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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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New Organizers Carry on Tradition of Bristol Lobster Boat Races
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N.W.T. forest fires to blame for slow fishing season
It’s been a slow summer for commercial fishers in the Northwest Territories who have netted less than half of last year’s catch. The lower numbers are partially Read More » -
Monkfish Price Tumble in Scotland Shows Pain of French Shutdown
At the Peterhead fishing port in Scotland, prices for haddock and monkfish were inverted on Monday, skewed by a closed border with France and a ticking Read More » -
Newfoundland/Labrador – Stakes are big in shrimp fishery
The little northern shrimp gets picked on a lot in what is called Northern Shrimp Fishing Area 6 off the province’s northeast coast. The bullies include Read More » -
Bluefin tuna in P.E.I. are so hungry they no longer fear humans
Bobbing up and down on cold Atlantic waters, several fishermen toss scaly, silver mackerel overboard. It’s a delicious snack for a bluefin tuna — the largest Read More » -
Maine considers fund for lobster fishermen/gillnetters hurt by whale rules
Maine is by the far the most significant lobster fishing state in the country, and members of the state’s industry have warned they will suffer because Read More » -
The passing of Arthur “Artie” James Odlin – Fisherman, Father of Fishermen, Grand Dad to many
SOUTH PORTLAND – Arthur ‘Artie’ James Odlin died peacefully on Nov. 26, 2013, surrounded by his loving family. Artie was born in Sept. 1932 in Cape Read More » -
Lobster fishermen rescued after boat hung up on sandbar in western P.E.I.
Northeast winds and low tides made setting day a challenge for some lobster fishermen on P.E.I. Monday. A fisherman and four crew had to be rescued Read More » -
Feds may ease fish population goals for non native, salmon eating Striped Bass
A still-controversial 1992 law intended to boost California’s striped bass population can be scaled back, the Obama administration now believes. In a modest softening of the Read More » -
Scientists Level New Critiques of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Scientific Rigor
Twenty-five years ago, after the collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery, Jeffrey Hutchings, a preeminent fisheries scientist and professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, sounded Read More » -
Should the Scallop Industry that saved itself from NMFS doom regulate itself? You’re damned right it should!
Fisheries Survival Fund tells Senators scallopers have earned the right to self-regulation; Argues regulators failed to solve problems when they could – Eric Hansen and Drew Minkiewicz Read More » -
N.S. lobster fishermen protesting outside DFO offices against illegal poaching
Hundreds of fishermen are expected to spend Thursday protesting outside Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) offices in southwest Nova Scotia in an effort to draw Read More » -
Falklands’ company expects its state of the art trawler F/V Falcon ready for the Loligo February 2021 season
F/V Falcon, the latest trawler from the Falkland Islands Fortuna fishing company was launched on Wednesday at the Nodosa Shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The vessel will Read More » -
A Fishery Observer Liability Form Letter to be signed by the observer before the observer accesses the Fishing Vessel
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Salmon are dying young in the Salish Sea — and now a $5-million international study hopes to find out why.
The Pacific Salmon Commission and the Southern Fund Committee announced Thursday that the funding over five years will support the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project, an Read More » -
NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard concedes Gloucester, Scituate, and Portsmouth faces heavy hit
“We’re trying to follow the cod and that’s going to have a disproportionate impact on these ports,” he said, naming Gloucester, Scituate and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Read More » -
Friday Funny – ‘tree hugging’ taken to the extreme
Some days you just have to wonder about the sanity of environmentalists, today is one of those days. The photo below, Twittered by PBS station KQED Read More » -
Sea Grant awards $2 million to advance understanding of American lobster, support industry
Sea Grant announced new funding today for research aimed at understanding physical and chemical changes affecting American lobster (Homarus americanus) in the Gulf of Maine as Read More » -
ASMFC Winter Meeting in Arlington, VA- February 6-8, 2018
Final Agenda >click to read<The agenda is subject to change. Bulleted items represent the anticipated major issues to be discussed or acted upon at the meeting. Read More » -
Pilot fish survey taps industry expertise – comes amid intense criticism of traditional scientific methods for counting fish.
Fish sampling surveys provide critical data for assessing the health of fish populations, which are at the core of fishing rules. Critics say the assessments have Read More » -
Fishermen hope Trump will end Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument
New England fishermen who opposed President Barack Obama’s creation of the Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument are now hopeful President-elect Donald Trump will abolish it, Read More » -
Bait crisis is over, but Maine lobstermen are still feeling the pinch
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Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: July 6, 2020
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Maine Native Americans want deal with state on commercial fishing
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Making A Name In Outer Banks Seafood – Vicki Basnight is carrying on the family legacy, one catch at a time
When you pick up the specials list at the Lone Cedar Café in Nags Head, it’s hard to miss Vicki Basnight’s name. On a spring night Read More »
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