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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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The Coast Guard medevaced a 68-year-old man Wednesday from the 200-foot fishing vessel Tidelands approximately five miles northeast of Great Machipongo Inlet near Cape Charles. Read Read More » -
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Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman 100 miles off Coos Bay
A Coast Guard aircrew medically evacuated a 26-year-old man Saturday morning off the fishing vessel McKenzie Rose 100 miles west of Coos Bay. The fishing vessel’s Read More » -
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The Oregon Dungeness commercial crab fishing season started on time this year
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Trap Gear Closure and Speed Limit in Cape Cod Bay Lifted Today (Tuesday, May 15, 2018)
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OUR OPINION: NOAA succeeds only in making fishermen extinct
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Janet Mills announces Sears Island as preferred site for offshore wind power port
Gov. Janet Mills announced Tuesday that her administration has selected Sears Island in Searsport as the preferred site for development of a large, offshore wind port Read More » -
Campobello Island mourns loss of fisherman originally from Chester who freed dozens of entangled whales
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Jerry Leeman: So, let’s plug in what we know.
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UPDATED: Coast Guard conducts medevac 65 miles south of Montauk, N.Y.
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Ban Mega Trawlers from Irish waters says Sinn Féin as F/V Margiris ploughs seas off Cork coast
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Animal rights industry never has to take bait
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Residents shocked by fishermen’s death
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P.E.I. lobster fishermen hope higher prices make up for lower catches
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CG medevacs injured F/V Sea Angels fisherman Clint Owens, 41, of Townsend, Ga.
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Whales, Warming and Offshore Wind Farms – Lobstering is under attack
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Jeff Davis confirms deal for scallop fishing firm Peabody Fisheries
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Fluke Fight. New Jersey fights New York’s efforts to take summer flounder
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Many thanks for remembering this very day… Some of us will Never Forget….
I was pouring a concrete floor that morning in Dracut Mass, and it was around coffee break, was sitting in the truck, listening to the radio. Kid says hey bossman, plane hit one of the towers in NYC! No shit? thought it was a little piss cutter. Was also watching from my vantage point at the time, parked on a hill above the next property, and watched the press swarm onto that property. One of the pilots from one of the planes lived there. I can see it still. I wasn’t ready for what I saw on tv around eight that night, though. It was staggering.
Thank you, Ec. Thank you
I had the Excalibur hauled out in Moorehead city NC and I was up on the boat and the yard owner came to me and said one of the towers had been hit. My first thought was the same thing, probably a piper cub or something. I turned on the television and saw what was actually happening and as you can imagine I was shocked to the core.
I was down there all alone, separated from my family and all I wanted was to get home. I had rented an apartment and that night I was literally in tears watching the carnage played over and over. It was like the day President Kennedy was shot. I’ll never forget where I was or what I was doing.
Never forget. God Bless America