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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 Fishery Management Council meeting in Newport, RI., December 4 thru 6 2018

    The New England Fishery Management Council will be meeting at Hotel Viking, Newport, RI, December 4, 2018 – December 6, 2018. To read the final agenda, >click here< Read More »
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    Gov. Edwards announces program to help Louisiana shrimpers

    Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the creation of a $250,000 program that will pay part of the cost shrimp fishermen will have to pay for mandated Read More »
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    Gas pipeline would ‘rip up the clam beds’ in N.J. for New Yorkers’ sake, foes say

    Richard Isaksen has been clamming and crabbing in Raritan Bay and fishing lower New York Bay for 50 of his 63 years. It’s a hard life, Read More »

  • Second medevac in three days from fish processing vessel Ocean Phoenix, third in a week keeps it Coast Guard Hot in Cold Bay

    Coast Guard 17th District command center watchstanders received a request Sunday morning from the master of the 680-foot fish processing vessel Ocean Phoenix who reported a Read More »
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    How the Coast Guard promotes safety during crabbing season

    Since the start of the season in January, Coast Guard Station Coos Bay has seen a relatively safe season. “We’ve had about 6 calls for assistance,” Read More »
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    Seismic surveying off Newfoundland and Labrador could bring lasting effects to fish

    Seismic surveying happening in Newfoundland and Labrador this year is leaving researchers and fish harvesters concerned over the health of fish and catch rates in the Read More »

  • Mobile clean-up opportunity presented to Shell as alternative to dispersants

    As the clock ticks down to the final decision of the Canada Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (NSOPB) on Shell Canada’s proposed drilling program in the Read More »

  • Louisiana Regulators to Close Blue Crab Fishery for Thirty Days

    Crabbing in Louisiana comes to an abrupt halt Sunday night when a state imposed 30-day prohibition goes into effect. In an effort to protect against over-harvesting Read More »

  • Watch Out! Here They Come. Nor’easter Men from the History Channel – Oct 4 – 9pm

    NOR’EASTER MEN OCT 4 | 9, 10, & 11PM! From the quaint and rough-and-tumble seaside towns of Gloucester, MA and Portland, ME, come the daring men Read More »

  • Panel report sets best course for fisheries (and what a Panel it was!)

    Taking the discussion to the world’s oceans, it would make sense, then, to see CEOs of seafood corporations — no strangers to addressing efficiency in their Read More »

  • Fishery annual catch limits (ACLs) and Striped Marlin Overfishing on Agenda for WPFMC Meeting in Honolulu

    Honolulu – (17 June 2013) Each year since 2011, federal fishery managers have been required to set annual catch limits (ACLs) for all federally managed fish Read More »

  • Fisheries and Oceans library closings called loss to science

    Irreplaceable science research may be lost when Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries across the country are closed down, researchers fear. Fisheries and Oceans Canada hopes Read More »

  • Bristol Bay Fisheries Report, July 4, 2015

    Coming up today, as the total run pushes past 10 million sockeye, Port Moller Test Fishery says the it’s  likely coming in smaller (a lot smaller) Read More »
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    Gloucester Captain offers classes for aspiring Fishermen

    Capt. Joe Sanfilippo fished out of Gloucester for more than 20 years alongside siblings and family members. For much of that time, a seed was germinating.,,, Which Read More »

  • Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for December 18, 2014

    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273  Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. where The Only Read More »
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    Global Cooling? Stronger-Than-Expected La Niña May Be Brewing

    Many have doubted forecasts calling for the onset of the first La Niña in almost five years, believing that its failure to materialize in convincing fashion last Read More »
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    Federal regulations are sinking New Hampshire’s historic fishing industry

    On New Hampshire’s Seacoast, Granite State fishermen tell the tale of an out-of-control federal agency more dangerous than any sea monster. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Read More »

  • Telling it like it is! NOAA has done enough already and has failed in spectacular fashion

    One wonders why a Marine Sanctuary is needed to protect shipwrecks.  Sanctuaries are usually established to protect ecosystems.  The typical reason for establishing a Sanctuary off Read More »
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    Search expert applauds provincewide push to keep looking for missing N.L. fishermen

    A retired coast guard search and rescue coordinator says he’s impressed with the effort now going into the search for two fishers who went missing off Read More »
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    Moulton’s Trawl Task Force wins $500K to count groundfish

    “When I took office, I was told I had to make a choice: stand with the fishermen or the environmentalists. I thought that was crazy because Read More »
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    Icelandic Cod Spray Bodes Well Against Coronavirus

    While several countries across the globe are vying to create a vaccine against COVID-19, Iceland, a nation of fishermen, has come up with a possible solution Read More »

  • Baltimore researchers turn carnivorous fish into vegetarians

    Recently, three Baltimore researchers — Aaron Watson, Frederic Barrows and Allen Place — set out to tame this wild and hungry fish sometimes called black salmon. Read More »

  • Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for APRIL 27, 2015

    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273  Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. We are Direct to the Read More »
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    The Yurok Tribe is Leading a Massive Restoration Project on the Trinity River, and the Fish are Coming Back

    Known as the Chapman Ranch Project, is part of the largest environmental restoration program ever implemented on the Trinity, and it’s being led by his own Read More »
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    RODA Receives NOAA Fisheries Grant

    The Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, a broad membership-based coalition of fishing industry associations and fishing companies, has received an additional $155,000 grant from NOAA Fisheries to Read More »

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