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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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Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing boat 80 miles west of Hernando
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Four crew-members safe as Homer Seiner remains capsized off Alaska Peninsula
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game Sunday announced a 24-hour weather delay for Southeast crab fisheries
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310-pound bull shark caught in Southern Maryland waters
A commercial fisherman pulled an 8.6-foot, 310-pound bull shark from his pound net trap at the mouth of the Patuxent River in Southern Maryland on Monday Read More » -
Salmon Vs. Gold Splits Alaska GOP
There’s gold in them thar…. swamps. A lot of gold, in fact—up to $120 billion of it, lying within the Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska. Which Read More » -
Clearwater Seafoods loses redfish quota as other Indigenous harvesters gain
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Climate Change Forces Reevaluation of Fishery Management. (Isn’t that right, John?)
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ITQ’s: A crash course – How feds let fishing privileges be sucked up by big money, much of it foreign.
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Biden approves largest offshore wind project in US history
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DFO bust targets 12 year old boy for catching and selling a few smelt
A Gander Bay South man says his 12-year-old son was unfairly targeted by a Department of Fisheries and Oceans sting over $20 in smelt. Donnie Harris Read More » -
Manx scallop fishermen told to diversify fishing fleet for prawns, squid or white fish
Queen scallop fishermen are being invited to apply for grants to diversify into fishing for prawns, squid or white fish. The move comes as the island’s Read More » -
Congressman Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., leads effort to halt free trade agreement impact on U.S. fisheries
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Capsized in the storm: Huddled in a shrimp-box, a fisherman survives
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Seiners try co-op to finish Sitka herring season – audio
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Walker names picks for North Pacific Fishery Management Council
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“The Queensland government’s response is a f—ing joke,” – Fishers furious over delayed warning of toxic foam spill
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Declined for Alaska Board of Fisheries, Karl Johnstone says Legislature made a mistake
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American Seafoods struggles with high debt, low fish prices, has ratings agencies warning it may soon default on its massive debt.
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N.S. fishermen rescued by coast guard land safely in St. John’s
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“Crabs Tales And Dipped Rails” | A Tribute To Arthur “Jay” Fisher
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UPDATE: P.E.I. lobster fishermen on strike – Photos – The Guardian
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Tribal fishing activist Billy Frank Jr. dies
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