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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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Lobster prices rise as catches fall: ‘They’re all fighting for that product’
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United States continues global leadership to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
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Change to legal size of lobster imports proposed
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Off Washington state’s coast, Dungeness crabbers get early start to season, haul in bounty
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Cod scientist is questioning why DFO is increasing individual quotas on Northern Cod
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North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for 06/21/2019
Legislative updates, Bill updates, Calendar, >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click Read More » -
Senator Blumenthal to meet with Fishing Industry Monday, February, 15, 2016 in Stonington Conn.
You are invited to participate in an open discussion with Senator Richard Blumenthal, pertaining to the issues effecting the Commercial Fishing Industry today. Senator Blumenthal is Read More » -
Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in New Bern, NC February 9 – 11, 2016
The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s February, 2016 meeting on Tuesday, in New Bern, NC . Briefing Materials & Agenda Overview Agenda click here Attend Read More » -
Coast Guard rescues 3 fishermen from liferaft 8 miles west of Cape Blanco
The Coast Guard on Sunday plucked three fisherman from the waters along the southern Oregon Coast — about eight miles west of Cape Blanco — less Read More » -
‘Neither country can save the species on its own’ – Reduce amount of rope in water to protect right whales, says U.S. advisory group
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team held four days of meetings ending Friday. The group proposes the number of Read More » -
Sweeping reforms to licences, quotas, and equal footing, Standing Committee urges massive overhaul
The committee is recommending sweeping changes to the way commercial fishing licences and quota are owned in B.C. to address concerns of monopolization — including quota Read More » -
Probe sought into conditions of ‘stranded’ migrant fishers whose boat ran aground off Inis Mór
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Bristol Bay backlash after Walker taps Ruffner to replace Johnson on Fish Board
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A Documentary: “Last Man Fishing” to debut in Newburyport
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Fox News, and Maine lobsterman Kristan Porter brings Right whale “conservation” issue to the American public
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Imports, farmed shrimp fill demand, but hit shrimpers in their wallets
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Coast Guard Assists Hurricane Michael Response Effort
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Operation Jolly Roger: inside the secret world of Scotland’s fishermen pirates
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Brewery which makes beer using smoked whale TESTICLES is slammed by conservationists
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Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle.
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Hundreds of fishermen rescued amid Indonesian slavery probe
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How the Trans-Pacific Partnership would benefit Washington’s seafood industry
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Oceana going overboard on fish fraud with “misleading hyperbole”, distorts its findings by design
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Pebble Mine & the Clean Water Act By Nanci Lyon
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