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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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    Western Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Honolulu, HI, June 25-27, 2019

    Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Location: YWCA Fuller Hall, Honolulu, HI. 178th CM Summary of Action Items, 178th CM WPRFMC Agenda 178th CM FR Notice Read More »

  • Murkowski roundly criticizes NOAA proposed ringed seal habitat

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to designate much of Alaska’s northern coastline as critical habitat for ringed seals have led the state’s senior U.S. senator Read More »
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    A Fundraiser for New Hampshire Lobsterman Juan Peralta-Martinez

    Juan suddenly passed away on 11/09/20. He is survived by his wife Katerina and his two young boys. Juan was a lobsterman and was new to Read More »

  • Fishermen, you are not included. The its “Our Ocean Conference” starts today

    The State Department holds the “Our Ocean Conference” today, where the President will announce the closure of cantons and seamounts off of the coast of New England. Read More »

  • Congress Proposes Relaxing Sea Lion Protections

    The Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, a proposed amendment to the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act, could soon give tribal members and government fishery Read More »
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    Congress passes spending bill after brief government shutdown

    Congress approved a $300 billion, two-year spending bill and an additional $90 billion in aid for victims of hurricanes and California wildfires early Friday and President Read More »

  • Pricey sea cucumbers face increasing sea otter appetites

    Sea cucumbers are the most valuable of Alaska’s dive fisheries and give a nice boost to coastal towns, especially in Southeast. Annual harvests each October hover Read More »

  • Canada’s New Year’s Resolution: Standing Against Salmon Feedlots

    With the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) recently affirming Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAv) to be present in coastal waters beyond eradication, concerned Canadians are standing Read More »

  • A Health Care Plan That Fits Your Needs

    This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini – Hurry and find a health care plan that works for you. I’ll tell you how after this…   @alaskafishradio  Read More »
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    How offshore wind developers are working around the Jones Act

    The U.S. is going to need between four and six gigantic wind turbine installation vessels to support President Joe Biden’s 30 gigawatt-by-2030 offshore wind goal, according Read More »
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    Lobstermen take break from industry worries to race and ‘raise some hell’

    Harpswell’s annual lobster boat race returns this Sunday, when Maine lobstermen and fishermen compete in a mile-long, full-throttle boat race for a chance to win a Read More »

  • Bipartisan Leadership Recognizes Need For Fisheries Reform – Jim Hutchinson, Recreational Fishing Alliance

    September 11, 2013 – U.S. saltwater anglers today heard from a bipartisan coalition of congressional leaders that our federal fisheries law is in need of amendments in order Read More »
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    New halibut catch share plan included in federal bill

    Charter operators in the Gulf of Alaska will soon be able to buy halibut quota from willing commercial fishermen. That’s after funding was included for a Read More »

  • Had it with high halibut bycatch? Tell the NPFMC by May 26

    Alaskans across the state are demanding that fishery overseers say bye-bye to halibut bycatch in the Bering Sea. More than six million pounds of mostly small halibut Read More »
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    Remembering the incredible life of Bernard Wharam – one of Hull’s greatest ever trawlermen

    Bernard The B*****d. He was one of Hull’s untouchable trawlermen – but his death earlier this month has sadly closed the book on an era of Read More »

  • Business for sea urchins is brisk in Edmunds

    EDMUNDS, Maine — Business was brisk for fishermen plying Denny’s Bay at the start of the late dragging season for sea urchins on Monday. A couple Read More »

  • IFQ market for AK halibut, sablefish in a stall for all regions except Southeast

    Alaska’s record salmon season has permit brokers hopping, especially for seine cards. But it’s a very different story for the quota share market. This is Fish Radio. Read More »
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    Policymakers unite around lobstermen, By Reps. Billy Bob Faulkingham and Will Tuell

    Unless you have had your head stuck in a bait pocket the past few months, you know by now that Maine’s lobster fishing industry is facing Read More »

  • NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Personal Locator Devices for Mariners

    A new safety alert issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to provide each crewmember with a personal locator device. These devices improve a mariner’s Read More »

  • Adult pink salmon perish in spawning channel – More info needed to determine causes of periodic de-watering: DFO official

    Thousands of adult pink salmon died last week when the lower portion of the Mamquam spawning channel ran dry, stranding them in shallow puddles below a Read More »
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    ‘It’s gonna kill this community’: A tiny Alaska town and others in the state brace as governor guts budget

    The little fishing town of Cordova, perched next to the Copper River Delta in Prince William Sound, is no stranger to the cycles of catastrophe, hardship Read More »

  • Thanks Danny, The truth about Carlos Rafael hurts so I had to say something!

    The yack coming from the waterfronts of New England is, the article written by Danny McDonald, “Carlos Rafael and His Fish Are the American Dream”  has pissed Read More »

  • Heiltsuk First Nation claims victory over disputed herring fishery – “It looks like the fleet has packed up and is going south empty,”

    A confrontation between the Heiltsuk First Nation and the federal government that threatened to erupt into a “war on the water” appears to have ended with Read More »

  • Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team deployed to the response effort to remove the sunken F/V Lone Star from the Igushik River near Dillingham, Alaska, Friday.

    “The Pacific Strike Team is made up of some of the best emergency responders the Coast Guard has to offer,” said Lt. Jason Gangel, chief of Read More »

  • Two Massachusetts men arrested in Portland for illegal elver possession

    Joshua P. Medeiros, 30, of South Dartmouth, Mass., and Andrew P. Cournoyer, 43, of West Wareham, Mass., both were charged with possession of elvers without a Read More »

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