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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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    The president of the Canadian Sealers Association says the latest move by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA) to end the seal hunt is nothing but Read More »
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    Big claws: Good for lobster sex life, potentially fatal in the fishing season

    Between Arendal and Grimstad, researchers tagged 100 lobsters with acoustic transmitters. With the help of numerous stationary receivers, they were able to track the lobsters’ movements Read More »
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    Coast Guard will help researchers track whales along the West Coast

    The Oregon crab industry is putting up money to launch a new research study on where whales swim and feed along the Pacific Coast. The study Read More »

  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada wants to create a commercial green crab fishery on Prince Edward Island.

    In order to get one of the 22 green crab licences, fishermen need to trade in an eel licence. Eels are a threatened species. “Real potential for Read More »
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    The Shipwrecked Sailors & the Wandering Cod

    In the remote archipelago of Lofoten, Arctic cod have been dried on oceanfront racks since the age of the Vikings. This is the unlikely story of Read More »

  • Newfoundland and Labrador Groundfish Industry Development Council launches with recognition of challenges ahead

    Five years down the road, members of the new Newfoundland and Labrador Groundfish Industry Development Council plan to handle more groundfish catch, processing it in-province, providing Read More »
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    The Sago Extreme – Closing the longline snackbar

    Sisters on the west coast of Norway have provided the impetus behind the development of a system designed to protect longline catches from predating whales that Read More »
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    Sara Skamser remembered as trailblazer, innovator in the commercial fishing industry

    As news of Sara Skamser’s death spread across the community last week, people were mourning her passing but also celebrating the life of the woman who Read More »
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    NOAA Satellites Helped Save Record 421 Lives in 2019: Registered Emergency Beacons Proven to Save Lives

    Of the 421 U.S. rescues last year, 306 were water rescues, 38 were from aviation incidents and 77 were from events on land, where PLBs were Read More »

  • New fishery could boost food security for Alaskans

    The establishment of a new artisanal commercial fishery in Alaska could improve food security for the state, according to authors of a newly published article in Read More »

  • FISH-NL calls on C-NLOPB to suspend seismic work in light of potential impact on basis of marine food chain 

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) has requested that the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) immediately suspend seismic work  Read More »

  • Fish processing vessel Pacific Producer grounds on Kodiak Island

    A fish processing vessel that went hard aground on Kodiak Island was struck by other problems earlier this year, including a diesel spill and two ammonia Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 9, 2016

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  • Africa: Secretary Kerry Announces USAID’s Oceans and Fisheries Partnership to Promote Sustainable Fisheries

    Kuala Lumpur — Today, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (USAID Oceans) project with an initial Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 50′ FG Stern Trawler, 425HP Volvo, 12 kw Northern Lights Generator

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    The ups and downs of being a Tasmanian lobster man

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    Fishermen Protest Against Kyaukphyu Seaport

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    Making a living on the high seas

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  • Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. bucks Mid Atlantic Council flounder reduction plan

    .“The implications and economic tragedies resulting from such a reduction will have resounding negative consequences on the entire East Coast,” Mr. Thiele said in a letter Read More »

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    Government intervention – Recruitment to the Fishing Industry.

    Right now the biggest issue facing many skippers and boat owners is that of crewing. Many larger vessels, once jammed with local men, are now totally Read More »

  • Rhode Island Fishermen Arrested for Illegal Striped Bass Fishing

    Three Rhode Island men were arrested by state environmental police for  activity over the past two months, according to the state Department of Environmental Management. Raymond Read More »

  • Letters to the Editor – Managing bycatch, Earl Southworth

    Bycatch from Seattle-based trawlers is killing Alaska’s fisheries and local fishing economy. In the early 1990s, my personal livelihood was negatively affected. Now, all Alaskan fishermen Read More »

  • Owner insists nothing’s fishy, Says seized pickerel bought properly

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  • Fishing experiment a success: DFO – Future of commercial fishing in Howe Sound still up in air

    There’s a good-news story swimming up Howe Sound, a fisheries official says. Two weeks ago, for the first time in half a century, the Department of Read More »

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