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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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  • OPINION: A better bay: Sustaining local fishing jobs

    Here’s a few more numbers though. Since the inception of limited entry in 1975, local permit ownership has declined from 1,372 to 707. This loss stems Read More »
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    Gear to Go Fishing Supply opens in New Bedford’s Kilburn Mill

    Kilburn Mill has added an experienced fisherman to its roster of knowledgeable vendors with the opening of Gear to Go Fishing Supply on the first floor. “I Read More »

  • Coast Guard and Navy Rescue Guam Fisherman

    Coast Guard and Navy search and rescue crews partnered to provide assistance to a local fisherman whose vessel began taking on water and quickly capsized 13 Read More »

  • SHAHEEN, AYOTTE URGE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT TO RECONSIDER FISHERY DECISION

    January 28, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) are calling on the Department of Commerce to reconsider its decision to require drastic Read More »

  • A Karachi fisherman’s tale — In search of lobsters and livelihood

    The sun had just risen and cast a golden-red light on the the beach at Mubarak Goth — a fishing village located in Deh Mann, Karachi. Read More »

  • Controversial Bristol Bay salmon permit buyback support falters

    Bristol Bay salmon fishermen’s 81% support of studying the economic impact of a drift gillnet buyback program in Bristol Bay broke down into a general sense of Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 67′ Steel Stern Trawler, 525 HP Cummins, with Federal and NY Permits

    To review specifications, information, and 10 photos, with Federal and New York Permits, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here<12:10 Read More »

  • Day 2, NEFMC Meeting – 8:30 a.m. Groundfish Committee Report Listen Live

    Read the Agenda here  Register to attend the meeting via Webinar here  11:31 Read More »

  • Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. PREFERED PRICE LIST for December 3, 2013 has arrived

    ATLANTIC HERRING (FAS)70-90g  $0.40 USAContact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 3739  Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. where Read More »

  • People on the northern peninsula are concerned about potential cuts to the shrimp fishery

    The 60,000t quota in 2012 and 2013 was split between the inshore fishery – which supports the shore based shrimp plants in Newfoundland that produce cooked Read More »
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    Delicate ecosystem of fishing industry must be maintained

    From my office window in Lerwick Harbour I can see vans from a range of different marine and electrical engineering companies parked next to whitefish vessels Read More »

  • This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Putting a price tag on corrosive oceans and the KSM mine sails through approval.

    Fishing communities in Southeast and Southwest Alaska face the highest risk from increasingly corrosive oceans.,,  In another threat to the Panhandle’s fisheries – British Columbia’s KSM Read More »

  • Gulf of Maine Cod Peer Review Meeting – Live Streaming Informatio​n for Aug. 28-29, 2014

    Scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service say the amount of cod spawning in the Gulf of Maine is estimated to be three to four percent Read More »
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    Transport Canada urged to enforce ship speed limits protecting endangered right whales

    For the second year in a row, the majority of vessels passing through the Cabot Strait, between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on Canada’s East Coast, are Read More »
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    American Seafood Corp. Fights Giant Jones Act Penalties

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stirred up a storm in the Alaska pollock fishery by issuing Jones Act penalty notices totaling about S350 million. According Read More »
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    This Is Why You Don’t See People-Sized Salmon Anymore

    While the orcas of Puget Sound are sliding toward extinction, orcas farther north have been expanding their numbers. Their burgeoning hunger for big fish may be Read More »
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    Crabber’s Emergency Relief Fund

    The California Dungeness Crab season has been closed indefinitely by the Fish and Wildlife on the recommendation by the Dept. of Public Health due to a Read More »
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    Ray Lamont, former longtime editor and staffer of the Gloucester Daily Times, has died

    Ray Lamont, former longtime editor and staffer of the Gloucester Daily Times, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 67. Lamont, who came to Gloucester Read More »

  • Coast Guard boat crew medevacs Fisherman near Wachapreague Inlet, Va

    The Coast Guard medevaced a man Monday who experienced chest pains while on a fishing boat approximately 10 miles northeast of Wachapreague. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Read More »
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    Celebrate Whale Week with NOAA Fisheries: A message from Janet Coit, Assistant Administrator

    At NOAA Fisheries, our team of dedicated scientists and managers is responsible for the health and sustainability of more than 30 whale species in U.S and Read More »

  • A nice audio presentation of the NEFMC December 20, 2012 public comments from savingseafood.org

    I just got this from savingseafood and am posting it for those interested in listening to the comments without the hassle of listening to the audio recordings Read More »
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    Concerns over horseshoe crabs spur discussion about limiting harvest

    When Long Island beaches come alive at high tide with hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs, looking to spawn under the spring and summer moons, it’s Read More »

  • Peter Shelley -Conservation Law Foundation – Enviro group urges fishery shutdown

    While fishing industry group and federal lawmakers have sought to ease dire new catch limits seen as threatening Gloucester’s and New England’s groundfishery, a leader of Read More »
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    Fish and Wildlife Service official reportedly violated conflict of interest rules

    Richard Ruggiero, chief of the Division of International Conservation at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, may have violated federal ethics rules by his involvement in Read More »

  • Mass Governor Elect Baker wants broader input on cod regulations

    Questioning the federal estimates used to essentially ban commercial cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine, Governor-elect Charlie Baker said it is time for other scientists Read More »

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