A dramatic early morning rescue operation mounted as Fife fishing boat hits the rocks

November 15, 2020 International News

Volunteer RNLI crews from Anstruther were able to rescue two men from the Carisma before she was wrecked after hitting the rocky shore near Pittemweem shortly after 6:15am. The loss of the vessel is a massive blow to her owner and skipper Kirk Doig, who launched Carisma Seafoods in August when the Covid-10 pandemic ended most demand from fish markets as the country felt the full impact of lockdown on the hospitality industry. >click to read< 15:55

Anstruther RNLI crews, Fife, fishing vessel Carisma, hits the rocks, Marine Accident Investigation Branch, rescue operation, Scotland, UK Coastguard

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
April 2024

M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

« Mar

April 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

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

Recent Posts
- UPDATED: One Fisherman Survives, Two missing – Greymouth boat Wendy J sank on southern West Coast
  
  The commercial fishing boat which sank on the rugged coast of South Westland ran aground on the rocky shore after becoming entangled in a rope. Two Read More »
- A shocker in the Newfoundlands fishery today – The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong
  
  Declining crab stocks, once the bright-light in the industry, has forced even more streamlining. 300 people out of work and three plants are closing. A conversation Read More »
- Newfoundland and Labrador crab tie-up ends – Processors agree to pay an additional 17 cents a pound
  
  The Canadian Press Saturday, April 20, 2013 – 16:02 ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A fisheries union and seafood processors in Newfoundland and Labrador finalized a deal Read More »
- Conch May Be Doomed—by the Massachusetts DMF Target of Females
  
  The sun permanently setting on a near half century old fishery processor in the nation’s lead commercial fisheries revenue port is not a pretty sight to Read More »
- Plymouth fish market brings in record-breaking £1million ($1,130,7796.43) haul in a week
  
  Plymouth’s fish market has recorded its first £1 million week. The Sutton Harbour market’s sales in the first three days of the week alone were than Read More »
- New Bedford, Massachusetts fishing company, managers, vessel captain to pay in civil penalties
  
  New Bedford, Massachusetts-based Vila Nova do Corvo II, Inc., company managers Carlos Rafael and Stephanie Rafael DeMello, and vessel captain Carlos Pereira agreed to pay a Read More »
- Crews refloat boat that capsized near Crescent Harbor on Saturday
  
  A fishing vessel that overturned just outside of a Sitka harbor this weekend was refloated early Monday morning. Around 1 p.m. on Saturday, the Coast Guard Read More »
- California poised to impose wave of boat emissions rules in 2022
  
  Like users of lawn mowers and gas leaf blowers, working boat captains, excursion operators and fishermen will be asked told to get on board with new Read More »
- Making a killing – As whales die in frightening numbers, New Brunswick’s lucrative snow crab industry struggles under a global spotlight.
  
  It all started when Charles Anastasia’s boat sank. This was in 1979, when 26-year-old Anastasia took to the ocean every morning to fill his nets with Read More »
- Capelin decline 70 per cent but scientists not worried
  
  Scientists with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans found a lot fewer capelin last year during their survey of the stock — a decline of Read More »
- Gulf of Alaska Pollock fishermen agree to delay season, will allow roe to ripen, making fish more valuable.
  
  Trawl fishermen targeting pollock in the Gulf of Alaska have collectively agreed to stand down from the Jan. 20 start of the fishery in order to Read More »
- Burnt Church 15 Years Later – where lobster wars became a reality
  
  Time flies. Fifteen years have now passed since the Supreme Court of Canada made its landmark ruling in favour of the late Donald Marshall Junior, a Read More »
- Fish and Game announces Pacific cod openings
  
  Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game announced yesterday that the state waters Pacific cod pot fishery in Chignik Area and South Alaska Peninsula Area will open Read More »
- F/V Falling Star: 10 missing crew members have been found and rescued
  
  At least 10 of the 15 Honduran crew members from the Falling Star lobster fishing vessel, who had been reported missing at sea last week Tuesday, are Read More »
- Fishing: Why it is the first flashpoint issue in EU-UK trade talks
  
  The Father McKee is the Greencastle man’s 65m trawler and is out with his sons in the north Bay of Biscay off France fishing for boarfish, Read More »
- Fish Politics – Victim of the state
  
  Once revered for world-leading skills at managing wild salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game today finds itself under attack as incompetent as the North Read More »
- An anti fishing agenda driven article: Overfishing? Hawaii Longliners Want Even More Tuna
  
  In 2013, Japan, Korea, China, the United States and other countries with an appetite for bigeye tuna agreed to gradually catch less ahi in the Western Read More »
- Tsawwassen First Nation fisherman fighting U.S. over native fishing rights
  
  South Delta Leader = A Tsawwassen First Nation fisherman caught with $4,000 worth of Dungeness crab about 700 metres south of the Point Roberts border has found Read More »
- North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 02, 2022
  
  The “Rule of Law” is the political philosophy that all citizens are accountable for the same laws. This philosophy helped fuel the American revolution and was Read More »
- David Foster Wallace – Consider the Lobster
  
  Originally published Aug, 2004. The assigned subject of this article is the 56th Annual MLF, July 30 to August 3, 2003, whose official theme was “Lighthouses, Read More »
- Letter: Coalition keeps up fight for fishermen
  
  For over the past five years, the Northeast Seafood Coalition has actively participated in the New England Fishery Management Council process surrounding the Omnibus Essential Fish Read More »
- The Hookpod – New UK invention to save the albatross
  
  Designed by brothers’ Ben and Pete Kibel, based in Devon, UK, and trialed extensively by the RSPB Albatross Task Force on behalf of BirdLife International, it Read More »
- New Seine Skiff Based on Tug Boat Design
  
  In June, 2014, Seattle-based Snow Boat Company delivered a new 24-foot by 13-foot seine skiff to King Cove, Alaska for the area M salmon fishery. The Read More »
- Oceana: Marine Life and Coastal Economies Threatened by Seismic Airgun Use in Atlantic Ocean – Where ya been!
  
  These people amuse me sometimes. Jim Lovgren, a fisherman from NJ asked me to post this information. May 3, 2012 – borehead, don’t know whether you Read More »
- NC Commercial, recreational fishermen offer thoughts on proposed flounder rules
  
  Dozens of commercial fishermen and recreational anglers told the Marine Fisheries Commission Wednesday just what they thought about a set of proposals to manage the southern Read More »