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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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Bill introduced allowing Hawaii’s foreign fishermen onshore
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Crescent City’s annual crab haul larger than average
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Fake lobster-tag case leads to arrests in Florida Keys
Florida fisheries investigators have made at least two arrests following a long inquiry into the sale of counterfeit lobster trap tags required by law for commercial Read More » -
Bears vs. salmon: Solving the McNeil River puzzle
Although brown bears kill more than half the chum salmon entering the world-famous McNeil River each year, state fishery biologists and managers don’t believe the bears’ predation is Read More » -
From Oregon Department of Fish Wildlife – Vessel Contract Applications (2015)
ODFW is looking to contract with local vessels for the 2015 field season to assist with scientific monitoring. Applications are now available to bid on contracts Read More » -
AP tracks slave boats to Papua New Guinea
From space, the fishing boats are just little white specks floating in a vast stretch of blue water off Papua New Guinea. But zoom in and Read More » -
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries: Greater amberjack commercial season to close
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State wildlife and fisheries officials say the 2013 commercial fishing season for greater amberjack will close on Monday at 12:01 a.m. Read More » -
Twitter users upset with the Cuomo brothers, saying the two fished a threatened species and should be ashamed of their actions.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faced quite a bit of Twitter backlash after posing with the more than 150-pound thresher shark he caught off the coast of Long Read More » -
Vita Food Products of Chicago Recalls Smoked Salmon for Possible Listeria Contamination
Vita Food Products of Chicago, IL, has voluntarily recalled 1,878 pounds of Vita Classic Premium Sliced Smoked Atlantic Salmon for potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The Read More » -
VIDEO: Newfoundland fisherman provides proof seals eat crab – No Doubt!
When Natasha Rideout took a knife and cut through the thick membrane, more than 100 small crab spilled out, along with red clumps of crab roe. Read More » -
High speed boats deployed to tackle Devon’s illegal crab and lobster trade – Skippers and owners heavily fined
Earlier this year fisheries bosses were tipped off about suspicious landings of crab and lobster at Plymouth. Their intelligence – which came from other concerned commercial Read More » -
Wind farms are making the North Sea one of the world’s most overcrowded bodies of water
The report noted that the installation of cables, pipelines, and other energy-related structures can impact marine life. Dolphins, it said, “can be seriously affected by the noise Read More » -
Barnegat Light NJ – The harvest of the sea – “It’s not an easy business”
BARNEGAT LIGHT – It was like Christmas morning, solving a Rubik’s cube, and the movie Groundhog Day all rolled into one as soon as the Grand Read More » -
North Atlantic Right Whale – New restrictions placed on New England fishing industry to protect whales
Fishermen across New England are facing new restrictions after a panel of experts convened by the federal government agreed on Friday to a plan to step Read More » -
GoFundMe and the Nag’s Head Light: How Crowdfunding Has Become The Latest Battleground Over Free Speech
GoFundMe’s suspension of millions to support protesting truckers in Canada shocked many, particularly when the company initially announced its intention to distribute the money to other Read More » -
“A Good Diehl for Fishing” – Warren’s Senate Republican challenger Diehl unveils plan to help fleet
Geoff Diehl, the Republican challenger to incumbent U. S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, would retain Carlos Rafael’s forfeited groundfish permits in New Bedford and would push to Read More » -
A Raw Deal for UK Fishermen – Out of the potential winners and losers of Brexit, no one actually wins
Exporters and inshore fishers in particular are bearing the brunt whilst also leaving the biggest UK fish market looking like a ghost town. Brexit was sold Read More » -
Cousins Evan and Nick Densmore raised the masts of their 24-metre wooden schooner Katie Belle
About 200 people gathered in Parrsboro, N.S., Saturday afternoon to celebrate the milestone of the mast raising on a schooner hand built by two cousins. Evan Read More » -
A behind-the-scenes look at Maine’s growing scallop farming industry
Maine’s wild scallop harvest is still a few months away, but a group of fishermen in Penobscot Bay can fish scallops year-round thanks to Maine’s growing Read More » -
Would throwing the big ones back keep Atlantic halibut fishery on a roll? DFO considers changing the rules!
The investigation is being undertaken at the request of companies that fish halibut using hook and line from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to Georges Bank Read More » -
Oppose Industrial Offshore Wind Farms – Attend Peaceful Protest Tuesday April 27th at 4:30pm
I represent Save our Shoreline NJ, a group of nearly 4000 concerned businesses, homeowners, residents, fishing community members, and New Jersey shore vacationers. The view of Read More » -
AquaBounty CEO Ron Stotish is brushing off criticism from anti-GMO groups
The CEO of an American company producing genetically modified salmon eggs in eastern Prince Edward Island is brushing off criticism from anti-GMO groups. AquaBounty announced this week Read More » -
MP Nathan Cullen Calls On Feds To Aid In Skeena Sockeye Crisis
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New South Wales: King Prawn prices drop as fishermen haul in record catches off Coffs Coast
Fishermen off the Coffs Coast in northern New South Wales are reporting record catches of the iconic eastern king prawn. The Coffs Harbour Fishermen’s Co-operative’s seafood Read More » -
Editorial: Affront to justice on fishing report demands criminal probe Gloucester Daily Times
Congressman John Tierney is certainly right to continue to step up the push urging Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank to release the extended special investigator’s report Read More »
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Merry Christmas to you and your family Borehead. Thank you for all that you do, have done, and continue to do!
Here’s to a more sane and prosperous future with sanity returned to this industry that is in such need of regulatory relief.
A very Merry Christmas to Borehead and family. I believe Joel said it best. Keep the faith and continue doing a incredible job with FISHERY NATION .com