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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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  • Measure to allow fishermen in loan program fails

    BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Representatives has rejected an amendment to the farm bill that would have made commercial fishermen eligible for the Department Read More »
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    Fishing vessel taking on water at New Bedford City Pier III

    First responders were down at Pier III Monday morning for a call of a vessel sinking. Upon arrival, they found the fishing vessel Tom Slaughter III Read More »

  • Catch Share Program Review for the Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Individual Transferrable Quota Fisheries

    The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) is accepting proposals to conduct a Catch Share Program Review of the present and past social and economic conditions in Read More »

  • Fisherynation Editorial – Jane (eliminator) Lubchenco’s Consolidation Porn Production. Paid for with your fish.

    So. I’m sittin’ here rackin’ my brain, just wondering, what beauracratic, moronic, opportunist would commission a group of dream team bean counters, with some financial hocus pocus wizards Read More »
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    A graveside service will be held at Soule Cemetery, Saturday, for F.G. Gibbs

    Floyd Guy “F.G.” Gibbs, Jr., 66, of Engelhard, died, Tuesday, January 7, 2020. F.G. was born in Beaufort County, October 21, 1953 to the late Floyd Read More »

  • Listen to the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report July 1, 2016

    Tonight a Ugashik set-netter tells us he’ll fish despite some stormy weather this weekend, Area Manager Paul Salomone updates on Egegik and Ugashik numbers, and we Read More »

  • Shrimp Down, Lobster Up: Is There a Connection?

    But there’s another part to this story, a somewhat different kettle of fish, but still relevant. A Lobster Tale  If Maine shrimp is a delicious coastal Read More »
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    Shell Canada offshore drilling incident too close for comfort in area near rich fishing grounds

    When heaving waters in the North Atlantic wrenched a string of massive steel pipes from a drilling ship off Nova Scotia’s coast, one of the 20-tonne Read More »

  • Heavy ice, blocked markets blamed as Newfoundland seal hunt sees big drop

    Executive director Frank Pinhorn said Thursday just fewer than 55,000 harp seals were landed compared to 91,000 last year and 69,000 in 2012. The Fisheries and Read More »

  • Commercial fishers’ suit says recreational anglers taking too many red snapper

    The suit alleges that the federal government’s “failure to effectively manage the red snapper fishery has resulted in chronic over harvesting by the recreational sector,” which Read More »

  • Fulcher family-owned processor ‘may be beneficial’ in future

    Greg Fulcher hit US scallop sector headlines recently by paying $7 million to secure the fishing vessel Alaska, complete with permit, from New Bedford, Massachusetts-based Oceans Fleet Read More »
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    Stability monitor enhances vessel safey.

    Developed by Hook Marine Ltd, the Scottish-based safety engineering company, the SeaWise real-time stability monitor, has been specially designed for the protection and survival of small Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Winyah Bay, Wednesday

    A Coast Guard Station Georgetown 45-foot Response Boat–Medium crew embarked the man and conducted a hoist with a Coast Guard Air Facility Charleston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter Read More »

  • Ventura County Fishermen find a body at sea believed to be missing Commercial Fisherman

    Fisherman Moody Brickett thought the object caught in a boat’s net late Monday afternoon was a decomposed seal. It was a human body. Brickett and his Read More »
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    UPDATED: F/V Atlantic Destiny catches fire off of Nova Scotia; crew members evacuated

    A fishing trawler off the southwest coast of Nova Scotia caught fire Tuesday night, leading to the evacuation of most of the vessel’s 32 crew members. Read More »

  • We need a rigorous examination of our fishery, Phil Earle, Carbonear

    An inquiry is the only thing that can save this province’s fishery. Other then the occasional comment of concern for the dwindling state of, and wrongs Read More »
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    The Salmon Wars in the Pacific Northwest: Banning the Rough Customer

    This week in Olympia, the Senate Agriculture Committee held a public hearing on Senate Bill 5617 to ban nontribal gillnetting in Washington state. The legislation would Read More »

  • Keepin’ that imported shrimp real cheap! Underage Workers in Thailand: Walmart Fails to Act, Says Report

    The brief, entitled ‘The Walmart Effect: Child and Worker Rights Violations at Narong Seafood,’ documents a number of serious violations of Thai law and international human rights standards Read More »
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    Connecticut Congressional Members Urge Lobster Regulators To Consider Impact of New Rules on Lobstermen

    Connecticut’s remaining lobstermen should be heard before regional fishing regulators  decide on a new plan to try and restore Long Island Sound’s lobster population, members of Read More »

  • ASMFC Spring Meeting – May 4-7, 2015 Alexandria, Virginia

    Board/Section meeting proceedings will be broadcast daily via webinar beginning at 12:45 PM on May 4th, continuing daily until the conclusion of the meeting (expected to Read More »
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    Troon fishing boat crashes into giant crude oil tanker near Ayr bay

    A fishing boat smashed into a giant crude oil tanker 16 times its size. The incident happened less than an hour before dawn. For days the Read More »

  • Third Time’s a Charm for F/V Paige Marie

    When owner David Sorensen brought his 58-foot seiner F/V Paige Marie into the Columbia River last December, his 42-year old steel boat was showing its age, Read More »

  • Fisherman must abide by agreement involving licence buyout

    A Cape John fisherman has been ordered to abide by a civil agreement he signed with the Northumberland Fishermen’s Association four years ago that involved his Read More »
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    “Acceleration” in Sea-Level Rise Found to Be False – An artifact of Switching Satellites

    Sea-level data reported from satellites indicate seas are rising approximately of 3.3 mm/year. By contrast, tidal stations have recorded a rise of approximately 1 to 2 Read More »

  • Auction scheduled for lease rights for wind farm, Fishermen seeking to block

    The lease rights to develop a wind-energy farm on 79,350 acres of ocean 11.5 miles from Jones Beach could be granted by federal regulators this week. Read More »

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