Federal judge grants preliminary injunction to block Pacific Seafood acquisition

March 10, 2015 Pacific

Stepping in to avert a potential monopoly, a federal judge has granted commercial fishermen a preliminary injunction to block Pacific Seafood Group from acquiring Ocean Gold Seafoods. The fishermen have alleged that Pacific Seafood would have a monopoly over the groundfish, whiting and coldwater shrimp markets if it acquires Ocean Gold, a large fish processor in Westport, Wash. The ruling Friday by Judge Owen Panner in U.S. District Court in Medford came after the Oregon Attorney General’s office described the potential merger as “presumptively unlawful given the degree of market concentration.” Read the rest here 14:12

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One Response to Federal judge grants preliminary injunction to block Pacific Seafood acquisition

StripedBassHole says:

March 11, 2015 at 1:08 am

It’s time that we return to the true “SPIRIT” that once was the 1976 MAGNUSON FISHERY ACT. Long gone has been the Spirit of America, “MADE IN AMERICA”, a true NATIONAL MANUFACTURING BASE, “AMERICAN JOBS”. A real balanced “NATIONAL ECONOMY” and now the GREEN HOSTILE TAKE-OVER of “OUR TRADITIONAL FISHERIES”.What has happened to DEMOCRACY, are we headed to “SOCIALISM” or are we already there and the “MEDIA” just hasn’t told us yet???
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
“T.O.O.P.” has stolen a SIGNIFICANT PORTION of “OUR COMMON PROPERTY. CONGRESS needs to rectify THIS… B y the PEOPLE for the PEOPLE, apparently just an old ADAGE…
Are there any “PATRIOTS” left???
In DAYS of OLD the SQUIRREL GUN CREW set us on a PATH of “FREEDOM”…
LOOK what the “ACADEMIC LIBERAL ARTS BRIGADE” has made AMERICA. “Worthless” and “WEAK”. What has happened to the once “LAND of the FREE and HOME of the BRAVE”…
PATHETIC, you THINK???

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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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