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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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    Ice, winds block early fishing season in Gulf of St. Lawrence

    Thick ice and cold weather conditions are preventing an early snow crab fishing season that would help reduce potential ship strikes and whale entanglements in the Read More »

  • North Pacific Fishery Management Council convenes in Kodiak with Gulf catch shares in focus

    The trawl industry already loathes a recent alternative to a North Pacific Fishery Management Council plan. Now the council could add another. The North Pacific Fishery Read More »

  • Matthew P. Mullin, Environmental Defense Fund – We need cameras monitoring every fishing vessel

    THOMAS FARRAGHER is absolutely right: If politicians, ranging from the governor to the attorney general to our congressional delegation, really want to help the fishing industry and Read More »

  • Seafood harvesting employment in Alaska is on the rise.

    A new report in the November edition of state Labor Department publication Alaska Economic Trends says monthly employment in Alaska’s seafood harvesting sector in 2013 grew Read More »

  • Coast Guard, Oregon and Washington state wildlife officials monitor Dungeness crab fleet to ensure safety, enforce laws

    The Coast Guard is teaming with Oregon and Washington state authorities to monitor the commercial crab fishing fleet across the Oregon and Washington coasts to ensure Read More »

  • For all you TV fisherman Junkies: Deadliest Catch: Capt Andy of the Time Bandit interview FULL – Justin Sweeney

    I had a chance to chat with Captain Andy of the Time bandit from Discovery’s hit show Deadliest Catch! We talk about what it takes to Read More »

  • Boat captain charged in crewmen’s deaths arrested after overdosing on heroin

    A Cushing captain accused of causing the deaths of two crew members when his lobster boat sank in a storm is behind bars again after he Read More »

  • A Wonderful Regulatory By Catch Solution! Environmental Police donate voluntarily confiscated fish to the hungry

    NEW BEDFORD — They were “beautiful fish.” One hundred pounds of fluke fillets — enough to make 250 meals — donated to the Veterans Transition House Read More »

  • South Atlantic Catch Share plan will eliminate over 60 percent of the commercial snapper-grouper fishermen

    Just a quick reminder that we need your help today to stop the “pilot” commercial snapper-grouper catch share program being proposed by two South Atlantic Fishery Read More »

  • The DeepWater Wind, Narraganse​tt and Block Island demostrati​on wind farm – Ken Williamson

    Aloha Fishery Nation,  What most people don’t know is State of Hawaii has been exploring alternate energy since  1960s and at one time had the world’s Read More »
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    Crab-fishing boat runs aground on Rose Spit

    A crab-fishing boat ran hard aground on Rose Spit this morning (8/31). All four people on board the boat, the Prince Rupert-based Carmanah Light, managed to Read More »

  • Chesapeake crabbers face changing workforce, murky future

    Morgan Tolley is a third generation crab processor working on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, but he’s worried that his industry may be under threat Read More »

  • “We’re next” – NOAA observers worry lobstermen – informational meeting tonight at 6 at NOAA’s Gloucester facility

    The growing consternation among lobstermen over expanding observer coverage, at least in part, is based on what they’ve seen happen within the groundfish industry. This summer Read More »

  • FISH-NL condemns Ottawa’s decision to reopen south coast cod fishery to offshore factory-freezer trawlers 

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 10th, 2017 The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is out to destroy the inshore fishery off Newfoundland’s south coast with its Read More »

  • Time to protect cod habitat

    The decline of cod is the result of bad decisions by federal fisheries managers (under pressure from powerful fishing interests?) that encouraged overfishing for decades and Read More »

  • Editorial: Lack of fishing ‘disaster’ aid paints telling picture Gloucester Daily Times

    That shouldn’t come as a surprise. This “disaster,” after all, is hardly due to natural causes or “dwindling stocks,” as Blank’s declaration tried to push off on Read More »

  • Fisherman facing life in prison after finding 20 kilo’s of cocaine at sea, setting up a distribution ring

    The question is often light-heartedly posited among friends in coastal towns of what one would do if he were to discover a bail of washed-up narcotics. Read More »

  • Crab pots set to drop

    Spirits were high at the Crescent City Harbor as fishermen prepared crab pots and loaded gear onto boats Friday.  Del Norte’s commercial Dungeness fishery is scheduled Read More »
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    Vision IV taking on her prawn trawls in Newlyn.

    Built at Buckie’s famous shipyard, Zander Jack’s Vision IV is one of the largest prawn trawlers to visit Newlyn this summer…along with the Ocean Vision…trawling, especially Read More »
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    Charges filed in high-grading case against Ilwaco charter skippers

    Several local charter skippers and crewmen could soon be reeling in hefty fines and jail sentences. Following a nine-month Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife investigation, Read More »

  • Lobster fraud: No lobster found in lobster rolls at local sushi restaurants

    The operators of eight sushi restaurants in San Diego were convicted of seafood fraud for serving “lobster rolls” that didn’t have any lobster in them, the Read More »

  • EPA approves “vertebrate pheromone biopesticide” to battle dreaded Great Lakes Sea Lamprey

    After decades of development and testing, an effort to use pheromones to fool the sex drive of lampreys in the Great Lakes has been deemed “good Read More »

  • Buckley Diversion Dam: Army Corps foot-dragging damming pink salmon to a cruel fate

    To date, the Corps of Engineers has shamelessly dragged its feet despite the fact that NOAA’s Fisheries Service called in 2007 for Buckley Dam to be Read More »

  • WPRFMC Press Release, September 23, 2014 – Workshop Addresses Issue of Disproportionate Burden in Pacific Island Fisheries

    The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council sponsored a first of its kind workshop on Sept. 18-20, 2014, at the Council office in Honolulu to discuss Read More »
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    What happens in the sea during a solar eclipse?

    On July 20th, 1963, three scientists sat on a research ship 200 miles south of Woods Hole, MA, waiting for something remarkable. They were nearly 4000m Read More »

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