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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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  • Commercial boats ready to chase sockeye in Fraser

    The sports fishermen have savoured this year’s sockeye run on the Fraser River. Now it’s almost time for the commercial fishermen. But they’ll have to wait Read More »

  • American Samoa: Crown of thorns killing our reefs

    Coral reefs are under threat from a new bloom of crown of thorns starfish.  For the past two weeks, an off-island dive team from the National Read More »

  • New speckled trout rules will affect commercial fishermen

    The most frequently caught fish in the Gulf will soon be off limits to part-time fishermen. The rule was needed because recreational fishermen were buying commercial licenses Read More »

  • NOAA Gets First Chief Scientist In More Than A Decade – Changes to federal personnel rules makes him a shoo in

    Currently the vice president for research at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, Spinrad is a known face at NOAA and in Washington. He served as NOAA’s Read More »

  • Crossing the Bar: New Jersey Commercial Fisherman Harry Axelsson

    He was born February 19, 1931, died peacefully at home on July 9, 2014. A Swedish immigrant, he came to this country with his wife in August Read More »

  • Feds: Kennedys’ sea turtle rescue was a violation

    Federal officials say two members of the Kennedy family  who thought they were doing a good deed by freeing an entangled sea turtle  actually violated federal Read More »
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    U.S. Secretary of Commerce Declares Fisheries Disasters Following Hurricanes Irma and Maria

    Today, in conjunction with the requests put forward by the Governors of Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross determined Read More »

  • CSF STATEMENT ON EXPERIMENTAL GBYTF FISHERY Presented to New England Fishery Management Council

    Dr Rothschild stood before the NFMC yesterday, and read this statement. The status of groundfish stocks in New England is shrouded in considerable uncertainty.  This uncertainty Read More »

  • Must-read court decision for anyone with an interest in the fishery

    It’s a different coast and a different ocean – and the case was heard in Vancouver – but a judge in the Federal Court, originally from Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 63′ Steel Clammer, twin 3406 Cats, Isuzu 30 KW Generator

    To review specifications, information and 20 photos, >click here< , in 2018/2019 major projects were completed by the owners, are listed. To see all the boats Read More »

  • The O’Hara Fishing Dynasty – Knowing when to fish or cut bait

    On July 31, O’Hara Corporation launched the first American fishing vessel that will be able to chase fish through polar ice off the coast of Alaska.  Read More »

  • P.E.I. boat manufacturer switches industries to stay afloat

    Prince Edward Island’s oldest producer of fibreglass fishing boats is shifting its focus to another industry. Gordon Campbell and his son Jay own Provincial Boat and Read More »
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    Judge rejects Bering Sea seafood companies’ request to block penalties for alleged Jones Act violation

    U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason issued her 25-page decision Tuesday rejecting the request by a subsidiary of Bering Sea pollock harvesting giant American Seafoods, and a Read More »
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    Dirty Wind: State Pier operator notifies occupants it’s time to go

    With the offshore wind farms poised to move in, time is running short for the tenants and work crews at State Pier who expect to be Read More »

  • Seaview Crab Company Expands To Offer Online Ordering

    Brothers Joe and Sam Romano and longtime friend Nathan King founded Seaview Crab Company as a simple roadside market along Carolina Beach Road back in 2006. Read More »
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    Prince Edward Island: With no size increase, fishermen optimistic of good catch rates

    Prince Edward Island fall lobster fishermen set out from ports from Tignish to Victoria on Thursday morning as their fall season officially got underway at 6 Read More »

  • Former chief of fisheries for Michigan DNR John Robertson,receives C.D. “Buzz” Besadny Award

    The C.D. “Buzz” Besadny Award is named for the former Wisconsin DNR secretary and  chair who epitomized the role of the partnerships in fisheries management. Such Read More »
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    Made In Macduff

    Adam Tait and his sons Adam and Jonathan went back to Macduff Shipyards for a new F/V Jacqueline Anne, replacing a trawler delivered by the same Read More »

  • NOAA scientists admit in private that they can’t name any place affected by ocean acidification

    There’s the truth, then there’s the whole truth. From a climate expert at NOAA, the study of ocean acidification is so young “they don’t have any Read More »

  • NOAA seeks jurisdiction of Lake Michigan waters next to Wisconsin – Protecting shipwrecks or shipwrecking the economy?

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is preparing to designate the waters of Lake Michigan next to Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee counties as a national Read More »
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    Huh! Town Dock was meeting spot for man arrested on terrorism charge

    A West Haven man who was led to believe he could travel from the Town Dock en route to Turkey to fight for ISIS was arrested Read More »

  • Is the seal hunt dead?

     “See all those grey things?” Hiltz asks, pointing to what we figured were hundreds of big rocks. “Those are seals.” First, let’s address the issue of Read More »
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    British Columbia: Prawn harvesters furious over DFO ‘tubbing’ ban – “Why are they reinventing the wheel?”

    For decades harvesters in remote locations have flash-frozen one-pound tubs of a couple-dozen prawns in native sea water,,, This week Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced the practice Read More »
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    East Hampton fishing for stiffer laws against ‘organized crab crime ring’ stealing bushels of shellfish

    Town officials are fishing for even stiffer laws in the war against “organized crab crime rings.” The tougher penalties are needed to turn the tide against Read More »

  • Eric Hansen – Atlantic marine monument would harm fisheries

    With President Obama leaving office in less than a year, environmental groups have urged him to once again use executive authority via the Antiquities Act to Read More »

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