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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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PD Editorial: No more red herrings in water talks – “Without a healthy Bay-Delta system, there is no salmon fishing,”
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Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service said the money it had been using to pay for the monitors — trained Read More » -
Response to fishing vessel fire in American Samoa continues, investigation underway
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F/V Miss Hailee: Fort Bragg fishing vessel suddenly lay on its side and went down, losing one on board
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‘I’m not a quitter’: lobstermen turn to kelp farming in the face of climate crisis
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Fabled 1930s Arctic fur-trading ship, built for Inuvialuit trappers, needs a new home
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Canada’s trade minister promises Brits cut-price lobster and maple syrup if free trade deal follows Brexit
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Grounded Austro Carina trawler at Banks Peninsula starting to break up, salvage could take months
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‘No smoke in the smokehouse’ on the Magdalen Islands after herring ban
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Provincial fees could hurt Port Saunders fisherman’s business
Eugene Caines, a commercial fisherman from Port Saunders, hopes to continue operating a cod grow-out site. However, fees being imposed by the province, may shut him Read More » -
Maryland assigning commercial fishermen catch shares – will have individual quotas of striped bass
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DONOFRIO: Federal fisheries law in need of reform
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2019-2020 Sea Scallop Research Set-Aside Awards Announced
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Political games are devastating sustainable commercial fishing
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Editorial: Pouring it on — Thirsty Atlanta, Gulf Coast oysters and more water-war litigation
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New England Stock Assessments – If it’s the same, it will never be different, Don Cuddy
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Obama’s policy highlights the fact that his political party is taking a lot of money from energy interests and giving them the representation they have paid for.
Stains his Environmental Legacy? They stood shoulder to shoulder with him with “The Obama Ocean Policy” a hostile takeover of all Americans Common Property. He’ll be long out of Office and living in his multi-million Dollar Mansion in Hawaii when the SHTF. In this instance Green for lack of a better word is GREED.