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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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    Crab fishing season off to early start on the Acadian Peninsula

    New Brunswick’s snow crab fishers have begun their season. At the wharf in Shippagan, boats prepared to take to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence late Friday Read More »
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    Minnesota family spends summers fishing Alaskan salmon to sell back home

    The Rogotzkes, brothers Jay and Tom, dad Roger and uncle Dave, all run their own boats in Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon Read More »
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    Looking Back at FishNet USA – “New Conservationists” and the Flopping Flounder Fishing Club

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    Commercial fishermen plan flotilla for Trump’s graduation speech at Coast Guard Academy

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  • Fisherman facing life in prison after finding 20 kilo’s of cocaine at sea, setting up a distribution ring

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    Scoping Hearing on Lobster/Gear Right Whale Entanglements

    On Tuesday night there will be a scoping meeting from 6-8 PM at Mass Maritime Academy to receive public input on ways to alter the American Read More »

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    Why fishermen are mailing corks to Murkowski

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    Lobstermen in Maine ready for debate over license wait list

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    Honoring Captain Wayne Magwood

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    Former Alaska Board of Fisheries appointee Roland Maw pleads guilty to PFD fraud

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