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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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  • Bill would extend shrimping season in portion of Mississippi Sound

    A bill that would open part of the Mississippi Sound a month earlier than the traditional June start of shrimping season is headed to Gov. Phil Read More »

  • FISH-NL: Shrimp cuts impact harvesters/rural communities like a hammer

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) says the massive cut to the northern shrimp quota off the Great Northern Peninsula and Read More »

  • Herring fishery’s strength is in the sum of its parts, study finds

    A wise investor plays the financial market by maintaining a variety of stocks. In the long run, the whole portfolio will be more stable because of Read More »

  • Increased Percentage of Old Red King Crab Attracts More Barnacles – processors must accept them, depending on,,,,,,,

    Old shell and very old shell crabs are more likely to have an abundance of barnacles aboard their shells, making them a less than lucrative catch. Read More »

  • James “Whitey” Bulger, guilty of killing Gloucester fisherman John McIntyre, other counts

    Among the 11 the jury found him guilty of was that John McIntyre, a mechanic and fisherman who had been on the Gloucester-based swordfishing vessel Valhalla, when Read More »

  • OPINION: Deadly year at sea reminds us that perceptions about PFDs are outdated

    If you follow the news regularly, you read a lot of sad circumstances. Families die because of carbon monoxide poisoning from their stove, people perish when Read More »

  • The Cahills hosted a SeaChange Party for the wealthy Hollywood Oceana crowd. Oh! You weren’t invited?

    “Yes we want to make sure that we regulate how much fish that (the fisheries) get,” said Rachael Harris, “but also what happens in the wake Read More »

  • Industry-led sea urchin restoration project gets DMR boost

    An industry-led effort to determine whether sea urchins can be encouraged to grow in once fertile habitat got a boost last week. The Department of Marine Read More »
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    WWII veteran reels in one more tuna

    Frank Chase became the talk of the dock in Seabrook this week after the 91-year-old landed a 300-pound bluefin tuna and hauled it into Yankee Fishermen’s Read More »

  • Federal Fishery Act Undergoing Reauthorization; Will dictate for generations the parameters for managing the fishing industry By LAINE WELCH

    SitNews – The rules that govern our nation’s fisheries are being retooled so it’s reassuring that Congress isn’t traveling in uncharted seas.,,,On Frankenfish,,, On Wal-Mart’s salmon diss,,, Read More »

  • Bringing a Taste of Louisiana to China While Stimulating Business Back Home

    A contingent from the Terrebonne Parish Economic Development Authority (TEDA) is heading to Weihai, China, a port city on the north coast of the Shandong Peninsula. Read More »
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    Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting in Galveston, TX, October 21 – 24, 2019

    Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting October 21 – 24, 2019, at The Tremont House, 2300 Ship’s Mechanic Row, Galveston, TX. >click to review Agenda, and supporting documents<  Read More »

  • Baker: The changing tone of the seal harvest – A Sustainable Natural Resource

    Having any kind of logical, fully-informed debate about seals is never an easy thing to do because it’s laced with so much emotion. From my perspective Read More »
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    Alternative Youth Activities students get a lesson in hard work from a fishing boat captain

    Students with Alternative Youth Activities took a trip down to the Charleston Marina on Wednesday afternoon to learn how a commercial slime eel fishing boat operates. Read More »
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    Tribal fisheries advocate Lorraine Loomis of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has passed away

    Loomis spent the last about 40 years serving the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, most recently as chairperson. She began her career in fisheries working in fish Read More »

  • Gloucester Times Editorial: Judge’s ruling sends grim message on NOAA accountability

    It’s been nearly nine years now since NOAA enforcement agents, carrying out an unauthorized entry and raid into the then-Gloucester Seafood Display Auction, openly bullied workers Read More »

  • 25-30-year-old man Coast Guard medevaced from 680-foot fish processing vessel Ocean Phoenix

    Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 17th District command center in Juneau received the request for medevac from the master of the Ocean Phoenix when a crewman Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for Feb 8, 2016

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 14:09 Read More »

  • Being a responsible fish eater is much more difficult than it appears – Sustainable seafood is a fantasy (the comments are priceless!)

    Consumers have proven that they can hear about the horrific factory farms and still eat chicken for dinner. Personally, I find it hard to feel sympathy Read More »
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    Coast Guard crews rescue 4 people, dog from burning boat

    The US Coast Guard rescued four people and a dog from vessel explosion near St. Simons Island Sound. According to the Coast Guard, the fishing vessel caught Read More »
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    A fresh take – Little Harbor Lobster Co. preserves a Marblehead tradition

    It’s an overcast, damp and chilly Friday. Within 15 minutes, three customers duck into Marblehead’s Little Harbor Lobster Company.,,, Little Harbor’s latest lobsters arrived early in the Read More »

  • ‘A complete fantasy’ Merkel blasted over Brexit negotiations promise to German fishermen

    Angela Merkel was today accused of peddling a “complete fantasy” after she told German fishermen she would fight for them to retain access to British waters Read More »

  • Cove Harbour – Man puts huge boulders around harbour to stop fishermen leaving their boats

    A landowner at an historic harbour in Aberdeen has this weekend put in place four “eyesore” boulders as part of his ongoing efforts to prevent a local community – which has Read More »

  • Red Snapper season dubbed a success

    Photos of grinning fishermen holding up sizable red snapper sprouted like bright flowers across social media this week as anglers showed off their catches during the Read More »

  • US downgrades Thailand, Malaysia and Venezuela on human trafficking

    The downgrades could cause some multinational companies to reconsider investments in industries accused of using trafficked labour such as fisheries, a lucrative business in Thailand, the Read More »

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