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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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    A Coast Guard investigation is underway into the capsizing of a Kodiak fishing boat

    Lexie Preston, a U-S Coast Guard Petty Officer based in Juneau, said two boats collided near Whale Pass, about 22 nautical miles east of Kodiak. Preston Read More »

  • First Maine Lobster Insider is published

    The Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative (MLMC) is a statewide organization representing more than 5,000 lobstermen, 300 dealers and 15 processors. Our mission is to raise awareness Read More »

  • Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Price List for March 20, 2014 has arrived!

    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. where The Only Read More »
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    Haaland, politicians visit Humboldt Bay to discuss offshore wind farms that will create jobs and stuff!

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory were joined by Huffman and California Energy Commissioner Karen Read More »

  • Larry the lobster strips for the camera.

    Christa Sandall knows lobsters. As an interpreter at the Bonne Bay Marine Station in Norris Point, she spends a lot of time with the animals in Read More »
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    Coronavirus Northern Ireland: Fishing fleets will be given monthly payments depending on length of vessels

    Fisheries Minister Edwin Poots has announced a substantial £1.5 million support package for Northern Ireland’s fishing industry. Fishermen are struggling to handle social distancing measures on Read More »

  • EDITORIAL: A different kettle of …lobster

    We’ve supported the idea of a two-cent-per-pound lobster levy since an independent panel recommended it last fall in a report on the fickle Maritime lobster fishery. Read More »

  • UFA Wants Coast Guard Presence in Arctic in Line With Development

    Alaska’s largest statewide commercial fishing trade association is tracking movement in Congress on revisions of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act, which is key to Read More »

  • Coast Guard Refuses to Enforce California’s New Environmental Regulation

    The state of California is once again proving that it is a far-left outlier, and now even the U.S. Coast Guard won’t enforce one of the Read More »

  • Drakes Bay Oyster Co. sues U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, claiming he violated federal environmental law

    The owner of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, Kevin Lunny at his oyster farm in  Point Reyes, Calif.  on Thursday Nov. 29, 2012.  U.S. Interior Secretary Read More »

  • Louisiana Fishermen want to see growth of oyster resource – Video

    The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission recently announced opening dates for the oyster season this fall. Fishermen in Cameron Parish seem to be satisfied with the dates.  Read More »
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    Doomed to Fail: In the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, a quiet reckoning over offshore wind

    Crippling European electricity prices, soaring Northeastern heating bills, looming diesel-fuel shortages, and OPEC+ drama have captured headlines for months. More quietly, offshore-wind energy developers are discovering Read More »

  • Scientists mull over 2013 fish quotas for US Pacific Islands

    A group of international scientists concluded its three-day meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii late last week after determining the level of fishing mortality that various fish stocks Read More »
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    Local skipper speaks at United Nations fisheries conference

    At a United Nations sustainable fisheries conference in a posh conference center in Rome three weeks ago, it was “Your Excellency” this and “Minister that” until Read More »

  • Nova Scotia young lobster population shows no sign of decline

    Federal fisheries scientists say their most recent sampling of juvenile lobster in southwest Nova Scotia indicate a decade-long trend of abundant populations is holding steady. “It’s Read More »
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    Whale protection, trawl limits entangle Zone C lobstermen

    October is a peak month, according to the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, for feistiness in Maine’s population of hornets and wasps. Lobstermen too, Read More »
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    Next Level Plotter

    The market for marine electronics isn’t short of chart plotters, but Håvard Holm at Norwegian company SailorsMate is certain that he and his team have come Read More »
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    NC Fisheries Hurricane Florence disaster declaration granted

    US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross granted Governor Roy Cooper’s request for a disaster declaration related to damage to North Carolina’s marine fishing industry in Hurricane Read More »
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    Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Price Sheet for May 2020 Has Arrived!

    Contact our sales team today! To review the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd., >Click here< – “The only thing we treat our fish with, is Read More »
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    ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ boat wins holiday parade contest, then is stripped of award

    “Let’s go, Brandon”, a boat bedecked with a coded insult to President Joe Biden, won the Yorktown Lighted Boat Parade contest Saturday evening. At least initially. Read More »
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    Artist and fisher chronicles life on one of the last southern New England trap fishing boats

    Corey Wheeler Forrest is a third-generation fisherwoman. Her family owns the last trap-fishing business in southern New England. Forrest loves the work, and quite often is Read More »

  • The corporate take-over of fisheries policy making

    In the past couple of years a number of international conferences and gatherings of key policy makers, corporate representatives and international NGOs have taken huge strides Read More »

  • Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update November 25, 2012

    http://hosted.vresp.com/1181479/fabfb06fd2/545568053/ad93d20bca/ Read More »

  • P.E.I. fall lobster prices are going up and landings are good according to fishermen’s group

    Prices in the last week have moved up to $3.50 a pound for canner size lobster and $4.00 a pound for markets, according to the president of the Read More »

  • Ten Day At Sea Joint Mission Successfully Tallies 20+ Violations

    On March 10, 2016, two Alaska Wildlife Troopers, a public safety technician, and a NOAA Enforcement Officer got underway for a 10-day at-sea operation in the Read More »

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