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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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1st small modular nuclear reactor certified for use in U.S.
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Monday evening (May 6th) Narragansett Town Council Meeting on Deepwater Wind
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This 53-year-old ‘fish mongress’ earns $200,000 a year
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NTSB: No plans to salvage Fishing Vessel Orin C
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Oregon Coast crabbing closure impacts the industry
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Louisiana spring shrimp season late this year
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Groundfishermen not hooked by monitoring alternatives
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Southeast Alaska fisherman pleads guilty to illegally harvesting $35,000 worth of sea cucumbers
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Vineyard Wind to Miss Startup Target Over Permit Delay
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New bill would expand state waters in attempt to protect Maine lobstermen from federal regulations
State Sen. Eric Brakey, the bill’s sponsor, said the proposal is intended to protect Maine lobstermen from what he says are overly burdensome federal regulations, particularly Read More » -
Montauk Commercial Fishermen Want Say on Wind Farm
As a Rhode Island company navigates multiple regulatory agencies in order to construct the first offshore wind farms in the United States in the ocean east Read More » -
Excluded from the Working Waterfront – Trawlers to blockade €300m Greystones harbour development
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Lobster and snow crab markets fall by as much as 65 per cent
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Brexit: Deep and growing anger – “I cannot think of a single red line that was not crossed.”
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Hunting for whale and votes in Barrow, Alaska-‘It’s exciting that people in this small community could shape America,’
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‘Founder of New Bedford scalloping’ dies at 91- Myron Marder – accountant turned fleet owner helped jump-start the industry in the 1960s.
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Court ruling threatens Maine’s lobster industry, MLA seeks donations to support its intervention in the case
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Chiropractor/ Vessel Owner Get’s Prison Time for botched scuttling of F/V Alexander II
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2014 study shows haddock is booming and cod remains in decline in the northeast
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Sam, all Fishing Communities must push for this Bill H.R.3699 ,To Reauthorization of Magnuson-Stevens Act ! The U.S.A. Fishing Industry must unite & educate their Politicans ,what is the true picture of whats happening in our oceans related to fishing and to push for this BILL!!
THE U.S.A. FISHING INDUSTRY NEEDS OUR
POLITICANS TO BE FISH KNOWLEDGEABLE & MORE INVOLVED IN OUR FISHING COMMUNITIES ,SO FISHERMEN CAN FISH INTO THE FUTURE ???