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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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  • Lusby man sentenced for trafficking illegally harvested striped bass

    somdnews.com – A former Stoney’s Kingfishers Charters fishing boat captain was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for allegedly illegally Read More »

  • F/V Endorphin – “We were floating around for about 24 hours without the generator, without lights, no heat,” Fisherman Christopher Fallon

    A commercial fishing vessel has been rescued by the Coast Guard and is safely back in Montauk, having survived rough weather and high seas after it Read More »

  • Politics catching up with Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board

    BATON ROUGE – Last week saw Ewell Smith resign as executive director of the  Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board after 13 years of service. And despite Read More »

  • California Fisheries in Crisis: impact of drought and illegal marijuana grows

    “In our fourth year of this historic drought, we have to find ways to protect our fisheries from the impacts of the driest years on record, Read More »
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    Cod facing ‘natural mortality’ or starvation?

    Now that DFO has announced that the cod stocks have declined due to “natural mortality” — a nice way of saying no one is responsible — Read More »

  • Plan to Restore Mass., R.I., Shores Damaged in 2003 Oil Spill OK’d

    Shellfishing areas will be restored and recreational activities will be enhanced under the second round of remediation projects to clean up the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Read More »
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    Dumping Day Delay: moved to Tuesday due to weather

    Lobster fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia will now be able to get their traps in the water on Tuesday after the start of the region’s season was Read More »
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    Collision Course: Offshore Wind Turbines Present New (Unnecessary) Mortal Danger for Trawlermen

    The fishermen who work off America’s Atlantic coast, are furious over plans to spear thousands of industrial wind turbines into their fishing grounds, destroying not only Read More »

  • Changing Sea Surface Temperatures and Water Circulation Patterns Affecting Food Supply for Young Atlantic Cod

    NOAA researcher Kevin Friedland and colleagues looked at the distribution and abundance of important zooplankton species, sea surface water temperatures, and cod abundance. [email protected]   13:11 Read More »

  • Commercial, recreational flounder fishermen at odds

    Two months have passed since the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission was supposed to approve new protections for flounder, but fishermen are still catching them under the Read More »

  • Seward guide business ‘Miller’s Landing’ charged with fishing violations

    Investigators from Alaska Wildlife Troopers went on an August 2013 guided fishing trip that took a small boat from Lowell Point to Seal Rocks, 42 miles Read More »
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    Start of stone crab season in Cortez is worst in recent memory

    Theories abound but one thing is for sure: The current stone crab season is off to one of its worst starts in recent memory for the Read More »
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    Fishing Vessel Endurance makes her first trip to Flugga

    The 75ft vessel has been bought from Skerries partners Leslie and Colin Hughson and Leonard Johnson who had operated her for a long time as Fairway Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 38′ Fiberglass Lobster/Herring CAT 3126B

    Specifications, information and 25 photo’s  click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:30 Read More »
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    DMR’s answer to whale rules focus offshore

    Last week, DMR Commissioner Patrick Keliher announced that after “rigorous scientific analysis,” the department had come up with a new draft plan to address “both the Read More »

  • Ireland should follow Britain out of the EU

    County Donegal skippers like Michael Callaghan have long learned to contend with rasping North Atlantic gales and 30-foot waves — but nothing prepared them for the Read More »

  • Vinalhaven man pleads guilty to making false distress call to Coast Guard

    A Vinalhaven Island man who made a bogus “mayday” call to the Coast Guard last year pretending to be an injured crewman on a fishing boat Read More »

  • NEFMC Seeks Fishermen to Participat​e in an Electronic Monitoring Working Group

    The New England Fishery Management Council is forming an ad hoc Electronic Monitoring (EM)Working Group. Its members will be asked to identify any existing barriers or Read More »
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    Martha’s Vineyard Wind Turbine Globalism

    The first offshore wind farm financial fiasco in the United States was launched off the coast of Rhode Island’s Block Island in 2016. The cost of Read More »

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  • CLIMATE, POLLUTION, AND OVERFISHING

    It seems that at least every 5 years I’ve got to return to the dispute of overfishing vs. other factors responsible for depleted fish populations. I Read More »

  • Some disappointing news came today for the deep water wind project known as Aqua Ventus. oh say it ain’t so!

    That’s the pilot project led by a University of Maine development team. Aqua Ventus was competing for federal development money. But, as Jennifer Mitchell reports, the Read More »

  • Who’s Behind A Stealth Ad Against The Marine Monument Expansion?

    The author seems to believe a stealth video created by an unknown source, most likely a very tiny group of individuals and citizens with a very Read More »

  • United Fishermen of Alaska has inducted Late journalist Bob Tkacz into its Hall of Fame

    (AP) Tkacz, who covered the Legislature and specialized in writing about the commercial fishing and seafood industries, died last May at age 61. He was one Read More »
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    Remembering the World’s Most Famous Sea Captain

    Phil Harris died on Feb. 9, 2010 — but his spirit lives on. Fans and friends from around the world mourned the loss of their favorite Read More »

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