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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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  • Alaska Fisheries Disaster Money Stripped From Relief Bill

     The U.S. House has stripped a relief bill of money for the fishery disaster in Alaska. Read more Related Read More »

  • Fishermen Plan to Hold Summer Event at Menemsha

    The Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust will host its first ever Meet the Fleet event this summer in Menemsha to showcase the Island’s working waterfront. “We Read More »

  • Search for F/V Patty AJ skipper Jerry Barkley suspended

    Six days have passed since the Patty AJ capsized in the Coos Bay channel near buoy 5, and the search for its missing skipper has ended. Read More »

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    A lobstermen-only fishing organization has purchased a local lobster wholesale business, extending the reach of its members further down the distribution chain and giving them a Read More »

  • Reflections on the success of traditional fisheries management – Hilborn and Ovando

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  • URGENT:::NEW ENGLAND:::Fwd: National Ocean Policy – Fishermen, are you losing your voice and democratic rights?

    I’m fwding this message to anyone in the area who’s interested in what the govt. and Big Biz has in store for our ocean—it ain’t about fishing and Read More »

  • There’s No Crying on a Fishing Boat by Stephanie Boudreau.

    My father likes to joke that he comes from a place where “the men are men, and the women are men too”.  While my folks moved Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 26, 2017

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  • U.S. Coast Guard confirms one missing boater from Middletown has been found safe

    The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that one of two Middletown missing boaters has been found alive. Nathan Carman was found Sunday drifting at sea by a Read More »

  • North Bound Fluke migration puts regulators in gear

    As Summer Flounder, or fluke, migrate northward away from the past population center off North Carolina, fisheries regulators have taken the first steps toward reworking the Read More »

  • Sable Island’s cod killer? The new plan to slaughter seals blames seals for the cod fishery collapse

    Seals and the cod collapse That’s a point that strikes a chord with Jeff Hutchings, a Dalhousie University biology professor who specializes in Atlantic cod. In Read More »

  • It’s a War! Crab vs. clam: A battle to the death

    The green crab has long been an enemy of clammers in New England. Originating in  the British Isles, it is thought that they arrived in the holds/ballast Read More »
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    UPDATED: Coast Guard conducts medevac 65 miles south of Montauk, N.Y.

    A Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter crew medically evacuated a 47-year-old man 65 miles south of Montauk, N.Y., Friday. At 8:25 a.m., the fishing vessel Braedon Michael Read More »

  • Coast Guard responds to fishing vessel fire off Grays Harbor, Wash. 314-foot F/V Arctic Storm reported an uncontrollable engine room fire

    ASTORIA, Ore. — The Coast Guard is responding to a fire aboard a vessel approximately 32 miles west of Grays Harbor, Wash., Monday. Coast Guard Sector Read More »

  • Ocean plankton’s absorption of CO2 higher than assumed

    In making their findings, the researchers have upended a decades-old core principle of marine science known as the Redfield ratio, named for famed oceanographer Alfred Redfield. He Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week – 42′ Provincial Lobster, Fresh 430HP, 6 Cylinder Cummins

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    Do humans have it wrong? Treating salmon as commodity may threaten their wild existence

    As once-uncountable Northwest salmon stocks have dwindled, humans have tried a number of remedies to bolster or replace the disappearing fish. We’ve caught them at dams Read More »

  • UPDATED – New Hampshire’s small commercial fishing fleet is reeling – at odds with NOAA over cod reductions

    “The fishermen vehemently dispute this latest assessment,” said David Goethel, captain of the F/V Ellen Diane out of Hampton Harbor. He’s served on the New England Read More »

  • GDT Editorial: NOAA monitor coverage was agency’s only true, fair choice

    It is, as our federal lawmakers all noted, good news to learn that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries service will cover the cost of Read More »

  • Coast Guard searching for Fisherman overboard southeast of Nantucket

    BOSTON — The Coast Guard is searching for a person in the water approximately 35 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Sunday. At about 8:30 p.m., the crew Read More »
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    Chile accuses Marine Harvest of damaging environment after 600,000 salmon injected with antibiotics escape

    Chile’s environment ministry on Monday (Aug 6) accused the local unit of Norway’s Marine Harvest of damaging the environment after hundreds of thousands of salmon escaped Read More »

  • Something’s Fishy – The Central Pacific Nation of Kiribati Boasts It Has Created One of the Largest No-Fishing Marine Reserves in the World. Unfortunately, It’s Not True

    Meet President Anote Tong of Kiribati, a Central Pacific country of three-dozen postcard-pretty coral atolls that may become uninhabitable some day because global warming is causing ocean Read More »

  • Uncertainty about gillnets on Columbia hurts the bottom line for repair, equipment businesses

    ASTORIA, Oregon — Uncertainty over the future of the gillnet fishery on the Columbia River has begun to hurt the businesses that supply the trade. “We’ve had Read More »

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