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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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    Canada considers mandatory EPIRB’s on all fishing vessels, shift Coast Guard from DFO to Transport Canada

    An emergency distress beacon should be made mandatory on all commercial fishing vessels in Canada within two years, according to a Senate study released Thursday that Read More »
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    Selling Whale Poop

    The stone is waxy, gritty, and leaves on the skin a trace of oily resin not unlike cannabidiol. Its smell, which so many have labelled “indescribable,” Read More »

  • NMFS Announces Stricter Bering Sea Pollock Accounting Measures

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  • Environmental Group Says Lobster is “Poor Choice” for Pregnant Women – “Them’s fightin’ words!”

    Later this summer, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) plans to raise concerns about mercury levels in lobster within the context of a draft update to federal consumer Read More »

  • Old School – Newly launched lobster boat echoes past

    Just days after her launching by boatbuilder Peter Buxton and lobsterman Frank Gotwals, Sea Song shows off her sweet lines at last month’s Stonington lobster boat races. Buxton Read More »

  • Council asks for info on halibut vessel caps

    After extensive public testimony on the matter, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council agreed to take an initial step in possible changes to the existing vessel Read More »

  • Matt Ridley: Beware The Corruption Of Science

    As somebody who has championed science all his career, carrying a lot of water for the profession against its critics on many issues, I am losing Read More »
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    Southeast Alaska’s 2020-21 commercial Dungeness crab season harvest is the 2nd largest on record

    The harvest for Dungeness crab in Southeast Alaska’s commercial fishing season is the second largest on record. The catch from the fall fishery added to one Read More »
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    Glace Bay Fisherman celebrates 80 consecutive years of working on the water

    In a year that has been anything but normal, Jim Munden continues to be a figure of both consistency and longevity on the Glace Bay wharf. Read More »
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    Conditional discharge awarded to Grand Bank fisherman

    Wayne Meade was in provincial court in Grand Bank Aug. 31, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of uttering threats to cause death or bodily Read More »
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    SEA-NL: Province to review foreign investment in fishery

    SEA-NL is encouraged by news that the province has finally commenced a review of its policies related to foreign investment in the fishery, with consultations planned Read More »
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    The sinking of the Maverick: A survivor’s account – Sequim Gazette

    Following is Will Oosterga’s account of the incident, recorded on the evening of the wreck at the home he shares with Dennis Bender in the upper Read More »

  • Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO): Tougher penalties still needed in the offshore: MP

    While the number of foreign offshore fishing vessels dropping gear outside Canada’s 200-mile limit has declined significantly since the 1990s, what remains the same is the Read More »

  • Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman near Kodiak, Alaska

    The Coast Guard medevaced a 26-year-old fisherman from the 79-foot fishing vessel Pacific Star approximately 74 miles southeast of the city of Kodiak, Alaska, Saturday. A Read More »

  • Bait Relief! Maine Pogy fishery reopens with strict new rules

    Maine made bait fishermen and lobstermen happy Monday when it reopened its pogy fishery after concluding there is still enough menhaden left in the Gulf of Read More »

  • Arrests and seizures – DFO releases another 2,500 pounds of lobster into Digby harbor!

    Just days after seizing 1,350 pounds of lobster and returning the live fish into the Annapolis Basin on Aug. 26, Fishery officers from Digby made another Read More »

  • Georgia man faces prison again for stealing sea turtle eggs

    Less than two years after he was released from prison, Lewis Jackson found authorities waiting for him as he boarded a ferry boat on remote Sapelo Read More »

  • Missouri men facing commercial fishing violations – unlawful harvest of shovelnose sturgeon on the Mississippi River

    For the Daily Gate City WAPELLO – Two southeast Missouri men face 74 counts and more than $43,000 in fines and civil damages for the alleged unlawful Read More »
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    A research expedition returning to Victoria puzzled by a no-show of the fish after an initial big haul

    “It is a little difficult for people to accept that scientifically, no catch is sometimes as important as large catches. I think this is the case Read More »
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    Trump Administration ‘Slow-Walking’ Offshore Wind Permits says Sheldon Whitehouse

    Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, has accused the Trump administration of “slow-walking” offshore wind approvals with an eye toward helping natural-gas suppliers. (gas works, Read More »

  • Juniper Systems to Host Fisheries Webinar April 24th on Custom Fisheries Apps – Register to Attend

    Juniper Systems is hosting an upcoming webinar for fisheries professionals on April 24th. The webinar— Low-Cost Software Options for Custom Fisheries Apps—will describe how fisheries professionals Read More »
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    Canastra Brothers Offering $93 Million for ‘Codfather’s’ Fishing Fleet

    One of the owners of the Whaling City Seafood Display Auction in New Bedford is shedding more light on a proposed deal to buy the “codfather’s” Read More »

  • Fishing crisis only follows NOAA’s failed policies – Paul Cohan, Gloucester

    Weren’t NOAA’s “catch shares” and “sector management” strategies supposed to have been the panacea for the fishery?  Weren’t they supposed to eliminate the widely acknowledged disparities Read More »

  • Oregon’s commercial crab season beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

    Oregon’s commercial crab season had been delayed until Dec. 16 because test catches from ports on the Northern Oregon Coast did not show the required amount Read More »
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    Our latest lobster boat: Force of Nature

    Completed in late April 2020, some 12 months after contracts were signed, Force of Nature is a 22.4 metre Southerly Designs monohull which, like other recent Read More »

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