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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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Bay de Verde residents in plant fire evacuation left to ‘pick up the pieces’
Bay de Verde’s mayor says residents and workers will need to ‘pick up the pieces’ following a fire that destroyed the eastern Newfoundland community’s fish processing plant. This morning Read More » -
New Brunswick fish-packing plant fire could affect P.E.I. fishery
Officials in the Island fishing industry are monitoring the fallout from a fire that destroyed a fish-packing plant in Cap-Pelé, N.B. The impacts will definitely be Read More » -
Expert’s talk at LaGrua Thursday to focus on benefits of local sea-to-table options
Meghan Lapp, an expert on the commercial fishing industry and its regulations, will give a talk entitled “Sea to Table: Bringing the Bounty of the Sea Read More » -
California Coast Crab Association
Who we are, and what we do! The Dungeness crab industry working together to protect and preserve the California Dungeness Crab fishery for the continued economic Read More » -
Ocean City, Wind Farm Developer Clash in Legal Fight
The Danish energy company Orsted, which plans to build the Ocean Wind project, filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court on May 4 demanding that Ocean Read More » -
Tom Dempsey is in Climate Denial. “It wasn’t even the prime driver,”
Calling for “a national voice for fishermen about climate change,” Dempsey also advocated better regional fisheries management and more control by fishermen in setting goals and Read More » -
Sector IX Responds to NOAA Groundfish Ban
Sector IX sent a 15 page response to John Bullard and NOAA on Saturday after the governing agency banned the sector from groundfishing two weeks ago. Read More » -
Malpeque Harbour channel plugged; fishermen remaining tied up as dredge works at site
When P.E.I.’s lobster fleet heads out for setting day on Monday, their fellow captains in Malpeque Harbour might be left watching from the wharf. An unprecedented Read More » -
Sept 22, 2014, Public Meeting- Designation of Critical Habitat for Steller Sea Lions – Listen via Webinar
The first meeting,September 22, 2014 at the NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA 98115, in the Jim Traynor Conference Room. NMFS will make this meeting Read More » -
Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update NOVEMBER 3, 2013
“The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More » -
Following a decade of decline, halibut harvest will increase in 2015
In 2004, the coastwide Pacific halibut catch limit was 76.5 million pounds. By 2014, that had been cut 64 percent to 27.5 million pounds. On Jan. Read More » -
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for Feb 15, 2016
Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 15:31 Read More » -
Aquarium scientists ID dead whale found on Martha’s Vineyard
Scientists identified the dead North Atlantic right whale as a 3-year-old female known as #5120. NOAA Fisheries learned that the unnamed whale had washed ashore near Joseph Read More » -
Oil spill conference touches on Gulf fisheries and social toll in communities
MOBILE, Alabama – Researchers discussed Monday some of the uncertainties and challenges of dealing with the fallout from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at the Gulf Read More » -
Coast Guard crew issues violation to commercial fishermen off Oregon Coast
A Coast Guard cutter crew issued a violation to commercial fishermen who caught salmon outside of the fishing season 20 miles off the coast of Newport, Read More » -
Jerry Leeman – A supply line disruption
Allow me to explain what is about to happen. We are fishing on false assumptions that there are no white hake. If you are a fisherman, Read More » -
Grey-Bruce works together to get the fish to the people
When a commercial fisherman in Tobermory was left with a boatload of fish after a buyer backed out Saturday, the community jumped into action to get Read More » -
My Turn: Time to continue moving Alaska forward – By Sen. MARK BEGICH
The election is over and the dust has settled. I congratulate Dan Sullivan. He and I disagreed on many issues, but now he is senator and Read More » -
Declared unfit for human or animal consumption – Eighty tons of contested Bristol Bay salmon trashed in Anchorage landfill
Some 158,318 pounds of highly contested Bristol Bay salmon from the F/V Akutan have reached their final destination: the Anchorage landfill. This summer, the custom processor Read More » -
Conservationists raise alarm over wild fish killed inside B.C. salmon farms
A conservation charity said it’s concerned by what it calls a “growing trend” of wild fish killed by the salmon farming industry on British Columbia’s coast. Read More » -
Maine’s lobstermen willing to work with feds to protect whales
The Maine Lobstermen’s Association is one of the key stakeholders in an effort to better protect the North Atlantic right whales,,, A federal plan that’s being Read More » -
Jimmy Buchan warns no-deal Brexit ‘will hurt’ Scottish fishing industry
The warnings come just days after the final round of scheduled talks between London and Brussels broke off, with EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier accusing his Read More » -
Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee announces steps to protect lakes from carp
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Authorities plan stepped-up monitoring and commercial fishing operations in the continuing effort to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. Read Read More » -
Norah Donnell, 11, is fishing traps – and loving it
Just a few months after she was born, Zachary and Stacey Donnell tucked their daughter, Norah, into her stroller, and took her out for her first Read More » -
Oregon – Wave energy a travesty of governmental process
Three former Oregon State University undergrads have already received more than a half-million bucks in public money to build a wave energy facility near the Nestucca Read More »
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Bruce Hornsby wrote “The way it is” in response to segregation. I believe “THE OBAMA OCEAN POLICY” should spawn a new Song “LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE BECOME”.
ISIS is a terror organization threatening the World. How would the Government like it if we rolled out I’mPISSED a passive Campaign against “THE OBAMA OCEAN POLICY” that would Snow-Ball across the NATION?
Is there anybody out there?
Just Blog if you can hear me.
We don’t need no Fed-Relations
We will take back control
No dark sarcasm from the White House
We’ve had enough of you LITTLE GREEN GNOMES
Hey People, they are taking are Home
No Obama Ocean Policy
Leave are Waters alone
Hey People, we just won’t to be left alone
Apparently I’ve failed to inspire. My Words and Lyrics are nothing but Psycho-Babble. My Brother told me I’m wasting my time, I’m beating a dead Horse it’s over. In my Heart I want to continue. If the Whole Nation was aware of the cost “The Obama Ocean Policy” will laden us with it would be different but the Elite 1%, The Green Mafia, The Government and the National Media they control has successfully kept this in the Shadows. The 99% that we make up either has no idea or they just don’t care. I tell you that’s a said State of Affairs. I’m becoming EMOTIONALLY NUMB that should make the GREENIES happy. Maybe it’s time for me to grab my Balls walk of the field and move away from the Island I grew up on and LOVE. A new place a new Life and not look back. I’m not a quitter but I’m not getting any younger, my Health is not great, and it may be time to pull the Burr out of my ASS. Then apply the time I’ve wasted beating this dead Horse for the last 5 years, put on my Rose colored Glass and work on my HAPPINESS for what time I have left. I’m not looking for sympathy it’s just time to be realistic. It’s been real it’s been fun but it just hasn’t been real fun. That’s Life!!! I will say KARMA will take hold at some point and I’ll be ready for that.
I sympathize with you. We keep asking the eternal question “How long will this bullshit go on”? The problem is our enemies get paid to wreak havoc. All the while we struggle working our asses off trying to keep our heads above water.
I’m convinced and have been for a long time that uncivil disobedience is the only thing that will turn the tide. Our nation has become bogged down with useless government agencies, whose regulations have strangled growth and prosperity. Unless you are working for one of the multitude of enforcement agencies whose roles have swelled enforcing this choking beuracratic nonsense your future seems to be in peril. We have become a police state. The trouble is they’re policing in all the wrong places. I pray for leadership that will start to undo all of what is destroying our country.
Next month be sure to vote for small government conservatives that share the vision of our founding fathers!