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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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    North Atlantic Right Whale – New restrictions placed on New England fishing industry to protect whales

    Fishermen across New England are facing new restrictions after a panel of experts convened by the federal government agreed on Friday to a plan to step Read More »

  • Channel Fish Co’s LOUIS SILVESTRO AND ADAM HOLBROOK Discect Pew Environment Group’s Peter Baker’s Phoney Menhaden Campaign

    Your View: Environmentalist’s evidence on menhaden self-generated. Let’s look at Mr. Baker’s approach to science and evidence not generated through Pew channels. Read More. It’s good. Read More »

  • Seals threaten Scottish cod stock recovery

    PREDATORY seals are constraining the recovery of cod stocks in Scottish west coast waters, research by the suggests. The study found that, although fishing has now Read More »
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    Zinke Tells Panel Definitive Word on Offshore Drilling Plan Months Away

    Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday reiterated that no new oil and gas exploration will be allowed off the Florida coast, but said the Trump administration’s Read More »

  • A tribute to Herbert (Herbie) Jensen

    Herb started commercial fishing at a young age with his Uncle Jerry Clock. From there he grew into his legacy as a Prince William Sound and Read More »

  • Wildlife, including fisheries, management is a bogus enterprise

    Now, here’s our point. This whole business of “fisheries management” is simply mass delusion created by people who have a vested interest (money and power) in Read More »

  • Calling All Green Horns – Kodiak Arts Council auctioning week on crab boat – live aboard a Kodiak-based Tanner crab boat!!

    hooboy. KODIAK, Alaska – “Deadliest Catch” shows up on T-shirts, coffee mugs and even fireworks that try to cash in on the success of the Discovery Read More »

  • Seafood Coalition Supports the Commercial Vessel Discharge Reform Act of 2013

    LoBiondo Introduces Permanent Moratorium on Fines for Incidental Discharges from Commercial Fishing Vessels – Read more here  Read the Seafood Coalition proclamation here  09:49 Read More »

  • Growing Interest in Fishing for Crab

    In The Netherlands there is a cautious but growing interest for crab fishing. Since January 2023 there are five vessels commercially fishing on North Sea crab Read More »

  • Killing to Conserve – Is it effective, or ethical, to cull one protected species to help another?

    From a population reduced to about 10,000 in the 1950s, California sea lion numbers have grown to nearly 390,000 since they were protected under the Marine Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update July 10, 2015

    Click to read the Weekly Update for July 10, 2015 as a PDF To read all the updates, click here  17:56 Read More »
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    California’s 5 most deadly, devastating tsunamis

    Fortunately, it appears that the Bay Area and the rest of California on Saturday escaped the worst kind of damage that can be inflicted by a Read More »

  • Louisiana pogy industry faces backlash as reports show more massive fish spills

      When a menhaden ‘mothership’ and its net boats spilled a million fish and left the floating mass to rot off the Louisiana coast, the menhaden Read More »

  • Memorial Day – Here Rests in Honored Glory an American Soldier Known but to God

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  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: Turn Key 83′ RSW Offshore Lobster/Jonah Crab Business

    To review specifications, and information, and 47 photos >click here<, To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 11:08 Read More »
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    Unalaska business owner denounces city position on trawler

    The mothershippers are fighting back with the help of a local proxy in a politicized commercial fishing tussle reaching all the way to Washington, D.C. The Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs crewmember from fishing vessel near Venice, La.

    The Coast Guard medevaced a crewmember from a fishing vessel Wednesday near Venice, Louisiana. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a call on Channel 16 Read More »

  • West Coast sardine fishery shutdown continues for 2nd year

    West coast sardine fishermen for a second straight season will have to keep their boats moored or find something else to catch. The Pacific Fishery Management Read More »
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    Coast Guard rescues four from NOAA buoy on Gray’s Reef

    Four people are lucky to be alive after they were rescued by a Coast Guard detachment out of Air Station Savannah on Sunday afternoon.  The group’s Read More »

  • New Bedford Mayor to NOAA Fisheries Science Center: Fishermen have no confidence in Groundfish Assessments

    New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell has written to NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center Science and Research Director Bill Karp regarding anticipated cuts in 2013 Annual Catch Read More »

  • Woman gets jail for embezzling about $500,000 from seafood plant

    The U.S. attorney’s office says in a release that 33-year-old Isairis Wolfe of Kodiak was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Anchorage on Monday. Prosecutors said Read More »

  • 2015 sockeye run produced underweight fish across state

    With the bulk of the sockeye season over, biologists and fishermen have continued to notice smaller than average weight for one of Alaska’s most valuable exports. Read More »

  • Cold Smoked Salmon Recalled for Listeria in CA

    The California Department of Public Health is reporting that cold smoked salmon is being recalled for possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. There is no word on whether Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 39′ BHM Dragger/Lobster, 435HP Volvo, Nextgen 3.5 KW

    To see specifications, information and 26 photos, >click here< Vessel is in good condition. To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 12:46 Read More »
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    These are Alaska’s priorities for fishery management council

    Based on discussions with a diverse range of user groups, delegations from our coastal communities, fishermen, processor representatives and other Alaskans, it is clear our fisheries Read More »

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