New England Fishery Management Council newsletter
Click here to read the actions and announcements following the last council meeting. 17:17:
The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Recent Posts
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UAF Researchers Montior Gulf of Alaska and Find Waters Warmer
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A Community Fishery Starts In Montauk
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BLACK SEA BASS – THE NEW “WAR BETWEEN THE STATES”
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The NIMBY’s! Coast Guard suspends use of Beaumont Hospital landing site after resident complaints
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Exclusive: Canned tuna company Bumble Bee eyes $1.5 billion sale – sources
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Dwayne Samson begins trial for Phillip Boudreau’s death
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John Mandelman: Solving a Cod-undrum – I recommend this video. Well worth the time investment.
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Water managers race to drain rising Lake Okeechobee risking wide spread damage to estuaries
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200 tons of illegally caught Atlantic bluefin tuna show how we’re driving these fish to extinction
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Nova Scotia: Lobster fishery predictions suggest lower quality this year
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Diane Hill is the chief and (so far) only seamstress for Bristol Bay Brailers, LLC, a new business in Naknek.
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Lobster prices high, but dropping as summer approaches
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New Protected Species Regulations Finalized for Fixed Gear Fisheries
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Obama Administration Issuing New Rules to Curb Illegal Fishing, Seafood Fraud
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COMMENTARY: 40 years after Magnuson-Stevens, not all promises kept
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They were trapped inside the wheelhouse at the time of capsize and it was full of water, no air pockets, and Curtis Green from Russell’s Marine fuel pier jumped in the water,”
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Major fire rips through Nova Scotia seafood plant
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Canadian Freezer scalloper to be built in Spain
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Commercial fishing: A traditional, if dangerous, business
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NMFS Announces Final 2014 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quotas
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Captains face charges after alleged illegal harvest
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Lower Columbia River mainstem commercial gillnet fishing ; Non-treaty gillnetters get 45 hours through Aug. 29
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Greenland telecom goes after Fisheries and Oceans Canada to get Trawler location information
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Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester to file an injunction against DFO for seizing traps
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Too bad they couldn’t make it a “DEAR JOHN LETTER…”