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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting Dec 4-8, 2017 in Atlantic Beach NC
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For first time in 60 years, spring-run Chinook salmon reproduce in San Joaquin River
As work to restore the San Joaquin River continues, scientists are seeing promising signs that salmon can thrive in the river as hatchery fish reach new Read More » -
Canada’s sockeye salmon find their way home again after 50 years
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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 » -
Guest: Pacific Island fishing culture is under attack – Edwin Ebisui Jr. and Kitty Simonds
The president’s final action, announced on Sept. 25, formally proclaimed 490,000 square miles of these waters as part of the PRIMNM. This modification reduced, but did Read More » -
Fisherman Finds Exhausted Bald Eagle At Sea, Gives Him A Lift To Shore – Watch the Video
Canadian fisherman Dan Dunbar was cruising in a boat near Nanoose Bay, British Columbia when he spotted a young bald eagle floundering on the surface of the Read More » -
P.E.I. lobster season extended four days
The P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association asked for an extension of the season to make up for the late start, and on Thursday Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Read More » -
Why backers say Ocean Supercluster will sail off with innovation bucks
It’s deadline day for Atlantic Canada’s lone bid in the federal government competition for $950 million in innovation funding. Some of the biggest players in the Read More » -
Asian carp invasion headed our way
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‘India has science, business interests in the Arctic’
Besides scientific interests, India also has business interests related to mineral resources, fisheries and shorter sea routes in the planet’s far north, Nayak said. “Once the Read More » -
Four fishermen rescued off the coast New South Wales
Four men are lucky to be alive after they were rescued from a sinking trawler off the south coast of New South Wales on Saturday morning. Read More » -
Maine Granted Intervenor Status in Lawsuit Challenging Federal Regulations
Governor Janet Mills announced today that the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has been granted intervenor status in Maine Lobstermen’s Association v National Marine Fisheries Service, Read More » -
Crab fishermen have negotiated a $3 per pound for wholesale crab to start West Coast Dungeness Season
The kickoff at 12:01 a.m. Friday morning occurred amid choppy waves and windy weather, making it the first of many safety dilemmas to come for fishermen. Read More » -
National Geographic Orders ‘Wicked Tuna’ Spinoff Series From Craig Piligian
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Tonight in Political Inaction – Lu Dochtermann, a 72 year old still in his wheelhouse, and he wants some answers.
Lu Dochtermann, a 72 year old still in his wheelhouse for multiple annual fisheries, continues to obtain a simple and swift solution to the problem plaguing Read More » -
Bureaucratic miracle of cooperation saves sturgeon fishery – Why we must increase industry based collaberative research
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Names revealed of fishermen whose $10M in debts paid by province
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Rebuilding cod in 3Ps – Stock swimming in right direction – How ’bout that!
David Coffin, a research management official with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in Newfoundland, said the federal government has initiated a rebuilding plan for Read More » -
Fishermen indicted in federal court for alleged fraud, violation of herring laws face September trial
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Bluefin tuna found off Greenland suggest influence of climate change
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New Bern man’s petition to close North Carolina’s sounds and rivers to trawlers seemed to go down in flames Tuesday evening.
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New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Mystic, Ct. April 17 — 19, 2018
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Two sisters run absolute gem of a pub in Devon fishing town
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But in an email, Parkes said there was no conflict. NOAA “examined this in detail,” he said. And although it’s not required, MRAG keeps management of the contracts separate. One management team runs the observer and at-sea monitor programs, while another runs the Moore grant study.
yet another example of the foxes watching the hen house. What a scam.
Andy Rosenberg was a member of the “Working Group” which “researched” and authored the “Oceans of Abundance” paper. The paper advocated “catch shares” or ITQs (with the proviso of full observer coverage). Professor Rosenberg was also part of the Joint Oceans Commission which preceded this paper. This Joint Oceans Commission was (and is) a “joint effort” of the US Oceans Commission and The Pew Oceans Commission. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Ocean_Commission_Initiative)
The “Oceans of Abundance” paper was issued as a primer for the incoming Obama administration and promotes the catch shares
management scheme as an answer to the “fisheries crisis”.
http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/oceans-of-abundance.pdf
It is written by such fisheries research luminaries as Costello, Lubchenco, Steven Gaines, Andy Rosenberg, and Ellen Pikitch, to name a few. Many of the talking points in this lobbying paper use references from Myers and Worm and Pauly—of working down the food chain and nothing-left-but-jellyfish fame.
The paper (or leaflet is perhaps a better term) when referring to the fisheries is laced with words such as decimated, depleted, destroyed, ruined, emptied, food source in jeopardy etc. The end
notes and the names in the “Working Group” read like a Who’s Who in Ersatz Fisheries Research.
The paper starts out with a display of the “conveners” and funders of this “study” and the hyperbolic text goes downhill from there.
Here the EDF et al lobbyists literally write the fisheries policy for the
new Obama administration. “Oceans of Abundance: Action Agenda for America’s Vital Fishing Future”. Aka the campaign for the selling of catch shares.