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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

• Recent Posts

  • Fishermen challenge stats in limit cuts – calling out the number fudging opportunists!

    NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard and Peter Shelley, the senior counsel for the Conservation Law Foundation, point to the table from the NOAA Science Center showing Read More »
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    Two bodies found near sunken fishing boat in Jersey

    Skipper Michael Michieli and crewmen Larry Simyunn and Jervis Baligat were onboard the L’Ecume II when it collided with a freight ferry on Thursday. A search Read More »

  • Coast Guard monitoring intentionally grounded Tender Vessel 65-foot Hana Cove in Prince William Sound, Alaska

    Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Valdez personnel are monitoring the salvage of the 65-foot fishing tender Hana Cove after the vessel was intentionally grounded on Culross Read More »

  • “Spiny” King Crab Hitting Market, Opening Commercial and Scientific Doors

    The crab is a Hanasaki king crab, otherwise known as a “spiny” king crab, and fishermen in the Bering Strait Region are harvesting it as a Read More »

  • Blessing of the Fleet Ceremony to honor fishermen Sunday, in Morehead City

    Each October, as the N.C. Seafood Festival comes to a close, fishermen and their families are honored during the Blessing of the Fleet. This year’s ceremony Read More »

  • Seafood certificat​ion – who’s really on first? Nils Stolpe

    “Sustainability certification” has become a watchword of people in the so-called marine conservation community in recent years. However, their interest seems to transcend the determination of the actual Read More »
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    Trump Memo On Lobster Aid Leaves Industry Wondering What’s Next. How about a U.S.Fish Bill?!!

    In a memo, the president urged Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to consider taking appropriate action “to provide assistance to fisherman and producers in the U.S. Read More »
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    Coast Guard rescues Commercial Fisherman from capsized vessel near St. Petersburg, Fla.

    The Coast Guard rescued a man, Thursday, after his 36-foot commercial fishing vessel capsized 18 miles west of St. Petersburg. Rescued was Robert Heart, 48. Coast Read More »
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    A family tradition: The life of a Lowcountry shrimper

    At 4:30 a.m., most people are still asleep, or maybe they’re just starting to roll out of bed. Not Rocky Magwood. Shrimpers like Captain Magwood and Read More »

  • Disabled Scalloper Rescued Off Nantucket

    A disabled fishing vessel was brought in safely to shore early Monday by U.S. Coast Guard crews aboard the cutters Escanaba and Hammerhead. Watchstanders at the Read More »

  • Four fishermen rescued off New Brunswick

    The Summerside-based Canadian Coast Guard Vessel, Cap Nord, was dispatched Tuesday evening after a New Brunswick fishing vessel reported it was taking on water.  Sub. Lt. Read More »

  • Mendocino Coast fishermen smiling over 2014 salmon returns – Numbers often wrong

    Over the past decade the numbers of fall run Sacramento River Chinook salmon predicted to return by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) have been overestimated, Read More »

  • New Zealand: Underwater life in Kaikoura Canyon marine nature reserve entirely wiped out after earthquake

    A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in November at Kaikōura, on New Zealand’s South Island, has destroyed all creatures living on the seabed in the Kaikōura Canyon marine Read More »

  • New Jersey asks judge to block ocean blasting plan

    BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey environmental officials went to federal court Thursday trying to block a federally approved research plan that involved blasting the Read More »
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    NOAA admin defends budget in House oversight hearing

    The House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife met to discuss the administration’s fiscal year 2020 budgets for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Read More »
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    Marathon kids grow up to be industry professionals

    When visitors and locals pour in to the Original Marathon Seafood Festival this weekend, they’ll be thinking about the tasty seafood. Maybe they’ll wonder about the Read More »
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    U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Foreign Fishermen Have No Complaints Working On US longline vessels

    Federal officials said Thursday they have interviewed dozens of foreign crew members who work on U.S. commercial fishing boats since allegations of labor abuses surfaced, but haven’t found much Read More »

  • A fisherman’s tale of fighting Uncle Sam

    We’re probably going well off the beaten path on this one, but I wanted to draw your attention to a lawsuit which has been percolating in Read More »

  • Maine Lobstering Union Mourns Fallen Lobsterman Jeremy Philbrook

    The IAM Maine Lobstering Union (IMLU) Local 207 mourns the loss of member Jeremy Philbrook, who died on the job last week after falling overboard and Read More »

  • OffshoreMW enlists New Bedford’s Jim Kendall as fishing industry rep

    An offshore wind developer hired a longtime local fisherman as its fisheries representative Friday, and another developer’s survey boat could arrive at the Marine Commerce Terminal Read More »

  • Red Tide – phenomenon has existed for centuries

    A report from the state fish and wildlife agency says that the 5,400-square-mile red tide bloom that’s been lingering off the coast of Tampa Bay and Read More »
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    New Design Scalloper offers Economic Operation

    Although the original brief had been for a sister vessel to Eternal Light, which has been fishing successfully since its delivery in 2019 to Fraserburgh company Read More »

  • Fishermen Oppose National Marine Monument Off New England

    A plan announced Thursday that would designate a unique undersea area 150 miles off the New England coast as the nation’s first Atlantic marine national monument Read More »
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    Port of Newport – Trawlers warm to shipping deal

    An icy impasse between log shippers and fishermen that clouded the future of the Port of Newport and its new $20 million International Terminal showed signs Read More »

  • Sullivan Win’s! Begitch Out! Loses Chair, U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommitee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard

    Republican Dan Sullivan won Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, defeating first-term incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. Sullivan led Begich by about 8,100 votes on Election Night last week Read More »

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