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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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    Spirits were high at the Crescent City Harbor as fishermen prepared crab pots and loaded gear onto boats Friday.  Del Norte’s commercial Dungeness fishery is scheduled Read More »

  • FISH-NL challenges federal Fisheries Minister to meet with harvesters his government is starving out

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) says the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans appears oblivious to the hardship facing inshore Read More »

  • Tuna fisherman: Wrong man charged with killing whale off New Jersey

    A tuna fisherman charged with killing a pilot whale that died of a bullet wound said Friday the charges against him should be dismissed.The fisherman, Daniel Read More »

  • A fisherman is dead from Western Pacific helicopter collision with purse seiner

    A fisherman is dead and another injured following a helicopter crash into a fishing vessel in the western Pacific ocean on Sunday. The United States Embassy Read More »

  • Greenpeace’s sustainability plan apparently includes a multi-million dollar yacht!

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  • Sean Mahoney’s F/V Moonraker, catches fire while hauled out at Rose’s Wharf, from welding sparks

    Firefighters knocked down a boat fire at Rose’s Wharf on Friday about 8 a.m. [email protected] gloucestertimes Read More »

  • Feds find ‘substantial’ amount of pot in raid of Bay St. Louis seafood market

    Agents with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office participated Read More »
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    EPIRB alert launches Coast Guard rescue of a fisherman in a life raft Saturday, offshore of Grays Harbor.

    At 11:39 a.m., Friday, watchstanders at the 13th Coast Guard District Command Center received an emergency position indicating radio beacon activation alert for the fishing vessel Read More »
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    North Atlantic Right Whale – New restrictions placed on New England fishing industry to protect whales

    Fishermen across New England are facing new restrictions after a panel of experts convened by the federal government agreed on Friday to a plan to step Read More »

  • New Bedford Fishermen’s Pension Fund can’t tread water – That’s just wrong.

    Everyone knows by now that the federal government has clamped down on fishing for all the reasons I don’t need to get into here. So that Read More »
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    North Atlantic Right Whales are the Next Victims of Offshore Wind Power Push

    The endangered Atlantic Right Whale appears to be the wind industry’s next victim; it already has plenty of offshore industrial activity to contend with. But oil Read More »
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    Lobster prices similar to 2021 though costs up, say P.E.I. fishers

    Lobster prices are about the same as they were this time last year, but expenses are on the rise, says one P.E.I. fisherman. “Prices and catches Read More »
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    Bootstrapping – How Lowell Wakefield Made Crab King

    While king crab fishing is among the most dangerous and lucrative activities in the world, it is only recent technology that makes it possible to extract Read More »

  • Lobster council executive director abruptly resigns from Maine Lobster Promotion Council

    By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff Posted Oct. 02, 2012, at 5:38 p.m. PORTLAND, Maine — As Maine and its lobster industry work to revamp the way Read More »

  • Canada agrees to work to prevent fishing in High Arctic until there’s more study

    Canada and four other Arctic nations have agreed to work toward a deal to block commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean until more is known Read More »

  • IUCN “Red Listing” Unwarranted- American Eel Sustainability Association Sets the Record Straight

    Today, the American Eel Sustainability Association, an industry leader in the science and management of American eel, published their response to a misleading stock status designation Read More »
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    New Jersey – Coastal towns go to court seeking more input on offshore wind

    The suit alleges that the Biden administration’s plans to lease 480,000 acres off the coasts of New Jersey and New York for offshore wind development violate two Read More »
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    The Green New Deal??? How About The High Cost Of The Green-Energy Delusion!

    The march of ‘green energy’ continues, but it is not green at all. Solar energy is very dilute, so solar collectors cover huge areas of flat Read More »
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    Term limits bumping four members from NEFMC

    The New England Fishery Management Council will assume a decidedly different composition later this year when four councilors with almost 40 years combined tenure exit because Read More »

  • Cuomo: New York will take legal action to block EPA L.I. Sound dredge dumping rule

    New York State will take legal action against the United States Environmental Protection Agency to prevent the designation of new permanent open water disposal sites off Read More »

  • Trawler runs aground on rocks near the MMBT in the South Hampton Roads region

    The U.S. Coast Guard says a trawler ran aground on some rocks near the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge Tunnel early Tuesday morning. The fishing vessel out of New Bedford, Read More »

  • Fisherman convicted after driving at fishery officer

    A Tauranga commercial fisherman has been convicted and fined $3000 for deliberately driving his vehicle at a fishery officer who had signalled for him to pull Read More »

  • Is NOAA studying river herring to death?

    If you’ve been following the (mis)management of river herring over the last few years, you may not even be surprised at the latest shenanigans of the Read More »

  • Are fishing conservation efforts helping or hurting?

    If you put too many restrictions on the fishing industry, it could kill off a major part of the local economy. But if too few restrictions Read More »
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    Video: Coast Guard medevacs injured man from F/V America’s Finest near Dutch Harbor, Alaska

    The Coast Guard medevaced a man from a fish processing vessel approximately 92 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor Thursday. A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew Read More »

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