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The oil might not be as visible in the gulf, but the residents are still coping with effects of the nation’s largest offshore oil spill.

November 12, 2012 Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is deep blue again. On the Alabama coast, children run on crowded beaches and splash in the surf. In fishing villages, shrimpers whitewash boat decks in preparation for another season……………Michelle Jones was pregnant with her second son when her husband was killed on the Deepwater Horizon rig. Timeline: Key Events Video: Oyster Fisherman’s Last Run http://www.abc26.com/news/nationworld/la-oil-spill-html,0,2965456.htmlstory

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Shrimpers fear long-term harm from dead zone

November 12, 2012 Gulf of Mexico

CHAUVIN — Shrimpers gather each morning at Dirk Guidry’s Pizza Express restaurant across the street from the bayou here, where shrimp are so seared into the fabric of life that they and crawfish are featured pizza ingredients. http://progress.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/DK/20121112/NEWS01/311120004/Shrimpers-fear-long-term-harm-from-dead-zone?odyssey=mod_sectionstories

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Fisheries nations set to discuss bluefin tuna

November 12, 2012 National

The United States, another key player at the negotiations, has said it supports “the rebuilding and term sustainable management of the western and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks by adopting science-based and precautionary conservation and management measures that ensure continued stock growth.” But environmentalists also said it was too early to celebrate.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/11/10/2362532/fisheries-nations-set-to-discuss.html

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Florida’s gift to veterans for Veterans Day – easier for Florida veterans to enter the commercial fishing industry.

November 12, 2012 Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic

The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimates the program will open the door to the commercial fishing industry for hundreds of veterans. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/article/281818/4/Floridas-gift-to-veterans-for-Veterans-Day

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“The fishing industry, in general, is in a very negative mood,” The Controversial Science of Counting Fish

November 12, 2012 New England

At the meeting in Portsmouth on Friday, scientists detailed the complexities and uncertainties of counting fish that live out of sight. They also took questions from fishing industry advocates frustrated over what they say are shifting and incorrect population estimates that have led to lower catch limits and damaged their businesses http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121112-NEWS-211120323

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Ocean Resource Privatization

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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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