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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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  • Cornwall revealed as UK’s flagship for seafood economy

    New figures have revealed Cornwall is home to more seafood restaurants than anywhere else in the country outside of London. According to an independent research report Read More »

  • Deep Panuke faces water woes – Pumping and Dumping HUGE amounts of fresh water.

    Water problems at the Deep Panuke gas field in Nova Scotia’s offshore appear to have mounted over the past month, although its Calgary-based owner won’t say Read More »

  • Coast Guard conducts medevac near Dutch Harbor, Alaska

    A Coast Guard Air Station MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew medevaced an ailing mariner from a fishing vessel in Beaver Inlet, approximately 13 miles southeast of Dutch Harbor, Sunday. Read More »

  • Did You Know: Montauk Is Ground Zero for Community Supported Fisheries

    Lucky us. On Long Island it’s easy to find fresh fish. Try living in suburban New Jersey, where my sister lives, and you have to drive Read More »

  • VANCOUVER: After 200 court appearances winning an absolute discharge, Sto:Lo woman is free to fish again

    Patricia Kelly’s long, hard road to justice began in the summer of 2004, when federal fisheries officers surrounded her outside a processing plant in the Fraser Read More »
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    This Nest of Dangers: Gillnetting in 1884, 1887, and 1975

    Just now, it’s raining axe handles out there; it’s the weekend of Fisher Poets in Astoria, and I’ve been reading the annual report of the U.S. Read More »

  • Telling it like it is – Lack of salmon passage hurts fishermen

    To keep producing swimming pool water, green lawns and golf courses in the desert you have to kill wild and hatchery salmon and California is not Read More »
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    U.S. inflation is sinking Canadian lobster and snow crab prices – U.S. consumers giving up pricey seafood

    The price of Canada’s two most valuable seafoods is crashing this year as consumers recoil from the impact of rising inflation. The price of snow crab Read More »

  • Possible a new fault was opened up from BP disaster in Gulf, says oceanographer — “Potential for an indefinite release of oil”? (thank you Kristine)

    A persistent, mysterious “oil sheen” in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster grew to more than seven-miles long and one-mile wide during Read More »
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    British cannot close off fishing waters post Brexit, says France

    French Minister of Agriculture Didier Guillaume said Thursday it was “not possible” for Britain to close its waters to French and other EU fishermen after Brexit. “We Read More »
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    United Fishermen of Alaska dismiss Al Gross, endorse Senator Dan Sullivan

    The announcement comes as a bit of a body blow to the campaign of his opponent, Al Gross, who presents himself as a commercial fisherman from Read More »

  • Controversial National Marine Sanctuary Proposed for Sandy Hook Region

    Rik van Hemmen, a marine engineer based in Red Bank, has proposed to turn a corner of northeastern Monmouth County into a national marine sanctuary. The Read More »

  • MULTIMEDIA RELEASE: COAST GUARD RESCUES 3 FISHERMEN OFF LA PUSH, WASH.

    Coast Guard personnel rescued three fishermen from a life raft after their fishing vessel sank 38-miles west of La Push, Monday.  Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a Read More »

  • Pollock, cod catches up; halibut fleet prepares for cuts

    The first fishing openings of 2014 will be for various groundfish around the state, and limits are up for pollock in the Gulf of Alaska and Read More »
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    Maine: Plenty of scallops, but prices are low

    The price for scallops so far this season is considerably lower than last year. The Ellsworth American reported that with the start of the scallop season Read More »
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    Wind, ice influence price of lobster

    Speculate. That’s about all fishers, or anyone else, can do about the season-opening price for lobster in any given year, and Ken Blanchard shrugs off any Read More »

  • New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Lobster Tagging Project – from GoodMorningGloucester

    The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire is in the process of trying to identify areas in New Read More »

  • Gulf of St. Lawrence oil and gas plans draw opposition

    Seven P.E.I. municipalities have signed a resolution against oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A group called the Save our Seas and Shores Coalition Read More »
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    Scientists accused of scaremongering, ‘overheated claims’ with warning to humanity

    A recent warning to humanity endorsed by thousands of scientists around the world includes “scaremongering” and “overheated” claims while ignoring much of the progress made in recent decades, some experts say. “It concerns Read More »

  • Coast Guard: Investigations underway in 110-foot cutter collision that sank fishing vessel

    “Though they’ll be looking into the same incident, the three investigations have different purposes and are clear and distinct from each other” said Captain Mike Zamperini, Read More »
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    Sen. Susan Collins Moves to Block Stricter Rules Protecting Endangered Whales

    Senator Susan Collins is pushing for a provision in the massive government funding bill that could further endanger the already precarious North Atlantic right whale. In July, Read More »
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    How a ‘rogue’ environmental group transformed (HIJACKED) American fisheries

    One of the nation’s largest environmental groups — bankrolled with $50 million from the heirs to the Walmart fortune — has spent millions of dollars pushing Read More »
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    Coast Guard corrects aids to navigation after Hurricane Laura near Lake Charles and Port Arthur

    The Coast Guard is continuing their response operations following the aftermath of Hurricane Laura near Lake Charles, Louisiana and Port Arthur, Texas. Multiple Coast Guard units Read More »
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    Future of offshore fish farming in federal waters at issue in court

    The potential environmental and economic consequences posed by proposals for fish farming in federal waters dictate that Congress — not a federal agency — must decide Read More »

  • Kitzhaber’s original sin yields a disappointment

    A state-dictated transition from gillnets to seining gear to harvest Columbia River hatchery salmon continues to fail to meet expectations, according to latest results. And yet Read More »

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