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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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    Lobster processing bill OK’d by Mass State Senate

    “Massachusetts has the second largest lobster catch in the country,” Tarr said in a statement. “To keep from being left behind, we should expand our ability Read More »

  • Press Release: MAFMC – Reminder: Public Hearings to Begin Today for the Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Cost Recovery Amendment

    The Cost Recovery Amendment to the Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Fishery Management Plan (FMP) includes proposed measures to 1) collect fees and recover costs associated Read More »

  • Maine to host public hearings about fish habitat plan – Tonight 6PM, Brewer – Tomorrow 6PM, Portland

    Maine will host two public hearings this week about a long-anticipated fishery management plan for New England waters. The New England Fishery Management Council is working Read More »
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    Federal Delegation ‘Solidly Behind’ New Bedford in Fishing Fight

    Prior to a town hall-style meeting in New Bedford on Saturday, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren quietly gathered with fellow senator Ed Markey and Congressman William Keating Read More »

  • Huge haddock tows from Georges Bank land in Nova Scotia – Fish sent to U.S., where windfall coincides with lower Canadian dollar

    A huge increase in the haddock catch off Georges Bank has the southwestern Nova Scotia port of West Pubnico booming this week. Pubnico’s concrete wharfs have Read More »

  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Urges Creation of Vast Marine Reserve in Antarctica

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for establishing the world’s largest protected marine area in Antarctica and urged stronger global safeguards for oceans. continue Read More »

  • Op-Ed: Westerly Sun is complicit in environmental deception

    I was disappointed to see that the Westerly Sun would put a misleading editorial authored by the ecoRI “news” staff on the front page of its Read More »
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    Alaska Ranger: “Shipwrecked in Alaska”

    On the night of March 23, 2008, most of the crew sleeps while fishing vessel Alaska Ranger makes her way to the rich fishing grounds off Read More »

  • Predator-prey relationship of Lingcod and Rockfish – Catching one improves chances for the other

    The UW scientists examined this predator-prey relationship between lingcod and rockfish to see if allowing lingcod fishing in rockfish conservation areas could take some of the Read More »

  • Saving Menhaden spanks the Pew Shrews

    I was surprised to see PolitiFact, a non-partisan political fact-checking website, address this issue. I’ve checked PolitiFact pretty regularly for years, and I’ve never seen them cover Read More »

  • Director of environmental grants at Heinz Endowments is forced out, reasons unclear

    The Heinz Endowments has suddenly dismissed its longtime head of environmental grant making, signaling that changes are coming to one of the leading charity’s priorities. @washingtonpost Read More »
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    Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44′ Stanley Fiberglass Scalloper, Detroit 8-V-92

    Specifications, information and 30 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:24 Read More »
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    Eighteen scientists, environmentalist, blast Maine lobstermen’s stand on whale safety

    “Reducing entanglement in East Coast waters of the United States is a critical part of a comprehensive strategy for right whale survival and recovery,” Scott Kraus, Read More »

  • The San Clemente Dam – California’s biggest dam removal project in history begins in Carmel Valley

    In a project that will be watched by engineers and biologists across the nation, construction crews today will begin a three-year, $84 million project to tear Read More »

  • By the Numbers – Forum convinces many commercial fishing is sustainable

    Those attending the forum, sponsored by The Providence Journal, Leadership Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and the Mystic Aquarium, were given electronic remote controls that allowed Read More »
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    Commercial crab fisher ordered to forfeit traps, fined $20,000 after repeat offences

    A B.C. judge lamented the state of protections for Canadian fisheries this month as she tore a strip off a commercial skipper with a history of Read More »

  • Fisheries law renewal reignites conflict between fishing industry, environmentalists

    The impending reauthorization of the federal laws governing commercial fisheries has mobilized environmentalists who contend that any relaxation of existing rules amounts to capitulation to reckless Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44′ LeBlanc Cape Forchu Sword/Tuna, CAT 3406, Loaded!

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  • National Marine Fisheries Service proposed five species of sawfish for endangered listing status under the Endangered Species Act

    WASHINGTON (CN) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed five species of sawfish for endangered listing status under the Endangered Species Read More »

  • Fish board seat back up for grabs – Appointment is expected to go to a Bristol Bay resident

    Cordova Times – Seven people have applied to date for a seat on the Alaska Board of Fisheries to which Gov. Sean Parnell must make an Read More »

  • Two years of loss, frustration, anger for Peggy Krupinski, widow of fisherman killed in collision with yacht

    It’s been two years since Peggy Krupinski’s life changed in a horrible way. Officers from the R.I. Department of Environmental Management knocked on her door on Read More »
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    Poor salmon runs result in low harvests, disaster request

    Poor salmon returns across the Gulf of Alaska are putting commercial fishing catches far behind the average and prompting a request for a disaster declaration. Commercial Read More »

  • Burgeoning sea otter population in southern Southeast Alaska depletes commercial fishery species

    Sea otters enjoy feeding on sea cucumbers, sea urchins, Dungeness crabs and geoducks. Unfortunately, so do people. In southern Southeast Alaska, commercial fisheries for these invertebrate Read More »
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    ‘We are holding three million prawns for which there is no market’; Cork fishermen facing nightmare situation

    John Nolan, Managing Director of Castletownbere Fishermen’s Co-op, was blunt and direct in the past week when he said that sectors of the French fishing industry Read More »

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