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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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  • Aquaculture company ordered to pay $500K for pesticide use – Kelly Cove Salmon pleaded guilty to 2 charges related to deaths of lobsters in Bay of Fundy

    A New Brunswick aquaculture company has been ordered to pay $500,000 after pleading guilty to two charges in connection with the deaths of hundreds of lobsters Read More »

  • EU ministers OK Baltic catch limits; Envirocrat activists object

    The ministers reached the agreement Thursday night at a meeting in Luxembourg. In a statement, they said the limits take into account scientific advice as well Read More »

  • Bagged on face book – Two Pasadena Men Jailed for Stealing Crabs from Watermen

    A Facebook post by a poacher helped authorities win a conviction against two Pasadena men caught stealing $6,400 worth of crabs from the crab pots of Read More »
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    Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 63.5′ Steel RSW Offshore Lobster/Crab Boat, 12-V-71, J D – 35 KW Genset, with Traps and Permit

    Specifications, information and 38 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:28 Read More »
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    The Annual Fleet of Flowers, Depoe Bay on Memorial Day

    The annual Fleet of Flowers ceremony originated in Depoe Bay in 1936 to honor Depoe Bay Fishermen Ray Bower and Jack Chamber, who lost their lives Read More »
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    An early start to a late setting day for P.E.I.’s lobster fishermen

    The lobster boats are off and heading to a staging area outside the North Rustico harbour on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island Friday morning, Read More »

  • Alaska Department of Public Safety reaches out to fishermen in effort to combat opioid abuse

    Earlier this year, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker issued a disaster declaration to combat opioid abuse in the state. Since then, more time and resources have been Read More »

  • Salmon season picks up in Southwest

    Now well past the mid-June mark, Southwest salmon fisheries have begun to ramp up. Still a few weeks out from peak fishing, set and subsistence nets Read More »
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    Sick River: Can These California Tribes Beat Heroin and History?

    For thousands of years, the Klamath River has been a source of nourishment for the Northern California tribes that live on its banks. Its fish fed Read More »

  • Fukushima crisis new blow to Japanese fishermen’s hopes

    Fumio Suzuki, a third-generation fisherman, sets out into the Pacific Ocean  every seven weeks. Not to catch fish that he can sell but to catch fish that Read More »

  • Not Your Average Drifters – Plankton, Part I – by Casey Diederich

    “Plankton” is a term that comes from the Greek meaning “wanderer” and was coined to describe any organism that doesn’t have the ability to swim against Read More »

  • North Carolina’s DMF curtailment of Red Drum season illustrates the absurdity of its fisheries management nonsense

    The absurdity, and the warped politics, of North Carolina’s fisheries management scam was amply illustrated one again last week. Here’s how the Jacksonville Daily News reported Read More »

  • The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker

    Re-opening of the OCI plant in Fortune could be delayed  Scientists are keeping a close eye on cod in Newman Sound. Continuing concerns on the south Read More »
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    Peconic Bay Scallop: After disappointing seasons in 2019, ’20, the outlook remains bleak

    Last week, Steve Tettelbach, head of Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Peconic Bay Scallop Restoration Program, finished up a series of dives at the seven sites from Flanders Read More »

  • Whaling opponents and pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, remain at odds

    Diplomats were preparing for one last push to find a compromise capable of bridging the divide between whaling nations and their opponents at the biennial International Read More »
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    It’s a shark-eat-shark world off Bermagui, New South Wales

    When you’re on the food chain, there’s always something bigger than you – even if you’re an apex predator it seems. A video shot by Bermagui commercial Read More »

  • NPFMC directs NMFS to modify new observer program Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal of Commerce

    The North Pacific Fishery Management Council took up a new deployment plan for  marine observers at its October meeting, asking the National Marine Fisheries  Service, or Read More »

  • BEAUFORT NC Grayden Paul Bridge piling damaged by F/V Alex Marie, Point Pleasant, N.J

    BEAUFORT — A vessel that broke free late Saturday from the dock where it was tied up caused structural damage to the Grayden Paul Bridge beneath the Read More »

  • Newport Fishermen’s Wives: Blazer sinking highlights need for Coast Guard rescue helicopter

    The helicopter was dispatched before dawn on Saturday to rescue the boat’s five-person crew as the vessel sunk near Siletz Bay. If the helicopter hadn’t been Read More »
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    Coronavirus: Reverberations from COVID-19 reach Canada’s East Coast and its lobster fishery

    Lobster fishermen, like Fralick, are facing a crunch. In the last month, the coronavirus epidemic in China has precipitated a drop in lobster prices. “It dropped Read More »
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    Judge denies bid for temporary halt to lobstering in Massachusetts

    A federal judge has declined to issue a temporary restraining order to temporarily stop commercial lobster pot fishing in Massachusetts costal waters to protect North Atlantic Read More »
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    Federal Fishing Expansion Could Endanger Right Whales

    Trump regulators opened about 3,100 square miles of ocean to fishing for scallops and fish that live near the bottom of the ocean such as halibut Read More »

  • Bay of Fundy tidal energy battle heads to court Thursday

    The Nova Scotia government and a company attempting to deploy two tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy have joined forces to fight a move by a fishermen’s association to Read More »

  • Federal ‘Fluke Fairness Act’ would correct inequitable treatment of L.I. anglers: Schumer, Zeldin

    The current system of federal regulations for fluke fishing has created a complicated patchwork of quotas and rules for each state in the region, according to Read More »

  • Sad News: Larry the Lobster has died on his journey home. (I think they killed ‘im!)

    Larry the Lobster gained fame after it was spared from a boiling pot in Florida, but Maine officials say the crustacean didn’t make it to retirement.  Read More »

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