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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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  • Ocean Zoning Grab: Cape Wind seeking government help to secure financing – video

    Cape Wind has yet to announce it has lined up financing to pay for the  massive project they are proposing to build in Nantucket Sound, a Read More »
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    Federal Judge Finds Lobster Fishery Threatens Endangered Whales, Orders NMFS To Comply

    U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia said in a 20-page order Thursday a 2014 finding by the National Marine Fisheries Service the Read More »

  • A Dragger and Her Captain, Soon to Part Ways

    Captain Greg Mayhew recently sold the ship’s groundfish permit — the last on the Vineyard — to The Nature Conservancy, which has partnered with the Martha’s Read More »

  • The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board seeks applicants: Executive Director

    The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board is seeking applications from people interested in its open executive director job. Ewell Smith resigned from the position shortly Read More »
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    Coast Guard investigating cause of fishing vessel grounding off Honolulu Airport

    The Coast Guard is investigating the cause of a fishing vessel grounding off the Honolulu Airport, Wednesday. Coast Guard crews and salvors from Cates Marine responded Read More »
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    Video: U.S. Coast Guard medevacs crewmember from fishing vessel near Morgan City, La.

    The Coast Guard medevaced a crewmember Monday from a commercial fishing vessel 21 miles offshore Morgan City, Louisiana. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a Read More »

  • Four men arrested on elver charges in two incidents

    Two men, a father and a son from Massachusetts, are facing criminal charges after Maine Marine Patrol officers found them with 31 pounds of elvers in Read More »

  • John Pappalardo has submitted paperwork to replace Nature Conservancy’s Tom Dempsey on NEFMC

    Pappalardo already has served on the council for three terms, serving five years as chairman, during which the New England fishery experienced big changes in management. Read More »

  • Hijinks on the high seas – Crab boats allegedly work extra pots

    PACIFIC OCEAN — Looking out over the rolling swells of the Columbia Bar on the morning of Sunday, Dec. 9, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officer Read More »

  • Noon Time Today! PETA plans ‘nude’ protest against Lobster Festival

    Representatives from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) alerted media Aug. 2 of their intention to launch a nude, or at least mostly nude, Read More »
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    New York: State blows smoke to hide offshore wind costs

    Governor Andrew Cuomo’s energy agency issued a stern correction to an October 24 blog post in this space that said subsidies for offshore wind developers could Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel north of Montauk Point, N.Y.

    A Coast Guard boatcrew medically evacuated a 50-year old man from a fishing boat near Montauk Point, New York, Sunday afternoon. At approximately 4:10 p.m., watchstanders Read More »

  • Oregon Inlet restrictions eased, re-opening channel for commercial/charter boats

    Boats with drafts of up to 5 feet can now use the Oregon Inlet channel, opening the passage to most charter fishing boats just as the Read More »

  • All Atlantic Canadian resource industries are in some turmoil

    Canada, for the past couple of centuries, . While the nation has moved a major distance from the hewers of wood, drawers of water imagery of Read More »

  • American Samoa – Comments welcomed on coral species listing

    A team from NOAA Fisheries held a public hearing in American Samoa back in August and the majority of those who attended expressed concerns about the Read More »
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    N.J.’s ocean canyons: Will these treasures be preserved like national parks?

    Because about 75 to 100 miles off the coast of New Jersey — where the continental shelf divides shallow coastal waters and the deep sea — Read More »

  • New study reveals how sensitive US East Coast regions may be to ocean acidification

    Zhaohui Wang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and his colleagues sampled the waters off the US East Coast about the R/V Ron Brown. Starting in the waters off Read More »

  • Scientist: Cod quotas too high in retrospect

    October 14, 2014 Because of a reporting error, a story on the cod crisis on Page A1 of Sunday’s Times misrepresented a statement by National Marine Read More »
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    Stolen lobster discovered in back of broken-down van, police say

    Three men from the Charlottetown area are facing charges in connection with the theft of more than $25,000 worth of live P.E.I. lobster, RCMP say. Sgt. Read More »
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    A Custom Build for Southern Australia

    Based in Western Australia, Dongara Marine last year completed its first new vessel for an established fisherman in the South Australian rock lobster fishery, the yard’s Read More »

  • Murrells Inlet fundraiser set for Lost at Sea Memorial Saturday, Sept. 10th

    People who would like to support the Lost at Sea Memorial in Murrells Inlet will gather at the Big Beaver Bar for a fundraiser on Saturday, Read More »

  • AP tracks slave boats to Papua New Guinea

    From space, the fishing boats are just little white specks floating in a vast stretch of blue water off Papua New Guinea. But zoom in and Read More »
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    Shrimp boat crew saves 2 men after float plane crash

    Two men are said to be in good shape and good spirits after the float plane they were in crashed during landing in the water near Read More »

  • Cortez’s fishy case makes its way to Supreme Court

    The entire investigation is based on the testimony of a single Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission officer. Yates was acquitted of a third charge of lying to Read More »

  • The South Atlantic region welcomes back the Red Snapper

    — After being closed for almost two years, the Red Snapper season is now open  to the fishers again. [email protected] Read More »

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