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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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    Good bad news?

    The Copper River commercial salmon fishery ended Tuesday almost 2,000 Chinook over the 5,000-salmon threshold the Alaska Department of Fish and Game set as the acceptable Read More »
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    Disappointed by cut to cod quota, FFAW president says stocks can handle larger harvest

    The president of Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest fishermen’s union says the province’s cod stocks can handle a greater harvest and didn’t need to see this year’s Read More »
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    Russian fishing trawler “Mekhanik Maslak” catches fire in St Petersburg shipyard

    The Russian fishing trawler “Mekhanik Maslak,” caught fire while reportedly under construction at the Admiralty Shipyards in St Petersburg. The fire covered more than 800 square Read More »

  • Northeast Seafood Coalition Submits Comments to NEFMC on Groundfish Provisions

    New England Fishery Management Council Dear Rip, The Council is only days away from taking final action on setting the annual catch limits for many groundfish Read More »
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    F/V Northguider: High Arctic Salvage Operation for Grounded Trawler Resumes

    On December 28, 2018, the trawler Northguider grounded in the Hinlopenstretet, the strait between Spitsbergen and Nordauslandet in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Her crew put Read More »

  • Protester Paul Fraser climbs on roof of Sydney DFO office – Demands Crab License Accountability

    A protester spent the day on the roof of the Fisheries and Oceans Canada building in Sydney’s Westmount neighbourhood on Tuesday before climbing down and being Read More »

  • Report: Atlantic menhaden are in better shape than regulators thought

    Environmentalists and commercial fishermen have clashed for years over Atlantic menhaden and whether there are still plenty of the little fish left in the sea. Now Read More »

  • Omega extends the Olive Branch – Meeting could lead to truce over menhaden

    Decades of animosity don’t disappear overnight. But a conversation is a good place to start. Officials from Omega Protein met with recreational charter captains Tuesday night Read More »

  • California Air National Guard rescue’s 24 year old ill Fisherman 160 miles off the coast of Monterey

    Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing completed an overwater rescue mission Dec. 15, saving the life of a 24-year-old male on a commercial fishing Read More »
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    Imaginative Aussie Couple Documents Fish Boat Conversion on Video

    Brupeg started life in 1974 as an Australian prawn fishing trawler. In 2013 she sunk in the Burnett River from flood waters left over from a Read More »

  • Quinault Indian Nation join West Coast crabbers on strike

    Fleets from Central California to the Canadian border are refusing to fish as the crabbing season opens along the coast. The strike is due to a 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 »
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    Atlantic Herring: Council Approves Framework 6, 2019-2021 Specs included, Revised Overfishing Definition

    The New England Fishery Management Council has approved Framework Adjustment 6 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP), which contains 2019-2021 specifications for the fishery Read More »

  • A shocker in the Newfoundlands fishery today – The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong

    Declining crab stocks, once the bright-light in the industry, has forced even more streamlining. 300 people out of work and three plants are closing. A conversation Read More »

  • Dec. 1 – Scallop season opens with high hopes

    After an eight-month hiatus when, like summer tourists, the only scallops in local stores are “from away,” the Maine scallop fishing season is finally opening, at Read More »

  • Oil Dispersant Used After Deepwater Horizon Spill May Cause Lung Damage

    It turns out that an oil-dispersal agent that was used to help control the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may contribute to Read More »
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    Canada’s Second New Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel Launched

    Canada’s second of three new Offshore Fisheries Science Vessels (OFSV) was launched on June 5. The Canadian Coast Guard vessel was built by Seaspan’s North Vancouver Read More »

  • Food Source for Whales, Seals and Penguins at Risk: Warming Antarctic Seas Likely to Impact On Krill Habitats

    Krill are known to be sensitive to sea temperature, especially in the areas where they grow as adults. This has prompted scientists to try to understand Read More »

  • Bull shark caught in the Potomac

    A bull shark was caught last week in the Potomac River in a commercial fisherman’s net. Robert T. Brown, president of the Maryland Watermen’s Association, and Read More »
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    With salmon at risk of extinction, California begins urgent rescue effort

    Typically, now is the time when creeks along the Sacramento River are filled with young spring-run Chinook salmon preparing to make their journey downstream to the Read More »

  • Latest report says menhaden thriving in the Gulf

    A commission that assesses the health and viability of the menhaden population in the Gulf released a report this week that says despite massive commercial hauls, Read More »
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    Proposed herring quota would put lobster fishermen in a pinch for bait

    The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is pursuing a commercial quota on herring for areas off Southwest Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. DFO is Read More »
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    Ocean perch stock rebuilt, could lead to more commercial fishing opportunities in 2019

    Federal restrictions designed to protect Pacific ocean perch from overfishing have worked well enough for the Pacific Fishery Management Council to consider the fishery “rebuilt,” meaning Read More »

  • CLF and CLF Ventures: or we get rich by litigating the hostile takeover and trading away of public resources for corporate exploitation while claiming to save the planet. Dick Grachek

    The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and their “strategy-consulting arm” CLF Ventures apparently have become fisheries Policy Makers, Litigators, Fishing Quota Fund Administrators, and the authors of a Read More »
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    How China’s squid fishing programme is squeezing its neighbours and creating global sea change

    Critics have said China keeps high-quality squid for domestic consumption, exports lower-quality products at higher prices, overwhelms vessels from other countries in major squid breeding grounds, Read More »

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