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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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  • House passes bill to amend Endangered Species Act

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  • Offshore wind farm shot down again by New Jersey

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  • EU ministers OK Baltic catch limits; Envirocrat activists object

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  • Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: Fishing aid package far short of even basic needs

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  • Protesting the shrimp cuts to the inshore fleet – Time to start fighting, (Ret) Capt. Wilfred Bartlett

    From the letter: We lost our cod fishery because of stupidity but we kept on fishing capelin which is the main food supply of the cod Read More »

  • Louisiana Seafood Board’s Legislative Committee Recommends Keeping Current Quota for Gulf Red Snapper

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  • Coast Guard Medevacs Fisherman From F/V Kirsten Lee off Virginia Coast Saturday

    PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced a 27-year-old crewmember Saturday from a fishing boat approximately 40 miles east of Chincoteague. The master of the fishing Read More »
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    Residents learn about fishing, local offerings at Stonington open house

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  • video: NEW: Hinckley Says Over-Regulation Hurting RI Fishing Jobs

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  • Goliath grouper harvest becoming popular idea – Florida F & W Conservation Commission wants the your opinion

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  • Fish farm madness: Harper proposes lax regulations for fish-farm industry

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  • Maine’s 2012 seafood harvest worth record $528M

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    Good Samaritans rescue 4 from fishing boat fire off Pillar Point Harbor

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  • Invasive Asian carp less than 50 miles from Lake Michigan

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  • Adding insult to injury: The budget and Indigenous relations – “Supporting First Nations fishing enterprises”

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  • Gloucester man ‘pardoned’ for ’80s fish scam

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    Division of Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police arrested a Dover waterman Dec. 12 on 93 charges related to commercial crabbing activities in the Delaware Bay Read More »

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  • Fish Need Trees, Too – Brendan Jones

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  • Outdoors: Commercial hoarding threatens to flatten winter flounder stocks

    telegram.com – Jason Colby, a charter boat captain who specializes in flounder fishing there, has fished the harbor dozens of times this season, coming home disappointed, Read More »

  • Fluke Time

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