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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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Louisiana Shrimp Task Force calls special meeting to discuss Bonnet Carre Spillway openings, Friday, 10 am
The Louisiana Shrimp Task Force has called a special meeting to discuss the issues facing the industry due to the spillway openings. The Bonnet Carre Spillway Read More » -
Baker – The axeman cometh for DFO and Coast Guard?
Some things are hard to explain even by the most verbose of politically astute minds. The ongoing gutting/changing of budgets and services at the Department of Read More » -
P.E.I.’s Western Gulf fishermen excited about highest lobster numbers from survey
There will be more numbers presented at the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association’s annual meeting in Charlottetown next month, but Francis Morrissey just couldn’t wait that long to Read More » -
NEFMC votes against limiting access to whiting fishery
New England Fishery Management Council members have shown little collective enthusiasm for limiting access to the Northeast small-mesh whiting fishery and the great majority followed through Read More » -
Government agrees to re-investigate dead crab and lobster after fishermen conduct their own probe
Earlier this month DEFRA announced that after extensive testing following the first reports of mass crab and lobster deaths around the Tees Estuary last autumn, they had traced the Read More » -
BIG STORY! – Prodigy to pariah: N.J. oysterman’s bizarre battle with the state
New Jersey oyster farmers – But what really horrifies them is a more recent tale involving one of their own: Marc Zitter, a rookie farmer who Read More » -
NTSB: Hot Work Failures Led to Fire on Aleutian Falcon
The fire was reported on the commercial fish processor Aleutian Falcon on Feb. 17, 2021 while the vessel was docked for repairs at a shipyard in Read More » -
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 » -
Commercial fishermen applaud EPA’s peer review process for Bristol Bay assessment; mining and productive salmon stocks do not mix!
“People who are attacking this report aren’t criticizing the science but are trying to use any opportunity to attack the EPA,” said Bob Waldrop, executive director Read More » -
Enviros challenge Maine lobster fishery’s sustainability certification
The Natural Resources Defense Council and other conservation groups are challenging a seafood watchdog’s recertification of the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery as a sustainable resource. Read More » -
Commercial Gulf shrimpers in Texas afloat for another season
Greg Seaman, a 49-year-old Palacios native, has managed to stay afloat in a rough business. continued@victoriaadvocate Read More » -
PHOTOS & VIDEO: In search of great whites off Chatham, Ma
Julia, a great white shark, has arrived on Cape in May for the last few years and usually spends until October around Chatham Inlet and Monomoy. Read More » -
Hunting for whale and votes in Barrow, Alaska-‘It’s exciting that people in this small community could shape America,’
Gabe Tegoseak tired after a late night spent butchering one of three bowhead whales that subsistence hunters towed in from the pewter-colored waters of the Chukchi Read More » -
Snow crab filled truck, sprayed with dangerous chemical, stolen
Police in Nova Scotia are investigating the theft of a tractor-trailer carrying more than 18,000 kilograms of snow crab in a container sprayed with a dangerous Read More » -
’Deadliest Catch’: Sig Hansen Admits Producers Make the Show More ‘Dramatic’: ‘That’s What Sells’
Discovery Channel’s hit reality TV series, Deadliest Catch, focuses heavily on Sig Hansen in season 19. Sig and his daughter, Mandy Hansen, are at the helm of the Northwestern, and they’ve Read More » -
Bumble Bee Foods to File Bankruptcy, Sell Assets to Taiwanese Firm
Bumble Bee Foods announced Thursday it will file for bankruptcy and sell its assets to a Taiwanese company for $925 million. The bankruptcy sale comes in the Read More » -
U.S. official said steps taken by the South Korea to prevent illegal or pirate fishing by its own vessels should be commended.
David Balton, U.S. deputy assistant secretary for oceans and fisheries, said he was aware of corrective actions by South Korea since it was put on the Read More » -
Commercial fisherman killed, 3 others pulled to safety, after boat capsizes near St. Lucie Inlet
PORT SALERNO, Fla. – A commercial fisherman from Belle Glade is dead and several others are recovering after investigators said a giant wave capsized their boat Read More » -
Kent Island fishing boat captains charged
Tyrone Antone Meredith, 53, of Stevensville, and Herlen Vernon Lynch, 63, of Dover, Delaware, were charged Sept. 4 with operating as an unlicensed commercial fishing guide, Read More » -
Hollywood to begin filming new Coast Guard movie that no one will watch
A new action-thriller movie based on true experiences from a search-and-rescue unit is set to be the next Coast Guard movie that no one will actually Read More » -
CDFW Announces Quality Delay for Commercial Dungeness Crab in Northern Fishery, and Important Updates to Pending Opening in Central Fishery
In a memo released today (11/15), CDFW Director Charlton H. Bonham delayed the northern California commercial Dungeness crab season due to poor crab meat quality test Read More » -
From the Moderator: I was wondering,,,,,,,,,,,
Just a few questions continued here. scroll down the page to the third article Read More » -
The Observer Program. Expanded
The US Fishing industry is the most scrutinized industry in the Nation. In another article today regarding the Mount Polley mine tailings pond dam breach, a Read More » -
Fisherman Coast Guard Medevaced from 158-foot F/V Arica near Cold Bay, Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced an ailing mariner from a vessel in the Bering Sea near Cold Read More » -
Cows Trample Dozens Of Lobsters To Death In Escalating Surf ’N’ Turf War
In what is being described as the most ruthless act of bovine–crustacean violence in years, local authorities confirmed Monday that a charging herd of cattle had Read More »
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