Fishing Partnership Support Services – No-cost safety training for commericial fishermen April 9 and 10 in Plymouth

April 3, 2015 National

Fishing Partnership Support Services will offer safety and survival training for commercial fishermen at no cost on Thursday, April 9, and drill conductor training on Friday, April 10, at the Plymouth Yacht Club, 34 Union St. Both programs will begin at 7:30 a.m. and conclude by mid-afternoon. A team of experienced marine safety instructors, all certified by the U.S. Coast Guard, will lead the multi-part programs. Read the rest here 08:48

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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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