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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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    SIMP: Federal monitoring program will track foreign imports

    A decision by Congress to add imported shrimp to the Seafood Import Monitoring Program is good news for an industry not used to hearing good news. Read More »
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    Product of USA??? President and Chief Executive sentenced, fined for mislabeling crab meat

    Officials say Phillip Carawan sold foreign crabmeat that his company, Capt. Neill’s Seafood Inc., labeled as Blue Club from the United States.,, According to their plea Read More »

  • New Brunswick lobster fishermen brace for more low prices

    CBCNEWS – With just a week to go before lobster traps are set for the spring season in northern New Brunswick, fishermen are bracing for another Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 50′ x 20′ Fiberglass Dragger, 479HP 6 Cylinder Cat C18 , Perkins 24 KW Auxiliary

    Specifications, information and 57 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 12:47 Read More »
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    Russia, Norway to increase cod quota

    Norway and Russia share the marine resources in the Barents Sea and quotes for the different spices are negotiated annually. “I’m very pleased that we also Read More »

  • U.S. shrimp industry seeks relief from cheaper foreign imports

    WASHINGTON — Domestic shrimp producers will find out Tuesday whether they’ll be one step closer to getting relief from the subsidized imports that have taken over Read More »

  • Fish council eyes limits on catch shares- Amendment 18 — the ‘“fleet diversity and accumulation caps” action, Really??

    Until the decision at the council last Thursday, the New England Regional Fishery Management Council had kept hands off  the commodity trading system; in November 2011, Read More »

  • Like Enron, But With Fish – The Supreme Court Appeal of Fisherman John L. Yates

    Consider this one of the fishiest Sarbanes-Oxley suits in the history of the law: an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is urging the justices to weigh Read More »
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    Where Is America’s Next War? Alaska. And the enemy is not who you’d expect.

    It’s war in the Gulf and the US Navy is on hand to protect us. No, not that Gulf! I’m talking about the Gulf of Alaska Read More »

  • Conserving the Kenai king is a mandate for board, ADFG

    Editor’s note: This is the 10th and final part of the Morris Communications series “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” King salmon are the Read More »

  • State unreceptive to squid-fishing petition

    David Pierce, director of the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries, started yesterday’s public hearing on whether to bar trawlers from fishing for squid within three miles Read More »
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    Banned Australian lobsters are sneaking into China via Hong Kong

    Since direct shipments to China virtually ground to a halt last November, Hong Kong has become the world’s largest importer of Australian lobsters, with monthly trade Read More »
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    Matt Ridley: Blue Planet II Was Superb, Save A Few Fishy Facts

    Nothing that Hollywood sci-fi screenwriters dream up for outer space begins to rival the beauty and ingenuity of life under water right here. Blue Planet II Read More »

  • Computer Glitch shuts inshore herring fishery causing bait shortage – Price Spikes!

    While the DMR says the Atlantic herring fishery is usually very predictable, because its quotas are monitored throughout the year, a computer glitch caused regulators to Read More »
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    Whooshh growing rapidly in Europe, stalled by U.S. regulations

    The difference between the Whooshh fish transport system and traditional fish ladders — data suggests — is like the difference between crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountain Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for November 17, 2017

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates Click here, for older updates listed as NCFA click here16:07 Read More »

  • Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries Officials urge changes needed on striper limits

    PLYMOUTH — Orleans and Chatham residents knew something extraordinary was going on. Since 2009, the second week in July meant jammed-up town landings as hundreds vied Read More »

  • NY State Legislature Passes Commercial Fishing Advocate Position

    “The commercial fishing industry is part of the fabric of the East End of Long Island,” Mr. LaValle said in a statement on the measure. “It’s Read More »
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    Tensions renew over “unauthorized” lobster fishery in Nova Scotia

    Tension over a growing Indigenous lobster fishery remains high on the wharfs and bays of southwestern Nova Scotia, where Sipekne’katik First Nation plans to launch their Read More »
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    Irish Fishermen fear UK limits will push EU boats into Irish waters

    The UK’s withdrawal from the London Fisheries Convention will push more EU trawlers into Irish waters and is a major concern for the Irish fleet, according Read More »

  • The ‘Codfather’ Carlos Rafael indicted on 27 counts for lying about fish catches and smuggling cash

    Local fishing magnate Carlos Rafael has been indicted by federal prosecutors for lying about fish catches and smuggling cash to Portugal through Logan airport in Boston, Read More »

  • ‘A major concern’: Snow crab, shrimp assessments worry fisheries minister

    The Newfoundland and Labrador minister of fisheries and natural resources has added his voice to those concerned about what the latest shrimp and snow crab assessments Read More »

  • B.C. judge certifies class-action lawsuit launched by halibut fishermen

    Her written ruling states that under the program, the Fisheries Department allegedly held back 10 per cent of the total allowable catch and assigned it to Read More »
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    Maine’s having a lobster boom. A bust may be coming.

    The waters off Maine’s coast are warming, and no one knows what that’s going to mean for the state’s half-billion-dollar-a-year lobster industry, the largest single-species fishery Read More »

  • Could the world’s biggest marine sanctuary be declared in the Antarctic?

    An extraordinarily big thing might happen in the world of marine conservation next month at a meeting in Germany of a little known international commission. [email protected] Read More »

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