial fishing is a notoriously condition-dependent occupation. As of early February, however, in addition to the changeable sea and the here-today, gone-tomorrow nature of the work—as Read More »
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    Trump administration settles lawsuit, agrees to protect humpback whale habitat

    The suit by the Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation, a nonprofit that represents American Indian tribes, was settled Read More »

  • Our View: Groundfishing limits are a disaster for this region

    What is happening to the Northeast’s groundfishing industry is a natural disaster, just as devastating as a drought or a wildfire. But the federal government is Read More »

  • Letter: Fishing regulations not sole culprit, – alcohol, substance abuse, and injuries

    In response to Auditi Guha’s article, “Life after sea: SouthCoast fishermen grapple with homelessness” in the Feb. 9, issue, I find it important to acknowledge homelessness Read More »
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    More cracks appear in government-controlled fish-pricing system; SEA-NL demands review of lobster-pricing formula

    Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) demands the province review the way lobster is priced to the inshore fleet to determine whether enterprise owners Read More »

  • Dipnet fishery on Yukon better than anticipated

    Harvesters on the Lower Yukon River have landed close to 50,000 oil rich Yukon summer chums to date in the river’s first commercial dip net fishery. Read More »

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