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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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Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 72′ Steel Offshore Lobster Boat, 460HP Cat, John Deere 40 Auxiliary
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Officials examining right whale found dead off N.J. – wounds are “consistent with a vessel collision”
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Four fishermen are rescued following more than a month adrift in a small boat after running out of fuel
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3Ps Inshore fishermen want draggers stopped from fishing during cod spawning time
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Russia holds Japan whaling research vessel – Commrade Watson must be ecstatic!
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Three from Maine charged with poaching elvers from NJ creek
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Bringing the ocean back into the Earth Summit Briefing and Recommendations to the First Intersessional Meeting of UNCSD (Rio+20) The Pew Environment Group
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Lobster row rocks offshore wind as state tells turbines to stay away
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Dredging restrictions on winter flounder habitat to be lifted because they don’t live there!
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New England Fishery Management Council reject expanded protections for herring
In a decision lauded by state regulators and decried by environmentalists, federal regulators ruled this week that a plan to extend greater conservation efforts to river Read More » -
More seals, and more seals, and,,,,,Seal numbers soar around Cape Cod
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35,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska
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Governor Lolo Moliga calls for united front on 100% Buy America Act
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Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and City Council Decry ‘Fish Stealing’
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Indigenous, commercial lobster fishermen clash in Digby County
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Lawsuit may be too late – “We just don’t have the luxury of time,” said Scituate Mass fisherman Frank Mirarchi.
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Processor puts challenging sockeye sales down to greed, with prices down 20-30% y-o-y
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Why Does Halibut Cost So Much?
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US and Canada reject Sweden’s call for lobster ban
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Maine – Another View: LePage administration right to oppose offshore wind project
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The Cape Kiwanda dory fleet of Pacific City
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NOAA Fisheries Approves Amendment 18 to Address Fleet Consolidation in Groundfish Fishery
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The Man at the Wheel: The story behind The Fisherman’s Memorial in Massachusetts
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Dutch leads in Poundage, New Bedford leads in Dollars – NOAA: 2012 U.S. seafood landings remain near high 2011 levels
U.S. commercial fishermen landed 9.6 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2012, valued at $5.1 billion, according to Fisheries of the United States 2012, an Read More »
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