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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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    South Carolina Shrimper Finds Smooth Sailing with Help of EDA Revolving Loan Fund Program

    James Bradley is a second-generation commercial fisherman from South Carolina. He’s the owner of Bradley’s Commercial Fishing, a family-owned business on St. Helena Island. The company Read More »

  • NMFS bans development of new commercial forage fisheries on West Coast

    Federal officials finalized rules Monday for a on catching forage fish, the small fish that larger species, seabirds and marine mammals depend on for food. The Read More »

  • BOEM (the ocean destruction agency) targets fishing impacts

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has complied ‘best management practices’ (BMPs) to reduce fishing impacts by offshore wind energy development in the Atlantic Ocean. Read More »
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    New MA Offshore Wind Farm Could Jeopardize Squid Fishery

    Members of the commercial fishing community are worried a proposed utility-scale offshore wind farm in Massachusetts could impact Rhode Island’s lucrative squid industry. Massachusetts recently selected a Read More »

  • Alaska’s Bering Sea crab fishery gets underway

    As of Jan. 9, fishermen had harvested 10 million pounds of snow crab, from a 67.95 million pound quota, according to Fitch, who said 42 vessels Read More »

  • U.S. Coast Guard grants extension to some certificates of documentation for commercial vessels.

    The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it will allow commercial vessels engaged in domestic voyages between ports in the United States or its possessions to Read More »

  • Texas’ Matagorda Bay suffering from drought, water use

    Dwindling rains, a stubborn drought and more demand for water upriver in Austin have taken a toll on the crabs, shrimp, oysters and fish that provide Read More »
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    Arctic crab invasion reaches new shores

    Before 1960, the fishermen that sailed in the Barents Sea knew little about crabs. Then, developments unfolded that ultimately altered marine life on the far northern Read More »
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    A young black man and a white commercial boat owner made a deal to go fishin’ for tuition. It shouldn’t have worked.

    First day of a new job rarely is easy. First day of a job on a commercial fishing boat in southwest Alaska is soul-scorching. “I can Read More »

  • Resurgence of illegal Indonesian fishers ‘unacceptable’ as companies say stocks are suffering

    Fishers say highly organised illegal poaching of Australia’s fish and marine life is having a significant impact on fish stocks in the country’s remote northern waters. Read More »
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    Aquarium-Business Owner Admits to Trafficking Protected Corals

    The owner of an aquarium business in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty Wednesday to harvesting protected reef creatures and selling them off island. Aristides Sanchez ran his Read More »

  • Some lobstermen dislike proposal to ease long waits for Maine lobstering licenses

    It can take years for someone to move off a waiting list to become a commercial lobsterman in Maine, and for years fishermen have been trying Read More »

  • Dongwon Industries, the owners of StarKist Samoa wants to build a USD $34.3 Million tuna cannery, but not here

    Dongwon Industries, the owners of StarKist Samoa wants to build a USD $34.3 Million una tuna cannery and loining plant in Doma, West Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. The official said Read More »

  • F/V Nite Owl Sinks in the Gulf – One recovered, four fishermen missing. Coast Guard converges in the area. Fisherman John Robinson safe.

    “We have crews from all over the Gulf region descending on the general area  where the boat went down to search for these remaining crewmembers.” continued Read More »

  • New Jersey continues to fight summer flounder cuts

    New Jersey’s fight against approved summer flounder measures hangs in the balance, and a meeting next month could prove critical for flounder fishermen. The state’s Marine Read More »

  • It was a Fine #FishyFriday morning in Newlyn

    Big shift in the weather this morning as strong winds and heavy skies give way to patches of blue and light winds… lots of fish, and Read More »

  • Victoria’s Secret: Dumping Raw Sewage Like It’s 1915

    When friends of mine recently got norovirus from eating foraged Gulf Island oysters, my first instinct was a strange one. I blamed Victoria. More specifically, I Read More »
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    F/V Scandies Rose: Family of missing fishermen mourn but pledge to keep fishing

    Fishing runs deep in the DNA of the Cobban family so they know as well as anyone how dangerous the profession can be.  Four generations of Read More »
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    More changes to snow crab fishery not ruled out – minister wants any changes to be fair across all crab fleets

    Government is still weighing its options when it comes to more changes to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, says federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc. Immediate Read More »

  • Arctic nations agree to temporary restrictions

    The government of Greenland announced Feb. 28 that the countries would work together to prevent fishing in the high seas of the Arctic based on a Read More »
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    Great Yarmouth fisherman swaps shrimp for offshore wind

    From inshore shrimper to head skipper on offshore wind crew transfer vessels, Wally Saunders turned generations of his family’s love and living from the sea to Read More »
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    ‘Window dressing’: Sealord criticized for efforts to hire Kiwis

    Sealord is being accused of not making a genuine effort to employ New Zealanders to work on the two Russian-owned trawlers it charters. An ad in 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 »

  • Full on fish landings this #FishyFriday in Newlyn.

    Good Morning from Newlyn! 22 photos and a nice video! >click to review< 09:47 Read More »

  • Scientists back off claims that Maine officials knew about mercury-tainted lobster years ago

    A day after saying state officials knew lobsters near the mouth of the Penobscot River contained unsafe levels of the toxin, researchers say the officials had Read More »

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