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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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  • New England fishermen consider whether to fight Atlantic monument designation

    Fishermen in New England say President Barack Obama needlessly dealt a big blow to their industry when he created the Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument Read More »

  • MAFMC Meeting: April 8 – 10, 2014 in Montauk, New York

    The Council will hold its next meeting in Montauk, New York on April 8 – 10, 2014.   Agenda  Briefing Materials  Webinar (will begin at 1:00 p.m. Read More »
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    Minister should continue proportionate quota sharing approach with northern shrimp

    An anticipated decrease in northern shrimp quotas in key shrimp fishing areas off Newfoundland and Labrador this year should result in the same proportionate quota sharing Read More »
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    BREAKING: Woman says she was hit in the face on Biernacki’s boat

    A Toledo woman who says she was aboard a tuna boat piloted by Captain Stephen Biernacki last August has come forward to recount the man hitting Read More »

  • The Endangered Species Act Turns 40—Hold the Applause – Schiff and MacDonald – Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

    The badly administered law has had a limited effect on wildlife while inflicting great social and economic costs. Forty years ago, on Dec. 28, 1973, the Read More »

  • Canada’s Science Library Closures Mirror Bush’s Playbook

    Reporting by The Tyee, prompted by tips from U.S. readers, found that a similar scenario unfolded in the United States during the administration of George W Read More »
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    B.C. tragedy as 3 fisherman drown off Tofino, one survives

    The fishing boat, the Caledonian, with four fishermen onboard capsized in Pacific Ocean waters off of the town of Tofino on Vancouver Island Saturday. Three of Read More »

  • State unreceptive to squid-fishing petition

    David Pierce, director of the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries, started yesterday’s public hearing on whether to bar trawlers from fishing for squid within three miles Read More »

  • Spread of algal toxin through marine food web broke records in 2015

    While Dungeness crab captured headlines, record levels of the neurotoxin domoic acid were found in a range of species, and the toxin showed up in new Read More »

  • Sweden delivers salvo in lobster ban fight – Stand by for News!

    NOAA Fisheries will brief staff from the Massachusetts congressional delegation Friday on Sweden’s response to the joint U.S.-Canadian scientific effort to keep the American lobster from Read More »
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    Maine lobstermen fight back – ‘You have failed us’: Maine lobstermen face federal regulators

    Maine lobstermen came face to face with federal officials out to impose stricter new rules to save the 350 remaining endangered right whales Wednesday. There have Read More »
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    Lifejacket could have avoided Shetland fisherman’s death, FAI finds

    The death of a fisherman working off Shetland could have been avoided if he wore a lifejacket, a Fatal Accident Inquiry has found. As a result Read More »
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    American Seafoods screening 2 more crews after most on third vessel test positive for Coronavirus

    The new round of testing involves the crews of the American Triumph and the Northern Jaeger as they dock in Bellingham, according to a company statement. Read More »
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    Snow crab harvesters prepared to stay on land as fisheries minister justifies secret ballot letter

    Snow crab harvesters in Newfoundland say they’re still holding out on this year’s season in search of a better price, even after the province’s fisheries minister Read More »

  • Alaska promises to do better on Yukon River salmon

    International salmon talks with the Yukon River Panel have wrapped up in Whitehorse. In the last seven years, Alaska has delivered its salmon quotas on the Read More »

  • Newfoundland and Labrador Groundfish Industry Development Council launches with recognition of challenges ahead

    Five years down the road, members of the new Newfoundland and Labrador Groundfish Industry Development Council plan to handle more groundfish catch, processing it in-province, providing Read More »

  • American Seafood Group has a new website

    Pretty snazzy.    Visit website here Read More »

  • A collaborative approach to Chesapeake Bay restoration

    Today, pollution threatens all of the recent progress we’ve made at cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. At risk is not only the ecosystem’s survival, but also Read More »

  • Injured fisherman airlifted from boat in high seas near Tofino

    An injured fisherman was airlifted off a commercial boat while it was thrashing about in high seas close to Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Read More »

  • Coast Guard renews maritime warning: Vessels need lookouts

    The Daily Astorian – This reminder is based on the fact that some vessel operators, including commercial fishermen, engage in the practice of working all day, Read More »
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    ‘Get Off The Boat’ — Women In Commercial Fishing Industry Fight Sexual Harassment

    When Robin McAllistar worked in the commercial fishing industry in the 1970s and 1980s, she was often the only woman on the boat. Once, she said Read More »

  • WWF and the Association of Professional Observers call for measures against IUU fishing

    WWF and the Association of Professional Observers (APO) are calling on the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), for urgent measures to protect the health, safety, Read More »
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    Big Read! – The Blood of the Crab

    Meghan Owings plucks a horseshoe crab out of a tank and bends its helmet-shaped shell in half to reveal a soft white membrane. Owings inserts a Read More »

  • One Man’s Fight – Chris McCaffity – a commercial snapper/grouper fisherman

    I had the pleasure of meeting Chris online today, and it turned into a long telephone conversation discussing fishery issues that neither one of us knew Read More »
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    Matt Becker: From Maverick’s to Commercial Fishing and Back

    Matt Becker doesn’t remember his first wave. He grew up at the beach with a surfing family in Santa Barbara. Dad taught him to surf as Read More »

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